It had been two years since Michael, Isabel, Lynn, Sam, Frank, and maybe Katie died. But life goes on and we were going our separate ways, everyone in different countries and cities. It was crazy. I was still in New York City and going to community college to become a computer tech. I knew everything about computers. Since I was on them all the time looking for anything from Katie, plus I heard they payed well, since we're in demand for them.
"Travis!? Are you home!?" Connor's voice ringed out through my apartment. I ran my hand through my hair. He must've just got back from his all boys school, mom allowed him to go back to normal high school, for his last year and it was already November, almost two years since they died.
"Yeah, I'm in my room!" I called out. I was reading a paper over again Katie left in her shoe box, and took out a picture, it was a picture of all of us two years ago. Sam had Isabel on his back. Lynn and Will were staring into each other's eyes. Katie was laughing with me about Leo's face, which looked like a mouse. Jason and Piper were ruffling Michael's hair and he had an annoyed look on his face.
Xander was playing with Hazel's hair, who was looking back at him with a smile and Frank was laughing at them. Percy was sticking his tongue out at Annabeth's face which was inches from his. She had a weird look on her face. Mitchell and Malcolm were laughing about something they wouldn't tell us about. Jake had a lop-sided grin pointed at a giggling Jana.
"Who are they?" Connor asked as he looked around my messy room. "What the hell happened in here, did a file box throw up?" he asked.
"Friends, and I'm searching for someone" I responded. He looked at the picture.
"Who are they?" he repeated. I smiled at the picture.
"I already told you, friends" I got up and put the picture next to my pinpointed map and turned back towards him. "What do you want, I have work to do?"
"I wanted to know what the hell was wrong with this room" he looked around.
"I'm looking for someone, now I have to get back to work" I told him and took out my phone, it had been a few weeks since I last talked to Josh. It rang twice before he answered.
"Hey Travis what's up?" he asked.
"You know what's up, what have you heard?" I asked him.
"She was spotted in France a few days ago and even smiled at our hidden camera's, man, she has freaky senses" Josh said. I made my way to the map and took out a red pin and stuck it on Paris, France.
"Yeah, she's clever, she wants me to find her, she knows you talk to me about her, she has many friends that are witches" I said. Connor was trying to listen in on my conversation.
"Will she try and hurt me?" Josh asked.
"No, she's to nice for that" I said and wrote on a pad of paper, spotted in Paris, France on November 14th 2014 and stuck it with a white pin on my wall.
"Good, good, I don't want her to hurt any of my co-workers or me" Josh responded.
"I know her well enough to know she'll only hurt someone who deserves it, you should've seen her in action two years ago, she's crazy fast and good at hurting and killing people, so if you deserve it, she'll snap your neck quicker than you can blink, that's what we were trained to do" I told him. It was true, we were trained to kill two years ago and we were good at it, we learned from the best.
"Yeah, I know, Minerva's training is quite something" Josh said. I laughed.
"It was tough, then having to be trapped for days in some random building, it was nice and I was fine with it I guess, but she hated it, she almost killed herself once or twice in there, so if you get her, don't trap her, she will find a way out, Minerva taught us that too" I told him.
"You said you found letters?" Josh asked.
"Yes, pictures of all of us, just us, then Miranda and her father, then just her father, letters to Madam Zhang, small sticky notes saying she was going places, I've searched every square inch of the internet, she's erased herself from everything" I explained.
"Shit, gotta go, bye" Josh said.
"Bye" I responded and hung up the phone. Connor opened his mouth, but I put a finger out.
"I have to make another call" I explained and dialed in Piper's number.
"Hey, what's up?" she asked me over the phone.
"She was spotted in Paris a few days ago, did you see her?" I asked. Piper sighed.
"How do you know she's alive?" Piper asked.
"McLean! Don't you dare say that, you know it's true! But you're afraid to admit it! Like when you feel for Jason!" I exclaimed. Connor jumped from the picture of all my friends two years ago.
"Yes, I know it, but why would she hide from us?" Piper asked.
"She's not! She smiled at the damn camera, she knows we're looking for her and is leaving a trail" I explained.
"I'm sorry, I'm getting ready for a show right now, I'll call you later" she said.
