Please, please, please. Do not kill me, okay? I am so sorry for not updating as fast as I should. I'm a raging Ho-bo, and I apologize.

Uh… lots of things happening in this chapter, so… ENJOY :]

Disclaimer: I don't own South of Nowhere… -cries-

Spencer awoke to the blaring sunlight hitting her face. She opened her eyes slowly, as she squinted to see. She was in a large bed, in a much larger room, it definitely wasn't her room. She sat up quickly, a confused look plastered on her face.

"Jesus Spence, how long can you sleep for?" Spencer snapped her head to an open door leading to a hallway. Ashley was standing there with two coffees in her hand. Spencer stretched and shrugged. Ashley walked over to the bed and sat down besides Spencer, offering her one of the cups of coffee

"I'm not sure. How long was I out?" She asked and snatched the coffee, breathing in its intoxicating scent.

"Well… it's one in the afternoon now." Ashley informed her. Spencer looked up at Ashley as here eyes got wide. "Don't worry, your brothers are covering for you." Spencer sighed in relief and took a large gulp of coffee. They sat in silence for a good while, just drinking coffee.

"I um… Thank you Ashley, for everything." Spencer piped up quietly. "You've really pulled through for me. I know I have Glen and Clay, but they're my brothers they have to be there." She paused to chuckle followed by a small raspy laugh by Ashley. "But you, you've just been there for me, and I appreciate it." Spencer said, while blushing, and looking down at her lap that had just become somewhat more interesting.

"Spence… Spence." Ashley placed two fingers on Spencer's chin and brought her face up, bringing them eye to eye. "No matter what happens, I'm going to be there for you." Ashley said softly and smiled. Her face inched closer to Spencer's determination written all over it. "Please, don't freak out." She whispered before closing the gap between them and bringing their lips together.

On instinct Spencer stiffened, and Ashley slowly pulled away, thinking it was all a mistake. However, Spencer surprised her by placing a hand on Ashley's cheek, and pressing her lips firmer than previously. Ashley's eyes fluttered, as she savored that moment. The kiss wasn't over-bearing, nor was it too innocent. It was simply, perfect. Ashley pulled away after few moments, her eyes still closed, but her lips parted slightly.

"See? Not freaking out." Spencer squeaked out. Ashley opened her eyes and gave Spencer a grin from ear-to-ear. Spencer returned the smile with her famous tilt of her head. Her hand was still on Ashley's cheek and she was caressing it subconsciously, which drove Ashley insane. Spencer took a moment to take in Ashley's looks, to really see the true beauty Ashley possessed. From the deep soulful, yet puppy dog style brown eyes Ashley had, to the two adorable laugh lines that were symmetrically placed on either side of her mouth. To Spencer, Ashley at that moment emulated perfection in her eyes. "Beautiful." Spencer murmured out almost in audibly. They stayed frozen like that until Ashley broke out into a huge blush.

"What?" She asked, and ducked her head down. Spencer chuckled and shook her head.

"It's nothing… I just, I kind of wanted to kiss you again." Spencer admitted guiltily. Ashley smirked at this and leaned closer.

"Well what's stopping you?" She asked in a husky tone. Spencer tilted her head with a smile and moved in slowly.

"Hey Ash did you bring… Oh!" Spencer and Ashley froze at the voice. Ashley snapped her head to the doorway, it was Kyla with a look of deer in headlights plastered on her face.

"Kyla…"

"Um… I'm so sorry. Look I'm just going to turn around and, and walk away and pretend like this never happened, right?" Kyla squeaked out and nodded her head at her sister. Ashley glared at her sister and handed her cup of coffee to Spencer. "Ashley… think about this. It was a complete accident, right?"

In an instant, Ashley was out of the bed and chasing Kyla down the stairs screaming, "I'm going to kill you, do you hear me?! Aiden is going to have to reattach every limb you have… and then some!"

Spencer sat there on Ashley's bed, partially confused then, broke out into a fit of laughter. She shook her head at the two sisters and put the two cups of coffee on Ashley's nightstand before getting up to maneuver around the large house. At that moment a blood curdling scream echoed through the house. "Follow the screams then."

And of course, that is what Spencer did. She followed the screams she could only guess were from Kyla all the way to the kitchen where she found Kyla on the kitchen island surrounded by a fort of pots and pans, blocking Ashley from beating her with a broom.

"Ashley! It was an accident! I'm sorry." Kyla exclaimed before holding up a sautéing pan to avoid another sweep of the broom.

"I'm sure, ever since you started living with me, all you've been is a cock-block!" Ashley yelled, trying to hit Kyla again. "All the other times I wouldn't of cared, but I really like Spencer, and you're ruining everything." She yelled. Spencer laughed to herself and began to turn a slight pink.

"Ashley, just give it a rest, killing me won't help anything!" Kyla retorted, trying to dodge another sweep of the broom, but failed and was hit. She started to fall back, toward the ground.

