Since chapter 6 was so short I decided to post chapter 7 at the same time :] Enjoy!


Kate, Chase, Chloe and Caleb sat at table inside Nicky's waiting for Pogue. They were having a good time except from the fact that Chloe couldn't look at Chase without having a chill go down her back, Caleb didn't seem to have a problem. Although he did pick up on her resistance and tried to ease it by steering the conversation towards harmless topics. Chloe was in the midst of gasping for air in laughter as she told a story about how her brother Chris had once brought some pot home and was smoking it when their mom was out. And he'd had an allergic reaction to it, that Caleb was sure had stemmed from some magical mixture of weed and herbs, that had him covered in itching hives and he was forced to call their mother and explain when Pogue showed up. Kate was cracking up she saw Pogue and had to wait for her giggles to subside before she could greet her boyfriend.

"Oh hey baby," She kissed him, "You missed a great movie."

Pogue leaned forward and shrugged out of his jacket, "Yeah I had to get my bike fixed."

"Oh don't worry," Kate told him waving her hand, "Chase hung out and kept me company."

Pogue threw Chase a half accusing glare, "I'll just bet he did."

Kate frowned and Chloe winced in friendly sympathy, even though she did agree with Pogue's assessment of Chase. "You want something to eat?"

Kate brought her smile back when she answered, "Yeah I'll just pick at whatever you're having."

Pogue hung his jacket over the spare chair and went up to the bar to order. Kate shared a meaningful glance with Chloe and all Chloe could do was shrug. Having a jealous boyfriend was not easy. Chloe was about to ask Kate about the next morning's first class when Chase challenged Caleb to a game of foosball. Caleb agreed and kissed Chloe's cheek when he got up. He went with Chase and Chloe had to look at Kate's satisfied expression. "What?"

"So you and Caleb seem to be hitting it off." Kate grinned suggestively.

Chloe turned pink and shrugged, "Yeah we learned a lot about each other today."

Kate tilted her head and pursed her lips, "Spill."

Chloe sighed and gave into the compulsion to talk like a normal high school girl for a moment. "Fine, he might have kissed me a little."

"A little! Define a little." Kate leaned forward like Chloe was about to spill some huge secret.

"Okay twice." Her friend's delighted squeal had her smiling and the gesture to continue was understood. "Well first in the car outside his house, but that was barely anything. The real one came on the way here."

"Ah! I knew it! That's why you were late." Kate was practically vibrating with glee. "Details!"

Chloe laughed, "Okay, okay. When we were leaving the dorm room he stuttered so when I was out the door in front of him I told him to 'Come on Forest'" Kate laughed appropriately and Chloe could tell she was dying to ask what made the unflappable Caleb Danvers stutter but she held it in. "When he shut the door behind himself he told me I better run, so I did and he caught up with me at the stairs and before I knew it my back was against the wall and we were going at it."

Kate did a little dance in her seat, "That is so hot." She laughed, "Ah I wish it was still like that with Po, he just gets so jealous."

Chloe nodded sympathetically, "Not to defend him or anything but I can see where he's coming from where Chase is concerned."

"Why?" Kate asked genuinely confused.

Chloe made a face, "I don't know there's just something about the guy, doesn't feel right."

"Hmm" Kate said but Chloe could tell she didn't take it seriously.

"Okay what's the deal?"

Kate shook her head confused, "With what?"

"Well, we should all be together having fun."

Her roomie shrugged, "You know boy and their toys."

Chloe smirked an idea coming to mind, "We'll see about that." She got out of her seat and fished in her bag for a quarter. She held it up in front of her nose with an impish expression and Kate laughed.

"You go girl." And Chloe did, she went over to the jukebox and picked a dancing song, one her Aunt Phoebe liked to play when she was in a rocking mood.

The song came blaring over the speakers and Chloe grinned, with a glance over a Kate she headed over to Caleb who looked up when she grabbed his hand, "Come on, we're dancing."

He grinned at her and threw an apologetic glance over his shoulder at Pogue who just laughed it off and went over to his girlfriend. "I'm not a good dancer" Caleb warned her and she scoffed.

"And you think I am?" His hand went to her hip as they rolled and moved with the music. She swiveled her hips and Caleb went with her, they were both grinning and just getting into when a loud crash and the sounds of a starting fight reached their ears. When she looked behind her she saw Reid shove Aaron and face off against him. They started moving towards the back door when Caleb called over to Pogue, "Hey it's Reid and Tyler, grab my jacket." Caleb let go of her hand to reach for the jacket Pogue handed him as Chase asked, "Hey you guys need some help."

"Naw man, just stay with the girls." Pogue said as he got closer to Chloe. She snorted and started to follow Caleb to the door. "Caleb." Pogue called, his tone conveying his concern for her involvement in a potentially magical situation. Not that Pogue had any inkling that she knew of course.

"No it's ok." Caleb reassured him and kept going to the door she could hear unintelligible voice saying something in a nasty tone before Caleb shouted going down the steps, "What's the problem?"

