He'd made his last minute decision for the showers, they'd be empty so he wouldn't have to deal with the line of girls he'd one-nighted that wanted to kick his ass or kill him. Whatever the case was none of that would come into play. His tongue darted out and wet his lips as he continued making his way to the showers donning nothing but a pair of boxers and the towel he planned to return to his room in. Though the closer he got the stranger and stronger the feel that someone was using though he couldn't pin point who.

Tyler was with Aislinn, Caleb with Zabrina. Both preoccupied with no reason to use and Pogue, well he didn't really use when he didn't have to or if he wasn't trying to get to the person he loved faster. Well, not without a little Reid encouraging. This didn't feel like any of them though, it felt...

Reid's thoughts were cut off when he opened the door to the showers and took a few steps in, the puddle of water that had started caused him to quirk a brow. The absence of the sound of water running concerned him as he took a slow look around trying to figure out who else was in there with him. He shrugged it off, maybe it was someone's strange version of a prank. It wasn't like stranger things hadn't happened at Spencer's before.

As he rounded a corner though he saw it. The full shower of water. Something lifeless at the bottom of it. A ghost that looked-

"Chase?" Reid's eyes turned black as he challenged the swirling smoke of a man, though when he disappeared and saw who was in the bottom of the shower Reid didn't hesitate in trying to get the door open. "Tsura!" Banging on the glass as if it was really going to help, glancing around trying to find something that would get him in there to her. "No-no-no! Hang on, Tsura! "

Looking around quickly he made sure that no one else was around before he slammed the pipe against the glass that had been left behind by one of the workers that had been trying to fix the piping for the sinks earlier. When it didn't work he kept at it finally just letting his eyes change as the pipe collided with the glass door, shattering it without much effort letting the water rush out and allowing him to finally get to the paled brunette that was laying lifeless at the bottom.

"Come on, Tsura," he murmured as he got a good hold on her lifting her up, carefully stepping over the shards of glass that had gone in all sorts of direction. "Don't you give up yet." Careful to lay her down on the floor on the other side of the shower sets, it'd be impossible for the glass to reach over there. Reid thought quick and took a deep breath as he made sure her head was tilted back and her airways clear before beginning CPR. Continuing on with it as he told her that he wasn't going to let her die, not for something they'd celebrated a win far too early it seemed.

When it didn't seem to work fast enough for him Reid let the fire dance over his eyes, her body lurching forward and Reid caught her in his arms as the water spilled from her lips. Her body weak but he was glad to see she was still alive. Holding her close and swept the damp hair from her face as he heard her mumble something that made no sense to him. "Chovexani." The repetition of it made him think there was something that she could tell him.

Like what Chase wanted with her.

"Let's get you to the nurse's." When he picked her up he could see her try to pull away from him.

"No-no-no nurses." He furrowed his brow as he stopped in the hallway and glanced down at her in confusion. "My-" She didn't even finish her sentence before she passed out, with a gentle shake of his head he headed toward her room for only a second then decided it'd be closer to take her to his own.

So Reid was being more than a bit out of character being too concerned for her, but there was just something about her...


Tsura was groggy, her throat felt like it was on fire and despite the heavy blanket that she was covered in she was freezing curling up under them more as a smell filled her senses that she knew wasn't from her bed. Coughing as she had tried to say something as she slowly sat up, her eyes still closed as she tried to make sure she wasn't going to throw up anything that would or could be in her stomach. Afraid to keep her eyes closed but too afraid to open them to find out where it is that she has landed herself this time, oh boy did she pray that it wasn't Aaron Abbott's dorm.

Groaning slightly her lids fluttered slightly before she landed on blond hair and sea blue eyes that had seemed to be staring awfully intently, something she wasn't sure if it was a good or bad thing. Sitting up she kept the blanket wrapped around her as she looked around the dorm and tried to collect what brain thought she could before she opened her mouth to speak. She just wasn't sure what it was or what he'd heard before she had ended up in, what she was assuming was, his dorm and slowly brought her gaze back to him.

