Chapter Nineteen:
It Only gets Worse from Here
They were all in Sawyer and Peyton's apartment lounging around the room as he paced back and forth. Why didn't she tell him that she was dreaming? He should have known that she wouldn't tell him but Reid should have told him. He was angry and upset and scared out of his mind, not only is his girlfriend at risk but his sister and all his friends are to. He rubbed his hands across his face taking a deep breath.
"Caleb they weren't that big of a deal, until last night," Sawyer said from her spot on the couch in Peyton's arms.
"Sawyer it is something he would do, I don't want to take any chances if it is him," He said looking over at her.
"Chase, Caleb his name is Chase," she said slightly annoyed.
"Don't say it," he said giving her a slightly disgusted look.
"Why? Are we suddenly in Harry Potter and he who must not be named is after us again," She mocked with her head on Reid's shoulder. He nudged her and gave her a 'be quite' look. "What is your nose now going up his ass too," she snapped at him. He didn't say anything; he just looked away from her. She scoffed and detangled herself from Peyton and stood up.
"Sawyer," Sarah reprimanded her, "He's just worried,"
"This isn't a game SD," Caleb said getting close to her.
"I never said it was but not saying his name doesn't mean it isn't him," she said glaring, "You don't know what it feels like to watch everyone you love die right in front of you," she snapped and stocked off down the hall then stopped and looked back at him. "I'm not going to be naïve and pretend it isn't him when we all know that it is," she said then slammed her bedroom door making them all jump. Caleb looked over at Reid; He glanced at the older boy through his hair. Peyton watched the exchange between the boys then scoffed and stood up.
"You guys are assholes," she said walking down the hall. Caleb rubbed his face again and sighed; Reid stood up and walked to the front door throwing it open.
"Fuck," he exclaimed as he walked out of the apartment. Sarah and Kate jumped at his outburst, Pouge looked at Caleb and Tyler got up following Reid.
"Caleb lets go," Sarah whispered grabbing his arm. He looked down the hallway at his sisters closed door and hung his head following his girlfriend out of the apartment.
They reached Sarah's apartment and she pulled him to her bedroom. She lay down and pulled him down next to her she wrapped her arms around his neck and her leg around his waist. He put his face into her chest holding her to him.
"She's scared Caleb, we all are," Sarah whispered as she pressed a kiss to his hair, he nodded.
"I don't want to lose you again," he said against her kissing her collar bone.
"Hey," she whispered pulling his face up to look at her. "You never lost me; you got to me before anything happened,"
"But I could have and now he's going after Sawyer, I can't lose everything that I care about." He said. Her eyes held unshed tears and her cheeks were pink, he reached up and kissed her. "I love you Sarah," he mumbled, she smiled as she let her tears fall.
"I love you too Caleb," she whispered. He pressed his lips back to hers and rolled on top of her.
Sawyer was pacing back and forth in her room when Peyton came in. She was muttering under her breath cursing everyone in the other room.
"I can't believe he would think that I don't take this seriously," Sawyer said as she looked at Peyton. Peyton looked at her with a confused look. "What?" Sawyer snapped, then she started to pace again she was in no mood to listen to Peyton bitch at her too.
"Sawyer, are you using?" Peyton asked quietly. Sawyer stopped pacing and glared at her.
"No, I'm not. Why?" she snapped, Peyton took a startled step back and the look in her eyes told Sawyer that she was actually scared of her. "Pay what's wrong?" she asked concerned.
"Sawyer, your eyes," Peyton whispered as her hand closed around the door handle. Sawyer took a step toward her but Peyton flinched. "SD your eyes," she said again. Sawyer turned around and went to her bathroom. When she looked at herself her eyes were flashing back and forth from green to violet. Sawyer's eyes got wide as she stared at herself, and suddenly they stopped and became green once again. She walked out into the living room to find it empty; so she walked back to her room and grabbed her phone. She was running on auto pilot completely terrified of herself, she had no idea what was happening to her. She dialed Reid's number and let it ring.
"You have reached the voicemail box of Reid Garwin so leave me a message, BEE-OTCH!" the beep sounded and Sawyer snapped out of it.
"Call me when you get this, love you," She said hanging up the phone then she lay down on the bed. Her mind wouldn't stop turning, she wanted to get up and go look at herself again but she was too scared of what she might see. So she stared at the ceiling watching it get dark as night fell. When the room was finally black she sat up and reached for her phone. She dialed Reid again and waited.
