A/N: I'm thinking maybe one ore two more chapters, we'll see.

Chapter 21

"So you're a witch?" Audrey stared at the blonde in front of her, her eyes wide trying to absorb the information he had just given her. Her mind racing with a million questions, "Or a warlock, or whatever?"

"Yeah," Reid nodded his head, holding her close to his chest.

"Like Harry Potter?" She asked and felt Reid shift under her body.

"Better than Harry Potter," He snickered. "We don't need wands,"

"Oh," She pursed her lips together. "Ok, I think I can deal with this,"

"Yeah?" He asked her.

"It's a lot to swallow, but I think I can manage."

She could feel him smile behind her, and his arms tightened around her waist, "Are you ok?"

She felt a shiver run down her spine and prayed that Jacob Stone would leave her alone from now on. She swallowed hard, wrapping her arms around her body trying to comfort herself.

"No," She said lowly.

And it was true. The first guy that she ever thought she loved had come back to seek revenge against her, had nearly caused her the job of her dreams, and her new relationship. And on top of that she finds out that her boyfriend has supernatural powers.

"Do you want to talk about it?" He asked. She could feel his body tense.

"Not right now," She whispered turning in his embrace to look at him. "I—I really just want to go lay down,"

Reid didn't think twice, he scooped her up in to his arms and lead her back to the bedroom. He set her down on the bed and she didn't bother changing her clothes, she pulled him to her and cuddled close to the warmth of his body.

"I can't believe you got suspended." She muttered against the black t-shirt he was wearing.

"Well, I don't take kindly to idiots talking about my girlfriend," He mumbled letting his fingers run through her tangled dark brown hair.

She didn't say anything else; she spooned her body to his and drifted off in to a sober slumber. IT wasn't a good night's sleep, but it was the rest that she needed.

She woke up the next morning still clinging on to Reid's body. He had somehow managed to strip off his shirt in the middle of the night and she was met with the beautiful pale skin of his torso. She left a soft butterfly kiss on his ribcage, not bothering to move her lips when she was done.

"Awake?" He mumbled sleepily.

"Mmmhmmm," She mumbled against his skin.

He felt the flutter of her lips against his bare skin and squirmed a little bit, she craned her neck slightly to get a better look at his handsome face. He leaned forward and kissed her softly. She didn't remove her lips from his, she enjoyed the simplicity of it, and the way that he made her feel from the tip of her toes to the top of her head.

"Feeling any better this morning?" He asked.

"Yeah," She mumbled against his lips. She didn't want to pull away in fear that he would leave.

"Do you want to talk about it now?" He asked.

"Do you have something you want to ask me directly?" She questioned concerned.

"Honestly?" Audrey stared at him, and he nodded his head. "I know it's really known of my business, but I just wanted to know… the things he said… to me at school, were they true?"

Audrey knew that this was going to happen, sooner or later she would have to tell Reid everything about her and Jacob and their relationship. She sighed and looped her arms around his waist.

"It is your business," She explained. "You're my boyfriend and you have every right to know, especially since you got suspended for hitting him over it,"

"It's true then?"

"I don't know what he told you, but I'll tell you everything," Audrey licked her lips. "If you want to know,"

"I only want to know if you want me to," He responded.

Audrey nodded her head and took a few deep breathes, holding on to his naked torso. She figured her best bet was to start from the beginning and to work from there. She would have to explain everything and hope that he wouldn't judge her because of her past.

"Well, I told you before that my father died when I was four, right?" She asked carefully.

"Yes," Reid nodded.

"My mother met Felix after a few failed relationships. I was twelve at the time, and Jacob was sixteen. He seemed really cool you know, he was around the same age as Marley and Jamie so I didn't mind having another older 'sibling'…" Audrey trailed her fingers over Reid's abdomen making his muscles flex under her touch. "We all moved in together when I was thirteen, and he had just turned seventeen. He always looked at me differently than he did Marley or Jamie," Audrey rubbed her dry lips together not sure really how to explain the way he looked at her back then. "It was like I could almost tell that he liked me, but I wasn't sure because he was just so much older than me."

"Your parents didn't think anything of it?"

"My mother was so blinded by Felix that she wouldn't have noticed if I had sprouted another leg," Audrey lifted a shoulder. "I guess I can't blame her, the Stones were mesmerizing creatures." Reid rested his chin on the top of her head and listened as she continued her story. "He started walking around without a shirt on, sometimes just a towel, saying that he'd forgotten his change of clothes for the shower that all of us kids shared, I didn't mind I was just coming in to myself about to go to High School and I was pretty boy crazy…"

She waited for a reaction from Reid, but didn't get one. He just laid there holding her close to his chest, his breathing even and not showing any signs of judging her.

