Chapter 13- Confessions

Materializing on the other side of New Mexico, Ryan didn't even wait for his orbs to fully vanish before he ran straight out of the ally way, in search of Gabriella. He had sensed her somewhere in the surrounding area, but for some reason he couldn't get an exact location, something which had never happened before.

Looking up and down the street, he shivered as he saw the state the place was in. The buildings were grey and lifeless, the streets were full of broken bottles and litter and there was a very distinctive smell of sewage, from what Ryan could only presume was from some broken pipe.

Seeing a group of five men walking towards him from the left, Ryan ducked behind a dumpster and squeezed between it and a wall, knowing that, that was better than having to deal with drunken business men, who were screaming there heads off. Once they had past, Ryan carefully walked out of the shadows, trying his hardest not to cough at the lingering spell of cigarette smoke.

Ignoring the erge to throw up, Ryan took of in a run in the direction the men had come from. To him it made sense that a group of drunken thirty year olds would have come from a pub, which by the sound of it, was exactly where Gabriella was.

It was a good five minutes before he saw anything else remotely distinctive, or anybody else for that matter, it was almost like a ghost town.

Turning a corner, Ryan sighed with relief as he saw a two story tall building with benches surrounding it, as well as a load of empty glasses.

As he got closer and the light from the pub cleared his vision, he noticed a girl with short brown hair sitting on one of the concrete steps, her head resting against the dirty wall.

"Gabriella!" He shouted, dashing towards the girl, who slowly opened her eyes as Ryan ran towards her. She gave him a weak smile but didn't say a thing as he sat down next to her and brushed the hair from her face, she really did look a right state.

As Gabriella turned to face him, she opened her mouth to say something, but stopped abruptly as all colour drained from her face. Turning her head away, she instantly threw up, all over the stairs and Ryan's shoes before leaning back against the wall and coughing.

"Come on, let's get you home!" Ryan continued as he helped the girl to her feet. As soon as she stood however, her legs turned to jelly and she collapsed, unable to hold her weight, despite how thin she was.

Ryan's arms flew out in time to catch her, preventing her head from smashing against the ground. Seeing that he had very little choice on what to do next, he wrapped her left arm round his shoulders and positioned his right one under her knees before picking her up and walking around the corner of the pub, out of site from the locals.

When he was completely sure that no one was watching, he summoned his power and transported them both to Gabriella's house, praying her mother was already asleep.

Reappearing in a rather large kitchen, which he presumed was the unconscious teenager's, he couldn't help but grin as he realised he had actually orbed with someone else in toe, something he had never done before in his life.

Studying the area, he smiled as he took in his newest surroundings; her kitchen was exactly like the ones you see in movies, with a big double silver fridge, a countertop in the middle of the room with preparation equipment hanging from the ceiling and a posh dining room table in the corner, with only two chairs positioned by it.

Hearing Gabriella let out a small groan, Ryan was brought back down to reality as he realised he had to get her somewhere comfortable, so going though the open arch way he headed into the living room and gently placed her on the sofa, so she was laying on her stomach, figuring at least that way she wouldn't choke on her own vomit.

For a moment he just stood there and watched her, before he turned to walk away. As he did however a small hand reached out and grabbed his arm.

"Don't go! I don't want to be on my own!"

"I've got to get back, isn't your mum home?"

With her eyes still closed, Gabriella slowly shook her head and allowed a few tears to escape her eyes.

"She's away on business, I was supposed to be with Violet, but she left!"

Against his better judgment, Ryan turned around to face the girl he had always secretly liked and sat down on her coffee table, hoping that it was strong enough to hold his weight considering it was made of pure glass.

"Is Vi your cousin? The one who took you to the pub?" he asked with a sigh, knowing he couldn't leave her on her own in her condition, after all who knows what could happen to her.

"Yeah, we went out, but her boyfriend was there and they left…"

"Right so why the hell did she take you to one of the roughest places in Albuquerque?"

Gabriella however didn't answer and when Ryan looked up from the floor, he saw the reason for her sudden silence, she was fast asleep.

Once again sighing, he held his arms out, as if he was about to catch something and summoned a warm blanket. Wrapping it around the unconscious teenager, Ryan stood for a moment, debating on what to do next, before walking across the room and collapsing into one of the arm chairs, it was going to be a long night.