"You have reached-" She hung up and glared at her phone. 'Where the hell was he? And why the fuck was he ignoring her?' She stomped out into the living room and started to pace, glaring at the door. She walked back and forth four times before she stopped and stared at the door while she was spinning her phone in her hand. Then she heard the lock on the door click, and she glared harder. He slowly came around the corner not noticing Sawyer, he shut the door as quietly as he could, and when the door clicked into place she flung her phone at the door as hard as she could. He whipped around and stared at her wide eyed. Sawyer had her arms crossed tightly over her chest glaring at him with fire in her eyes.
"Where the hell have you been?" she spat at him. He drew his eyebrows together in confusion.
"I was with Tyler," he stated as if that solved everything.
"Oh you were with Tyler, well great everything's fine now, thanks for clearing that up," she sneered not moving.
"What is wrong with you?" He snapped taking off his jacket and laying it on the couch.
"Nothing is wrong with me," she yelled. "But it's pretty fucked up when your girlfriend calls you and you don't answer," Reid scoffed; he couldn't believe she was freaking out about this.
"You were the one being a bitch earlier and locking yourself in the bedroom," he yelled back.
"Oh so now it's my fault that you didn't have my back before, and then you disappeared for the rest of the day?" she snapped letting her eyes flash black. Next thing she knew, Reid was so close his nose almost brushed hers.
"Do it Sawyer," he whispered. "You want to hurt me, then do it," her eyes turned violet and he was thrown into the door. He collapsed to his knees then fell to his hands gasping for air. She walked up to him and grabbed a handful of his hair pulling his head back to look at her. His eyes widened as he looked into her eyes. "Sawyer, what's wrong with your eyes?" he whispered actually becoming afraid of her. She glared at him and sent a shock through his body, he screamed and convulsed under her hand.
"It only gets worse from here sweetheart," she said in a deep sultry voice. She sent another shock through him making him scream, and then she collapsed on the ground next him. He looked over at her trying to lift his hand to shake her awake but his body was still shaking from the shocks.
"Sawyer," he croaked trying to get her to wake up. "Sawyer," he said louder and with more panic in his voice. He took a deep breath and tried to control the twitching in his body. He slowly crawled to her leaning over her. He raised his hand and gently moved her hair out of her face, cupping her cheek. "Sawyer, baby wake up," he said softly and slightly shaking her head. Her eyes fluttered and he sighed in relief when he saw her eyes were the same green he fell in love with.
"What happened?" she asked looking up at him. He moved his hand from her neck and put it back to the floor, his body shaking again. "Reid what happened to you?" she asked sitting up and putting her hands on his face. He shook his head and closed his eyes as his body shuddered again. "Reid," she said panicked as his elbows gave out and he sank to the floor. He took a deep breath as she helped roll him on his back. He looked up at her and searched her eyes.
"What's the last," he started weakly. He swallowed and cleared his throat starting over. "Fuck SD, I know I taunted you but I didn't think you would shock me. And why the fuck was your eyes purple?"
"What?" she shrieked, fluttering her hands across him not knowing where to put them. "I shocked you?" she breathed, he smirked at her.
"Yeah, pretty good too," he groaned as he tried to sit up.
"Reid," she tried to scold as she helped him up anyway. "Where do you want to sit?" she asked letting him lean heavily against her.
"Bed," he said as they clumsily walked down the hallway. She laid him back on his side of the bed and started to take off his shoes and pants. "Can you get me some water?" he asked, she nodded and walked into the bathroom. She came back and handed him the drink then turned to walk away. He grabbed her wrist before she got too far away and tried to pull her back to him. She walked toward him but kept her head down. "Look at me," he said, slowly she looked up and her cheeks were stained with tears. He pulled her down to him; she lay down next to him burying her face into his chest. "It's alright love, I'm fine please don't cry," he murmured into her hair as she shook slightly from her tears.
"I'm so sorry, the last thing I remember is wanting to use. Then I don't know, everything went black and I woke up with you over me," she said into his tee shirt. He put his hand under her chin and made her look up at him.
"So you don't remember anything? Not throwing me into the door or anything," he asked. Her eyes got wide in shock and she sat up.
"I threw you into the door?" she asked completely outraged at herself.
"Yeah, your eyes turned this purple color and then you threw me into the door. Then you came up and grabbed me by the hair shocking me twice," he explained. She looked away from him when he mentioned her eyes. "Sawyer why did your eyes change colors?" he asked noticing her reaction.
"I don't know," she whispered looking anywhere but at him.
"Was that the first time?" he asked, she finally looked back at him and shook her head.
"It happened earlier today when I was fighting with Caleb," she said looking back down and started playing with the hem of his shirt. "Peyton saw them and left all freaked out so I looked and they were flashing from green to violet. Then I called you, but you didn't answer and I was so scared, and you didn't call me back or anything. That's why I was so mad when you finally came home," she explained. He sat up and put his hands on her either side of her neck and made her look at him.
