Title: No More Secrets
Author: Calie
Rating: PG-13
Summary: A new girl arrives at Spencer only days after Chase's disappearance. She comes with a secret but starts to find it very hard to keep with a very annoying boy following her around. Reid/OC
Notes: This is it, everything is out in the open. Hope it was worth waiting for. After this it's time to deal with Chase.
"Fine." Breanna looked at Reid with a glare before turning to Caleb. "I have a healing power and Chase wants it."
There was silence in the room but Reid was the first to speak up. "That's bull shit."
Breanna turned to him in anger. "Do you think he's been stalking and throwing me around for the hell of it?! Obviously I have something much more important to offer him than any of you do. I haven't noticed him trying to take your powers lately."
"Alright, alright. Considering that you know more about us than we know about your family you're going to have to explain more about this power and what Chase wants with it."
Breanna looked at Caleb with doubt. As much as she didn't trust Chase she also didn't trust them to be able to handle what the healing power really was but they were her only chance of surviving Chase. "Your families don't know much about your history before coming to England. We do. The reason your ancestors lives were in danger was because they used their powers foolishly for their own benefits. And I'm talking about all five families. As punishment your ancestors and all their descendants would prematurely age with the use of their powers. You lost the power to heal. The power was given to my family and it was up to out discretion to decide if you had earned the ability back."
"So Chase wants it so he doesn't age?" Kate asked. She'd had trouble following what Breanna was saying up to that point.
"Yea. If I give him the power he won't age, at least not sooner than any other normal person." There was silence around the room and Breanna had the feeling that she was a piece of meet at that point.
"No, that's impossible." Pogue shook his head and refused to believe it.
"It isn't and Chase knows that."
"Chase could have easily forced you to give it to him." Caleb said. He knew it wasn't below Chase. After all, Chase had used all is friends and family to try to get Caleb's powers.
"Sure," Breanna paused and suddenly got uncomfortable, "but once I give him the power it is gone from my bloodline and my descendants won't carry it any longer. He's trying to figure out a way to get the power for himself but also get an heir that will inherit the power."
"Wait, what?" Caleb shook his head in confusion. He was starting to have trouble following.
Sarah could tell Breanna was uncomfortable with explaining so Sarah decided to give it a try. "I think Breanna was trying to say that Chase wants the power to save himself but he also wants to get her pregnant so that his child will have the power also." Sarah turned to Breanna. "Right?"
Breanna nodded and did her best to avoid looking at Reid. She knew what was going through his head. Him, the one that uses the most out of the four of them, had to be recalling the night before. It would mean a lot to one of them to have a child that inherited her power. It meant that every descendant would inherit the power to heal.
The situation was getting worse by the second Caleb realized. "Okay." He sighed. "So why did he take you? Is it because he figured it out?"
"No." Breanna looked down at the floor. There was no point in hiding anything else at this point. The only way she would have been more exposed is if she was sitting naked in front of them. "He knew I was about to tell Reid." She sighed. "Look he's going to try again. Once he realizes that he can't have it both ways he'll probably just decide to take the power for himself."
"Why would he try now?" Tyler questioned. "Not with all of us here."
"He doesn't care. In his opinion I'm going to try to pass my power off to one of you or wind up pregnant before he can force me to perform the spell.. Because once I'm pregnant it's to late, I no longer can pass the power on because it is in my child" There was a moment of silence and some of the people of the room looked at Reid.
Reid rolled his eyes when he realized everyone suspected him of sleeping with Breanna. It wasn't there business what he did. "So sue me."
"She's right." Caleb turned his attention back to the situation. "He is going to try again soon. But we have the advantage of four to one, plus," Caleb looked at the clock, "Tyler ascends in ten hours. If we can wait that long than we'll go after him. In the mean time no one leaves. The last thing we need is him getting a hold of someone."
She couldn't help but finally sigh in relief. Everything was out on the table and she had nothing left to hide. She wasn't sure what that would do to her relationship with all of them, especially Reid but at least she had no more secrets. "Am I done? Because I'd really like to lie down." Her throat was scratchy enough but it was her head that was hurting.
Caleb looked to Reid to take her upstairs but he shook his head. "Oh Jesus just get over it and bring her upstairs.
Reid glared at Caleb but moved from his corner and headed to the stairs without even a glance at Breanna. The last thing he wanted to do was be near her.
She followed him in silence, the whole time aware of her heart breaking. When they entered the trashed room she went strait to the bed and sat down. Reid took a seat in one of the still standing chairs but didn't look at her. "You don't have to stay."
"I'm sure Caleb would say otherwise."
"Reid I'm sorry. Everyone else is okay with it, why can't you be?" Her voice was pleading but it was obvious that it wasn't going to work
"Because they weren't the ones spending every waking moment with you. You also let me believe I was at fault for Chase coming after you." His anger was growing but he had no wish to control it. "They weren't the ones you slept with last night. You let that happen knowing how I would feel when you told me and how I would react."
"You know, how many girls have you kept your secret from? How long did Kate and Pogue date before she found out the truth." He didn't say anything though and she hoped she had made some kind of point.
"So then all of this." Reid gestured between them referring to their relationship. "Was this just so you could watch us?"
