It's been a REALLY LONG TIME since I last updated this story. I did it becuz I miss the characters (Mia, Riley, Vikki…) and I feel weird with just leaving it how I did..

Mia sat on the couch nearby and looked around the room. "Does anyone have any ideas on what to do now?" She asked and everyone shook their heads. "I put the blood we got from Dominic in a vial so we can summon Dante whenever." Vikki said and Riley sighed. "That's one shiny nugget I don't really wanna do. Especially with the bombs that just dropped today." She said and Mia nodded. "Agreed. So what do we do?" Mia asked. At that moment, Lauren and Katherine came into the room, looking around at the teenagers. "What happened in here?" Katherine asked and Mia laughed to herself. "Nothing much mom. We spoke to River and found out that he's been watching most of what we've been doing, this Dulcea woman came and gave us new powers, and we found out that we've been training for the wrong thing. Oh, and we killed Vikki's demon friend." Riley kicked her brother's leg and Reid chuckled. "Don't be rude D." She said and Mia nodded in agreement. "Dulcea?" Lauren asked and Vikki nodded. "She gave us powers that are supposed to help during this war." She said and a frown came upon Katherine's face. "What war?" She asked and Caleb sat on the couch next to Sarah. "Apparently, that's the part of the prophecy the tribunal left out." He said and both women nodded. "Wow. That's unexpected." Lauren said. "I know it's a bad time, but these came in the mail for you guys." Katherine said, holding up two piles of letters. "What are they?" Chelsea asked. "These are you guys' college acceptance letters. They started coming last week, but we stock piled them until they all came. Oh and we were able to put Chase back into school with you guys. You start back on Monday." Lauren said and the girls' eyes grew big. "Wow you guys were busy." Vikki said and Lauren smiled at her daughter. "We're just doing our part in this. We can't fight the war for you, but we can help you in every other way that we can think of." She said and Katherine nodded in agreement with her sister. "I called around to you guys' parents and yours came also." Katherine said and the boys nodded. "I don't know how you guys are gonna do this, but here you go." She said, handing the letters to Mia. "Keep us posted with everything." She said and both women left the room.

"This is a lot to process for one day." Mia said, looking around and seeing everyone with unsure looks on their faces. "Should we take a break?" Chelsea asked, and Riley shook her head. "No, there's no time to take a break." She said and Mia sighed. "Well then let's be normal for a change. Even if it is just for the night. Remember how that feels?" She asked and most of them shook their heads. "What do normal people do?" Chase asked, looking around for an answer. "They open college acceptance letters." Vikki said, grabbing the stack from Mia's hands. "Go get yours and lets' meet up at Nicky's." She said and the boys nodded. "That's a good idea." Mia said looking at her cousin. "Or we can go somewhere else. Like New York for the night?" Riley asked looking around the room. "New York Riles?" Mia asked and Vikki scoffed. "New York is a bad idea. It's running away from your problems, not letting them go for a night. Let's just meet up at Caleb's and head over to Nicky's afterwards. We can relax, play a little pool, and just hang out. We haven't done that in a while." She said and everyone nodded and went their separate ways, leaving the house in search for their college acceptance letters.

After they walked the boys to the door, Mia, Riley and Vikki walked upstairs to Mia's room to wait for a while before heading over to Caleb's house. "Where'd Chels go?" Mia asked and Riley laid on Mia's bed and looked at one of the magazines on Mia's had lying on it. "She went with Sarah to the dorms. Chase went with Reid and Tyler too." She said, not looking up from the book. "And Damien had to go back to school for a while. He should be back later on tonight." Vikki said and her two cousins nodded. "So I'm thinking we plan a quick little party." Riley said and Mia looked at her confused. "For our birthday, Mi Mi." Riley said and Vikki laughed. "While we're in the middle of preparing for a war?" She asked and Riley shrugged innocently. "I thought we we're being normal for the night. And normal people celebrate their birthdays with the people who care about them." Riley said and Mia thought about it for a few minutes. "This is true. What did you have in mind?" She asked her sister and Riley smiled and began to sit up and tell her but before she knew it, Riley began to feel that feeling she got when she was getting a premonition and the smile on her face faltered. "Ri Ri?" Mia asked, panic and concern quickly enveloping her as the color started leaving Riley's face. As Riley closed her eyes and started taking deeper breaths, Vikki got up and wrapped her arm around her cousin. "She's having a vision Mia." Vikki asked, seeing the color slowly returning to Riley's face. "She's actually handling it a lot better than she used to." Vikki said and Mia nodded in agreement, recalling the ear splitting screams and thrashing around in pain Riley used to do when they first got their powers. "I know. It's still really hard to watch her go through this though." Mia said and Vikki nodded. "It'll be over in a few minutes." She said as they both turned their focus back on Riley.