"Why didn't you call Caleb or Tyler? God Sawyer I'm so sorry I didn't answer, my phone was on silent and I didn't know." He pulled her into a hug; she buried her face into his neck and clutched his shirt in her hands. "You should have called Tyler," he whispered into her ear. They sat there for a while just holding each other, wondering what the hell was going on.
"You think we should call Caleb?" she asked a couple of minutes later. He nodded against her shoulder.
"Yeah, he was upset about the dreams he'll be really pissed if we don't tell him about this," he said as he pulled away from her. He lay back down on the bed and took a drink of his water. Sawyer got up and went to go get her phone, she flashed her eyes and it put itself together and flew into her out stretched hand. She started to call her brother as she walked down the hallway.
"Hey," she said when he picked up. "Can you come over, we really need to talk," she asked lying down next to Reid. "Something is going on with me Caleb, and I don't know what to do," she finished. "Alright thanks," she said before hanging up the phone.
"Is he coming?" Reid asked as he pulled her too him. She nodded then wrapped herself around him and stared at the wall. A couple minutes later the door bell was ringing. Sawyer crawled out of bed to answer it; when she opened the door Caleb was there with Tyler and Pouge. They came inside and she led them to her room, she climbed back on the bed and snuggled back into Reid.
"What's going on?" Tyler asked as he sat down next to Sawyer. Caleb stood at the foot of the bed his arms crossed tightly across his chest. Pouge stood back and leaned by the door.
"Something is wrong with my eyes and… my power," she whispered not looking at any of them. Caleb tensed.
"What?" Tyler asked looking over her head at Reid, he nodded slightly.
"What's wrong with your eyes?" Caleb asked still not relaxing.
"They turned violet," she said finally looking up at him. He clenched his teeth making his jaw muscle jump. Pouge pushed away from the wall and walked up to the bed.
"They turned violet?" Pouge asked looking at Sawyer, she nodded. He looked back at Caleb. "Do you know why?" he asked him. Caleb looked at him and all but glared.
"No," he said through clenched teeth. Pouge stared at his friend hard, he decided that Caleb did know what was going on but he wasn't going to share it.
"What do I do Caleb?" Sawyer asked quietly watching her brother, waiting for him to fix this like he always did. Caleb looked back at her and his whole demeanor softened. He hadn't seen her scared like this since they moved their dad to the colony house.
"I don't know SD," he whispered. "But I promise we will figure it out and we will all get through it," his brown eyes staring into hers. She nodded, believing every word.
"So what happened when your eyes changed?" Tyler asked her, intertwining her fingers with his.
"I don't know, I don't remember anything," she said squeezing his hand. Everyone then looked at Reid.
"What?" he snapped, everyone kept looking at him. He huffed and rolled his eyes. "She wasn't herself alright, and she attacked me, that's it," he finished pulling her to him tighter.
"What did you do?" Tyler whispered in awe.
"I threw him into the door and electrocuted him twice," she said almost like it wasn't that big of a deal. Reid gave her an exasperated look, as Tyler gasped, Caleb's jaw dropped and Pouge let out a low chuckle.
"Shut up Pouge," Reid mumbled. Sawyer started to chuckle against him, and Tyler smiled.
"Dude your girlfriend kicked your ass," Tyler laughed making Sawyer laugh harder. Reid grabbed his pillow from behind him and flung it across Sawyer and hit Tyler in the face.
"Hey," Sawyer exclaimed as Reid's arm hit her boob. "Dude I have boobs," she said taking the pillow from between her knees and hitting Reid.
"Dude?" Pouge asked smirking at her. She turned her grin on him and threw the pillow at him. He caught it and chucked it back at her, she laughed out loud. Her laugh made all the guys grin and look at her. Then at the same time everyone grabbed a pillow and began the war.
After the pillow fight the guys left and Sawyer collapsed on the bed grinning at the ceiling. She hadn't felt that good and connected with the guys in a while, it felt good to be just the five of them again. She chuckled to herself as she remembered jumping at Pouge and Caleb taking them to the ground.
"What are you laughing at?" Reid asked from his spot on the floor at the foot of the bed.
"Nothing," she said still grinning. She rolled over and crawled to the end of the bed. "Hi," she said smiling shyly at him. He grinned at her.
"Hi," he said grabbing her wrist and pulling her off the bed. She crawled over him straddling his hips; he put his hand into her hair at her neck and brought her lips to his. "I love you," he said against her lips making her smile. She leaned up at looked down at him; she was so in love him. He smiled back at her pushing her hair back behind her ear then brought her down for another kiss.
"I love you too," she whispered, putting her forehead against his. "Always have,"
"Always will," he whispered back.
