Since Caleb's ascension things have gone well for our four favorite warlocks. Pogue has Kate, Caleb has Sara, Reid found a girl named Jackie who's willing to put up with him, and a girl named Olivia realized that Tyler was never going to grow a pair, so she asked him out. The only down side is that everyone's paired up and no one's getting any. Kate is mad at Pogue for being jealous again, Sara and Caleb keep getting interrupted, Jackie's scared and mad at Reid for not understanding, Olivia hasn't had any good experience with physicality in a relationship and Tyler's shyness isn't helping. What do the boys do? Well their powers might just come in handy.
Disclaimer: Owning the covenant boys would be beyond amazing… but I don't.
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The boys were changing after swim practice. They, as usual, had stayed after to get in some extra practice, so the locker room was empty. Had the females of the school known that the boys lounged around after practice in low slung towels, they might not have been alone. This year the annual Swim team calendar sold over four times the population of Spencer Academy. The sales only stopped due to an enterprising student who gained the negatives from the photo shoot and made calendars featuring just the Sons. One had all of them, but there were individual calendars too. Kate had a Pogue one at each of her houses and managed to snag a few Caleb calendars for Sara. The calendars were a bit of a sore spot for Reid after finding out that a potential conquest had a Tyler calendar. Otherwise the calendars were a hit with the featured four.
All of them were quiet, even Reid who always had something to say was lost in his own thoughts. The only sound was the showers and the opening and closing of lockers. Tyler, as the only one of the group who noticed this, spoke up. "This is the first time in the entire time we've all known each other that I have initiated a conversation. What's going on?" The other three boys jumped as the silence was broken.
"Nothing…I'm fine… school" That was all Tyler could make out of the three jumbled and mumbled responses he got.
"Bull" The older Covenant members just gawked at him. Tyler was always quiet and shy. To hear so much confidence in his voice and so much steel was unnerving.
Reid was the first to crack. "Jackie."
"Kate" added Pogue.
Caleb resisted for a minute but then admitted "Sara"
"Olivia" affirmed Tyler. The one word answers were all the other boys needed to realize that they were all in the same boat. Apparently having the ability to do whatever you wanted couldn't help when it came to the opposite sex, at least they thought so.
Caleb turned to Pogue. "What did you do now? Or, should I ask, who are you jealous of now?"
"Hey," Pogue got defensive. "That new Matt guy has been hanging around her since he got here. Kate's all pissed because I 'acted like a caveman' after History the other day." Pogue's eyes said he thought he was right. After all, he had only gone over to her while she was talking to Matt and Sara after class and put his arm around her waist and gave her a quick kiss. "Now she won't even talk to me, much less have sex with me." He mumbled the last part to himself but the others head it.
"Ouch. I'm in trouble too, although I don't know what for. We were both perfectly happy, making out, not even seriously, when she freaked and ran away. Now she'll talk to me but keeps me at an arms distance and most of the time avoids me." Reid looked as if he were five and had his favorite toy taken away.
"Olivia won't even make out with me… something about a past boyfriend." Reid turned to Tyler one eyebrow raised and a smirk on his face.
"Have you actually made any kind of a real move?" His look clearly said that he didn't think so.
Tyler was stone-faced and didn't' say anything. Caleb and Pogue turned and hid their smirks inside their lockers.
"Caleb what about you, I have a feeling that you aren't getting much action either." Tyler said this with his own smirk. He succeeded in drawing Pogue and Reid's attentions away from him. The two turned to look at Caleb anticipating his answer.
"I could be, but we get interrupted every time. At home it's my mom, I'm betting on purpose" He scowled a little as he said this. "Here it's one of you or one of your girlfriends for her. Sara's starting to think that it's fate, and that's bad." This flow of information took a moment for the others to process but once they did they all burst out laughing. Caleb was furious.
"Not funny." They were all still laughing. "Shut up. At least I have a chance of getting laid, unlike the three of you." That definitely stopped the laughter.
"Way to rub it in Caleb." Reid's voice told him he had hit a sore spot. Right now the black-haired teen was too tightly wound to care.
"You deserved it."