After a few more minutes, Riley opened her eyes and blinked a few times, regaining her composure. "What'd you see?" Mia asked and Riley rubbed her temples, trying to ease the oncoming headache that usually accompanied her visions. "I saw our graduation." She said, and Riley and Vikki sat down on the bed next to her. "Really?" Mia asked and Riley nodded. "Did anything bad happen?" Vikki said and Riley shook her head, but both Mia and Vikki raised their eyebrows. "You're lying." Mia said and Riley sighed. "Can one of you get me an Aspirin?" she asked and Vikki got up and walked into the bathroom. "What cha hiding?" Mia asked and Riley leaned back on the bed. "Can we drop it for now? It's our birthday." Riley said and Mia sighed. "Fine." She said and Vikki walked in with a pill bottle and a cup of water. "Here you go, Riles." She said and Riley quickly sat up and took the pill. "So about this quick party…" Mia said and Riley shook her head. "Maybe we should put it off for now. But we do need some kind of cake." Riley said and Vikki nodded. "Damien's supposed to pick one up on his way back from the city from you guys' favorite bakery." She said and Mia nodded. "Nice." She said and Riley's phone started to ring. "Text from 'The Boyfriend'." Mia said knowingly and Riley nodded. "He said that we should head over to Caleb's house now." She said and they stood up and headed for the door, grabbing the letters from the table. "I'm driving." Mia said, picking up the car keys. "Not if you picked up driving tips from your fiancé you're not." Riley said and Vikki took the keys. "Then I'll drive." She said and they all headed to the car to Caleb's.

A while later, everyone walked into Caleb's living room with letters in their hand. "Riley cheated." Mia said and Riley hit her with her letters. "I did not." She said and Vikki raised an eyebrow. "I got a premonition of graduation and they announced where we were going." She said, sitting on the couch and putting a pillow on her lap. "So you already know where we're all going?" Tyler asked and Riley shook her head no but wouldn't say anything else. "What's wrong?" Pogue asked, putting his arm around her but she didn't reply to him. "Let's get started, shall we?" She asked and started opening her envelopes. Everyone else followed suit and started opening them as well.

"I got into Brown." Chelsea said and Vikki raised her letter towards her as well. "Me too, Chelly." She said and Chelsea clapped. "Riles?" Vicki asked and Riley threw two other letters in the center of the room. "I got into Yale. That's all that matters to me." She said and Mia picked up the two letters she threw out. "You don't wanna know if you got into Harvard or Brown?" She asked, opening the letters and Riley shook her head. "They don't matter to me. I've wanted to go to Yale for as long as you've wanted to go to Princeton." Riley said and Mia nodded, knowing that statement was true. "Mia's wanted to go to Princeton for so long, she ordered a new Princeton sweatshirt at the beginning of every year for the past 7 years." Vikki said and Mia threw a pillow at her. "I got into Columbia." Tyler said, proud of himself. "Good job, Ty." Vikki said, lightly kissing her boyfriend. "Me too." Reid said, holding his letter up. "Wow Reid. I didn't think you did enough work in school to get into college let alone Columbia." Riley said and Reid shrugged. "Me neither." He said and Mia kissed him. "Congrats baby." Mia said and Reid pulled her closer to him. "I got into Harvard." Caleb said and Sarah nodded. "Me too." She said and Caleb hugged her. "So did I." Pogue said and Riley laughed. "Yay our football teams play against each other." She said and Pogue scoffed at his girlfriend and kissed her forehead. "Did you get into Princeton Mia?" Chelsea asked and Mia nodded. "But of course." She said and looked over at her sister. "Are these the schools from your vision Riles?" She asked and Riley looked around the room at everyone's happy expressions from getting into their dream schools and let out an exasperated sigh. "I can't just sit here anymore. I need some air." She said as she got up from the couch and walked out the room. Pogue got up to follow her but Vikki stopped him. "I got this, Pogue." She said and he nodded as Vikki went to follow Riley.

"Why so down, Riles?" Vikki asked when they were down the hallway and Riley turned around and sighed, revealing the newly formed tears falling from her eyes. "I can't sit in there and listen to everyone happy about where we're going for college when…" She started but cut herself off before revealing too much. "When what sweetie? You know you can tell me." Vikki said and Riley wiped her eyes. "When not everyone is gonna get to go to college." She said and Vikki's eyes grew big. "What do you mean by that Riley? What's gonna happen?" She asked and Riley shrugged. "I have no idea, Vik. It wasn't a clear cut vision. Bits and pieces were missing. But so were some of us." She said and Vikki nodded. "You have to tell the others about this." She said and Riley shook her head no. "Did you hear how happy everyone was to find out that they got into the schools they've been dreaming of going to? I don't wanna be the one to burst their bubbles and ruin that." Riley said and Vikki grabbed her hand and started walking. "But you can't keep this to yourself either. Secrets at this point will ruin all of our chances for surviving this." Vikki said and Riley reluctantly nodded as the two of them walked back into the room.

