I decided that since this one and the last one were the shorest that I would just double update for you all : )

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Ch.10

Annabell tried calling Reid on his cell phone but it just went straight to voicemail. And of course he had blocked her out of his mind after their fight earlier.

Annabell really didn't know why she had said those things to Reid. Some of it was true but most of it wasn't. She had really missed him while she had been gone and needed him more then he would ever know.

Annabell figuring that Reid had probably gone to Nicky's decided to look there first. She would have called one of the others but Pogue would have no idea and the other two were probably still mad at her.

When Annabell got to Nicky's she saw that Reid was there and like always at the pool table.

"50 bucks says I kick your ass. No powers." Annabell said smirking at him.

"50 bucks says I don't want to fuckin talk to you right now." Reid glared at her.

"We don't have to talk. Just play." She smirked back.

"Whatever." Reid said throwing his money down.

Annabell won the first game and Reid looked like he was about ready to punch something.

"Double or nothing." Reid said looking at her.

"I don't have any more money but how about if I win then you have to talk to me." She grinned.

"Fine and if I win then your not aloud to say a word to me for at least a week." Reid said grinning back.

Annabell didn't like the sounds of that. Reid really had to know what was going on with the whole Chase things now. But she knew that she could always just tell one of the other guys and they could tell him.

This game was much harder then the first but thankfully Annabell was able to win that one as well.

She heard Reid mumble obscenities under his breath as he put the cue away.

"Alright big brother time to talk. But first I'll get you a drink cause you're gonna need it."

Reid looked at her confused. His sister never would have wanted him drinking. This must be really really big.

When she got back to the table he noticed that she had gotten herself a beer as well. Oh man this must be bigger then big.

"Ok so I saw Chase today." Annabell blurted out breaking the silence.

Reid eyes got wide and then narrowed. "I fuckin knew it. I fuckin knew that you were still with him." He almost yelled.

"Be quite you idiot. No I am not still with him. After the colony house I went back to my dorm and found Chase and Lindsey together."

"Don't try to fuckin pin this on Lindsey. It's not her fault that you're a stupid whore." Reid said through a clenched jaw.

"Whatever Reid. The point is that you ascend in two days and Chase is coming after you. He wants more power and he plans on killing all of us." She said looking at her hands.

"All of us." Reid got out.

"All of us. You, me, Tyler, Caleb, and Pogue. All of us."

"You're really not with him huh." Reid asked looking her in the eyes. She never could lie well to him.

"No I'm not. But Lindsey is. She said that they have been partners the whole time. She was supposed to be my best friend. Imagine if Tyler did this to you." She said trying to compose herself.

Reid thought about it for a moment and realized that his sister must be in a lot of pain. Now he felt bad about not trusting her earlier. Lindsey was trying to pin them against each other the whole time.

"Oh shit." Reid muttered

"What." Annabell asked worriedly.

"That's why she didn't care that I was using. She wanted me to." He said swallowing a lump in his throat.

"I know. She already told me. And I promise Reid that I am not going to let you die. I know that you are addicted to the power but you are not going to die." She said putting her hand on top of his.

Reid immediately pulled it away. "And how can you promise that." He asked her not looking up form the table.

"When I was gone I learned a lot about spells and potions. I came up with a potion that should bind the part of your powers that age you."

Reids head shot up. "Why didn't you tell us this sooner?" He asked enraged.

"I didn't tell you because I needed you guys to trust me first."

"Trust you with what." Reid asked angrily.

"With protecting you." She said seriously.

"Wait why the hell would we need to be protected." Reid asked going from mad to confused.

"Because after I do it you will all be completely powerless for a couple of hours." She said looking him dead in the eye.

Reid just let his mouth hang open a bit. He couldn't even remember what it had been like to not have his powers and now his sister was telling him that he would be without them. And with a psycho killer after them.

"Well couldn't you do it one at a time so that then only one of us would be without power instead of all of us?" Reid asked hoping that the answer would be yes.

"Yeah I could but it takes a lot of time to make the potion so it would just be easier to make it all at once." She said realizing his fears.

"Well couldn't we just defeat Chase first then?" Reid asked not really wanting to do this.

"Yes we could wait but we don't know when he is going to strike. It could be before you ascend, during, or even way after. He could wait until Tyler has too and Reid I need to bind yours before you ascend." She said the last part quietly.

"Why." He asked not really wanting to know.

"Reid you already know the answer to that. If I don't do it before you ascend then you are going to die. I don't think that you will even make it through the ascension. I mean sure I could probably feed you my healing power during it but that isn't really a guarantee." She said not being able to look him in the eyes.

"So I really will die if I don't do this pretty much now." He asked already knowing the answer.

Annabell looked up with tears in her eyes. "Yes Reid you will and I can't have that. I know what I said earlier but I didn't mean it. I do need you. I always have, the truth is that I need you a lot more then you probably need me."

"I think we're probably about even." Reid said smirking at her.

"Ok well as much as I love the fact that we are kind of getting along I really think that we need to let the others know about all of this because I don't want them to think that I am keeping even more things then they already do."

"No one is mad at you anymore. Well I was but for earlier. Pogue told us about the whole thing with Tyler and we all understand now. And honestly I think that we all believed you over Lindsey to begin with. It was just easier to place the blame on someone. And as for Tyler he's just kinda insecure about your whole relationship. Honestly I don't think he believes that he is good enough for you. He's afraid that someone else will come along and take you from him."

"Ok when the hell did you get to be so deep?"

"I have no idea and I think that we should never tell anyone else that I have a heart." Reid said laughing.

The two of them left Nicky's

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