Edited on December 13, 2010
Fair Warning: MILD sexual scenes below. Really mild mind you. And lots of language. And as always an IMPORTANT NOTE BELOW!
Disclaimer: I do not own any Covenant characters. (Pogue, Caleb, Aaron, Reid, Tyler)
"God, why do they all have to be such bitches?" Robby scoffed, throwing her hands up over her head and scowling at the air in front of her.
"It's like they all have this code. 'Look, there's Tyler Simms' sister. She gets to spend all her time with the Sons. Let's go beat her up!' I swear that's how it goes. I swear!" She ranted as she turned to jab a finger into her brother's chest. He shied away from her, rubbing a finger to his now sore peck.
"That hurt." He whined, a mock frown adorning his face.
"Shut up!" Robby snapped before her face took on a look of realization.
"You!" She cried, turning to glare at an indifferent Pogue. "You didn't let me kick her ass!"
She socked him then, right on the side of his arm, and frowned when he didn't move away or make any sounds of pain.
He just stood there, like a stone wall. That pissed her off even more so she raised her fist again. She was going to let it connect with his stomach this time but he caught her wrist in mid-motion.
"Do it and I swear you'll regret it," he snapped, his tone was clipped and icy, jaw set and muscles bulging. She scowled even though deep down she knew he would stick to his word. Her other fist shot up and rammed itself into the non-existent depths of his stomach. He let out a loud, fast whoosh of air.
Robby didn't get any time to bask in her glory because a few seconds later she was pushed roughly into one of the wall of Nicky's, two hands on either side of her head and a hard body pressed against hers.
She gulped, trying to look anywhere but at Pogue Parry.
He was in the iciest of moods lately and suddenly she felt huge regret for punching him.
"Back off!" A voice demanded. Robby's head turned but she had to duck to see who was coming to her rescue.
To her surprise she found a vaguely familiar face staring back at her. She couldn't quite place the way his hair was spiked but she knew she had seen it before. She had also seen his eyes before, she realized. With a shake of her head, she straightened herself and leaned against the wall. Her mouth tugged upwards in a triumphant smile as she finally locked gazes with Pogue. Whoever he was, he was doing her a favor by jumping in and she wasn't about to protest.
Her gaze seemed to taunt him with an all too knowing look.
It sort of said something along the lines of 'Ha-ha! What are you gonna do now'.
"Get lost Chase!" Pogue snapped with venom as he turned to stare at the spiky haired guy.
So that's where she knew him from. She had met him at the bonfire party the other day and again in the woods when they were leaving. She remembered back then she had felt an eerie feeling about him and as she turned to look at him again, she realized why. He sort of had this dark expression on his face, as if he had slipped in letting it show through. His eyes were filled with hate and his mouth almost seemed to sneer at Pogue. But just as quickly as she had noticed it, it was gone again.
"Just let it be man," Reid said as he laid a hand on Chase's shoulder. Chase turned to look at him with a blank expression and Reid shook his head. "They have history," Reid elaborated, as if that was the only explanation Chase needed. Robby scoffed at Reid from under Pogue's arm but was sure Reid hadn't noticed.
"I told you not to," Pogue told her icily as she finally turned to look at him again. His voice was calm but his eyes were livid. She was about to retort but he pressed his body even harder against hers. The air rushed out of her lungs and she was left gaping at him with a glare.
Heat rushed from her face all the way down to her toes and then back up again. Her spine tingled with anticipation and her eyes fluttered for a moment. The feel of Pogue pressed up against her was unfamiliar territory and she hated the feeling he was giving her. Her stomach was turning and her limbs were starting to go numb. She couldn't bear to look him in the eyes. She was afraid of what he would see in her own.
Lust probably. Because that's exactly what she was feeling.
It was a strong want for him and the feel of his clothes against her bare skin made her shiver. A chill swept over her but was replaced by heat a few seconds later. Her body ached in parts she shouldn't have even been aware of and she gasped for air again.
It was a strong sense of lust that over road even her anger at him. It even over road the hurt she felt deep down inside. It was a strong emotion, she realized with the up most disgust.
And with that feeling of disgust her anger rose again in full force.
She wanted to tell him how much of a dick he was and yell at him for being so mean. She wanted to ask him what in the world she had done to deserve his cold shoulder, but she never got the chance.
"Pogue!" A deep voice yelled, followed by a hand on Pogue's shoulder.
They both turned to see Caleb looking between them, a serious expression on his face.
Without a word, he nudged his head towards the pool tables.
Robby let her gaze travel towards them and rolled her eyes at the all too familiar site.
Aaron and Reid were fighting over something and it looked like they were about to take it outside...which they did a few seconds later. Robby, Pogue, and Caleb followed afterwards, all of them already knowing what this little fight was about.
