Hi Guys!

So, I sat down an hour ago and polished this off quite quickly. It helped that the last one was a cliffhanger and I'd been looking forward to this one for a while.

This one if for dropsofjupiter1999, my only review from the last one. Really I'm hurt. Only one?! It worried me.

Hope you like this one. Time for Sean to eat some Humble Pie.

Sean's P.O.V.

I didn't really see the door open. One minute I was standing on the wooden porch of a family who hated me, the next I was pinned twenty metres up the trunk of a pine tree with telekinesis force, branches scratching my face and digging into my sides.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing here Kelly." A voice growled from the ground. I looked down, scrabbling to keep myself up if they decided to drop me. Zed Benedict was striding towards me, followed by all the males of his family. The women were back on the porch, standing protectively in front of Sky, the blonde girl I'd hurt. They were staring in open hate for me, only a curly haired girl and an Egyptian woman looking slightly confused.

"I need your help." I said, as clearly as I could when at any moment the young man below could let me fall and break my neck.

There was a bitter laugh of disbelief from the crowd of people below me. The Benedict clan had grown by three since the last time I'd seen them. I felt happy for them, honestly I did, though they'd never believe me if I told them.

The women came over once Saul motioned the all clear. "Did he say he needed our help?!" The tiny mother Karla looked so outraged she picked up a pine cone to throw at me. I felt it hit my hip bone hard and I winced. She looked openly better and wrapped Sky in her arms.

Saul looked lovingly at his wife before clearing his throat and looking up at me. "What do you want Kelly?"

I looked down, avoiding the large blue eyes of Sky Bright. "I need your help. Please, it's important."

Zed hardened his telekinetic hold on my chest and I gasped at the pain. Will, an older, calmer brother, tapped his shoulder and shook his head. "Calm down, he's not going anywhere."

The youngest brother pushed Will away and went to fold Sky in his arms. She stepped into his embrace but was looking up at me with a mixture of fear, defiance and confusion. She said something to Zed but it was so quiet I couldn't hear. He shook his head and held her tighter.

"Why should we help you?" Victor, an angry looking man about my age, growled. "You've done nothing by bad to this family. You nearly killed Sky and framed Zed and Xav."

"Not to mention you're just a bit of an arse." Xav piped up from the group. There was a trickle of laughter that was too muted by anger to make much damage.

"I don't need your help for me." I said loudly, trying to let them all hear how genuine I was. "But there are 500 women who would be desperate for it."

The talking broke off suddenly as they took in what I said.

"Bullshit." The curly haired girl said firmly.

"Crystal, there's no need for that." The Egyptian woman chided. "We don't know anything about this."

Crystal held up her hands. "Oh come on Diamond. This is the guy who tried to kill Sky. And he just shows up after only three years in prison and asks for our help? I'm calling a trap even if no one else does."

I loosened the grip of my hand, letting the bag I'd been holding fall to the ground. They watched it fall and I wondered if my phone would be all right. "There's a file in there with the story of 500 women and girls all being held in prison cells and sold to their soulfinders. It's all there. I promise."

Yves, the quieter, clever one, walked forward slowly and pulled out the file while his family looked over his shoulder. There was a brief snatch of murmuring before the force on my chest lifted and I dropped haphazardly to the ground.

Immediately I was pulled up by Zed and smashed against the tree. The boy had grown up while I was in prison, he looked older, wiser and furious. "What kind of game are you playing Kelly?" he spat.

"He's telling the truth, Zed." Yves glanced up, not really caring about his brother's violence. "It's all here."

Karla was visibly shaken at the thought of all those women in prison. She looked at me with eyes full of distrust and worry. "What is this place?" She breathed.

I shrugged Zed off and he stepped back in font of Sky, who looked slightly cross to be protected.

"They call it The Cat House." I began, showing them the gate pass from my pocket and the small flyer that they handed out. "They say it's a hotel where female Savants can meet their potential soulfinders. But in reality they're kept in tiny cells, not fed properly, kept apart from their families, given one uniform to wear all the time, and only cleaned when they're being shown off." I sighed and dropped my head, feeling the unbearable guilt of leaving Karen in the place where she wasn't safe.

The whole family looked devastated. "So, why are you here?" Trace asked accusingly.

The emotion broke over me. I felt my eyes fill with tears and blinked fats to get rid of them. "Because my soulfinder's there. Karen, she's been trapped there for a couple of weeks now and I have to get her out." I sighed and rubbed my face. "I know you don't trust me. I know you hate me." I nodded at Sky. "But you have to believe me when I say that I am beyond sorry. I hate what I did, it haunts me. Prison was the changing point for me but I got in with some 'old friends' who hooked me into The Cat House. It was only meeting Karen that forced me to stay there. I had to get her and the rest of them out."

The family all snorted with laughter at my pathetic excuse for a 'lie'.

"He's telling the truth." A small voice broke through it.

I looked up and saw Sky pushing past Zed and walking towards me. I looked away from her face as she stood in front of me.

"He means every word, even the one's he can't say." She smiled at me. She actually smiled. "You've changed Sean Kelly."

There was a stunned silence as the rest of her family watched on.

I glanced at her but couldn't quite meet her eyes yet. "It's Sean Danes now. I changed my name when they let me out of prison."

She looked over her shoulder and nodded at the others. Zed looked surly and distrusting.

"You really love her." Crystal came and stood next to Sky. "I can see it. I'm a soulseeker and you really love Karen."

I nodded mutely. But this girl, Crystal, could change everything. Now we could help those women to find their soulfinders once we got them out.

"I didn't know who else to come to for help." I said, my worry showing in my voice. "I know you can help and I needed to at least try. I have a plan that I think could actually work." I stopped to breathe deeply. "And I'm so sorry. Really, I can't bear what I did, and if you give me a chance I will do everything I can to prove to you that I mean what I'm saying."

I looked desperately at Sky.

She smiled and motioned toward the house. "I still don't trust you Sean. But I can tell you mean every word. Now, why don't you come inside and you can tell us about this plan of yours."

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