A/N: Yey! GCSEs are up... summer is on! Here is my next chapter, hope you enjoy!

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Ana sits on the edge of bed that Dervish still hadn't moved from when I was brought to the cellar to recover. She has stopped shaking and seems normal, if you could call her normal that is. As I get near she looks up at me and smiles shakily. "Sorry Grubbs."

"What for?" I reply smiling back at her reassuringly. I turn and see Meera stood at the other side of the room; she looks upset as Dervish talks to her. He is whispering quickly to her. I watch as he repeatedly runs his hands through his hair, worry dances in his eyes. I turn back to Ana who is also watching them. I sit next to her and put my arm around her gently. She turns to look at me and I lose myself in her stare. Her hazel eyes glisten from her previous tears, they are red underneath from her crying; tiredness softens her stare.

"I should have remained in control. I'm dangerous Grubbs. I'm sorry for putting your life in danger so many times. I should never had medalled with your and Dervish's lives. I should have trusted Mum and done what she said without questioning her." She bows her head and lets her hair fall over her face. I lift her chin gently and tuck her hair behind her ears.

"Everything is fine. No harm done. Besides you saved my life and this is how everything should be, we should be together. Now we can sort this 'holes' issue and go on as normal." I hold her tighter and whisper. "Trust me."

She squeezes me back and rests her head on my shoulders. I feel my heart beat against my ribs and where she touches me burns my skin. I wonder what it would be like to kiss her. To feel her soft lips pressed against mine. It feels like it is only me and her in the cellar, just two people holding each other. I yearn to put my hand on her thigh and kiss the hollow of her neck gently. Would she kiss me back? Would she... my thoughts are interrupted as Dervish scrapes a chair across the floor. The noise makes my teeth clench and I feel Ana tense in my arms. Dervish is sat opposite us with Meera stood slightly behind him. They both have serious looks on their faces; I have a feeling that whatever they have to say won't be good.

As they stare at Ana and me guilt strikes at my previous feelings of lust towards Ana. She is my cousin! My little cousin! I feel angry at myself. I should protect her, not want her! A gulp and push my feelings away and turn to face Dervish and Meera ; dropping my arm to rest by her side. She sits up and pays attention.

Dervish turns to Ana he looks at her coldly and his tone is formal and blank when he talks, "I'm going to try and explain to you what I think is going on. You were conceived on a water demon planet as you well know. Meaning you are not of this world and therefore technically Meera took you from the demon universe. You were made there but born and have lived here on Earth. I know Meera...I mean your mum, has explained to you about demons and Disciples but probably not into much detail. I'll start with the water planet you were conceived on. When we say it was a demon planet what we mean is that it was a world made by a demon master; in other words a very powerful demon. There was no land, it is just water. Many demon worlds have water on them but none, other than this one are solely made of water. This is why it is considered unique and special, even beautiful. Obviously you need magic to be able to breathe under the water." He paused to see if we were still following, we nodded, and then he continued in the same detached tone.

"Well me and ... your mum had just finished battling a horde of demons and had just barely escaped with our lives intact. So in relief or just because we were so happy to be alive we..."

"We get it Dervish, you can skip the next bit." I cut in quickly as my stomach began to squirm and my cheeks redden. Ana also looked uncertain. Dervish nodded and rolled his eyes. "Don't worry I wasn't going to go into that bit but you get the idea, yeah?" I nodded again and so did Ana.

"The demon master who made the world had left it but everything on it was still his. Everything made there belongs there, it's all a part of this demon master. You were made there Ana, so you are a part of him. Or a part of him is within you. I think when you use water; the water comes from the demon Masters' planet." Dervish watched for our reactions. His theory made sense and I found myself nodding again and tried to sum it up, "So a part of the demon master is inside Ana enabling her to bring water from their universe to ours. Right?"

