Disclaimer: These characters do not belong to me, they belong to the movie The Covenant.

I sighed in relief as I rubbed the mixture of herbs onto my wounds. Using that and a bit of magic they sealed themselves and were nothing but scars. Caleb, Pogue, Tyler and Reid sat on the vintage sofa at Caleb's mansion. Reid hasn't talked to me since I had told him who my brother was. I wasn't aware of the impact Chase had made on the four of them until Caleb had just finished telling me.

Go figure that my own blood would be as ignorant and power hungry; he even used one of Jonah's techniques, use a loved one against them.

"Jonah will play cat and mouse until someone's dead," I told them, "He feeds off of it. Jonah is like Chases role model…"

Caleb rubbed in between his eyes, and it was very clear they were all stressed. I guess I would be too if I just found out that the guy that tried to kill me and hurt my friends was actually alive and getting help from someone more sadistic.

"We need to stop him with whatever he's helping Chase with."

"I'll know what they're up to by tomorrow."

"You're not actually going with him are you?" Tyler asked.

"If I don't he will go after you guys…you don't have to get involved in any of this. I think I might be able to get Jonah to talk Chase into going to Boston with him."

"And just how are you going to do that?" Pogue leaned forward his eyes didn't meet mine.

"I haven't figured it out yet."

"Why don't we just all go down there, two against five is no match, they'd back down, wouldn't they?" Tyler suggested.

"Jonah is strong; he's like a warlock on steroids." Reid replied.

"Jonah rather die than back down from a fight, it's absolutely impossible to kill him because anyone from his coven will give up their life for his," I explained, "Because if he dies, we all die."

"So you're saying that if we kill him, that we're killing a bunch of other witches too?" Caleb asked.

"Yes, the bind will kill them."

"Including you," Reid stated,

I looked away from him and huffed, "Yeah, me too," I gnawed on my bottom lip as the room fell in silence.

"How do we know we can trust you?" This hurt coming from Reid, mentally I cringed that he would even consider me untrustworthy but there they all sat staring at me.

"Because I'm not like them…"

"Yet you were in his coven…"

"You guys wouldn't understand you've always had each other." I didn't want to talk about my past with all of them. "And Jonah wasn't like that when I met him and when I realized how bad he was getting I ran away. You guys have every right not to believe me, but I'm telling the truth." My voice shook and I was giving my all not to cry.

"We know," Caleb tried to reassure me but I didn't feel assured.

XXXX

The boy's dorms were silent as I crept down the hall in my pajamas. Although I felt it definitely wasn't a good idea to be around Reid, my thoughts were just too overwhelming to not go see him. Earlier he rode with Tyler back to the school and hardly talked to me. I hesitated to knock on the door but before I could even knock the door had swung open. It was Tyler he had a towel slung over his shoulder so I assumed he was going to take a shower. He looked at me but didn't say anything so when he took off down the hall I knocked lightly on the door despite it being opened.

Reid laid in his bed with his arms supporting his head, he wasn't wearing a shirt and his pajama bottoms were black. His hair was messed up in the front; his blue eyes drifted towards me and then looked away. Despite being unsure that I was even welcomed to be there, I walked in and sat on the edge of Tyler's bed.

"I'm sorry things turned out the way it did. But ignoring me isn't going to make anything better…I was going to tell you earlier before Jonah barged in and made everything chaotic."

"Aria…" he sighed.

"If you want to end this, whatever this is, I understand. But it's not what I want, I didn't come here to fall in love…but I did and I don't want to lose you…" I went off into one of my tired rants, but there it was out in the open. I was in love with Reid and it scared me before to admit it because I was afraid of exactly this happening. He sat up and I looked down at my grey slip-ons I always wore around the dorm.

"You're not going to lose me…What was your relationship with Jonah."

I looked down, "When I was fourteen my mother and I moved to Boston, she had a good job offering and that kept her busy almost all the time. I got sick of waiting around for her so I took off and went to this old pagan shop, my mom and I were really big into herbs and what not. It was almost like he staked me out, he just knew. Jonah was just so easy to talk to and one time he even risked getting revealed just to save some kids life in an alley. Everyone told me he was a bad kid but I thought he was just misunderstood. He wasn't always like the way he is now, not until his mother had willed him her power and then his father as well. It was like he was a completely different person; it ate him alive and made him crave more. I noticed the change but at the time I was so head over heels for him I was blinded. He started looking for lost and confused witches, warlocks and manipulated them into believing that we were some big family and that they were going to be there for each other and take care of each other. He said it wouldn't be official until he binded us all together, when we were all one. I even believed it...until…" Flashbacks of a night rushed through like a tsunami, I tried to hold my tears but they still edged their way out of my eyes, "He made the first sacrifice. His name was Ryan Bennett, a small kid maybe fifteen or sixteen. Jonah had brainwashed him into believing that if he willed his power over to him that he'd be doing the right thing by helping his coven, the kid didn't even know that when he willed his power over to Jonah that he was going to die. By then I had enough, I tried running away he caught me packing my bags. Second time I tried I was successful and went to live with my grandmother, and now he's found me and he's not going to rest until he gets his revenge."

Reid took it all in for a moment and the huffed, "That's just crazy."

"Makes you grateful to have Caleb always on your back about using your power, huh?" I tried to shift the mood a little bit by teasing him about Caleb playing "Coven Father" earlier, but it came out halfheartedly. I yawned suddenly feeling extremely tired but I didn't want to leave Reid.

Reid nodded in what thought was agreement but he'd never admit that Caleb is right and I knew he would never be grateful from having to take orders from people; he marches to the drum of his own beat.

"Could I ask a favor of you?" I asked feeling fatigued.

"Sure…"

"Will you sleep with me tonight?" It came out wrong and he took it completely out of the context I was aiming for. But he didn't deny the offer.

"I didn't take you as that kind of girl, but yes…" he began as we both stood up, he looked me up and down with a big grin on his face, I pushed him back a little bit chuckling.

"You know what I mean, jerk. It's just I haven't been able to get hardly any sleep in, I feel like Jonah is hanging over my bed every five minutes. It'd be awesome to get some sleep so I can be on my A-game tomorrow, just in case something happens."

Reid frowned and I could tell he was uneasy about me going, but there was nothing the either of us could do. Plus, I had to find out what was going on between him and Chase.

We quietly made it to my empty room. We pushed the two beds together creating one big bed and used extra blankets for sheets. We snuggled up and as I was rather quickly drifting to sleep I heard him whisper, "I love you."

I pulled his arm around me closer if it were anymore possible and said, "I love you too."