"No. I told you, I was trying to stay away from you. I didn't want to get involved. But you kept following me and then…and then… well I realized I liked you."
"So then why didn't you tell me!? I can't just go around telling anyone I meet, but if you knew about me why didn't you tell me!?" He knew he'd called his power to the surface again with his anger. It was still new and hard for him to control, especially when he was angry.
"Stop it." She said when she noticed his eyes flash and change to black. Earlier she hadn't had time to care, she'd been too angry and set on pissing him off further. This time she finally realized how unnerving it was to see him like that. "Reid." Breanna pleaded with him but she could see that nothing was helping.
"What?" He stood up and walked over to her. "This is what I am. You obviously knew that so why should it bother you. What are you scared?"
It was when he made that last comment she knew what he was doing and she wasn't going to stand for him threatening her. She stood up and used her hand to push him back. "No I'm not so stop trying to make me." She let go of some of her anger and talked to him with a more gentle voice. "I'm sorry. I couldn't tell you. Don't you think I was scared of what you would say when you knew I had the ability to save your life."
"So that's it then." Reid finally realized and it made the hurt he was feeling even worse. "You didn't tell me because you didn't know how I'd react when I found about you." Her silence was enough and he couldn't help but shake his head. Finally his eyes turned back to their normal color and he walked back to the chair he had been sitting in before. When he sat down he looked back at her. "I'm not Chase and you know that." He shook his head and smiled. "You know us, it's all a lie."
His last comment hurt but she tried not to give up on making him understand it wasn't. "If I was that scared of your reaction I wouldn't have slept with you last night. Although the chances were low I know the repercussions of sleeping with one of you are. I can't mix my blood line with any of you. It would only give you reason to be more careless. Reid you can't sit there and deny that if you had my power you would be a danger to yourself and others." Ignoring the head ache Breanna walked over to Reid and kneeled down in front of him "I told you I'm sorry. I know you think this is all a lie but it doesn't change how I feel." His blue eyes looked down at her but he didn't say anything. Nothing she could say was going to make a difference. Either he was going to forgive her or he wasn't. With that depressing thought in mind she stood up and went back to the bed to lie down.
Reid sat there in silence and tried to tell himself that she was wrong, that he didn't want her power. But the more he thought about it the more he knew she was right. It was tempting to know she was only a few feet from him and had the power to save his life and leave him free to use as he wished. It was hard to dwell on that though when he could hear the muffled sound of her crying. The more he sat there in silence the more he had time to think. He was mad at her but at the same time Chase was after her and intent on taking her power and getting her pregnant. The thought of what Chase would do to get her pregnant brought on a sick feeling in his stomach that he had tried to ignore earlier but he couldn't now. Finally, he couldn't take her crying anymore and stood up and kicked off his shoes. When he reached that bed he lay down behind her and wrapped an arm around her waste. For some reason that he couldn't understand she only started to cry harder. As angry as he was with her he knew that she hadn't meant for it to happen. Reid hadn't planned on their relationship turning into something serious and he didn't think she had either. "Breanna, I'm sorry."
She turned in his arms and buried her face in his chest. When she was able to calm down she looked up at him and was relieved to see he no longer looked angry. "I didn't mean for it to happen. Everyday I wanted to tell you. Every time I saw Chase I wanted to tell you. He'd show up in my room in the showers last night and every time he would threaten me."
Reid suddenly realized that he had no idea how many times Chase had appeared to her. He only knew about the time at Nicky's, when they were in town, and the night before in the showers. He wanted to ask her if anything else had happened but figured it best not to bring it up. It seemed she was more than willingly to go on though and he didn't stop her.
"He showed up in my room after that night at Nicky's threatening me with the fact that you hadn't ascended yet and then again before the dance warning me not to get close to you because I could only produce one child with my power." Through her whole rant she didn't meet his eyes. It was hard to tell him everything but it was the only way to make him understand. "Then in the shower." Breanna sighed and tried to calm herself down.
"Did something happen?" For a while he had forgotten about the shower. She never had told him what happened or how she'd wound up hurt.
"What?" She looked up at him and she realized he may have suspected more had happened than what really did. "No, I mean nothing besides this." She brought her hand up to her chest and touched where the gash was. "I don't know what he did. He just ran his finger over my chest and that was it."
Reid had suspected that Chase had used on her but he hadn't been sure until that moment. "Is there anything else? What about when you disappeared earlier and your head?"
"I woke up in my room. He'd taken me because I slept with you and because I was going to tell you. My head," Breanna reached up and touched it and thought back to her room, "it hit a wall." Remembering the short time in her room reminded her of the fear she had felt at that moment. It had been the first time that she thought she wasn't going to get away from Chase alive. "He's not going to stop until he has the power."
"It'll be fine." He kissed her forehead and rolled onto his back. She rested her head on his chest and seemed to relax a little. At least he hoped it would be fine. "Tyler ascends tonight and Chase may have his father's powers but so does Caleb. Not only that but it's four against one like Caleb said. Caleb's a pain in the ass but if he truly thought we would be in danger he probably wouldn't let us go after Chase."
Breanna closed her eyes and sighed. "I think there's something I can do to help." Her father wasn't going to be happy with her at all.
