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"I-I,"I stuttered as Waryn checked her pulse."Nothing?No,I mean there was a I came back I saw a guy come from here.A-And Spencer--she's not cold anymore. And the needle broke--"

"What did he look like?"

"I-I don't know,"I answered quite baffled at the sudden tension in the room."He had a hood,I couldn't see his face clearly."

"Nathaniel...we need to know."Waryn glanced over at his brother who didn't protest. His hand outreached across the bed and covered his hand over mine,closing his eyes to us.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes, still taking in the fragmented memory and said only one word. "Glen."

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Chapter Fourteen : Man In A Box

I hear a quickened beep on the heart monitor,and squeeze her hand"What's happening?"

Then her eyes slowly opened, and I catch a glimpse of bold blue irises.I looked at her with wide eyes,"Spencer?"

Her voice trembled faintly to answer me,but I could still feel how much pain she was in. But it was different somehow...as if she was healing herself right in front of me eyes.

"Impossible,"Noah murmured in astonishment,a timid voice at her side."Waryn? Do you feel that?"

I looked up at Waryn who was rather alarmed at the proposal but still obliged."....But I don't not understand how."

"What?" I asked for Spencer,she felt dreadfully puzzled at our conversation."What are you talking about?"

"Spencer,"Waryn pressed bowing down on one knee as he said this,"How do you feel?"

"It hurts,"she admitted cautiously,pondering the request thoroughly in her head."But only a little...like it's going away...everything.I can feel it...My heart's--it slowing down."

She stopped suddenly,looking over at the two silent boys at her side."But it is not my doing...but someone else. What are you keeping from me?"

"Ashley saw a man...exiting your room just minutes ago,"Noah explained,regretfully."Before that...you were barely here and now your awake and doesn't make sense..."

"We very much suspect that this is his doing...but we do not know why,"Waryn continued before Spencer inrerrputed him.

"No,"she breathed, choking back the air stuck in her lungs all these centuries."There's something else."

"Ashley,I think we should tell her,"Waryn whispered suddenly,looking anxiously over his shoulder with much curiosity before turning round to me."Besides...You have a visitor."

"I don't know,"he muttered answering my next question."He's changed directions...he's on his way here."

"Aiden." I looked down at them, and considered this a little before Spencer reached out her hand, placing it on the pillow.I smiled,covering it with mine own.

"Go,"she persisted with a faint smile."He needs you."

I reached up to hold the sleeping girl's cheek in my palm and lowered my mouth close to her ear and whispered,"I'll come back for you."

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I closed the door and began walking down the maze of hallways. Again not in much hurry...

I knew Aiden would be furious. I'd only called my mother once while I was away to take Sophie again for me knowing that it wouldn't just be a couple of hours. Not where I was going. In those small fateful hours in that place almost two days had passed. I also knew that my half-truth explanation for the late night phone call couldn't stand up with him as it did with mom. Though,being a mother,she still suspected.

I stopped walking when I heard voices in my head. Then,I began to feel very lightheaded as they started growing again. They were screaming now.I looked around me in near panic trying to pinpoint their exact locations out of the millions of fragmented pictures but they were too blurry.I could feel something else--something strong connected to them. Whoever was doing this had to be were here,watching screams were so loud,I could feel my eardrum pulsing rapidly,until I almost couldn't hear the outside world.

Suddenly, the air pressure around me changed sending a ripping pain inside my head popping my eardrums and sending me down onto the floor.

I looked up at Aiden's dark frame at the end of the hall. Then,everything stopped.

"I'm f-fine,"I stuttered lifting myself up to see that he still hadn't moved.I started taking drunken steps toward him, but he was still as stone. Just at this moment I felt a very curious sensation from Aiden, that I immediately stopped walking to him.

The silent boy looked at me with large eyes full of tears, but said nothing.

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"No!"Spencer demanded,very loudly and decidedly. The two brother went silent and looked to the floor as she calmed down."My family was...it couldn't be be him. It's impossible."

"But it was,"Noah contradicted."The man I saw in Ashley's memory is your brother."

