The Covenant

Spenser Academy was unique to say the least.

The campus was gorgeous, the student body, rich, and it was the home of the Sons of Ipswich, meaning of course, that drama was always just around the bend.

It was about a month and half after the whole scenario with Chase. Not one of the boys, nor Sara or Kate, thought that he had actually died. Although they weren't bothered about it too much, just occasionally, when anytime something odd, would occur.

Pouge had told Kate everything. Why wouldn't he? After all, she'd almost died. Being Kate, she immediately started yelling at him, for not trusting her to begin with, followed quickly by pushing him against the wall and kissing him. Needless to say, they were still together.

Caleb and Sara could never stop being near one another.

While Reid and Tyler were still single as always. That was until an incident that no one could explain. Save for them all saying 'Chase' at the same time. Goodness knows that they were wrong…..well, sort of.

Saving Grace

Aerie was your typical student at Spenser Academy.

Okay, so that was an outright lie. In fact. Aerie (R-E-A; long vowels) was nearly one hundred percent invisible. No I am not talking literally. This is all figuratively. Anyways, Aerie was one who was completely focused on her studies.

The girl talked to no one, save for the polite pleasantries to her teachers, and those who bothered to ask for help when they needed it. Aerie wasn't unfriendly, she just wasn't popular. Which is exactly how she liked it.

Aerie had the qualities that nearly every girl wanted. Her eyes were a sapphire blue, that were also at the same time, a misty grey. Her hair was ebony, and cascaded down her back in soft spirals, while she was a pixie in height. But she could pull off skinny jeans spectacularly. Not that she wore them.

Her typical outfits consisted of, sweats, a crew neck layered over a camisole, with her black hard framed oval glasses, and her hair tied up in a ponytail. Sadly, however, Spenser did have a uniform. It was quite annoying at times.

At the moment, seeing as it was mid December, and she lived in Massachusetts, Aerie decided to do what she hadn't since freshman year. She groggily rolled out of bed. Thanking God once more that she didn't have a roommate; and quickly got dressed in her frozen room. In all honesty, she didn't care how she looked. Today was about not freezing to death and that horrid school uniform. Normally, she altered it. Adding a few of her favorite band buttons and the like. It was rather cute. She'd been told as much.

Today, because there was about three feet of snow on the ground, she simply yanked on a pair of her black sweats underneath her school skirt. Teachers really couldn't say anything; after all, she was still wearing the school uniform.

She pulled on her fitted, navy, wool coat on top of her school cardigan before grabbing her messenger bag and heading to the mess hall. She just left her hair down, because she knew it would cut down on the cold that was able to reach her ears. A better alternative than earmuffs, because they had the tendency to get snagged by her hair, and that just hurt.

With about a five second glance in the mirror, she walked out the door, heading straight for the cafeteria. Once there she picked up a plate of pancakes, smothered in syrup, as well as a few sausage links, before going to her table. Which was located in the corner, where no one else bothered to sit. The corner that was the furthest from the windows, and doors. The furthest, from really everything. Well, except the Sons of Ipswich's table.

That was what was closest. Except even that were several feet away.

Aerie always sat with her back in the corner, and today, the moment she sat down with her plate and coke, yes, coke. She yanked out a book that she was re-reading for the billionth time in existence.

Conspiracies…

"Good morning." Caleb said, leaning over to kiss his girlfriend Sara. She smiled as she began eating. "So, I was wondering if you'd like to get dinner tonight."

"Sure. I mean, as long as you don't mind me bringing my boyfriend with me." She said teasingly. Caleb's face went blank for a minute.

"That was mean." He said, as he started chuckling. Sara shrugged.

"Where's your sense of humor?" She asked, as Tyler sat down, next to her. Caleb rolled his eyes.

"What you'd do, pull the boyfriend joke like I told you?" Tyler asked, before taking a bite of food. Caleb raised an eyebrow, while Sara began giggling. "I take it he fell for it?" At that, a piece of bacon hit him in the face.

"Oi! That's a perfectly good waste of bacon." Pouge said, sitting down. Reid was close behind him. "So what did you lot do last night?" He asked grinning.

