I can't sleep. So, I decided to post the next update! Because I'm just cool like that...
Ok, I'm writing now in Suze's POV because I'm having a babble withdraw. You know how I said that I had this story already written? Well, this chapter was in Jess's POV, but like I said, I am obviously suffering from a babble withdraw, so I rewrote it to fit Suze.
Yeah, so I'll just shut up and let you read.

And cue the Twilight Zone music.
Gosh, when was this going to end?

She smiled and said, "Nice to meet you." Yeah, yeah... little Miss Satan. I recognize you. You aren't Mischa, you're Marlion.

Think you're so clever. Well, surprise! I'm so not fooled I am so not-

She has a cross around her neck...

Well, I guess it can't be Marlion.

Jesse obviously saw that too, since he relaxed.
I sighed out of relief and said, "Suze Simon."
She smiled again and said, "I know...I mean-" She looked at Tad.
He smiled and said to us, "We were just about to go see a movie, why don't you come with us?"

"Um..." Mary said, if that was her real name, "I think I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'll be right back." She looked up at me. I nodded and said, "You know, I think I'll go with you."

Jesse gave me a look that seemed to say, 'Please-Don't-Leave-Me-With-Him'. Because next to Paul, he was the second most hated person on Jesse's list. Tad, I mean.

And I guess it would depend on where you put Orlando...

Anyway..

I followed Mary into the bathroom. "Wha-" She looked back at me and said, "Suze, first off, really nice to see you again, and I hope the shock wears off soon." She sighed and said with a smile, "I came back."

Really? Hadn't noticed.

"Mishca..." She looked up at me. "Mary, whoever you are. What's going on?" She took my hand. Even thought she looked a little different, her eyes were still the same piercing blue. But one of them had a little bit of brown in them.

Then I remembered. That's how I always told Mishca and Marlion apart. Mischa's right eye had a little square of brown in it, while Marlion's had one in the left.
"Suze, you're not safe. I mean, you weren't before, but now you're really not. She's thinks I'm dead and let's just say, you're not who you think you are."

Wow.

I'm not who I think I am.

That's just real peachy.

Real peachy.

"I'm not who I think I am. Well, Mischa, let me tell you. It wouldn't surprise me if I was the Easter Bunny." I said, sinking down to the ground. She followed me and said, "Suze, I can't tell you."

"You're an angel, you should be able to." She smiled and said, "I'm not a full angel. I still have to earn my wings."
Everytime a bell rings an angel gets their wings.

"I thought you were myt guardian angel!" I said, almost on the verge of tears now.
She smiled and wiped away a stray tear and said, "Suze, didn't Gabby tell you?" I blinked at her and she said, "Gabriel. Didn't he tell you? Suze, I'm not your guardian angel. Gabby was suppossed to be, but you already have one."

That made me cry. "He's not an angel!"
She took me into her arms and said, "Suze, sometimes angels don't have to be really angels to be one."

And as confusing as that sounded, I understood it. She pulled back just a little and said, "Suze, I think it's pretty safe to say that if it wasn't for him, you be a bit dead."
I laughed and said, "I know." She smiled and handed me a tissue that seemed to just appear in her hand.

"You okay now?" She asked. I nodded even though I was lying. "You're lying."
Gosh, do my eyes really get greener? She laughed and said, "Yes, they do. But I have connections. And I know."

You know what? I didn't even want to ask her who her 'connections' were.
She laughed again and said, "No. You may not want to right now. It may be too much for you to handle."

She toom my hand and we walked out of the bathroom to see, shocker, Jesse and Tad talking. They smiled when we walked back up.
And I'll tell you, when I saw Jesse, I almost started crying again.

Being the doctor that he is, he looked at me and said, "Querida, are you ok?"
I nodded and leaned up and kissed him, "Yeah, Jess. I'm fine."

"So, what brings you back to Carmel?" I asked Tad later that day as we were in TGI Friday's down in the foodcourt.
"Well, me and your brother met up in NoCal, so...he wanted me to be down here for the wedding." Tad said, half of his burger hanging out of his mouth.

"What did you see in him?" Jesse asked me quietly.
"Honestly, I have no idea." I said, trying my best to give Tad a smile.
Mischa rolled her eyes and handed him a napkin. He took it and threw it on the table.

Jesse looked at him in horror. I mean, this guy looked like something on Animal Planet.
Like one of those lions devouring a poor helpless zebra.

"Ok." I said, looking at Mischa. She just shook her head.
She smiled and said, "Uh, sweetie. Why don't we go see that movie now."

"Sure thing, baby." He said. Jesse looked down as a half eaten tomato flew in front of him.

This was going to be one long day.

"Suze." Mischa said that night at her place. "I have someone I want you to meet."

A girl about my age walked out.
She looked like someone.

Her hair was long, dark, and curly. And her eyes were a chocolate brown. She was obviously Spanish.
And-

Wow, I'm and idiot.

She smiled and said, "You must be Susannah Simon. Marta de Silva."
Ok.
What?

I looked at at Mischa who said, "You could say that Marta's like a spy for us. She never really died."
Gosh, this is weird.

"Ok." I said, in a daze. She really looked a lot like Jesse. A lot like Jesse.
"Does your brother know-" She shook her head and I said, "Ok."

Mischa looked slightly worried, but then said, "Are you sure that you want to-"

"Yes, I want to." I sat down beside her.
She sighed and said, "Suze, your great-great-great grandmother, Esmerelda, was one of the most powerful mediators of all time. She wasn't only a mediator, but she was a-"

"-shifter." I added.
She shook her head and said, "No, well she was. But...she was kind of like...like Marta. She was a spy."

