A/N: This story is a collaboration with Golden Immortality. I am writing the Sweep part, and she's writing the House of Night part. It is our first time writing together. Some of you are probably thinking this should be in the crossover section, but this is the Sweep version and Golden Immortality is doing the House of Night version. They are two stories w/the same title. Mine is Sweep with the HoN characters coming in later. Whether you're a fan of the HoN series or the Sweep series, please tell us what you think.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Sweep series, that right belongs to the wonderful Cate Tiernan, who created these wonderful characters.

Summary: Set after Full Circle. What happens when two evils you've defeated before comes back with vengeance? With Hunter trapped in a hostage takeover, Morgan must rely on a former love and new friends to defeat an even greater evil.

Okay, now enjoy the story. :)

Chapter One

Morgan

The late afternoon sun streamed in through the windows, warming my face and body with its heat. I sighed, content to just lay here. A laugh from next to me made me open my eyes and I was staring into a pair of sparkling green eyes. A few wisps of light-blonde hair fell into his eyes and I reached up to brush them out of his face.

"What's so funny?" I asked him.

"You," Hunter answered, he was on his elbow, leaning over me. "The way you're just lying here, like it's the best thing in the whole world."

"Only because you're here with me," I told him, truthfully, wrapping my arms around his neck. Hunter's face turned completely serious and moved closer until our lips were only inches apart. His kiss was soft and short, but it filled me with love.

"I love you," he whispered, looking straight into my eyes.

"I love you, too," I whispered back. And, then, we were kissing again, except this time it was harder, more passionate than the last. Our tongues intertwined, as Hunter pressed even closer to me, so not even an inch of space was between our bodies. His hands traveled down my bare arms, sending a shiver through my body. I buried my hands in his short, spiky hair and moaning a little as he kissed along my jaw and down my neck. Closing my eyes and gripped his shoulders, reveling in his touch.

A small gasp escaped me when I felt his hands slide underneath my shirt, tracing soft circles over my stomach. I opened my eyes to see Hunter gazing at me with such intensity that if I was standing my legs would have given out right then.

"You're beautiful," Hunter breathed, taking one hand out of my shirt to stroke my long, brown hair. He leaned down to kiss me when a loud buzzing came from the side of his makeshift bed. Hunter buried his face in the nape of my neck as he let out a long sigh.

"Don't answer it," I told him in a whisper, my hands running through his soft, blonde hair. He picked his head up and our lips met in a brief kiss when the buzzing persisted. With another sigh, Hunter pulled himself away from me and picked up his cell phone. He answered it with a sharp hello and almost immediately his face set in a serious expression.

I sat up, pulling myself to the edge of the mattress, and slipped on my shoes. Giving Hunter some privacy, I slipped quietly from the room and headed downstairs to the kitchen. Sky was already there, putting a pot of tea on the stove, she looked up when I entered. Her short, blonde hair, identical to Hunter's, bobbed on her shoulders.

"Decided to come up for air?" Sky teased, a wide smile on her face. I couldn't help the blush that spread on my cheeks and ducked my face as I walked to the table to sit down.

"We- we were just...talking," I said, lamely.

"Uh-huh," I heard Sky say over the whistling of the tea kettle. She had just brought two cups filled with the steaming liquid to the table and sat down when Hunter came into the room. Sky quickly jumped up and started back to the teapot, but Hunter shook his head and that was when we both saw the look on his face.

"What's the matter?" we both asked in unison.

He waited until Sky was seated before starting. "That was Kennet, just now on the phone," Hunter said, looking at me.

"Wait, like from the council, Kennet? Your old mentor, Kennet?" Sky asked. Kennet was a part of the International Council of Witches, where Hunter worked as a seeker up until recently. Unhappy with the council's decisions Hunter had quit his job as a seeker, Kennet hadn't been happy about it. "What did he want?"

Hunter shook his head and rubbed his face with his hands. "I don't know how to put this," he sighed. "The council has lost track of Ciaran, they don't know where he is."