Reid shrugged. "You know, went to Nicky's. Where were you at anyways?" He asked Pouge grinned, and Reid mouthed, a silent, 'oh.' As Kate sat down. The group went back to talking and laughing like they always did. Until Reid decided it'd be funny to throw a piece of bacon at Pouge's face.

Pouge looked a bit shocked before retaliating.

Caleb wasn't paying attention. He was eating and talking with Sara, but when a piece of bread hit him, he simply stared at his friends. Before flinging a pancake back at Tyler who ducked, and somehow, although no one knows how, the pancake ended up flying several feet away, and hit a girl in the corner, in the face.

Silence ensued in the proximity of where they were sitting. Which included about four tables. They simply all watched to see what the girl would do.

You've got to be Kidding Me….

Aerie simply stared at the pancake that had hit her in the face, before falling to join the rest on her plate. That was possibly the grossest thing ever. She didn't even know whose food it was. But of course something like this would happen. Something like this always happened.

She quickly froze the entire room. Yeah….Aerie was rather special. Before wiping her face to make sure it was bread free. It wasn't that she was overly concerned about looking perfect in front of other people; it was because she wasn't going to give them any more material to make fun of her than they already had.

After making sure that she looked semi-normal, she unfroze everything, and simply looked down at her food. Now she didn't even think she could eat. That was just gross. She'd hope the torment would finally stop this year. After all, no one knew her here, so why should they pick on her?

While Aerie was having this whole internal annoying breakdown, she didn't notice that there was an individual moving towards her. By the time she did, he was at her table, meaning there was no time to run.

"Hey…listen." She jumped at the sound of his voice. "Erm, I'm really sorry." He said, while she simply raised an eyebrow. "About the pancake. My friends were horsing around, and Tyler ducked….I'm just really sorry." Aerie simply shrugged.

"Whatever, it's fine." She said, picking up her messenger bag. "I wasn't hungry anyways." She quickly stood up, not bothering to learn Caleb's name nor caring about it. If she'd looked at his face, she would have noticed that he looked rather taken aback. But he didn't miss the look in her eyes.

Aerie hurried away. While Caleb simply wandered back to her table.

"Dude, what happened?" Pouge asked watching his friend carefully. Caleb shrugged.

"She didn't really care." He said. "I get the feeling that something is wrong though." Sara looked back towards the door where she disappeared. Tyler was watching him carefully, as were the rest he noticed.

"Why do we keep getting all of these new kids?" Reid finally asked. "We get this crazy one," he nodded at Sara who rolled her eyes, "Then we get that maniac Chase, and now we get this one. Where are they all coming from?"

"Why do you think she was new?" Kate asked. Reid grinned at her.

"Two reasons; one there's no way I've never met someone as hot as her, and secondly, Aaron Abbot was checking her out. Meaning the same thing." They all glanced over at the boy; who was in fact staring at the door, before turning back to his friends.

'Oh, and another thing. She was wearing sweats underneath her skirt. Meaning she hasn't met up with our dear Provost." He said grinning. The rest of the group rolled their eyes as they all began shuffling off to class.

Of course, up first was European History.

Tyler didn't mind actually. After all it was one of his best subjects. His mind wandered to the incident that had occurred about ten minutes before hand. He felt bad for the girl. After all it was what her first day here? It was then that he decided to apologize as well if he saw her.

Little did he know, she was sitting in the very room that he was about to walk into.

Aerie sat in the front row in the corner. In every single class. It was here, that she found that she could learn quite well, without ever being bugged. At the moment she was still buried deep in her book; her favorite. So she didn't even notice class beginning.

"Ms. Cunnings." Her attention snapped up the moment her name was called. Their teacher was looking at her.

"Sorry, Professor." She said, before closing the book, and stowing it on her lap while she opened her text book.

"Perhaps you'd like to share your ideals on our topic today, Ms. Cunnings, we're talking about what truly started the first world war, and seeing as you so interested in this discussion I felt that it'd only be fair to allow you to start off the discussion."

