A/N: Sorry for any confusion in the last chapter, Colin did not enter the women's bathroom, he was on the outside and called into it. But thank you for the reviews! Keep reading and reviewing! ^_^
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That was when Alex heard George waking up. She wasn't puzzled by his sudden awareness, and he too looked down at his hands.
"Why do my hands read 'I am going to crash'?" he asked with his voice cracking.
"Look at Colin's hands," Alex said slowly, proud that she had figured out what both of their hands had read.
"You're going to crash the plane?" Colin asked suddenly.
"No, Haircoff was," Alex said shortly. She wasn't enjoying the descend of the plane.
"We will be landing soon," she heard one of the other stewardesses voice call out.
"What happened?" George asked. Alex could hear the half hangover in his system.
"You two were given booze," Alex answered flatly. She could feel the blood rushing to her head.
"What?!" they both said at the same time.
"Was it your plan to give us booze?" Colin asked half annoyed.
"Not at all," Alex said even slower. She was trying to figure out why Colin wasn't asking if she was okay. She felt her eyes start to close and she could feel herself drifting off.
"What happened?!" George asked even more annoyed than Colin himself.
"I couldn't even tell you," Colin said to him also annoyed, "care to explain, honey?"
"You two were given booze as I was sleeping, I thought you two woke up and saw me sleeping," Alex said. The rush to her head was getting worse. Her ears were pounding. She could feel herself drifting.
"No, I never woke up," George said stiffly. "What about you Col?"
"No," Colin said shortly. Alex could tell he wasn't even looking at her as she started to pass out. She couldn't feel him anywhere near her even though he was right next to her.
"I should be able to feel his body heat," she thought to herself. Her mind though was answering back.
"Now isn't this an amazing high?" that was all Alex heard. She didn't know how to respond. What had happened when she was in the pilot's cabin? "Don't fight it, Alex, it will help!" she could hear Haircoff laughing inside her head.
"You should have told us before," she heard George say. It sounded much more fait than it really was. He was so close to her; and so was he.
"Don't fight it! Let it take you! It's not going to kill you! It will help!" She wanted to scream out, but she couldn't make a sound, her voice seemed to be gone. She felt eyes looking at her, but she couldn't make out whose. She knew someone was watching her. But who?
"Alex?" she heard the fait sound of Colin's voice. He finally realized what was happening, but she knew he was too late. Alex shook out of it her eyes shooting open and gasped. "ALEX!" she heard Colin call as she was hyperventilating.
"AHHHHHH!" was all she could say. Then she all she could see was black.
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Alex saw white, and then nothing. She could hear Colin's voice in panic. And then she saw white again. It was gone in an instant again. Then she heard a male voice that she didn't know. White came again, and was instantly gone again. And then Alex heard beeping. She realized she had just had a flash back. And now she was irritated. She didn't know where she was.
She felt her eyes slowly open, and she felt warmness next to her. She felt a pillow under her head, and she could tell she was laying on a bed. She saw white when her eyes fully opened, and she became worried she could no longer see. But it came to her that her eyes were just sensitive to the light. She quickly closed them since the light hurt, and she winced.
Then she felt the warmness next to her move, and then heard a familiar voice. "Alex? Are you up?" he said softly. Alex slowly opened her eyes. And there was Colin now standing over her. His eyes had black circles around them, and Alex could tell he had not slept well since they landed. She could also tell that he had got off the bed very fast when she woke up. She slightly smiled, realize that maneuver hurt as well. She winced again.
"Col-" was all she could make out at first. Her voice cracked as she said it though, and she shamefully closed her mouth.
"Honey, it's okay. Don't use your voice. You don't want to mess it up more," Colin said softly.
"How long have I been here?" Alex asked straining herself.
Colin looked at her very disappointed and sighed. He then answered, "Six days." Alex's eyes went wide. She couldn't believe how much time she missed. "I thought you were dead on the plane," Colin said, Alex could tell his voice was trailing off as he said this. She could see now that his eyes themselves were red, and he obviously had been crying.
"I'm sorry," Alex said softly only hearing the dead part.
"No, no. Please? It's not your fault. Okay? Please don't blame yourself for this one. I should have stopped nagging on the plane. Both George and I should have. I'm sorry," he said seriously, and at that he got up from the chair right next to her bed that Alex now realized he had been sitting in, and hugged her as close as he could.
