ATTENTION!!!! Hey all! No I didn't fall of the face of the earth, my college apps just take up a tremendous amount of time! It's that senior year crap going on here! But hey, I finally got this part up, and I'm hoping to actually finish the story soon! (No I haven't abandoned it for those of you have been asking) Then I shall star posting the sequel. Sorry it's taken so long, and thank you to my oh-so-loyal readers! Oh, and btw, if you wana check it out b/c you love me so much, you can go look at the trailer I made for this fanfiction! Here's the link: youtube .com/watch?v=GNskqGGQUBw. It won't let me actually write it in there, so just take out the space after youtube and you should be all set to go! Thanks! R&R! You all are so awesome!!!

-SDSL

Alice

I paced in my room, the next day, Sarah's eyes following me. Sarah and I had gone back to the party and acted as I nothing was wrong. I told them Reid felt sick and had to go home. Caleb tried to talk to me about something to do with Reid, but Sarah knew I was extremely distraught, so she distracted him.

Now we felt as if we were back to reality, and we had to do something fast. The boys would be here to hang out all Saturday like we had planned… but of course… he wouldn't be with them, I thought to myself, sick to my stomach. We were running out of time. The boys would notice something was up soon enough if we didn't do something fast.

"What are we gonna do?" Sarah asked finally. I paused.

"Well, we can't tell the others, that much is for certain." I said, continuing with my pacing.

She frowned. "I don't like it."

I stopped again, turning to look at her. "I don't either, Sarah, but do we really have a choice at this point?"

"No." She said, as I continued my pacing once more. "But can we do this alone?"

"We've got to, Sarah." I told her seriously. "We can't fail."

"Then… how?"

"I don't know." I answered, frustrated.

"Where do we even start?"

"I don't know, Sarah!" I shouted, then stopped moving, turning to look at her once more. "Wait, I do know!" I beamed. I pulled out my phone, pressing the speed dial number.

"Wha-" Sarah started as I shoved the phone into her hands.

I shushed her, telling her, "Play along. And keep him talking for as long as possible."

"But-"

"Just do it, Sarah." I said, pressing the speaker button on the phone so I could hear to.

The phone picked up, my eyes turning black as soon as we heard it do so. "You didn't really think it would be that easy to reach Reid did you?"

She and I looked at each other- her giving me a look of natural alarm. I nodded grimly, which made her realize reaching him had been the plan all along. Reaching Chase that is. "Not really, no," she said quickly, as I moved my hands in a way, telling her to play it cool and move it along. "I was banking on you picking up." I could tell he was shocked by his hesitation, and I gave her a thumbs up as I turned back to concentrating. The way it was already going, I could tell she would have no problems drawing out the conversation as long as possible. "Now listen here, you arrogant prick-" she said angrily as I whipped back to face her, trying to stop her. Okay, maybe she would have problems drawing it out.

"You don't need to sweet talk me, Sarah dear; you already have my full attention." I let out a breath I didn't know I'd been holding- leave it to Chase to take such vulgar things as a compliment.

"Chase. Don't. Screw. With. Me." She said through gritted teeth. "I would come kill you myself right now if I didn't have family to worry about. No, instead, you are gonna tell me exactly where you are, and Alice and I will come and get Reid, and maybe, just maybe, we will keep the boys from killing your sorry, pathetic ass." She threatened with such force that I almost believed her. "Now tell me where you are dammit."

He tsked at Sarah. "Ah ah ah. Not until she agrees to marry me."

I then lost my temper. "You can just go to hell!" I shouted, hanging up on him.

"Alice, I thought you wanted me to keep him talking long enough for you to- what were you doing, exactly?" She asked, suddenly confused as my eyes went back to normal.

I grinned. "It's okay, Sarah. I got what I needed."

"Wait a minute… you were hoping Chase would answer… you asked me to keep him talking as long as possible… until… until you…" She suddenly seemed to get it. "You traced his call with magic?" She asked me incredulously.

I nodded. "Yup. I didn't foresee him telling us where he was- and I had a feeling that even if he did, it would be a lie, or a trap, or both." I explained to her.

"Well, now that we know where he is, what's the plan?"

"I'm going to save him." I told her.

"I'm coming with you." She said immediately.

I shook my head. "No, Sarah. I can't let you do that. It's my problem, and it's too dangerous-"

"It's my problem, too." She insisted. "I won't let you go alone Alice."

Finally, I nodded as we walked out of the room. "Alright." I told her as we came into the living room- the boys were already there, grinning. "Who is ready for movie madness?" Pogue asked.