"None of your damn business." Aaron sneered and Chloe had enough. With a twist of both her wrists she froze all seven boys.

"Oh boy," she sighed and with her right hand and an elegant twist of the wrist she unfroze the sons of the Covenant.

"He bet-" Reid started with a step towards the frozen forms of Aaron and his lackeys. "What the hell?" He gasped and she heard similar exclamations from Po and Tyler.

Caleb rolled his head around to look at her standing behind him and Pogue on the steps. "Really Clo?"

"What?" She asked indignantly, "It was about to get messy, and it's as good a time as any." He threw his hands up in exasperation and looked back to the boys frozen in place.

"How'd you-?" Pogue started to ask her but she cut him off.

"I'm a witch, we'll explain everything later. Now what's the problem?" She looked at Reid expectantly.

After a glance at Caleb he told them, "This dickhead bet me I couldn't make a shot and I did."

"Let me guess, have a little help?" She wiggled her fingers by her ear to mime magic.

Reid took a step towards her when he replied, "No, what're you-"

Caleb rolled his eyes at his friend, "Save it Reid she knows."

"You told her!?" Po started in angrily.

"No she," Caleb started, "already knew." Chloe finished for him. "Now let's get back to business, get back to your places before they unfreeze and Reid start talking."

"Bossy" Reid muttered but did as she asked, Tyler followed still wide eyed and confused.

"Ok." Chloe said and unfroze the bunch, just like they'd let off Reid finished the sentence he'd originally started.

"Bet me I couldn't make a combo shot and, I did." He said with, from what she had seen so far, his typical flare for the smug and dramatic.

"Why don't we just forget about it, ok" Caleb tried to pacify Aaron and his goons since during the time she'd unfrozen Reid, he'd had time to calm down a bit over the bet.

"Hey!" Nicky's voice came from behind Chloe and she turned around to see a big angry man with a baseball bat. She hurried down the last two steps to get out of his way. "Take it someplace else ladies, now!"

"Whatever you say Nicky." Aaron said, as usual backing away from fights he'd started and didn't want to finish. He and his friends pushed through the Sons and walked off down the alley towards the street.

When the door to the bar was shut and Aaron and his friends were gone Caleb turned to Reid shaking his head, "What were you thinking?"

"We were just playing them." Reid defended.

Tyler chose that moment to start in on it too, "Yeah, come on Caleb, they were suckers for it."

"Why don't you stop being a pussy and pull that stick out of your ass." Reid tried to push by Caleb but Caleb stopped him with a hand to the shoulder.

"I'm not finished with you yet." Caleb said and Reid gripped his wrist, his eyes going black and the veins in Caleb's hand popped out of his skin.

Chloe started forward to help but Pogue stopped her with a hand around her waist, "He's got this." She glanced up at him but he was too busy watching as Caleb threw Reid off in a burst of power that had the blonde boy slamming into the wall.

"What will it take for you to get it? It's addictive you moron! You've seen what it can do if you abuse it if you want that it's your business, but if you use it out in the open like you did tonight you risk exposing us all. And that, I won't let happen." Reid got to his feet and started to raise one of the kegs lined up outside with his powers.

"My power's greater than yours." Caleb told him.

Without looking up Reid said, "Not until you ascend."

"Alright then go for it tough guy." Caleb said lifting his hands in a come at me gesture. Reid rose to the challenge and the barrel went flying towards Caleb but he deflected it with barely any effort and sent Reid soaring back into the stacks of empty beer bottles. Caleb started to stalk toward him but Pogue launched forward and held Caleb back. "Stop it! This is crazy!"

"It's for his own good." Caleb growled and Chloe was surprised by the anger in his voice. "If you keep using like you did tonight like you did last night!"

Reid shrugged Tyler off and made his way towards Caleb. "So I fixed her car big deal!" Chloe felt a guilty twinge about that.

"Don't play me Reid, I'm talking later and you know it!" Caleb tried to push Pogue off and failed.

"The hell I do!" Reid complained, "I didn't use later." He pushed past Pogue and Caleb and they let him go.

"It's not right using on each other Caleb." Tyler said earnestly.

Caleb scoffed, "Ya tell it to Reid."

The youngest son sighed and made to go back inside after Reid, "Tyler wait." Chloe called, stopping him. She looked over at Caleb, "We need to tell them, tonight. Do you have somewhere we can go?"

Caleb turned to look at her, "Yeah, Tyler get Reid and meet us at the Book. Now."

Shaking his head Tyler sighed, "He won't come."

"Then trick him, tell him you need to get a spell from the Book, I don't know just get him there." Chloe cut in.

Tyler nodded before going back inside.

When the door swung shut Caleb ran his fingers through his hair, "Reid's lying it had to be him."

"How do you know?" Pogue asked him quietly.

"Because it wasn't you, and Tyler doesn't have the balls to lie to me."

Chloe huffed slightly impatiently and waited until they turned to look at her, "What are you talking about?"

He walked towards her and took her hand, "I'll explain on the way, we should get there first."