Soul collector Chapter 3:

I didn't realize that I could feel so much sadness towards someone I didn't know, I mean she was a part of me I just didn't know her. Then comes the tricky topic about how the Spencer line was carried on, the Salem Jay was no where in sight and my Jay was pulling me into his arms so I wouldn't have to see what was going on, the problem was I could still hear everything. I could hear the screams, the cheering and the sobs from everyone that knew her. I felt like crying, I was thinking it would be amazing for the flames to just stop and she could go free but I knew that wouldn't happen. I pulled myself closer to Jay hoping to stop hearing the sounds and focus on his breathing.

"Jay, I want to go home. I don't want to stay here and watch this." I said, my voice cracking at some points.

"Okay, just look over there and then we can go." I looked in the direction of where he was pointing and saw Rhys, staring at where Ingrid is now burning and weeping silently. Rhys looked pleased that she was burning. "He has hunted down everyone of your past lives making sure the Spencer line doesn't get carried on, little does he know that your family it's little secrets." I couldn't believe this. Rhs was some witch hunter, the Spencer family has its own hunter, and he was here to kill me. What had our family done to him?

"Jay, how did the Spencer line get carried on?"

"Ingrid had a little sister, see that girl with the brown hair." I saw her, she was crying in her mother's arms (at least I think it was her mother).

"She shouldn't be watching this." I said just before another cry of help coming from Ingrid, she was still in so much pain and I could feel it, I didn't know how I could but I could feel her pain. I was suddenly on my knees and in pain. "Jay, help me." I couldn't breathe; I felt the hot flames on my skin.

"Lets get you out of here." He picked me up and started chanting the incantation that got us here, but it sounded different, I didn't know all I knew was the pain I felt and then nothing, I was back to my old self and feeling fine. "Are you okay?" He said sounding and looking worried. We had one week and I was wasting it trying to find out about my past, sure I'm failing history, but Jay could help with that, before I knew what I was doing I kissed him and he kissed me back, until I heard a little grumble from someone in front of us.

"Ivy, what are you doing home from school?" my mum asked, wow this was embarrassing.

"Hi Lucy, Ivy is home from school because and evil witch hunter named Rhys enrolled at her school, so I had to show her, her past life so that she knew what was going so she cant go back to school, unless she has some protection and one of her powers is empathy." Oh now he gets a sense of humour, a bad one but still. Wait empathy, what the hell is empathy? Before I could even ask the question mum started hyperventilating and Jay calmed her down started talking to her about what they should do to protect me, without even taking to me. I was slowly getting annoyed, then I got mad and then the table caught on fire, that got their attention and mine, I immediately started thinking about Ingrid and got terrified, I wanted the flames to go out and they did, a bucket of water poured down from out of nowhere and the flames went out. Everyone just stared at the now singed table and I was so terrified I started to shake, I ran up to my room and cried about nothing in particular, I think it was just a mix of the shock, Ingrid dying, me feeling the pain she went through and oh yeah an evil witch hunter out to get me. I heard a knock at my door and ignored it, knowing that, that wouldn't stop whoever it was from coming in my room and trying to comfort me. Jay was at my side instantly and holding, I felt protected, safe and strong instantly.

"Ivy, what's wrong? Was it the fire in the kitchen." He asked, his voice sounding small and quiet but comforting, I wanted to forget that this had ever happened, I wanted to be normal, and with a normal boyfriend and not just a guy I could only love for a week. I didn't want some guy I didn't know trying to kill me because of my heritage and I didn't want random flames appearing and then water appearing to put out the flames, I didn't want to feel others pain when I can barley deal with my own, I want to be human.

"It's everything Jay, I cant handle these powers, you and my mum are talking about me like I wasn't right in front of you and I just cant take it anymore, I'm not an object I am a person and I want to be treated like one." He just looked at me with sad eyes. I didn't want to yell at him but I couldn't help it. Suddenly he looked up at the sky and 'the list' appeared, the list that gave Jay the heads up that someone was about to die, I looked at the name and the place. "I'll take this one, I need to think and what better way to think about my life as I am carting away a dead guy to the afterlife." I knew I wasn't meant to joke about the dead, it was one of the rules Jay had, but I didn't care right now.

"Ivy, I am really sorry it's just that a witch has never had all four elements, its four powers and it you got two of them at the same time it just makes it harder to control." He grabbed my hand and kissed my cheek, I closed my eyes and inhaled his sent.

"Well, you can help me learn, but right I have a soul to collector, that's part of who I am a soul collector." I kissed Jay lightly on the lips and then turned angel.

"What's going on? Where am I?" Maggie Reynolds said, she just turned sixteen went to a party with her friends at the beach and went for a late night swim with a guy she liked, got caught in a rip and drowned then she popped up on Jays list and I went to collect.

"first question, you died. Second question your in limbo, I got you here but you need to choose wether you want to move on or stay behind." Usually they moved on pretty quickly but sometimes the younger people wanted to stay behind, I saw the portal or 'the light' open up behind her, she chose to move on.