"Exactly. I have never heard of anything like this before and I know a lot about the demonata, hell my life is the demonata. The magician has protection against demons and mages opening windows here in Carcery Vale but you are neither a mage or a demon. So in your case the protection doesn't work, causing holes when you use your water 'power'. Make sense?"

"I'm not human?" Ana asked shocked.

"No you are as you were made by two humans, you are probably able to tap into magic as me and Meera can but you also have demonic qualities inside you. You are more than human. This is difficult to explain and cannot be compared cos' there are no other cases like yours to compare it to but I think I am right. My theory is like a cracked stone. You know stone is solid even if there are cracks in it. You have to smooth over them or fill them in with something not so solid."

"I kind of get you and it makes sense, well as much as it can make sense anyway," Ana replied.

I got it too. I know firsthand that magic is unusual and unpredictable so this fitted in nicely with that. The holes that occur in the protection also fit in. But does the demon know that Ana is taking water from his planet? I thought to ask Dervish but he spoke before I could.

"As long as you don't use your power in Carcery Vale, the protection is there. However even outside Carcery Vale I suggest you don't use it because you will draw attention to yourself and I mean the attention of the Demonata. For now you will live down here, in the cellar, as you can cause no harm to anybody here. You won't cause any more damage." Meera looked outraged but Dervish held firm and continued, "I will do some experiments and we will take it from there." He spoke harshly to her, like he was looking down on her like a judge does on a guilty criminal. She was a prisoner locked within these four walls of the cellar for what sounded like it was going to be for a long time. She didn't object or speak out against her sentence, just hung her head. Meera glared at Dervish.

"Damage she caused? Harming people? My daughter... OUR DAUGHTER SAVED GRUBBS' LIFE! YOU ACT LIKE SHE WAS THE DEMON DRAGGING HIM OFF!" I flinched at the memory. Dervish smirked at her. I have never seen him smirk; his expressions are of playful taunts and jokes but never this. He spoke in a condescending tone, like an angry teacher would mock a student. "But who caused the hole in the protection Meera?" He turned to Ana who was crying again. "Did you use that power of yours before the demon crossed?" He raised his eyebrows expectantly. Ana nodded reluctantly. Dervish nodded in satisfaction. "She may not have been the demon but she gave that demon the opportunity!" And with that he turned and walked out the room, slamming the door behind him. I felt anger at dervish for his cruel words at my Ana.

Meera hugged her little girl. Her arms wrapped tightly around Ana's fragile frame. I couldn't move because of the anger which boiled deep inside me. I tried to calm this beast and think that I should not feel the way I do about my cousin! She is my cousin for Christ's sake!

"You should go." Meera whispered, it was like a loud noise would break Ana. She was so sweet, so delicate. How could anybody treat her like he did! Meera sensed my anger. I thought she would as I could feel it radiating from me. She placed a hand on my arm, "He isn't himself. He has a lot to think about, he will calm down Grubbs. Leave him to think." I nodded back at her. Unable to speak as my rage burned inside. I stood and exited the cellar, leaving mother and daughter to comfort each other.

I decided to take a stroll in the surrounding woods of the mansion. I needed to cool off. I am not even directly involved in the situation of Dervish's' yet I found myself caught up in it emotionally. Since the first time I saw Mariana and she saved my life I have found myself attracted to her. She is beautiful and has that flame gene in her. She's a great person too and it isn't really her fault that she is caught up in all this but then it never is. She didn't ask to have her 'water' power just like I didn't ask to have my family destroyed. We were thrown into this demonic world without consultation. Five hours ago all I could think of was meeting her, a hope of kissing her even and now she is my cousin! Untouchable! I shouldn't feel what I do for her, it is wrong. I suppose in time that flame will die, the flame of passion I have for a Flame. Ha! I embarrass myself in my own thoughts. I have never been one for love. You wouldn't have thought it from the size of me anyway.