The next Friday Reid and Sawyer were leaving the apartment to meet the group down at the Coffee Shop. When they stepped outside Tyler and Peyton were waiting for them.
"Hey you okay?" Peyton asked making Sawyer look her in the eye. Sawyer nodded so Peyton rounded on Reid. "You fucker, not calling her and then staying out all day when she was obviously upset," she snapped at him.
"What?" he exclaimed. "You ran after her; I figured you would have stayed till I got home, it's not my fault you left her home alone," he snapped back.
"I was freaked out Reid I don't really deal with your guy's supernatural stuff. I try to stay out of it," she said glaring at the boy.
"Really Peyton, you do know that your boyfriend is a witch right? Or did it slip your fucking mind," he retorted grabbing Sawyer's hand and walking away from them.
"Reid, babe, slow down," Sawyer said making Reid stop.
"That bitch," he seethed. Sawyer grabbed his face making him look down at her.
"She was just scared for me," Sawyer snapped.
"Yeah well she's got a fucked up way of showing it. She didn't come over once this week to see if you were okay, none of the girls did," he snapped, Sawyer glared at him and his face fell. "I'm sorry, she just pissed me off," Sawyer gave him a sad smile and pulled him into a hug standing on her tiptoes, wrapping her arms all the way around his neck. He gripped her hips and she wrapped her legs around his waist. She pulled his face out from her neck and kissed him running her tongue across his lips. He opened his mouth willingly moaning as her tongue collided with his in a passionate kiss. He pushed her up against the brick building; the last week had been kind of tense not knowing if Sawyer's eyes would turn violet again. It felt good to get himself lost in her again, he was tempted to turn around and go back to the apartment and stay in bed all day with her. Of course she would never go for it, she had class today. He pulled his lips away from hers and kissed across her jaw grabbed her ear lobe between his teeth nibbling it slightly. "I want you so bad baby," he whispered. She groaned and leaned her head against his.
"Oh baby, I have class," she whispered back completely torn. He sighed in her ear and leaned back to look at her, then nodded. She smiled and kissed his lips lightly. "After my class you can have me in the bed the whole weekend," she said putting her forehead to his. He smirked at her and put her back on her feet. She grabbed his hand as they started to walk toward the Coffee Shop again.
"Just so you know, you're in for it when we get home," he said. She looked over at him with her mouth open as he was studiously looking away from her, a smile tugging at his lips. She scoffed smiling wider and shaking her head.
Going to the Coffee Shop with everyone was not a good idea in Sawyer's opinion. When Reid and Sawyer got their drinks and sat down with the group, Peyton didn't look or talk to them at all. Kate and Sarah seemed to be on edge, and kept glancing at Sawyer like she was about to kill everyone, and the guys were tense. Sawyer glanced over at Reid and he looked at her then glared at everyone else.
"It's alright guys; I'm not going to go psycho on any of you. I save that just for Reid," she huffed at them. Reid snorted and the rest tried to hide their smiles until Tyler burst out laughing thinking about the pillow fight. Sawyer joined him and soon they were all laughing and relaxed a little bit. They sat and talked for a while until they all had to either get ready for classes or go to classes. Sawyer got up and put her hand out for Reid.
"You coming with me?" she asked smiling at him. He smirked and got up grabbing her hand.
"I guess," he shrugged; she hit him in the stomach lightly and scoffed. They walked to the school in silence; it was nice to just be them. The last week they had been walking on egg shells around each other trying not to have a repeat of Saturday. Sawyer smiled as he started to swing their hands back and forth, then he started to skip. He smiled and pulled on her arm trying to make her skip with him. She rolled her eyes and started to skip with him. Then he stopped grinning at her. "You loser, your still beautiful though," he said pecking her on the cheek. Her jaw dropped and she huffed at him.
"Whatever," she mumbled then started to walk away from him trying to hide her grin. He ran up to her and grabbed her hand and smiled. When they reached her classroom he pulled her back to him and kissed her soundly making her forget everything but him. He pulled away all too soon and she whimpered at the loss. He smiled again and brushed his lips to hers one more time.
"We better get in there or I'm taking you home," he growled into her hair. She chuckled and led him into the class.
She sat in her usual seat and he sat down on her left again. Reid laid his head down on the desk watching her get her things out to take notes.
Brandon walked into his law and order class whistling, he was so excited to see Sawyer; he was going to give her a big surprise today. When he looked up to their normal seats Reid was sitting next to her again. He gritted his teeth so hard he was sure some would chip, he hadn't been this mad since he fought with Caleb. Reid's eyes found him and they stared having a power struggle. He saw the other boy clinch his teeth making his jaw muscle tighten, he knew Reid wasn't going to give up this little power trip he was on, so Brandon figured it was best to give up and keep up his façade. He looked away and watched his feet as he walked up the stairs to his seat next to Sawyer.
