AUTHORS NOTE:

Okay Dokey. So I wanted to clear this up, don't' panic there is no incest in my version of the reckoning, Simon and Tori in my story are not brother and sister, hence the flirty flirty. I know in the actual books they are but I wanted to do some things differently, this was one.

Right, that said, here's my new chappy.

DISCLAMER:

I do NOT own any of the D.P series characters or the basic premise for my story which was taken from the books, Kelly Armstrong owns all that.

However, any characters thatI have added and the general direction I've taken the sory in is mine because I made it up.

Hope you kids enjoy, review and let me know what you think, I love reading what you have to say

Christina x

(CHLOE'S POV)

Tori's story was horrific to hear.

In the month that followed her best friend's death, James Dawn had infiltrated the grieving family through the sister. He helped with funeral arrangements, held his girlfriend's hand and even let her mother cry on his shoulder. The whole thing made Tori feel sick.

She knew he was responsible, and he knew that she knew. He rubbed her nose in it.

He would meet her at the school gate and walk her home, to passers-by it was simply an older boy helping the young girl who had lost her best friend. But he used these walks to get into her head.

When the coroner's report came out, it didn't take long for the police to see him for what he was.

At the time he was only 17, but he was tried as an adult because of the crimes. Jenna was not the first girl, only the first to inadvertently tell her story.

The thought of what Tori was telling me made me cold to the core.

"He's been in prison since before that photo could have been taken so what the fuck is he doing in it?!"

I think at that point we all had the same thought. He must have had some kind of power and the Edison Group wanted him for it.

But, why was he dead? Did he prove to be just another failed experiment like us? Was he too powerful to control like me or Tori? Was he taking too long to turn like Derek? Did he not have enough power for them like Simon?

I looked at Derek, he was hovering by the door with Simon. He tried to hide it before I saw, but he looked, for a second, like he was going to kill someone.

"Chloe, if Simon helps Tori to cast a spell that will trap him in this room, do you think you could.."

I cut him off I knew what he was thinking already, "bring him back? I can try. That photo should help me shouldn't it?"

Tori was shaking her head, "Why do we have to bring him back he's gone. And if Chloe saw his ghost then there's no way he can ever come back".

Simon walked over to her, "We need to know why he was here. What they wanted him for. It may have some kind of bearing on our situation here".

I knew she wasn't happy but she agreed and they went into the kitchen. That left me and Derek.

"Should we, turn off all the electrics and move all the heavy furniture out of the way so that no-one else gets hurt?" It was a week attempt to busy myself so that we didn't end up standing at opposite sides of the room, awkwardly avoiding eye contact the way we usually do. It worked.

"Yeah…I'll sort the furniture if you unplug everything, and when we get upstairs I'll fix Andrews room", there was a pause and the room was thick with silence. I nodded like one of those dogs you put on a dashboard of a car, then realised how silly all of this was and a huge grin grew on my face as I started laughing at the oddness of the situation. I must have looked like a right idiot bursting into a fit of laughter for no apparent reason, which only made me laugh harder.

Derek just looked perplexed, "You ok their Chloe?"

I waved at him, nodding but continued to laugh at the confused look on his face. Tori and Simon came through.

"What's up with her?" Simon and Tori had the same confused look on their faces as Derek.

I started trying to breath. "I'm fine, I just thought this…" I pointed between Derek and myself, "…was rather funny. Here we are in an old abandoned, haunted house. Life threatening situation after life threatening situation, and yet Derek and I can't be in the same room alone without an awkward silence".

Tori began giggling behind the sofa. Simon went back into the kitchen. Derek just stood there like he had no-idea what to do or say.

"ok, ok. Look…I'm pulling the plug on this conversation" I unplugged the tv and Tori Burst into a fit of laughter at the same time as me, I could hear Simon laughing in the kitchen and Derek, finally, began to smile as he turned to move a rather large bookcase.

We worked our way around the house pretty quickly. Tori and Simon where casting downstairs and I was finishing pulling out the plugs in what Tori and I had claimed as our room when we arrived. Derek appeared at the door.

"I finished in Andrews's room…You done in here?" I nodded and moved toward the door.

"Come with me" I closed the door and then pulled him toward the bathroom and made him sit on the bath next to the sink. I then picked up the scissors Tori had discarded in the sink from earlier on, rinsed them and went to cut a stich but he stopped me.

"Would you rather Tori do it? I'm sure she'd be quicker at it..."

"No" he let my hand go and turned his head a little "just, cut them all and then pull them out gently so…"

"So that none of the thread is left behind and you end up with a foreign body stuck in your head. Got it", I waited a second then started.