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Ch.9 Who Needs to Sleep
(CLARE)
Clare gasped and turned around to see Fitz looming over her with nothing less than pure lust in his eyes. She took in a deep breath to scream but before she could his mouth was on hers crushing her lips in a violent kiss!
Clare shut her eyes tight and tried to push him away but his grip on her was to strong. The kiss seemed to last forever, Clare was having trouble getting air and she kept trying struggle from his grasp. It wasn't until they heard the front door close and Jake start to ascend the stairs that Fitz finally pulled away.
He grabbed her by the back of the neck in a violent gesture, forcing her to look in his eyes. "Obedience Clare, we'll be watching so no tricks." With that Fitz licked his lips and disappeared out her window.
The sudden sound of Jake knocking on her door caused her to jump. "Clare!" He called from the other side of the door.
"Changing." She said quickly hoping he couldn't hear the falter in her voice.
"Are you okay? Adam and Eli told me…" She cut him off.
"About the note and everything else that happened with Reese today. I figured they would but I'm fine and I have a lot of homework, if you don't mind." She said curtly in one breath.
"Okay, I'll be in my room…if you need anything." Jake said, he sounded unsure and Clare didn't know if was because he didn't believe her or not.
Clare heard him take a few steps and then heard the door to his room close. She sank to the floor and pulled her knees to her chest. She took her sleeve and began wiping her lips, desperately trying to get the feeling of Fitz off of her.
Suddenly her phone rang and Clare jumped again. She pulled it from her purse, the display said unknown number. She swallowed hard, knowing who it must be, at first she wasn't going to answer but then she feared what they might do if she didn't. She clicked the answer button silently hoping that it was nothing more than a wrong number.
"Hello?" She said hesitantly.
"Trying to wipe my taste off? I feel offended, maybe I should come back in there and give you another kiss, or something else." Fitz's voice came through the phone making Clare shiver.
"No. Don't Jake is right next store to my room he'll hear you." She said her voice was flat and steady but she was shaking.
She could hear Fitz and Reese laughing on the other end of the phone. "Just remember we're watching. Your lip gloss tastes awesome by the way, we'll be back for another taste…but we'll wait until flannel boy won't interrupt us." And then he hung up and the line went dead.
Clare shook both from fright and disgust. She got up from the floor and went to her window shutting it tight and closing her blinds. She half expected her phone to ring again and have them yell at her for closing her blinds, but her phone remained silent and she let out a sigh of relief.
Later that night she sat at the dinner table with Jake, her Mom and Glen. She had forced herself to eat, to appear normal on the outside and not let on to how scared she actually was on the inside. While she had forced herself to eat she wasn't taking part in the conversation.
"How was your day Clare?" Her Mom asked.
"Fine Mom." She said and then noticed Jakes slight scowl when she said this. Her parents didn't seem to notice so she ignored him. She looked at Glen. "We're doing reports on home security for class and I was wondering what you thought about the security of our house Glen? You know since you're a professional contractor and all."
Glen looked pleased that she'd taken an interest, but Clare saw that Jake was giving her a half suspicious half concerned look.
"Well I think this home is quite safe, the sliding glass door in the back has a security bar. The garage door locks form the inside, and the entry has a lock on the interior and exterior doors." Glen told her.
"Yep that's what I thought too, umm what about the second floor?" She asked hoping Jake wouldn't catch on.
"Oh it's pretty difficult for anyone to get in through the second floor. We don't have any balconies or fire escapes, I'd say it's very safe."
"Thanks Glen that helps." She smiled and finished her dinner.
After dinner Jake and Clare were doing the dishes, Jake looked around the downstairs and then turned to Clare.
"What was that at dinner?" He asked her.
"What was what?" She feigned ignorance.
Jake put down his drying towel and took her arm so she was facing him. "Asking my Dad how secure the house is? Are you worried about Reese and Fitz breaking in?"
"Well after Fitz managed to get in my room somehow to put that…gift on my bed I just…" She trailed off.
Jake sighed his new brother instincts were telling him to comfort her but he just didn't know what he could possibly say to make her feel better. "Look I'll finish the dishes go get some rest."
Clare smiled and took off the dish gloves. "Thanks Jake." She gave him a small hug and went upstairs.
3:00 AM her clock read, Clare sighed she just couldn't get to sleep, every time she tried she would hear a noise outside and think Fitz or Reese or both, was trying to get in. She thought about waking up Jake and telling him but he might wake up their parents. She had to do something she was starting to panic, her mind racing through the what ifs. She grabbed her phone from her nightstand and went into the bathroom. She fingered through her contacts wondering who to call. Eli's meds usually put him into a deep sleep for the night. Alli was not a possibility she'd freak out. Adam of course why hadn't she thought of him in the first place? She clicked his name and the call option and then waited.
One ring…
Two rings…
Three…
She was beginning to think he was to heavy a sleeper to her his phone but then she heard him pick up.
"Hmmm hlo?" He asked drowsily.
"Adam I'm sorry to call so late but I didn't know what else to do." Her voice was shaking more than she had intended.
"Clare! What's wrong? Are you okay? What happened?" Adam asked in one breath, he sounded fully alert now.
"I'm okay but I can't sleep I'm worried that…Fitz said…I…."
"Clare why can't you sleep? Please tell me what happened?" Adam's gentle voice begged from the other end of the line.
"Don't be mad okay?"
"You asking me not to be mad means I probably will be, so I can't promise that. Just tell me what happened to scare you enough that your still awake at three in the morning." Adam said with a stern tone.