"Bye Piper" I hung up the phone. Connor stopped looking at the picture and turned towards me.
"Did you just call Piper McLean? The supermodel?" Connor asked and pointed at the picture. I put my phone down on the chair and ran a hand threw my hair.
"Yeah, we've been friends for years, what's your point?" I asked.
"Do you- Have you two-?" he started.
"No, we were never together, just friends, she's still in love with her ex, so just don't ask me to set you up with her, your not her type" I said.
"Wait, who's her ex? Bieber?" Connor asked. I shook my head.
"Jason" I said absent mindedly, reading a paper over again.
"Jason Grace?!" Connor's voice was more shocked than it should have been.
"Yeah, they were completely in love until he dumped her for Reyna" I waved a hand.
"Who else do you know that's famous?" Connor asked. I stood up from my chair and looked down at my brother.
"Why do you want to know?" I asked him.
"Because that's cool!" he grinned.
"Percy Jackson and a somewhat famous killer, who was shot in the neck in front of me, she's dead now but held a nice big gun to my friends head" I said. Connor's face was still huge with a smile.
"You know Percy Jackson? That dude was great in the movie about 9/11" Connor said.
"Yeah, great friend of mine, now leave and do something" I said.
"Who knew you were so interesting, what else should I know about you?" Connor asked. I sighed, was now the right time to tell him, I've kept it a secret for 19 years from him, plus he's my brother, he'd understand.
"I'm a quillium" I admitted. He stared at me.
"What the hell's that?" he asked blankly.
"Someone with powers, special powers" I explained.
What?!" why didn't you tell me earlier!?" he asked me. I shrugged.
"I was ashamed, then I met them" I nodded my head towards the picture.
"You mean all those people have powers too?" Connor took a closer look.
"The red-head's hot" He grinned.
"Not to you she's not, if you like her, she will find you and kill you, we were trained to kill remember what I said on the phone to Josh?" I asked him. He nodded.
"It's like she knows everything, so no, she wouldn't have dated you, unless she had to seduce you, she does that, it was her job in the group" I said.
"So she seduced you?" Connor asked. I shook my head putting up a picture of Lynn's ghost and Will laughing about something.
"What the hell is she? Is that a ghost!?" Connor explained.
"Yeah, Lynn!" I called. A ghostly form appeared in front of me a few seconds later. Connor seemed to be taking all of this well. Lynn smiled at me.
"Travis, it's been so long!" she exclaimed and tried to hug me. She then backed away.
"Sorry, sometimes I still forget even after I've been dead for 2 years" Lynn shrugged. I laughed.
"It's good to see you too Lynn, it's been a few months, have you talked to Will at all, I haven't seen him since he left for the army medics" I said.
"Yeah, last week, he's fine and is saving tons of lives" Lynn said.
"What about…" I let it hand in the air.
"If I knew I couldn't tell you, now would I, can you stop obsessing over it, you're making people nervous about your health, you've only had one girlfriend in the past two years" Lynn frowned.
"I've been… busy" I responded. Lynn snorted, if that was possible for a ghost.
"Ghost" Was all Connor could say. "Sexy ghost"
"Aww, your little brother is adorable!" Lynn squealed and tried to pinch his cheeks. Connor looked horrified.
"I've never seen a sexy ghost before, Travis, I have to admit something too" Connor tried to look at me through Lynn, who was floating in front of him. She got it and moved to the side of the room.
"What? Did you knock a girl up? Because I will not let you walk out of the girls life, you have a child to look after" I scolded him.
"No, I didn't get a girl pregnant, I have powers too, I was afraid you would think I was weird and never talk to me again" Connor glanced at Lynn.
"But I see you've been busy" he said. I looked up from my paper.
"Yeah, I'm sorry about that, I'm just looking for someone" I responded.
"Yeah, I know, are you in love with her or something?" Connor asked. I nodded.
"Katie, the red-head in the photo, she 'died" I made a gesture with my hands to the picture. "She's my best friend" Lynn made a cooing noise.
"That's so cute" Lynn said. She looked ready to speak again but thought better of it.
"What? What is it?" I asked her. She played with her ghostly hands.
