The minute dragged by, feeling like long, long hours. All of us were silent, straining our ears to hear the sound of sirens that would herald the ambulance's arrival.

Both Reid and Tyler had Used to stem the worst of Pogue's bleeding, but we all knew once we heard the sirens they would have to undo what they did, so as not to look suspicious.

"What do we tell the paramedics?" Karen asked. She was as shaken as all of us, even though she hadn't known Pogue long. I frowned, as did Tyler and Reid. "Well, we can't exactly say his injuries were caused by a total psycho prick who has magical powers can we?" Her expression darkened at the mention of Chase. I gave a small smile. "We tell them half the truth I suppose. He had a phone call about Kate, sped off and we came after him, but by then he had alredy crashed his bike. We didn't see how exactly he sustained the injuries, but we assume it was the force of the crash." Karen nodded, Tyler and Reid remained motionless, eyes clouded with worry, grief and anger.

We resumed our silence, and for more long minutes we waited, until finally the sound of sirens could be heard. The paramedics arrived, Tyler and reid discreetly undid their magic, and Pogues broken and bleeding body was loaded into the back of the ambulance. I went and sat with him, knowing Karen would be safer with both boys with her, but needing at least one of us to be with Pogue. The doors closed with a loud snap, and we tore towards the hospital.

Chase POV

I smiled to myself as I spoke to Caleb's girlfriend. My plan was working perfectly. It was Caleb's Power I needed, but from watching him, I knew it would take a lot for him to concede his defeat against me. Getting to Caleb wasn't my only motive for hurting Pogue. There was the fact that in general, I hated Pogue, and wanted to hurt him for my own amusement, but there was something else as well. The girl.

Rihannah Garwin was important to all the members of the Covenant. A sister, a girlfriend, a friend. They would all do anything for her, even will me their Power. And now I knew how to get to her, I knew I had them all right where I wanted them.

Sarah's door opened as I finished my little speech. We both turned to see Caleb, the real Caleb. Sarah gasped, confused, and I smiled once again. Let the games begin.

Rihannah POV

Tyler and Karen sat in the hard plastic chairs in the corridor as we waited for new about Pogue, He was in surgery, and it was killing us all not knowing what was going on. By this point, my fear, and Reid's fear had turned to anger, and we were pacing restlessly, planning how to get Chase.

"I say we all go after him, combine our Powers and fucking blast his ass apart. Ri you can stay with Karen and Sarah." I scowled at Reid who was still pacing, oblivious to my displeasure. "Fuck that Reid! If you go, I go. I want a piece of that bastard just as much as you do! I might not have the Power, but I will kick his sorry ass any way I can. You can't leave me behind. I won't let you." At this, Tyler jumped to his feet, grabbing my arms and spinning me to face him. "You will do no such thing. You are not going to put yourself in danger like that, none of us will let you." His voice dropped to a whisper. "I couldn't bear it if he hurt you too." There was a long pause before I sighed heavily and nodded. Tyler loosened his grip on me,and I resumed my pacing.

"Fall Fest." I said, breaking the silence that had fallen on us. "What's Fall Fest?" Karen asked, her voice filled with curiosity. I rolled my eyes at Reid for not telling her, and he answered. "It's a dance at Spenser. Happens the night of Caleb's birthday. Clearly Pogue won't be there, but I'm assuming the rest of us will, which should mean Chase can't get to us. But Caleb would have to decide that. I want you to come." Karen raised an eyebrow at him delicately. I stopped my pacing to watch cautiously, sensing my brother had got himself into trouble. "I'm not going to go Reid. At least, not if that's the way you're going to ask me, and not if the only reason for the invitation is to stop a crazy warlock doing something bad to me."
Reid's expression was half shock, half admiration. "Karen, I don't just want you to come because it'll help protect you from Chase, though I'm not going to deny that it's an advantage. I want you to come because I love you. I want you to share the Fall Fest with us, because you're a part of our group, our family. And I want everyone to know that Reid Garwin has the most amazing, perfect girlfriend ever and is officially off the mrket." Karen smiled, and kissed him. "Then I'd better come hadn't I? Though I have nothing to wear." At this I made a small noise. "Actually, you kind of do. I hope you don't mind, but when I found out about you, I bought a dress for you, it's nothing too fancy, but it's totally you. I get it if yo don't want it, but maybe when we find out about Pogue, you can stay in my dorm tonight with me, and I can show you it?" The boys began to protest, we had originally decided to stay at the Garwin house since our parents were away yet again. "Chase will expect us to do something like that, we need to keep acting as normal as possible." I protested, and after a few more small arguements, the guys agreed again.

"Fine. You and Karen get an hour alone, then me and Ty are staying over. Deal?" Karen and I exchanged a look that screamed 'overprotective' but we nodded, agreeing. Before we could make any concrete plans however, Caleb and Sarah appeared, both visibly pale.

Sarah POV

Caleb had told me everything.

Him, Pogue, Reid and Tyler were warlocks. And apparantly Chase was too, though they had only mde that discovery recently. I have to say I was shocked. Growing up I had never believed in magic or fairy tales or anything that couldn't be proved by science. And now I was staring magic in the face. One thing the fairy tales always got right was tht there was bad magic as well as good. I just hoped they were also right in that good always triumphs over evil.

Caleb was worried, and rightly so. Chase was threatening to kill everyone he loved if he didn't hand over his powers. But that was suicide, and no matter what Chase thought about the rest of the Covenant and Caleb's loved ones thanking him for it, revering him as the golden hero, I knew that that would kill us. And there was no guarantee Chase would leave any of us alone once he got what he wanted anyway. Caleb and I had discussed a plan on the way to the hospital, and I admit that I was grateful he trusted me and was listening to my advice, but I was also scared about what the others would think, especially Rihannah and Karen.

We walked down the corridor towards them in silence, I could tell from the agitated expression on Reid's face there was no news on Pogue yet. I could also tell that they knew something was up. As we approached them, I took a breath and started to explain...

Rihannah POV

"So now I know about you all too. And I need to warn you, that Chase is more of a psycho than we thought. Like Caleb helped me to explain earlier, he's strong, too strong for you guys to take on." At this, Reid and I exchanged dark glances, and I knew we were thinking the same thing, that we would try take him on no matter how strong he was. "Don't even think about it you guys. I need to face him alone." Caleb said, in his no-nonsense voice. I sighed, knowing that for now at least there was no sense in arguing with him. Before we could say anymore however, the doctor came out and told us Pogue was awake and we could go see him. I'm not sure he had even finished his sentence before Caleb and I ran into the room.