"Really, it was a number of things, although the most immediate cause was the assignation of Prince Ferdinand and his wife, by a Serbian. It was because of the Balkan region, or what it is more commonly referred to as, the 'Powder Keg." Aerie explained.

She knew her teacher was baiting her. She was always reading, and he knew that, so he would always try and prove that it wasn't a good thing in class.

"Excellent." He said. "Mr. Garwin, care to expand on this concept?"

Aerie grinned, 'Aerie 1 Professor Strickland, 0" she thought. This wasn't exactly a new concept. In fact it was something that happened on a fairly regular basis. He had yet to win this argument.

She continued taking notes, for the remainder of class. While doodling in the margins like she always did.

"Dude." Tyler nudged Reid's knee. "It's her." He nodded toward the girl who had just spoken in class. The blonde haired boy shot her a look, and shrugged.

"Maybe." He said. "How can you be sure?"

Tyler looked back at her; "Her voice tipped me off." He answered quietly. Reid nodded, continuing to stare at the blonde in front of him.

"Isn't he going to introduce her to the class?" Reid asked.

"You know, he probably already did. During that whole Chase incident." Tyler murmured. Reid nodded absently. When the bell finally rang, Tyler, had to ask. "You going after her?"

"Nah, you can have that one. I'm going after the blonde." Tyler grinned. Reid knew him well. Occasionally too well. But that's how it is when you grow up together, in addition to being roommates at school. Reid hurried out of class, tailing the blonde, of course. After all that's simply what Reid did.

Tyler on the other hand, stayed put. He was waiting on the new girl. Who apparently liked to take her sweet old time with everything. When she finally was walking up the aisle, she looked up and then froze. Tyler watched her for a moment, before, she had reached him.

"Hey. I'm Tyler." Needless to say she looked quite shocked. "Tyler Simms."

"Um…hi." She said, eyeing him like he was weird. Tyler loked down, awkwardly.

"I wanted to introduce myself, seeing as you're new, and I also wanted to apologize for this morning." She simply raised an eyebrow.

"Like I told your friend, I don't really care." And without another word, she quickly hurried out of the room. Tyler stared after her, not really caring that he was ultra late to his next class, just wondering how in the world, she got away without bothering to give her name.

He met up with the rest of the guys a bit later. Reid was of course hitting on the blonde, while Sara and Caleb made fun of him. Tyler walked up in time to catch the end of it.

"Ooh, Reid, did you use the Grandmother line?" Sara asked grinning wickedly. His answer was to flip her off.

"Baby Boy, you find out anything?" Reid asked, catching sight of him. He mutely shook his head. "What happened?" he asked.

"She said, she didn't care about this morning, and before I could find out anything, she was gone." He said rubbing the back of his neck. The others all looked at each other.

"Better luck next time?" Pouge said, shrugging. Tyler nodded absently.

"Caleb…" Sara said, causing everyone to look up. "We need to talk." Everyone knew that tone. It was the tone. The tone no one ever wants to hear. He nodded, glumly, before standing up and taking her hand.

"Sara, this isn't the speech is it?" Caleb asked once they were back in her dorm. She looked at him confused. "You know the speech, where you say that it isn't working." She bit her lip. "I guess I understand." He muttered, seconds before she erupted into laughter.

"This isn't that speech, and I do know what you were referring to." She said grinning. Caleb looked at her and pointed a finger at her.

"That…that was mean." He said. "Why can't we channel this streak into annoying Reid?" he asked, pulling her to him and kissing her deeply. "So what did you want to talk about?" She didn't answer for a moment, instead, opting to kiss him deeper.

Once they finally had broken the kiss, she pulled him into a hug. "Promise me you won't hate me?" she said quietly.

"Why?" he asked, she looked down at her feet, taking a deep breath.

"You were honest with me, and I want to be honest with you." She said slowly.

"About what?" he asked.

"You aren't the only one with powers." She said softly. "Nor the only one from Salem." She held up her hands, to stop his flow of questions before he could ask. "No, I'm not like you."

"What do you mean?" he asked, still holding her hands.

"Okay, this is going to sound crazy, but hear me out. You know the show Charmed?" he nodded.

