A/N: Alright I'm back, and I've noticed that Lani has asked you about the lemons. Well, if you want them, I'll give them to you. Anyways, back to the plot, this will be with Tori's POV first, then it'll go to Chloe. Just so you're not confused. Enjoy!


Tori's POV

I hate it when I'm the one left behind, it happened at Lyle House, at the bus stop, at the safe house with Andrew, even at the stupid safe school. Why is that they don't let me in on anything? It's not like I don't care about Rocky as much as they do. I like Rocky, really. She was the first girl to actually see me for me, and not the snot nosed brat I let everyone think I am. In a way, she understood me.

"Are you still mad about them going without you?" Carter asked, wrapping his arms around my waist, and resting his head on my shoulder. I let out a long sigh.

"I'm not mad." I said. I could feel his smile against my skin.

"Just pissed." He said.

"Exactly." he chuckled, and kissed my cheek.

"You shouldn't worry so much. You'll get wrinkles." He said. I smiled at his joke.

Ever since the dance, Carter and I had gotten closer. When nobody else listened to me, he did. When no one else noticed me, he did. I guess he's good for me, in a way that I would usually just brush off as an obsessed guy. It usually happened to me. But since Lyle House, I guess I've been craving this kind of relationship.

"Can I ask you something?" I asked him. He nodded and kissed my cheek again. "Do you think I'm a brat?" I asked. He chuckled, but I looked at him serious.

"Why would you ask that?" he asked. I shrugged.

"Everyone else seems to think so. Especially Derek and Simon." I said.

"Well, brothers are always supposed to think their sister is a brat." He said.

It reminded me that Kit was my dad. How I couldn't figure this out on my own surpassed me. I mean, I looked nothing like the man I thought was my dad. Hell, I looked more like Simon than him. I felt so stupid for not realizing this. And to think my mother was the one to talk about being a slut for liking more than one guy. She had a kid with another man!

"Why don't you come inside with the rest of us? Lauren just fixed a batch of hot coco." Carter said. I nodded, and let him lead me inside.

When we got there I saw Lynne and Justin sitting close together, Justin whispering into Lynne's hair. Lynne's eyes were red and puffy. Seriously, when is she going to stop crying over Rocky? She needs to suck it up, and be tough for Rocky, not depressed.

"Here you go honey." Lauren said, handing Lynne some coco. Lynne took it and took a few sips.

"How's she holding up?" Carter asked.

"She's hanging on. She got another feeling from her brother." Justin said. My eyebrows shot up with confusion. Feeling from her brother? What was that about?

"Was it bad?" Carter asked. Justin only nodded. Carter sighed and sat on the bed. I sat next to him, looking at him for an answer.

"Oh, um, see Lynne has an adopted little brother that goes to the school." Carter says.

"And the feeling's she gets from him?" I ask.

"Her brother's a shaman. On accident he created an empathy link between him and Lynne." Carter explained.

"Can shamans do that?" I asked.

"This one can." Justin said. Lynne then whimpered, and Justin held her tighter.

"What are they doing to him?" I asked.

"We don't know, but it can't be good." Carter said.

We had to find Rocky, and fast. We had to do something to stop that school from hurting other kids. Derek better find her fast. If they come back empty handed, I'm seriously going to send a power orb up his ass.


Chloe's POV

We rushed through the forest as fast as we can, without causing too much noise. Liz ran by me, and in front of me was Derek, behind me Simon then Kit. Each sound that was made caused me to jump, which got Derek and Simon to laugh. It always did.

We kept half jogging, half running, and I could sense the dead corpses. I tried to focus on running, instead of the dead feeling that hung above my head. Every snap of a twig, I thought there was a dead animal coming to find me.

"Let's slow down." Derek said.

"Yeah, I can't take Chloe's scared skipping anymore." Simon said.

"Shut up Simon." I said. He just smiled at me as he past me to go in front of Derek.

"Don't worry Chloe. Nothing will come and get you." Kit said, patting me on the back. I nodded, just to have them drop it.

"Which way?" I asked Liz. She looked around for a moment, and then pointed to our right.

"It's that way. That's where I saw the black bird." She said. Liz's memory amazed me. I wouldn't be able to remember any animal's a came across, unless they were dead, or attacking me.

"Liz says we have to go right." I said. Derek nodded, and we quickly walked that way.

I looked around the forest, trying to figure out how Rocky got this far. She probably knows these woods better than we do, but would she really have the strength to walk this far in? Suddenly Derek extends his arm to stop us. I look at him curious, and find him sniffing the air.

"What is it?" Kit asked.

"Rocky's sent." he said. That bit of news got all of our hopes up. "But it's mixed in with something else. Something that I've never smelled before." He said.

