Chapter Two

Chad's POV

I stared at the kids Aly had told me to watch. Two girls, two boys; The girls were small, one had strawberry blonde hair that reached a little past her shoulders, bright baby blue doe eyes, with a height that barely reached five foot three and very pale skin, while the other was around five foot five, slightly tan skin, and shoulder length black hair, bright hazel eyes. The boys were complete opposites. One was korean, with raspy blonde hair, deep hazel eyes, around five foot seven, small but fit. The other was huge, a hulking six foot two with black hair that hung in his face and bright green eyes, pale but tan skin.

I sighed. "How does Aly expect me to get these kids to visit her? I'm a necromancer, not a copykat, or even a sorcerer, this is not going to work."

I continued watching them, trying to figure out how to get this to work when the big guy and the blonde girl started walking towards me. I stood up from my crouch, trying to make myself look taller then I was. I had strawberry blonde hair, baby blue eyes, pale skin, and was only about five foot six, so I was definately intimidated. I kept glancing at the big guy as they walked closer, but my main attention was on the girl. She looked so much like me, is was weird. I mean, we looked different, for sure, but we had a few similarities, like the eyes, hair color, lips, nose. It was weird.

"Hi." She smiled.

I nodded, looking at both of them nervously.

"Why were you staring at us?"

I decided to try and be a little honest, so I turned to look back in the direction of Aly's house and theirs. "You live next to me."

He nodded, before grunting and turning around. He started to walk off when he noticed the girl wasn't following. She stared at me, like she was noticing how alike we were, then she held out her hand. "I'm Chloe, that's Derek, the other girl is Tori and the other guy is Simon."

I shook her hand, nodding, "My name's Chad."

She smiled, and I felt my head turn to the side as if I was puzzled. She even smiled like I did. I opened my mouth to say something when Derek lightly grabbed her shoulder and made her walk with him, talking to her quietly as the walked back to the others.

"Progress, I guess."

I shrugged, feeling slightly proud of myself. I walked back to the house from the school, stopping by my foster parents home before I continued my journey home. I walked through the woods, looking up when I got to the edge. I could see Aly waiting, looking out at the forest's edge. She smiled, slightly, at me, and I felt a slight flutter in my stomach, and I knew I was actually going home.

Aly-kat's POV

I watched at Chad made his way home. He was halfway to the house when I looked back at the forest's edge, catching a glimpse of the green eyes I'd seen the day before, then, just as before, they disappeared quickly. I sighed, wondering what it was. I turned around to see Chad staring at me, a goofy smile planted on his face. He plopped down on the bed, laying there with that grin.

I rolled my eyes, "Why're you all smile-y?"

He rolled over, propping his head with his elbow on the bed, head in hand. He looked at me, then tried to get serious, but failed, that smile still gracing his face. "I did as you told me, and I made progress. I know their names."

I smiled at him, finally understanding why he was so happy. He was proud of himself. I walked over and sat on the bed next to him, patting him on the back as a sign that I was proud of him too. "There's four of them. Derek, Simon, Chloe, and Tori. I didn't get their last name's though, sorry."

I shrugged, then sprawled out on the bed, laying my head down. "What do they look like?"

He rolled over again, making it to where our faces were across from eachother. "Tori has shoulder length black hair, hazel eyes, tan skin, she's shorter than you. Simon's korean with blonde hair, hazel eyes, and he's taller than me. Come to think of it, Simon and Tori look kind of similar, like they're siblings.. Anyways, Derek is huge, a whopping six foot two, easily, with black hair and bright green eyes that kind of glow, he's pale but tan, and Chloe, well, she looks alot like me, actually.."

I heard bright green eyes, and I knew exactly what kept showing up at the forest's edge. "Derek.." my thought's breathed. I noticed Chad went into silence, probably thinking about Chloe. He was adopted, so it was easy to see that he was wondering if Chloe was part of his family. Giving a little thought to it, like I already have, Chad and I looked slightly similar when I was in my normal appearance. I had his eye shape, lips, nose, but other than that, not really. I was five foot six in a half, skinny, but with curves. I had pale skin, with black hair that had the weirdest red tint to it, for some off reason giving my hair an illusion dark auburn. My blue/grey eyes "glow", as Chad and Dean like to tell me. I shivered, letting the appearance I was holding fade, smiling as my waist length black hair covered me. I pulled at my pillow, bringing it down the bed further, until I could put my head on it. I closed my eyes, sighing contently, when I opened them to check on Chad. He was laying there, staring at the ceiling, still smiling. I chuckled softly, before closing my eyes again. I waited, listening to my breathing and chad's before falling into a deep sleep.

I looked across the hospital room, frowning as it looked so familiar to me. I saw a blonde woman screaming, giving birth. I watched her, not recognizing her at all. She kept screaming, even after the baby had been released from her body. "A baby boy." The doctor cooed. He handed the baby boy off to the nurse, then went back to coaxing the lady as she continued giving birth. "Almost there." he told her, soothingly. She screamed again before falling back into the pillows behind her, her body going limp in exhaustion. "A baby girl. Congratulations, Mrs. Saunders, you've had twins."

I watched the scene before me unfold, she named them quickly. "Chloe and Chad." She breathed, before feeding them, then handing them off to her husband. He held them both, before walking over to a woman wearing a lab coat. "Lauren." He nodded, before handing off the boy to her. She looked down at him, smiling slightly, then turned and walked away, leaving the man with just the little baby girl.

