So this is chapter seven. Of course I'm sure you guys already knew that.

Anyways…So, right now I want to give a shout out to sch.94 and xXShe-WolfXOXO. Because you guys like Supernatural. That makes you awesome in my book. Haha.

And I know the end of the last chapter was probably a little confusing, but everything will be explained in this chapter. Or at least I'll try to explain everything. As to how successful I am with that, well I'm leaving that up to you guys.

And I lied to you burning. I'm sorry. I said I would have this up Saturday night. But I do have a good reason why it wasn't updated then. I had a rabbit show and I didn't get home until like nine o'clock. Then I had to put twenty one rabbits away in the rain. And then feed, hay and water all one hundred of them by myself. Still in the rain. I didn't finish until almost midnight. And then Sunday I had to clean their cages. And once I was done cleaning I ate dinner, then I had to feed them all, by myself, again. It sounds like a lame excuse but it's all true. So it's like four thirty a.m. right now and the chapter is finally up after such an extremely long wait. Haha.

Anyways…let me stop babbling.

This is more stuff about Mandy. Hopefully it makes sense. I'm sorry I'm kind of straying away from Darkest Powers stuff right now. But Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I had a dream last night. I was talking to some people, and a really rude guy came up to me and yelled at me saying I didn't own Darkest Powers. But I also had a dream Friday night where one of my rabbits, Moon, was swimming in a pool of raisins. So my dreams are full of crap.

(One of those dreams is actually real.)

The River- Good Charlotte

I've seen enough now

to know that beautiful things

don't always stay that way

I've done enough now

to know this beautiful place

isn't everything they say

The "New"Safe House

Chloe POV

After an extra hour of driving on numerous back roads, Mandy turned off onto a long dirt road leading to large two story house that was pretty much in the middle of no where.

I slid out of the backseat at the same time Andrew pulled up behind us.

"Where are we now?" I asked, slamming the door closed.

"My sister's house." Mandy said.

"It doesn't look like anyone's home." Derek said from behind me. I jumped. I don't know why, but something about the house scared me. Maybe I was just paranoid, but whatever the reason, Derek's voice scared me.

"Sorry." Derek whispered, taking my hand.

"That's because there isn't anyone home. My sister is in Hawaii with her husband right now, for their honeymoon."

"And you're sure we can stay here?" Derek asked

"Yep. She doesn't care. And there's plenty of room for everyone here." she said smiling and flipping through the keys on her key ring.

"How many rooms are there?" Tori asked

"Eight. I think. Don't ask why there's so many though. Not even anyone in our family knows the real reason why she bought such a huge place."

For the next twenty minutes everyone but Mandy was choosing rooms to sleep in. She was going to sleep in her sister, Chrissie's room. All of the bedrooms were upstairs except for one. There are two beds in that room and one bedroom upstairs also had two beds. All the others only had one. Gear took the room across the hall from Mandy. David took the room on the right of David's and Andrew took the room on the left of Gear's. Tori's room was to the left of Mandy's and Simon's was to the right. Jesse and Tia were in the room upstairs that had two beds and Derek and I chose to be downstairs.

Mandy walked into the room Derek and I shared. "Are you guys hungry?" she asked.

"Starving." Derek said.

It makes sense that he's so hungry though. We didn't get to eat breakfast and we had a three hour drive with no stopping for anything. Not even gasoline, it's a good thing she had a full tank when we left.

"Yeah, I'm hungry too."

She smiled. "I figured as much. So, I already have lunch ready. Since you guys took so long picking out rooms, I had time to fix lunch for all of us."

"Great." Derek said brushing past Mandy and heading for the kitchen.

"Man, he is starving." she said coming over to sit next to me on the third new bed I've had in the past couple of weeks. "But that's to be expected."

"Yeah"

"Are you going to eat too?"

"Yeah. I'll go out in a minute and get some food. I'll let Derek get what he wants first."

Mandy laughed.

"So you're sure your sister won't mind us staying here for now?" I asked.

"She's fine with it. I called and asked."

"Oh. Okay." I sighed. "Do you really not know why her house has so many rooms? It seems odd that there's eight bedrooms and only two people living here."

"I'm not really sure why but our brother used to say she bought such a large place for situations like this." she slid back on the bed and sat Indian style. "Apparently it's just another safe place to be."

"You have a brother too?"

"Yeah."

"How many siblings do you have?"

"Just the two. Chrissie and Steven. And I've got five cousins."

"Five? Wow."

"Yeah. I actually met Gear through one of them."

"Oh." I didn't really know what to say other than that. I don't really want to be really nosey and ask tons of questions incase she doesn't really want to talk about it or something like that.

"And about the whole thing in the truck earlier, I didn't really mean for you guys to hear that. Not that it's super personal or anything but David takes a lot of things personally and he can be a jerk when someone brings up one of those things."

"It's okay. So what exactly happened in that situation?" I couldn't help it, I was curious. And it didn't seem like she didn't want to talk about this, which made me feel a little better about asking.

She laughed. "My cousin told me that Gear liked me. I always thought that that was why he didn't want David to meet me. He was afraid David would think of me in the same way."

"But he didn't."

"Nope. David's always thought of me as his sister, even when he first met me. I was like the sister he never had."

"That's cute."

"Yeah."

"How does Gear think of you?"

"Honestly." she sighed. "I have no idea. I know he used to like me but I'm not sure he still does."

"Why?" Maybe she doesn't notice the looks he gives her. I figured out what the look that passed between them earlier was while we were in the car. He loves her so much. And she loves him too.

"He just treats me differently than he used to."

"Oh. I'm sorry." My stomach growled, reminding me that I really needed some food. "And I'm sorry but I need to go get something to eat."

Mandy laughed. "It's fine, you need to eat. Make sure everyone behaves out there."

I looked at her with a confused look on my face. "Aren't you coming out to the kitchen?"

"Not right now. I need to go talk to Andrew first."

"Okay."

I jumped off my bed and headed off to the kitchen. But I'd only taken five steps before I started to hear murmured whispers. You know, like the ones in scary movies.

Another three steps.

I heard what sounded like someone dragging their nails across the wall on my right. "Hello, little necro girl."

Now I know why I felt so paranoid.

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I hope this cleared things up for people. And if it didn't then I apologize. I can't do any better.

I have another idea for a story. But I'm not going to post anything for it until I get more chapters up for two of my stories and complete the other one. But I was thinking of it being something like this…Derek and Simon are new to a school Chloe is going to. They still end up telling Chloe what she is and stuff happens. I was thinking of making it a one-shot but I've got ideas that would make that story being a one-shot impossibly long. I'm still working on details for it, but whatever. Anyways…

Does anyone know what the Landon House looks like? It's in Maryland. (If you don't know and you're curious, Google it. Duh.) I kind of mixed that with some house I saw last weekend in North Carolina to make Chrissie's house.

Thanks for reading. Review? Maybe…And could I get more than five, please? I only got five for the last chapter. It makes me feel bad that there aren't that many reviews for it. It makes me feel like my chapter wasn't worth your time. And that makes me sad, and it makes me not want to write anything else for the story.