21-Back To That Big, Old, Scary House

The group crowded around in the house. It seemed a lot bigger to all of them now that none of them knew where Fiona was. They hadn't ventured to all of the rooms before, only that one.

Courtney and Arianna stood outside, pacing the floor and waiting for their return. They didn't want to go inside the house itself; this wasn't what they were there for. It wasn't up to them to save the world this time. When they got back home, then it would be their turn again to become heroes.

No one was looking too confident inside. There was too much ground to cover and every second that ticked by was just more and more agonizing to deal with.

"I think we should all go our separate ways." Thomas told everyone, taking a good look around. "Maybe that'll be better for all of us."

"Me and Tiger'll go this way." Jenifer volunteered, dragging her boyfriend by the wrist. She wanted to have a very serious talk with him about rights and wrongs, when to start an argument and when to keep his mouth shut. The two had never seriously argued before, but Jenifer knew that was going to change now that they were expecting a baby together.

"Just yell if you need us." Carmen called, but they had already gone.

"We'll take the attic." Celia told them, beckoning to her sister to follow her. The two older women ran up the staircase, both looking as if they knew where they were going.

It did slightly worry everyone to know that the only people who had ever taken her down before were now two floors away from them. But they had to pull it together.

"Me and Abigail will search down here with Jen and Tiger." Rachel said and her twin nodded.

"And me, Dallas, Rosie and Anna will cover the second floor." Carmen volunteered, but none of the girls seemed to disagree with her.

The four of them ran up the staircase as Abigail and Rachel walked off to the end of the corridor, ignoring the room in which Jen and Tiger had disappeared off to.

Once everyone had left to their respected post, it left only Scott and Thomas standing in the hallway. Neither of them was looking happy about it, but they both knew that fighting now was a stupid thing to do.

"Looks like we've got the basement..." Scott muttered.

"Perfect..." Thomas replied, unthrilled by the very thought of being on a whole floor with just Scott.

There were four bedrooms and one bathroom. Three of the bedrooms looked exactly the same; white walls, cream carpet, double bed and a set of three drawers. The only difference between those rooms was that one of the beds was unmade.

The fourth bedroom had once belonged to a young girl. It had pink walls and a matching carpet. The single bed was fit for a Princess; the child daydreamer ones. It was all kept neat and tidy: nothing seemed to be out of place. It was if the child had just cleaned her room and left only a few minutes ago. But the truth was nothing like that.

"So!" Carmen called out. She was taking a look around one of the plainer bedrooms. "What's going on between you and Thomas?"

Dallas was stood by the doorway, almost standing guard. She had one arm one either side of the frame, making her in both rooms at once. Her head was staring directly in front of her; the door frame itself. She looked nervous, but it wasn't just about the question she had been asked;

"I-" Dallas wanted to start saying how there was nothing, they were just friends, but the denial days were over. "-Have no idea..." She sighed, wishing that wasn't the answer anymore. "But I'm not thinking too much about Thomas right now..."

"You're thinking about the time travelling teenagers, right?" Rosie asked. She was in the room opposite Annalise, beside Carmen and Dallas.

Dallas didn't reply, but everyone knew that it was a yes. What Courtney had said was the sort of thing that Dallas had been dreading to hear. It was her fault. The end of the world as they knew it was her fault.

Dallas had already finished inspecting the last first bedroom, the one with the unmade bed. There was nothing unusual in there, no one was in there. But she had, had a bad feeling about, as if something bad had happened in there. And it had.

"Me and Scott are good, I guess." The blonde called out, wanting the subject to be back on boys again.

"You guess?" Dallas questioned as Annalise emerged from the little girls bedroom. It was more to do with the fact that there wasn't really anything to tell about Annalise and Scott's relationship. Unlike everyone else, theirs was problem less. But was that a problem in itself?

"Things between me and Thomas..." Dallas sighed. "They're difficult. I mean, I have an almost three year old and he's going off to college." All of the girls were in the hallway now, looking at Dallas she spoke straight from her heart, "I'm just not sure if there is anything between me and Thomas now..." 'And the fact that I'm about to destroy the world doesn't make it any easier.'

The living room was a very spacious place. There were only two armchairs in the whole room, both facing at opposite angles towards the fireplace that was on the wall. Apart from that, the room was bare. Nothing else touched the room, except for the presence of two teenagers.

"Jen..." Tiger whined quietly. "Please...Just...Talk to me. At least talk to me."

"And say what, Ti?" Jenifer snapped, forcefully turning to face him. Her face was now tear-stained, her eyes daring to splurge out more. It wasn't how Tiger liked seeing his girlfriend, but it was the way it was. Jenifer was upset.

"I only want what's best for us." Tiger calmly told Jenifer. "The three of us..."

Jenifer stayed silent for a moment, a few stray and silent tears finding their way down her face. They each dripped from her chin, falling onto the floor without a sound.

"I know you do..." She finally whispered in reply. Tiger reach out his hands, taking Jen's in his own and pulling her closer. He hated seeing her upset, he hated seeing her crying, but that was what Jenifer did a lot of recently, just crying.