"Where's my baby boy, Steve!?" She screamed at him, but he just looked at her like she'd lost her mind.

"Jennifer, what are you talking about? You didn't have twins! You only had Chloe here."

She looked at him perplexed, before turning her attention to the korean who leaned against the wall with her sister. "Who're you?"

"Just a figment of your imagination, Jennifer." He muttered something, then Jennifer and Steve slumped slightly, before waking up to an empty room. She smiled at Steve, taking her baby from him. "Chloe, my baby." she cooed.

Outside the room stood the korean and Lauren. "Kit," she said quickly, "are you sure they won't find out about Chad?" He nodded, looking at Lauren before looking around. "How're your kids, Lauren? Still locked in with the cabals? I might have an offering for your son, one day."

She nodded, before turning briskly to walk away, leaving Kit standing there with a small smile on his face.

I jumped up, my breathing erratic. I looked over at Chad, he was still peacefully asleep. I moved out of the bed, barely jostling it, before making my way through the house, looking for Dean. He was leaning against the front door, staring dangerously at a blonde man standing in the kitchen door way. I made my way to Dean quickly, not trusting the man that stood in my house. He watched me with blue eyes, a slight insane gleam to them. He looked me over, head to toe, before turning his attention back to Dean. I waited, not sure what to do.

"So, this is my niece, is that so, Dean?"

I gasped, instantly recognizing who was standing infront of me. "Ben?"

He nodded, before returning to his part of the conversation. "So, did you enjoy the memory I showed you, Aly-kat?"

I felt Dean turn to look at me, frowning. He waited, while I watched Ben, cursing him. "Lauren and some guy named kit," I tried to ignore the look his face took on at that name, "took Chad away from his parents, who were Lauren's sister and her husband. Kit placed a spell on them, so that they didn't remember they had twins, when in reality, they did. Chloe and Chad. She's one of the girls within the group of four we were looking at, Doggy."

He nodded, before turning his hardened expression back to Ben. "Anything else you would like to show us?"

Ben nodded, then pointed to me. "I can't show her unless she's asleep, but it's not something I should show her, don't you think, Dean?"

I felt Dean tense, then sigh. "Should I just explain it to her?"

Ben nodded, then disappeared. Obviously, his work here was done. I walked over to the couch, sitting criss-cross applesauce, before patting the place next to me for Dean. He sat down, wrapping an arm around my shoulder before launching into the story.

"So, the night I died, I got a call from Kit Bae. He told me he had a job for me, that if I did it, he'd protect you. I agreed immediately, then almost instantly regretted it. I was to kill Jennifer in a car crash, but I had to die also. So, that night, I answered my phone as I was driving, only to have Kit directing me on what to do. All I really remember is feeling a tear slide down my cheek, thinking of you, and then the shock as a car plowed into me, and then the next thing I know, I was standing on the corner of the street, watching as a lady screamed and called the cops. I went over to see my mangled body, then looked over to my left and saw Jennifers body. She looked over at me, before the lights went out in her eyes. I looked over at the woman that had called the cops and she was looking directly at me. I walked over to her, holding my arms out, and she collapsed in them. I calmed her down, left as the cops came, and went and got you. That's how I found out that I could touch people and they could see me. So, yeah."

He rubbed a hand over his face, then looked at me seriously. "I'm a murderer, Aly."

I laughed, and he looked taken back, like I had completely shocked him. "And I'm not, Dean? Do you not remember the cabbals when they found us? Or the werewolves?"

He nodded, not completely sure about my sanity, I assume. I rolled my eyes, before leaning against him again. We kept the silence up for about twenty minutes. I started lulling back into sleep when he asked a question.

"Did Lauren really send you those letters?"

I felt a slight pressure on my wrists, tracing the scars I bore on them. I nodded sleepily, before reliving the memory.

"Aly! You've got mail. From who, I have no idea."

I ran down the stairs, tripping on the bottom step. I caught myself, then tumbled to the ground while Dean threw the giant manilla envelope at me. I leapt up, going back up the stairs while I ripped open the mail. I went into my room before dumping the contents out. There was a picture, of Lauren, Dean, and I, with sharpied X's on Dean and I's faces, and three or four smaller envelopes. I opened them one at time, sadness washing over me as I took in the words.

'Kill yourself, Aly.'

'You weren't worth the pain I went through, neither was your brother. If only you could of both died, it'd give the world a break.'

'Take a razor, or a knife, and drag it down your wrists, Aly.'

'I should of killed you myself, Aly.'

I felt immense sadness, the pain of my own mother telling me I wasn't worth the air I breathed. I flung my hand at the door, blocking anyone or anything from entering it without my permission. I rummaged around my room, searching for the square razor I knew I had lingering around my room. I finally found it, grabbing it and digging it into the soft skin of my wrist. I cut and cut, destroying the skin, barely leaving a centimeter untouched. I heard the faint banging of fists against a door, then it disappeared, leaving me with my racking sobs. I heard the crash of glass as my window shattered, then Dean's gasp as he took in my blood covered room and body. He grabbed me, taking me out the window to the hospital. He claimed someone tried to make it look like suicide, that way I didn't have to stay in a hospital for rehabilitation.

I shuddered as I finished remembering the incident. "I wonder how she found us.."

"I'm not sure. Come on, let's get you to bed. You look dead beat tired."

I let him carry me up the stairs to my room, tuck me in next to Chad, and then I drifted off into a dreamless, restless sleep.