Covenant Seduction Chapter 25: Starts with Goodbye, a covenant fanfic

Starts with Goodbye

Ok I know I used this name and song in my Fantastic Four story but it fits here too!!! I just love it so much!

"You have to tell someone!" Reid said. "And soon. Tyler's gonna realize something's up…especially when you start getting bigger."

"Shut up!" Maddie said. "I'm trying but this isn't that easy you know." She had dropped a few hinting questions on Christmas. Most of which involving what his reaction would be. On New Years, Tyler had gotten curious as to why Maddie hadn't had anything that was remotely alcoholic. Caleb said that she was allowed to, so long as she didn't get completely drunk. And every time there was a party and there were jell-o shooters, Maddie did a bunch of them.

"Well what about one of the girls at least?" Reid asked.

"NO!!" Maddie said. "Sarah will definitely tell Caleb and Kate…I dunno about Kate but I don't want to find out."

"Well you have to tell someone." Reid said. "Unless you're just gonna wait until they find out visually." He nodded at the baggy hoodie Maddie currently wore.

"I'll do it!" Maddie hissed. Reid raised an eyebrow. "I will…really."

"Ok." Reid said.

"But what if Tyler freaks?" Maddie asked, suddenly looking so hopeless. "What if he doesn't want to accept it or anything?"

"I…I don't know." Reid said. Tyler may have been his best friend (apart from Maddie of course) but lately the younger man's mind had been harder to tell. A while ago, he would have been able to say confidently what his friend would have thought and done in just about any situation but now…he wasn't so confident.

"Reid." Maddie whined. She stepped closer to him and he wrapped his arms around her. "I am so…not ready for this."

"Aww…Mads…" Reid said. "Come on…don't cry. You know I hate when you do that." Maddie cried harder then. "Damn it, Madison."

"I'm sorry." Maddie muttered. Reid hugged her tightly. She calmed down after a while and lifted her head from Reid's shoulder. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Ok…I'm…I'll tell him…either later today or tomorrow at the latest."

"You sure?" Reid asked. Maddie nodded and pushed her hair from her face.

"If I don't do it now…then I don't think I ever will." She said. Reid nodded and kissed her forehead.

"You know I love ya and I'm always here to help, right?" He asked. Maddie nodded. "Ok. I gotta go but if you tell him tonight then give me a call alright?"

"Ok." Maddie said. She spent at least an hour, pacing and trying to talk herself into telling between the time that Reid left and Tyler returned.

"Are you ok?" Tyler asked, raising an eyebrow at his girlfriend's curious behaviour.

"Yes…" Maddie said. "No."

"No?" Tyler asked. Maddie nodded. "Ok…umm…what's up then?"

"Uh…maybe…maybe you should sit down for this." Maddie said.

"Ok." Tyler said, slowly. He sat down but Maddie stayed standing.

"How…umm…how would you feel if you, like…found out you were going to…to be a father?" Maddie asked.

"Uh…didn't you ask me this on Christmas?" Tyler asked. Maddie nodded. "Maddie, I told you then…I don't know."

"Well…you're gonna…you're gonna have to know." Maddie said. "Because…by about August or September next year…you will be one." Tyler just stared at her. The minutes stretched on. The longer the silence went, the more uncomfortable Maddie got with the whole thing.

"Wait a minute." Tyler said, finally. "So you lied to me? When I asked you back then if you were pregnant, you said no."

"Yeah but…" Maddie said.

"There's no 'buts' Maddie!" Tyler said, standing up. "You lied about and now…god. Madison we're really too young for this. I mean…I know both of us have pretty rich families but there's only so much of that…"

"I didn't plan for this to happen…it just did!" Maddie said.

"I'm not saying you did plan for it." Tyler said. "But…god…this isn't good." Maddie crossed her arms. "How can…this is just…damn…this is not good."

"Yeah…you said that already." Maddie said, harshly. "You made it pretty damn clear that this 'isn't good'." She narrowed her eyes. "Look Tyler…if you don't like this so much then it won't be your problem. But I'm not getting rid of it. You know my opinion on that."

"What do you mean, it won't be my problem?" Tyler asked. Maddie didn't answer him. "Oh come on, you can't seriously be considering leaving." She narrowed her eyes at him then spun around and stomped up to their room. Tyler flinched as he heard the door slam.

She didn't come out for the rest of the day. By the time Tyler headed up to bed, he really didn't want to risk her still being mad. He peeked into the room and saw her lying in bed, most likely asleep. Sighing he headed into one of the other rooms for the night. He'd talk to her in the morning and hopefully get everything settled out. Maddie got out of bed and finished throwing things into the bags and suitcases she had in her room. She used her power to move them from the room then she quietly went down the stairs and into the garage. The boys had gotten together and got her a car for Christmas since she had finally gone for her test and passed without any use of magic.