"What happened," Alex started softly, "after I passed out?"
"I pretty much started freaking out. George kept his composure, and made sure I got off of you as fast as possible. He pretty much ripped me off of you since I was now crying my eyes out and holding your body as close to mine as I possibly could. The plane landed only two minutes after that and you were rushed here to the hospital. They scanned your brainwaves, the opened up your head, and the whole time, your eyes were wide open," he had started to cry again. The tears were rolling down his face but Alex could see that he was trying his best to keep his composure. "It made it all more terrible because of that. I would lay next to you on this bed waiting for you to wake up, and I would just be looking at you, and your eyes, and you could tell they were empty."
Alex pulled him back into hugging her, "I'm okay now."
"That's what you think," Colin said as he kissed her forehead.
"What do you mean?" she asked confused.
"They're not going to let you out until they do more tests. But you don't even know how happy I am to hear your voice again," Colin said and he hugged her once more. "It has been hard too..." he said as his voice trailed off.
Alex just looked at him confused, "What do you mean?"
"I have sat here so close to you, and I have watched you in your most vulnerable moments, and the whole time, I just wanted to be able to kiss you and make everything better. But I don't have the ability to do that. George only left moments before you woke up, to go get me food. He has been sitting in this room watching me making sure I wouldn't do anything to you," Colin shamefully answered.
Alex pulled Colin back down to her perspective where his face was even with her own, and she could feel he wasn't pulling back, "Well, now you can kiss me."
Alex could feel him looking into her now living eyes, and she was looking back up into his. He climbed onto the bed, and had his hands around her waist. And Alex looked up as he was on top of her. And Alex took her arms and wrapped them around his neck. His legs were spread on either side of her own and his whole body covered hers. He put no pressure on her and Alex was still watching his eyes. His eyes drifted slowly watching hers, and then he leaned down and kissed her. She felt him pull away, and she knew that was the right thing to do but it wasn't what she wanted. She pulled him back to her and kissed him hard. He tasted sweet to her, a familiar taste, something she knew. Then it came to her, Skittles. And she now realized as she could taste his warm mouth that her own was cold as stone.
She felt his hand run down her back to the point where it was then resting under her butt. She didn't flinch, or protest. She felt his other hand follow it, and she went to move her legs when she realized she couldn't feel them. She broke their kiss then, realizing how much they both wanted each other. And to some extent she knew she should fear this. Colin looked down back into her eyes, "What's wrong?" and she knew his question wasn't to the fact that she just stopped the amazing kiss that they were having.
"I can't move my legs," Alex said slowly still in shock that she can't.
"They heavily drugged you," Colin said calmly, "and you do know I wasn't going to do anything else but kiss you right here...right?" making it clear they weren't going to do anything bad in the hospital.
"Of course. But I felt the need to move them, but I can't," Alex partly lied, she did want more, but she knew he was right.
Colin hugged her close again, and got off the bed, Alex knew he had picked up the lie in her voice, "A lot happened on that plane." She heard his voice trail off as he said this, and she didn't like the sound of where it was going. She felt him lift under her body, and he moved her closer to the one edge of the bed, and placed her on her side. Her I.V. stayed facing up, and that was the first time it occurred to her that she even had one. Colin got on the bed next to her, and was on his own side facing her. This was they were at eye level. "They told me to not become too hopeful," he finally said when he relaxed laying there.
"What do you mean?" Alex asked confused now realizing how much she had missed.
"They told me you weren't going to wake up. For a long time," Colin said this as Alex frowned, "they told George and I to head home. And that you were nothing more than a lost hope."
"But you stayed?" Alex asked with wide eyes of hope.
"George and I knew you would come around...eventually. We just didn't expect it to be this fast," Colin answered as he rolled over onto his back. Alex slide as much of her body as she could to be resting on his.
"How bad is it?" Alex asked softly, hoping that he hadn't heard her stupid question.
"Your injuries?" Colin questioned her with a sigh. Alex just nodded into his chest, she couldn't feel the tears coming just yet. "Actually, not bad. They just believe that a demon took you over."
