[Previously...]

A demon came up behind them and conjured a knife. He stabbed Melinda in the back. She fell to the ground.

"Melinda!" Her brothers and Aidan yelled.

"What a shame." The Source said.

Aidan ran to Melinda.

"She's slipping away!" He yelled. Wyatt healed her. He threw the first potion on the Source.

Chris hurriedly threw the second potion.

"I'm really sorry." Melinda said to Aidan and threw the last potion on the Source.

The Source screamed and exploded. But he managed to throw a fireball just before he exploded. A fireball that hit Aidan. He fell to the ground.

"No!" Melinda screamed.

"Well, do something, damn it!" Wyatt and Chris held their hands over Aidan, after a couple of minutes he was healed.

"Thank you." He said sincerely.

"I know that you don't want him to stay here, but what do you want me to do? There are probably demons looking for him."

"That's our point, Melinda!" Chris almost yelled.

"Why are you protecting him anyway? He lied to you! He's a demon, and not just that, he's the heir to the Source!." Melinda was quiet.

"You knew!? You knew what he was all the time and you didn't say something?"

"No, I didn't!" Melinda yelled.

"Are you okay?" Melinda asked. Aidan shrugged.

"I just can't believe that I helped you to vanquish my own father." Melinda hugged him.

"I love you, Melinda."

"I love you too."

Trouble in Paradise

Melinda woke up early. She yawned and looked beside her. There was no one there. Aidan was gone. She started to panic. Anything could've happened. What if some demons had kidnapped him? What if they were torturing him right now? What if he was..? No. She shouldn't think like that. But what if something had happened?

"It's okay, Melinda. I'm downstairs, eating breakfast. With your brothers." Aidan told her telepathically. Oh my god! That couldn't be good. She quickly got dressed and then ran downstairs to save Aidan from her brothers. She came in to the kitchen. It was kinda quiet in there. Wyatt was reading the paper and ate toast. Aidan was eating cereal, and Chris was glaring at him and tried to eat youghurt at the same time. If it hadn't been for the look in his eyes, it would've been kinda funny. But now it wasn't. Melinda took a bowl and sat down at the table and poured some cereal in the bowl.

"If you keep looking at him like that, I will blast you all the way to purgatory." Melinda said, but she didn't look up. She just kept eating. But she could feel Chris' glare.

"I never said that you could look at me instead." She still didn't look at him, but she could practically feel his frustration. You didn't have to be an empath to feel that. She was also getting frustrated, she was hoping that they could at least try to be... well... less rude. Well, she shouldn't think 'they', because Wyatt was actually trying to be nice. Or... not rude. He didn't really say anything. She listened to his thoughts and heard that he really was trying to be nice, but he was afraid that he'd say something mean if he opened his mouth. But he was trying because he didn't want to hurt Melinda.

Three demons shimmered in and started to throw energyballs at them. They all got up and avoided the energyballs. One of them hit Melinda's bowl with cereal.

"Hey!" Melinda yelled.

"You vanquished my breakfast, you bastard!" She threw an energyball and vanquished one of the demons. Wyatt ducked to get away from another energyball and tk'd another demon out the window. He didn't mean to throw him out the window.

"Damn, these demonattacks costs us a lot of money." He said.

Melinda pushed Aidan out of the way, trying to make sure that the demons didn't try to kill him. Chris tk'd the last demon into the wall and threw a kitchen knife at him. Then there was only one left that Melinda was just about to throw an energyball at, when he was vanquished. Melinda looked behind her. Aidan had trown a fireball. He gave her a serious look.

"Can I talk to you?" He said and left the kitchen. Melinda looked at her brothers and then followed Aidan.

Chris looked at Wyatt.

"Trouble in paradise?" He said, and almost sounded hopeful. Wyatt glared at him.

"Don't, Chris. She's our littlesister. She's happy with him, we shouldn't be hoping that they'll break up. Melinda would be crushed." Chris grimaced and started to clean up after the attack.

"I still hope they'll break up." He muttered and earned another glare from Wyatt.

Melinda sat down on her bed while Aidan closed the door. He waited a couple of seconds before he turned around. He stared at her. He almost looked angry. Melinda waited, a little nervous. They were just staring at eachother for a long while. Then Melinda couldn't take it anymore.

"So are you going to just stand there and stare at me all day, or are you actually gonna say something?" Melinda said and hoped to see at least a tiny smile. He didn't smile. Didn't he remember the first time they met? He stared at her for a couple of seconds and then he finally started to say something.

"What are you doing, Melinda?" He said quietly. He was tense and his hands were balled up in fists.

"I'm sitting..?" It still wasn't funny. He started to pace back and forth, clearly impatient and not in the joking-mood.