"Well, isn't that sweet?" A sickly voice piped up behind the blonde teen girl. The two teenagers broke apart, Tiger pushing Jenifer protectively behind his back. "Now, now, Tiger..." Fiona smiled, "Pushing your future wife and child behind your back isn't going to do any of you a lot of good. I though you would have known that by now."

Fiona's smirk bore into Tiger's mind, her words confusing him, but he dare not show it. He had to stay strong; he was the man in charge now. And then Jenifer screamed out in pain.

Tiger whipped around, seeing her clutching her stomach, her face scrunched up in pain. Jenifer collapsed onto the nearest armchair, but the pain never went away. It hurt her badly. It was the worst kind of pain she had ever felt, and it had no intention of stopping soon.

As her yells of pain echoed throughout the house, everyone heard it.

Abigail and Rachel were there in an instant, trying to stare Fiona down; at least that was what it seemed like. Being full vampires, hearing Jenifer's screams didn't exactly strike a lot of emotion.

Heather and Celia, on the other hand, both having compassion, were trying to calm the screaming girl down. They were both crouched down on the floor whilst Tiger sat on the arm of one of the chairs, his arms around his girlfriend, still trying to protect her, even though the damage had already been done.

"Jen..." Heather talked slowly, her words trying to get across the teen girl. "Jenny...Look at me, Jenifer..."

There were moments when Jen wouldn't scream or shout, but her hands never let her stomach, the pain never left her face. It was horrible for her to be in so much agony and it was horrible for everyone to watch her be in so much agony.

"Leave her alone!" Celia shouted across the room to her mother. This was all Fiona's bidding; she knew exactly what she was doing to the innocent girl, who hadn't actually done anything to her.

Fiona's smirk played on her lips, her eyes not leaving the twins, "Why should I?" She asked, trying to give her attention to everyone at once.

"If you had a heart, you would..." That was a low card for Celia to throw, but she had gone for it anyway. "It's not just her you're hurting and you know it..."

"That's the thing, Cel, she doesn't have a heart!" That voice. That scratchy and irritating voice, could only belong to one person; Olivia.

The dark haired beauty was sat on the arm of the other armchair, filing away at her nails as all of the drama unfolded around her. She cared about Jenifer as much as her mother did; not giving a damn about the pain the poor girl was going through.

"YOU!" Thomas and Scott burst through the door just in time, seeing the queen bee sitting all too happily on her throne.

"Oh my Scarlatinan Gods!" Olivia cried. "Who the hell let those two in?"

The teen girl has not been betting on Thomas and Scott entering the house, let alone the room. She had really been hoping that they would have had something-anything-better to do!

"I thought you said you had taken care of those two!" Fiona hissed at her youngest daughter.

"I thought I had!" Olivia replied, her teeth gritted and her eyes focusing on those two and those two only. She really had thought that her plan had worked between them, but it clearly hadn't.

Celia narrowed her eyes down on the eighteen-year-old, giving her a good look up and down as she got to feet, "You're a very cunning girl, Olivia."

Olivia smirked, "I'll take it as a compliment, sis."

"I'm not your sister!" Celia screamed angrily. Olivia was not family, Fiona was not family. Family was not the enemy. Olivia and Fiona were the enemy.

Jenifer screamed out in pain, louder than before. It was getting worse rather than better and with more people in the room, the more people who were also getting emotionally hurt from it.

Tiger kept on stroking her hair, whispering whatever comforting words he could, but it was tearing him apart on the inside. Having to sit there, powerless against the pain that was inflicting the only person he truly cared about.

"STOP IT!" Heather screamed, but came out as a cry too. She sounded very upset, something Heather never was.

"Oh," Fiona smiled wider, "I stopped a few minutes ago."

Heather's glowing red eyes went wide. That was never a good sign. Heather was the closest thing they had to a trained doctor. When the girl who knew what she was doing got scared, they all knew that it was time to panic.

"Get her to the hospital. NOW!" Heather ordered Tiger, who quickly complied. He helped Jenifer get to her unsteady feet in between the worst parts of the pain.

Olivia made a move, getting up from the chair quickly, but Fiona held her hand up to her daughter.

"Let them go." Fiona said, "We have other guests to entertain, darling." She obviously had no grudge against the two. She had already given them a life time's worth of damage. It was best if they just went.

Olivia sat back down on her chair as Heather stood up straight. She had already had too much of her family and their antics.

As Tiger and Jen left the room, three of the four remaining girls entered, with Dallas being the exception. They hadn't missed out on anything too important, they were all grateful for that.

"YOU!" Rosie screamed, spotting Olivia in the room. That they weren't so grateful for.

"Oh look." Olivia smirked, making her look a lot like her mother, "Now we really do have guests to entertain." She seemed all too happy with the presence of the rest of the group.

