Chapter 24- Aftermath and surprising confessions

 "Yeah it is and if you knew the truth about him you wouldn't deny it either. He's a fucking witch daddy!" Sharpay screamed her eyes dangerously black as she glared daggers at her brother. If her attention was on her parents she may have been able to take notice of the colour draining from their faces, in much the same way as Ryan's, as they shared a knowing, fear filled look.

 Ryan instantly paled at that as he took a few steps back, shaking his head as he retreated further and further into the wall, biting his lip in pure terror about the events which were now going to unfold. He couldn't believe she had actually gone though with her threat to tell their parents everything, he'd always thought that despite the way she treated him, at the end of the day they were still twins and she cared about him, obviously he was wrong.

 The hatred that he was sensing off Sharpay at that moment was like nothing he had ever felt before, sure he knew the whole demonic situation must have frightened the life out of the confused teenager, but apart of him just couldn't comprehend why that fear had caused her to despise him. For a brief second he even wondered if it was jealousy, for at the end of the day, Sharpay always had to be better than everyone else around her, be able to do things that others found impossible and be the centre of attention. Ryan having magical powers was actually the one thing that she didn't have, the one thing she couldn't be better at than. He quickly shook that thought from his mind though, for there was no way she would actually be jealous of him having to fight for his life ever single day, was there?

 Outside the room, Kelsi, Gabriella and Chad, all stared at each other with wide eyes, them too not quite believing that the schools ice queen had actually gone that one step further and completely lowered their opinion of her.

"How could she do that? How could she tell Mr and Mrs Evans about Ryan's powers?" Gabriella asked in a hushed tone, making sure that she could not be heard by the Evan's family, her ear still held firmly against the hospital door.

 "Because she's angry" A new voice said from behind them, causing the three teenagers to jump and turn around to face the source of the noise, and the person who had just caught them spying.

 Standing behind them, with her arms folded, was none other than Melinda Halliwell, looking far from impressed at what her brother's friends were doing.

 "What?" Chad asked, saying it louder than he meant to, earning a glare from the other two girls. "What?" he then repeated, this time much more quietly than before.

 "Sharpay is angry!" She stated again, shaking her head at how clueless the three of them clearly were. She may have never even actually met the bi-polic girl lying in the hospital bed, but that didn't mean she had any less of an idea of the reason behind her decision to 'out' Ryan. The three years of Psychology she took at the University of Albuquerque, that she was still taking in order to forfill her dream of becoming a behaviour physiologist, meant that she could analyse people and situations rather well, which was why she could confidently say what Sharpay's problem really was. "She's not doing this out of hate, or because she's scared of what Ryan could do… She's doing it because she's angry at him and wants to hurt him the way he's hurt her, the only way she knows how!"

 "That doesn't make any sense, Ryan's never hurt her!" Kelsi responded, being the only one who could quite confidently say that, she had after all known the family for years, at one stage her and Sharpay had even gotten along, before she started dating Ryan all those years ago at least.

 "Hasn't he?" Melinda continued, her eyebrows raised as she stared at the brunettes, peering though the glass of the private hospital room for a second to make sure no one was being murdered. "Think about that for a moment and I mean really think about it! Ryan and Sharpay have been brother and sister their whole lives. They believed they were twins and twins are closer than close and tell each other everything right?"

 Chad and Kelsi just looked at each other, not understanding why she was emphasising those two words and in such different tones as well.

 "She's mad he never told her!" Gabriella said slowly as realization suddenly dawned on her and she turned back to glance in the small window in the door which separated them from the young witch. Chad and Kelsi's faces scrunched up in confusion at that and they both looked back to Melinda, waiting for some sort of explanation.

 "Yeah, she is!" The twenty year old said with a nod whilst un-folding her arms. "Ryan has kept that a secret from her their whole lives and that to her is the ultimate betrayal, he told his friends that he had powers, confided in them but not her and deep down that's why she's reacting the way she is, she's upset he felt he had to keep a major part of his life from her!"

 They all nodded in understanding at that and Melinda offered them a weak smile in return, before her attention drifted down the corridor, to where she had seen blue orbs appear and Leo beaconing her over with his finger, a desperate look on his face.

 "How do you know al this? Know about Ryan?" Chad asked, not noticing the woman's posture completely change as she gave her father a questioning look of her own.

 "Don't ask questions you couldn't possibly understand the answer to." She replied simply before turning on her hell and heading down the corridor, starting to get really annoyed at her family for constantly bothering her at work.

