Chapter 9

A/N: Thank you to

Digital Moonlight 2

CharmedSuperGirl

patricia02052

For you're reviews =)


Jamie, Brooke and Lindsay barged through the garage door.

"Peyton? Haley?" he shouted.

The three searched the room. But nobody else was there.

They saw another door that was open so they walked through.

Jamie hesitated as they stepped inside.

"Are you okay?" Lindsay asked noticing him. Jamie rubbed his temples as if trying to ease some pain.

"They were here. Peyton, Haley and the demon."

"Guys"

Jamie and Lindsay looked at Brooke. She was staring at the floor, they examined a little closer.

"Blood" Jamie stated.

"Do you know where they are?" Lindsay almost begging turned to face Jamie.

Jamie closed his eyes and started to focus all of his attention on the missing sisters.

Moments later he opened them again and sighed.

"I'm sorry, I can' know my power doesn't work like that."

"The shack." Brooke said standing up straight.

"What?" Jamie asked confused.

"Earlier, when me and Peyton went into the woods, we came across a shack, that's where we found Mel."

"Okay. We need to get back to the cabin. Brooke do you remember where abouts this shack was?"

"No, I mean we were just walking around, and then Peyton noticed it."

Jamie sighed.

"Okay, I want you two to go back to the cabin. I'm going to go find that shack."

Lindsay and Brooke looked at each other.

"What?!" they said in unison.

"I want you to go back." he repeated himself.

"You can't go out into the woods alone. It's too dangerous." Brooke said, her voice laced with concern.

"Wow smooth Brooke! You're starting to care about him again aren't you?! I think you should stop talking now!" she told herself off.

Jamie couldn't help but smile.

"Oh my god! That smile!" Brooke thought.

"Ahem!" Lindsay coughed, breaking Brooke and Jamie's current train of thought.

"Right…erm…come one"

Jamie left the room and was about to leave the garage.

"Why are we splitting up when before you said to stay together?" Lindsay said.

"Well actually I told you two not to separate."

"Jamie seriously, we're not splitting up" Lindsay replied in a putting-my-foot-down manner.

"Well if you wont leave willingly….."

Jamie grabbed hold of the twins arms, and before they knew it they were all back in the family room at the cabin.

"Jamie." Lindsay complained.

"Sorry" he smiled.

Then Jamie vanished from in front of the girls, leaving them alone with one another. And he was outside.

The demon let out a small growl as he watched Jamie re-appear outside of the cabin.

"That boy better not get in my way" he snarled to himself.

Jamie still had his dagger in hand, he cautiously made his way into the woods.

Brooke sighed in worry, pacing up and down the room.

"He shouldn't have gone out there. Now he's going to go missing too."

Lindsay looked at her sister.

"Brooke Matthews, here's me thinking that you didn't care about him anymore." she half smiled.

"I didn't… I mean I don't. It's just I thought he was here to help. So he's not going to be very helpful if he's dead."

Brooke shivered as she said the last word.

Which Lindsay noticed.

"I'm sorry Brooke. I know the whole Jamie thing must still hurt."

Brooke broke eye contact with her twin.

"It didn't hurt to begin with Linds. I'm fine." Brooke said unconvincingly.

"That's not what you said when we last talked about him."

Brooke cringed, remembering her brief breakdown that had happened only a few months ago.

"Don't you dare think about that! I mean it Brooke!" Brooke scolded herself.

Lindsay looked around the darkened room.

"So…. What are we suppose to do now?"

Brooke raised her eyebrow looking around the room.

"I don't know" she softly admitted.

Thump!

Brooke and Lindsay instantly looked up towards the ceiling.

"I heard that earlier." Lindsay confessed to the brunette.

Brooke took a deep breath in.

"Well then… I guess we're going upstairs"

Lindsay followed her sister up the stairs and down the landing.

They stopped walking for a moment.

"Where should we look first?" Brooke asked.

BANG!

They looked in the direction of the sudden noise.

It was coming from the hatch leading up to the attic.

Brooke couldn't help but laugh.

"You know if Peyton was here she would say how horror movie-ish this was."

Lindsay chuckled

"Yeah probably. But I bet she'd go up to the attic anyway."

Brooke slightly nodded her head in agreement.

Brooke was missing her cousins deeply.

