I'm updating twice in the same week!
I wrote this a few days ago, but I wanted to wait a while before I posted the next chapter….. Consider the wait over J!
So here's chapter 12!
Tyler and Brooke met up with Reid outside Pogue's room. "How is he?" Tyler asked and Reid smiled. "He's awake and alert." He said and Brooke nodded. "Kate?" Reid asked and Brooke shook her head. "No change." She said and Reid nodded. "Call Caleb and let him know that Pogue's awake." Reid said to Tyler, who nodded and walked down the hall to make the call.
"So what did Pogue say? It must've been amusing." Brooke asked, recalling the initial smile on Reid's face. "He wants to fight for Kelsey." He said, looking at Brooke. "And how does that make you feel?" Brooke asked, half joking, looking at Reid and he just shrugged. "I expected it sooner or later." He said, making Brooke laugh. "Believe it or not, so did I. As much as I would like him to leave her alone and let her be, there's apart of him that won't romantically cut ties with Kels without trying to see if they can work." She said, leaning against the nearby wall. "He really hurt her, Reid. I know he didn't want or mean to, but it was inevitable. And in her own way, Kels is moving past it, but it's gonna take some time. I mean, she invested so much of herself into having a relationship with Pogue and he wouldn't do it. I don't want you to think that you're some kind of rebound guy, or that she's settling for something that she can't have. She really is trying to get over him, you just gotta be patient with her."
Reid leaned on the wall next to her and sighed. "I get that. And I'm not gonna hurt her, Brooke. At least I'm gonna try not to." He said and Brooke nodded. "You better not. If any of you guys make her cry like she did a few days ago ever again, I'll personally make sure you cry just as hard. I may not be able to do all that hocus pocus crap that you guys can, but it won't be necessary for what I'll do. Then when Kelsey gets her head right, she'll do whatever I can't, mainly anything that concerns magic. Got it?" She said, turning to face him so he could see the seriousness on her face. "Loud and clear." Reid said putting his hands up in surrender to Brooke.
"But you actually manned up and stood up for her. So you got me on your side in whatever this turns into." She said, folding her arms across her chest and looking forward. "Why? Not because I don't want you on my side, cause I do. You're her best friend and she listens to you over anyone and anything else, but, if I was in your shoes and I had to help Kelsey pick between me and Pogue, I'd pick Pogue." He said and Brooke laughed.
"Due to your track record, that would be the logical choice. But he had his chance. Kelsey had her heart on her sleeve for years, waiting for him to step up, and now all of a sudden after she wants to moves on, he wants to fight for her? Too little too late." She said and Reid smiled. "And besides, Kels likes you. Don't ever doubt that. She might not have known it right because she was briefly blinded by the leather clad wannabe badass on the motorcycle, but she's realizing it now." Brooke said, and Reid chuckled. "And its obvious that you like her and you have no problem showing it or admitting it, as I've already seen a few times already. That what she deserves to have after every thing she goes through; a guy who cares for her and puts her first over everything and everyone." Reid nodded his head in agreement. "Which brings me back to my threat..." She said and they both laughed.
Tyler came back to them a few minutes later and they were both laughing. "Caleb and Sarah are on their way back. He took her to see his dad." Tyler said and the two of them nodded. "What'd I miss?" He asked and Reid smiled. "Brooke's threat to all of us." He said and Tyler looked at Brooke. "Threat?" he said and Brooke shook her head. "Yup. But it doesn't really go for Ty. He wouldn't make Kelsey cry." She said just as Caleb and Sarah came back in the hallway.
"Pogue awake?" Caleb asked and Reid nodded. Caleb walked in the room and Brooke walked with Sarah back to Kate's room. "Pogue's gonna break up with Kate." Reid said as he and Tyler walked down to the waiting area. "He wants to be with Kels?" Tyler asked and Reid nodded. "What are you gonna do?" he asked as Reid sat down. "Nothing. We gotta find her first." He said and Tyler nodded.