My heart seemed to skip a beat at the thought of my father out there somewhere. "But he still doesn't have any magick, right? He can't harm anyone." I heard myself say. But Hunter wasn't finished.

"A few days ago, the council also discovered that Selene and Cal's bodies were missing," Hunter finished. "No one was ordered to move them or had any plans to move them."

"But what would someone want with two dead bodies?" I asked.

Both Hunter and Sky looked at each with grim expressions on their faces, neither said anything. Cal and Selene were gone. I had watched Cal die right in front of me and I was the one who ended Selene's life. There was no way either of them could come back, right?

Alisa

I tapped my pencil against my notebook in time to the music blaring from the stereo speakers in my best friend, Mary K's room. Our friendship wasn't back to the way it was before I found I was half-blood witch, but we were getting there. I was sitting on the floor with my back against the bed, Mary K. was lying on top of it.

"What do you think if I dyed my hair blonde?" came her voice over the blare of the music. Thank the goddess, Morgan wasn't home or she'd be in here yelling at us to turn it down.

"You look good the way you are," I told her honestly, turning around to face her, putting my homework aside. "I'm sure Mark does too."

Mary K. was silent for a moment, flipping a page of her magazine.

I got up to turn the stereo off and turned to face her. "Everything is okay with you and Mark, aren't they?" She gave a curt little nod, not looking at me. Not satisfied with that answer, I walked over and grabbed the magazine from her.

"Hey, I was looking at that!" she protested sitting up.

"I'll give it back," I told her, sitting beside her. "Once you tell me what's up with you and Mark?"

Mary K. looked down, her finger tracing patterns on her comforter. After a few minutes, she looked up at me, something shining in her eyes I couldn't quite name. "It's not working," she confessed. "I'm going to break up with him."

I was shocked, I hoped my mouth didn't drop open. I put my hand to my chin, just to be sure, it was still closed. "But you guys were really into each other. I thought-"

"Well, you thought wrong," Mary K. got up abruptly and went over to desk. She started to stack her textbooks and re-stacking them.

I thought for a moment before something registered in my mind. "Does this have anything to do with Bakker?" I asked quietly, speaking of her first boyfriend, who almost raped her. "Because if it is, you don't-"

"Why would you even bring him up?" Mary K. asked spinning around to face me, her voice raising in anger and defensiveness. "This has nothing to do with Bakker! It's just not working with Mark, ok! Now, if you'll excuse me, it's my night to make dinner."

With that, Mary K. stormed out of the room and I heard her go downstairs. I sat there on the bed, stunned at my friend's outburst. Though Mary K. didn't say it, this had everything to do with Bakker, and if she didn't admit it to herself soon, I didn't want to know what would happen.

Morgan

"Did Kennet give you any other details?" Alyce Fernbrake asked as Hunter, Sky, and I sat in the back of back room of Practical Magick, the occult store the older woman owned. We all sat around the small table, mugs of steaming tea untouched in front of us.

Hunter shook his head, "I'm not on the council anymore, he wasn't even supposed to tell me anything." he answered. "But he thought he owed it to us to let us know." I leaned back in my chair, taking a sip of my tea.

"I think we should try scrying," Sky spoke up. "I mean, it couldn't hurt."

"No, it couldn't," Alyce agreed and Hunter nodded. He pulled out his lueg, a flat piece of obsidian stone he used for scrying. He murmured the spell that would allow us to see what the stone wanted to show us. When he was finished, we all leaned over to look into the stone.

At first, I didn't see anything and then all of a sudden images started to swirl in and out. Finally, they solidified and it was like I was actually inside the stone, witnessing what was unfolding.

I was inside a large bare room, with two doors at the back leading someplace else. There were people scattered throughout the room, mostly consisting of my friends, Hunter and Sky and even my sister, Mary K. There were also some I didn't recognize, most had sapphire/scarlet half-moon crescents on their foreheads. Two had full tattoos on their faces, one in particular stood out from the rest. She had blonde hair and she had scarlet red tattoos.

