A/N: I don't own The Covenant in any way shape or form, which makes me very sad. I do, however, own Kathryn, Killian, some of the family history, and other various things.

The characters of Kathryn and Killian are inspired by two of my all time favorite characters: Kathryn of Cruel Intentions and Faith of Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series. Magical references belong to Aaron Spelling's Charmed. I own none of those either. Also, for images of the characters, check my profile for the link to my Photobucket.

I don't own some of this chapter. About half of it belongs to the creators of Cruel Intentions 2. This is just for the classroom scene. The rest is all mine. Actually, this same discussion happened to me at Towson University. My friends and I weren't acting it out or anything, it just sort of happened, and I just happened to be in Sebastian/Kathryn's position of the argument. The second argument (which I won't spoil here) is one I took from my own classroom (because my friend is bipolar and when she gets dumped, she gets depressed, and it worms into the rest of her life for about a week).

Chapter 7: The Intellectual and the Broken

"Right! Sparing me the Cliff Notes synopsis, who can tell me what this," Professor Hoffman said loudly as he held up a book, Jekyll and Hyde, "means?" He stood in front of his desk, looking around at his students and waited. His patience was starting to run thin and was about to call on someone when Aaron Abbot raised his hand. "Mr. Abbot."

"Henry Jekyll was this crazy doctor, and he developed this potion that transformed him into Edward Hyde, his evil side," he answered, trying to sound scary.

"My God," Hoffman said in amazement, walking up the steps to stand next to Aaron, "did that answer suck!"

The whole class immediately began to chuckle, both shocked and amused at the old teacher. Aaron frowned and began to scowl at his desktop as Hoffman walked back down to his desk.

"Come on! You're seniors now! I know you've got it in you! What themes can be discussed here?" Hoffman turned his back on the class and smiled, knowing full well that one student had just raised his hand. "Mr. Danvers."

"I think Stevenson is talking about the duality of man," Caleb answered. He, and his brothers, knew better than anyone the duality of man. He supposed that was why the current novel of choice hit so close to home for him. "That man has both good and evil in him, and if man can't suppress his evil instincts, then he's inevitably doomed."

"WRONG," a female student called out from the back, sounding very bored. Everyone turned to look at the source of the noise and saw Kathryn.

"Care to elaborate on that, Ms. Warren," Hoffman asked.

"Nowhere in the novel does Stevenson mention good over evil," she said, looking down over two rows at Caleb. "In fact, it's just the opposite. Jekyll loved Hyde so much that he protected him from the cruelties of man, not to mention all of the outside world."

"He protected Hyde so he wouldn't hurt people," Caleb countered calmly and logically, a bit confused by her logic.

"Oh, please! That's such a cop out," she scoffed. "He loved hurting people!"

"No, he didn't," he shouted, turning to face her fully in annoyance. Beside him, Pogue quirked an eyebrow in fascination. "When Hyde took over, Jekyll was forced to do evil, to kill all those people! Besides, if you believe Jekyll was protecting Hyde, he was only protecting him because he was a monster, and wasn't protecting Hyde at all! He was protecting others and himself from Hyde!"

"You're wrong," she argued back. "Jekyll clearly loved Hyde, despite all the bad that he did!"

"Then what about the ending," he asked her smartly; smirking at how he thought he'd caught her.

"What about it," she questioned confusedly.

"If Jekyll loved Hyde as much as you say, why did he kill himself," he asked.

"Where does it say that," she asked dumbly, smirking a bit as she shook her head at him.

"In the end," he shouted at her in frustration. "Jekyll killed himself to protect others from Hyde, not the other way around. Utterson found his body."

"Utterson was idiotic," she scoffed as she leaned back in her chair.

"Your point is idiotic," he countered, and Kathryn's eyes widened at him, smirking.

"All right, all right! Break it up, you two," Hoffman shouted with a laugh. Caleb took this time to turn away from Kathryn, smirking to himself. "Wow! Am I losing my mind, or did we just witness an intellectual debate in this classroom?"

How Hoffman made the class laugh twice in one day was amazing.