 For a moment, the three almost senior kids just watched her walk away before they realised that they had no idea how the Evan's were taking the information and rushed back to the door, pressing their ears against it.

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 "Sharpay there is no need to call your brother names!" Vance replied after sharing a very concerned look with his wife.

"No, dad, I mean he's an actual, broom stick flying witch! He blew a man up and turned blue!" Sharpay cried out, whilst gripping hold of her mother's hand and leaning into her, much like a five year old would do when they wanted a form of comfort.

 Ryan promptly took a sharp intake of breathe at that and resisted the erge to yell that he didn't need or use a broom as his head shot towards his father, studying his face in pure anguish, wondering how the hell he were going to react to that.

 Both of his parents wore an identical blank look on their faces and they were both so closed off, that Ryan couldn't even work out how they were feeling.

"Honey…" Hannah said slowly, as she closed her eyes, looking like she was forcing herself to say what ever she was going to. "Your brother can not turn blue!"

 "I'm not crazy mother I know what I saw! He has powers!" Sharpay continued, looking away from Ryan for the first time during the conversation to stare up at her father, who had gotten to his feet.

"There is no such thing as magic princess!" Vance replied as he walked forward and placed his hand on his daughter's shoulder, which was instantly shrugged off.

 "Yes there is I saw it!"

"No you didn't.. Ryan… is not…is not a witch!" Vance continued, causing Ryan to crease his brow in confusion as to why his dad was actually struggling to say those words and just why his face looked like he was in some sort of emotional pain from saying them.

 "How would you know? He's not even your son; he was two when you adopted him, who knows who his real parents were!"

 Hannah's eyes grew huge at that and for the first time she found herself looking in the direction her son was standing, who was refusing to meet her eye, yet looked surprisingly calm about the whole thing.

 "Sharpay!" Vance yelled out as he too turned towards the far corner of the room. Sharpay opened her mouth to say something else but instantly shut it again and folded her arms in a huff as she saw the look her father was giving her.

 That was one thing the three of them had agreed on all those years ago, right after Sharpay had been diagnosed with bi-polar, two weeks after she found out the truth about Ryan. They had all decided that they would never tell him the truth, that he would never learn about his birth mother just abandoning him.

 Seeing the look on her father's face, Sharpay suddenly understood why it looked so unfamiliar. For the first time in her life he was truly disappointed in her and for once she felt a twinge of guilt as she took in her brother's appearance.

 "Ducky?" Hannah said with a questioning look on her face as she got to her feet and walked in the direction of her son, who was just staring at the floor. "Ryan, look at me!" She continued when it appeared that Ryan had paid little attention to her as she approached him. "Ryan!" She said again, placing a hand on his shoulder in an attempt to snap him out of whatever trance he was in.

 Taking a deep breath, the witch looked up at the woman who he always considered his mother and gave her a small smile before opening his mouth to speak.

"I already know… Shar told me this morning!"

 That small sentence earned the blonde teenager sitting up in her bed, a further glare from her father as she bowed her head down, not used to having him look at her like that. Hannah too looked over to the girl, with a stern expression on her face.

 "Sharpay!" Hannah yelled, shaking her head in complete disbelief before turning her attention back to the witch. "You know that doesn't change a thing right? Your father and I still love you to pieces and that's never going to change, despite what Sharpay might say!" She continued, placing a hand on his shoulder and smiling softly. " Do you… umm have any questions about it?"

 "Umm… its okay, I get it… sort of. But don't be mad at Shar… she… she was upset!" Ryan replied uncomfortably, as he felt his heart pull slightly at the saddened expression on his sister's face, despite everything, he still couldn't stand seeing her looking so miserable, especially since she had just had surgery.

 "Yeah and why's that…" She muttered almost silently, but not quiet enough for the people in the room not to hear. As she said this, she slowly turned her glaze to her brother, who was more than a little surprised to see the obvious hurt in her eyes.

 Not quite believing what he was about to do, Ryan cast his eyes over to his sister and locked eye contact with her, trying to blank his parents as he bit his lip nervously, he couldn't let them think she was utterly insane.

"And for the record I don't fly on broom sticks… I orb!" he mumbled, causing Sharpay's eyes to widen and her head to nod forward slightly in shock as her mouth dropped open.

 "What?" Hannah asked carefully, her eyebrows raised as she shook her head indicating she wanted a further explanation.