By the time they got there Reid and Aaron were rolling up their sleeves and throwing insults at each other.
Robby didn't pay attention to anything Caleb was saying to Aaron but instead watched the scene with a lot of interest. She wanted to be able to jump in if anything happened.
The truth was that she really didn't want to take sides. Reid and Aaron meant the same to her. Though Reid never really talked to her and only succeeded on making her really angry, he was still her brother by way of Covenant. And that had meaning to her no matter what.
But Aaron had always been close to her, at least since they had been little anyway. He hadn't given her any reason to stand against him. By the time she actually started to tune into the conversation, the large group was silent and all of them were looking up at the doorway. Robby's gaze followed with a bit of weariness but she understood the silence when her eyes landed on Nicky, a baseball bat clutched in his large hands.
She couldn't help but grin at the angry expression he wore. He looked really, really menacing.
"Take it somewhere else," he called to the group of boys, his gaze flitting between all of them. When he finally locked eyes with her, she grinned and gave him an innocent wave.
When Nicky was gone, she jumped in front of Reid before he could say anything else and threw herself into Aaron's arms.
"I'll catch a ride with someone else. I have to take care of some..." she trailed off, her gaze landing on Reid and then on Caleb, "things," she finished lamely.
"Alright," Aaron grunted. He pressed a quick, unexpected kiss to her forehead before motioning to his lackeys. When they finally disappeared behind the door, she turned on the rest of the Covenant members.
"What's going on?" She asked, raising an eyebrow at the glare Caleb was giving Reid.
"Reid Used to beat Aaron at pool," her twin whispered in her ear as he sauntered over to her.
She found herself slowly nodding, but deep down she was actually thanking Reid. She needed the distraction. Even though Using probably wasn't the best idea right now with a threat on the loose, she couldn't help but feel grateful.
She didn't know if she could stand to be torn up by any more thoughts of Pogue and the way he was treating her.
"Here we go," Robby muttered as she turned on her heel and walked a few steps away.
There was no way she was going to be near either Caleb or Reid when they both exploded. It was going to get dangerous, she knew that much, but she didn't know how dangerous. Space was usually the best protection in these sorts of occasions.
"Stop while you're ahead," she told the pair, crossing her arms over her chest and letting her gaze flicker between the two.
"Shut up, Robby," Reid snapped, his eyes going black as his anger finally got the better of him. Robby took a few weary steps forward, ready to break it up since neither Pogue nor Tyler had made a move to do it for her. She let her own eyes go black as she stopped a few feet from between them and watched with interest as they continued to argue. When she finally got the idea that Reid was actually going to do something, she stepped between them and threw out her arms.
The barrel Reid had thrown stopped just seconds after he had thrown it and Caleb had no time to retaliate.
"Stop! The both of you!" Robby hissed, her arms still outstretched. "You both know I hate fights. You're supposed to be brothers for God's sakes. Why can't you learn to trust each other?" She looked pointedly at Caleb before snapping her head over to look at Reid.
"And why can't you grow up and start taking responsibility of the powers that are both a curse and a gift? We have bigger threats to worry about right now and we don't need you guys fighting each other. We can't afford it. We're all vulnerable. None of us have Ascended. Whoever's out there has way more power than any of us alone. We need to stick together." She dropped her hands, the barrel falling from mid-air with a clatter and a loud bang.
"We can't fall apart from the inside," she told the both of them, pleading with her eyes.
Silence fell on the group, all of them darting glances at each other, waiting for one of them to break the tension.
"I saw a darkling on my way here," Robby whispered finally, walking over to slump against the building to stare at the boys worriedly.
Caleb's eyebrows rose with worry, "Where were you?"
"I was in the car with Aaron. We were driving back from his house. It was out in the woods." Robby explained, not missing the snort that came from Pogue.
"So whoever it is is mainly targeting Caleb and Robby," Tyler mused out loud, his own brow furrowed in confusion.
"I don't see why," Robby muttered darkly. Her thoughts weren't exactly on that anymore.
She never could focus now-a-days.
The fact that Pogue had scoffed at her Aaron comment had made her extremely angry and she still couldn't figure out what in the hell it was supposed to mean.
"I think all of us should stop Using for now. Just to be safe. Now, let's get back inside," she caught Caleb saying as he motioned to the door.
"Wanna get back to your girlfriend don't you?" Robby mocked with a smirk. Caleb shot a mock scoff in her direction before turning to head back inside.
"You coming?" Tyler called out.
"No," she said softly, her gaze caught on the gravel at her feet. Sounds of footsteps and crunching rocks could be heard as the others made their way inside and Robby let her head drop back against the wall. She took a deep breath, the cold air biting at her lungs and almost making her gasp.
