Ok, here's the disclaimer: No, I don't own The Covenant or anything involved with it. Anything you know isn't mine probably isn't. What you don't know is mine probably is mine. ;o)
This basically happens not long after the end of the movie, most of the characters in the movie is in this story & I'm running with what I sensed of their relationships with each other. I'll be wrong sometimes, it happens.
Two new OCs, so hate 'em or luv 'em, lemme know!
Chapter One
Where is the White Rabbit, Alice?
Pogue Parry was carefully watching the teacher out the corner of his eye as he wrote out a note. Once finished writing, he folded it and waited for the teacher to turn back to the chalkboard.
"Psst!" Pogue hissed at the girl seated in front of him. She automatically checked the teacher and seeing that he was still writing on the chalkboard, quickly turned and reached up to take the note from Pogue.
"Which one?" She mouthed back at Pogue and he pointed to the blonde who was sitting off to her right at the desks before her. She nodded and was about to pass it on when the teacher turned. She quickly tucked it into her notebook and pretended that she had been writing the whole time like a good little student.
"Psst!" She heard Pogue hiss at her again and she made a sharp gesture to him to be quiet and then she leaned forward and hissed at Reid Garwin. He stretched and yawned; one hand conveniently reaching towards her and she quickly deposited the note in his hand and felt a tingle when his fingers brushed around hers. She shook the sensation away and resumed her note taking and doodling.
She was completely immersed in her doodling when she heard Reid hiss at her this time. She resisted the urge to roll her eyes, but couldn't hold back the sigh and she checked the teacher. Still writing like a madman at the chalkboard.
"Hey!" Reid whispered again and she leaned forward and took the note from him, but as she was leaning back with the note something happened. And it wasn't good.
"What do you have there, Miss Hunter?" The teacher was staring at her disapprovingly. Reid had already returned to his notebook and she fumed slightly at being caught passing notes… again.
"Sorry, Mr. Sherwin." Alice Hunter meekly replied as she discretely tucked the note into a pocket and started writing a new note under the desk. "I was just passing this one on, I don't know who's it is."
Mr. Sherwin stormed up to her level and stuck a hand out. Alice could see Reid's stricken face as he looked up at her as she meekly handed the fake note to the teacher's proffered hand.
" 'Wanna meet at Nicky's later?' " Mr. Sherwin read the note out loud and Alice noticed that Reid sagged slightly in relief.
"Does somebody want to confess to this?" Mr. Sherwin said, holding the note aloft so that everybody could see the little hearts dotting one side of it with the words written in a curly font. Everybody was wisely silent and he grumbled under his breath as he crumpled it and tossed it in the garbage as he went back to the chalkboard.
"Psst!" Alice heard Pogue hiss at her again several minutes later and this time she did roll her eyes with a heavy sigh. She made a sharp gesture to make him stop as she examined the teacher and the students around her. She wasn't going to take any chances this time, if she got caught with a note for the second time, Mr. Sherwin will send her to the Provost's office.
Alice waited for the opportune moment and she quickly passed Reid's note up to Pogue when Mr. Sherwin was particularly engrossed in his writing. She heard him murmur a word of thanks before she returned to her notebook. She glanced down and noticed that Reid had witnessed her and he gave her a cocky smirk before returning to his notebook.
Alice huffed silently as she started drawing Reid with horns and smoke curling from his ears and nose. Once her ire had vented, class was over and she slowly crammed her stuff in her bag as she waited for the press of students eager to leave Mr. Sherwin's class to lessen.
"Don't ever do that again!" Caleb Danvers whispered angrily to Reid when he caught up with him just outside of the classroom. "If Sherwin got that note –"
"Nothing bad happened! Relax man." Reid interrupted with his cocky grin firmly in place. "Alice was a lifesaver again."
"Yeah, again!" Caleb shot back. "How many other times has she covered our asses when we passed notes? She went to the Provost's office last week because you and Tyler were passing notes and she was the one who got caught!"
"Well if you're so against passing notes in class then how come you passed a note to Pogue this morning? You didn't mind Alice passing it on then!" Reid shot back, getting into Caleb's face so that they were like two cockerels in a stare-down.
"Look, why don't we go somewhere private?" Tyler asked as he and Pogue moved between the two boys to separate them. "Otherwise arguing about that note is going to be pointless if they hear you guys now." Tyler added reasonably and Caleb gave a curt nod, still holding Reid's gaze for a moment longer, still fuming at him.
They all looked to the entrance of the classroom in surprise when Alice suddenly appeared struggling with the zipper on her bag. She froze and stared back at them like a deer caught in headlights. Pogue could almost swear he heard her squeak in surprise.
