Hey, sorry this took so long, been studying so much. So here's the chapter where Cassie find out almost everything. ENJOY XD XX

Cassie's POV

"I hope she will be okay," whispered a male voice. "I really hope she stays calm enough to find out what's been going on."

"Well, how would you react?" questioned a very pissed of female.

Where the hell was I? I slowly opened my eyes only to shut them again immediately in shock to how bright the strange room was. The girl must have noticed my movement because she was suddenly at my side stroking my hair and asking if I was okay. All I say in reply was a very gruff yes. My throat felt like sandpaper, dry and very rough, verging on painful but I couldn't feel much.

"Tyler, I think she needs a drink." I recognised the name.

"Sure, here." He said handing....Sarah, yeh that was it, Sarah a bottle of water. I slowly opened my eyes and sat up, feeling very light headed. I took the bottle from Sarah and took a long, soothing drink.

"Hey, how do you feel?" asked Sarah again.

This time it was easier for me to reply, "erm....not so bad, a bit rough, what happened?" Sarah and Tyler looked at each other, having a silently conversation that I had no clue about. "Seriously, what happened?" Once I'd said it, everything came flooding back. Sarah's panic at who my brother was. Her insisting that we needed to tell the boys. Their shock at know she was formally called Cassie Collins. Reid's hands around her....no....no way.... he could have....he wouldn't have. No Reid wouldn't have tried to....no I wouldn't believe it.

Sarah had caught on that I was remembering what had happened earlier. I could feel fresh tears rolling down my cheeks, I shook my head trying to rid myself of such thoughts. I couldn't believe Reid would have done that but it must have been true. I turned my face up to Sarah who was now sitting on the bed with me. "Did Reid really...." I couldn't bring myself to say it out loud.

This was obviously making Tyler uncomfortable, "I'll go phone Caleb and tell him she's awake." He turned and left the dorm.

"Now Cassie, I know you'll be a bit shaken up but you need to wait here till Caleb and the others get back. Hopefully they will be able to explain this better than I can. They shouldn't be long." Just as she said this Tyler came back into the room.

"They're just on their way back."

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We sat in silence until Caleb, Pogue and Reid got back. When they came into the room they all wore neutral expressions. Pogue was the first to speak, "hey Cas, how you feeling?"

"As good as someone can do after almost having the life squeezed out of her," I'd had enough of being messed around and people trying to ensure me that everything was going to be okay, and I had exhausted my store of tears so now I was just a bit miffed.

"Cassie, I'm so sorry, if you only let me explain," pleaded Reid. I forced myself to look at him, and I regretted it. I had only know him for two days and already I felt.....connected to him in some way.

"Well, you're lucky I really want some answers. So please, enlighten me."

"Cassie, this is going to be a long explanation," explained Caleb, "and none of it is really that pleasant."

"I don't care, I want to know what happened at the library, I want to know why you all seem so frightened of my brother, and I just want answers."

"We need to start by explaining what we really are..." started Reid.

"What do you mean 'what you really are'," I interrupted Cassie.

"This will go a lot quicker if you didn't interrupt." Reid waited to see if I had anything else to say before continuing. "During the witch hunting era, five with special families settled down in Ipswich, forming a covenant, promising that no one but immediate family would ever know there secret. Four of these families still stay here in Ipswich, the fifth was thought to have been lost. Tyler, Pogue, Caleb and I are each the four Sons of these families and we have......powers. All of the sons have them. We develop them at the age of thirteen and then we ascend when we are eighteen."

"Yep,I believe you. I also believed in Santa Claus but then I grew up."

"Cassie, I am not kidding. Look at my eyes." When he said this his eyes went pitch black. I stared in both awe and fear. That was how his eyes had went when he had tried to....."Now, if I didn't have powers I wouldn't be able to this." With this, books and cds started to fly around the room, going faster and faster until they were a blur.

"That's enough Reid, we don't want to scare her," Caleb protested. All the objects that had been flying around the room only seconds ago, started to return to their original positions.

Reid return to their usual striking blue before carrying on. " Well, as I said before, there was originally five families. The fifth was thought to have been lost but that is where your brother comes in. Caleb, you know this bit better than anyone else." Without giving me time to recover from what I'd just seen, Caleb carried on from where Reid had stopped.

"You see, your brother came at the beginning of last year. He seemed a nice enough guy and we all got to know him. But the thing is that he was a descendent of the fifth family." Caleb stopped as if to give me time to catch up. Chase was one of them, did that mean he had powers. As if Caleb had read my mind he went on to say, "he was stronger than all of us, he had powers we had never seen before. The thing is Cassie, your dad was a descendent to, and Chase made him......he made him give up his powers. This meant your dad passed away at least two years ago."

"No, that can't be. No way. Someone would have contacted me and my mother. No. You're lying."

"I'm afraid I'm not. If your mother had severed all contact with your father like Sarah said then there was no way anyone would have known to contact you. I'm sorry."

"No, you're lying. Why would you say something like that? You....you sick bastard! Where Chase now, I'll ask him and he'll tell me what really happened to my dad."

"Well, the thing is, the Powers are so seductive that we can become addicted to them. Chase was power hungry and came here to steal MY powers. I refused to give them up willingly and so there was a big fight and..." he took a few breaths and pinched the bridge of his nose, as if he knew what was coming. "Well, in defending myself, something happened and...well, they never found a body."

Without another word, I did something I never thought I'd do, I lunged at Caleb and struck him square on the jaw. Never before had I hit someone but this guy had just told me that both my dad and my half brother, were dead. Caleb stumbled back and I went for him again but something held me back and I turned to see Pogue holding my wrist behind my back.

Something happened then, I felt this...ball of energy build in my stomach, it was the strongest thing I had every felt – second to what had happened with Reid in the library - and I didn't know what I was doing but next thing I knew was that Pogue was being pushed UP the wall next to the bed by some invisible force, turning away from him I saw Tyler and Caleb approaching me, and before they could get to close, they too went flying across the room and half way up the same wall as Pogue.

Before I could do anymore damage, I was pulled back to reality by someone talking to me from behind. "Cassie, relax. You know you don't want to do this."

All of a sudden I was scared of what I was doing and what else I was capable of. Next thing I knew, the three guys who had previously been suspended half way up a wall simultaneously came crash down on the floor. I felt the energy that had, only seconds ago, been coursing through my entire body fade. I looked between the three boys on the floor, Reid and Sarah who was huddled on the bad in fear. Seeing Sarah's reaction to me made me despise myself. I headed for the door, running in fact. Just before I leaving the room I said, "I'm so sorry. I....I....don't worry....you'll never...." But I couldn't carry on because of the tears that had failed to come earlier, now running down my cheeks.

So.....What do you think?? Please let me know, your comments make my day. and please be totally honest. I think this chapter is a bit of a let down but this is harder to write than I had anticipated so sorry for those who are disappointed. Thanks for reading. XD XX