A/N: Thanks for the reviews! Chase really is becoming more and more of creepy stalker. Haha. So, in this chapter, Melinda will call in some back-up in the form of a family member or two. =D

Melinda opened the door, and saw Kate pacing furiously around the room,

"Urm Kate?" Melinda said cautiously, "Is everything okay?" Kate whirled around to look at her roommate.

"Pogue and I had a fight." She said flatly. Melinda went over to her bed and began getting ready for bed,

"What about?" Melinda called from the bathroom.

"Chase." Melinda walked back into the room, in her pajamas, her face screwed up in confusion,

"Is this about the movie thing?" Melinda flopped down on her bed and pulled out her laptop and camera; she had to send some pictures of Caleb to Prue. She looked over at Kate,

"I don't know," she said shaking her head, "You know; he's been jealous since the day we met. It drives me crazy." Melinda smiled to herself. "I hate him when he's like this."

"You don't hate Pogue." Melinda told her roommate, "You guys are perfect for each other."

"Maybe not." Kate said, getting into bed, "Maybe it's time to check out something new."

"And maybe that's what Pogue's picking up on." Melinda sent the pictures to Prue and turned off her computer. She looked over at Kate and made sure that the girl was asleep before pulling out the map of Ipswich she had gotten from the school library. Taking out a scrying crystal, Melinda began to move the crystal around the page; hoping to catch some sort of supernatural activity. Suddenly the crystal pinpointed an exact location. Melinda stared at the location in shock for a few moments; it was Spenser. Spenser was the centre for all the evil supernatural activity. Melinda sat back in her bed and processed the information. She remembered her Aunts warning about Chase, and wondered if he could be the one behind everything. Melinda turned off her light, and promised to look into Chase's past tomorrow.

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The next, Melinda tried to avoid Chase, and she did, for the most part. After the last class of the day, homework done, Melinda rounded the corner to her locker only to find Chase leaning up against her locker, waiting for her. Melinda bit back a groan and turned around to walk away, hoping that Chase hadn't seen her. Too late.

"Melinda!" he called out following her. Melinda looked around for a quick escape route, suddenly a hand shot out and pulled her into a dark hallway, Melinda watched as Chase walked straight past her. Breathing a sigh of relief, Melinda turned to thank her savior.

"Reid?" Melinda raised her eyebrows. The blonde Son of Ipswich took a drag from his cigarette and leant back against the wall,

"The one and only." He smirked. "Want one?" He asked, offering her a cigarette. Melinda shook her head and dropped her books on the floor,

"Why did you pull me in here?" Reid rolled his eyes,

"You looked like you needed saving." He told her, "Why were you running from Chase anyway?" he asked.

"He just creeps me out." Melinda replied with a shrug. Reid nodded.

"Pogue doesn't like him either." The boy told her.

"What about you?" Melinda asked him, leaning against the wall, Reid took another drag of his cigarette,

"I don't know." He said, shrugging, "I don't really have anything against him. He beat Caleb in a race today." He finished. Melinda raised an eyebrow,

"And that makes you happy? Seeing Caleb getting his ass kicked?"

"Caleb thinks he owns us. Just because he's the oldest. It can get pretty annoying." Melinda stared at him for a few seconds. Reid sighed, "Look, Caleb's like my older brother. I'd never hurt him, but I just wish that wouldn't treat me like a kid you know?" Melinda smiled; she and Chris used to say the same thing about Wyatt when they were growing up. Reid pushed himself away from the wall and put out his cigarette.

"Well, if you'll excuse me." He said, "I have a very attractive girl waiting for me in a janitor's closet somewhere." He smirked. Melinda rolled her eyes at him. Reid bent down and picked up her books.

"And they say chivalry is dead." Melinda said, raising her eyebrows at this different side of Reid.

"They obviously haven't met me yet." He said, grinning. "Catch you later Halliwell." He said, walking away, Melinda stared at his retreating back.

"See you around Garwin." She whispered under her breath before making her way back to her dorm.