"Can you come with me?" I nodded and grabbed her hand, they were always scared of going into the light, I didn't get it too me it looked amazing, it looked safe and happy the two things that I was not feeling right now. We walked through and immediately the gods took Maggie away so her soul could be recycled. I looked around at the afterlife, there were clouds everywhere it was nothing special no angels with harps or your dead family member coming to greet you, just clouds and more portals opening for the other angels to bring souls. I remember learning that there was more than one angel of death, there was and AOD (angel of death) for every city in the world, and they were always working because people were always dying, I wonder what would happen to me if I died, would Jay actually collect my soul or would another angel do it. I wonder if Rhys would kill me.

"I wouldn't let him lay a hand on you." Well that voice sounded familiar, I hated being in angel form, all the other angels could read your mind.

"Hey Quinn how ya doin'?" Quinn was an angel who was pretty high up there, he knew everything and well he was jut plain annoying, two weeks ago he though he would try and kiss me, and before that there was the never ending flirting. I mean sure he was cute with his bronze brown hair artfully messy, his light brown eyes, the high cheek bones, thick long black eyelashes and lips that were so red it looked like he was wearing lipstick, but apart from all that he was annoying.

"I'm great Ivy, even better since I saw you." and the flirting begins.

"Don't read too much into it, I was just delivering, and now I'm going." He laughed and grabbed my arm as I walked past him.

"You reek of Jay, I cant believe the gods allowed his little wish. He isn't good for you Ivy, he's the whole reason Rhys is out to get you. I would never put you in danger like that." Oh my god, seriously I wasn't in the mood for this, it's a shame my powers didn't work when I was in angel form I could have burnt him.

"Get your sleazy hand off my arm, or I swear to the gods that when I see you next and I'm not an angel I will burn your precious hair off." He put his back and laughed again, then tightened his grip on my arm.

"You shouldn't talk to me like that, I can get Jay transferred to a different city, I can get him terminated he would be back where all the other souls go, or better yet I can just ask the gods to shorten the time span of your relationship." He looked me in the eyes and gripped both shoulders so tightly I was sure he could dislocate them with a single nudge.

"She said back off Quinn, and if I were you I wouldn't piss her off more than you already have, you may think you know everything but I am telling you right now that you do not own me and don't even begin to think you know Ivy, so let go of her because I'm starting to get pissed." I heard Jays voice slowly getting more angry by the second and it was relieving when Quinn let go of my shoulders, I ran into Jays arms and turned to look at Quinn. He was giving Jay a death glare.

"Well, that was rude Jay, couldn't you see that Ivy and I were talking. Oh well, I'm late and souls are waiting, car crash you know how it is." Jay nodded and Quinn nodded back and winked at me, I gave him a disgusted look and then he disappeared through a portal.

"Are you okay, did he hurt you?" I shook my head, I wasn't quite ready to talk yet, I just wanted to go home and go to sleep. "Lets go, your mum had to go to work so we have the house to ourselves, talk as loud as we want." He laughed and I just hugged him tighter, I never wanted to let him go, he was my hero and he was always there whenever I needed him, I felt him hug me back and start to pull me towards a portal and before I knew it I was back in my room.

"Jay, why does Quinn think he has a chance with me?" he laughed and closed his eyes so I could get changed.

"I do not know, but I do know that he doesn't deserve you." he was still laughing at my question.

"You can open your eyes know, I just don't like the way he looks at me, and the way he thinks he's better than you."

"Ivy, aren't you going to ask me why Quinn thinks it's my fault that Rhys is after you."

"No, I asked Ingrid about that, sort of." He looked at me quizzically "Well when you were talking to yourself, I was talking to Ingrid and she mentioned something about Rhys."

"No she didn't, I heard everything you said to her Ivy, and before you get mad, it was not my fault, both of me was listening." That was confusing, I hadn't realized that when she said it she didn't move her mouth, I actually didn't realize that she said anything abut Rhys until I was in the afterlife. "I think you just figured out your other power, the only thing is you have more than three." Well that was something to think about, but not right now.

"Anyway, Ingrid thought about what would happen if Rhys found her with you, and then she thought about how controlling he was when they were together." Jay nodded, I was pretty sure that if I was actually concentrating this would have been confusing, but it actually made sense.

"Your right, Rhys fell in love with Ingrid, but she didn't feel the same way, she was just with him because of her parents, he got jealous, I don't know why he killed her but I'll figure it out and in the mean time please stay away from him, and get some sleep." He put me in bed and pulled the blanket over me and then came to lay down with me, he started telling me little stories that reminded me of when I was little, I enjoyed it for once I was being looked after and not having to do everything for myself, sleep came pretty quickly for me and it wasn't a peaceful sleep, the night mare was so dark, I saw Rhys holding a knife over Jay and I didn't know what to do, I tried to make him burst into flames but my powers weren't working, and then it moved into another scene, the colour were the same but this time Quinn was the one trying to get Jay and again I couldn't help him and then I saw me, tied up to a stake with the flames slowly consuming me. I woke up screaming terrified that what I saw was real, I couldn't see anything with my tear covered eyes and the dark room, I couldn't find Jay and I was so scared, I pulled my legs up close to my body and rested my chin on my knees, and then I heard my door slowly open.