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As he watched the blue orbs disappear from site, Leo just stood in the doorway with his mouth agape, not quite believing what he had just seen. The Evans boy had orbed, he had actually orbed, of course, a lot of children nowadays were part Whitelighter but Leo knew for a fact that neither, Hannah or Vance were! So to him that only left one logical conclusion… that he was right all along, that Ryan was actually his son! His baby boy, his Wyatt!

He had known from the second he had laid eyes on the blonde that he had his sons essence, yet apart of him refused to believe it, his brain told him it was impossible! Yet destiny had apparently proven that he was wrong on that score, that Wyatt really was still alive.

After all these years of praying, his wish had finally come true, his son wasn't dead, he was a healthy sixteen year old teenager who loved to help others.

His joy at realising that he had just had a conversation with someone he never thought of, was soon diminished however, as the sick reality set in. If his son really was still alive, then that meant that piper had lied! His wife, the woman he loved, had told him demons had killed their son in cold blood, yet that obviously wasn't true, for he was very much still alive.

Shaking his head as a sense of numbness overcame him, Leo tried desperately to come up with some other possibly explanation, but he couldn't… If any part of piper had any doubt that her son was dead then she would have stopped at nothing to save him, if a demon had taken him she would have fought to the very end to get him back, so that must have meant she knew all along that he was okay, but still told her family he was dead!

He just couldn't comprehend why she would do a thing like that! Not even a single part of him had any idea why she would want to abandon her son the way she obviously had.

Shaking his head, Leo made his way back to the table in a sort of trance and took his seat next to his wife who has happily chatting away to Vance.

"So what are your children like then?" piper asked after she finally stopped talking about Melinda and Chris and smiled sweetly at Sharpay.

"Well Sharpay is a fantastic singer, she's got real talent when it comes to theatre she's going to go far in life, she gets good marks in school and was just born for stage life! I really can't imagine her doing anything else, she's always been our little drama queen!" Vance replied as Sharpay giggled and took a bite of her salad. "And Ryan… well he loves singing as much as his sister! You could never shut him up when he was growing up, always right beside Sharpay in putting on a show! Right honey?" Vance continued as he turned towards Sharpay.

Sharpay instantly nodded, but clearly didn't seem as interested in the conversation as she had done before, as she turned her attention towards her mother.

"He's actually a pretty good baseball player too, he used to play all the time, mind you he was in and out of hospital!"

If Leo wasn't interested before he certainly was now, as his whole body froze as he looked at Vance with wide eyes, wondering what could have possibly happened to his son.

"Why?" Leo asked carefully, being careful to keep his tone normal, rather than completely freaked out.

"Oh he was very accident prone as a child… still is actually, broke god knows how many bones playing baseball, falling off rocks, falling down the stairs, and god only knows how he broke his ribs!" Vance replied with a small laugh, it wasn't exactly funny at the time, but looking back at all the ways Ryan hurt himself over the years was pretty amusing, he was always getting a call to go to the hospital, he even broke his arm, whilst going around the Zoo…. "Speaking of Ryan, I wonder where he got to?"

"Oh… umm… one of his friends called, they sounded a right state…I think he went to help them." Leo replied as he remembered the one sided conversation he had over heard Ryan, or Wyatt was having.

"Wasn't Kelsi welsi was it?" Sharpay replied as she pulled a face causing her mother to scowl.

"Kitten, don't be so mean!" Hannah said instantly as she shook her head. Kelsi and Ryan had been friends as long as she could remember and she had always liked the girl, although she wasn't exactly rich like they were, she was well mannered and totally head over heels in love with her son, what more could a mother want. "Kelsi is very nice!"

"Nice? She's a scrawny four eyed freak!" Sharpay yelled, once again causing people to turn to face the table.

"SHARPAY!" Hannah scolded her daughter, causing the girl to look at her in absolutely shock; her mother had never talked to her like that before in her life, she had never heard that tone in her voice, the one past a warning, the one which told her if she continued she'd be in huge trouble.

Folding her arms in annoyance Sharpay looked away in a huff and started drumming her fingers on the table as a way to aggravate her parents. Vance rolled his eyes before turning back to talk to his guest, determined that his daughter's behaviour wasn't going to loose him any clients, especially ones as nice as the Halliwells.

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It was eleven o clock the next morning before Gabriella woke up and the second she opened her eyes she instantly snapped them shut again as the blinding sun shone though the living room windows.