I think about Dervish. He will come to terms with the fact that he has a daughter. How could he not? She lives in his cellar. Meera is right, he needs time to think just like I need time to get over Ana. As I reach the front gate of the mansion I see Bill-E walking towards the house. I check my watch. It's ten past five. I frown suspiciously as I notice the ridiculous grin that covers his face. He has developed a strut since the last time I saw him, which feels like a week ago despite the fact that it was only this morning!

"What's with the grin? You look like that cat out of Alice and Wonderland!" I state and can't help but laugh.

"You're a fan of Alice and Wonderland Grubbs? Didn't know that." He pushes me playfully on the shoulder.

"Haha yeah whatever." I push him back, slightly harder but his stupid grin remains.

"I scored Grubbs!" Bill-E shouted and punches the air above him.

"Coolio." I say a little confused, Bill-E never plays footy but when he does he isn't so bad that he has never scored before. Bill-E seems disappointed with my reaction. I can't understand what is so great about it. "Was it a very good one?" Now Bill-E looks confused by my question, "Yeah it was my first so I don't have owt to compare it to but it felt good and she tasted like cherries." He blushed at the last bit." Then the penny dropped.

"OH! You kissed Sarah!" I yelp excitedly, "I thought you meant scored in footy!" I laugh then slap him on the back, man to man, forgetting my previous worries. "Tell me how then!"

"Well we were in the Library and studying about Stars and her hand was on the table so I just took it in mine! Just like that!" he smiled pleased with himself.

"Smooth, just like a true Grady!" I laugh. Bill-E is my half brother but he just thinks he is my cousin. Bill-E smiled, he was clearly proud of himself, "then she looked up and smiled at me! So I said that I liked it when we studied to together, then she said that she did too! We were already close to one another cos we were in the library and had to whisper so I just leaned in and kissed her Grubbs!" "Coolio!" I said with the enthusiasm this piece of news required.

"It was great! We made out for like ten minutes then walked home and I kissed her again before we left each other! We have been texted since, look..." Bill-E took out his phone and scrolled down his inbox messages which just had Sarah's name repeated all the way down. With the odd one from Ma Spleen probably asking where he is. All the time he was still grinning like an idiot. I laughed then we high fived some more.

"Oh I forgot to ask, how your day was, you meet Ana?" I felt my happy mood crash down to the state of the present situation of that matter. Bill-E saw my smile fade.

"It's a long story, we should go sit somewhere." I state seriously.

"We'll go inside and talk," Bill-E says then walks to the house.

"No wait." I stop him, "We'll go for a walk somewhere."

"But it's starting to rain he protests and he was right. The first drops of rain had begun to wet my ginger mop which I had styled this morning. "I don't want to go in the house yet, it's a bit crowded and tense. We'll go in the woods under the trees."

"Okay then" Bill-E agrees curiosity in his look. We walk deep into the woods in silence and sit under a big oak. It isn't raining heavily so it is fairly dry. I tell him everything. He sits. He listens. He lets his draw drop. I finally finish ten minutes later; it has been a lonnng day.

"I have a sister, well a half-sister." I nod and let him take it in. We are both fairly wet due to the rain which has been steadily falling while I told him. As he thinks everything through I hear his phone vibrate loudly, repeatedly. It's Ma Spleen. Bill-E answers it.

"Hi...Yeah... I told you I went to the Library then I was goin' to see Grubbs... I know but... I am outside so Dervish won't know I'm here... Yes we are in the woods...Yes me and Grubbs...Yes I know it's raining but...Why?...Fine! I'll come home!...Sorry, I'll be there in ten minutes...okay bye.

He hung up. "I gotta go Grubbs, my tea is nearly ready." He rolled his eyes. "I wanted to meet Ana too."

"Now probably isn't the right time anyways, come round tomorrow, things will have settled by then... hopefully." I shrug and give him a final high five for his scoring technique. He walks off into the rain back home while I walk back to the mansion to deal with the situation. In the open I realise that it is raining heavier than I thought. By the time I reach the big mansion door I am soaked. I pause outside for the space of a heartbeat, then proceeded in entering my now unsettled home.

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