Anyone else hate the ending of Season 1? Here's my continuation. Enjoy.

Don't own this. SC belongs to LJ Smith. Marcus, Lilah, Brent, and Louis are my own design. Plotline is mine, inspired by the original feel of the story.

It's been three onths since Diana Meade, who's actually Diana Blackwell, left. She's my sister. Our father got round. First my mom, then Diana's, who was in a relationship with Charles Meade. We just found out a few days before she left. Dad's dead. I killed him. But let me back up, or I'll go crazy. I came here when my mother died in an "accident." I became part of a bound circle with Faye, Nick, Melissa, Diana, and Adam. Nick died, replaced by his older brother Jake, Melissa distraught over dead love. Check. Diana and Adam, power couple of the century, break up because Adam is falling in love with me. Check. Adam and I get together after a period of nerves and fear, have sex, and awaken an ancient curse on our two families. Jake nearly dies because of curse, Adam and I, completely in love, know we need to save him and drink an elixir meant to make us forget about our love. Not quite check. My Blackwell blood makes it so that I never forgot, but Adam isn't a Blackwell. Leaves me missing the love of my life ho now doesn't love me. Definitely check. Find out Daddy Dearest wants to kill the others in our circle and use Diana and I for a Blackwell Circle, all his children. The five he sired with women other than Mom, and me. I'm Cassie Blake, welcome to the Secret Circle.

I served Melissa her coffee.

"Hey, you okay?" She asked.

"Fine, why?"
"Well, you just lost your boyfriend, your sister, your grandmother, and your father. Now Faye's avoiding reality now that she has her solo magic back, and Adam hasn't left his room. I went to check on him, he said he was fine, but something was wrong."

"I'll call him later. My shifts almost up."

Three hours later…

I walked inside to find four strangers. The first looked at me.

"We're not here to hurt you." He raised his hand. I gasped. There was a brand on his hand, the same as mine. These were the other Blackwell children.

"Hey, big sis." He said nervously. Oh yay.

I called Adam.

"Hey Cas, what's up?" He sounded sad, but nervous.

"Can you come over? It's the other kids, the Blackwell kids from other circles. They're here."

"I'll be right over, be careful."

Ten minutes later. I had served some sodas and sandwiches when the bell rang.

"Hey Cassie." Adam held me close. I was shocked. "You okay?"

"I guess so."

"You need to see this." He held up a large manila envelope with a VHS.

"Okay, one minute. Everyone? As much as I'd love to chat, I just got a message from our other sister. It's for me and Adam so I need to watch this. Go on into the dining room for a minute." The room was empty. I put the tape in and my sister's face filled the screen.

"Hey sis, it's me. I don't know how happy you are right now with me but you need to know this. I did some research, and the Blake/Conant curse is a fake. He was scared of you two together because you could overcome Cassie's powers. There's an antidote. Everything you need is in the envelope. Just make a tea and add a drop of your blood. You two had something real. Go get it back. I'll be back in town soon. Here's my number. Love you both, bye." The screen went black.

"So my dad lied to us? He made us lose everything for a scam?" I cried. Adam hugged me.

"Cassie, I never knew how to say this, but the curse never worked on me. I thought it worked on you so I never said anything. I love you, Cassie Blake." His dark eyes burned.

"It didn't work on me either. But you seemed so sure." He brushed back a single strand of hair.

"I was sure. Sure that I loved you and that I would never force you into anything if it meant risking your happiness. That included pretending that I didn't love you." He kissed me. I hadn't felt anything like it since our first time together. He had told me he wasn't afraid of me and that nothing could take him away. I kissed him back.

APOV:

I couldn't believe it. Cassie still loved me and nothing could come between us again. Not her father, not Jake, no one. Her arms went around my neck, pulling me willingly closer. One leg lifted around my waist. God I had missed her. We'd only had one night, but it was the best night of my life.

"As much as I want you right now, I have four siblings next door." She was right. "Tonight, I promise." I set her back down, but kept one hand firmly around her waist. In the kitchen there were three guys and one girl, about fourteen to sixteen.

"So, got names?" She asked.

"My name's Brent Maxwell, I'm 16." The oldest said. His face was worn and tired.
"Marcus Curchill, 14." The youngest boy, with my dad's eyes and blond hair. The green eyed girl next to him nodded.

"His twin, Lila."

"And I'm Louis Woods. 15."

"I'm Cassie Blake, I'm sixteen, and this is my boyfriend, Adam Conant. Our other sister is just younger than me, Diana Meade."

"Nice to meet you. You too Adam. We could hear the video from here. Seems like Dad was a bit of an ass."

"Don't get me started on Dad. He's dead." His eyes widened slightly.

"What happened?"

"He tried to kill the people I loved, so I killed him." There was something in my mind.

Hey, I think I can talk to you like this. Don't mention you know what you know where. I said.

Deal. We barely know them. We shouldn't be too trusting. The whole their family went out the door with Dad.

Agreed.

I took the fact we could talk in our minds in stride.

"A silent conversation we don't know about?" Lila said.

"They say that only happens between soulmates." Marcus smiled.

"Well, Dad certainly couldn't tare us apart." I kissed her passionately. "You have no idea how long I've wished for that."

"Just as long as I have. I remember." She leaned into my side.

"So where's Diana?" Brent shrugged.

"She traveled with her beau cross country for a bit to clear her head. She really reacted to the whole dark power thing that got started up. I had to activate her powers to save the circle."

"You guys bound?"
"Dad broke it. We considered rebinding it, but things went weird. Adam and I were having a hard time being around each other, Faye and Jake were struggling, Melissa was caught in the middle, and Diana had just learned she was a Blackwell. Let's just say it's all peaches and cream, without the peaches and cream." She blinked away tears.

"Hey, Diana said she's coming back. Whether that means with or without Grant I don't know. You've seen Jake and Faye, they're coming along. And Melissa is way better, now that Faye's lightened up a bit. And you know what the most important thing is?" I tried to get her to see the truth in my eyes.

"What?"
"You and I are together and in love. We knew from the start. You're mine, I'm yours. When you lost control to your dark magic, that last day. You wanted to kill Jake. What happened?"

"You stopped me."

"We're stronger than anything else. Diana will be back, the circle will be whole."

"You lost control to your dark powers?" Marcus asked.

"Yeah, I did. Have you guys?"

"A number of times. I killed. I decided I never wanted to be like that again. My magic would only be used to protect."

"It's the natural course of Blackwell power, Balcoin power. Something happens, and we make a choice to either hurt or protect. We all decided to protect."
"Same here. And Diana would never hurt. She's pure."

"I think this conversation should wait until the morning. Adam and Cassie need tonight together." Lilah said.

"You guys should have the guest room down stairs. There's four rooms here, one upstairs." She pointed them in the right direction before turning back to me.

"So, where were we fifteen minutes ago?" She smiled. My mouth crushed down on hers, our tongues battling for dominance. This was where I wished I could spend eternity. With my love in my arms, the two of us in perfect sync.

CPOV

We made it to my room. I fell back on my bed. Adam's shirt was gone; his jacket and mine left on the couch earlier. My shirt fell to the floor as Adam undid my bra. His mouth had left mine to trail kisses down my neck. I fumbled with his pants, wanting every part of him. Then there was nothing between us. I needed him as much as he needed me. There was no time for games in our love tonight. When he entered me I saw stars. It wasn't magic, not in the sense we usually thought of it. This was love.

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