"Do you think Jay's okay?" Brooke unknowingly asked. Her eyes immediately widened.

"Oh my god! You did not just call him Jay! You're having feelings for him again aren't you? Well congratulations Brooke!" She thought not believing the sentence that had left her mouth.

"Jay?" Lindsay asked with a small smile. She knew the brunette still liked him.

"Just drop it Lindsay." Brooke ordered walking to the attic hatch, and pulling it open; the ladder fell down and crashed as it landed on the ground.

They looked up into the roof. It was pure darkness. You could hear the wind whistling through the small cracks in the structure.

Both girls gulped.

Lindsay managed to drag her eye sight away from the attic and towards her sister.

Brooke looked beside her, to see Lindsay staring expectantly at her.

"What?"

"Well you wanted to open the hatch, so you get to go up there first." She smiled.

Brooke rolled her eyes.

She climbed up the ladder and looked around the darkness.

"Is there a light switch up there?" Lindsay asked as she had now started to climb the ladder.

"I can't see one. But at least we have a flash light."

"Brooooke" a voice sung.

"Not again." Brooke spoke, her voice shaking.

"Why does he keep saying you're name?"

"I don't know Lindsay. Why do demons do most of the things they do."

"Brooooke" he sung again.

CRACK!

The beam from Brooke's flashlight was searching everywhere. But it couldn't find the demon.

All of a sudden they could see a fireball being formed from the middle of the darkness. The demon threw it towards Lindsay.

"Fireball." Lindsay waved her hand in the direction of the oncoming threat and changed it's direction back towards the demon.

The demon winced upon the impact of his own fireball.

Lindsay grabbed Brooke's hand and they dashed towards the exit.

"Not so fast." The demon spoke throwing another fireball. This time, he didn't miss.

Lindsay fell down crying in pain.

"Lindsay!" Brooke shouted as she noticed her sister.

She tried to pick her twin up off of the floor, but Lindsay had become too limp, so was too heavy.

"Lindsay, c'mon you have to try to stand" Brooke obviously struggling.

The demon conjured up another fireball.

Brooke and Lindsay both noticed this.

"Brooke get out of here" Lindsay demanded.

"What?! No way. I'm not leaving you." shocked that her sister could even think that she would leave her.

"If you leave now Brooke, I promise I wont hurt you're sister. Much" The demon spoke.

"Shut up!" Brooke spat.

The demon threw the fireball that was still in his hand. It landing once again on Lindsay. The impact split the twins apart as they both fell to the ground.

Lindsay screamed in more pain.

The demon ran up to the girls while they were still on their hands and feet, grabbed a hold of Lindsay and blinked the two out of the attic.

"No!" Brooke shouted, tears in her eyes.

She finally managed to gather herself and jumped down the ladder. And dashed to the family room.

Brooke was now crying and panicking.

"Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! What do I do?!" she frantically thought.

"JAMIE!" She yelled.

It wasn't Jamie's power to be able to hear if someone was calling for his help. But somehow he had always been able to hear Brooke.

Nobody showed.

"JAMIE! I NEED YOU!" she cried.

Then out of nowhere, Jamie appeared only feet away from her.

He had multiple cuts over his body, but they were only small, not even bleeding, he was covered in dirt and sweat and he was obviously tired from running.

"Jamie" she sighed as she dashed towards him. She wrapped her arms around his chest.

Jamie was clearly taken aback by the movement, but returned the action all the same.

"Oh my god Brooke! Get off him!"

Brooke quickly pulled herself off of the boy and stepped away.

"The demon took Lindsay." she softly cried.

"Oh Brooke I'm so sorry." He sympathetically spoke, moving a step closer to the brunette.

"What do we do now? There's only two of us left."

Jamie didn't answer.

Brooke surveyed the boy standing in front of her.

"What happened to you?" she whispered, looking at his cuts.

"Oh umm, well I found the shack, eventually. I went inside, found a secret magical passage, and then ran into the demon, or one of his minions, I'm not 100% sure. I fought back as much as I could, then ran out trying to get away. Then I heard you call for me, and here I am." Jamie gushed.

"Did you see anyone else?" Brooke asked hopefully.

"No I didn't. But I'm sure that they're through that secret tunnel. I mean why else was someone guarding that area right." Jamie answered in a slight attempt to make Brooke feel better.