"Speaking of, as of now, we're assuming that Chase has Kelsey." Caleb said, walking into the area with Sarah and Brooke. "You sound like you know more than your saying." Tyler said, both him and Reid both getting up and standing in front of Caleb. "He came to Sarah and Kate's dorm earlier. That's how I found out about Pogue." Caleb said and the other boys sighed. "Did he tell you what he wanted?" Reid asked and Caleb nodded. "Our powers." He said with a heavy sigh. "He wants you guys to give him your powers? That'll kill him, won't it? I mean from what Kels told me, a power overload can kill you guys, right?" Brooke asked and the three boys nodded. "Giving him our powers will kill us too." Reid said and both Brooke and Sarah looked around at them confused. "When we ascend, our powers and our life force intertwine. You can't use too much power, but you can't not use it either. But losing it altogether..." Caleb said and the two girls nodded, knowingly.
"So what now?" Sarah asked and Reid shrugged. "We're gonna take you and Brooke to my house. This way, we know the two of you are okay." Caleb said and they all nodded and headed for the exit.
When they showed up to the Danver's Estate, Evelyn opened the door and embraced Caleb. "Your sister's missing." She said and Caleb nodded. "We know. We're working on it." He said, and Evelyn nodded at her son and his friends. "Mrs. Danvers, can we go up to Kelsey's room? Too look around?" Brooke asked and Evelyn nodded so Brooke and Sarah headed up the stairs to her room as Reid, Tyler and Caleb followed close behind.
"I don't think we're gonna find anything." Caleb said as Brooke opened the door and saw Kelsey's purse on her bed. "Kelsey never struck me as a blue person. I always thought of her to be a purple or gray type." Sarah said and Brooke chuckled. "Those are her favorite colors, but she picked this color when she was 7." She said and Sarah nodded. "I don't see anything out of the ordinary, Brooke." Caleb said, sitting on his sister's couch. "You wouldn't because you're her brother. I would because I'm her friend." She said, reaching underneath Kelsey's mattress and pulling out a piece of paper. "What's that?" Tyler asked and Brooke handed it to Caleb. "Surveillance spells. Kels casted them on her room every time she came home ever since Kira stole one of her necklaces at a sleep over she had when we were kids." Brooke said and Caleb laughed. "Cast the bottom one and we'll see what happened in her room when she got home. For some reason, she feels better knowing that she's under constant surveillance and knows everything going on in her room at all times." She said and Caleb nodded, turning his eyes and silently saying the spell to himself. "How do you know that?" Reid asked and Brooke rolled her eyes. "Because I'm Brooke. Kelsey tells me everything." She said and Sarah chuckled. "Everything?" Tyler asked and Brooke nodded. "I know that you slept in footie pajama's until you were 11 and that Reid slept with a nightlight until he was 13." She said and the two boys looked at one another as Sarah kept laughing.
Then, as if watching a surround sound movie, Kelsey's interaction with Chase played over in front of them. "Smart move, little sister." Caleb said to himself, watching Kelsey walk through her room and slip something in her night stand and flash her eyes briefly before leaving with Chase. "Is there a way to trace the spells she used in here?" Brooke asked, and Caleb shrugged. "I don't think so." He said and Brooke sighed and fell on Kelsey's bed. "What do we do now?" She asked, and no one said anything. "Is anything in the drawer?" Tyler asked, and Sarah opened the drawer they saw Kelsey put something in and didn't see anything. "Nothing." she said and Brooke sighed. "Thanks a lot, Kels." she said sarcastically, picking up one of Kelsey's pillows and covering her face. As she did, Brooke felt a breeze come in through the window and felt something land on her arm.
"What the hell is on my arm?" She asked and Reid and Caleb looked around in shock. "A butterfly." Caleb said as Reid moved the pillow from Brooke's face. "The windows not open, how did it get in here?" Sarah asked, looking around to anyone for an answer. "I have no idea." Reid said, helping Brooke slowly sit up on the bed without scaring the butterfly. "It's the beginning of October. Where did Butterflies come from?" Caleb asked and everyone shrugged. "Forget that. What are we supposed to do with it?" Brooke asked and Tyler laughed, drawing the attention to himself. "Follow the butterfly."
The beginning of the next chapter is a flashback and explains the whole "follow the butterfly" thing…. I have about 625 words written for that chapter and I can either, expand that into a full blown chapter with no less than 1,000 words, or split that into two mini chapters (That does mean you guys get quicker updates, but they'll be smaller than usual.) Let me know which option you guys prefer!
Also, because of the responses I've gotten about making a sequel to this when I finish, I'm most likely gonna do it! I have ideas as to how It would work out now, so I gotta start writing them out before I forget…
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