This was intense, she decided. Ever since she had come back it was one dramatic situation after the other and she couldn't help but wonder why it had to happen like this, to her. She wondered what she'd done wrong...
"What're you thinking about?" A deep voice questioned.
Robby jumped and barely contained a curse word before she set back against the wall again. His footsteps drew him closer until she could feel him standing beside her, his chest facing her. She moved away from him subconsciously as her heart pounded in her ears.
The smell of him alone was intoxicating enough. She couldn't open her eyes. She couldn't look at him and let him see the fear in her eyes.
"You know, before you left, you were so bad at the whole relationship thing. You were like a robot. You were there but it was like you couldn't actually feel anything. Like I could have punched you in the gut and you wouldn't have even gasped. It pissed me off so much. You were so business like and formal. We were in a relationship but at the same time we weren't. You had let me in, I'll admit, but then I knew back then there was so much you were still hiding. There was so much you were keeping from me and it drove me so insane that one day I just snapped. I had spent the whole day just thinking in my apartment.
The more I thought about it, the more pissed off I got. It was like I was pouring my heart into a relationship that wasn't leading anywhere. I convinced myself that everything I was feeling for you was one sided. That if you loved me, you would at least show it. Show some sort of passion….So you never did tell us why you came back?"
Robby was amazed at how easily he had changed subjects and for a few seconds she wondered why he had suddenly closed himself off after exposing all of that to her. But somehow she found the power to shrug it off.
"My old man's dead," she said with shrug as she opened her eyes to look at him.
"Dead?" Pogue asked, his hand shot up to run through his hair as a nervous habit and Robby almost laughed.
"Well, not yet," Robby corrected herself. "But he will be. He's addicted. He's almost to Caleb's father's stage. I bailed on him, you see. I couldn't watch him fall apart like that. He drunk like a fish most of the time and if he wasn't drinking he was passed out. I spent most of my time in Cali taking care of him. One day I just told him I was done, that I quit. I said I was moving in with a friend and I was going to get a job and take care of myself. But he refused. He said that if I was leaving I was going to go somewhere he wanted me to go. He said all this bull shit about having to be in a set place where I could be made to go to school. Like Spencer's is any better." She paused, her eyes taking on a little twinkle as she thought back to her old school.
She let out a random laugh then and turned away from Pogue, her heart aching in her chest.
"Have you told Tyler?" Pogue asked. His voice was small, almost a whisper, and Robby wondered if that was hurt she had picked up.
"No. Not yet. I…I haven't found the strength," she answered truthfully as she turned back to him. "He hasn't seen the old man in two years. I mean, Father left Tyler in a way. I can't, for the life of me, figure out what Tyler will say when he finds out. I'm half expecting him to laugh in my face and ask if I really thought he cared. I know I don't. Not as much as I used to. He's a selfish man, my father." She took a deep breath and let it out with a whoosh.
She was trying her hardest to shake off the fact that she was actually talking to Pogue, a real deep conversation, too. She hadn't talked to him in ages it felt like and in reality it had been ages. It was weird setting everything on the table after all the hurt and pain the both of them had been put through.
He started it, she reminded herself before vowing to finish it.
"So you didn't want to come back then?" Pogue asked, his voice was only slightly louder than it had been before and she wondered if he too was lost in thought, but she didn't have the strength to look him in the eyes to find out.
"No. I didn't," she said bluntly, shrugging her shoulders. She was watching him out of the corner of her eyes, watching as his slumped posture suddenly straightened in a new wave of anger. But she ignored it, and went on.
"I'd been gone for two years. None of you guys wrote or called. And it's not like I wrote or called. You four and Aaron were the only ones I had here. What's the point of going back to a place where you're not wanted?" she pushed off the wall to stand in front of him before she crossed her arms over her chest and looked him in the eye.
"Just because we didn't call or write, doesn't mean we didn't want you." Pogue snapped, pushing himself off the wall too.
"Oh, yeah? What's it mean then?" Robby questioned with a harsh, mocking laugh. Pogue scoffed and took a step closer to her. His hazel eyes were full of fire and Robby knew she was pushing him to the edge. He would lose control if she kept going at this rate.
"And if we did call or write? You think you would have answered? No. Because I wasn't the only one running from my feelings. You were heartbroken and you were scared shitless to face any of us. You were too busy being selfish and heartless to realize maybe your brother needed you. You were too worried about the embarrassment. I had broken up with you and you were weak for once in your god damn life-"
Pogue was cut with a loud snap. He worked his jaw, the stinging feeling of Robby's slap vibrating through his face. He turned his head back strait again, his hazel eyes suddenly cold.
"When did our fights become physical, Robby?" Pogue asked coolly as he took another step forward. Robby took one back, her heart pounding in her ears as realization dawned on her.