"Sorry, we didn't mean to scare you." Caleb snapped out of it and stepped forward and closed the zipper for her with little difficulty. He vaguely remembered that she was always struggling with that zipper. "I want to apologize for Reid and Pogue almost getting you caught by Mr. Sherwin."
"Uh… oh no, no it's fine. I didn't get caught." Alice brushed it off quickly as she slung the bag over her shoulder with a soft huff. "Thanks for closing the zipper. It always sticks at the worst times. I have to go or I'll be late." She excused herself and gave them a quick wave as she walked away from the group to her next class.
"Watch yourself." Caleb said darkly, pointing to Reid as he and Tyler started walking to their next class. Reid just held out his hands and grinned cheekily back, Pogue scoffed and smacked the other blonde in the back and led the way to their class.
Alice sighed as she reached the sanctuary of her dorm room. She dropped the heavy bag on the floor with a dull thud and she took a few quick steps and flopped down on the bed face down and eagle-spread. A hand moved towards a remote and the stereo came on, blaring rock and roll at full force.
"SHIT!" Alice shrieked as she jumped about a mile off her bed and grabbed the remote to turn it down to a more acceptable level that could actually be heard on earth instead of the stratosphere. She sighed as she shrugged her school jacket off and loosened her tie as she walked into the bathroom and washed her meager make-up off.
"I heard you down the hall." Alice yelped and whirled around, holding onto the sink for support since her knees were busy knocking together. She saw her friend laughing so hard that she was hanging off the side of the doorframe.
"You scared me, Mira!" Alice accused her as she grabbed a hand towel and dried her face off. Seeing that Mira was still laughing at her, Alice threw her towel at her.
"I'm sorry, it was just so funny!" Mira whipped a tear of mirth away as she gave a deep sigh with a big grin. "You left your door unlocked again. I thought you hated to leave it unlocked."
"Long, long day." Alice said as she toed her shoes off and flopped back down on her bed. "I got caught by Mr. Sherwin in class today passing notes."
"Lemme guess, it was the Sons' of Ipswich's fault?" Mira took a wild guess as she sat down at the computer and turned it on.
"Pogue and Reid."
"Ah, those boys. They are sexy though." Mira sighed dreamingly and Alice laughed as she threw a throw pillow at her. Mira caught it neatly and tucked it behind her back as she leaned back against the chair and signed on into the instant messenger.
"Is that mine or yours?" Alice asked as she examined a chip in the nail polish on her thumbnail, she'd have to fix that later. "You better not be on mine, Frankie wouldn't talk to me for a week after those remarks you typed to him."
"Your friend list is boring anyway."
"Are you implying that I'm boring?"
"No, I'm implying your friends are boring and you have the shortest list I ever seen in the dorms." Mira wrinkled her nose in distaste. "You need to get out more."
"Sorry I'm not a social butterfly like you."
"Certainly make a lovely wallflower though."
"Up your ziggy with a wa-wa brush." Alice shot back with a mischievous grin as Mira laughed and flipped a pen at her. Mira quickly went back to her IMing when it chimed that somebody had sent her a message. Alice laid back and closed her eyes so that she could become immersed into the soothing Celtic music and Mira's fingers clacking on the keys.
Alice was nearly asleep when the music suddenly was way too loud and pounding rock music. She screeched as she fell off the side of the bed and she scrambled up to see Mira was on the floor laughing so hard she was crying.
"Mira!" Alice protested and threw a book at her.
"Ow! That hurt!"
"It damn well better have!" Alice stood over Mira with her hands on her hips as she glared down at her. Mira wiped the tears away as her laugher slowed down to chuckles. "What was so important that you had to so rudely wake me like that?"
"Oh, I was wondering if you wanted to go to Nicky's and you were ignoring me." Mira explained as she sat up and grabbed a Kleenex to clean up her streaky mascara. "I'm meeting Ryan there and I was wondering if you could drive me? I wouldn't ask, except Ryan is meeting me at Nicky's."
"Ah, the truth finally comes out." Alice crossed her arms as she tilted her head. "You wanna ride in my Chevy."
"Oh but it's so purty and sexy!" Mira chorused in a high voice as she grabbed Alice's knees and nearly made her fall over. "I feel like a real woman in that car!"
"When are you meeting your boyfriend?" Alice asked as she disentangled her friend from her legs, but took a step and fell anyway. "I think I'll just stay here, it's safer."
"Oh you goose, I'm meeting Ryan at eight. But I wanna go out now." Mira grabbed Alice's hand as she crouched besides her. "Please! We can do something fun or maybe go shopping and get you new clothes to party in."
"Last time I went shopping with you, you bought me a slut outfit with the works."
"And I see you put in a box labeled 'Dating Emergency'."