"Hey," Sawyer said when he sat down. He looked up at her and smiled glancing behind her at Reid.
"Hey," he said smiling at her. She kicked Reid behind her; he glared at the back of her head before leaning around her.
"Brandon," he said slightly nodding at him.
"Hey," Brandon said, on the inside he was smirking at the blonde. He's said it before but it really was sick how much Sawyer had changed him.
"How have you been?" Sawyer asked trying to make small talk. Brandon watched as Reid leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes his jaw muscle tightening again. He decided then and there that he was changing his plan; instead of revealing himself to Sawyer, he figured that Reid would be way more fun to torment. Brandon smiled and talked to Sawyer until their teacher showed up.
Reid almost fell asleep twice and the class wasn't even halfway over yet. It was so boring. He didn't understand how Sawyer understood what the hell the teacher was talking about. He sat up and grabbed a pencil from Sawyers bag and lightly started to tap it against his leg and his other hand making a beat on his other leg. Sawyer looked over at him and smiled then shook her head looking back at the teacher. Reid flipped his hair out of his eyes and started to bob his head to the beat he was making. Sawyer was watching him out of the corner of her eye and started to shake from her silent laughter. She let out a soft snort and he looked over at her and saw her shaking. He grinned then glanced over her shoulder, and saw Brandon twirling his pen in his hand. He looked back down at Sawyer, when a flash of red caught his eye. He looked back at Brandon and he was biting into an apple. Reid's eyebrows shot up, he could have sworn Brandon had a pen in that hand not two seconds ago. Brandon looked over at him and smiled around a mouthful of apple. Reid drew his eyebrows together and looked back at the teacher, the rest of the class he kept looking over at Brandon trying to catch him doing… something.
The class ended and he watched as Sawyer started putting her things away. He needed to flirt with her somehow and make sure that Reid was watching. He had to give himself credit the apple thing had been amazing. Just then Sawyer dropped some papers, so Brandon picked them up and grazed his fingers across hers. She shivered and he was sure it was in disgust, not that he was surprised. She looked up and gave him a small smile; he grinned back then glanced at Reid. The boy looked about ready to explode so Brandon added on a wink just for his benefit. Reid's hand twitched and his eyes flashed fire; Sawyer stood up and looked at Reid with wide eyes. He was glaring at Brandon and Sawyer grabbed his arm pushing him toward the stairs.
"Bye, Brandon," she mumbled as she kept pushing Reid down the stairs. Once they were outside Sawyer pushed him up against wall forcefully. "What the hell do you think you were doing?" she spat at him, and then looked around to make sure no one was watching.
"He fucking touched you, and then winked and he knew I was watching," He snapped back at her, leaning into her. She pushed him back against the wall and put her fore arm across this neck.
"That does not mean that you can use in front of him you prick," she whispered harshly.
"So I should just let it go?" he hissed. She dropped her head to his chest and moved her arm from his throat.
"No it doesn't," she whispered into his chest. He put his hands into her hair at her neck and made her look up at him. "But it doesn't mean you need to be stupid and reckless. I thought you got over that shit in high school," she said staring into his blue eyes. He looked down at their bodies pressed together, now he felt like shit.
"I did, I just don't want to lose you," he said looking back up at her through his hair.
"To Brandon?" she asked with a look of disgust plain in her features.
"To anyone," he mumbled looking back down at her body against his. She smiled and leaned up to kiss him firmly on the lips.
"You are so stupid Reid Garwin," she mumbled against his lips. He pulled back a little and she was smirking at him. "I have been in love with you since I was 11 and I don't think that's going to change anytime soon," she whispered. He smiled and kissed her again.
They had stayed in the bed all weekend just like she had promised him. He felt so relaxed and satisfied. It was Sunday and he was dreading Monday and going back to classes; the weekend had been so perfect. Currently he was lying on his stomach on the bed playing WOW and Sawyer was making them lunch.
"Do you want ham or turkey?" she yelled down the hall. He smiled and rolled off the bed.
"Turkey," he said walking up behind her wrapping his arms around her. She smiled as she ate a piece then fed him one before finishing the sandwiches. He started to nuzzle her neck running his hands all over her naked body. "Do you think we could start with dessert?" he asked kissing from her shoulder up her neck to her ear. She moaned as he sucked on her ear lobe, she turned around and threw her arms around his shoulders and wrapped her legs around his waist kissing him. He stepped up to the counter pushing the sandwiches to the side and sat her on top of the counter.