"Hello Alice." We all turned, and Sarah and I stiffened. It was Chase, with a restrained, yet awake Reid.

"Reid!" I shouted, attempting to go to him, but Caleb grabbed me quickly, holding me and Sarah back, who had also started to charge at him. "I thought-" I started, but Chase interrupted me.

"Oh come no, Alice, love. Did you really believe I would let you try and find me by tracing my call? Because, you see, then I would lose the element of surprise."

Caleb and all the others stared at me and Sarah. "What is he talking about-" Caleb started, but Chase interrupted.

"Oh well, you see, I started off by kidnapping Sarah and telling Reid the only way to keep Alice safe was to not tell anyone and meet me out back at your house at midnight. Then, I left Sarah there, and took Reid, using him as bait to get to your sister. I have a feeling they didn't tell because they didn't want you to get involved and for me to hurt you. So then your charming girlfriend and lovely sister called me on Reid's phone in attempt to trace my call, and were about to attempt a suicide mission to save him. And then I decided to be nice and come to them. So here we are." He said with a grin.

He released Reid, who fell to the ground, and I ran to him, helping him up. "Alice," He said weakly, obviously in pain. "I'm so sorry."

"No, it's okay, Reid." I said with tears, hugging him tightly, pulling him up and back towards my brother and the others… towards protection.

"What's going on?" Amy asked, confused and frightened.

"No time, sweetie." She whispered to her. "Later."

"Get her out of here, Alice." Caleb growled, nodding to me. "Take Sarah and Kate too." Although I wanted to argue, I knew it wasn't the time. I nodded, taking Amy's hand, pulling her after me, Sarah not far behind.

"Leaving so soon, Amy?" He was suddenly in front of the two of us. "And my dear Alice. It is nice to finally meet you."

"You can go to hell." I said angrily, bringing Amy behind me protectively. I knew how dangerous this was- she was in the dark, and Chase could kill her without so much as lifting a finger. And if it would drive home his point, he would do it too. After all, she meant nothing to him, and Chase was not one to value human life. "Stay away from her." I said through gritted teeth, and turned, trying to make it back towards Caleb and the others, but it was no use- he was right in-between us. I didn't realize I had covered so much ground in such little time; it was like a wide chasm between us, or at least it felt like one. Sarah had managed to keep up, but Kate was still on the other side of him, closer to the boys, who pulled her back to them reflexively as soon as Chase had appeared directly in front of her.

My grip tightened on her hand, pulling her closer to me. Sarah was frozen at my other side- waiting for Chase to make his next move so she could decide her own actions. "Let Sarah take her away from here." Sarah looked at me in disbelief as I switched my tactic. "I know you don't want her; this is about me."

"She has nothing to do with all of this, please. She doesn't even know what is happening!" Tyler shouted. "Please, I don't want her involved in all of this, please! Just… please-" He begged.

"Too late. You should've thought about it before you got involved with her. You should have known this would've happened sooner or later." Chase said mercilessly.

"You bastard-" Tyler started, but the others held him back.

"Tyler, please, I can handle this." I said, shooting him a warning look before turning my gaze to Chase. "Just… at least let her go. Please."

"There is that… it's a good compromise." He said, seeming to mull it over. "Then again, I don't have to compromise." Before I could think, let alone move, he shot out his hand at me, and long lines of pure power extended from his fingers, the ends of which entered my body, and I suddenly felt as if I was on fire. I heard screaming, and realized somehow in my body's pain-stricken overload that I was the one screaming.

"Alice!" I thought I heard someone shout- Reid. It sounded like Reid. I thought I saw figures holding someone, Reid, back. It was too fuzzy, too much pain to focus to intensely on any one thing, really.

He then turned toward Amy, Chase did. He grinned a sick and twisted grin, and shot out a hand at her too. Amy looked on at me terrified, unable to move- I could gather that much.

Suddenly someone screamed, "No!" and pushed Amy out of the way- someone blonde- Sarah. The power grabbed her instead of Amy, and Amy fell out of the way and to the ground. Sarah and I were immobilized in pain.

I could suddenly see better though, I was aware again- somehow. Caleb ran to grab us, but Chase shouted, "Touch them, and I kill them right here, right now!" Everyone froze. "That's more like it." He said, keeping his eyes on all of them as he slowly used the power to pull Sarah and I to himself. When we were finally within reach, he gripped our forearms, as smirked as the fire appeared in his eyes. Then, everything went black.