Wow...It's been so long since I've looked at this story... sorry everyone! But I'm going to try and bring it back from the dead!... oh I forgot to mention, but Kate, like Sarah, knows about the Sons of Ipswich's powers...
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Syrin awoke groaning as sun-light shone on her eyes. Blinking them open, she realized she was in her dorm and that Temari wasn't.
"Tema?" She murmured glancing at her clock. No wonder she's not here! It's almost 2! Sy shook her head and changed into some casual clothes, deciding that an hour and a half of class was so not worth getting up for. Sy shook her head, and gently fingered the delicate curved rod iron, bed frame. She giggled, thinking about the hours of arguing with the head master about one little bed frame. Her finger tips, paused over the diamond and onyx heart inlay, to gently skim over it. She shivered. He had given the bed frame to her, and as much as she hated him, Syrin enjoyed the gifts she had been given.
Sy shook her head, and slid out of the bed. She quickly shimmied out of her pj's and into a pair of dark wash cargo jeans and a red camisole. She grabbed her cell phone, keys, wallet and her leather jacket. Locking the dorm room door, she skipped down the stairs and into the dorm garage. Taking the elastic off from around her wrist, she quickly put her hair up in a low, messy bun, before unlocking her tote, and grabbing her helmet.
"Hey baby." She smirked walking up to her custom motor cycle. There were a few guys in the garage, skippers and those that slept in like she did, that stared in wonder at the girl with the bike. Syrin rolled her eyes, and started her bike, slipping on her helmet. With am impressive, and slightly immature, burnout she was off and out of the garage, off of school grounds, and free.
Sy didn't pay any attention to where she was going. Although when she did stop, she was right outside where Putnam Barn once stood. She took off her helmet, and sighed. She may know much about how it burn down, but she did know that it was one of the few buildings left from the original pilgrims. Her heart ached at the loss of history.
A buzzing against her leg caught her attention. Undoing the snap on her calf pocket, she grabbed her cell phone and flipped it open, carelessly.
"Hullo?"
"Syrina-Anna. What do you have to say for yourself?" a mans voice growled on the other end.
"Vincent." Syrin muttered through clenched teeth. "What the hell do you want?"
"I want answers Syrina-Anna, before I have to go out and find you."
"Try! I dare you to come looking!" She closed her cell phone with an angry snap. "UHRG!" she groaned, leaning over her handle bars.
Her phone started to vibrate again.
Syrin looked at the caller ID, and her mood lifted.
"'Ello Reid." she said with a smile.
"Syrin, Where've you been? We missed you in class."
Syrin laughed. "I kinda slept in..."
"Well were are you now? We're in your dorm, and Temari's freaking out, because you're not."
"Just tell her I went for a ride, I'll be back at the dorm later."
Reid's muffled voice relayed the message to the group. Syrin giggled as she heard Temari freaking out.
"Give me that phone!" Temari screeched. "Sy get home now, or so help me I'll-"
"Vincent phoned me." Syrin interrupted calmly.
"..., what about?" She asked softly.
"He wants to know what I'm doing."
"What did you say?"
"I told him to come and find me, if he wanted to know."
Temari sighed. "You've done at least we'd have an advantage here... What song are you cooling off to?"
Syrin blinked. "Actually no song. When I saw Garwin's name on my caller ID, I just, felt better."
"No song? Well you're not using, so it has to be true. Wow, I'm impressed. Maybe this move was good for you."
Syrin rolled her eyes, then strained to hear the chatter in the background. "Whats going on over there?"
"Don't worry about that. Were are you?"
"The Putnam Barn. Well what's left of it."
Temari relayed that bit to the group. After some murmuring, Temari comes back on the phone. "We'll be there soon. Wait for us 'Rina." Temari hung up.
Syrin sighed, and leaned forward, over the handle bars. "uhrg." she groaned.
Syrin waited for half an hour. Just sitting in front of the burnt ruble, until she heard the soft rumbling of Tyler's Hummer. As she turned, she pulled the elastic out of her hair, allowing it to fall and float around her. She smiled at the group.
"Sy! Are you okay?" Temari asked getting out of the car and racing to Sy's side.
"hmm? Yeah, I'm fine." She winked.
"What made you stop here?" Caleb asked, as everyone exited the hummer.
"I dunno. It just felt like a good place to stop." Syrin shrugged.
The Sons of Ipswich exchanged a look with Sarah and Kate.
"What?" Syrin frowned at the boys.
"Nothing. Don't worry about it Syrin." Sarah smiled.
Temari and Syrin looked at each other in confusion. The twins stared at each other, then turned back to the group.
"What is it about this place? There is a ... power here." Syrin asked.
Temari nodded.
"What do you mean, power?" Pogue frowned.
Syrin sighed. "I'm sorry Tem, I can't keep pussy-footing this issue!"
"SY NO!"
Syrin closed her eyes, and flashed them open. They were as black as night. Syrin focused on Tylers Hummer. She lifted it straight up into the air, then set it gently back down.
Temari started to cry.
Syrin blinked and her eyes returned to their normal green. "That's what I mean by power."
The Sons of Ipswich looked at each other and slowly smiled. Reid broke out into a full force grin, and began to holler and laugh.
Temari turned to look at the guys in confusion. "why are you laughing?" she cried.
Syrin raised an eyebrow, "last time I told somebody that, they thought I was a witch and tried to burn me..."
"Don't you see how great this is?" Ried laughed, running up, and grabbing Syrin into a bear hug.
Syrin froze as he hugged her. "Reid what are you talking about?"
Tyler wiped the tears from Tema's cheeks. He closed his eyes along with closing his fist around them, he slowly opened his hand, revealing perfect cut diamonds. He opened his eyes and they were pitch black.
Temari gasped.
"We're the Sons of Ipswich. We're not sure why, but our families have always had power."
"Well we didn't. We just woke up just after midnight, and we both had these was three months ago." Temari said softly, as Tyler gently held her hand.
"Three months?" Caleb and Pogue shared a look.
"You two wouldn't be related to a Pope family would you?" Kate asked.
"Yeah, how'dcha know? The Popel's are a branch from the Popes." Syrin answered relaxing a bit to Reid.
"So when Chase died" Pogue started
"Since he didn't will anyone his power it went to who ever, in the bloodline, that could carry it." Caleb finished.
Temari and Syrin looked at each other. "Who was this Chase?" Sy asked.
"Chase Collins, or Pope, before he was adopted. He was a son of Ipswich, only we didn't know about him, until he came after Caleb's power." Reid answered.
"He was willing to kill any or all of us in order to become stronger." Tyler added.
"Like Vincent." Sy whispered.
"Vincent?" Kate asked.
"He was our care taker. He knew of old magics like this... magics that where almost destroyed during the Salem Witch Hunts. He was our guardian when our parents were away, when we were kids..." Temari's voice trailed off.
"Then when he found out about our powers, he tried to use us for his own selfish gains. He abused our trust." The last part of Sy's speech was for Temari's sake. "Every now and then he calls me to try and get me to help him out. I continually refuse, but he knows I'm growing impatient with his games, and annoyed and sooner or later I'll help him just to shut him up."
"Well take care of Vincent when we have to." Temari held a hand out to her sister.
Syrin took it and smiled, as she looked up at Reid. "Right."
"Come on, why don't we head back to the dorms." Caleb suggested, and recived curt nodds from everyone.
They put Sy's bike in the back. Kate sat on Pogues lap in the front seat, as Tyler drove. Sy sat on Reid's, Sarah on Caleb, and Temari sat in the middle of the back seat.