"In case you didn't notice, it has an inch worth of dust on it." Alice pointed out deadpanned as she crossed her arms, still laying flat on her back and staring straight up at the ceiling.
"You're so silly!" Mira laughed as she grabbed Alice's wrists and pulled her up. "We're going out, girl! YEE-OW!" She whooped and Alice couldn't help and cheer too.
"You're going down!" Pogue crowed as he spun the little men on the foosball table with a flourish. Caleb grinned as he blocked the little white ball and sent it spinning back to Pogue's side.
"Hey, having fun?" Sarah suddenly spoke from Caleb's shoulder and he missed his shot. He didn't care that Pogue was gloating over his win as Caleb gave Sarah a soft kiss 'hello', pulling her gently to his side.
"Get a room, you two." Reid said as he and Tyler arrived with drinks they had been sent to get for the group. Kate was following in tow, but when Pogue tried to kiss her, she turned her face away so that he kissed her cheek instead. He hid his hurt at the refusal, but his "brothers" knew better.
Sarah quickly reached out and grabbed Kate by the hand and pulled her to a table with the pretense of silly girl talk. Pogue watched them go and angrily spun one of the rods of the foosball table.
"Ever since Chase she changed." Pogue muttered to Caleb. "She gets angry at me when I ask her about stuff, accuses me that I'm being jealous and controlling."
"Give her time, Pogue, Kate had a hard time. She'll come to her senses." Caleb tried to reassure his friend, but he could tell that his words were falling on deaf ears. Pogue merely grunted dishearteningly before wondering off to watch Reid beat the pants off Tyler at pool. But the younger boy was finally getting better and was making the game more challenging for Reid.
Caleb sighed as he looked over his friends, even though they had managed to get out of that situation without any real injuries, it had changed their relationships for better or for worse. He gave a world-weary sigh and walked to where Sarah and Kate were sitting and in deep conversation about Pogue no doubt.
"Hey." Caleb murmured to Sarah as he slipped into the chair next to her and rested his arm across the back of her chair. She gave him a sweet smile before returning her attention to Kate.
"I don't understand, Pogue is a great guy." Sarah resumed her argument with Kate. "I know he can be a bit possessive about you sometimes, but it's actually kinda sweet. Like he really cares about you enough to want you close."
"I don't care, he's smothering me." Kate shot back as she cast a wary glace at Caleb, uncomfortable about talking about her problems with his friend in front of him. "Look, I don't wanna talk about it, I came here to have fun." Sarah sighed as Kate got up to talk to some other friends from the academy.
"She really is breaking up with Pogue, isn't she?" Caleb asked softly as he started playing with Sarah's blonde, silky ponytail. She nodded sadly.
"They seemed to be in love when she first introduced me to you guys." Sarah confided as she leaned her head on his shoulder. "Kinda makes you wonder if our relationship would fall apart like that."
"Never." Caleb whispered to her and she smiled softly, resting her head against his forehead.
Over at the pool tables, Pogue and Tyler were talking and watching as Reid hustled some unsuspecting poor shmuck. Reid soon pocked the 8-ball and sent the shmuck away with a lighter wallet. He was laughing with his brothers when he felt somebody smack him on the bum.
"Hasta la Vista, Reid." Mira grinned back at him as she walked away arm in arm with another guy he recognized as Ryan Tanning.
"Hey, Foxy. Looking good." Reid replied back in greeting with a cheeky grin and she laughed as she turned back to Ryan.
"Who was that?" Tyler asked, not missing the exchange.
"Oh, I went out with her a couple times." Reid answered as he racked up the cue balls for another game, this time Pogue grabbing a cue-stick to join him. "She's the girl I go to when I feel like doing something crazy and fun." He gave a laugh as he managed to sink four balls at once when he broke.
"She sounds interesting." Pogue commented as he walked behind Reid and brushed the end of his cue stick so that he missed his shot. "How come you two aren't dating?" Pogue asked as he lined up his shot while Reid fumed.
"Because she wanted a serious relationship and I didn't. Plus, when we actually got down to it, we preferred shooting paintballs at each other instead of kissing." Reid replied. "How's Kate?" He quickly added, timing right when Pogue was about to shoot and he missed wildly.
"That was low, Reid." Pogue said darkly as he stepped back so that Reid could shoot. Reid just gave him his trademark smirk and a shrug of his shoulders as if to say, that's the way it is, before bending down to sink two more balls in.
"Hey, who's that? She looks familiar." Tyler suddenly said and both Reid and Pogue turned to look where he was staring. It was a girl talking to Mira and she was self-consciously pulling her short skirt down every once in a while.
"Hey, that's Alice Hunter." Pogue suddenly realized when she turned slightly their way. "I've never seen her dress like that before." He added, raising his eyebrows.