"Everything okay?" Mia asked from her seat on the couch next to Reid, turning her attention to the depressing energy radiating off her sister. "Not really." Riley said as Pogue pulled her into his lap. "What's wrong?" Pogue asked and Riley looked at Vikki for reassurance. Vikki just nodded and took her seat next to Tyler and put her head on his shoulder. Riley then took a deep breath and exhaled it, letting little of her tension go. "Well Mia already told you when we got here that I had a vision about graduation so I already knew where everyone was going. What was left out is that not all of us might've made it to graduation." She said and everyone looked around confused. "What does that mean?" Sarah asked and Caleb sighed and ran his hand over his face. "It means that some of us are gonna die in this war." He said and Sarah let out a light gasp. "Do you know who?" Chelsea asked and Riley shrugged. "It wasn't a clear, straight forward vision like they normally are. Huge chunks of it were gone." She said and Pogue started rubbing her back. "What did you see then, Riles?" Tyler asked, wrapping his arm around Vikki's waist and kissing the top of her head. "I saw Vikki sitting with Sarah in their caps and gowns. I saw Tyler looking really upset in a suit with his cap on his head. Then I saw me and Damien. I was in a dress with my gown on my arm and Damien was in a suit as well. And that was it." Riley said, looking around at her friends. "So something happens to Mia, Reid, Pogue, Chelsea, Chase and me?" Caleb asked and Riley shrugged. "I'm not 100 percent sure. Like I said, it wasn't a complete vision. For all I know you guys could've been there. I just didn't see you." Riley said and Reid sighed. "So much for being normal for the night." He said and Mia chuckled. "Exactly what I was thinking." She said and Chelsea shook her head. "We're not normal guys. We've never been normal, and we will never be normal. This is something we all have to live with. Well, some of us." She said and Chase shrugged his shoulders. "I've already been dead. It's not so bad." He said and Reid started to say something but was stopped by Mia putting her fingers on her lips and Reid just nodded knowingly at his fiancé. "That's not funny man." Tyler said and Chase shrugged. "It can't end like this. I don't wanna die at 18." Chelsea said and Vikki nodded. "Stop freaking out about it. Riley said that her vision left things out, so we don't have a definite answer to how this is gonna play out. And technically Chase, you weren't dead, you were in a limbo like place." Vikki said and Caleb nodded in agreement. "So what do we do now?" Sarah asked and the door to the room opened. "We do the only thing we can do." Damien said, walking into the room and joining the conversation like he was in the room with them the entire time and heard everything they were talking about. "Which is…" Chelsea asked and Damien answered her. "We train and make sure that we're prepared for this war so nothing too extreme happens to anyone of us." He said then pulled out a cake from behind his back. "After we sing happy birthday to Monkey and Monster." Damien said, setting the cake on the table in front of them and both Riley and Mia smiled.

"It's been a while since we heard those nicknames." Mia said and Riley agreed with her. "The last time I remember hearing them was the night that Damien came to visit us after I transferred to Spencer." Riley said and Mia nodded. "The day that he told us to stay away from you guys and…" she said but stopped when she remembered the rest of it. "I kidnapped you." Chase said and looked at Mia. "I'm sorry about that." He said and Mia nodded. "It's okay." She said and Chase nodded and looked at her contently. "Ready to sing guys?" Sarah said and everyone nodded, singing 'Happy Birthday' to Mia and Riley. After they finished, the two girls closed their eyes, took one another's hands and made their wishes, then simultaneously blew out the candles. "Cake then training?" Riley said and Damien shook his head. "Training then cake. It'll motivate you and give you something to look forward to." Damien said and a few people began to groan. "Let's go. We can't afford to waste time." He said and they all got up and walked out the room, going back to their place for training.

So it's finally progressing…. I don't know when the next update will be for THIS, but hopefully it'll be before another 6 months pass…

I have another Reid/Mia one shot that I've had on my laptop for a while now, so I might post that soon as well… if you want me too (It's pure fluff. but it goes with the progression of their initial relationship)

And in the meantime, Review… Please?

Or you can read my other Covenant story, "Realize" (If you haven't already) to pass the time along (And Review that as well )…