DisclaimerI don't own - Pogue Parry, Caleb Danvers, Reid Garwin, Tyler Simms, Kate Tunney, Sarah Wenham, Chase Collins or Evelyn Danvers. (the writers & creator's of The Covenant do). I, however, own Thalia Jade Lane-Danvers and any other characters that you don't recognise.
A/N: For the purpose of the story I'm creating a place called Harmony.
Summary: Caleb, Pogue, Tyler and Reid haven't seen each other since they were 18 years old. Now five years later Caleb's step-sister is trying get them all together again as she lives with Caleb. They have one thing to do.
Title: Missing In Action
Part 1
It's been almost 5 years since Pogue Parry, Caleb Danvers, Tyler Simms and Reid Garwin saw each other. The last time they saw each other was at the marriage of Caleb's mother to a Mr Jack Lane. Thalia Jade (TJ to her close friends) knew all about the Sons of Ipswich, she herself was considered a special magical child. Now at 23, she and her step-brother Caleb were searching for Pogue, Tyler and Reid. It wasn't the "Sons" choice to stop seeing each other.
Thalia wandered around a small city called Harmony which was situated around two-hours out of Ipswich. It was there that she almost ran straight into Tyler and didn't recognise him. Tyler looked up narrowly avoiding running into her, she stopped walking and grabbed his arm.
"Tyler?" she questioned quietly looking at him and smiling when she realised it was him.
"TJ?" Tyler questioned as she wrapped her arms around him.
"Yeah, baby boy. How are you?" Thalia asked, before regretting it almost immediately as she saw the look on his face.
"I'm okay..." he muttered looking at her before quickly looking away. "I've got to go,"
"Tyler, call me, I still have the same number," Thalia told him, he nodded before he walked quickly away from her and headed down the street.
Caleb looked around the apartment that he shared with Thalia, now that their parents were married he didn't feel the need to live at home with her. He decided to call her to find out if she had, had any luck in finding any of them. Thalia jumped as her cell phone started ringing.
"Hey TJ," Caleb said, looking out the window to see what was happening outside.
'Hey Caleb,' Thalia smiled, as she looked in the window of the shop that she had stopped outside of. 'Guess who I just ran into,' she added before she started to walk again.
"Who? Wait...one of the others?" Caleb questioned, he could feel Thalia nodding on the other end of the line.
'Yeah. Baby boy,' Thalia answered, as she made her way back to the apartment. 'I don't know, I get the feeling that he was terrified of something,'
"Do you know why?" Caleb asked, leaving the window and then sitting on the couch and pulling out his laptop to see if he could do a search on the other boys.
'Nope, I do intend on finding out though...I'll see you in a few minutes,' Thalia said before she quickly hung up the phone and started to jog back to the apartment.
Meanwhile, Pogue was sitting in the middle of a windowless room. All he wanted to do was to go home. He had tried casting spell after spell but to no avail. Everyone thought that Chase Collins was dead, but in actuallity he wasn't. Pogue had gone on a roadtrip by himself after he got released from the hospital when he was seventeen and he had never returned, having been found and seemingly kidnapped by Chase. Reid was off in some distant land, all because he'd managed to get on the wrong plane. He'd gotten on an international flight instead of a domestic one, which was not his fault.
When Thalia arrived back at the apartment she saw Caleb sitting staring at his laptop. She rolled her eyes, he hadn't been the same since they'd lost contact with them.
"Caleb," Thalia sighed, as she sat down beside him. "I think he'll call,"
"Why can't I find them?" Caleb mumbled, tilting his head a little and then resting it on her shoulder.
"Because something's stopping it, stopping us," Thalia replied, before she wrapped an arm around Caleb and hugged him. "Let me use tonight,"
"No, I can't risk him finding us," Caleb grumbled, still resting his head on her shoulder as she hugged him. "I can't,"
"Caleb. From what you told me, he only knows of the Sons of Ipswich. And not of me," Thalia reasoned with him as she closed her eys and tried to focus on one of the others. "Trust me,"
"Fine," Caleb muttered, reluctantly allowing her to search for them.
"Power of the Sons of Ipswich rise, course unseen across the skies. Come to us who call you near. Come to us and settle here. Show me where you are." Thalia whispered, hoping that the ancient spell would give her an idea as to where Pogue and Reid were.
Pogue was still sitting in the middle of the windowless room when he heard a whisper that sounded like his name. Looking around he tried to figure out where it was coming from. Pogue knew that he recognised the voice but he couldn't work out why. So he silently answered, hoping that whoever it was heard him.
'Help me,' Pogue muttered, in a barely audiable tone.
"Pogue," Thalia jumped, not realising that it had worked. "It's Thalia, where are you?"
'Thalia...I don't know...' Pogue muttered as Caleb's computer screen suddenly flashed with an image of Pogue in a dark room.
"Damn it," Caleb cursed, looking at the screen and seeing that there was no windows, so they had no way of finding him.
