"Hey," Aiyana turned her attention back to the boy who was looking at her. He reached out pushing a loose strand of hair behind her ear. She blushed at the contact. Jackson had always had that effect on her. He could touch her slightly and her entire body would be electrified.

"You seem like you are a million miles away," Jackson said refilling their cups from the champagne bottle on the table in front of them. They were sitting on a swing on the deck of the Stuart beach house.

"Aren't you going to miss all of this?" Aiyana said.

"I mean, this is your home. Are you really ready to leave it all behind?" She said playing with her red plastic cup. She could hear the rest of the Circle inside, laughing and talking. It was supposed to be a joyous occasion, a celebration, yet there was no joy for her. She was losing Jackson the last thing in the world that was worth celebrating.

"Key Point will always be my home. Going away for college doesn't change that," Jackson said looking at Aiyana.

"I guess," Aiyana said shurgging. She still refused to look at him lest she betray her feelings.

Jackson took the cup from her hands and sat it on the table. He covered her hands with his own.

"What are you doing?" She asked as she began to feel his energy connecting with her own.

"You'll see." Jackson closed his eyes and focused on their hands. He removed his hands from hers leaving a multi-colored seashell necklace in her open palms.

Aiyana gasped as she looked at each seashell that was beautifully strung together. Each one had come from her collection that she had hid under her bed.

She had been collecting the shells ever since she had first come to the Stuart beach house and met Jackson. Every time she would come over and spend time with Jackson she would find and take a shell from the beach as a way to remember their time together.

Aiyana looked up at Jackson. It was then that she noticed that he had a matching bracelet.

"Even when we are apart, we will be together," Jackson said placing the necklace around Aiyana's neck.

She ran her the tips of her fingers across the cool surface of the necklace as she looked into Jackson's eyes.

"I don't want you to leave me," Aiyana whispered.

"You are the only one in Circle who cares about me. The others..."

Jackson leaned his forehead against hers breathing her scent.

He didn't want to leave her. He wanted to stay with her or at the least take her with him. Aiyana was everything to him despite what the other members of the Circle had said, Aiyana was pure. He knew how nasty the Circle could be toward her. Not even her own mother defended Aiyana. He alone had been in her corner all this time because he knew the truth. It didn't who was she was or where she came from, it only mattered what she meant to him, and she meant the world.

He placed his hands on either side of her face as he stared into her eyes.

"Whatever you need. I'm here," Jackson said. He leaned in and kissed Aiyana on the lips.

It was meant to be a peck, but the moment their lips touched, neither one of them had wanted to stop. Jackson gasped as her pulled back from her. He felt this pain that began in the pit of his stomach.

"Jack? Are you okay?" Aiyana asked. Jackson fell off the swing and on to the floor where he began to pant and groan. He doubled over in pain. Dark red patches began to form over his skin as he continued to whimper. Aiyana got down beside him.

"Jack?! Jack!?" Aiyana touched his skin, that was hot as a flame.

I did this. My dark magic. She thought.

"Help!" Aiyana screamed as Jack continued to lie on the floor writhing in pain.

Aiyana got up from the floor and ran inside the house. Her breath caught in her throat as she saw her entire Circle laying on the floor. Whatever was happening to Jackson outside was affecting everyone else as well.

"MOM!" Aiyana ran over to her mother's side who was shaking and whimpering as red blisters began to form around her face.

"Mom! Please don't die! Please!" Aiyana looked around, tears streaming down her face. The entire Circle was down. Everyone was burning from the inside out.

The front door blew open. Aiyana saw her three brothers standing in the doorway. Lucian ran over to her side as the other two boys began packing things into bags.

"Come on Aiya, we have to go," Lucian said trying to remove her mother from her arms.

"No! My mom! We have to…"

"There's no time. Now get up!" Grayson yelled. He was over by the doorway, a large duffel bag in his hands. She looked at him. His tone of voice told her that he would not be disobeyed. She was coming with them, one way or another.

Aiyana kissed her mother on the forehead and let Lucian take her from the house. They all got into a car and began to drive away from the Stuart House. The house got smaller and smaller as Aiyana continued to look at it through her tear-filled eyes.

