Quick Note: Would Chase really try to kill Charlene, Freddy Krugger style, if she was pregnant with his child? Just a thought. LOL! I honestly don't think the story will lead in that direction, but I could be wrong my mind works in sick and twisted ways, who knows what will flow through my finger tips tapping these keys.
On to the chapter...
Chapter 35:
When Reid pulled up in front of Charlie's house he looked over and saw her staring out the window. "You don't need to stare at me?" Charlene said looking over at him.
Reid cracked a smile. "What can I say? It's your beauty that captivates me." He said in a joking but serious tone.
Charlie smiled softly and looked back out the window. "Six months ago I didn't think this would be my life." She muttered.
"I wish you didn't have to go through this." Reid said looking ahead out the front windshield.
"I don't regret what we did, Reid. I'm just worried about how everything is going to turn out." Charlie said softly.
Reid nodded. "Me too."
"You don't regret it or you're worried?" Charlie asked.
"Both." Reid agreed.
Charlene sighed. "My mom told me you take what life gives you and you make the best of it. Well I don't know if that involved moving to another state, finding out my friend was a witch, dating said friend and ending up pregnant but I think I'm handling it pretty well."
"Not too mention the psycho that uses your dreams as a playground." Reid mention jokingly.
"Can't forget that can we." Charlene giggled softly and looked down at her lap. "So all my stuff is back here now?" She asked changing the subject.
Reid looked over at her and nodded. "Yeah. Tyler, Pogue, Sarah and Kate picked the rest of it up and brought it here."
"Ok." Charlie said lightly.
"What are you going to tell you're grandma?" Reid asked.
Charlene scoffed playfully. "Grams I'm pregnant...why yes it is Reid's...murder grams you're to old for prison." She said jokingly.
Reid laughed and leaned across the seat and pressed a kiss to her grinning mouth. "Do you want me to stay?" He asked.
"Yes. I don't want to be alone."
"And grams?"
"She doesn't have to know just yet." Charlie told him.
Reid nodded. "My parents..."
"Love me." Charlene input really quick with a smirk.
"Good point. Come on lets get inside, it's late." Reid said and he climbed out of the drivers side shutting his door and then went around and opened the passenger door for Charlene. She took his offered hand and he helped her out of the car. They let themselves in the front door and Charlie headed upstairs with Reid since she was certain her grandmother was already in bed.
Opening her door King ran over and quickly nudged her hand with his head. "Hey King." Charlie said tiredly. She was still in the pajama's Reid had used to get her in to and she walked straight for her bed and lay down.
Reid shut the door and slipped his boots and shirt off, then his jeans and he headed in to her bathroom closing the door behind him.
King jumped up on the bed and lay so that he was curled in to Charlene as she was on her side facing the the bathroom. Charlie gently stroked his head her eyes feeling heavy and she fell asleep.
When Reid came out of the bathroom he moved towards the bed seeing that Charlie was already asleep he grabbed the blanket at the end of the bed and pulled it over them both as he lay down behind her spooning her back against his chest his arm around her middle. He patted King on the head and yawned and he to soon fell asleep.
A few hours had passed when Charlie sat upright her skin covered in a light mist of sweat and her heart pounding in her chest and ears. Her breathing was uneven and she felt tears fall from her eyes. Her movements had jarred Reid from his sleep and he sat up slowly wiping at his eyes and put his hand on her shoulder. "You alright?" He asked gently.
"You remember when I told you I felt violated after waking up from those dreams?" Charlene asked.
Reid rested his head on her shoulder putting his arms around her comfortingly. "Yeah."
"I know why. You and Caleb spoke earlier about J something..."
"John Putnam." Reid said softly.
"Yeah. I said ew remember?"
"Yes, but Legs I don't think Chase would be capable of such a thing. John Putnam cast the spell moments before his death, where as, like Caleb says, Chase is just stuck on another plain able to have his fun by getting in to other's dreams. He doesn't even know the spell, he's never seen the Book."
"So you don't think there's any way, the baby, might be his?" Charlene looked over at him with pleading eyes.
Reid shook his head. "I can't be a hundred percent certain no, but John Putnam knew death was his fate and in his last moments he cast the spell so that he'd be able to continue his bloodline. Chase on the other hand is power hungry and probably wants to find a way back to this reality, what would impregnating you do for him? He doesn't care about the bloodlines only power."
"It just...I thought if the drowning was real..."
"No baby, why would he kill you if he thought you'd be carrying his child?" Reid questioned gently nudging his face in to her neck and shoulder.
Charlene sighed softly tilting her head to the side and resting it atop Reid's. "If it's ok with you I want a prenatal paternity test?"
"Huh?" Reid asked in a sleep induced confusion, he was exhausted from his long drawn out day.
"A prenatal paternity test. It's possible come the end of the first trimester and I want one just to be sure. But there are risks and since as far as I know your the father, I wont do it unless you agree."
"What are the risks?" Reid asked a small yawn escaping his lips.
Charlene sighed. "The biggest risk is miscarriage."
"That would be bad." Reid said softly. Charlie nodded her head somewhat. "How do you know about that?"
"A girl who lived next door to us and I got along, sometimes we'd see each other outside and start talking. She got pregnant when she was twenty-two but she didn't know who was the father cause she's just broken up with her boyfriend for another guy who treated her better. She was worried about the procedure so I talked to her about it and helped ease her nerves."