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That night, Melinda paced her dorm. Kate had gone to the infirmary because she hadn't been feeling well; and Caleb was busy doing some stuff, god knows what that meant. So she had time, to go find Chase's file. Dressed in black from head to toe, Melinda made her way to the admissions office, after freezing the night guard from behind, Melinda was able to sneak in. Cautiously, she made her way to the filing cabinet, noticing that it was open, Melinda looked through it, trying to find Chase's file. It wasn't there. Closing the cabinet, Melinda sighed and walked out of the office, not even bothering to look up at the ceiling where, had she looked; she would've found Caleb and Pogue lying up on the ceiling.

A few minutes earlier:

Caleb and Pogue had been looking through Chase Collins's file when they saw a beam of light coming through the door. They quickly shot up to the ceiling and waited for the guard to come in; it never happened. Instead, the two boys watched in amazement as they saw Melinda open the door and rifle through the filing cabinet. Pogue looked at Caleb who just looked at the girl in confusion. 'What was she looking for?' Caleb wondered; he made a mental note to ask her after they had cracked the mystery of Chase Collins. Caleb frowned; he knew that there was something that she wasn't telling him. But that was okay, because he had a secret of his own too. He hoped that when he told her his, she'd be able to tell him hers.

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Melinda walked as fast as she could away from the administrative offices and made her way to the infirmary to check on Kate; Melinda looked around her to make sure that she was alone,

"Prue! Henry!" The witch hissed under her breath, shivering from the cold. She waited a few seconds before she noticed the blue and pink lights that signaled the arrival of her cousins, Prue looked around and squealed when she saw her cousin,

"Melinda! OMG, I saw the pictures of Caleb; he's GORGEOUS." Prue ran over to hug Melinda, Henry grinned and made his way over to the hugging girls and wrapped them both in a bear hug,

"We've missed you Mel." He said, "Our little group isn't the same without you." Melinda smiled,

"I've missed you guys too." Henry looked around at his surroundings and whistled when he saw the huge campus,

"This is a SCHOOL?" He asked incredulously. Melinda nodded. "Damn."

"Okay, guys. I need your help." Melinda got her cousins attention, "There's this guy. His name is Chase Collins and I have a really bad feeling about him. PLUS, Prue, your Mom called and told me to stay away from him, but she was being all cryptic and wouldn't tell me why." Prue snorted,

"That's because the Elders won't let her to tell you. They said its part of your destiny or something to find out for yourself." Melinda rolled her eyes; the Elders were always pulling bullshit like that.

"Anyway," Melinda continued, "I broke into the admissions office to find his file, but it wasn't there; the Provost must have it or something. And my roommate is sick, so I'm gonna go check on her and I kinda need you guys to do some more digging on Chase." Melinda finished.

"What exactly do you mean by digging?" Henry asked. Melinda paused for a moment, thinking it over,

"Go through his dorm room; Prue, you can distract him if he's there. He's kind of a creep, so watch out. Call me if you guys get anything okay?" Prue and Henry nodded, "Okay, his dorm number is 311. The dorms are that way." Melinda turned towards the infirmary. Prue's voice stopped her,

"Come on, we HAVE to do the huddle." Melinda and Henry exchanged looks, "For good luck!" Prue said defensively. Melinda, Prue and Henry huddled up in a circle and placed their hands on top of another,

"BREAK!" The three of them broke away and went their separate ways, each of them smiling at the pure cheese factor of the huddle that they used to do when they were kids.

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Melinda looked at Kate through the glass partition, worry etched all over her face, the doctor had said that she was suffering a severe allergic reaction, almost as if she had been bitten by thousands of spiders. Melinda had this strange feeling that this sudden illness wasn't because Kate had been bitten by spiders, there weren't even that many spiders at Spenser, much less of the biting variety. There was something else going on here. Melinda looked around her to make sure that nobody was looking,

"Wyatt! Chris!" Melinda whispered. Within seconds, her older brothers appeared in a flurry of blue lights, their faces lighting up when they saw their little sister.