"Hey. Wake up!" Aiyana felt someone shaking her and looked up to see Lucian. She sat up and looked around. She didn't remember falling asleep let alone where her brothers had taken her to.

Lucian got out of the car. She saw him walking over to where Grayson and Caleb stood. They were standing at the edge looking out into the distance at something. She wanted to be defiant, to stay in the car and not join them. She was still pissed off at Grayson that he didn't allow her to save her mother. Moreso, she was pissed that she had no idea what was going on.

Whatever happened to her Circle was apart of the plan and no one shared it with her. She was completely left int he dark about everything and she didn't like it. She wanted to leave that car but not to join her brothers but to run away from them. Or better yet, push them right off the edge of the cliff they were standing on.

She could imagine the look on Grayson's face as he fell.

Balcoin blood is everything. It's the most important. Your brothers are the most sacred. She heard her dad's voice in her head, taking her away from her dark thoughts. She could still remember the day when John had came and told her that. Told her about her true lineage and gave her a family that loved and cared.

It is everything. It's all I have left. Aiyana thought cynically.

Even if somehow the circle had survived, there was no way that they were allow her back in. They had a hard enough time trusting her once her mother had told the truth about her black magic.

This was her family now. This was her Circle. Balcoin was all that was left to her.

Aiyana wiped at her face and got out of the car. She was walked to edge and stood among her brothers. Grayson to her left and Caleb to her right.

They looked out at a town that was at the edge of the water.

"What is that place?" Aiyana asked.

"Chance Harbor," Caleb said.

"We finally made it," Grayson said. He had an evil glint in his eye and looked as if he was looking at something that was to be devoured instead of at a town full of people.

"Let's go," Grayson said. Without so much as another word, the Blackwell children got back into their car and drove into their new home.

The Next Day

"Have you heard anything from Diana?" Cassie sat on the bed holding the phone to her ear.

"Not a word. I mean I get that she wants some time apart from all this but she shouldn't have left like that," Cassie said staring at the mark on her hand. It had appeared just the night before and she couldn't take her eyes off of it.

"Once Diana's made up her mind there's no changing it. I know firsthand." Adam said. Cassie sighed. Adam was right.

This entire situation was just so messed up. It wasn't the way that things were supposed to be. The situation between her and Diana. Between her and Adam.

"What are you up to anyway?" Cassie asked trying to distract her thoughts from dwelling on her unrequited love.

Adam nearly dropped the phone at Cassie's question.

"Adam? Are you okay?" Cassie asked.

"Yeah….of course. Why wouldn't I be?" Adam said.

There was a knock on Cassie's door. She looked over her shoulder to see Jake standing in the doorway with a serious look on his face.

"Hey Adam. Let me call you back, okay," Cassie said.

"Sure."

Adam couldn't have hung up the phone faster. He threw his phone onto the bed and rubbed his hands over his face.

There was no way that Cassie could tell what Adam had been doing but that didn't make him any less unnerved. He looked back at the Crystal Skull that was sitting on his bedside table. It looked so harmless now in the daylight, but he knew otherwise.

Adam had touched it the night before, getting a glimpse of the power that it held. Of the power that it could potentially give if Adam so wished. He looked at it and thought about touching it again. Just one more time.

"Adam!" Adam jumped at the sound of his father's voice.

"Just a second!" Adam called back. He wrapped the skull back into the newspaper and used a cloaking spell to hide it. He quickly placed the skull in his closet. He went to open the door.

"Hey dad," Adam said standing by the door. "What's up?"

"I have to go out for a bit," Ethan said walking into Adam's room.

"Go out? Go out where?" Ethan looked at Adam.

"Kate Meade wants to have a talk with me and Dawn about our children and their Circle," Ethan said.

Adam looked away. He could tell that his dad was upset.

"How long have you been keeping this from me?" Ethan asked accusingly.

"Less time than you've kept it from me," Adam snapped. Ethan looked shocked at his son. Adam sighed and tried to reign in his temper.

"Look dad, I'm sorry. We didn't have a choice," Adam said.

"You could have came to me. You should have told me what was going on."

"And you should have told me about what happened at the Boatyard! I asked you time and time again but you wouldn't. Why do you think I didn't come to you?!" Adam was practically screaming at his father.

