You Run Through Me

The Secret

The four remaining sons of Ipswich sat in a circle in the basement of the old house. Gorman studied them wearily, concern clearly etched in his expression. These boys were his responsibility now. He had seen what they went through when the fifth son tried to destroy them and he knew they weren't out of the woods yet, even though things had been fairly uneventful for the past four months.

"Soooo what's the problem Gorman? Why'd you call us all here?" Reid asked lightly.

"I-I have to tell you something. Something very important and you have to listen to it with level heads." Gorman said steadying himself against the wall.

"What's the problem?" Caleb asked, immediately sensing that something was wrong. The stubborn old man wasn't acting like himself.

"Chase, may not be dead." The boys all 'awed' in unison, Tyler smiled,

"Gorman, man, why'd you get us all worked up like that? Of course he's dead. My boy Caleb here did him in!" He turned to Caleb and offered him a high-five. Caleb returned the gesture though not as enthusiastically. He wasn't to quick to decide everything was just over. Even if Pogue was healed and finally over Kate's death. Even if he wasn't seeing Darklings any more, Sarah no longer suffered from strange nightmares, and he no longer felt it when someone was using…three more ascensions had come and passed smoothly, and still Caleb felt alert. He felt as if he could still feel Chase's essence around him and he tried to tell himself that those were just his misty remains, floating around long after his death but he wasn't so sure.

"I'm serious. You boys have to listen to what I'm saying with LEVEL heads. I know you all think you're untouchable now but you're far from it. What happened with the fifth son should have been a rude awakening not a reassurance!" Gorman pleaded.

"Alright, alright. We'll listen. State your case." Pogue answered, shutting the others up.

"Although I know that you are very powerful now Caleb, and I know that you fought long and hard with Chase, the way you described his death…it just wasn't convincing to me. Every single other son in history has left behind a body, even ones that died supernaturally. And the form that you used to kill him should have left remains. I may not have powers but I can feel something brewing. I can tell something evil is out there, and I think that Chase may be it. It's perfectly plausible that he may have decided that you were too powerful for him to take and to have used his remaining strength to transport himself somewhere else to regroup. Or maybe he did die but then came back from the dead, his family does have a history of that does it not?"

"Okay, stop. Let's say you're right, Chase is alive. What's he going to do? I mean what can he do? After being defeated he's not gonna try the same thing again but what can he do to us?" Reid asked.

"I'm sorry to say that there are dark powers that can be called upon in desperation. There are dark forces that have yet to be used, more powerful than you could ever imagine."

"If that's true why wouldn't he have used them already?" Pogue asked.

"They have been long lost. They were not passed on through the generations because of their dangerous qualities. Chase's father would have told him everything he knew about them and he'd know that he would have to trace the families far back to France to find them, a difficult but not impossible task. Besides, they have the potential to kill the user, I'm certain Chase wouldn't have taken the risk before but now, he just might." Gorman paused but then continued, his voice laced with remorse, "We haven't the knowledge or the power to combat such powers."

"Then who does?" Caleb whispered.

"The source."