"What do you wanna bet she wears sexy thongs?" Reid suddenly said with a smirk, a twenty-dollar bill held aloft by two fingers.
"Pink lace." Tyler quickly added, not be left behind, holding his money up.
"Guys, it's Alice. Boy shorts with a sassy remark on the back of 'em." Pogue said confidently as he slapped his money on the table. All three of them turned to look at Alice as Reid's eyes flamed and went black. A breeze whooshed through and Alice shrieked as her shirt went heavenward and she clutched her skirt back down, Marilyn Monroe style.
"What did it say?" Tyler asked curiously as he and Reid handed over their money to Pogue, who was smirking at them.
"'What, you thought it was a thong?'" Pogue answered with a chuckle.
'"How do you know anyway?" Reid asked.
"'Cause Mira told Kate about her shorts and she told me." Pogue grinned as he punched Reid in the shoulder and walked to the bar, ignoring their protests.
"Here, I got you something." Alice looked up at Pogue's voice to see him holding a glass to her. She took it with a confused look.
"Uh, thanks, I guess." Alice said as she looked down at her drink, it looked like an Italian soda, cherry by the color. "Why?"
"Why what?" Pogue asked with a grin as he nodded to Mira and Ryan in greeting. Alice sighed, sensing that he was being difficult.
"Why did you buy me a drink?"
"Just felt like it." Pogue replied with a knowing grin as he walked away to the table where Sarah and Caleb were still sitting. Alice thoughtfully took a sip of her drink and her eyes widened in alarm. That unusual breeze that lifted her skirt, Pogue showing up with a drink as if he was apologizing for something…
"SHIT! I'll kill him!" Alice exclaimed as she grabbed an orange off another table and threw it at Reid's head, scoring right smack dab in the middle. He yelped and turned to see who did it, scowling as he rubbed the sore spot.
"It was a run by fruiting! It was horrible!" Mira quickly said, covering for Alice as she dramatically rested a hand on her chest as she clutched Ryan with her other hand. Reid could see that Ryan was trying to not laugh as he reassuringly rubbed Mira's back. Alice was watching Mira with amusement, hiding her face from Reid in hopes that he wouldn't somehow figure out that she was the cause of his pain.
"Did you do that, Mira?" Reid said as he bent down to pick up the orange and tossed it up in the air and caught it neatly, without watching it as he locked eyes with her.
"No!" Mira straightened up and glared at him. "Somebody else threw it, I didn't see who it was." She started sniggering again. "But it was funny as hell."
"Funny." Reid replied dryly and threw the orange at her in a semi-lazy pitch; Ryan caught it neatly and set it on the table. Reid glanced over to the table where most of his friends were sitting and he noticed that Pogue was watching him with amusement and a look that looked a lot like the cat that ate the canary.
Pogue grinned as he watched Alice quickly come up with some excuse to her friends and leave the table in a hurry. He had witnessed her reaction and thought Reid deserved every bit of it. But in the back of his mind, he wondered how she knew that it was Reid who did that. But then Kate distracted him by sitting down at the table and it was quickly forgotten as he worked to woo her back.
Alice sighed as she looked in the mirror for what seemed like the hundredth time that day. She regretted losing her temper like that, but deep down, she wasn't sorry that she hurt Reid, physically or pride-wise. It was time to go home.
"Hey, I'm going home. Ryan can drive you back." Alice said as she patted Ryan on the back and grinned at Mira. "I just remembered that I have some things I need to take care of before going to bed."
"Are you sure? It's kinda dark outside." Mira asked concernedly as she looked up at her friend. Alice just gave a laugh and a crooked grin.
"I'll be fine, I know these roads like the back of my hand." Alice reassured her as she grabbed her jacket and slipped it on. "I'll take your bags with me and you can get 'em later when you're not busy smooching your pretty boy." She teased and pinched Ryan's cheek for good measure. He laughed and shoved her away, telling her to get on home before the wolves came out.
"Speaking of wolves." Alice muttered when she turned around and nearly ran into Reid. He raised an eyebrow at her quizzically, but she just gave him an annoyed glare and quickly brushed by him.
"What got her panties in a knot?" Reid asked as he sat down next to Pogue and snagged a fry from Caleb's plate, earning a dirty look.
"You." Pogue and Caleb both replied, almost unison as they then proceed to ignore him in favor of their fairer companions.
"I didn't know I was that charming." Reid smirked as he leaned back and propped his feet on an empty chair at another table.
"You only think you are, sugar." Mira quipped as she walked by with Ryan and smacked him up the head lightly with a laugh. Reid grumbled about uppity women as he watched her drag her boyfriend to the dance floor where they started dancing.
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