Heartache and Healing

By: Lexvan

Disclaimer: I do not own W.I.T.C.H. I watch the show cause, male or female, heroes that use the elements are pretty cool. Takes place during season one. Kind of an what if story. The only character I own is Angelo Vanders.

Chapter 1:

The city of Heatherfield. It looks like an ordinary city, with normal people, living normal lives, doing ordinary things. But in this town, live five very special girl with very special powers. These girls are Will Vandom, Irma Lair, Taranee Cook, Cornelia Hale, and Hay Lin. They are the Guardians of the Veil. Five chosen girls that were picked to wield the powers of the Heart of Kandrakar. The Heart gives these girls the powers of the elements, to use in their fights against evil.

In their first mission, the Guardians were trying to bring down the evil Prince Phobos of the Meridian Kingdom, on the world of Metamoor. For months they've been working with the rebels, that were led by one Caleb Hart to try and take Phobos down before he could find his long lost sister. Who happens to be best friends with Elyon Brown. Once they found out that Elyon was Phobos's sister, Cornelia wanted to tell her about it all, but Will didn't want to fearing she'd freak out and avoid them.

In the end the other Guardians side with Will. But because of that, Cedric, Phobos's shape-shifting general was able to befriend Elyon and trick her into going to Metamoor with him. After a temporary break-up, between Cornelia and the girls, Cornelia came back just in time to save the day, or night as it may. Now they're trying to bring down Phobos before he can drain Elyon of not only her powers as the Heart of Metamoor, but her lifeforce as well!

But this story is focused on four people. Cornelia Hale, Caleb Hart, Irma Laur, and one Angelo Vanders. Who is Angelo Vanders you ask? He's one of Will Vandom's best friends from Fadden Hills, who moved to Heatherfield, about two months before Elyon left with Cedric to Metamoor. He has no idea about Will's life as a Guardian.

Not yet anyway.

Right now let's focus on Cornelia Hale, who is running. Running from something that broke her heart. She saw her ex-boyfriend, Caleb, who she was trying to get back with, kissing one of her friends.

'Why?!', Cornelia thought to herself as she ran down the street. 'Why is this happening?! Where did I go wrong?!'

Flashback, a week ago..............

The Guardians were in the underground Infinite City, after defeating one of Phobos's plans to destroy them. As they were heading out towards the secret entrance to the Infinite City, Cornelia was talking with Caleb, who at the time was her boyfriend.

"So, are you coming back with us?", Cornelia asked.

"No, but I'll walk you to where Will's going to open the portal.", Caleb said taking her hand.

"Okay.", Cornelia said happily.

Moments later, they were at the secret entrance, where the other four Guardians were waiting.

"Took you long enough, Cornelia!", Taranee joked as she was tapping her foot.

"I was just spending time with my man.", Cornelia said happily.

"Time to head home, guys.", Will said as she opened a portal for Earth.

As they were walking through the fold, Caleb grabbed Cornelia's hand, stopping her in her tracks as the others went through.

"I can't do this anymore, Cornelia.", he said calmly.

"What do you mean?", she asked as she turned to face him.

"I mean, I can't be with you.", Caleb said. "Not anymore."

"Is it something I did?!", she asked as her eyes started to well up with tears. "Whatever it is, I can change!"

"We're just too different for each other, Cornelia!", Caleb said. "Status means everything to you! I don't care about things like that. We never would of made each other happy, in the end!"

Cornelia just sat there in shock. They were supposed to be a happy couple, enjoying each others time together. But instead, she was getting dumped by the guy she fell for.

"We can work things out, Caleb!", Cornelia said holding his hand, hoping to change his mind. "Just give us another chance!"

"I just can't be that guy!", he snapped at her as he snatched his hand away from her. "This my home! And I have a lot more obligations beside you, to take care of here!"

Hearing those last words truly hurt Cornelia.

"So, I was just one of your "obligations", Caleb?", Cornelia said in a low voice.

"That came out wrong.", Caleb replied.

"Sure it did!", she snapped looking him dead in the eye. "Well, that won't be a problem for you anymore! "Your final obligation to me, Caleb, will be to watch me leave through this portal! Goodbye, Caleb!"

With one last look at Caleb she turned and ran through the portal, tears flowing down her face. She didn't dare look back fearing more pain would enter her heart at the sight of Caleb.

Once through the portal, onto Shell Beach, the young Earth Guardian ran past her friends, heading to her home.

"Cornelia, wait! What's wrong!", Hay Lin shouted towards her friend as she kept on running.

"What just happened?", Irma asked in confusion.

"It must of been big, for her to run off like that.", Hay Lin replied.

"I don't know.", Taranee said. "But she looked like she was hurt. Emotion wise, I mean."

"You don't think Caleb broke up with her?", Irma asked.

"He wouldn't do that!", Hay Lin replied. "Would he?"

"Let's just leave it alone for now.", Will said as she closed the fold. "We'll talk to Cornelia tomorrow."

With all of them in agreement, they headed to their homes, to get some sleep. Cornelia on the other hand, was home in her room, taking down any and all pictures with Caleb in them and throwing them in a box. After throwing the last picture in the box, she changed into her night gown, and went to bed, crying herself to sleep.

