Caleb found Chloe in the hallway before their class started and pulled her into an empty room. "Caleb, what-?"
He cut off her surprised question with a kiss. Chloe's eyes were wide as she felt his mouth on hers and before she knew it he was pulling away with a flash of white teeth. Getting her bearings she smirked, "You couldn't do that in the hallway?"
He shrugged, looking pleased with himself. "I could have." He told her but then his face sobered and he touched her arm and she felt the heat of his hand through her sweater. "I pulled you in here because I saw a darkling last night."
Chloe frowned, the term was unfamiliar, "A Darkling?"
"It's an illusion, a warning. It starts off in the form of a person and becomes a ghostly monster before it disappears. This is the second one I've seen, the first is one I saw almost got me killed. This one woke me from a dead sleep." He explained to her.
Chloe listened to his explanation trying to think of anything she'd learned about supernatural warnings that resembled Caleb's description but she was brought up short, "Wait, what do you mean it almost killed you!"
Caleb sighed before saying, "I was driving and it showed up in the passenger seat. It distracted me enough that I drove headfirst into a semi."
She gripped his hand, "Caleb!"
He smiled softly and covered her hand with his, "I'm fine, really I am. I had just enough time to use magic and save myself."
"okay," Chloe pursed her lips, and a thought occurred to her. "Who would send you a darkling?"
He just shook his head, looking up when the bell rang for class to start. "You'd better go."
She smiled and started towards the door but stopped when she noticed he wasn't following her. "Aren't you coming?"
"I have a race today."
Chloe tilted her head in a teasing way, "In that case," She took a slow step towards him, "I think a good luck kiss is in order." She stopped moving when they were chest to chest and looked up into Caleb's dark eyes.
"Oh?"
She gave him a sideways grin and stretched up onto her toes, "Yeah." He ducked his head to meet her and they kissed soft and sweet and regretfully she pulled away. "I have to go." She whispered and he nodded, ducking in for one quick peck then pushing her away. She hurried to the door and opened it, Chloe glanced back to see him watching her go. She blushed and shut the door behind her.
She was distracted all day, the darkling was wearing on her mind. She had the feeling that there was something dark just stewing in the background waiting to strike. Chloe really didn't like that feeling. If Kate noticed her distraction she said nothing and Chloe was grateful. The second the last bell rang Chloe was out of her seat and out the door. She reached into her bag and pulled out her cell phone, turning it on and found two missed text messages from Caleb. Reading through them she then dialed his number and started her walk outside.
"Hey Babe." Caleb answered the phone.
Chloe let out a surprised snort, "Its babe now, huh?"
She heard him laugh on the other end of the line, "I guess so, just kind of slipped out."
She grinned, "Oh yeah? Well as fun as this is, you said you saw something today?"
"Yeah, about that, where are you?"
A gust of wind blew Chloe's hair into her face and she brushed it away before answering, "I'm walking back to the dorms."
"Can you orb over here? I'm with Pogue at his place."
Chloe stopped and glanced around, seeing only one other person she ducked around the corner of a building and focused on Caleb, orbing to him. When the white light cleared she was standing in the living room of a house easily as large and grand as Caleb's. "Wow," She said snapping her phone shut, "Nice place."
"Thanks." Pogue's voice answered to her right, he sounded a little awed and when she glanced at him he was schooling his features into a nonchalant expression. She smirked but didn't call him out. She turned and dumped her bag and books on one of the couches.
Chloe straightened her back and looked over at where she knew Caleb was standing, "So what's the emergency?"
"We think-" Caleb started.
Pogue held up a hand, "No, you think."
Caleb rolled his eyes, "Fine, I think, there's something wrong with the Chase kid. I think he might be responsible for the darklings."
Chloe frowned, "I thought darklings could only be cast with Covenant magic."
"Right! I'm telling you Caleb it can't be him." Pogue cut in.
Caleb was shaking his head before Pogue had finished, "And I'm telling you! His eyes were black as night in the pool today."
"Are you sure?" Pogue asked sounding skeptical, "You hit your head pretty hard."
The oldest son scoffed angrily, "Po, I'm not hallucinating."
"You hit your head?" Chloe walked over to him and put her hands on his face, "Are you alright?"
Caleb's eyes softened and he covered her hands with his own and pulled them away from his face. "Yes, but I'm fine and" he glanced at his friend, "I'm not hallucinating, I know what I saw."
"Alright." Pogue gave up and Chloe nodded.
"Then what do we do?" She asked them.
Caleb didn't look like he had any answers he just stared at the two of them with a serious expression on his face.