 "Sharpay said I fly on broom sticks… I don't…" he repeated, before squeezing his eyes shut and desperately telling his brain not to listen to what his heart was telling it… unfortunately it did. "I do this…"

 With that, his whole body was absorbed in blue and white dancing orbs as he told his magic to work. After a few seconds he completely disappeared, before reappearing by the door only moments later, figuring if they were going to try and kill him, he had a non magical means of escape.

(To be continued…. Just kidding a said no cliff hanger this time right? If I hadn't then this would have been the ending… but since I did…)

Vance and Hannah just looked at each other, unsure of what to say or do, as Ryan nervously rubbed his hands together, waiting for some sort of reaction. He half expected everyone to scream their heads off, for his dad to punch him and tell him to get as far away from his family as possible. Yet he didn't, neither of them did, they just remained staring at him with a completely blank expression on their faces, in fact the only person who showed any emotion was Sharpay, who was staring up at him, a grateful smile on her face.

 After a few minutes of nothing but silence and strange looks being shared between the two forty year olds, Vance cleared his throat and looked Ryan directly in the eye.

"Ryan, sit down!"

 That wasn't exactly the reaction the witch was expecting but he supposed he was happy with it, considering the man wasn't trying to kill him and didn't currently have his mobile out ready to call the police to have him experimented on.

"SIT!" Vance repeated, a lot more forcefully this time, causing the witch to jump slightly before taking a seat on the end of Sharpay's bed, who looked just as confused as he was. "Okay, umm where do I start…" the man continued, talking to himself more than anybody else. At this Ryan shared a confused look with his sister, who simply shrugged in response, before turning her attention to her father. "Right well, Ryan, Sharpay, I'm gunna tell you a story…"

 "A story… Ryan just admitted he has powers and you're going to tell a story?" Sharpay interrupted, surprisingly saying exactly what Ryan was thinking as he just stared at the people in front of him in complete bewilderment.

 "Yes I am…" he repeated simply, before sitting down on one of the chairs in the room.  "Okay so, the setting was two weeks before Easter fourteen years ago. Social services were due round to observe the family home before they could give the all clear for us to adopt you Ryan. At that point and still to this day we didn't have a clue what your real name was or your birthday…. At the time all we knew was you were a sweet two year old boy whose foster parents kept dumping back at the care home. We had no idea why… until that day!"

 Flashback

 "Hannah, stop panicking!" Vance Evans called out to his wife as she placed around the room, straightening every little object as she passed it.

 "I can't help it, Ryan's been with us three weeks now… I'm just so worried they will take him away!" Hannah replied as she glanced towards the play pen where the small twice blessed child sat playing besides her biological daughter, who had so far accepted that another baby was going to be living with them.

 "It's just a check up to see how he's settling in! that's all they're not going to take him anywhere!"

 "But what if they think he's two skinny? Maybe we should feed him some more!" Hannah continued forcing Vance to grab her by the waist and pull her onto the cotton sofa beside him as an attempt to get her to calm down.

 "Relax everything will be fine, you'll see!" he said in a reassuring voice as he kissed the top of her forehead.

 As the mother of two opened her mouth to respond, her eyes instantly drifted to the door way, where the house keeper now stood with a woman in a black suit, a warm welcoming smile on her face.

"Mr and Mrs Evans, this is Mrs Johnson from social services." Ann said, causing the two of them to jump to their feet and shake their guest's hand before leading her towards the settee and dismissing the house keeper, who bowed slightly and left within seconds.

 "Please have a seat!" Vance said as he sat back down, indicating to his wife to do the same.

 "So how's Mathew… im sorry Ryan settling in? Has he been any trouble?" The care worker asked instantly as she pulled out a pen from her brief case and prepared to note things down on her clip bored, getting straight to business. 

 "No, not at all, he's a little angle!" Hannah replied instantly with a huge genuine smile on her face, knowing if this visit went well then the adoption procedures could truly begin.

 "And have you had any problems with his 'blue eyes'" The woman continued whilst writing on the piece of paper and gazing around the room. It was a well known fact that Ryan's previous foster families has sent him back to the orphanage about a week later complaining in pure fear about his eyes. Of course social services had taken him straight to the opticians to make sure everything was okay, but they couldn't find a problem and the foster families refused to explain further.

 "No and we really don't understand what all that is about." Hannah continued as her husband looked to his left to where his two children sat.