"Why did you do that? Why did you push me out of the way?" He looked at her. He was pretty angry for what she did.

"Because I wanted to protect you!" What was wrong with him? He stopped.

"I don't need protecting, Melinda! If anyone's protecting someone, it should be me protecting you!" He yelled. Melinda looked shocked.

"So this is what it's all about? Some kind of masculin 'I-don't-need-protecting' macho thing?" Melinda yelled back at him.

"If you're going to nag about that, then I don't wanna hear it." She said and walked toward the door.

"Meli--" He started to say something but she cut him off.

"Look, Aidan, I can't do this right now, okay? I just can't." She said and slammed the door.

Aidan sat down on her bed and sighed. He didn't want to hurt her. He just wanted to protect her. He didn't want anything to happen to her. If she tried to protect him againts some upperlevel demon she could get killed! He wouldn't be able to live with himself. He just loved her so much. He never meant to push her away.

Chris and Wyatt were up in the attic making a vanquishing potion for the demons that had attacked earlier. Apparently there was an entire tribe after them. Melinda came storming in. She stopped when she saw them. They looked at her for a second, then Chris went back to the potion. Wyatt walked over to her.

"Are you okay, sweetie?" He looked concerned.

"I'm fine." She said, but Wyatt could see through her.

"What happened?" She sighed and sat down on the couch. Wyatt sat down beside her. She looked down at her hands, then she turned to Wyatt.

"Can you please explain to me why guys have to be so... Macho?" Wyatt looked at her. He didn't really understand where she was going. She saw that. She sighed again.

"Aidan was talking... Well, actually yelling at me about this morning. You know, when I pushed him out of the way from the energyballs."

"Well, what did he say? Or yell?"

"He thought that I shouldn't protect him. Apparently he's supposed to protect me, notthe other way around. That's what I meant with the... 'macho' thing." For the first time since she came up in the attic, Chris said something.

"Yeah, that's pretty normal. The guys really wants to protect the girl, but not always because they want to be 'macho'. It could be because.." He almost seemed unwilling to say what he was going to say next. Melinda was in a bad mood and was kind of impatient.

"Chris, please, just spit it out!" Chris sighed.

"It could be because he loves you. Because he loves you so much that he doesn't want you to get hurt because you're trying to protect him. It seems like... like he would sacrifice himself to save you." Melinda was quiet. She looked kind of shocked. Could that be true? Was he mad because he was afraid? Because he was afraid of losing her? Okay, now she was starting to feel guilty. God, she hated that feeling. She stood up and walked out of the attic down to her room. She needed to talk to Aidan. Chris gave Wyatt a quick glance and then went back to the potion.

"Do you think she'll be okay?" Wyatt asked and looked at Chris. Chris shrugged.

"I don't know. I hope so." He sighed and then sat down beside Wyatt. He sighed.

"I'm starting to get worried about her. I mean ever since... I don't know. She's been a little.. off, I guess, for a while." Wyatt stared at him.

"'A little off'!? Where have you been for the past weeks?" Chris just glared at him and went back to the potion again.

Melinda opened the door to her room and saw.. an empty bed. Aidan wasn't there. She was starting to panic. What if he'd gone down to the Underworld? Something could've happened! Or, maybe he just went for a walk. That could happen.

"Who am I kidding?" Melinda thought and looked out the window.

"Why would Aidan go for a walk when it's pouring down rain outside? Only a lunatic would go outside the door." She decided to orb down to the Underworld. Of course, that meant that her brothers would know what she was doing and follow her, but that was a risk she had to take. She concentrated on Wyatt's orbing power and went down to the Underworld to look for Aidan.

Somewhere in the Underworld demons had been gathering. There had been rumors that The Source had been vanquished and that a new Source was to be coronated. A demon made everyone shut up. All eyes were on him.

"We need a new Source. Since I was the last Source's right hand, I will be in charge until we find a new one. Luckily, we know who the next Souce will be. Most of you didn't know this, but the Source had an heir. Someone who is still alive somewhere. Our next Source will be -- Aidan."

"You called?" Someone said. Everyone looked around and saw a guy leaning against one of the cavewalls. He couldn't be very old, maybe nineteen. The demon who had spoken before smiled.

"Hello, Aidan." The other demons started to mumble amongst themselves. He was so young. How could he possibly rule the Underworld? But the Source's 'right hand' just kept smiling.

"We've been waiting for you."

A/N: Okay, you guys. I'm gonna leave you there :) I hope you liked it. I had some problems with this chapter, didn't know what to write... Well, hopefully it won't take that long writing the next chapter. Btw, what do you think? Should I continue to write? Or should I try to finish this story off? R&R and tell me :)