"Mel!" They both yelled and gathered up into the biggest hug ever.

"Guys." Melinda gasped. "Can't. Breathe." Wyatt and Chris let go, their expressions sheepish.

"So, how's CALEB." Wyatt's eyes narrowed when he mentioned his future brother-in-law. "Prue showed us his picture; he looks like a serious player if you ask me." Melinda rolled her eyes,

"We can talk about Caleb later. Right now I need you to heal my roommate." Melinda pointed to Kate through the partition. "There's something seriously wrong with her, like magically wrong." Wyatt and Chris exchanged glances and orbed into Kate's room. Melinda watched as Wyatt placed his hands over her sleeping roommate, and saw the familiar white glow of healing light. Melinda waited for Kate to wake up. But she didn't. Wyatt frowned and removed his hands, he motioned for Chris to try, Melinda watched as Chris repeated the same process as Wyatt had done. After a while, Chris shook his head and removed his hands. Wyatt and Chris orbed back out, their faces full of worry.

"We couldn't heal her." Wyatt paced the hallway, "You were right though. Someone's definitely put a spell on her."

"What kind of spell?" Wyatt stopped, and frowned.

"I don't know. I've never come across this kind of magic before. It's some serious Dark Magic."

"Look, Wyatt and I will go check out some of the books at Magic School." Chris supplied, "In the meantime, keep your guard up okay?" Melinda nodded and hugged her brothers before they orbed off. Melinda stood back as a group of Doctors and Nurses lifted Kate onto a gurney; they were taking her to a nearby hospital. As Melinda watched as her friend was lifted onto an ambulance, Melinda whipped out her phone and called Caleb. He picked up after the third ring,

"Hey," his voice was hushed, "Could I-"

"Caleb." Melinda started, "Kate's in the hospital."

"Wait what?"

"The doctors say it was as if she'd been bitten by thousands of spiders, but there aren't any spiders in Spenser that bite and-"

"Melinda," Caleb interrupted. "I want you to go to your dorm and lock the door; I'll be over as soon as I can." Melinda raised her eyebrows; Caleb obviously knew something.

"Okay." Melinda told him, hanging up. Melinda grabbed Kate's stuff and walked over to her dorm room. She opened the door to find Prue and Henry lying on her bed, going through an old book, with several other oldish looking books surrounding them.

"Hey guys." Melinda shrugged off her coat and sat down at the end of her bed, "Did you get all that stuff from Chase's room?" Prue nodded.

"Yep." She said, "He wasn't at home, so that made things easier." Prue sniggered.

"So? Find anything interesting?"

"As a matter of fact we did." Henry started, "Chase Collins was born on July 14th. He was adopted."

"He's older than Caleb." Prue told her. "Just remember that."

"Okay… And?" Melinda pressed. Prue and Henry looked at each other.

"Well, we were going through his stuff and the first thing we found was this," Prue held up the old journal and handed it over to Melinda to read. Melinda opened the first page to find, written in calligraphy, the words: 'Property of John Putnam.' Melinda looked up at her cousins.

"What's Chase doing with Putnam's journal?"

"I know right?" Prue continued, "That's what we said. So, we went through the journal and we found out that Putnam used to visit this widow at night as an incubus. "

"And then we found this." Henry held up another old book, "It was on loan from the local library. The book lists births and deaths during the Witch Hunts. And this widow-"Henry looked down at Putnam's journal, "Goody Pope was widowed in June, and her son, Hagan, was born in April the next year." Henry paused, "That's like 10 months after her husband had died." Melinda processed the information,

"But then- then that means that the Putnam's bloodline didn't end at Salem. That means that the fifth Son of the Covenant is still alive." Melinda paused. "But what does this have to do with Chase?"