"Although I disagree with your conclusions, Ms. Warren, I do appreciate your warped point of view. Good insights and…an interesting theory." Kathryn nodded, shrugging without a care, and Caleb looked over his shoulder to smirk at her. "As for you, Mr. Danvers," he continued, and Caleb looked back at him, "I think you could stand to be a little more open-minded and tolerant of other people's opinions," he stated, and Caleb frowned a bit. Behind him, Kathryn smiled triumphantly.

"Moving on to another tragedy, but on a lighter note, Romeo and Juliet! Why are we so moved by love that ends in separation? Ms. Tunney?"

"I don't know that I believe in it," Kate replied sullenly, not looking up from her notebook.

""Believe in" what," Hoffman asked confusedly.

"Love," she stated simply, looking up at him briefly.

"Well, then you've got bigger problems then passing this class," he told her, and the class laughed yet again. Caleb looked at Pogue curiously, who ignored him to look at his girlfriend in confusion, but she was avoiding his eyes. "Do you think that all love stories are tragedies? Unless they die at the same time, all lovers truly are tragedies because, in the end, they always die. Is this true or not?"

"Then Romeo and Juliet isn't really a tragedy since death was the only way they could be together," Pogue stated uncertainly.

"YES," Hoffman shouted in praise. "A true romantic! How refreshing! Thank you, Mr. Parry. Class dismissed," he called out as the bell rang, and the students immediately started to pack up their things.

Pogue tried to hurry to catch Kate before she left, but she was already out the door before he was even finished putting his stuff together. Sighing heavily, he started to shove his books into his pack angrily. Caleb was about to ask him what was going on when he saw Kathryn walk down the steps and stand next to him. She was smiling down at him, and he couldn't help but smile up at her.

"No hard feelings," she asked, biting her lip and holding out a hand for him to shake.

"Yeah, sure. It was just a debate, right? Disagreements are supposed to happen," he stated, shaking her hand.

"Listen," she began hesitantly, "I was wondering if you maybe wanted to get together and debate over the finer points of our assigned novels. Maybe some other books?"

"I really only read what the school assigns. Sorry," he apologized. "And, besides, I'm busy with practice after school and other stuff tonight."

"Some other time," she asked with a shrug, and he nodded at her with a smile.

"Definitely," he replied. "By the way, how did your tryouts go?"

"I only made the varsity diving team, but it's better than nothing," she told him excitedly, and he smiled even wider.

"Congratulations! I guess I'll be seeing you around, then."

"You, too," she said and smiled once more before walking out of class.

"What is going on with you, Caleb," Pogue asked curiously, leaning over to him. "First, you don't trust her. Now, you're making friends and flirting with her."

"I'm not flirting," he retorted firmly.

"You're definitely flirting," he stated. "Geez, do you always have to fall for the new girl?"

"Don't start," he demanded, but Pogue just laughed at him. "So what's going on with you and Kate," he asked, quickly changing the subject and stopping his friend's laughter. "You seemed fine last night when I left with Kathryn."

"That's the problem. She won't talk to me. She won't return my phone calls. I don't know what the hell is wrong with her!"

"Maybe she's found someone else and this is her subtle way of telling you to go fuck yourself," Reid suggested from behind them, Tyler standing next to him. The entire classroom was empty now, except for them.

"Stuff it, Reid," Pogue growled, pushing past them. "I'll see you clowns later. I gotta find Kate."

"It was just a joke," he called after him laughingly.

"We know that and so does Pogue, but it wasn't too funny. You know how protective he is of her," Tyler scolded.

"Yeah, over protective," he retorted and the three started to leave the room. "He's more like her overbearing father than her boyfriend sometimes if you ask me."

"Well, then it's a good thing no one asked you," Caleb retorted smartly, scowling at the younger man. "Let's go. We got practice."

A/N: I know that the book topic jump was a little awkward, but that's how it happens in my British Literature class. As I said before, the Romeo and Juliet part of this chapter was taken from my real life. The argument that happened before it, in my class, was actually on Frankenstein and was very similar to the Jekyll/Hyde argument.

P.S.: Four pages total.