"How can you be sure?"she wagered back,"The Glen you saw was a young teenager in my memories. He'd would be an adult now-"

"But his power,and his soul haven't changed,"Waryn replied severely."That man is your brother!We need to stop this childishness and find him before whoever did this to you finds out. He's in great danger now,Spencer...I need you to understand that.I need you to be focused."

"Okay,"Spencer whispered stiffly,"Your right,I'm sorry."

"We should be leaving,"Noah went on."It is not safe for us either in this dimension...we've already drawn too much attention to ourselves...Spencer?What is it?"

Spencer been looking over his shoulder with great curiosity for the past few seconds listening to the sounds emanating into her head from across the hospital. They were whispers,much like the ones Ashley could tune into.
They all spoke at once making it very hard to make out exactly what they said at first. But then she could hear Ashley's voice in the piled rubble of thoughts. The two boys stared in shock as the girl swung her legs over the bed and stood up to meet their eyes.

"We need to get Ashley out of here,"she whispered appearing in front of the door behind them before they could even blink an eye. She no longer had on her gown;A pair of faded jeans and a pullover replaced it in a matter of seconds. "Now."

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He recovered his voice, tears running down his shadowed face."I don't...I can't do it.I won't!She's--she did nothing wrong..."

"Aiden,what's wrong?"I pleaded confused at the boy's stammering which seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, yet it was certainly English. Aiden went silent again and turned himself out of the shadows and into the path of light that glared from behind him. His slow and steady steps echoed one by one as he stalked forward.

"Go!"His voice sneered at me with condescension,"Leave!Stay away!"

"Why?"Another wave of Aiden's emotions inside his head hit me full on making me step back.

His head was filled with a frightening rage. Fear gripped me by my bearings and my hands quivered at the feeling as his body stopped in front of me.

"Aiden,baby,"I pleaded begging for a glimmer of the man I once loved,"It's gonna be okay--just tell me what's wrong--"

"NO!You speak...yet you say nothing!I don't know!I don't know!"he screamed through his tears and beating his head into the plastered wall."N-No talking!Stop!Stop talking!"

"AIDEN!"

"What's happening to me?"his voice quivered as he stared at me,blood running down the side of his face,"I can't--I can't think right...It's all wrong!Th-there's something inside of my head--it's saying things!It wants me to do things...I can't do it!I can't!"

"What are you talking about?"I try to check his face,but he swatted me away from him."Aiden stop!Let me help you!"

"It's too late...It's too late...It's too late,"he muttered frantically,his battered hands finding my face."I told you!I told you,but--but you didn't listen!You should've...You need to leave or I'll--"

"I'm not leaving you!Hey!"I screamed at him pulling his face back to look at me."Do you hear me?I'm not leaving..."

"It's too late for me,"he whispered to me one last time as the tears streamed down his face."I'm sorry."

Then,his gaze darkened into black as he stared down at me;A devilish smile. Black eager eyes were looking down into mine as his arms grappled against my shoulders pushing me into his chest.I tried to pull away,but he wouldn't let me--just holding me even tighter. Finally,his arms released their iron grip throwing me down onto the ground.

As I stumbled away from him,something grabbed my ankle smacking my face against the crackling earth.

"How did you--"I looked down at the grass that layed beneath me just as his hand grabbed a fistful of my hair pulling me up to his face.

"Just a parlor trick,"he whispered into my hair,"but I'm afraid stealing your boyfriend from you wasn't."

"What did you do to him!"His hand pinned me to the side of the tree,squeezing the air out of my throat as my feet lifted off of the ground."What did you do!"

"He's still in here,"he answered quietly pointing to his head;The hold on my throat loosened as he lowered me down."Screaming and wiggling inside like a parasite,but not for long.I have this strange impression that despite all the fighting,somewhere deep inside this body he's already given himself up.I just have to find it."

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I looked over at Waryn again as he paced to himself quietly."Anything?"

"Spencer,she isn't here,"Waryn whispered in the hall Ashley was last,"I can not see her...she doesn't know where she something isn't right here...somethings blocking me from seeing."