She pressed herself against him, running her tongue along his lips begging for entrance which he granted immediately pushing his tongue into her waiting mouth. She moaned and trailed her hand down his spine and squeezed his ass he groaned and pulled her closer to the edge of the counter and pushed his hard length against her folds, softly bucking into her. She moaned deeper pulling him closer as he started to kiss down her neck and across her collar bone.
"Reid," she whispered as she leaned her neck back to give him better access. "Reid now," she finished. He growled into her throat and started to push into her. She leaned back and put her palms to the counter, he put his hands on her ass and pulled her almost off the counter and pushed in hard and fast. He kept up his pace and she let her head fall back exposing her whole neck to him. He leaned forward and kissed and sucked leaving marks all over her skin. "Quit marking me," she said looking down at him. He looked up at her as he kissed down to her nipple then bit it and slammed into her at the same time. She moaned and one of her elbows gave out, he looped one of his arms around her back and pulled her back against him.
Just then the door opened and Peyton and Tyler walked in. Reid didn't care he was going to get himself lost in his girlfriend one more time before the weekend was over. He picked up his pace and forgot all about the other two in the room, and all too soon he could feel that heat pooling in his stomach and then Sawyer screamed as she came, her muscles contracting around him pulling his own orgasm out of him. He buried his face into her hair as he shouted her name rocking into her, riding out his high. Sawyer wrapped her arms around his shoulders pulling him close and rocking with him.
"That was amazing," Sawyer whispered into his hair. He nodded still panting against her throat.
"Shit yeah it was. Why don't we look like that?" Peyton asked Tyler. He smiled at his girlfriend and shrugged. Sawyer started to giggle into Reid's shoulder making him laugh.
"How do you know what you guys look like?" Sawyer asked smiling at her best friend.
"Um it's called a video camera," Peyton said sarcastically dropping her purse on the counter.
"Seriously?" Reid asked turning his head to look at Tyler. Tyler just smirked, making Peyton laugh.
"Come on stud," Peyton said dragging Tyler down the hall and to her room. Reid looked back at Sawyer and she cupped his cheeks kissing him lightly.
"Let's go get dressed," she whispered. He wrapped his arms around her waist and carried her down the hall. They got dressed and walked back out to the living room and Tyler was sitting on the floor between Peyton's legs. They were playing Need for Speed; Sawyer collapsed next to Peyton and leaned her head on her shoulder. Reid sat down on the floor in front of Sawyer, Peyton glared at the TV knowing that he wanted to play, but he wasn't going to ask her for the remote. Sawyer rolled her eyes and grabbed the remote from Peyton and paused the game.
"Hey what the hell," Tyler said looking back at the girls. Sawyer glared at him then looked down at Reid.
"Stand up," she said to him. He gave her a funny look but stood anyway, and then Sawyer looked over at Peyton and nodded her head in Reid's direction. Peyton scoffed. "Now," Sawyer demanded, Peyton rolled her eyes and got up facing Reid. Tyler smiled and sat up on the couch in Peyton's spot. "Alright on three," Sawyer said.
"One," Tyler started.
"Two," Sawyer said. Reid lifted his hands to his face he knew that's where Peyton would aim first.
"Three," They both said together. Peyton reached out and slapped Reid on his side, he tried to side step but she hit him. He stepped up to her and slapped her hand then tapped her face.
"Oh you're going to get it," she said letting a smile grace her face. She circled him once then went in taking two steps toward him. Swinging one hand and knocking one of his hands out of the way then she hit the other and went for the kill smacking him on both cheeks.
"Oh and the winner is my beautiful, slap box champion girlfriend, Peyton Johnson," Tyler said standing up and wrapping his arms around Peyton's middle lifting her off the ground and spinning.
"I let her win," Reid said as Sawyer got up and put her hands on his bright red cheeks. She smiled and kissed him.
"Of course you did," she mumbled against his lips.
"Hey," he said over Sawyer's head to Peyton.
"Yeah I know," she answered. "I love you too Reid," she said. He smiled and hugged Sawyer to him.
Tyler and Peyton had stayed the night and they all camped out in the living room, laughing and talking until early into the morning. It was now Thursday and Sawyer was sitting on the couch doing some homework on her day off from school and waiting for Reid to get back from his classes. She had the stereo turned up loud and her IPod on shuffle, when Nickelback "Animals" came on. She started out just bobbing her head to the beat, and then she started to sing at the top of her lungs. Finally she couldn't contain it anymore and jumped up from the couch and started to dance. She was banging her head, flailing her arms around and moving her hips to the beat. She was so lost in the moment that she didn't notice the door open and Reid come in.
He smiled at her and closed the door then leaned against it watching her finish her show. The song was getting ready to come to an end.