"What do you mean by 'spy'?" I asked. She sat down and said, "She would tell us if any of the angels got out of hand, told us about problems...I mean, witches were a major problem back then...and then there were demons."

I looked down.
Marta came over and said, "She had a very rare gem, called the Regla Del Demonio. Anyone who had this had complete control over the demon world."

"My sister of course wanted it." Mischa continued. "After your great-great-great grandmother died, she passed it on to her daughter, and she passed it on to her daughter and so on."

"Marlion's back, because she knows that you're strong. She wants the gem. Whoever has it woke Marlion up from her sleep. See, Esmerelda put a spell...or maybe you could call it a curse, on the demon world just before she died. That they would be in a sleep until Judgement Day. Well, something woke her and her followers up." Marta said.

"Suze, who has the stone?" Mischa asked me. I shook my head and said, "I don't."
Marta nodded," Your mom hasn't died. She has it."

"Mom? Mommy?" I called out as I walked through my old house.
She appeared at the kitchen door, "Susie, sweetie, what is it?"

"Um...I needed insperation for my new dress, and I was wondering...do you still have that stone gem thingy that grandma gave you?"

She looked shocked. I hadn't really know if in fact grandma gave it to her, since grandma was still alive, but it was a risk I had to take. "Yeah, actually. How did you-"

"I called her. Can I borrow it and bring it back as soon as I'm done? All I have to do is run it by the office and I'll have it back tommorrow night."

My mom stared at me for a minute and said, "Of course." She motioned for me to follow her and I did. I walked through my old house and plopped down on her bed.

"Who told you?" Mom asked. I looked up at her and said, "What?"
"Who told you about the stone?"
I gapped at her in a mixture of shock and confusion. I blinked and said, "What-"

"Someone had to have told you. I mean, you're the next shifter in line." She said calmly.
Ok, I was about to faint, "Mom...how did you...did you...wait, you knew what I was?"

She nodded and said, "I'm one too."

"What? Mom, you're a mediator-"

"-shifter." She corrected me.

"Whatever. You're one too and you never told me?" I was practically yelling now. "I almost died! Like ten times! AND YOU WERE NEVER THERE?"

"Suze." She was crying now. "I couldn't tell you. Marlion put a curse on you. She said that if I ever told you the truth before you came to me, she would kill you! I couldn't bare to let that happen!"

"Oh, no. But it's perfectly fine and dandy to let me almost be murdered by Heather, Marucs, The Angels, and the Diegos."

"Suze-"

"I HAD TO LEARN EVERYTHING FROM DAD!" I half yelled half cried.

"Peter?"

"Oh, so you remember him."

"Yes." She said, "Jesse told me he moved on."

Whoa.

"JESSE! HE KNEW! YOU KNEW HE WAS HERE?"

"Of course I did! I was mad but after he told me he loved you, it ws no problem. He was such a gentleman I knew that he would never take advantage of you."

"WHAT!? YOU KNEW! HE KNEW! YOU BOTH LIED TO ME AND YOU EXPECT ME TO BE OK!?!" I yelled grabbing the stone.

"Suze, we were trying to protect you! We did it because we love you!"

"Well, you have a really suck way of showing it." I said as I ran out of her room. "SUZE!" She yelled after me, I pulled out of her reach, got in my car and sped out of the driveway, leaving her alone like she had left me all those years.

"Mrs. Ackerman, is everything ok?" I asked as I walked into my office where she was waiting for me. She looked up at me. I could tell she had been crying. "Where's Susannah, is she ok?"

"I don't know. Jesse, she found out." She said. I looked down as I removed my jacket and sat donw on the edge of my desk. I sighed and said, "How did she take it?"

"You know Suze." I did. Boy, did I know how she was. "She got all upset and...left. I don't know where she went. Jesse, how do we know that we did the right thing?"

"We did it to protect her. We had to. You had to." I said. She nodded and said, "I know. But I feel horrible. I mean, if something happens to her, I'll never forgive myself."

I smiled at her, "I know how she is. I'll take off and go look for her, ok?" She smiled and said, "Thank you." I hugged her and said, "You did the right thing."

I walked out and said to Max, "I have to go."

"What's wrong?" He asked. I sighed and said, "Family emergency."

"Speaking of family." Came a voice I recognized all too well.
"What are you doing here?" I asked her coldly.

She smiled, "Nice to see you too, big brother."

"Get away from me , Marta." I said as I walked past her. "You have any idea where Susannah is?"

"Suze?" She asked. "No, why? Is she ok?"
"You should know." I said to her.
She pulled my arm and said, "Jesse, why are you doing this? I didn't do it!"

"You didn't kill papa?" I asked her. "Ok. Fine. Whatever. Now let me go."

"Jesse! I was a spy for the angels! You remember Esmerelda? She's Suze's great-great-great grandmother. I thought you'd remember the eyes." I stopped, and Marta continued, "Marlion killed papa. I never told you but...she knew I knew where the stone was and she was trying to kill everyone I loved so that she could get it out of me."

That sounds just like something Marlion would do. I looked back at my sister and said, "I'm sorry."
She looked up at me and said, "Well, you should be."
Then she smiled and said, "Now. Let's go find your querida."

I wonder though, did we do the right thing?

See? I told you it would finally come! The turning point of the story!!!
Love you guys so much!
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-SASTMJ
--Autumn--