"I KNEW I should have finished you off when I had the chance." Rosalinda went to pounce. She wanted to kill Olivia for all of the damage she had caused. Unfortunately, Carmen and Annalise had quite quick reflexes, using both of their sets of hands to restrain Rosie from doing any damage on Olivia.

It was hard to keep her still and it was hard to keep a tight grip; vampires are stronger than anyone could imagine.

Dallas was the last person to join in the group and the last person to enter the room. She had forced herself not to go in until she was completely ready. She was determined not to kill Fiona if it meant killing the rest of the universe.

"Dally..." Thomas whispered, standing beside his girlfriend. She shook her head, not breaking eye contact with Fiona. She was determined not to say anything to her.

"Dallas, sweetheart." Fiona smiled, but not fakely. "You've finally arrived and come to join us as well, how kind of you." Her smile was not a smile, it was a smirk. It was a devilish smirk that only someone so sinister could pull off. "What's wrong? Cat got your tongue, butter-"

"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" Dallas snapped, no one having seen her so angry before either. "DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME THAT!"

Fiona continued to smirk; she knew she was getting to Dallas. Everyone knew that Fiona was getting to Dallas, but only three people in the whole room knew why.

"You two met before or something?" Olivia asked, still sat on the arm of her chair. She hadn't budged an inch as she watched it all unfold around her.

"Or something." Dallas replied, determined not to show how defeated she really was by the presence of her ex step-mother.

Heather had, had enough. She raised her hand so fast, acting as if throwing a baseball for the win. A iced over ball of water flew through the air, hitting Olivia straight to the side of the face and melting before it could shatter.

The dark haired teenager fell to the floor, finally moving from her spot on the chair, "You're too dumb to be my sister." Heather remarked, her eyes fixed and her lips smirking at her hand work.

"It is on..." Olivia muttered, shaking her head from side-to-side as she got to her feet and eye-balled her new found enemy.

"Bring it!" Heather replied, not afraid to start a fight with the spoilt brat.

Olivia disappeared on the spot and Heather about to do the same, but Celia grabbed her sister's wrist, stopping her. When they faced each other, the older one of the two tried to warn the other with her eyes. Neither wanted to speak out loud because Fiona could very well have understood their plans.

Carmen and Annalise released Rosie, now that Olivia had left; there was no need to keep a hold of her. The tanned girl rubbed her arms slightly; they hurt from the tightness of the grips.

The Princess stepped forward, her eyes not having left Fiona since she had entered the room. Her sneaky ways were not to be trusted, Carmen understood that.

"This was your plan all along." She spoke, "Turn us all against each other so you would win." It all made sense to everyone now. And as Carmen kept Fiona busy, Heather and Celia ran from the room.

"Rosie grew distant because all she wanted was to kill Olivia...Soon enough; Thomas was not a part of any of us anymore and...And you're the reason that Jen is pregnant. Tiger and Jen aren't that stupid! You worked your way into their heads and forced them into...THAT!"

Fiona kept on smirking as everyone else came to terms with it all. It all did make sense, Fiona had, had the perfect opportunity to sabotage everything that had been going wrong for the whole of the summer.

"You clever, clever girl, Carmen." The young woman's eyes seemed to glow brighter than before. They were the same eyes as Heather's, but Fiona's looked a lot worse, a lot eviler.

"But there is just one flaw in that plan." Dallas spoke up again, her confidence feeling right back into place once more, "It hasn't worked!"

"And WHY didn't it work, Dallas?" Fiona asked as if she knew that Dallas knew what the answer was, "Please, do enlighten your friends with the TRUTH!"

Dallas tensed up, everyone knowing that Fiona had struck a nerve with her once more. Sometimes Dallas lashed out, sometimes Dallas stayed quiet. She was an unpredictable girl, but she did have a past in which everyone would have liked to know more. But Dallas was having none of it right there and then.

"Shut up, Fiona." Dallas replied. "You know nothing about anything, you only think you do." Fiona kept a smirk on her face, "And I am so sick and tired of you, Fiona, walking around here, acting as if you are so much better than everyone else! This isn't High School! This is life! Stop toying with people...Stop toying with my family and my friends...And stop toying with me." Fiona's smirk only grew wider, listening to Dallas. She had nothing to reply with, but that made it all worse for everyone else. No one knew what she was thinking.

But no one got the chance to hear Fiona's next thoughts, going to say some witty comment back to Dallas. She never got the chance. Heather and Celia reappeared in the room, the same style Olivia had disappeared in. They both took one of their mother's arms each and left once again.

The group all took a setback, trying to figure out if it was okay to breathe again. The world hadn't exploded; they were all still standing there. Dallas hadn't done anything to cause ultimate destruction, so they all guessed things were safe.

That was until she fainted.

And outside, the two teenage girls stopped pacing. Their hearts were beating faster than usual; they could both sense the same thing. Then nothing. Nothing at all.

All things happen for a reason, it's finding that reason that is the hardest part.

A/N: I like fucking up people's lives...Makes me feel better about my own...And by people I do mean my characters, not real people...

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