"Don't worry, we'll find you I swear," Thalia told him as she managed to find Reid as well.
Thalia temporarily said goodbye to Pogue as Caleb decided that using was important in finding his friend. Caleb managed to tap into the same spell that Thalia had used only he went that little bit further and located his friend.
'Hello' Reid muttered under his breath as he stood in the middle of a restaurant he had managed to get a job at.
"Reid, it's me," Thalia said, with a slight smirk evident in her voice.
'Thalia?' Reid questioned quietly as stopped what he was doing.
"Yeah, I'm with Caleb," Thalia answered pausing before she continued to speak. "Where are you?"
'Uhm...I'm kinda in some country...' Reid muttered, looking at a couple who was staring at him strangely. 'France...I think' he added.
"Wait. How did you end up in France?" Thalia asked him before she looked at Caleb and told him. "Reid thinks he's in France,"
They continued talking until they worked out a way to get him back to Harmony to stay with them.
Meanwhile, Tyler was sitting on the couch waiting for his boyfriend to get home, it wasn't something that he regularly looked forward to, and today was no different. The only thing Tyler could think of to do was to call Thalia, as he knew had a feeling that she would be able to protect him. Tyler dialled the number that was once familiar to him, checking it twice before he pressed the call button.
"Hello, Thalia's phone," Caleb said once he had picked up the phone. Thalia was using his phone to make plans for Reid to get back.
'Caleb...' Tyler muttered into the phone looking around as he tried to think of what to say. 'I'm sorry,' he added quietly.
"Tyler?" Caleb questioned, before realising it had to have been him. "Do you want TJ?"
'Yeah...and yeah...' Tyler muttered not really knowing what else to say to him. Tyler had always looked up to Caleb and was at a loss for what to say.
"Are you okay?" Caleb asked, and listened to the younger man nodding on the other end of the phone. "You're lying,"
'Can I have Thalia?'
"Yeah," Caleb answered handing Thalia the phone and taking his from her and finishing making the plans.
"Tyler, are you okay?" Thalia asked, knowing that he had lied to Caleb.
'No...' he muttered into the phone. 'I'm scared...'
"Ty, what's going on?' she asked, looking at Caleb who had hung up the phone and was back to searching for Pogue.
'I can't talk...' Tyler answered quietly as the front door of his aparment opened and shut quickly. 'bye' he added before quickly hanging up the phone and stuffing it in the lounge.
Caleb looked at Thalia as she held the phone in her hand before placing it on the coffee table before them. Thalia just smiled at him, before she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Caleb wondered how it was that Sarah didn't understand his closeness to Thalia.
"Thalia, where was he?" Caleb asked as he placed his laptop on the table.
"He didn't say," she answered, as a shock went through her body and she felt something that she hadn't felt in a long time. "Caleb, call Sarah tell her to meet me at the coffee shop down the street," she added pausing before she continued. "Please?"
"Okay, but what about Tyler, Pogue and Reid?" Caleb questioned, quickly stopping when he realised that all they had done was ask each other questions.
"Well, Reid'll be home by the end of the week. Why he hasn't come home sooner I don't know, and we'll figure out how to find Pogue," she answered moving to rest her head on Caleb's shoudler. "You and Sarah should have dinner one night," she added grinning at him.
"Maybe, I don't know," Caleb muttered resting his head on top of hers. "You know, I felt someone using just now,"
"I know...I did too," Thalia admitted, not moving her head as she allowed her mind to focus on Pogue. "Shit..."
"Thalia?"
"Two words. Chase Collins."
Caleb's eyes went wide at the 'Son of Ipswich' which was meant to be long gone after the events of Fall Fest when they were 18. Thalia hadn't gone to school in Ipswich, but rather in Boston and New York, Caleb and Tyler regularly updated her on what was going on. Mainly through emails, though occasionally they had all called her and talked to her. It wasn't until the day of Caleb's birthday that she arrived back in Ipswich.
"Please tell me you're lying," Caleb said taking a deep breath as he moved his head and looked into her eyes.
"Caleb. I don't lie," she stated as an image of Pogue entered her mind. "And I have an idea of how to get Pogue home," she added looking at him and hoping that he would listen to her.
"What?" he questioned, closing his eyes quickly and then opening them again.
"Well, you know in the summer that our parents married...I disappeared?" Thalia paused, watching Caleb nod before she continued. "Someone else is using..."
"I know...but who?" Caleb queried, pausing before he spoke again. "You're gonna use old magic aren't you?"
"Yeah, what else can we do though?" Thalia paused running a hand through her hair. "The power I'm feeling now...I haven't felt since I was a kid,"
"Okay?" Caleb raised his eyebrow looking at her before she closed her eyes. "TJ be careful,"
"Don't worry, I will be," Thalia answered, before she tried to remember the spell that she had used long ago. "In this time and in this place. Take me to the one that I seek, the one that is in a room unknown. Take me to the one I seek, " Thalia whispered before she opened her eyes and was transported to Pogue.
