Not a Harry Potter Fan Fic this time. I recently watched The Covenant for the first time and got inspired. (it only took me four years to watch the damn film!) I have to go where my inspiration takes me or I can't sleep and find it difficult to work on my other stories.

I was going to hold uploading this until I had written more of it but as you can see, that didn't work out.

I have three unfinished stories that I'm working on now but I aim to update at least one of them every week. That may mean that updates for each story occur once every three week. I'm sorry for the wait, but I can only write when inspiration hits.

I hope you enjoy it- (To avoid getting lost I recommend you watch the Covenant first.)

Please read in 1/2. It looks better that way!

Summary: The son's of Ipswich are four friends that share a three hundred year old secret. When a new family comes to town with a three hundred year old secret of their own- the two girls find their lives interwoven with the son's of Ipswich in ways which are beyond their understanding. In little over a week, the unbreakable bonds are set for life. Caleb/Sarah, Pogue/Kate, Reid/OC, Tyler/OC.

Bloodlines

Prologue

It was a Friday in late autumn when James Holgate drove his two daughters to a town in the middle of nowhere that would change their lives forever. If you need to be precise, the date was September 15th 2006. Their destination was Spencer's Academy- A prestigious boarding school in the town of Ipswich. He had recently accepted a position to teach history there and as luck would have it, there were two vacancies available for his daughters.

Now you may think that the offspring of a mere History Professor were not among the elite and therefore not accomplished enough to attend such a selective school. However James Holgate was not a teacher out of necessity. He was actually a man of property and had so much money that he needn't work another day in his life.

The fact remained that James Holgate's passion was for history, but not just any history. The history of Ipswich was of particular interest to him. It was said that the founding families of the town had escaped the Salem witch trials and their descendants still lived in the town today. He considered himself an expert in the field, so when the opportunity was presented to him, he uprooted his family so that he could pursue his passion.

His daughters both agreed to the move although they were both old enough to live on there own. They could have stayed at their old college to finish their education. However, family was important to them and the idea of being so far away from their father was not something they wanted to do. When they were only thirteen years old, their mother, Louise, had abandoned them and their father. He was now the only family they had left after each other.

The girls, Sidney Rose Holgate and Lily Shiloh Holgate, were not only sisters but twins. Sidney was the eldest by five minutes and was born at precisely midnight of November the first 1988. She sat in the back seat of the Range Rover next to some of their belongings. They carried only the essential with them as the rest of their belongings would be arriving by truck tomorrow.

She rested her head against the car window and gazed at the passing scenery. It was pretty boring really, just fields and trees, fields and trees. Her face was of oval shape, her nose straight and slightly upturned at the tip. She had high cheek bones and full, perfectly shaped rose coloured lips. Her large eyes were a vibrant green and her hair a vivid copper red which was straight and flowed passed her waist. Her skin was pale but not pasty. Her movie star looks rarely worked to her advantage and were often came as a hindrance. Girls tended to judge her before they got to know her.

She was so much more than her looks. She was intelligent but naturally so. She didn't have to spend all her time with her nose in a book to get good grades. She had a strength about her that enabled her to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders. Which she did silently, not even sharing the majority of her worries with her sister. Despite her concerns, she also loved a good party and took any opportunity to shake her responsibilities and let her hair down.

Lily was different to her sister. She had a carefree attitude and was a free spirit. It was only the love for her family which kept her grounded. She was full of self confidence and had a mischievous side to her personality which often got her in trouble. Although Lily's facial features and build were essentially identical to her sister's even down to the star-shaped birthmark on the small of her back, her colouring was not. Lily had inherited their father's straight jet black hair which just reached her shoulders and his shockingly light blue eyes.

She was their father's favourite, not by intention, but because Sidney's colouring resembled their mother. Both girls often noticed the pain of memories filling their father's eyes whenever he gazed upon the eldest twin. Lily didn't hold it against him. Her greatest fear was that she would turn out just like her mother. Louise Holgate was a coward who fled when she found out that her daughters were not as normal as her friend's children. Her daughters were something she feared. What she hadn't known when she's married James Holgate was that his family hade a secret, one that was essential to keep secret. Lying dormant in the Holgate bloodline for hundreds of years until the birth of the next female heir.

I'd love to hear what you think of this story and I hope you enjoyed it.