"So come on baby, get in (We're just a couple animals) Get in, just get in (Ain't nothing wrong with it) Check out the trouble we're in (We're just a couple animals) Get in, just get in," she sang pumping her fist in the air, with her eyes closed. When the song actually ended she started to giggle at herself then opened her eyes. Reid started to clap and she jumped spinning around to face him, her eyes black. She sighed and let her eyes fade back holding a hand over her heart.
"That was something," he teased coming closer to her. She smiled and shook her head at him.
"You scared the shit out of me," she said wrapping her arms around him. "How long were you watching?" she asked.
"The last minute or so," he answered. She looked up at him kissed him then walked back to her homework. He collapsed on the couch next to her and rolled his head along the back of the couch to look at her. "So tonight is a homework night?" he asked, she nodded not looking up at him pulling her eyebrows together in confusion. He leaned forward grabbing her cheeks in his hands and rubbed his thumbs across her eyebrows relaxing them, and she smirked at him. He smiled, kissed her forehead, and stood up walking down the hall.
He came back dressed in his pajamas and sat down on the floor next to her legs and spread out his books and school work. She smiled at him then slid behind him crossing her legs on the couch. She reached out and started to massage his shoulders. He leaned his head back into her lap and she leaned down and kissed him. He leaned his head up again and pulled a book toward him.
He was standing outside the window, looking at the scene in front of him with slight disgust. They had become so domesticated, it made something inside him ache. He shivered and glared at the couple, he didn't want to be like them, he wanted power. Fuck them and fuck love, he didn't need it. All he needed was more power, then he could live forever and never be stopped. He clenched his hands into fists and glared at the couple. He was going to screw with them good now.
She started to walk through the woods she was shivering wrapping her arms around herself she headed for the cliffs already knowing where she was. Once the trees cleared, she came out to the cliffs and she saw seven shapes. Her heart started to pound as she picked up her pace. Then the shapes started to fall one by one. She had the strangest feeling she knew what the shapes were, so she started to run. The fog cleared and floating in front of her was Reid, blood was running down his cheeks coming from his beautiful blue eyes. She chanced a glance at the shapes laying around him on the ground. Peyton, Tyler, Kate, Pouge, Sarah and Caleb. Sobs started to rock Sawyers body as she stared at her brothers limp form on the ground.
"Sawyer," Reid whispered. She snapped her eyes at him and took a step forward. "It only gets worse from here sweetheart," he whispered again, then his eyes rolled back into his head and he fell to the ground. Sawyer ran to him and grabbed him pulling him against her, crying harder and screaming his name.
"Reid!" she screamed as she sat up in bed. Reid shot up next to her, flashing his eyes and turning on the lamp. She was shaking and crying, she looked down at her hands and expected to see Reid dead in them. Then she looked wildly around the room remembering where she was. He lightly touched her arm and she snapped her head at him, her eyes flashing violet then quickly turning back to green. Then she broke down in sobs falling into his arms. He pulled her tight against him.
"It's alright baby," he whispered into her hair as she cried. He laid them back down on the bed and started to stroke her hair holding her too him letting her cry. Finally she calmed down but continued to stare at the wall.
"You were all dead again," she whispered into his chest. His hand in her hair stilled for a second then started to stroke it again.
"Where were we?" he asked quietly.
"The cliffs at the Dells," she answered, then she buried her face in his chest and tears started to fall again. "You talked to me this time," she said sniffing.
"What did I say?" She pulled her face out of his chest and leaned up to look at him.
"'It only gets worse from here sweetheart,'" she mumbled. His eyes went slightly wide as he watched her finger his collar bone.
"Are you sure?" he asked, she looked up at him confused.
"Yeah, Why?"
"That's what you said to me when your eyes changed color," he whispered. She frowned.
"We have to tell Caleb," she said looking up at him.
"We will in the morning," he said pulling her back down. She laid down and wrapped her leg around his. "Try and get some more sleep okay," he said stroking her hair again. She nodded and closed her eyes trying to picture anything but her family on that cliff.
The next morning Sawyer and Reid were walking down to the Coffee Shop to meet Caleb and Sarah. Sawyer put her face into Reid's arm and yawned wide, Reid copied her and looked down at her.
"Stop, your making me sleepy," he said smiling at her. She looked up at him and grinned. She yawned again as they entered the shop, Reid started to order their drinks and Sawyer scanned the shop for Caleb and Sarah. She spotted them in the back and nudged Reid, nodding toward them. Reid nodded and Sawyer started over to them.
"Hey," Sarah said, Sawyer bent down and kissed her then wrapped an arm around Caleb for a hug.
"Hey," she breathed then sat down and yawned again.
"Late night?" Sarah asked her eyes twinkling.