"Look dad…"

"We'll talk more when I get back," Ethan said leaving Adam's room. Adam slammed the door using magic. He sat on the edge of his bed. He had never raised his voice at his dad. Not like that. He couldn't believe he had just done that. Adam had no idea what had gotten into him.

Adam looked at his closet door where he had placed the skull. Even cloaked and hidden inside his closet, he could still feel the skull. He could feel it calling out to him, begging him to touch it.

"'The Circles are coming.' Plural. As in more than one?" Cassie asked staring at the letter that Jake had given her.

"Maybe he's talking about the other two circles that separated," Jake offered.

"But why would they be coming here? And why now?" Cassie wondered as she paced her room back and forth.

"Well your dad did try and kill every witch without Balcoin blood," Jake said. Cassie sat down on the bed handing Jake back his letter.

"Great. We potentially have two circles coming after us and ours in incomplete...I just can't believe this! How could Diana leave like this?!" Cassie said angrily. Jake put his arm around Cassie's shoulders and pulled her close.

"It's okay. We'll figure it out. All of us," Jake said comfortingly as he rubbed her arm. Cassie looked up at him. They were inches away from each other. Cassie pulled back from Jake and put some distance between them on the bed.

"I should probably get going," Jake said picking up the letter from the bed. He walked toward Cassie's door.

"Hey Jake." Jake turned around.

"Was that all that your grandfather sent to you? I mean he didn't say anything else?" Cassie asked.

"Nope. That was it," Jake said.

"Catch you later." Jake left Cassie's room.

Cassie let out a deep sigh. It hadn't even been a full day yet since she had killed her father and things already seemed to be taking a turn for the worse. She laid back on her bed and stared at her hand that now held the Blackwell symbol.

She ran her finger over the symbol tracing the lines as she thought about the power she held felt. It had been something as simple as lighting the fireplace and yet the surge she had felt told her that it was not just simple magic.

Caleb sat in his bed staring at his hand. One minute his hand had been clear and the next, the Blackwell symbol was etched onto their palms. None of them knew what it meant, though by the way Grayson had been acting on edge lately it couldn't mean anything good.

It didn't matter. Soon John would be back and none of them would even have to listen to Grayson anymore. Caleb couldn't wait for that day to come.

He left his room and went downstairs in search for his other siblings. The sooner they had a plan, the better.

He found Aiyana sitting on the couch in the living room flipping through various new stations.

"Cute braids," He said coming over to the couch. He leaned over the back of it. Aiyana was always changing her hair. This time it was micro braids that started off as jet black at the top but gradually turned blue until the ends which was a soft light blue color.

"How did you do it?" Caleb asked.

Aiyana wasn't paying any attention to Caleb and instead just continued to look at the various news station that were on the screen. All of a sudden the TV turned off.

Aiyana turned around to glare at Caleb.

"I was watching that," Aiyana said.

"And I asked a question." Aiyana folded her arms across her chest.

"Why do you care? Want me to do yours?" Aiyana reached out her hand to try and touch Caleb's shoulder length black hair.

"Don't even think about it," Caleb said grabbing Aiyana's wrist. She stuck her tongue at him and turned back on the TV.

"What are you looking for anyway?" Caleb asked.

"I want to know if there's anything on the news about the Circle. I just want to check and see…." Aiyana trailed off.

"And see what?" She jumped at the sound of Grayson's voice behind her. He walked over to the couch and took a seat beside her. Aiyana involuntarily moved trying to put more distance between them.

"You're checking to see what?" Grayson repeated.

"They were my Circle," Aiyana said softly not looking at Grayson.

"It was Lucian's to, but he's not acting like a baby about it," Grayson said cruelly.

"It's different. Lucian was never really accepted. He never did things with the Circle," Aiyana explained.

She could feel Grayson's eyes on but she couldn't look at him. It unnerved her how much Grayson's eyes looked like John's but then her father had never looked at her the way Grayson always did.

There was silence in the room for several seconds.

"You need to forget about your stupid Circle. They're all dead," Grayson said turning off the TV once more.

"You don't know that!" Aiyana said, she could feel the tears forming in her eyes. Grayson chuckled.