"At fourteen, that was the first time that he showed actual interest in me. Our parents were away on vacation and Jamie was out of the house already at college, and Marley was in her senior year of High School." The dark haired woman pursed her lips together thoughtfully. "I was on the soccer team at Spenser and we had conditioning after school before the season started, so I'd usually come home in my shorts and sports bra, I had never seen any harm in it before," She lifted a shoulder.

"That was the first time that he actually kissed me,"

He reacted to that, his entire body stiffened at the sound of her confessions.

"I was fifteen when he told me that he loved me," Audrey was fighting the tears now; she hated these memories, more so now than she had ever before. "And a few months after that we… y'know…" She lolled her head a bit not wanting to say it. It felt a little less dirty when she didn't say it out loud.

"Fifteen?" Reid repeated. "So he was nineteen?"

Audrey nodded her head and Reid's grip on her tightened a little bit. She was scared of what Reid would think of her, no one else's opinion really mattered to her, except his.

"Is that why you were so stubborn with me before?" He asked letting his fingers caress the bare skin of her arms.

"I think that definitely might have been part of it," She nodded. She grabbed his hand. "But I don't want you to think that Jacob was wrong for what we had," She paused. "It's hard to explain really, I mean I loved him, god did I… he was my whole world for those two years… and he was all that seemed to matter, no matter the age difference,"

"You don't want me to think he was a sicko?" Reid asked.

"No, I wanted it. It wasn't against my will…" Audrey shook her head. "The bad stuff happened afterward. The Jacob that was here, yesterday, trying to hurt me or scare me or whatever… that wasn't the same Jacob that I knew eight years ago, that was a traumatized, cynical psycho…" She bit down on her lip. "I'm not making any sense am I?"

"You're making perfect sense," Reid assured her. "So tell me what happened after all of that…"

The woman he held took a few more deep breaths before she decided to finish her story, "I found out about his dad. He was only with my mom to get her money, I found out by listening in on phone calls, and doing some stuff on line that he was a con-man, and he had been married under different names before." Her lips quivered holding on to Reid like he was going to disappear. "So I called the cops on him after I heard him make a threat to my mother. I didn't know what else to do. I told them everything I had heard, and they were going to come and arrest him."

She couldn't hold the tears in any longer, they started to shed freely from her eyes. Reid sat up and pulled her with him. He rested her cheek against his shoulder and smoothed out her messy hair. He didn't want her to continue if it was going to hurt too much.

"You don't have to say anymore."

"I can finish," She sniffled, rubbing her forearm over her cheeks. "When the cops came to arrest him, they were questioning everyone. Jacob pulled me in to my room and he told me I couldn't say anything, that if I loved him that I wouldn't say anything. But I couldn't make that promise. I couldn't keep my mouth closed because Felix would have hurt us, all of us."

"So what happened?"

"I testified against him, and Jacob was so angry with me… he didn't talk to me for weeks. He told me that I would regret doing this to him, regret doing this to his father." She rubbed her lips together. "Six months after I testified, they said they found Jacob's body in a burned down apartment,"

"Oh God," Reid held her tighter, if that was even possible.

"I found out at school, and I wasn't the same after that…" She forced a smile. "No one knew about our relationship, and everyone thought I was taking it too hard because Jacob and I were close in everyone's eyes, but they didn't realize how close."

"Audrey, I'm so sorry," He whispered against her hair.

She smiled at him and shook her head, "Its ok," She nodded. "After eight years I had finally come to terms with it. I had graduated from High School and College and I thought I could start all over again." The laugh that escaped her lips was bitter. "I come back home and my entire life was flipped upside down."

"There's at least a bright, handsome side to it all…" He grinned down placing his lips against the side of her face.

Audrey smile, a real smile and elbowed him, "A very handsome side to it…" She agreed with him. "I'm so glad that I have you… and I'm sorry for dragging you in to all this,"

"I was a willing participant…" Reid stated.

Audrey smiled and spooned in to him, wrapping her arms around his waist. She loved the feel of him against her body and felt at complete ease.

"Hungry?"

She sniffled again and nodded, "Food sounds really good right now,"

Reid grinned wickedly at her and she looked up at him expecting for him to get out of the bed and get her some breakfast. Instead, she was looking up in to a pair of charcoal black eyes and a tray of food appeared in front of them.

She let out a high gasp and smacked his naked chest. Reid gasped and his eyes fell back to their normal cerulean blue color, he gave her a questioning look.

"You said that if you use it's bad, that you'll become addicted, don't use." She grabbed the tray and pulled it towards them. "I'll let it slide, but I don't think Caleb will…" She mused.

Reid raised an eyebrow and she pointed to his buzzing phone on her nightstand. Reid smirked and grabbed the phone, pressing the ignore button, he wasn't going to deal with Caleb's shit just yet. That could wait until later.

Hope you enjoyed, R&R!