"Remember we told you that he was adopted?" Prue said. Melinda nodded, "Well, his birth name is Chase Goodwin Pope. POPE. Mel." Melinda slowly got up from her bed, the pieces beginning to fall into place. Chase was the fifth Son. Chase was the one who had put the spell on Kate. Suddenly, something Prue had said earlier, clicked in her mind. 'He's older than Caleb.' Prue had said. So Chase the fifth Son, AND the oldest. That meant…

"Oh my God.' Melinda breathed, pacing up and down. "It was Chase all along; Chase is the one I have to marry." Melinda paused and scrunched up her nose at the thought of being married to Chase. "Eww." It was just her luck to get saddled with evil psycho maniac. Prue couldn't help but laugh at her cousins' expression.

"It could be worse; at least you know he's into you." Prue paused. "And I mean, REALLY into you." Melinda looked at her cousin confused,

"What are you talking about?"

"We found pictures of you EVERYWHERE. It looked like he had taken them while he was hiding in the bushes somewhere. It was creepy." Prue shuddered. Melinda took a deep breath,

"So what do I do now? I don't want to marry Chase; he's creepy." Henry looked up at the ceiling,

"We could ask our Moms. Maybe they'd know what to do." Melinda nodded.

"Okay, do that. Oh, and can you guys put his stuff back before he finds out that it's gone?" Melinda asked. Prue nodded, with a wave of her hand, Chase's stuff disappeared in a flash of pink light, back to where it had originally been. Melinda hugged her cousins and watched as they orbed and hearted back home.

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After her cousins had left, Melinda paced the floor wondering what to do about the whole Chase situation. Now that she knew who he really was, everything had begun make sense; the feelings she had for him when they had first met, the way he made her feel. He was her fiancée. Not Caleb. Melinda groaned and put her head in her hands, she really liked Caleb, and she had finally reconciled herself to spending the rest of her life with him; but now, she was imagining marrying Chase, kissing Chase… Melinda shuddered as someone knocked on the door. 'It must be Caleb' she thought as she walked over to the door. When the door swung open, it wasn't Caleb who stood on the other side; it was Chase.

"Chase." Melinda said flatly, leaning against the doorway. Chase smirked.

"I thought you might need some company tonight, you know because Kate is sick." Melinda raised her eyebrows,

"And why would you care about Kate?" she asked him, "You are the one who put that spell on her." Chase smirked, and his eyes turned black, Melinda put out her hands to freeze him, but with a flick of his hand, Melinda was telekinetically thrown across the room. Chase closed the door,

"You know," he said, pinning Melinda to wall telekinetically, "this evening could've gone in a completely different direction." Chase smiled and walked over to where Melinda was struggling against the bonds that held her to the wall.

"Let me go." She said to him. Chase gave her the once over,

"Promise not to blow me up?" Melinda nodded reluctantly. "Good." Chase's eyes returned to their normal colour and Melinda dropped to the floor. Melinda got up and glared at Chase who was lounging on her bed, strumming on her guitar,

"What do you want?" Melinda asked him, slowly edging towards the door. Chase smirked and walked towards her. Melinda backed away, until she felt her back hit the door; there was nowhere left to run. Chase got closer and closer until his face was inches away from hers,

"I thought that was obvious." He said, his breath tickling her face. "I want you." Chase placed his hands on the wall, either side of her face, effectively trapping her.

"Well, get in line buddy. I'm taken." She said with as much attitude as she could manage. Chase laughed.

"Caleb's not the one for you Melinda. I am. We're destined for each other, you and I. The Pact's bound us forever." Melinda looked up at him; so he knew about the Pact then. Melinda was quiet for a few seconds, wondering what to do next.

"You're right." Melinda said quietly. "You can't change fate." She said flatly. Chase smirked,

"No, you can't." He said. He paused, his eyes her going over her face, "You know, we'd make a great couple." Melinda resisted the urge to roll her eyes, and looked away. Suddenly she felt Chase's lips on hers. Melinda stood there, frozen as Chase explored the inside of her mouth with his tongue. Melinda smiled against his lips, which Chase took as sign that she was enjoying herself and he deepened the kiss, Melinda was actually smiling because she had come up with a plan; she slowly raised her knee to abruptly knee him in the groin. Chase broke off the kiss with a groan and bent over, Melinda used the distraction to run to the door, she flung herself out of the door to find herself in Caleb's arms.

