When Lightening Strikes Twice
It shouldn't matter who you love, will they give in to the truth or hide behind lies? Who does Cassie really belong with? AU
This will start off as a Cassie/Adam/Jake love triangle. I am very confused as to who she should end up with lol. In the books I love Cassie and Adam and am writing a story about them at the moment, and Diana and Nick, but in the show, I do love Cassie and Jake. So I am open to any suggestions.
Ocean waves crashed against the shoreline but they did little to sooth her beating heart and racing pulse. Was it her heart making her pulse race so much or was it the dark magic running through her veins? The dark magic that made people want to destroy her, made people hate her. Cassie didn't know, but she felt confused and frustrated and was it strange to feel happy? She liked how the power made her feel. When the Secret Circle had first come to her and told her about her heritage and that her mum had been a witch and so was she, Cassie had thought they were all crazy. She had been afraid of that knowledge and hadn't wanted to accept any of it. She had even refused to be friends with them all and she still didn't trust them all completely. But now they had bound the Circle and could only do magic together, she did miss it a little bit. Not enough to go all obsessive like Faye, but she did miss it.
A rain fell onto her skin, and it was supposed to wash away all her worries but she still felt dirty inside. Cassie had to remind herself that it had been Kate Meade who had tried to kill her and not her granddaughter Diana. Diana and Adam had tried to rescue her. Diana had even talked to her about it and turned her back on her own blood. That had to count for something. She had definitely overreacted to Diana finding out she had dark magic, it had been an honest mistake and she had had no right to go off on Adam.
A part of her wanted to go to him, ask him what he really thought about her dark magic to tell him how sorry she was but she knew she couldn't always rely on Adam, not when he and Diana were still on the rebound from each other, still giving each other looks of regret. Diana may be worried about Cassie and Adam, but she was more worried about Diana and Adam at the moment, she and Adam lately hadn't shared anything more than heated words of disagreement.
Then there was the fact that, even though he was an evil witch hunter, she did miss Jake. Any emotion to do with Jake was a confusion she wasn't sure how to deal with.
Sighing, she turned to go back home, not sure what she was doing out here today, only a crazy person would be out in this weather! But she had felt the need to escape, to run away and leave her problems far, far behind her. The ocean was the only thing that could make her feel free, because it stretched into infinity and held endless possibilities. It could be calm one minute and wild the next. Cassie wanted to know she wasn't the only thing in the whole world that could be unpredictable.
Just as she was reaching for her door keys though, she felt someone grab her arm and a yelp of surprise escaped her lips. Well, it was more of a whispered cry then a full blown scream. It was really pathetic actually.
"Be quiet Cassie,"
The touch of his hand sent a tingle running through her skin and his words made her shiver, and suddenly she wasn't afraid. No matter how bad he acted, she had to believe that Jake would never hurt her. Surely he would have done it by now because he had had plenty of chances.
"Jake, it's really you. I've prayed you were ok, that you'd come back. I can't believe you're here."
"I'm here because I'm supposed to kill you. That's what they said, that you were too dangerous to be allowed to live, if you're power couldn't be harnessed then it had to be destroyed, before it's too late."
"Well, that's a popular opinion lately," she snapped back.
"Tell me Cassie, what am I supposed to do? Should I go ahead and kill you? When you're the one person whose seen more to me than what I show the world, the one person who I've ever...cared about."
Was he about to say love? Was that what he had been thinking? Is that what she was thinking? How could it be love when they hadn't even known each other that long? What about her feelings for Adam that wouldn't go away either? Should she really be thinking about this when her life was in danger?
"I can't decide you're future for you Jake, only you can choose your own fate. Are you a witch or not?"
He laughed. "Well isn't that the big question. Who am I? Who the hell knows who I am? Faye thinks I'm the bad guy and everyone else just thinks I'm a screw up. Maybe I should really screw up. But you're one step ahead of me, Cassie Blake. Tell me, what's it like to kill someone?"
"You shut up," she didn't want to remember killing that witch hunter, the memory made her feel sick.
He pulled opened his coat a little and she could see the hint of the gun hidden underneath. "Really? You're going to shoot me right here in my own home with no way of hiding my body easily?"
He shrugged, acting as if he didn't care about anything anymore, although she could suddenly see that he was shaking.
"I'm ready Cassie. I'm going to take care of all your problems for you."
She didn't want to die but she couldn't see a way out of this. And then she suddenly thought, what about her power? If she could escape from a wooden box then surely she could escape from this. There was only one way to find out. Taking a deep breath she got ready to save her own life yet again, she could only hope that it worked.
TBC