"But not me,"Noah muttered placing his hand against the grain of the shadowed wall,"It was Aiden...she met him it wasn't him--something evil...He took her away."

"Ofcourse,"Warn replied,very readily."It must've latched onto us when we crossed over...it's been waiting to find a host since the barriers were broken.I didn't think it could possess a human..."

"You said that the direct result of possession is death,"I reminded him."Is that the same with a human?"

"I don't know,"he apologized as I tried my hand at trying to see what had happened here myself,"I'm sorry,I didn't think..."

"Damnit!"I screamed throwing my fist at the plastered wall leaving a gaping hole where my fist had been.I groaned.

"Can you see anything?"

"I only got bits and pieces,"I muttered shaking off the pieces of the wall onto my jeans."Trees--a forest. Then he hit her...She's so scared..."

"Spencer concentrate,"Waryn directed me,"Try again. This time don't think about what is happening...think about Ashley and where she is."

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"Why are you doing this?"

"You tell me,"he whispered leaning in to me,"Mind reader."

"How do you know that?"

"It's all in here."He brought to fingers to jab at his temple."I know everything about you...and I know what you are doing when Aiden isn't near with Skipper. He's suspected about you two, but wouldn't let himself believe it. I feel sorry for this Skipper guy honestly,I mean the harm this body has thought about doing...Man it's intense."

I didn't know what to say,though I opened my mouth a few times--my throat was dry."Her name is Spencer."

He stood there,watching me intently before a chuckle left Aiden's lips.

"Oh really?"he asked in a tone of great curiosity,that same devilish smirk."That was unexpected--"

"She'll come for me," I interrupted him,my brown eyes glaring."And when she does...she'll kill you."

"She'll kill Aiden,"he corrected slyly,"Do you really want him to die too?"

"I'll find a way to send you back to hell,"I promised him coldly before a hand slapped me across the face,scraping my skin.

"Not if I kill you first." He waved an arm and instantly it felt like a knife had pressed against the side of my neck producing a bleeding gash.I covered up the wound,gasping at any chance of air in my lungs as blood ran through my palms and down my arm.

"A-Aiden please,"I begged falling to the ground as he stood above me in silence again."Don't do this...I know your in there.P-Please don't?"

His black eyes rested for a moment on my terrified face and retracting only slightly out of his stance;His face flushed with agony."Ashley..."

Then, a strange grin twisted Aiden's mouth and he stepped closer. "That wasn't very nice..."

"He won't hurt me,"I murmured wiping the blood from my mouth,"He would never hurt me...he'll fight it! He's stronger than you are."

"You really think he's stronger than me?"

With a flick of his wrist, I was laying on my back against the ground.I tried to get up but I was paralyzed;trapped within my own body.I couldn't move my arms,my legs...nothing.

"Well,then...let's give him a show,shall we?"

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I took a deep breath and blocked out the sounds of the and Noah at my side in case something happened while I was I could see the faintest light in my mind,I took the choice and was gone in that moment in time...

He concentrated on her hands a second before Ashley's wrists snapped up and crossed together above her head, pinning them down firmly.

"No!No!Let me go,"she commanded as he forced her legs apart."Aiden!Please, please don't do this!Stop it!"

"Oh my god..." Tears started rolled down my face as he ran his hand above her shirt;It instantly ripped itself open.

"What's happening?"Waryn asked as Noah latched onto my arm.

"Spencer no,"he uttered,"Don't pay attention to this--Where is Ashley?"

Ashley began crying out loud as he rammed his self into her. Whenever she could break free of his paralysis,she punched weakly for him to stop and scratched his back with her nails. But he grabbed her arm and slammed it back against the ground.

I could hear the bones breaking.

"No!"I screamed breaking the connection I had and falling to my knees in tears."Ashley..."

'Stop,'someones voice warned,this pleading meant only for me,'Do as I say and she'll stay alive.'

"Who are you?"I checked myself hastily,looking around at the empty space beside me.

'Spencer,you don't have much time!'He screamed as if he was right next to me.I quickly stood and glared again at the empty space.

"Tell me what to do,"I asked uncertainly at his command."Please...I need to find her."

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