"Who the hell could it be this early?" Reid grumbled, rubbing his eyes and scratching his chest as he went to the door. Thank god his parents were gone for the week or else they would have flipped. He unlocked the door and opened it to find Maddie on the other side. "Oh boy."

"We're too young, he says. You lied, he says." Maddie ranted as she paced in front of him a few minutes later. Reid sat on the couch, watching her. "This isn't good…god! It would have been a million times easier if he had just come out and said 'hey Maddie…I don't want to be a father right now'. Wouldn't that have been easier?" Reid opened his mouth to answer but Maddie didn't give him the chance to. "He doesn't even believe I would have left. Well I just proved him wrong didn't I?"

"Not really…you usually come to my place when you…run away." Reid said.

"I told you…this is just for tonight." Maddie said.

"Uh huh…usually is." Reid said, yawning. Maddie stopped her pacing and was still for a while. Reid leaned his head back, still watching her.

"I'm going to change phone numbers tomorrow so that they can't call me…and then I'm gone." Maddie said. Reid was sitting straight in an instant.

"Just because of Tyler freaking, you're gonna cut of contact with the rest of us too?" He asked, looking like someone who had just lost their puppy.

"I have to." Maddie said. "I can't…I don't think I can face Pogue…or Caleb. Especially not Caleb."

"Maddie you JUST got back in our lives like three months ago after being gone for a year." Reid said. "How can you do this to us?"

"Don't make me feel guilty about this, Reid!" Maddie said. "I can't be here anymore. All of you guys know Ipswich like the back of your hands. I can't avoid any of you in this town." Reid's face looked more desperate. Maddie stared at him for a second before whining and throwing herself at him, hugging him tightly. "I'll keep in contact with you but that's it, ok? You can't tell the guys my number, you can't tell them where I am…you can't tell them anything."

"But…" Reid started.

"No!" Maddie said. "Nothing! Please Reid."

"Keeping your secrets is gonna get me in big, big trouble one day." Reid said, sighing.

True to her word, Maddie only stayed the night then Reid came with her as she switched phone numbers. She gave Reid a false name he could use for her so that none of the others knew it was her. Then, with tears on both ends and many hugs and good wishes, Maddie got into her car and drove. She only looked in her rearview mirror out of necessity. If it were up to her, she wouldn't have done it at all.

"Where the hell is she?" Tyler asked.

"Huh?" Reid asked.

"Damn it Reid you know just about everything about Maddie now tell me where she is!" Tyler said.

"I honestly don't know, man." Reid said. "She just left. She told me what happened and left this morning." Tyler growled and picked up the phone. He dialed her cell phone.

"The number you have dialed is no longer in service. Please hang up and try again."

"What the hell!!" Tyler yelled, slamming the phone down. Reid flinched. "You gotta know something." Reid just shrugged.

"Rent is Six-fifty a month and that includes all the basics." The landlord said. Maddie looked around the apartment. It was nice. No where near as big or cozy as her house but it would be a good place to live and raised the baby.

"I'll take it." Maddie said, facing the landlord again. They managed to get things settled well enough so that she was able to move in the next day. Using her powers, she got everything unpacked and then just sat on the balcony, staring down the five stories from there to the ground. She sighed and looked up. There was still another four floors above hers. "This is it…"

I was sitting on my doorstep,
I hung up the phone and it fell out of my hand,
But I knew I had to do it,
And he wouldn't understand,
So hard to see myself without him,
I felt a piece of my heart break,
But when you're standing at a crossroad,
There's a choice you gotta make.

I know there's a blue horizon,
Somewhere up ahead, just waiting for me,
Getting there means leaving things behind,
Sometimes life's so bitter sweet.

Time, time heals,
The wounds that you feel,
Somehow, right now.

[Chorus:
I guess it's gonna have to hurt,
I guess I'm gonna have to cry,
And let go of some things I've loved,
To get to the other side,
I guess it's gonna break me down,
Like falling when you try to fly,
It's sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life,
Starts with goodbye,
I guess I'm gonna have to cry,
And let go of some things I've loved,
To get to the other side,
Starts with goodbye,
The only way you try to find,
Moving on with the rest of your life,
Starts with goodbye,
Na na na na na na na

Ok so there's gonna be like…five more chapters maybe. I don't think I'm gonna do a sequel. I have way too many of those.