All right...quick introduction before you continue onto the story. This deals not so much with my other abuse stories, but the pain is definitely there later on. I swear to god this isn't anything Mary Sue based, because I am nothing like the girl you are about to meet. The idea of her just happened to fall into my lap...

Blah, blah, blah, I don't own the characters to this story, except for Jason and Melanie. Lots of drinking in this story, sex related materials, things like that. and sorry but the story is almost finished so if you come into this expecting me to incorporate your ideas...sorry, but im probably not gonna take any. Now, enjoy the story.

Chapter 1

Reid limped down the path towards his truck, wiping blood from his mouth. He was in no mood to deal with anyone at the moment, and if Aaron or Caleb showed up later on...there was gonna be hell to pay. He reached his truck and resisted to punch the door. The truck itself meant more to him than anyone he knew. Except Tyler. I like him. Reid climbed in and started the truck, letting his power overflow him and lead him back to the dorms. He relaxed, trying not to fade out and crash. It was going to be an hour long drive from where he had decided to go for the night, and he hoped he could make it back.

He heard his phone ring and looked at the name, halfway tempted to throw it out the window. Finally he picked it up, hearing, "Reid? Reid? Are you there? Please, say something."

Stupid girl. "What do you want Melanie?"

"I'm really, really sorry about tonight. That wasn't supposed to happen. Jason is a dick and he got his buds together cus they're all jealous and none of that was supposed to happen and—"

"It doesn't matter. Whatever. Shit happens."

"Reid, please don't be mad at me. Come back down here and I'll make you feel better. I saw part of what they did to you and I don't think you're capable of driving back."

"I'm fine. It was nothing. I have school in the morning anyway."

"Are you sure? I can clean you up, and, and..."

"And what? I know you purposely told him about you and me, and he's only gonna show up again. You're just a tease, Melanie."

"What? I am not! How can you say that?"

"Not sure, but I just did."

"Fine Reid, be all pissy."

Reid heard a click and smiled. Got her off my back now...bitch. Reid suppressed what happened, knowing he'd have to explain it to Tyler, and then Caleb and Pogue. He didn't see the need to reminisce more than what was necessary.

The drive back was longer than he anticipated, and as he pulled into the dorm parking lot, his energy was gone. Halfway tempted to sleep in his truck, he got out and stumbled up to the dorms, opened the door, and walked up the stairs to his room, his legs feeling ready to collapse under him. By the time he reached his room, he could feel every spot that was sore, bruised, and cut. He thought he didn't have anything that could be called fractured or broken, but if he did he would go back for revenge.

Once the key was in the lock, he pushed the door open and walked over to his bed, shedding off his jacket, shoes, socks, hat, gloves, and shirt on the way. He got to his closet and tossed his pants in the dirty laundry after taking everything out of his pockets, and pulled on his bed shorts, before looking over and seeing Tyler passed out. Shaking his head, he went into the bathroom to clean himself up and brush his teeth before passing out. Once ready, he fell onto his bed and slept harder than he had in awhile.

He woke up to Tyler pushing him, Reid not wanting to move until Tyler threatened to push him off the bed, which he had done in the past. Reid rolled onto his back, rubbing his eyes, before letting out a harsh breath and stopping, feeling his left eye swollen and raw. "What happened to you?" Tyler asked, Reid imagining Tyler looking at all the bruises that covered him.

"I need to remember first."

"Were you drunk or something?"

"No, I was sober. I just was hit a couple of times too hard..."

"Where were you at?"

"Concord."

"With that one chick again?"

"Yeah, her." Reid sat up, doing little stretches to figure out what part of him hurt more than the rest. Face, arms, chest, legs, and oh, lower back. He gave himself the all over verdict, which meant that the next three days were going to be hard. He stood up and grabbed a school uniform that was still hanging up, and within a few minutes, he was heading off with Tyler to the school. It took them five minutes to get to their main building, and soon they ran into Caleb and Pogue to Reid's dismay.

Reid tried looking away to hide to worse side of his face, but Caleb was faster than that. "What happened to you now?"

Oh, thanks. Don't sound concerned or anything. "Got outnumbered."

"How many?" Pogue asked.

"Seven to one, I think."

At first it was just one, Jason. Soon more showed up, surrounding Reid. He wanted to grab his power, but if he beat them all without getting hurt, someone was going to question. First Jason came at him while everyone watched; the jealous ex-boyfriend. Reid started beating him when everyone decided to attack him. Jason gave him one good punch across the side of his face, knuckles crossing his eye, before someone tackled him to the ground, punching and kicking following afterward. Reid stayed in a ball, deflecting most of the blows until someone kicked him square in his lower back across his spine, causing him to yell and move his position, everyone taking advantage. Reid stayed still, hoping they'd leave him alone soon. When they did, less than ten minutes had passed since it all started. It took him another five though to get off of the ground and to his truck.

He looked at Caleb, not hearing what he said. He simply shrugged and walked towards his class, embracing the power lightly to help him walk straight. Once he sat down he released it and laid down on the desk until class started.