Clare sighed, "Fine just don't yell and wake up your parents." She begged and then took a deep breath before continuing, "When you and Eli dropped me off and I went to my room, Fitz was waiting for me. I didn't see him until it was too late. I tried to scream but before I could he kissed me!"
"He did WHAT?!" Adam's voice was a hissing yell of a whisper.
"He released me from the kiss when he heard Jake coming up the stairs but grabbed the back of my neck hard and said they'd be watching. He went through the window before Jake got to my door. I started wiping him off my lips and my phone rang, it was them. Fitz knew I'd been wiping my lips. He said they'd be back for another taste." She confessed taking another deep breath when she was done.
"You didn't tell Jake or come down and get us?"
"They said no tricks, I was scared what they might do and I was so shocked from having Fitz kiss me I wasn't really thinking. Besides I didn't want the three of you searching the neighborhood for them." Clare explained.
"Clare you…" She could hear the exasperation in his voice and could practically see the scowl on his face through the phone, "Wake up Jake get him to sit with you, it's pretty late but I'm not taking the chance that they'll break into your room again. I can't sleep now either so I'm going to wake up Drew. This is serious Clare, I know we were right downstairs and all but he…just go wake up Jake and keep your phone with you."
"Okay I'm going now. Adam you're not going to call Eli are you?" She asked standing up from the edge of the bathtub where she'd been sitting.
"No he needs to sleep but you can tell him and the others at school in the morning, as soon as I think they're awake I'm going to call them and arrange for us all to meet before school."
"Okay thanks Adam, I'm hanging up to go wake up Jake now." She didn't wait for a reply just hung up the phone.
(ADAM)
The dial tone came through his phone and Adam hit the end button. He sighed and shook his head. He couldn't believe that bastard had been in Clare's room, knowing that Jake was there, and he and Eli were just downstairs. Not just had he been in her room but he'd kissed her! Adam got out of his bed finding a pair of sweats and a shirt on his floor and pulling them on. Then he left his room and slowly opened the door to Drew's room. He grabbed the clothes lying over Drew's desk chair. Then he went over and threw the blankets off of his brother, and grabbing his arm tried to yank Drew off the bed.
"Mmmm Adam! What the Fuck it's not time for school." Drew's voice was gravely from sleep and he was trying to pull his arm away and lay back down.
"I know but I need you in the basement so we can talk without waking Mom and Dad."
"Can't it wait till morning?"
"No Clare just called."
Drew's eyes shot open, "What happened?"
Adam gave him the clothes, "Get dressed I'll tell you in the basement."
(JAKE)
"Jake…Jake wake up I need you." A soft quiet voice broke into his sleep. He blinked his eyes and rubbed them trying to focus on reality.
"Clare?" He questioned a little unsure as to whether he was dreaming still.
"Yes. Please get up I'm scared and I can't sleep."
Hearing the fear in her voice he sat up quickly and grabbed the pajama pants hanging over the foot of his bed. Clare turned her back and he slipped them on, then he gently placed a hand on her back.
"Let's go downstairs so we don't wake Dad and Helen." He whispered, she nodded and they made their way downstairs.
The curtains were drawn and it was quite dark save for the glow on the cable box in the living room and the microwave in the kitchen. They sat down on the couch and Clare took a deep breath.
"Remember that Mom and Glen are sleeping so don't yell." She warned and Jake nodded.
(ADAM)
"I can't believe Fitz waited in her room for her for god knows how long, with Jake in the house, and then attacked her while you three were just downstairs." Drew said angrily after Adam had told him.
"I feel like she's not safe in her own house, they said they were watching her." Adam said his voice tinted with worry and anger.
"Yeah me too." Drew confessed, "They're either smarter than we think or fearless, either way it ain't good."
(ELI)
He stood on the fifty yard line of the DeGrassi football field with Jake and Clare, holding the latter in his arms. Adam had called him at six that morning asking to meet there before school. Eli knew something was up but Clare wasn't talking until the others got there. She looked tired though, and so did Jake. Soon the others were there and they all looked at Clare.
"When Eli and Adam walked me home yesterday they stayed downstairs to talk to Jake and when I went to my room Fitz was there. I didn't see him until it was too late, I tried to scream but he kissed me." Clare confessed while looking at her shoes.
His face hardened and his arms around her waist got tighter automatically, he looked up at the others and they all looked livid.
But she wasn't done yet she continued talking. "He finally broke the kiss when he heard Jake coming upstairs but grabbed the back of my neck and said they'd be watching. Then he went out the window. Jake checked on me and then I wiped my lips to get Fitz off them. My phone rang and it was Fitz and he said he could see me wiping my lips, he also said that they'd be back for another taste." Clare finished.
For a few minutes they all just stood there irately staring into nothing. And then they all seemed to talk at once. Shouting and talking over each other about what to do and how to kill Reese and Fitz. Clare turned into Eli burying her head into his chest. He kissed her forehead in an effort to comfort her.
"Can we go to the police NOW!" Connor asked.
"Connor's right this has got to be stalking." K.C. said.
Eli felt Clare shake her head on his chest.
"Clare the police can…" He started but she put her head up and cut him off.
"Can't do anything! I have no proof other my word that Fitz was in my room. At best they issue a restraining order, which is nothing more than a piece of paper. They won't patrol the house or anything. They could still get in. And the police will tell my Mom which will just cause her to worry and…just no! It's bad enough I dragged all of you into this." With that Clare grabbed Eli's hand and began walking toward the school.
Update soon
What will Fitz and Reese do next?