Who are these people? I thought to myself.

As it panned across the large room, I saw two figures that filled the stone. One I recognized, the other I didn't.

He was tall and looked not much older than me, his chest, which was shirtless, was chiseled. He had long raven-black hair and huge ebony wings. I could feel the fear welling up inside me just from looking at him. He looked dangerous and seductive at the same time.

The other one was Selene Belltower.

All at once, the image winked out and I was back in Practical Magick with my friends. No one spoke for what seemed like a long time. We were all no doubt trying to come up with some explanation for what we just saw. It didn't make any sense.

"What does it mean?" I was the first to speak.

"It means something is coming," Alyce said. "Something no one has even encountered before and we'd all better be ready when it does."

"But where was that place?" Sky asked, picking up her cup of tea and then putting it down again, without drinking it. "I mean, I haven't seen any place it could be. Have you?"

"Not exactly," Everybody turned to look at Hunter when he answered. "There are a few abandoned warehouses in downtown Widow's Vale. I think that's where it is."

"How do you know?" I asked him.

"I saw a crumpled sheet of paper on the floor," Hunter explained. "It has a picture of the library on it from a few years ago."

I immediately admired his investigative skills, I hadn't even seen the paper he was describing I was too busy taking in the horrific scene. Both Alyce and Sky were nodding, seeming to agree with what Hunter was saying.

"So what do we do?" I asked.

Hunter looked from me to Sky and back again. "Tomorrow, we find this warehouse," he explained. "And we go from there."

Selene

Cal Blaire walked into his mother's secret library, a backpack slung over his shoulder, inside their huge mansion in Widow's Vale. Selene Belltower sat at her expansive desk, seeming to have expected his arrival. She looked him up and down as if assessing him for any type of injury. Assured that he was unharmed, Selene threw him a smile.

"What can I do for you, my son?" she asked him.

"I don't want anything to do with whatever you're planning," Cal said simply. "I'm leaving."

Selene laughed. "Do you really think you can just leave?" she questioned him. "I brought you back to this world, you belong to me."

Cal narrowed his gold-colored eyes, when another voice came from behind him. "I believe that would be me." it said. Cal turned to see the man with the ebony wings strut into the room, eyes focused on Selene.

"Kalona, how nice of you to join us," Selene greeted him. She sounded friendly, but Cal heard the note of irritation in her voice. "I was just informing my son on how he came to be here now."

"Indeed," Kalona said, barely glancing at Cal. "And I'm assure you told him I can just as well take your lives away as I gave them back to you."

This time it was Selene's turned to glare at him.

Cal cleared his throat. "Like I said, I'm leaving." And before anyone could stop him, Cal strode from the room without a backward glance.

"It's a shame when you devote all you time into your sons, molding them into what you want," Kalona said, walking closer to her. "And in the end, they just throw it all back in your face." When he finished, Kalona was leaning over her chair, inches from her face. Selene didn't pull back or pull him closer, instead she held her ground.

"He'll be back," Selene replied, staring him in his eyes. She waited until he had inched closer before lifting her hand and shot blue witch fire at him. Kalona fell backwards onto the floor, but immediately regained his feet, rage showing on his features. Selene stood as well.

"You just made a serious error-" Kalona started.

"I am fully aware of what I just did," Selene snapped at him, fire burning in her gold-colored eyes. "I am in this for one thing; to see Morgan Rowlands destroyed. I don't care about you or what you're so-called mate wants. I want revenge, no I want blood. And no one is going to get in my way of getting that."

When she finished, Selena pushed past Kalona towards the door of the library. As she disappeared into the hallway, she called back to him. "And I thought I told you, I don't what your vermin in my house!"

A/N: I hoped you liked it and want to read more. Please review and tell me what you think. :)