"Right then, come on" Brooke made her way to the back door and opened it.

"Don't you think you should stay here?" Jamie said walking to Brooke.

"No not really. The way I see it, is that everywhere is a danger zone. So we might as well stay together."

Jamie gave a half smile and they went back outside.

The storm had ended, thankfully. And the sun was almost completely visible, lighting their way.

Minutes later

Brooke let out a small chuckle.

Jamie crinkled his eyebrows, thinking that this was hardly the time for laughing.

"I can't believe that four of my cousins and my sister had to go missing just for us to talk again." Brooke's voice held a small bit of resentment.

Jamie's facial expression changed from confusion to guilt.

He sighed.

"You know mum's missing having you around. She misses having everyone around to be honest."

Brooke couldn't help but smile a little. She also missed the company of Jamie's mother from time to time.

"That's understandable. Tell her I miss her too when you leave….again" The last word she said had a hint of sadness in it. Which Jamie noticed.

"Will do." He forced a smiled onto his face. He hated how much he had hurt Brooke.

They finally found the shack.

Jamie opened the door letting both of them in.

"The portal should be here." Jamie pointed towards one of the walls.

"Alright then. Let's go" Brooke sauntered over to the wall.

Jamie, surprised at how confident Brooke had suddenly become, followed closely behind her.

There was a blinding light, then they were in a dark a dreary tunnel.

Brooke raised the corner of her upper-lip as she looked around.

"Mmm well isn't this lovely" Brooke's voice full of sarcasm.

"HELP!"

Brooke and Jamie twirled around.

"That was Peyton."

The pair ran as fast as they could towards the voice.

"HELP!" She screamed again.

Brooke and Jamie came to a sudden halt.

There was a big wooden door with a small window that had bars in-between.

"Oh my god Peyton" Brooke rushed over to the door, trying to open it.

Peyton hurried over.

"Brooke get me out of here." Peyton cried, reaching through the bars.

Jamie tried to break open the door, but no such luck.

"Peyton do you think if these bars weren't here, that you would be able to fit through the window?"

"I don't know, maybe." Peyton was trying to control her emotions.

"Okay Jamie, get those bars off there." Brooke waved one of her hands towards the metal bars.

"You're joking right. Brooke I'm not Superman. I can't just rip steel bars off of a door."

"I didn't mean like that. Why don't you try and melt the bars off?"

"Do you know how hot I would have to get for it to melt? I don't know if I can do that much. Plus I can't just melt things, I set fire to them" Jamie thinking over Brooke's request.

"C'mon Jamie. For Peyton……..For me." The last word she whispered.

Jamie found it hard to say no to Brooke under normal circumstances, so now he was finding it impossible.

He tightly gripped the bars. Brooke and Peyton both moved as far away from him as possible.

He closed his eyes and put all of his energy into melting the bars. Jamie's hands started to steam and turn red, along with the bars.

Peyton was in a somewhat confined cave, so the temperature where she was standing, even though it was away from Jamie, was rising.

A few more minutes later

Jamie's hands were now on fire (literally).

The bars turned to a liquid form.

Jamie nearly passed out from the amount of power he had just used.

"Okay Peyton try and get out." Brooke said, while Jamie was busy trying to breath properly again.

"Well done." Brooke smiled to Jamie.

Peyton hoisted herself up and squeezed through the gap.

The two helped Peyton back down onto the ground once she was fully out of the cave she had been trapped in.

"C'mon we need to hurry." Jamie rushed the girls.

They came across another door, identical to the one Peyton had been stuck behind. Only this time Haley was the one behind it.

The group repeated their actions a total of four more times (Haley, Chloe, Mel and Lindsay.)

Jamie fell to the ground unable to stand any longer.

Brooke instantly bent down, trying to help him get back onto his feet.

"Impressive." The demon clapped from behind a nearby rock.

"Oh my god!" Brooke, Lindsay and Chloe said in unison, completely shocked.

"Who's he?" Jamie and Mel asked, both of whom were barely conscious.

"Ryan?" Brooke somehow managed to say, still stunned at who was standing in front of them.

"Hello Brooke" The demon smiled.

"Are we suppose to know who that is?" Mel said, bewildered.