A week past, and Cornelia was trying to find Caleb, to see if she could try and get back together with him. The girls, being the friends they were, decided to help her look for him. Hoping to find him first, Cornelia searched as fast as she could. But unknown to her, one of her friends found him.

"You do know she's looking for you!", the girl asked.

"I know, I been watching you all from a distance.", Caleb replied.

"Why didn't you tell her about us?!", she asked as she tapped her foot on the ground getting upset. "If you had done that, she may not be acting so crazy right now!"

"I get it!", Caleb said. "I messed up! I'll go find her and tell her everything."

"Good luck with that.", she said as she got closer to him. "But before you go......"

She slowly wrapped her arms around Caleb's neck as they kissed. As they were kissing, Cornelia was walking down the alley, to see them kissing. Seeing this hurt her even more.

'It can't be!', Cornelia thought to herself. 'It just can't be! Caleb and..... Irma?!'

"What the heck is going on here?!", she yelled.

They both turned to see the one person they didn't want finding out about them.

Cornelia, with tears welling up in her eyes.

"Cornelia, we can explain.", Irma said as she jumped back from Caleb.

"How could you?!", she heard Cornelia yell before she ran from the ally.

"I'll go talk to her.", Caleb said. "Go home, and I'll meet you there."

"Okay.", Irma said. "Good luck with Cornelia."

Caleb nodded as he ran after Cornelia. After seeing Caleb run off, Irma made her way home, wondering two things:

1) How did this all happen?

2) How was she going to fix things with Cornelia?

"Cornelia! , Caleb yelled as he caught up with her. "Cornelia stop, please!"

Cornelia slowed down, and without warning turned around to face him, her long blond hair flying everywhere.

"You dirty, lying, cheating.....", she shrieked with anger and hurt in her voice.

"Please, let me explain.", he said interrupting her. "It s not....."

"Let me take a wild guess!", Cornelia yelled. "It s not what it looks like?!"

Caleb just stood there staring at her before Cornelia yelled at him again.

"Say something! Anything!"

Caleb s mind raced as he tried to think of the right thing to say. How do you tell your ex-girlfriend that the reason you dumped her was because you fell for one of her best friends? And was seeing her in secret! Caleb finally decided to tell the truth.

He owed her that much.

"It....... is what it looks like, Cornelia."

He stood in stunned silence for a minute, amazed that those had been the words to come out of his mouth.

"I m sorry, Cornelia.", Caleb continued quietly. "I didn't want you to find out this way."

Cornelia crossed her arms over her stomach regarding him coldly, and trying to decide which emotion was stronger at the moment. Hurt or anger.

"That s all you have to say?!", she asked, shaking her head in confusion. "How long has this been going on?!"

"A few weeks now. But, I think I've always cared for Irma.", he said, admitting how he felt for the first time out loud.

Caleb shifted his weight nervously.

"Are you happy, Cornelia?", he asked.

"Oh, I'm thrilled.", she answered sarcastically.

"No, I don't mean right now.", he corrected. "I mean have you been happy with me?"

Caleb wearily sat down on an empty bench, and glanced at her.

"Because I'm not.", he replied. "I don't think I've ever been and I don't think you've been happy with me either. Not that this makes what I did okay."

"Well, I was happy with you.", Cornelia said as she fought back the tears. "Being with you made me happy, Caleb."

Caleb knew right then and there, that he truly hurt her.

"You were my first boyfriend.", she said sadly. "I tried my best to change for you. I felt safe with you. I thought that you were faithful. I thought I could trust you. But I was wrong."

"I'm sorry you feel that way.", he said. "But I care for Irma."

"She's one of my friends, Caleb.", Cornelia whispered, finding it harder to fight back the tears.

"I know.", he whispered back. "I'm sorry."

"Do you truly care about her?", Cornelia asked as she stared at her mitten covered hands, sadly knowing the answer.

Caleb simply nodded, not noticing that she wasn't looking at him.

"Yes"

Cornelia took a deep breath still trying to suppress the tears that were threatening to fall. She couldn't believe this was happening. Caleb, her ex-boyfriend, had broken up with her because he had fallen for Irma, one of her best friends. Cornelia knew that she and Caleb had been having a few problems lately, but she never expected something like this to happen. She had hoped they could work things out. But sometimes things don't work out the way suppose to.

"So, that's how it is then, huh?!", she said quietly. "I guess there s nothing more to say then."

Cornelia turned to Caleb and met his eyes, no longer trying to hide the tears. Caleb shook his head sadly.

"I guess not. I'm sorry, Cornelia.", he apologized again.

Cornelia took a few deep breaths before standing up from the bench. With one last look at Caleb she turned and ran away from him.

Meanwhile, in Meridian, Phobos and Cedric were spying on the Guardians of the Veil, through the mystic sand Phobos had.

"With the Guardians like this, I may be able to finally get the Heart of Kandakar!", he says as he observes the scenes before him. "I shall wait to see how things turn out."

"And if things get worse between them, they shall be weak enough for us to destroy!", Cedric said before he and Phobos let out their evil laughter.

A/N: First Elyon leaves with Cedric, and now, Caleb leaves Cornelia for Irma. Will Phobos and Cedric be able to take advantage of this?

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