"You're awake." She nodded slowly having decided she wasn't exactly sure how well it would bode for her with talking, her throat was sore and she wasn't fully positive that she would be able to get her voice to work anyways. "Uh, your roomie changed you." She furrowed her brow trying to figure out what it was that he was talking about before she pulled back the warm heavy fleece blanket noticing what it was that he was talking about.

"Thank you." Her voice barely a whisper as she bit her bottom lip and made an attempt to stand up, stumbling a few feet before catching herself on the other bed post.

Trying to keep herself standing as well as trying to steady herself, a pair of long arms catching her when she tripped over a few of the items scattered on the floor. Slightly confused as she stared up at the pair of cerulean blue orbs wondering how she hadn't noticed he was hiding something, what it was she couldn't tell but there was definitely something that she couldn't figure out. With the confusion still written on her face she tilted her head to the side and knew that she needed to know, though with everything that was going on she wasn't really sure she wanted to much less actually get the answer.

"What did you see?"


Reid was sure that he should be careful of just what answer he gave her for that question, it wasn't like the entire world knew about witches or magic... Really knew. No, Caleb was all ready going to be in a fowl mood when he was told that Chase Collins was haunting Spencer's, possibly even Aislinn's girlfriend. He'd leave that part out as she looked up at him with... Was that fear in her eyes?

Sitting her down on Tyler's bed before sitting on his own he took a deep breath and had made his decision. He'd leave Chase's smoky ghost out of it.

"Just you. You were at the bottom of the shower drowned." She looked confused, then again so was he. He didn't know how long she was down there, for all he knew she was supposed to have stayed dead. Considering that's how he had found her after Collins had disappeared and he'd managed to get to her. "What happened? Stratton, you need to tell someone."

He watched her carefully as she pulled her bottom lip in between her straight pearl white teeth. "Who's Luca and what's Chovexani mean?" That's when he saw her tense and that tension didn't go away as the time went on. In fact, he was sure that knowing she'd have to answer him made her tension worse than when it had started which tended to mean that she didn't want anyone to have heard either one of those two words. Watching her carefully he wished he could make whatever it was that she felt better than it seemed to be, the inside fury she had to deal with was probably a lot worse than she was letting show on her face. "Hey," the word a whisper as he moved to sit beside her and took her hand into his own as he kept his gaze locked with hers. "You can trust me, Tsura. I'm not here to harm you." At the end of his sentence he wanted to smile to reassure her that he wasn't there to harm her, but it didn't feel right and as the next few words slipped from her lips he knew he'd been right not to smile.

"Luca's my brother. It's a long complicated story that ends in the family exiling him, but-" He hadn't wanted to upset her as he heard as well as saw her choke on the last word she spoke, it just isn't what he had wanted when he had asked about Luca. Like him she had a secret and it was important to her as his was to him. His arms wrapped around her and he tried to remember the last time he'd comforted any female, REALLY comforted one. He only got his grandmother when his grandfather died, years before his name grew infamous in high school.

Glancing down at her he noticed the tears and instantly his tongue darted out to moisten his lips. "I get it." Even if he didn't know what it was he got it, she didn't want to talk about it and he wasn't going to make her. "Chovexani. Is that something you c-" He glanced down and blinked slowly, shaking his head at what he was seeing. He smiled as he stood, picking her up as he did so before moving toward his bed.

He'd taste a lie if he said he wasn't glad that she was comfortable enough to fall asleep on him, but he wasn't sure how that would come across as a compliment just yet. However, Chase being back Reid knew would be something she wouldn't know how to deal with. Least he could attempt to keep her safe tonight, it just wasn't in him to bring the others in and shove her away because he lied. Not when he was ending the night on such a positive note. Even if he wasn't going to be able to sleep tonight as he laid down net to the mocha skinned female he had rescued.

First time for everything.