"This is Ryan. The boy or should I say demon, who let us use his cabin this weekend." Brooke now showing her anger.

"Yes. And I had everything planned out. It was quite simple actually, and it was going just how I wanted it to…Until someone here decided to call Jamie" Ryan spat, looking at the other boy.

"So what was this grand plan of yours?" Mel asked.

"Simple. I was going to dispose of you all, except for Brooke of course. Then when Brooke came back home, completely devastated by her loss, I would soon make her my queen." Ryan gave an evil smile.

"Oh how original" Peyton replied sarcastically, rolling her eyes.

"I swear it's like every freaking week some demon wants to make one of us his queen." She continued.

Ryan did not take this comment kindly. He snapped his fingers, summoning a group of his minions.

"Destroy them…..All." He glanced over at Brooke.

The demos charged forward.

Fireballs were thrown.

Fireballs were deflected.

Ryan stood and watched as many of his demons were vanquished.

"ENOUGH!" he yelled.

Chloe finished killing the final demon.

Ryan was not at all pleased.

"What that's it? That was just a workout in my book." Peyton said dusting herself off.

Ryan formed a fireball and threw it at Peyton.

Mel who was standing beside her managed to freeze the oncoming threat.

"Fireball." Lindsay waved her hand. Sending the fireball back to the demon.

But it only knocked him off his feet.

"Why didn't that kill him?" Mel nervously spoke "That should have killed him."

"I don't know what to do." Brooke whispered to Jamie.

"I have an idea, but I don't know if it'll work." he replied.

Ryan was slowly getting back up onto his feet.

Jamie turned to face Ryan, he closed his eyes and focused all of his remaining power on the demon.

Brooke motioned for the group to move away.

Ryan's head started to turn red, and he screamed in pain.

Jamie was clearly struggling.

Brooke noticed.

"You can do it Jamie." she encouraged him.

That was all the motivation he needed to carry on.

It was not long until Ryan's head was the brightest shade of red.

He took one last long scream, then he burst into flames, and exploded.

Jamie opened his eyes once again and fell to his knees, completely exhausted.

"Whoa" Peyton stated, as her and the other girls stood still, amazed at how much Jamie's powers had grown, in such a short amount of time.

Brooke hurried over to him, and put his arm around her shoulders, lifting him up.

"Brooke totally still likes him doesn't she?" Mel whispered to Haley.

"Totally." Haley smiled.

Half an hour later

The six girls and one boy were all sitting on the sofa's in the family room back at the cabin.

Jamie stood up and started to say goodbye to the others.

"Thank you again Jamie. You're a lifesaver." Peyton hugged him.

"Any time." He smiled.

"So…are you going back to you're friends house then?" Brooke asked.

"Erm..no, I think I'm gunna head home. Let mum know what's happened. And tell her how I totally kicked ass and saved all of you're lives." He grinned.

All of the girls smirked in return.

"Hey do you mind if I come with you?" Brooke asked.

The girls all turned to look at her.

"You know…just to say hi to you're mum." Brooke added.

Jamie carefully thought the question over, he wanted to say now, but agreed anyway.

"I'll be back soon." She said to her family.

Jamie took a hold of Brooke's hand. Then vanished.

"Bet you twenty bucks they'll be back together in a couple of weeks" Peyton quipped.

8:30am, Charlotte, North Carolina

Brooke and Jamie appeared in the entrance of Jamie's house.

Brooke quickly let go off Jamie's hand.

She looked around. This was the first time she had been in Jamie's new home.

"Mum?" Jamie shouted, knowing his mother would be up by now.

They heard the sound of footsteps coming closer towards them.

A blonde woman came into sight.

"Jamie?" she spoke, confused.

She instantly noticed the familiar girl standing beside her son.

"Brooke?" she asked even more confused, but was happy to see her none the less.

"Hey Aunt Billie." Brooke smiled.


A/N: Well that chapter took me a while to type, but I like how it came out. (Now that was my longest chapter). Okay so I've finished with the whole cabin in the woods thing, but I'm still going to continue with my next generation story. So if you have any ideas or suggestions of what you might like to happen in the next chapters, let me know =) Oh and if you hadn't figured it out already, Jamie's mum is Billie Jenkins =) Please Review. xoxo