Chapter 10

Disclaimer: I only own Becky, D, Kat, Ami, & Kay

"Are you really alright?" Royce asked later and I nodded. Once back at the library, Kat had suggested that each of us take one of the bedrooms just down the hall from the library so we would be spared from sleeping on the floor. To help with privacy, D had cast a spell that made a shield of darkness around the walls of each room. Currently, we were picking our rooms and the ghosts we'd be keeping with us for protection.

"I'll take this one," Kay said, "Billy, want to stay with me?" The young ghost nodded before following the tiny girl into the bedroom.

"I'll stay with Dana," Ami said, walking into the room beside Kay, the female ghosts in question following with a sigh of relief at not being forced to be alone with D. With out any words, Kat and the Hammer walked into the room on the other side of Kay's and D and the Torso walked, or slowly dragged themselves, into the room beside that one.

"Guess you're stuck with me, huh?" Royce joked, leading me into what was my room by default, "you sure you're alright, you don't look like it." I silently watched from the bed as Royce shut the door before I finally started crying.

"I couldn't protect one of my friends," I sobbed as he rushed to me, "sure nothing happened this time, but what about next time? What if it's worst? What if one of my friends dies because I can't do anything?" I felt Royce pulling me into a hug and I wrapped my arms tightly around him, sobbing into his bad shoulder.

"Nothing like that will happen," he whispered in my ear, "besides, you have me to help you."

"How can you be so sure about that?" I asked, pulling back to look Royce in the eyes.

"I don't have to have a reason," he smiled, "I just know that it won't happen." Alright, let's make one thing clear; I am not the type of girl who falls into bed with just anyone. Normally, I wouldn't be letting Royce gently push me back onto the bed, but this isn't normal. The whole God dam situation isn't normal in even the smallest way. I know that doesn't justify anything, but rational thought was never a strong point for me.

Plus, I'm pretty sure that any feelings I have for the Torn Prince had gone far beyond just friends.

The next morning, or a couple of hours later, I couldn't really tell, I opened my eyes to see that Royce was looking at me with those gorgeous blue eyes of his.

"Morning," he smiled down at me and I felt my face heat up with a deep blush.

"Yo," I finally grinned before he kissed me, "what time is it?"

"Don't know," he shrugged, holding me tighter. I was going to say something else when loud knocking from the door filled the room. Like lightning, I was up, grabbing madly for my clothing with the brightest blush in the world covering my face.

"Hey, Becky," Ami called from the other side of the door, "come to the library once you're dressed, Kat found something interesting." I had no idea that someone's face could go as red as mine was at that moment.

"Come on," Royce grinned from the bed, "I'll help you."

After changing quickly and finally getting rid of my blush, we headed to the library.

"So we don't need another pair of glasses," Kat greeted me, throwing me off balance with the randomness of her words and their implications.

"Please tell me you don't mean what I think you mean," I pleaded, rubbing the bridge of my nose, "please, I'm begging you."

"Then I can't really tell you anything," Kat smirked at me from the main desk, "because then I'd be lying."

"Crap," I growled, flopping on the couch beside Ami, "as if the "something isn't right" alarm wasn't already running on overdrive."

"Well," Ami said, trying to smiled, "Kat's part half demon, half shaman, judging from the little test I ran."

"Test?" I asked, looking at her questioningly.

"I had her heal the cuts the Jackal gave Kay," Ami nodded to Kay who was muttering about why she was the only normal one, that she wanted to be a supernatural, too. It was at that moment that the Jackal chose to remind us of his presence by calling out a rather, umm, cruel string of words to Kay.

You can already tell how this went over badly with her.

Kay turned to look at the Jackal, eyes seeming to glow red, before his ass was suddenly on fire. There was a pause before Kat, Ami, and myself burst out laughing, Kay started yelling about how she now wanted to be normal again, and the rest of the room started trying to help the Jackal put the fire out.

"So much for a normal one of the group," D sighed once the fire was out, "now we have a half demon who works with fire—"

"I wouldn't say I work with fire," Kay said, "I just lit someone's ass of fire, that's all."

"Alright, fine, that's a give," D nodded, "we also have a half demon who's also half shaman—"

"Shawoman," Kat called out, "I'm not a guy."

"Whatever, a half demon who is also half shawoman and can move things with her mind" D sighed, continuing on, "a sorcerer, a girl who can control time—"

"It's not so much that I control time," Ami voiced, "it's that I can manipulate it."

"Again, whatever," D growled, daring me with his eyes to interrupt him, 'and a half werewolf, half necromancer. Now, does anyone have any problems with that discription of what we have in this group?" All the ghost raised their hands.

"What about us?" Royce said, "do we count, or not?"

"FINE!" D shouted, throwing his hands into the air, "and we have a bunch of ghost. Now is everyone happy?" To this, everyone muttered agreement to the list of what we had in the group.

"Oh, almost forgot," Kat suddenly cried, rushing to the computer, "umm, can everyone not alive please leave the room, this is something the living members of the group need to discus in private."

"What up?' Ami asked, moving over to the computer herself.

"We didn't end up by accident," Kat said, turning the computer for all of us to see, "I found these files hidden really carefully, like someone didn't want them to be found."

"There's a file on each of us," I gasped, looking at the five computer files, "but why are they here?"

"I think it might have something to do with the owner of this place needing one more ghost," Kat said, frowning, "I just can't figure out why us."

"We're not human," D scoffed, "that's why the dick who made this house would want one of us. Why had thirteen human ghosts when you can have twelve human ghosts and one supernatural ghost?"

"D's right," Ami sighed sadly, "it would make sense for supernaturals to be more powerful in death then humans since we're more powerful in life."

"But there has to be a trick to getting the thirteenth ghost," Kay voiced, sitting on the desk as Kat printed out the files, "I mean, this guy could have killed a supernatural anywhere, but instead he brought us here."

"Did you find anything about why he trapped the ghost here in the first place?" I asked glancing outside the library to see the ghosts that were on our side standing around, looking inside at us every now and then.

"The file was corrupted," Kat told me, shaking her head, "I only say something about a machine and something about the eye of hell."

"Not much to go on," I sighed sadly, sitting down on the couch, "maybe we'll find something in the basement."

"I'll go with you now," Ami voiced, grabbing the print outs regarding her and myself, "we'll look at these on the way." I nodded, getting up and we made our way outside the library.

"Where are you going?" Royce asked, starting to follow after us.

"Don't worry," I smiled at him, trying to make my voice convincing, "we're just heading off to check something on the other side of the house."

It wasn't a total lie, just mostly one.