"Caleb." She breathed in relief. Caleb took in her rumpled appearance and forgot everything that was going on; with Pogue and Chase; he was just worried for her.

"What happened? Are you okay?" Melinda opened her mouth to speak. But at that moment, Chase, who had recovered from the previous blow, interrupted.

"Caleb." He smirked. "Perfect timing. Come in." Melinda looked at Caleb, pleading with her eyes, to make him just walk away. But it was too late, Caleb launched himself at Chase. As the boys rolled around on the floor, knocking over furniture, Melinda quickly closed the door and stood there, wondering how to break up the fight; eventually, she managed to pull Caleb off of Chase.

"Stop it. He's not worth it." Melinda struggled to hold him back. Chase got up and touched his cut lip,

"You know, I should really be the one beating YOU to a pulp Caleb. First of all, you're a member of that stupid Covenant and then I have to watch you making out with MY fiancée." Chase shook his head, "You have serious anger management issues my friend." Chase lay down on Kate's bed and put his arm on the headboard. Caleb looked at Melinda,

"What's he talking about?" Melinda looked up at him; she had to tell him, now that Chase had opened that door. She opened her mouth to answer, when Chase interrupted her AGAIN,

"You mean, she never TOLD you?" Chase asked. When Caleb didn't answer, Chase laughed, "Allow me to enlighten you my friend, take a seat." Caleb sat down on Melinda's bed, his arms settled protectively around Melinda. Chase began his story,

"It all began in Ipswich, 1962. A young witch with remarkable abilities was sentenced to burn at the stake at Salem. Her name was Melinda Warren. Now, Melinda had a young daughter who she needed to protect. So, she came to the Covenant at Ipswich for help. She asked the Covenant to protect her daughter; Putnam rightfully asked for something in exchange. He wanted her power. But Melinda,-" Chase glared at the modern day Melinda, "needed her powers to make a prophecy, about future generations of her line, see she vowed that each generation of her family would grow stronger and stronger culminating in the arrival of three sisters who would be the most powerful force of good the world has ever known; they would be called the Charmed Ones. Now the Covenant wanted to know about the generation after the Charmed Ones; their children. Melinda presumed that they would be more powerful than their mothers. Putnam realized that he had an opportunity. To have access to Melinda's power once and for all, so Putnam agreed to take care of Melinda's daughter in exchange for a Pact. An agreement. That the eldest daughter of the Charmed Line will be married to the eldest son of the Covenant within 6 months of her 18th birthday, or Melinda's line will die out. And that the eldest son of the Covenant will marry the eldest daughter of the Charmed line within 6 months of his 18th birthday, or the Power is broken forever." Chase finished his story and sat back, "And so we've come full circle."

Caleb looked at Melinda in confusion; Chase was the oldest son of the Covenant. But what did that have to do with Melinda? Melinda looked up at Caleb, and answered his unspoken question,

"I'm the eldest daughter of the Charmed Line." She told him quietly. "I came here looking for my fiancée." Melinda looked up at Caleb and her heart almost broke at the expression on his face, he looked so hurt. So BETRAYED.

"All this time I thought-"He broke off, looking away, "Why did you lie to me?" Chase rolled his eyes,

"Yeah, okay, we've got it; Melinda's been a bad girl, I'll be sure to punish her later." Chase said with a grin. Melinda glared at him, "Now, Melinda honey, why do you let the men do all the talking?" Melinda was about to verbally assault Chase, when all of a sudden his eyes went black and Melinda found that everything around her became black. The last thing she saw before she lost consciousness was Calebs hurt face.

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A/N: So? What did you guys think? Let me know what you thought. Keep reviewing! Every review I get is like fuel for the next chapter; so please, keep reviewing! Oh and question: Do you want me to include the Caleb- Chase conversation that they have in the movie in the next chapter?