 Ryan instantly looked up at him, almost as if he knew his new father was watching him. He ginned widely as he saw his face and started shaking his blocks whilst staring back up t him. His smile vanished though as he saw the woman in black in the seat at the other end f the room. As he glared at her, his eyes started glowing a pure blue colour and they took on the appearance of blue orbs, sparkling widely. It was something the boy had done when he still lived with his mother and she had brought someone home he didn't like, he found it a great way of getting rid of people.

 Vance instantly almost chocked on the biscuit he was currently eating as he saw the pure innocent glow coming from the two year olds eyes. Hannah and the social worker instantly stopped talking and looked towards Vance before following his gaze over to the infant, whose eyes had by now returned to normal.

 "Are you okay honey?" Hannah asked as she patted her husbands back, who simply nodded in response, deciding that he was probably seeing things.

 After about half an hour, the social worker finally stopped taking notes and stood up to leave, thanking the Evans' for their time and informing them that she would be in touch. As Hannah closed the front door, she sighed in relief as Vance wrapped his arms round her waist.

"I told you it would be fine!" he said simply as he directed her back into the living room. As soon as they went in there however they both jumped in shock as they saw Ryan sitting on the floor with one of the last remaining cookie in his hand.

 "How did you get out?" Hannah asked in confusion as she looked from the play pen where her daughter was to the little boy in front of her.

 Ryan, who other than his name had still not said anything to them remained quiet as he broke the biscuit in half and wondered over to the play pen, handing a piece over to Sharpay who grinned in response.

 "Well we have our own little escape artist!" Vance said with a laugh as he walked over to his son and picked him up. As he did however, little Ryan gave a small sneeze which caused Vance and Hannah to smile at how cute he looked. The smile instantly vanished however, as soon as he sneezed his whole body was covered by blue orbs and he vanished, reappearing in Vance's arms only moments later.

 Hannah instantly screamed as she jumped a foot in the air and dived backwards. Vance just stared at the infant, his eyes wide in horror. What the hell had he just done?

 Ryan, who was completely oblivious to the reason behind his new mother's scream just turned to look at her as he rubbed his tired eyes.

 "how… how did…did he?" Hannah yelled as Vance slowly put him down on one of the chairs and took a careful step back.

"I don't know!" he replied before rushing over to his sleeping daughter and picking her up, backing them both away from the now very confused toddler, who hadn't even realised he had orbed.

 Sneezing once again, Ryan disappeared and reappeared in the same blue lights as before, causing the Evans' to back away to the door archway.

 "What the hell is he?" Hannah screamed causing Ryan to start crying at the tone of her voice. Vance, out of habit put his daughter down and went to comfort the small child. "He's a freak!" She yelled even louder, causing Ryan to jump. The little boy just looked at the people in front of him as he squeezed his eyes shut as tears started to pour down his face, the people he had learnt to love, were just like everyone else after all.

 As he saw the man walking towards him out of the slits of his eyes, his crying got louder until he felt a pair of arms wrap around him and lift him up, pulling him into a comforting hug.

"Shhh, Ryan, its okay!" Vance said slowly as he looked over to his wife. As strange and freaky as he found the situation, the only thing hw could think off was that his son was upset. "Everything will be fine!"

 End flashback

 "You see Ryan, we've always known you had powers even before we adopted you we knew and do you know what, despite the fact you scared the shit out of us that never once changed how much we love you! Your birth mother's lose was our gain!" Vance said in a soft voice after finally finishing his story. With those words still hanging in the air, he stepped forward and put a hand on his son's shoulder, causing him to look up. " And I want you to remember something, never be ashamed of who you are, having powers makes you even more special in our eyes. People may tell you otherwise but never forget that your mother and I love you and to us you have never been anything less than our son!"

 When Vance finished talking, Ryan allowed a huge smile to appear on his face as he took everything that had been said, in. His parents knew he was a witch all along and what's more they didn't care! They actually didn't care! All his life he had been terrified they would find out and disown him, but they knew all along and still wanted him!

 "Thanks dad!" he replied with a grin as his mother walked over to him and gave him a comforting hug. Vance returned the smile and reached up to adjust the young man's hat, causing Ryan to laugh and even Sharpay to give a small, barley noticeable grin.

 Everything finally seemed to be going right, but at the back of his mind the twice blessed child couldn't shake the nagging feeling that something big was about to happen. It almost felt like something was calling him away from his family, he just couldn't figure out what.

 (a/n) thanks for all the lovely reviews I don't think I have ever had so many for one chapter and Oh my god this is double the length of a normal chapter I have ever written… that's what happens when I can't end with a cliff hanger!