"Hey, guys calm down. All of us are a little on edge. Even coach knew something was up when our times were so good at practice today. None of us are getting any and taking it out on each other isn't the smartest idea. Neither is using on each other." Tyler's eyes flashed between Caleb and Reid. Once again the other's gave him odd looks. The 'not getting any' phrase was more likely to be used by Reid.
There was a silence until Reid's eyes lit up. A grin that would make the Cheshire Cat jealous spread over his features. "Using on each other is a bad idea. Using on the girls…" He didn't even get to finish his sentence.
"No." Caleb's voice was cold and hard.
"Just hear me out."
"None of us are going to make our girlfriends sleep with us."
"I never said that, and I wasn't thinking that either, well not specifically. I say we come up with plans of attack fitted to our individual problems." He turned to their leader. "Caleb your practically set because now that we know what's going on… or not going on, we can avoid closed doors and keep our girls distracted for you." Caleb shot Reid a dirty look.
He turned to the next in line. "Pogue if you get Kate to miss you… and your body enough she'll eventually forget to be mad at you. A couple of day-dreams, a few 'memories' of you, and she'll be putty in your hands." Pogue looked at Caleb and mouthed 'putty in my hands?' Caleb just shrugged in response. Reid didn't notice because he had already turned to his best friend.
"Baby boy you just need to grow a pair. Getting a little creative with your powers might not be such a bad idea either. I've got a feeling that Olivia isn't going out with you just for your sparkling personality." Tyler went completely red.
"I'll figure out just what the hell is wrong with Jackie and plan my own attack accordingly." He stared off into the distance already his mind filled with possibilities for this little scheme.
"No." Caleb's voice still held the edge from before and knocked Reid out of his imaginings.
"Actually… That's not a bad idea." The cogs in Pogue's brain were working. "I mean, you're the only one of us who has actually ascended but you don't have to use at all. Just let us know when and we'll make sure that everyone is plenty busy. It always takes Kate a while to forgive me but as soon as she does she jumps me. So maybe Reid actually has a point this time…" He trailed off thinking about the plan.
"Pogue! You aren't serious."
"I'm dead serious, It's been almost a week." His voice held all of the tension that he had felt since Kate had cut him off. Caleb knew that once Pogue had his mind made up it was over. He tried Tyler.
"Tyler…"
"Sorry Caleb. It's not just me. Olivia needs this too." Reid tried to hide his smirk. "Reid, come on man. That's not what I meant."
"Guys think about this. What would happen if they found out? If they knew you were manipulating them?" Caleb was trying but could see it was a lost cause.
"We like to think of it as helping. It's like giving to charity. We're needy here Caleb." Pogue and Tyler just turned and grabbed their clothes from their lockers, not wanting to be affiliated with that. Reid just grinned like a jackal.
Caleb flexed his jaw. He really didn't like this but once again Reid had created his own mutiny. He knew that this one probably wasn't a power struggle like all the other times but it still stung a little. This wasn't supposed to be happening. Using on the girls was just wrong. Trying to convince three horny teenagers of that was like trying to convince Satan that Aspen would be a good vacation spot.
"Okay but there need to be rules." If he couldn't stop it maybe he could make it less of a transgression on his conscience.
"You want to create rules about using to seduce our girlfriends?" Pogue managed to make it sound even more ridiculous than it originally was.
"Yes, you all know that until you ascend I can basically stop you so listen to me." Caleb never liked bossing his friends but they really needed it this time. "One: The daydreams and things are fine but don't go beyond that, so no shockwaves of lust or anything." As he said this he looked hard at Reid who tried to look innocent. Not an easy task. "Two, I don't want to know. Do whatever but don't tell me about it." He looked at each of the guys not really wanting to let them do this. "Three, if and when you get hit, slapped, or withheld from for years and I laugh you're not allowed to be mad. Four, For the record here and now 'I told you so." Caleb, having dressed, grabbed his bag and headed out.
"He's so easy." Reid followed Caleb's example and left heading back to his and Tyler's room. Pogue and Tyler looked at each other shrugged then left too. Plans brewed in the minds of the Sons. Even Caleb was contemplating a night with no interruptions.
They were off to meet the girls for dinner at Nicky's. The girls didn't realize that the smiles that each of the guys were wearing when they picked them up weren't just because they were happy to see them.
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