"Yeah, we would watch it occasionally; to make fun of it and stuff. Why?" he asked warily. She gave a small smile. The type where it said, 'well, funny story…'

"No." he said. She nodded.

"It's based on my family." She said. "You know how you family created a covenant to keep yourselves safe?" He nodded. "well mine came up with the idea that, if you throw a story out there, embellish it a bit, and no one would believe that it's real."

"So you are related to the Halliwell?" he asked. She grinned and shook her head.

"The Halliewells don't exist…persay. We did change the name. Okay, pretty much, my Aunt Selene, is a writer for the show. Phoebe is pretty much a carbon copy of her."

"So how are you related?" he asked. She grinned.

"Prue's my mom. They left her name, sort of as a tribute. My Aunt Reece is who Piper is based on. Their powers, are real, although they have a bit more than just that. We couldn't give out all our secrets could we?" Caleb smirked.

"Aunt Reece, has the whole freezing, blowing up, and she's got this ultra weird thing with plants. She's always been able to get tehm to grow really well. Aunt Selene; she's the passive one, levitating, premonitions, empathy, but What they didn't know is that she could control weather. Sort of like X-Men's Storm, But it never had a chance to escalate to that.

"Now my mom's was pretty cool. She's telepathic, telekinesis, and she can astro project. That's what they had her do on the show. But she also can do thing with water; it's hard to explain, other than she can pretty much make it appear, in any amount."

"What do you mean, escalate?" Caleb asked.

"Our powers grow. They develop as we learn to use them. They aren't like yours were they're addictive, and kill you ultimately. Ours, if unused, our body begins to reject them, not to mention, if we can't control it, it's exceedingly dangerous. To everyone, in my Aunt Reece's case."

"So, what from the show isn't real?" Caleb asked finally. Causing Sara to grin.

"Erm…a lot actually. For instance there's no Source. No Elders, not all demons are evil. Some are quite good friends. But there are still a great number who are evil. White lighters are real. But there's no organization handing them clients like in the show. It's more of whomever needs help, and who's the nearest."

"Is Paige real?" he finally asked. Sara smiled.

"Yes, but she's my great aunt. She's my grandmother's sister. Her name is Theresa. She's got all that whitelighter stuff, but she's also got a great knack for potions and such." Sara looked thoughtful for a moment.

"So what are your powers?" Caleb asked, as Sara's face erupted into a huge smile.

"I've got my mom's powers. Telekinesis and Telepathy. I don't have the Astral Projection yet, I might not get it. But the weird thing is, I have one of my Aunt Selene's. We're not really sure why. But I also can levitate, But the one power I developed all on my own, are force fields.

"Granted, those are a new one; but we think it's a sector off of the telekinesis." Caleb was simply staring at her. She smiled. "I know, it's a lot to take in."

"And I'm sorry I ddin't tell you during the whole Chase thing, but I didn't think it was the greatest timeing, and there really wasn't anything I could do." She babbled, finally, Caleb cut her off by pulling her to him and kissing him.

"Can you show me?" She obliged immediately by levitating them a few feet off of the ground. "Interesting." He said grinning.

"Isn't it though? Ooh, am I allowed to mess with Reid?"

Aerie was walking up to her dorm, when she heard it. A strange rush of wind. She jumped and looked around, noting that she was alone, yet when she went to continue, onward, she nearly screamed. For standing in front of her was something…weird.

Really, she had no words to describe it. Well, other than demon. But that's way to cliché. Wasn't it?

"Ah, I don't suppose you could help me?" it growled out. She nearly squeaked. "I'm looking for a certain group of people. I believe one of them goes by the name of Sara—" he was immediately cut off, as she froze him. Unfortunately at that inopportune moment, a door opened, and out walked some blonde girl and that guy who had spoken to her at breakfast. The one who had thrown the pancake.

Without bothering to think, she did what her gut told her. She froze them, and then blew up the demon looking thing.

Before booking it out of there. She unfroze them as she reached the top of the stairs. She heard a half yell, and then nothing. She sighed in relief. What on earth had just happened? Shaking, she made it back to her dorm, to finish her homework.