The day passed slowly, and to no surprise, Caleb came up and told him at the end of school that there was going to be meeting at seven, and to not be late this time. And, to no surprise, his phone began ringing at 3:15, reading Melanie. He answered, Melanie sounding surprised. "Reid! Hi! How are you?"

"Fine, thanks. What do you want?"

"I...I just wanted to apologize again for last night. I mean, I hope you're a little bit more clear-headed and not as angry and will hopefully listen to what I have to say..."

"If you want to speak before I hang up, say whatever now."

"Oh, uh, okay. Well, uh, Jason... Jason is going to have problems with you no matter what. You're much hotter and nicer and athletic and smarter and richer than him, and he was missing something about him that you have. There's something in your smile and your eyes whenever I see you that I didn't get with him, and he doesn't know how to react. I'm going to do my best to keep him away, but I really, really would like to continue seeing you Reid. I get my car back next month, and I'll drive down every night if I have to, just so I can see you. Please Reid, can we do something...soon? Or this weekend?"

Reid gave a small smile, wondering what this girl had done to him. "Yeah, that's fine. This weekend will be easier, I think. I have plans the rest of this week, but if you want to do something Friday night, I'll stay with you somehow until Sunday night, if you want."

"Oh Reid! You're the best. I'll try my hardest to also make this special for you."

"Okay, we'll see. I gotta go though. I have homework tonight that I should finish up on."

"Okay. I'll talk to you later than, okay?"

"K. Bye."

"Bye hun."

Reid hung up, staring at his phone. Hun? We've barely been seeing each other for two weeks, and we are now on the pet names? Well...I guess we did sort of run the bases backwards and pretty fast, so it makes sense.

Reid walked back to the dorms, wondering if he should play any drinking games while doing homework, but he knew Caleb wouldn't appreciate him coming to the meeting drunk, no matter if he was sober with the powers help or not. Instead, he walked to his room and decided to take a nap until he had to leave for the meeting. He went into the room and saw that Tyler wasn't there, but didn't mind. He's probably at the library flirting with the girl at the front desk. He took off his school clothes and changed into shorts, before lying down on his bed and falling asleep.

XX—X—X—XX

Everything was blurry and muffled as he looked around. He saw Melanie at a party, wearing a pink tank top that showed a lot of cleavage, and a white skirt that showed a lot of leg. Her tan skin set off the white perfectly, and her bubbly smile made her that much more gorgeous. She walked up to Reid holding her cup, saying hi, Reid taken with her smile.

Flash

Everything was still blurry and muffled. They went back to her place, both stumbling out of his truck, drunk. Both laughing, they made it to her bed, quickly stripping and making out. He remembered her looking up at him, eyes a citrus green, an impossible green. He remembered her mouthing "please," and enough was said.

Flash

Everything was still blurry and muffled as he looked at Jason, not seeing his cronies surround him in the dark alleyway. Jason came up towards him and fists flew. He kicked Jason in the stomach, punched him the face, kicked him in the legs to bring him down. He was about to stomp on his chest when he was tackled from the right in the side, and from the left in the legs. Jason scrambled up and Reid was held still as Jason punched him across the face, hell breaking loose as he was dropped.

Flash

Everything was still blurry and muffled. He was driving back from Melanie's, in a good mood for once. He looked away from the road for a second to grab his water bottle, and then was slammed to the driver's door before falling to the passenger's, truck tipping and falling onto its side, truck moving until it slammed into a fence, Reid pinned between the top of the truck, the seats, and the door. He heard someone getting on the truck, and blinked blood out of his eyes as he saw someone looking down at him, holding a gun.

Flash

Everything was dark, with little sounds. His body hurt, and he couldn't grasp anything around him. His mind was longing for Melanie, wanting her here to make him feel better. "You walked out." Different voices said to him, "you're lost, alone, a traitor." He tried to shake his head, but he knew it was true. He felt something solid placed on his shoulder, removed, then came crashing down on the bones, Reid screaming. "If you're such a tough guy, why are you screaming? You have no emotion!" Then, the bat again across the rest of his body.

Flash

XX—X—X—XX

Reid jolted awake, his body stinging from the fight. What the hell kind of dream was that? He thought, feeling disoriented and slightly sick. He sat up, dizzy, and walked over to the little bathroom, holding onto the sink for support. After the nausea passed, he went back to the room and looked at the clock, seeing he had been asleep for two hours. "Better, I guess," he mumbled, sitting on his bed and pulling his backpack closer to him and pulling out some textbooks. "Homework time."

At six-thirty he put his books away and got dressed for the meeting, went down the stairs and stopped at the food court to grab some dinner, before going out to his truck. He still didn't see Tyler anywhere, which surprised him. Unless he already left, but generally he'd let me know to make sure I was still coming... Reid got into his truck and ate on the way to the Danvers First Colony House. It was seven exact when he parked and walked across the yard to the basement. When he entered, Caleb, Pogue, and Tyler were waiting for him.

"Sorry," he mumbled as he walked to his seat.

"Now that everyone is here, we can start."

"Caleb, what's the purpose of this meeting?" Pogue asked. "We see each other at school every day, and we know how our lives are. We don't really have any outside family, so why bother with the meetings?"

