A/N: Okay, this one is going to take a bit longer than I originally thought. I have lots of ideas but not a lot of time to write. In this one I do intend on working more with the original characters and not just OC's, also a new character will be introduced. The first one didn't go where I had intended on but we shall soon fix that!

-Chapter One-
Uproarious Assertion

"What the hell are you doing here," Meckenzie asked stunned.

"Oh, I'm not really here. It just appears that way," Chase told her. "Surely you know how to do that?"

"Self projection?" Meckenzie asked a little surprised. "We haven't used that for years," she told him.

"Yeah, well, when you don't quit have all of your power, you have to make do with what you do have," Chase told her sarcastically. "By the way, I want back what's mine, Meckenzie."

"And how do you plan on doing that?" Reid asked him.

"She either gives it to me or I kill her, simple as that. Either way she goes," he told them. "I'll get what I want, I always do. I'll be seeing you around when I can."

"And how long will that be?" Meckenzie asked him.

"I'm still working on building strength. As you know, you didn't get all of it. It'll take me awhile but I'll be back. I won't let you forget about me, dear cousin." Chase's image dissolved.

Meckenzie plopped down on the edge of her bed. She put her hands over her face and cried. Reid sat next to her and put a hand on her back.

"It'll be fine. We got him once before and we can get him again," Reid tried to reassure her.

"Caleb won that fight because of his father. It was pretty much by chance." Meckenzie was still crying softly, trying to regain herself.

"Caleb could have beat him without that," Reid said standing up, the level of his voice rising.

"Caleb would have died without that," Meckenzie said hauling herself off the bed, her voice equaling Reid's.

"You don't know that he would have."

"And you don't know that he wouldn't," Meckenzie was now yelling at the top of her lungs. "Chase will stop at nothing to get what he wants. He killed his own parents for no real reason and he would have killed Caleb, too. And there is nothing Caleb could have done about it. He got lucky."

"Caleb would have done just fine," Reid yelled defensively.

"Chase is crazy," Meckenzie hollered. She was getting frustrated. "He is crazy and addicted. His use of power has consumed his sanity. Your families weren't lying when they told you guys that the power is seductive, he's hooked, I can feel it. He has had a little taste of it and he wanted more. And in Chase's case he has way more power than normal. The hold that the power has over him is more than you can imagine. Caleb was nothing compared to Chase."

"Caleb is not nothing," Reid told her aggressively. His eyes flared to black, maintaining their bottomless depth appearance. "Caleb is greater than you'll ever know."

"Caleb doesn't know exactly what he has come into. He's meager and uneducated. And if he's not careful, this will kill him before he knows how to control it all."

"Caleb is neither weak or unskillful. Don't ever talk about him that way." Objects around the room started to hover.

"I'm just trying to enlighten you."

"I don't need enlightenment." A picture frame sailed across the room and Meckenzie barely dodged it. Her eyes blasted equally black.

"You don't want to start something like this. It's a bad choice," Meckenzie warned him.

"And why not?" Reid asked in a roguish tone. He sent a book flying at her this time. Meckenzie caught it and it floated in mid air.

"As much as I love you, I'm not afraid to admit that I'm more honed in with my power."

"So you think you're better than me!" Reid shouted. "Stop this." He sent a room full of objects flying at her.

Meckenzie muttered, "Res subsisto." Everything stopped in midair and fell to the floor.

"Impressive, but can you save yourself from this." Reid, becoming aggressive and agitated, held up his hands to her. Meckenzie's ear filled with a painful ringing and pressure. She fell to her knees. The ringing and pressure increase and Meckenzie pressed her hands to the sides of her head in hopes of a release.

"Ahh! Reid stop!" Tears started to form around her eyes. When he wouldn't stop, she had to do something. "Licentia iam," she shouted. Reid disappeared.

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Reid looked around, noticing his new surroundings.

"Bitch! AHH!" He slammed his fist on the desk in his dorm room.

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Meckenzie could feel the pain release and the blood rushing quickly back to her head, a little too quickly. She felt the brief euphoria of a head rush just before everything went black.

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Meckenzie was passed out on the floor with the contents of the shelves and tables throughout the room strewn around her, when Annalise and Tyler came in the room. Upon seeing her sister sprawled out on the floor, Annalise ran to her. She shook her sister lightly.

"Meckenzie, wake up! Keni!" Meckenzie started to stir. "Tyler, help me get her on the bed." Tyler and Annalise lifted her onto the bed and Annalise sat next to her. "Meckenzie, what happened?"

"Chase. Reid." Meckenzie attempted to bring her vision back into focus. She groaned at the slight pain in her forehead.

"Chase? What about Chase?" Annalise asked her.

"He was here."

"That's not right, he couldn't be," Tyler stammered. "What about Reid?"

"We got into an argument about Chase and Caleb. I was upset and I told him that Chase would have killed Caleb and that the only reason that Caleb is alive is because of his father. I tried to explain that Caleb is new to having this kind of power; he doesn't understand it or knows how to control it. Chase is more refined, he's had it longer, used it more. I tried telling him that Chase is crazy and would kill to get what he wanted. I may have mention that Caleb was nothing compared to Chase. Reid went berserk."

"Meckenzie, you shouldn't have said that to him."

"Anna, it's the truth. Okay, maybe I shouldn't have said it so bluntly, but he needed to know."

"Reid's got a nasty attitude," Tyler told them. "Not to mention he's stubborn, likes things to go his way."

"Chase was here?" Annalise asked.

"Yeah, he said that he'd be back when he could. And he wants me dead."

"We've gotta tell the other," Tyler told them.


i know it's kind of short but i wanted to get the sequal started. hopefully there will be more to come soon. these may take longer than before...i have started classes again and will be doing a lot of homework.