"Why don't you go upstairs and get dressed? We'll go into town and buy some stuff for the house," Caleb said reaching down and rubbing her shoulders comfortingly. Aiyana nodded and got up from the couch. She was halfway up the stairs when Grayson spoke

"Save all that crying for your mother. I had enough of it on the ride over here. Oh wait...I forgot...she's dead too." Grayson called out after her.

Aiyana turned on the steps.

The TV exploded into tiny sparks that lept out and landed directly on Grayson's clothes causing it to catch fire. Grayson hurriedly took off his jacket and threw it onto the floor. He held out his hand toward Aiyana and she went flying over the bannister of the stairs landing hard on the ground.

"That's enough Grayson!" Caleb yelled as he ran over to check on Aiyana. She was lying on the floor struggling to get up. She was pinned down by Grayson's magic.

"C'mon Grayson. Let her go," Caleb said. Grayson walked over to Aiyana and knelt in front of her

"Next…" Grayson grabbed at his throat as he felt the air rush out of his lungs. As quickly as it had come, it went away. It wasn't meant to harm, only distract long enough so Aiyana could break free of Grayson's spell.

Aiyana stood up as Grayson began to cough. He moved toward her but Caleb stepped between them.

"Aiyana, go!" Aiyana ran from behind Caleb and up the stairs to her room.

"You can't hurt her," Caleb said. Grayson walked back over to the his jacket that was still smoking on the floor. He picked it up, there were burn and singe marks all over it. He shook it out twice and it returned to it's original condition.

He put the jacket back on.

"I can't kill her, but there's nothing stopping me from hurting her," Grayson said before leaving the room.

Caleb sighed.

There was something that would stop Grayson from hurting Aiyana and they needed to find him.

"Let's go!" Caleb called up the stairs. Aiyana came bouncing down the stairs, her playful smile back on her face despite almost setting her brother on fire and then suffocating him.

Aiyana left the house with Caleb right behind her.

Ethan ran his hands over his face. This was definitely one of those times when he wished he hadn't given up drinking. He had spent the last couple of hours with Dawn Chamberlain and Kate Meade discussing everything that had happened with the Circle.

He knew that he had missed out on some things but had no idea that it had gotten that bad. After what had happened with Cassie almost killing him, Ethan had practically checked out. He didn't want to deal with any of this.

"How is Charles?" Ethan asked. Kate looked down at her coffee cup.

"He'll be fine, for now. Once everything else is taken care of, I'll figure out a way to bring him back safely," Kate said.

Ethan had seen what the demons had done to Heather Barnes and though the two didn't always get along, he wouldn't have wished Charles his fate.

"So what are we going to do about the kids?" Dawn asked looking at Kate.

"They're practicing. They have a Circle and with Cassie's dark magic they are stronger than ever," Dawn said.

"None of that should have even happened in the first place," Ethan said looking accusingly at Dawn. Dawn opened her mouth to say something but Kate interrupted.

"There's plenty of blame to go around. That's not helpful. As for the children, I don't know what to do about them and more specifically what to do about Cassie," Kate said.

"She can stay here with me," Dawn offered.

"No she won't," Ethan said.

"And why not?" Ethan looked at Dawn.

"You and Charles are the reason all of this started in the first place just as some elaborate and desperate ploy to get your magic back. You're the reason she's been in danger. Why all of our kids have been in danger," Ethan explained.

He wasn't trying to hurt Dawn's feelings but he couldn't believe how naive and stupid she had become. All of this obsession over power.

"You want to take her in then Ethan?" Kate asked.

Ethan thought about it. Would he be okay with the constant reminder of Amelia? More importantly would Cassie even want to stay with him. After she had seen him trying to kill John, Cassie hadn't been to keen on being on friendly terms.

"I don't know," Ethan said honestly.

"Perhaps Cassie and their Circle should be involved in this discussion," Ethan offered. Kate nodded.

"Yes. There is a lot that we need to discuss with the circle," Kate said.

"The school is closed tonight, we can have them all meet there," Dawn said. Kate nodded and began to gather her things along with Ethan. Ethan left Dawn's house.

"Whatever happened to John?" Dawn asked.

"That's what we find out tonight," Kate said.