More Than That –Adopted- 10
Summary: After Aaron picks on Tyler, because of Reid, because Tyler is the youngest, Tyler gets fed up with being the Baby Boy. What will this do between the brothers? What happens when an old enemy comes back and makes it worse? Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN THE COVENANT OR THE CHARACTERS! R&R Adopted from Starstruk97 thanks so much!
Fallenqueen2: I am currently in a Covenant kick and I loved this fic and I'm really glad that Starstruck97 let me take over! :) So enjoy the adopted 'More than that'. Thanks to all who reviewed and faved, etc.
Chapter Ten
It had been a day since the incident with Chase at Marblehead. Caleb, Pogue and Reid had refused to let Tyler out of their sights even for a moment. They all ended up camping out in Caleb's house like they had done when they were little kids. The 1st day mostly consisted of eating and sleeping, trying to regain their energy after the fiasco.
Tyler woke up from a power forced (all 3 brothers ganged up on him) sleep feeling more energetic than he had been for the past few days. He took in his position of himself and his brothers around him, having to bite his lip hard to keep from 'aw'ing and laughing. Caleb was sprawled out on one of the armchairs, his limbs going everywhere as he softly snored. Pogue had stretched his long limbs down the length of the couch, hand dangling down by Reid, fingers twitching every so often with his mouth hanging open. Reid was curled up in a ball by Pogue's hand; his head was on Tyler's leg. Who was lying on his back beside the couch, head close to Pogue's head and Caleb's foot. Tyler could feel pins and needles spreading up his thigh. He made a thinking face as he wondered how he was going to get out of this spot without waking his brother's up. He reached down and lightly smacked Reid's cheek but the blonde didn't so much as flinch.
Tyler smiled a bit; he knew Reid was a heavy sleeper so this could work to his advantage. He very gently and carefully lifted Reid's head up before moving his legs out of the way and placing a pillow that he had curled up under his arm in the place of his leg. Reid's lips twitched before he fell still and silent again, pushing his face into the feathered pillow. Tyler stood up and tip toed from the room into the large bathroom across the silent and darkened hall.
Once in the bathroom he shook out his leg before hopping into a warm shower. As he stood under the rain showerhead inside the granite shower stall his mind wandered. He was thinking about what was the point of Chase taking him over was, for the life of him he couldn't find any decent reason as to why the older teen took such an interest in him. He would be the last of the group to come into his powers so up until then he is no match for anyone who has ascended. So, why?
Minutes passed as the bathroom steamed up, Tyler stopped the water flow before stepping out and toweling himself off. Using his hand he wiped the steam from the mirror and almost had a heart attack.
Behind him in the mirror was Chase. Eyes black as night and he was raising his hand, Tyler whirled around letting his eyes bleed black but no one was there. Tyler blinked letting his eyes revert back to their normal baby blue before he slid down the bathroom wall and held his head in his hands.
"I must be going insane." He muttered taking deep calming breaths as he ran his hands down his neck, his right hand went over a bump on his collar bone causing him to pause up. He frowned and pulled himself back to his feet and looked in the mirror to see a purple colored bump on his collarbone standing out from his skin.
Tyler's frown deepened it looked a lot like a bump after one of Chase's spiders entered its victim's body. With that thought Tyler started to freak out. He started to pace inside the bathroom with only a towel wrapped around his waist, trying to remember when Chase could have done that to him a second time, should he tell his brothers? What on earth is happening?!
Brief images flashed in front of Tyler's eyes. He couldn't catch them because they went by rapidly. Tyler rubbed his eyes with the front of his right hand trying to stop the numbing feeling that was spreading throughout his temple. Tyler pulled back on his PJs and stumbled into the room were his brothers were still sleeping.
Reid had Tyler's pillow that he had his arms curled around. Tyler collapsed onto a free chair on the other side of the couch Pogue were passed out on. He leaned his head back and closed his eyes, quickly falling into a dream state, the bite mark on his collarbone seemed to expand slightly as Tyler's eyes flickered behind his closed eyelids.
Tyler was walking through a pumpkin patch of all places on Halloween night just a few miles away from town. The moon was full and slightly peeking out from behind the dark threatening clouds. He looked around the foggy patch he soon spotted an outline of a figure a few feet away. Maybe it was Reid, Caleb or Pogue. Tyler wanted to call out as his feet carried him closer to the figure as if on autopilot. His voice caught in his throat when he saw dark crimson blood dripping slowly down from the teen's hands that were hanging loosely at his side. The teen was Chase Collins.
"They wouldn't will me their power." Chase said sadly moving away to show the shredded bodies of Reid, Caleb and Pogue. Tyler fell to his knees and retched, the smell of rotting flesh and blood reached his nose and he emptied his stomach once again. His whole body was shaking like he caught a cold.
"If only you had been able to convince them Baby Boy." Chase's cold voice pierced his ears. "This is on you Tyler. If you had only convinced them they would still be alive."
"No…No please… NOOOOO!" Tyler sobbed and then he was falling into a dark nothingness.
Tyler woke up with a jolt, his whole body was covered in a thin layer of sweat he was breathing heavily but he was the only one awake in the room still.
"What was that?" Tyler grumbled as he pulled his blanket up higher to cover his head and he stayed like that until he heard his brother's start to wake up and he acted like he too was just waking up as well. They didn't seem to notice anything different about him and if they did they just wrote it off as all the stress from the past week coming back. They were partly right but they wouldn't know until it was too late.