"Let's just keep going. We're on the right track." Simon said. Derek nodded and continued to go farther into the forest.

"We're getting closer." Liz said. I told them what she had said, and we picked up the pace.

Soon we were running again, and Derek was hot on the trail. You could tell because he was way ahead of the rest of us. He was actually jogging when he was with us, now he was running. He lifted his chin to sniff the air, and turned over to the left.

"We're getting there." Simon said, running next to me. I smiled at him when I saw the light in his eyes.

Soon we made it to a clearing, a little open space. It wasn't that big, but we saw tall trees on the other side, and Derek was headed over to them.

"Derek stop! You'll hit-," Liz shouted, but Derek didn't hear. I opened my mouth to shout at Derek, but it was too late.

He charged to the other side, only to be hit back with something I couldn't see, and he flew all the way back where the rest of us were.

"DEREK!" I shouted, and got down on my knees to see him. His eyes were closed, and his body still. Was he dead? I could feel the tears at the back of my throat.

"Derek?" Simon tried shaking his shoulder to wake him up.

"Get back, both of you." Kit said, pushing Simon out of the way.

"What happened to him?" Simon asked.

"It was the force field thing! I tried to tell him to stop." Liz shouted, but only I could hear her.

"He hit the force field." I said. Kit and Simon looked at me like I was talking crazy. "Just go look." I said, pointing over to the other side of the clearing. Simon got up to go look at it.

"Hey, dad! I think Chloe's right. Come look at this." Simon called. I stayed with Derek as Kit went to go look.

"It's a barrier. A very powerful one, it's probably what knocked out Derek." I heard Kit said. I sighed in relief. Derek was only unconscious, not dead.

"Why would there be a barrier in the middle of a forest?" Simon asked.

"To keep people out." I said. A few moments of silence, everyone thinking.

"You think someone brought Rocky in?" Simon asked. I didn't need to turn around to know that Kit was nodding. "So how do we get in?" Simon asked. I heard Kit sigh, unsure.

"Chloe, someone is watching us." Liz said. I looked up at her, to see her staring off in the direction we just came from. I looked out that way too, only to find big white eyes staring at me. I wanted to scream, but I couldn't find my voice.

"S-s-s-s" I stammered. "S-s-s-s-Simon!" I called. Then the white eyes came closer, out of the bushes. They were attached to a huge man, who only painted his eyes white. He was dark colored, but with modern clothes on. He held a sword out at me.

"Get away from her!" Simon shouted, and the guy shot back, an effect from Simon's knock back spell.

But suddenly other guys came out, all of them holding some type of weapon, all pointed at us. We were surrounded. My whole body shook with fear, and I held onto Derek, pleading for him to wake up now.

"Look, we don't want any trouble." Kit said, raising his hands as if he were surrendering.

"All of you get up." One of the guys said. I didn't move. "Get up!" the man ordered.

I looked at Kit, who nodded at me. It took all of my will power to let go of Derek. The man then nodded his head over at Derek, and two other men picked him up. I ran after them, but one of the men with a sword pointed the tip at me. I stepped back into Simon's arms.

"Please, we are only looking for someone." Kit tried again. The man then pointed the gun he held at Kit.

"Go." He said, and motioned for Kit to walk to the other side of the barrier.

"We didn't mean to cause any-," Kit tried, but the man cocked his gun. Kit walked over to the barrier and looked at it wearily. He slowly took steps towards it.

"Dad," Simon called, but Kit motioned for him to be quiet. Kit continued to walk towards it, and suddenly was grabbed from the other side, and sucked in. We couldn't see him anymore. Simon and I looked at each other, both of us scared.

"You two next." The man said, pointing the gun at us. Simon grabbed my hand, and we both slowly walked towards the barrier. We stopped in front of it, and just looked out into the forest. We couldn't see Kit or the men who carried Derek. Simon squeezed my hand, and we both took a step through it.

It felt like we were being sucked in from both sides, like we were being stretched out, but it only lasted a few seconds. Soon we were on the other side, and we found Kit and the other guys waiting for us right there. Kit hugged both of us, and the man with the gun walked through the barrier. He nodded to the men in front of him, and they started walking forward.

"Follow them." The other guy ordered. Simon and Kit stayed behind me as I followed the other guys.

"Where are you taking us?" Simon asked. I waited to hear a thump of the head, or the snappy remark of the guy, like how it always happened in the movie's when the person asked that kind of question. But it never came.

"Camp." The man replied.


So? Can you guess what happens next? Oh, I love it when I give you cliff hangers. Although, I hate it when I'm reading, and I end up with a cliff hanger. I guess it's just weird of me. Oh, well. I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Stay tuned for what happens next.

BoOkWoRm OUT!