This is my second fanfic. I don't own The Secret Circle. Hope you like it!

Cassie's POV

"Cassie are you ready? We have to go now!"

"Yes Jake." I said as I finished writing the note to my grandmother Jane Blake, so she wouldn't worry as much. I grabbed my purse and book bag that was packed with clothes. I set the note on my bed and headed downstairs to meet Jake. He grabbed my book bag in one hand and grabbed my hand with the other. We quickly walked out the front door and only stopped so I could lock the door. After I locked the door Jake lead me to his truck. I fastened my seatbelt as Jake got into the driver's seat. He put on his seatbelt and started driving. My phone started ringing again, I looked at the screen.

"Who is it?" Jake asked already knowing the answer.

"It's Adam again!" I said as I hit the ignore button. As soon as the call ended I called the Boathouse and placed a takeout order. I was lucky enough to speak to one of the waitresses instead of Adam's father. I had just hung up the phone when it started ringing again. I looked over at Jake as he looked over at me. I looked back at my phone, this time it was Faye calling. I hit ignore and put my phone back into my pocket.

"Was that Adam again?" Jake asked while looking at me curiously as if I was going to change my mind and bolt from his truck at any second. I smirked and rolled my eyes.

"That was Faye telling me that I needed to get away from you now. Basically the same thing everyone's been telling me all night." Jake stiffened a little and gripped the steering wheel tighter. If I hadn't known him I would have missed his reaction. "Relax Jake, I'm going with you." I said while placing my left hand on top of his. He instantly relaxed at my touch which seemed to shock him; by the look on his face. I raised my eyebrow at him with a smirk on my face. He smiled at me as he continued to drive to the Boathouse. I thought back to what happened earlier tonight.

Flashback

I left the fundraiser with Jake and ended up in his room, which was Nick's old room. I started to crack a joke about him just trying to get me in his room. When he pulled out leather bound book that looked as old as my book of shadows.

"Is that your family's book of shadows?" I asked in a hushed tone.

"You said you wanted to know more about your father!" He said handing me the book. I paged through it and he explained what he knew about my family. The pages in the book were pictures of evil things and monsters. Jake told me I was part of the Balcoin bloodline; a bloodline of powerful witches that used dark magic or darkness. He told me I was from a lineage of strong dark magic and that's why I could do magic outside of the circle. How I killed Luke when I was in the iron surrounded circle. He told me that I needed to protect myself from the darkness.

"You're telling me my ancestors were monsters; so that's what you think I am!" I got off the bed ready to get away from him. When he grabbed my arm and said no that he was trusting me with this. "Trusting me with this, so this is why you keep pulling away from me!" I ended up flipping on him so bad that I brought up him leaving Nick when he asked me to leave with him. The look on his face was almost unbearable.

"I have to tell you something." Jake said almost inaudible. The look on his face was serious, but still looked pained. I stood in front of him with my arms crossed tightly against my chest. I had a feeling what he was going to tell me was going to be worse than when were kidnapped by the witch hunters. "I'm the reason the witch hunters are here."

"How are you the reason?" Was all I could say since I was frozen in my spot.

"I brought them here, I'm one of them." That's all it took me to hear; I bolted from his room. I scrambled down the stairs trying to get to the front door. Jake was right behind me as I reached the door. I quickly pulled on the door knob; I only had the door open a few inches when Jake closed the door with one hand. His other hand was on the door frame; trapping me in between the door and his body. I closed my eyes and let out a shaky breath before speaking.

"Jake just let me go; you don't have to do this." I pleaded with him as he just stood still.

"Cassie I'm not going to hurt you, please just look at me." The tone of his voice showed regret. I stood still facing the door. He let out a huge sigh and lowered his arms. I slowly turned around and opened my eyes. His head was hanging down as he stood there. I didn't stop myself when my hand connected with his face. His head snapped to the side from the force of my slap.

"You're not going to hurt me; you already have!" I yelled at him, my anger was rising to the boiling point. Jake seemed to realize that, and tried to calm me down. Except when he touched my arm, it was the wrong thing to do. "Don't touch me!" I screamed causing all the windows in the house to shatter. He didn't listen to me and grabbed my face with both hands. He looked me square in the eyes and said something that I truly was not expecting him to.

"Cassie I care about you!" I could see the honesty in his eyes; he really did care about me. "I can't lose you! They don't want to kill you anymore. They want to take you away and use you as a weapon."

"Why?" Was all I could say around the lump in my throat. He explained everything to me, as quickly as he could. "I'll go with you." I said barely above a whisper.

"What?" Jake said surprise evident on his face.

"I'll go with you, but only because I want to protect the circle." He nodded his head and told me to follow him so he could grab his stuff. Once he put his stuff in his truck he led me into my house and explained even more about his involvement with the witch hunters while I packed. He wanted to protect people from magic; so what happened to his parents and then to his brother wouldn't happen to someone else.

My phone went off again this time I looked at the messages. I had two text messages; the first one was sent when I was running from Jake when he told me he was a witch hunter. Both messages were from Adam; the first one said that Jake was a witch hunter. The second one said that I needed to get away from him and to tell him where I was. I told Jake that the rest of the circle knew he was a witch hunter. He seemed to be more stressed then he already was. He went down stairs to keep an eye out for the hunters, as I finished packing.

End flash back

We pulled into the Boathouse parking lot a few minutes later. We got out of his truck and headed for the door. Everyone inside the Boathouse was staring at us. Then I realized what they were staring at. Jake had his arm gently wrapped around my waist in a protective manner. A small smile played on my lips as I saw all of the shocked faces.

"Do you like their reaction?" Jake whispered playfully in my ear.

"Oh yes, it'll give them something to talk about for a few weeks!" I said sarcastically, as we walked to the register. The waitress looked back and forth between the two of us. She quickly went to the kitchen to see how much longer our food would take. When she left Jake leaned over and whispered in my ear.

"Want to give them something to really talk about?" I could hear the smile in his voice.

"Why not… What do you have in mind?"

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Shannon