"Good morning!" Ryan called out, having noticed her brief movement from where he sat at the other side of the room, reading a biology book. All he got in response though was a grunt as the einsteinet pulled the blanket over her head.

Laughing, Ryan got to his feet and pulled back the covers, forcing her to sit up. "I thought you might need this!" he continued as he reached over to the coffee table and handed her a glass full of green goo and two pain killers. Gabriella reluctantly swallowed the pills before taking a large drink of the mixture Ryan had made.

"Oh that is gross, what the hell is that stuff?" She spat as soon as her taste buds absorbed the liquid, which was a lot longer than usual due to her still very much intoxicated state.

"My special hang over cure!"

"When do you need one of them?" She replied, this time her voice a lot softer as she looked away from the drink and over to Ryan. The first thing she noticed about him was that he had changed clothes, from what she could remember anyway. He still wore a simple pair of blue jeans, but instead of the top he wore yesterday, he know had a white t-shit with a red shirt over the top of it and of course a matching red baseball hat.

"Every Saturday morning, Sharpay… doesn't take our father's absence from our lives very well, she has this, class every Friday and he never shows up, so she goes out and gets drunk…"

Gabriella just nodded as she rested her aching head in her palms and leant against the back of the sofa. For a while that was all that was sed between the two teenagers, as the girl became very aware of how awful she looked with her limp hair and pale complex.

Eventually though, Ryan got to his feet and headed towards the door, deciding he really had to get home before his parents (or Ann) started worrying.

"Well I better get going, but seriously gabs, stick to tonic water!"

As he made his way to the door, deciding that he would just get the buss back to lava springs, Gabriella jumped to her feet and grabbed his arm. The sudden movement however did nothing for her hang over as she suddenly felt very light headed and started to sway side to side.

Ryan instantly grabbed her shoulders in an attempt to steady her before helping her back to the sofa.

"I'm never drinking again!!"

"That's not a bad idea!" The witch replied with a chuckle as he sat down next to his friend, sensing, the human way fro once, that she needed to talk to him.

"Look Ry, I'm sorry for freaking out on you last week, it was just all such a shock!" She began twisting her body around so she was facing him, her hands finding their way into his.

"It's okay!" He replied with a shrug, suddenly finding the floor very interesting.

"No its not!"

" Gabs they could have killed you, trust me I understand your reaction!" He continued, still refusing to look her in the eye as he realised the danger she was probably in, just because he was with her.

"Maybe, but I shouldn't have run away like that! You did save my life after all!" she shot back, this time tilting her head slightly to try and catch the blonde's eye. Ryan however avoided it, knowing that she had every right to be upset, to hate him, after what had happened.

"Gabriella it doesn't matter!"

"Yes it does!" She yelled her frustration getting the better of her, as she imagined how angry he was going to be once she told him what she had done. "Because, I did something terrible! Something I've regretted ever since! Something you're never going to forgive me for!"

This got Ryan's attention as he slowly turned his head to look at the einsteinet who looked like she was about to start crying all over again. Seeing he wasn't going to respond, Gabriella bit her lip as she summoned up every bit of courage she currently processed.

"I told my cousin and her friends all about you!" She said causing Ryan's eyes to grow huge in pure panic as fears of being dissected by scientists entered his mind. "But that's not the worst of it… I was just so scared, I would never have thought of betraying you… but they threatened to kill us!"

"What are you talking about?" Ryan said slowly, worry evident in his voice as he stared at Gabriella, once again waiting for her to continue as the dread set in.

"Demons, they… they turned up and threatened me and Violet's friends, they said they'd kill us if I didn't tell them… tell them how best to get to you! I was so scared that I… I told them… that you would do anything to save Sharpay…"

"You did what?" Ryan yelled causing the teenager to back into the sofa as she saw the flash of anger that appeared across his face, he may have been her friend, but Gabriella couldn't forget what she had seen him do.

"I'm sorry… when they mentioned kidnap… i… I realized I should of kept my mouth shut!"

"KIDNAP?"

Gabriella nodded her face turning red from embarrassment, she just couldn't believe she was stupid enough to give them what they wanted, a way to kill one of her best friends.

"Yeah… they plan on kidnapping her, in order to kill you… tonight!"

(a/n) I think this is the longest chapter i have ever written, thanks for all the reviews