"Stop!" Spencer screamed, and the room froze, literally. Spencer stood there shocked, Kyla was halfway to the floor and Ashley was frozen trying to grab Kyla's hand to bring her back up her face full of a new fear. Spencer walked around the two in awe. Everything was frozen in space, like a still from a movie. "How the-"

"It's a power of yours." Spencer jumped at the voice. She spun around and saw a middle aged man with blond hair and sea blues eyes standing there. He had wings that were expanded. They were an elegant brown that stretched out proudly. Spencer eyed the man carefully, and stepped back.

"Who… who are you?" She asked slowly. "And how did I do that?"

"I am in simple words, a friend." The man said with a curt nod. "It looks like your powers are manifesting sooner than I thought." Spencer stiffened at the man and clenched her fists together. The man noticed this and gave her a weak smile. "I'm not here to harm you. I know you are the chosen Nephilim." Spencer froze and went wide-eyed. Oh crap, this might be one of the powers. Shit, shit, shit he's going to kill me. The man chuckled. "I'm not going to kill you Spencer." Spencer opened her mouth to speak. "One of my powers is overseeing the mind, and I am not a power, nor have I ever been. I am an angel however, I've fallen from grace twice over. I'm here to warn you. The powers will soon realize where you are, they'll come for you. Trust Michael and Ariel, please. I fear I will not be around long enough to help you along."

"Michael? The Michael?" Spencer asked in disbelief. "God's right-hand man?"

"Things have changed Spencer. Heaven is not what it used to be. Angels have become hungry for power. Michael and a select few others are the only ones that have not been tainted by the light-bringers ways. Michael and Ariel will come to you." The man looked up, his face turned tense. "I must leave now. Take care Spencer." The man paused before he left and said a final seven words. "You look so much like your mother." And then he was gone. Spencer raised an eyebrow at him and looked around.

"Hey! Get back here!" She yelled into the frozen room. "Who are you?! How do you know my mother!" Spencer heard nothing. In a fit of anger she kicked one of the frozen pans into a cabinet. "Damnit," she scolded herself. She stood for a minute and ran her hands through her hair. She turned around and noticed Kyla and Ashley still frozen. "Um…" Spencer walked right up behind Kyla and held her arms out. She closed her eyes tight and concentrated of getting everything back to normal.

"Ah!" Spencer heard a squeak followed by a weight shift on her arms. She opened her eyes, Kyla hand landed in her arms perfectly and Ashley was now staring at her in disbelief. Spencer looked between Kyla and Ashley and immediately set Kyla down on the ground, only to be bear hugged by her. "Spencer! Thank you so much! Do you see her? She's trying to kill me!" Kyla practically yelled and ran off, leaving Spencer behind in a confused wake.

"Oh just you wait!" Spencer blinked back into reality just to see Ashley pass her, following Kyla.

"Hey, hey!" Spencer called out, grabbing Ashley by the arm and stopping her immediately. Ashley tried to walk but with Spencer's strength he just huffed and stood still. "Calm down. It's not the end of the world."

"IwantedmySpencerkiss." Ashley grumbled out in irritability. Spencer couldn't help but laugh at Ashley's cute aggravated look. She leaned in and quickly pecked Ashley on the lips.

"Better, Grouchy?" Ashley glared quickly, then broke out into a goofy grin and nodded. Spencer smiled quickly at Ashley. "Something happened when you were fighting with Kyla, something with me." Ashley groaned and stomped her foot on the ground.

"Oh man, please don't tell me you thought it was hot and want a three-some. I've heard that too many times already." Ashley said with an overworked sigh. Spencer grimaced and she shook her head.

"God no, just, no! Wrong on so many levels there." Spencer said and fake gagged. "When you hit Kyla, I kind of froze the room." Ashley raised an eyebrow at Spencer and folded her arms over he chest.

"Why am I finding this easy to believe?" Ashley replied slowly. Spencer shrugged with a sigh. "Go on, I fear there's more to this."

"An angel appeared. He was warning me, the powers are going to be looking for me soon. He told me to trust the Archangels Michael and Ariel. They'll help me." Spencer rubbed her eyes and shook her head. "Before he left, he told me I looked so much like my mother. I need to find him. He knows so much." Spencer told Ashley.

"Well, we'll look for him right? He's bound to appear again, right?" Ashley asked. Spencer shrugged and hugged herself, looking down at the ground. Ashley frowned and engulfed Spencer into a hug. "We'll get the answers, alright?"

"Why do you keep saying 'we'?" Spencer asked, her face buried into Ashley's shoulder. Ashley stood there for a moment then, she shrugged simply.

"Because, I told you I was going to be there for you, even now, hell especially now. I'm not going to turn my back on you." Ashley said confidently. She felt a warm breath on her shoulder, and a muffled reply. "Huh?"

"I said, thank you." Spencer replied in a clearer tone, her face coming out of Ashley's shoulder. Spencer gave Ashley a quickly smile before returning her head into Ashley's shoulder.