"Well..." Alex said slowly as the memories started to pour back in. "Don't fight it Alex," rang in her head. She could hear his voice again.
"Alex...if something happened on that plane that we don't know about," Alex knew this wasn't Colin. George had just walked into the room again.
"GEORGE!" She called out relieved to finally see her best friend. George walked over and hugged her as she rolled off Colin.
"You should get off the bed buddy," George said to Colin. Alex could tell Colin was ignoring him, but he did it anyway. She rested herself back on the bed with no one to keep her warm.
George handed Colin a gatorade and a bag of chips. "Thanks dude," was all that came out of Colin's mouth before he started inhaling the food.
"He hasn't eaten very much in the past week," George whispered to Alex so that Colin wouldn't hear, "He's been too worried to even think straight. It has been really bad."
"You two stayed in the hospital?" Alex asked now realizing it never came up.
"Haven't left once," George said proudly, but Alex could also hear how tired he truly was. "We didn't know where Harper lived so we saw no point in finding it. And Colin didn't want to leave your side. I've had to push him out of the room and lock the door just for him to leave you."
Alex smiled at this. She watched as Colin took in as much food as he possibly could. She could tell that the worry in his eyes was starting to fade.
"How much did I miss though?" George asked suddenly.
"Stuff you don't like watching..." Alex said quickly. She found herself looking at Colin's eyes again, and she watched as he winked at her, and all she could do was smile.
"Nothing bad? Really, really bad? Right?" George asked.
"Your like our guardian," Alex laughed out, "No, nothing bad. Just making out."
"Good, we don't need doctors walking in here wondering what the hell the two of you are doing," George answered back shortly.
"Hello, Dr. Reid at your service," Alex watched as a lean man walked into the room, with light blonde choppy hair and thin limbs. He was a young doctor, she could tell that much, and he gave off and ora like no other. Something that made you feel safe, and well protected, and Alex knew right then she knew this voice already, from somewhere else. "I see our patient has woken up. How are you feeling?"
Alex then realized he was talking to her, "Oh...uh...pretty well. More of confused. How come I can't move or feel my legs?"
"You have been heavily drugged to save you the agony of pain," Dr. Reid said.
"Told you," Colin said with a mouthful of chips.
"What happened?" Alex asked still confused.
"When you passed out, honey, on the plane, you feel off your seat since we were landing, and even though I buckled you, which I swear I did, it came undone, and you scraped them up on the bottle that had the booze in it that was given to George and I, which it somehow broke broke before that, leaving you with some beautiful gashes on your beautiful legs," Alex watched as Colin said this for when he said her legs his words trailed off and he was into a day dream.
"That is pretty much what happened. The injuries were much worse that it may seem. They were very much more deep then you would ever think coming from broken glass. Nothing like what I have ever seen. But, I believe they have healed enough where we can take you off the medication and you can be released," Dr. Reid finished off.
"Really?" Alex and George said at the same time, Alex could tell that Colin was still day dreaming.
"Yes, now let me see," Dr. Reid started. He took Alex's blanket off of her legs and she instantly felt the chill of the air on her waist, but no where else. She looked down at her own legs, and they were scrapped from ankle to thigh, and she sighed at once.
"Hey, it's not that bad," George protested, "You could have died!"
"Oh, very supportive!" Alex shot back.
"I'm just saying, it could have been worse," George finished off.
"So how does it look Dr. Reid?" Colin asked as he came out of the day dream.
"You can be checked out tonight. And you will be able to walk. Now, I only say tonight because of how strong the drugs are. They should be out of your heathy system by 5 p.m. and right now, as I check the time, it is, 2 o'clock a.m.. You should get some rest to, all of you," he said this as he looked around the room of three teenagers who all looked exhausted.
George nodded and he sat down in the chair near the window as Dr. Reid left. Colin walked back over and lifted Alex to her to the side. He then hopped back in the bed, laying down right next to her on his back. She rolled her body next to his, putting her arm over his chest and feeling his arm behind her back and felt her eyes drift off into a peaceful sleep.
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"Alex," Alex shook her head, "Wake up." The ringing was in her ears. She knew the voice but she didn't want to get up. She could still feel Colin's warm body under her own and it was the only body heat she had.
"How can one body be so warm?" she asked herself.