"That's actually what we needed to talk about," she whispered. Reid showed up and handed Sawyer her drink and sat down next to her. Caleb sat up and leaned closer to Sawyer.
"What happened? Was it another dream?" he asked. Sawyer nodded and looked down at the table.
"Yeah," she whispered. Then looked up at him. "It was the one where you guys were dead on the cliffs," she said then looked over at Reid. "Only this time Reid was still alive and he said 'it only gets worse from here sweetheart,'" she finished. Caleb frowned; he didn't understand how that was relevant.
"It's the same thing she said to me the night that her eyes changed," Reid said, looking from Sawyer to Caleb. Sarah's hold on Caleb's hand tighten as she felt him tense next to her.
"Alright," He finally choked out. "Thank you for telling me," he whispered looking right at Sawyer. They did there creepy twin thing and all but read each other's minds, it ended with Sawyer nodding and looking over at Reid.
"You ready?" she asked him. He looked back over at Caleb then nodded.
"Yeah," He said. Sawyer kissed Sarah again, then gave Caleb a peck on the cheek.
"Be careful," he whispered in her ear. She nodded again then grabbed Reid's hand and was gone. Caleb set his head into his arms on the table, and Sarah started to rub his back. "I feel like I'm losing her, and I want to blame Reid but I know that they are perfect for each other," He whispered. Sarah leaned down and rested her head against his shoulder.
"Maybe you should take her out for your birthday next week," she suggested. He leaned his head over and looked at her. "You know just brother and sister time," she said giving him a small smile. He smiled back then leaned over and kissed her.
"That's a great idea," he said, she beamed at him and kissed him again.
"I love you," she whispered into his ear.
"Love you too," he said nuzzling her neck.
Sawyer and Reid were sitting up in their usual seats waiting for the class to start. Sawyer looked over at Reid and his leg was bouncing and he was staring at the door. She glanced at the door then back at him and pulled her eyebrows down in confusion.
"Are you waiting for someone?" she asked, he snapped his eyes to her and stared, then blinked and smirked at her.
"No," he answered. Then Brandon walked into the class, Reid sat up straighter as he watched the other boy walk up the steps and take his seat. Reid looked back at Sawyer and she was giving him a funny look, he shrugged and looked at the teacher.
This was priceless, Reid kept glancing at him and his plan was perfect for today. Class only had about 15 minutes left and Sawyer was studiously taking notes and ignoring both boys. Reid started to glance at him for longer periods of time. So he decided that it was as good a time as any. He took his pencil and put the point to the paper and made the pencil stand straight by resting his fore finger against the eraser. Then slowly he removed his finger and his pencil stayed standing straight on the point.
Reid blinked and looked again, it had to be lack of sleep right. Because a pencil just couldn't stand up on its point by itself right? Right. He thought as he stared at Brandon. Then he watched as Brandon looked over at him from the corner of his eye. No way. No fucking way did he just look at me. He thought as he watched Brandon purse his lips and blow the pencil over on to the desk. Reid glanced up at the other boys face once more, but he was leaning over his paper taking notes.
Brandon almost couldn't contain himself, he wanted to laugh out loud. He wanted to point at Reid and call him an idiot. He wanted to grab Sawyer and disappear making them come search for her then kill them all. But of course he didn't, he had a master plan that was going to get him all the power in the world. When he looked back on last night he couldn't believe he was even thinking about love, look where love got his 'brothers'. All it will get them is killed. The bell was about to ring and he needed to flirt with Sawyer again, he needed something that would really get Reid's blood boiling. The bell rang and he stood, putting his things away watching Sawyer.
"So, um Sawyer," he asked shyly in his thick southern accent. "I was wondering if you wanted to go see a movie with me," he asked when she looked up at him. She raised her eyebrows and gave him an are-you-crazy look. "You could even bring Reid," he finished noticing her look. Reid stood up and started toward him but Sawyer pushed her back into his chest holding him back.
"Really Brandon?" she asked still looking at him as if he was crazy. "I already made it clear that I'm not interested, and that I have a boyfriend that I love. So no, I don't want to go to the movies," she answered. Trying to push Reid back toward the stairs.
"I was just thinking that we could spend some time together you know without any interruptions -" Brandon started.
"You're dead," Reid spat at him, his eyes all but flashing black. Then he pushed Sawyer down into a chair and lunged.
A/N: hello my lovelies... i know you are probably very mad at me... i mean i give you this long great chapter and cut it off there! im so mean! welp you wll be happy to know that my sister in law got a hold of this story and is now breathing down my neck to finish it! she even edited for me... so you should except the next chapter within a week i promise! so please leave a review and love me or hate me... Love Peace and Sneakers!