"Frank said I should tell you, Isabel and Sam agreed while Michael was gone doing angelic business, but, there's a new force rising, something awful, a man, I suspect, worse than Arachne and we need you to gather as many quillium as you can, plus all the living, we know it's true Katie's alive, but you need to track them all down and find them" Lynn explained.
"I'll talk to Leo, Jason, and Reyna" I nodded.
"Wait, I want in on this, I could use my powers too, to help you guys!" Connor said.
"Fine" I sighed.
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The thing was, I was in my safe house in Alaska with Lou, who was taking a shower. It was snowing outside, so I was watching it snow in my fuzzy black and white polka dot robe that was warm around my body while I waited for the shower.
"He'll find me, I know it" I whispered under my breath. "Come on Travis"
"Katie!" Lou yelled. She was coming out of the bathroom. I jumped then turned towards her. Her lavender hair was wrapped up in a thin towel and she had a fuzzy white one around her body. I smiled at her and took the bathroom.
I took my robe off and threw it towards the corner of the bathroom and turned the shower on. I grabbed a towel and threw it over the metal bar that held the curtain. I let half of it hang on one side and the other on the other side. I hopped in and just let the hot water consume me like it was Travis's arms.
I closed my eyes and smiled. He was here holding me, his arms wrapped tightly around me, like he would never let go of me. They reassured me that he was there for me. I then opened my eyes and was disappointed to see no one holding me, just the water running down my skin. The warmth in my heart was gone and I finished my shower with my skin warm, but my mind and heart cold.
"Katie?" Lou called as I turned the shower off.
"Yes?" I asked her. I put my towel around my body and opened the door.
"There's a guy at the door for you, he's hot" she winked at me. I sighed and put my robe on then used my towel to quickly dry my hair. I walked to the door and saw a man who was 21, I knew for a fact, with dark brown, straight hair and icy blue eyes.
"Jake" I smiled and hugged him. He laughed and hugged me back then kissed the top of my head.
"Nice to know you're alive for sure Katie" he grinned down at me.
"Come on in, I have to get dressed, but Lou will try her hardest to get you in bed" I said while we walked in the kitchen. Lou scoffed.
"It's true, but I don't like that you assume that" Lou said. But didn't try to hit on him or anything. I went to my room and put on some warm clothes and hurried out to see Lou making coffee and Jake sitting on our couch.
"I was told by Travis you were spotted around here, so I came to see if he was right" Jake smiled.
"Just don't tell him, he has to-" I cut myself off and looked at Lou. She sighed.
"I'll go to see my mother, but I'll stay for a few weeks, are you okay with that?" Lou asked. I nodded.
"I'll call you for an update, I hope she feels better, tell her to keep using the spell I told her about, it won't make her die quicker, much to her belief" I said. Then hugged her.
"I will" she promised.
"Don't expose yourself or do too much to get yourself hunted down, got it?" I asked her. She nodded.
"I'll be fine" She smiled. I nodded.
"Good, I'll see you later, bye" I said.
"Bye" she smiled and whispered a spell under her breath. With that she disappeared. I sat down next to Jake.
"He has to find me his self or I can't see him or hear from him and he can't hear from me until he finds me or it'll get nasty" I told him.
"So I can't tell him I found you here, I can't tell anyone this conversation?" he asked. I nodded.
"Yes" I responded. He nodded then got up.
"Have you heard anything from Jana?" he asked as he walked to the door. I got up too and looked at him.
"Why are you leaving?" I asked.
"I came here only for a little bit, I have to get back and practice my snowboarding and searching for Jana, now can you tell me if you heard anything?" he asked.
"You- Love her?" It was more of a question than anything else. He laughed.
"Love Jana? No" he said. It was somewhat a lie. I could tell he had a strong feeling towards her, but he might not have loved her, but he wanted her more than he wanted another girl. I realized I was staring at him for a while. So I made a gesture that told him he could go.
"I'll see you later" I hugged him and let him go.
"Bye" he kissed my forehead and left me home alone. I sat back down on the couch and put my head in my hands. I had to go to Greece, I knew what was coming.
I'm so excited to be back, I'm in love with the idea's for this story, I hope you guys like them too.
Love you!
~WhenWeMeetAgain