The Witching Hour

By: Beccatdemon13

©2008

Disclaimer: I don't own anyone except for Lucien, Maddox, Jeremy, and Patricia Clark as well as anyone you don't immediately recognize. Please don't sue. You'd only be getting about seven weeks of minimum wage. What? Don't look at me like that High School ain't a paying gig you know. But god I wished it was. Beccatdemon13 now will go off to fantasize about being paid to go to school. Oh, right, the story! On we go…

Synopsis: The day hides things for what they are but no one can truly hide at night. During the darkest hours…the darkest nights evil rules. Witches come out in their true forms, as well as other paranormal phenomena. After all nothing can ever remain hiding for long…

Author's Note: Well, this all came about one day that I was thinking about the Covenant. It stands to reason that the Sons of Ipswich were not the only one with the Power. So, I began thinking taking into account what others have done to answer the same question. Of course, people brought up Salem but I decided to take it one further having the towns of Andover, Ipswich, Salem, Boston, and Charlestown become a coven. The guardians of Andover guard the Sons of Ipswich and the Guardians of Boston protect the Sons of Salem. The elders provide structure for everyone. The meeting point for these four people is in Charlestown and Charlestown also has other witches but I can't go into that without giving too much away. I hope this story is easy to follow because there are a lot of people. If you have any questions don't hesitate to PM me. This story will switch point of views so you'll get different vantage points to the group dynamics. The majority of the story will be in Trisha's point of view unless otherwise stated. There are also pictures of everyone up on my profile page!

Chapter One: The Brotherhood

Have you ever been a part of something much, much bigger then yourself? Something so secret that it hides what you truly are. To the students of Spenser Academy we are the baddest people on campus. The people that are looked for in parties, the people that others are just attracted to but will never know why. Of course what our piers don't know is that we're not just rich kids from old money families…we're also witches. Well not necessarily everyone.

In order to explain this fully I need to go back a couple hundred years. During the witch-burning that happened in England and France during the seventeenth century we all fled to the New Country. When the hunting began to happen again the Elders of Charlestown, our ruling body decreed that we were a Covenant of Silence. No one was to speak a word about what we truly were. There were some close encounters but by the time everything was over most of the 'witches' weren't actually witches at all. Naïve little mortals.

Within the Covenant of Silence exists the Fraternity. An elite guardian force sworn to protect the families of the Power. The family from Andover protects the Sons of Ipswich while the family from Boston protects the Sons of Salem. The Covenant has strict rules the first born male of every family is given the power. The families conceive only one: the eldest male thus allowing the line to grow. The guardians of Andover and Boston operate under different rules. While it isn't exactly common to have a female in the Brotherhood, it can happen, case-in-point me. With a name like the Fraternity or the Brotherhood women aren't exactly accepted into its ranks unless of course you were born in.

The guardians of Andover and Boston operate under this rule if you have Clark or Walker blood flowing through your veins your destined to be a guardian for one of those who possess the power regardless of sexuality. Granted the last time a women was a guardian was in the thirties and well, let's just say that didn't end well. Each guardian must specialize in an element: earth, fire, water, and air in order to better protect the carrier of the power.

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Patricia Vivian Clark but most people call me Trish or Trisha depending both on the person and the situation. I'm the sixteen years old and I'm exactly five foot five. I have platinum blonde hair and big green eyes. My older brother Jeremy is seventeen years old and five foot nine. Jeremy has spiky light brown hair and light grey eyes. Lucien otherwise known as Luke and Maddox known as Max for short are twins: eighteen years old with brown hair and blue eyes.

My brothers and I are each assigned to a Son of Ipswich. Luke is Caleb's guardian because his element is earth because the Danvers family tend to have leadership characteristics as well as calmness about them. Max is Pogue's guardian because his element is Air and the Parry family is laid-back by nature. Jeremy's element is water because the Simm family is the most nurturing and empathetic. I have the unfortunate task of guarding Reid Garwin because I had to specialize in fire. The Garwin trait is recklessness and stubborn much like fire.

The worst part about guarding Reid was that he never listened to me because I was a year younger then him. Reid is also possibly the most infuriating boy I've ever met and you can be sure that's bad because the lack of estrogen in my life is substantial. The most estrogen I have at any given time is when we all visit my Grandma Aggie in Charlestown. Grandma Aggie has been my family's primary caregiver since my parents died when I was little.

The Sons of Ipswich and their guardians aren't the only people that make up Spenser Academy's It crowd. The Sons of Salem and their guardians make up the other half. The Salem Witches consisted of Dino Whitman, an eighteen year old trouble-maker who has already ascended, which mean's he's come into his full powers. He has brown hair and dark blue eyes. Ben Proctor and Tristan Bishop are both seventeen years old. Ben has brown hair while Tristan has blond. The descendants of Ipswich and Salem really do get along. After all we all grew up together crashing at each other's houses and things like that.

The guardians of Salem are a little different Dean, the eldest and guardian to Dino is twenty-five years old and lives in an apartment complex close to Spenser Academy. The school where we all live. Dean is six foot even and has spiky dark blond hair and green eyes. Dean has also specialized in the element of fire because Dino has the same characteristics as Reid and trust me that's scary. Dean's brother Sam is twenty-three and shares an apartment with Dean while watching over Ben. Sam is tall towering over everyone at six foot four. He has shaggy brown hair and hazel eyes. Sam controls the water element because Ben is hands down the tranquil one of that group. Hell, I don't think he's ever yelled at anyone. Joe's the only Walker brother to remain in Spenser, the other two have since graduated. Joe looks over Tristan. Joe specialized in air, which really doesn't do much but does allow you to have some pretty neat tricks including suffocation. Trust me, you do not want to piss Joe off.

Together we all make one giant clique, I guess you can say. My brothers, the Sons of Ipswich, the Walkers, the Sons of Salem and I make up one giant family with me being the youngest. Well, actually I'm four days older than Tyler. But still, you try getting a giant group of testosterone flinging guys to listen to you. At least my element was fire, never failed to get their attention once that was out in the open.

Another thing I forgot to mention was each specialized element is the one you have control over which means anything in a flame I can make as a weapon, lighters, candles, you name it I can do damage with it. Water is interesting because they can control weather. Earth controls emotions and air is the most volatile. One moment it's sweet and easy going and the next instant it can suffocate you. And people say girls have mood swings…