"Maybe I should wake you up for you to find out," she heard the voice say.
"Colin, love, I'm still sleeping," she felt herself say. But she heard it echo. And that was when her eyes shot open.
She wasn't laying in the hospital bed anymore, she was on a rock, in the middle of a lava river.
"Hello there," she heard from a above her. That was when she realized she was laying down on the rock.
"What...?" Alex said confused. She sat up, and say Haircoff above her.
"Happy yet that I gave you the drugs?" he asked slightly.
"What do you mean? Dr. Reid fed them to me!" Alex said annoyed.
"When you got to the hospital he drained my drugs out of your system. And fed you his own," he answered. Alex could see the fire in his eyes.
"What do you want with me?" Alex asked, and then finished it off, "other than me dead."
"Nothing really," he answered slowly. He looked at her and then finished, "I want you to be gone for telling people our secret!"
Alex heard his voice echo in the air, "Well, then you're too late. Since I already let it out."
"Not necessarily. I can get rid of them too," he said. That was when Alex saw the hospital room. Her body was laying there, and Colin's head was in her hair. He moved his arm as he was still asleep to pull her closer to him. The image then quickly disappeared and went to George. He was laying in the bed meant for guest. Alex guessed that he had moved after she fell asleep. His foot was shaking, but at the same time Alex knew how peaceful that room was.
"You can't enter the hospital can you?" Alex asked shortly trying not to cry.
"Of course I can't," he answered.
"Well, then I'm glad you can't," Alex shot back, "BECAUSE YOU CAN NEVER TOUCH THEM!"
"Oh, don't be so sure you whore. Once you leave the hospital, the city will fall apart!" he laughed back.
"Don't lay a hand on them!" Alex called out, but it was hopeless. Haircoff just laughed and she watched as everything around her went black once more.
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Alex jumped awake, and Colin was up with her in and instant. She was hyperventilating, and Colin was trying to get her to relax.
"George! Get up!" Colin called out. George jumped awake, and was at her other side in an second.
"Alex," George said softly.
"Honey," Colin cried, "Honey, you have to relax." Alex was still hyperventilating, there was nothing she could do about it, she was so worried.
"What's going on?" Dr. Reid walked through the door. That was when Alex heard the slight beeping of her monitor, but no other alarms.
"I don't...even...know," Colin answered for George whose mouth was wide open. Alex could hear the worry coming back into his voice.
"He's back," came out of Alex's mouth. She couldn't believe that it was finally true. "He came back to get me!" Alex said this loudly, and Colin's mouth dropped. George quickly got up and dragged Colin off of Alex's side. Dr. Reid rushed to Alex's side and started checking everything he could.
"NURSE! GET IN HERE!" Dr. Reid called out.
Alex pulled her legs up to her chest. She started rocking herself, "He used me!" She muttered under her breath, but she knew it was loud enough for everyone to hear. That was when she watched George drag Colin out of the room. She felt a tear fall down her face and now she knew that she had truly hurt him.
The nurse rushed into the room asking the repeated question Alex had heard in the past few minutes, "What's going on?"
"We need to get a priest in here," Dr. Reid answered, "It's not looking good."
The nurse cringed her face since none of it made sense to her, "She looks perfectly alive to me."
Alex realized at that moment she was still rocking. She then heard Dr. Reid's loud voice answer very disappointed by his assistant, "Just do it."
Alex rocked herself back and forth, "He's coming. He's going to take us all down with him." she muttered. And somehow she knew Dr. Reid understood everything that was happening. She looked up into the eyes of her doctor, she now saw that they were a light brown, more like amber, now wondering why she recognized the voice in the first place. Dr. Reid looked down at her, seeing that she was starting to understand everything that had happened.
"You know me," he said softly. Low enough for only her to hear.
"How?" she asked at the same audio level.
"I'm the same as you, that's how you know me," he answered trying to not give to much away.
"What?" Alex asked still confused. The nurse finally left the room, realizing that Dr. Reid was serious.
Dr. Reid shook his head and hissed, "Different."
"But I can tell that you don't have any magical powers, I would feel them," she said yet again very softly. At that she realized that he was far enough away from her where he shouldn't be able to hear her but he could.
"Don't be so fooled," he answered with the said whisper as hers.