"If you really want to know, it's more of Brother time, where we don't have to be on our guard about ourselves. We can talk freely about whatever difficulties we're having and maybe we can solve them. We may see each other every day, but we don't always know how we're all doing."

"So this is like group therapy," Tyler said."

"If you would like to put it like that, then yes."

"Good to know," Reid muttered, leaning back.

"Now," Caleb said, "I've been talking with my mother, and she's been telling me how everyone else's family is doing, since we don't keep in touch much anymore. Tyler, your parents are doing fine, your mom arguing a bit with your father still. Pogue, your parents miss you. Reid, your dad says to graduate and your mom says to stay in town more often."

Reid rolled his eyes, waiting for Caleb to continue. "There's the family, now, how is everyone doing? School, Powers, friends, and relationships? Pogue?"

Pogue sighed, before saying, "School's fine, grades aren't any different, my power's are doing fine. I have a lot more control over them than when I ascended, and Kate and I are doing better than earlier this year."

"Reid?"

"Grades are no different, powers still saving my life, and yeah."

"What do you mean by your powers are saving your life?"

"They help me home late at night, basically."

"Tyler?"

"Ah...doing better than I have for awhile on homework, powers are still limited, and there's really nothing else."

The rest of the meeting continued on in the same manner. They went through each of their classes that were having trouble with, and Caleb and Pogue had a little period of time where Caleb showed Pogue tricks he could do with his power if he ever needed to Use. Tyler and Reid just talked, since they were the youngest. Reid's birthday was at the end of February, while Tyler's was over spring break, so they didn't have a whole lot longer, being it was only January.

When they were dismissed it was nine, and Reid gave Tyler a ride back to the dorms. "Where's your hummer?"

"At my parents. They thought I had a B, so they took it from me."

"You've got to be fucking kidding me."

"I'll get it back by the end of the week, but Pogue had to pick me up and take me over."

"Right... Well, if you need a ride, let me know. You've given me plenty in the past."

The rest of the ride was in silence, with rock music playing in the background. When they got back to the dorms, Reid wanted to drive to Concord and meet up with Melanie, but he knew he should stay in Ipswich for the rest of the week. It'll only be a few more days. When they got back to the dorms, Reid's phone went off, and he saw it was a party invite from a guy in his stats class. "Ty, what're you doing the rest of the night?"

Tyler looked up from his backpack, saying, "Well, it depends now."

"How drunk do you want to get?"

Tyler smiled. "It's a Monday night. I think I can handle a few games."

"Cool. We'll leave in an hour for Cole's place."

XX—X—X—XX

The rest of the week went by normal paced. The days went by slowly, but the nights went by quickly. Reid went out Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday night to a party, and Wednesday night he went to Nikki's with Tyler, and met up with Pogue and Caleb while they were there. As normal, a fight almost broke out between him and Aaron, but Caleb broke it up before Nikki did. On Friday night, Reid packed a bag for the weekend and took Tyler to get his hummer, before leaving for Concord. Only Tyler knew where he was going, and he was okay with that. He called Melanie on his way up, and she was a little bit too ecstatic about Reid coming up. He let it slide though, and enjoyed the ride up, the roads smoother than he expected.

Upon arrival, it was eight, and Melanie came out to greet him. Reid took a look around and didn't see Jason anywhere. "There's a party at this guy Mike's house. It's gonna be small, with good liquor. Hence why it's small. He's putting on a poker tournament as well, and winner gets a special treat. Interested?"

"Sure babe."

At the end of the night, Reid got second in the tournament, and left with two handles that had been carefully filled with coke and rum, and the guy, Jeff, who had won received three handles—two of his choice in liquor and one of his choice in mixture, which he had chosen jungle juice, ever clear, and Malibu. Reid and Melanie stumbled back to her apartment, taking back roads so they didn't get caught drunk driving, speeding, and a minor with the alcohol even though Melanie was twenty-one. "Did you have fun tonight?" Reid asked, Melanie laughing and falling against him in response.

"Yeah, of course I did silly." They made it back to her place, and the rest of the weekend was eventful as that night.

Sunday night came around much differently than Reid had hoped. More than once he saw Jason lurking around town, seeming to follow him and Melanie wherever they went. He didn't see him for more than a few seconds, but even then that was less than reassuring. They went out to lunch, did some shopping, and went out to dinner, trying to remain as occupied as possible before he had to leave. After dinner and as they were walking back to his truck, Melanie spoke up.

"Reid, this...this night, or, day has been fantastic. This has been the best weekend ever and you're one of the best guys that I know. Really."

"It's not a problem. You're a good girl, you know."

Melanie blushed as Reid opened the door for her and helped her get in, before going around to his side and getting in himself. They kissed before they left, and missed the watchers in the background.

All right...there's chapter one. Hopefully there's not too many grammar and spelling mistakes... I'm kinda not really paying attention. Anywho. I hope you all enjoyed this, and please let me know what you think and I'll do my best to get back to you :) Questions...comments...concerns... Bring it :P

So, being that the story is mostly done, i'm going to do my best to post as often as i can, but since i dont have internet...yeah...this'll be fun. Until next time.