She had just slapped Pogue Parry...and she was not about to get away with it. That was for sure. She shied away, her head lowering in hopes of getting away from Pogue's piercing gaze. Heat traveled throughout her body as her cheeks flamed. She wasn't scared. No. She knew Pogue would never hit her or cause her physical damage. But she was anxious. Anxious of what words were going to slip from his mouth. She had just slapped him, after all, and there was no way he was just going to let that go. Pogue Parry was better than that. He could think of much worse ways to tare a girl in two.
But words wouldn't be Pogue Parry's way this time. Oh no. He had something much better planned for Robby.
Robby hissed in pain as her head connected with the concrete wall behind her but the sound was swallowed by a mouth, Pogue's mouth that had come crashing down on hers. It was a harsh kiss full of something Robby knew couldn't be passion.
She melted right then and there despite her better judgment. She had melted like a love sick puppy and Pogue once again had her heart in his hands.
The cruel meaning of his actions set in and her heart seemed to shatter in her chest as Pogue's tongue slipped into her mouth, crushing her tongue as his lips bruised her lips. His hips pinned hers against the wall and her back ached from the stones cutting into her through her shirt. But she didn't have the strength, the will, or the room to pull away. The fact that she was at the mercy of Pogue would have been enough to break her, but he had gone further than that. He wanted to shatter her.
He was reminding her of something that was no longer hers, something she longed for and dreamt about. He was reminding her that she loved him no matter what she said. And he knew it. He was giving her this harsh, bitter kiss because he knew that he was going to rip it away in just a few seconds. The fact that she knew what he was doing didn't stop the pain, though. It still hurt as much. Feeling his mouth against hers and his hips pressing into her was enough to drive her over the edge. At the same time her heart was shattering but soaring. All of its broken pieces jumping for joy at these few seconds she got with the man she loved. But the man obviously loved another.
He was gone as quick as he had come and Robby was left panting, fresh tears blurring her vision and slowly making a trail down her pale cheeks. Her lungs burned from the lack of oxygen and her mind seemed to be racing. She couldn't help but wonder when she would feel his lips on hers again, if ever. And the pain in her returned as she thought about how the man she loved had suddenly cast her aside and used her own feelings against her. The harsh meaning of his actions alone was a lot to bear and she almost collapsed from the emotional pain, but somehow, she stayed on her feet, driven by her pain instead of engulfed in it.
"I HATE YOU!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. A strangled sob escaped her lips as her balled fists struck out at him, hitting their marks but doing no damage.
The sound of her own screams muffled the sounds of the door opening and pounding feet and then arms wrapping around her.
For a fleeting second she thought it was Pogue. She thought he had suddenly come to regret what he had done but as soon as her eyes darted up her hope left. And pain ripped through her again. A louder sob escaped her as she collapsed into Aaron's arms, always her knight in shining armor. He pulled her close, muttering sweet nothings in her ear and rocking her on her feet. When, a few minutes later, her sobs had subsided, Aaron turned his gaze to an ever cold Pogue.
"You're an ass, Parry, the lowest of the low." Aaron seethed as his hand cupped the back of Robby's head. He shuffled her towards the door when he finally took his glare off of Pogue and helped her up the steps. Smoke and music greeted them from inside. Robby didn't take her head from his shoulder, but clung to him tighter. Aaron shoved his way through the crowd, most of them moving when they realized he had a crying girl in his arms. And when he reached their table, he looked down at Caleb, Reid, and Tyler with sad eyes, for once not masking his emotions.
"I'm taking Robby home," he informed the three, plus Sarah. "You better keep your boy in check or I might be inclined to do something," he spat out. He made a move to leave with Robby but Tyler latched onto his forearm, tired, caring eyes looked up at him.
"What's wrong with her?" He asked, nodding towards his sister.
"Her hearts broken," Aaron mumbled over his shoulder as he walked away.
Author's Note: So, I'm sorry for all of the spelling mistakes in this. My Word wouldn't work for some reason and I tried to look up all the words I didn't know but that didn't work out too well. I wanted to get this out as soon as possible though. So here it is! Turned in and nice and pretty for you folks.
Important Note: I am returning to school on Wednesday. Updates will be slower I think. Just a fair warning for all of you guys. But I know where this story is going so it shouldn't take me THAT long with updates.
Also...Rosa (purpleangel) and I are making a Covenant award site. I don't know when it will be up or when it will be finished. We've just now decided this. But drop me a note if you guys think you're going to be interested. Because an awards site is nothing without people to vote and nominate. And, I am currently co-writing a story with purpleangel called 'Anyone But You'. I urge all of you to check it out. She has mad brilliant ideas for this story! It's uploaded on her account so look her up. Thanks:D