"Are you sure you don't want to go anywhere else?" Ashley asked as she pulled up to Spencer's house. Spencer shrugged and shook her head.

"I need to go back home sometime or else my parents will think you've kidnapped me and performed experiments." Spencer said with a smile and lightly squeezed Ashley's hand that was currently entwined with hers.

"Not yet I haven't." Ashley said slyly. Spencer looked at her seriously for a moment then laughed out loud.

"Real Funn-" A loud crash interrupted Spencer. She turned her head to her house and stared in fear. Her house was on fire. She let go of Ashley's hand and was out of the car in two seconds flat. She looked in the sky, four angels were flying in circles above it.

"Spencer…"

"Ash, please just stay there." Spencer pleaded with Ashley and ran into her house quickly. When Spencer entered all that used to be her house was in shambles now. Pieces were on fire, and things were destroyed. "Glen, Clay, Mom, Dad?!" She called out into the house.

"Spencer!" Spencer ran into the kitchen, finding Glen and Clay huddled over in the corner away from and debris.

"Oh God, are you guys okay? Where are Mom and Dad?" Spencer asked, rushing over to them and huddling down.

"We're fine, Mom and Dad are both at work, thankfully." Clay started.

"Spence, we don't know what the fuck is going on, but you've got to get out of here." Glen stated, another burst of fire fell into the house, right into the kitchen, beside the three Carlin siblings. "What the hell?!" Glen yelled. Spencer turned back and winced.

"This is my fault." She whispered. She looked up into the sky, the four angels were still circling over the house. "Go to the basement, okay? You should be okay there." Glen and Clay shared a worried look with each other before turning to Spencer. "Come on, go!" Spencer stood up and grabbed Glen and Clay by the collar and threw them out of the kitchen, toward the basement door. "Go!" She commanded again.

"We love you Spencer." Clay told her as if it were his last time going to see her, which it just might of been. Spencer looked at her brothers and nodded at them. They opened the door to the basement and went down quickly.

"Now what…" Spencer whispered to herself.

"Spence?! Spence, you okay?" Spencer froze at the voice, it was Ashley. She rushed toward the front of the house.

"Ashley get out of here!" Spencer yelled. Another burst of flame was thrown down on the ground, between Ashley and Spencer. The only thing Spencer saw was Ashley's body being thrown down. "Ashley!" Spencer's wings stretched out and she flew up into the sky to get a better look. The fire had hit part of a wall and trapped the bottom half of Ashley's body with it. Spencer looked up at the four angels circling above her. Two had white wings, the other two shared brown.

"Come on filthy Nephilim. Fight back!" One screamed. Spencer frowned at them and began to fly up. Almost instantly she was pushed back by a new coming angel with white wings. She had long blond hair and green illuminating eyes. Spencer looked up into the sky, a sixth angel came into the play, brown wings. He began to send angel fire at the other for from all sorts of sides.

"Come on, we have to go." The blond angel told Spencer. Spencer looked up to the sky then back at Ashley, she wasn't just going to leave her to die.

"I need to get Ashley." Were the only words that could come out of Spencer's mouth. The blond angel rolled her eyes and nodded.

"Then get her. Michael can't take on four powers at once." She exclaimed. Spencer raised an eyebrow. If he was Michael, then this one must be Ariel.

"You're Ariel, aren't you." Ariel nodded impatiently.

"Yes, no time for questions. Go get the girl quick, we need to leave." Ariel looked down at Ashley, she would need lots of healing. "I can heal her, just hurry." Spencer nodded and flew down to the house quickly. She picked the wall that had Ashley trapped and lifted Ashley into her arms bridal style. She flew back up into the air along with Ariel. Together, they flew up toward the battling angels. "Michael, I have the girl. We need to escape."

Michael turned only briefly to acknowledge Ariel and Spencer. He nodded and pulled out two angel swords. The fire surrounding them was different than any of the other ones that the powers had. They were a magnificent blue flame. He clinked them together, and in one quick movement spread the fire out like it was a dragon flying in the sky. The four powers dodged the move and disappeared in a flash. Michael sighed diminished his swords. She turned back to Ariel and Spencer and flew to them, stopping when he was about five feet away.

He stood proudly, depicted perfectly from words to reality. He had brown shaggy short hair and light blue eyes, and his stature was well built. The only thing missing was a toga, Michael was dressed in normal attire, jeans, t-shirt and a green army jacket. "We need to get far away from here." He said solemnly. He looked over to Spencer holding an unconscious Ashley and raised an eyebrow, but did not mention it.

"How far?" Spencer asked. Michael had an unreadable look on his face. He looked to Ariel for an answer. Ariel sighed and shrugged.

"How do you feel about Europe?"

Oh yes. I went there. I sooo went there. Wait… where did I go… beats the hell out of me. All I know is that I'm back! And I'm better than ever… well not really but lots of inspiration has kicked in, and I'm ready to go. And just to let you know, already writing the next chapter!

So... review? ya? You know I like them :D