"But your not, wizard," she said softly knowing he wouldn't be shocked by these words.
"That's because I'm not," he answered.
Alex now cringed her face up, "What?"
"I'm not wizard, but I do have my own powers," he said softly.
"Like what?" she asked now wanting the full story.
"You said he's coming back. Who do you mean?" Dr. Reid asked.
"Who do you think I mean?" Alex asked flatly and now partly annoyed since he had avoided her question all together.
"Haircoff. But he wouldn't stoop as low to get down here," Dr. Reid answered.
"Try again," Alex answered still pissed off.
"So Colin and George have no powers?" Dr. Reid asked.
"You can't smell it?" she asked now confused herself.
"I said I'm not wizard like you right? I don't have the ability to smell powers," Dr. Reid answered as he was still trying to make it look like he was trying to figure out what had gone wrong.
"Right, right," Alex said.
"Then why haven't you told me my powers?" Dr. Reid asked confused, "You keep asking."
"I'm not strong enough doctor!" she said partly annoyed.
"Touché," he answered. Alex didn't enjoy that remark. "So you were taken over by a demon, just like I had said before." Dr. Reid smiled at this.
"Well, duh, I guess," Alex answered not sure it that was what had happened.
"Haircoff took you over and on the plane didn't he?" Dr. Reid asked now understanding.
"Yes, and that was why I passed out. He gave me some sort of drug that took me over," Alex started.
"That much I know. I found it in you, you're very lucky you were given to me right off the back. Any other doctor would have been surprised to see that you were still alive. That was how I knew what you were," Dr. Reid answered.
"Then I am lucky," Alex answered shortly. She was starting to relax, "Now, what are you?"
Dr. Reid placed his hand on her arm. She now felt how cold he was. She looked back at his eyes. They were still the amber that they were earlier. Then he sighed, "My first name's Patrick. But only call me Reid. I hate my parents for naming me Patrick."
"You're..." Alex said slowly, she was stunned she never thought that she would ever meet one.
"You're lucky you're a wizard. Or I would have had to fix your illness a different way," he said shortly.
"You're," Alex was still shocked, never did it cross her mind until now. She thought it wouldn't be until her second life until she met one.
"Colin and George would have been very disappointed. Colin would have begged for himself to become what I would have made you, I can tell you this much, he adores you very much," Reid answered just watching Alex.
"You're," Alex started once more, "a vampire."
"Yes. And you are a wizard," Reid said with a laugh.
Alex reached out and touched his face, it was cold, like his hands, "I never thought I would meet one."
"Well, you have," Reid answered. He pulled away, and opened the door. Colin came rushing back in, and hugged Alex as close to his body as he could. Alex could finally feel how protective Colin truly was of her, thinking about what Reid had said. George slowly walked in behind him.
"Do they know?" Alex asked. Colin and George both looked at Reid.
"If you want them to know," Reid answered.
"But, isn't that up to you?" she asked.
"You trust them don't you? And I trust you as a wizard for that one," Colin and George both jumped when he so easily said wizard.
Alex cleared it up for them. She shut the door as well, without getting up. None of them jumped at this, "Reid here, is a vampire." She watched as the color drained from both Colin and George's faces.
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That was when Alex explained everything. And even though Colin and George should have been more shocked than they gave off, Alex could tell that this was real. And that this was no longer a shock to them.
"You all need to get out of the hospital though," Reid answered.
"Why?" George asked, "Haircoff, said he was going to drive the city insane!"
"We need that to happen," Reid said.
"Why?" Colin now asked.
"We need that to happen," Reid shortly answered, "Alex, you are also in enough health to leave, remember though, waking up is always the hardest part, if you need anything, you know how to find me."
George and Colin were still stunned but they took it as best they could, and Alex smiled. She was going to be able to get out of the hospital and fix the now caused problem. The hospital that she had now been in for a week.
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A/N #2: The Dr. Reid in this story is not to be confused with Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds. Sorry if that happened, I seem to just enjoy using his last name. I guess you could say this chapter is also part crossover with Twilight...but it is really only slight, and I don't really count it since it's not the same characters. Vampires only come up a little bit though.
Disclaimer-I don't own Wizards of Waverly Place, Twilight, or Criminal Minds