"Well it's your body and I wont stop you." Reid said kissing her shoulder.
"But it's our baby."
"If it will put your mind at ease I think you should do it." Reid said kindly.
Charlie sighed and kissed his head. "Thank you." Reid lifted his head up and looked at her stunning hazel eyes. He smiled and kissed her like he hadn't done all day. The kisses they'd shared that day were short and very few, while this kiss held the passion they felt for one another.
Reluctantly Reid pulled back breathing just as heavily as Charlie and smiled. "It's far to early for this." He joked.
Charlie laughed lightly and then fell silent. "I don't want to sleep Reid. I'm afraid I'll remember more and I don't want to."
"Think about something else." Reid said. "As you fall asleep think about anything else."
"Ok."
"Go to sleep Legs, we have to get our beauty rest for tomorrow."
"You, beauty? I highly doubt that." Charlene joked softly.
Reid grinned and kissed the tip of her nose. "Ok, you need beauty rest and I just need sleep."
"Now I'm insulted." She teased lightly.
"Ok I'm not going to win this. Just go to sleep Legs. I'm right here nothing is going to happen to you and hopefully tomorrow night this will all be over."
"I hope so."
"It's four on one this time, Caleb, Pogue and I together should hopefully get rid of him for good this time." Reid yawned and laid back down and Charlie rolled to face him since King had long since jumped off the bed and lay down next to it. She rested her head on his chest and yawned herself.
"I don't know how much good I'll be Reid." Charlene said quietly.
Reid kissed the top of her head. "You're essential. You have to control your dream state so that Chase can't take control."
"Great now I think we're all going to die. I can barely control my emotional state right now." Charlene muttered.
Reid chuckled softly. "Don't worry I'll be right next to you the whole time."
"You have no idea how incredibly safe that makes me feel." Charlene joked giggling softly.
"Now I think I feel insulted." Reid yawned and chuckled lowly. "Night Legs."
Graduation:
"...and as we send these future doctors, lawyers, and so much more in to the next steps of their lives..." Charlie had long since tuned out the Provost. Reid was seated next to her his hand rested lightly on her thigh both of hers rested on top of it.
After two long speeches by the elected teacher and valedictorian the Provost made his way back to the podium on stage. "So without further adieu..." The Provost announced them the class of 2007 and the student body stood and their their navy caps up into the air and ducked down when they all started to fall from the sky.
Reid hugged and kissed Charlene, while Tyler patted Caleb on the back and Pogue spun Kate around. When the student body was finally released from their seating the graduated seniors of Spencer Academy gathered in the halls and waited for their family to join them.
"Can you believe we've graduated?" Sarah said enthusiastically.
"And we're going off to college soon!" Kate said joyously.
Charlene nodded. "Some of us." She said softly. Kate and Sarah hadn't told anyone and Charlie and Reid had waited to tell the other Sons.
"Why?" Caleb asked. "You said you were accepted."
"I was, am, it's just I'm pushing it back for a year."
"What? Why?" Tyler asked.
Charlene looked over at Reid and he scratched the back of his head and looked at the others. "Ok I'm not beating around the bush, Charlie's pregnant and before any of you start freaking out we've already talked about this." Reid said gesturing between him and Charlene.
"Oh." Pogue said unsure of what actually to say really.
"Reid how could you be so..." Caleb started.
"It wasn't just him Caleb." Charlie defended Reid. "We both made a decision that neither of us regrets and that is all I'm saying about it with you. You three certainly aren't our keepers and we don't have to have your permission for anything."
Reid looked at the others who were staring at Charlene in shock at her outburst that had left her breathless. "She's a little temperamental right now." He joked hugging her closer to him.
"Ok." Caleb said.
"Oh no!" Charlie blurted.
"What? What's the matter?" Reid asked quickly slightly panic stricken.
"I haven't called Kara! She's going to have my ass for not telling her before I told them!" Charlie said burying her face against his chest. They'd all ditched their graduation gowns.
Reid sighed in relief. "Jesus I thought you were in pain."
"No dipshit if I was in pain I'd be screaming bloody fucking murder right now." Charlie joked laughing into his white button up dress shirt.
Reid chuckled. "You've made your point."
"Well I never thought I'd see the day, my son would graduate." Reid and Charlie and the other's looked over and saw Mr. And Mrs Garwin walking over with Imogene, and Evelyn.
"We're so proud of you." Randall smiled at his son.
Elizabeth smiled at him and Charlie. "Both of you." Then she looked at the others. "And all of you as well."
"So who's ready to head to the party?" Evelyn asked. Everyone raised their hands except Charlie.
"I am so ready, I'm starving." She exclaimed.
Reid looked down at her with an amused smirk. The adults just laughed and started to walked towards the exit to the two limos they'd rented for the occasion. "Legs we're going to have to get use to this aren't we?" He teased.
"We don't live together I don't see as to how you'd have to get use to anything" She retorted teasingly.
Reid nodded. "Right. We'll have to talk about that later. Right now we have a party to attend."
"Before our ultimate doom." Tyler joked.
"Baby boy shut up!" Reid smacked him upset the head jokingly and then Charlene smacked him in the back of the head. "Ouch what was that for?"
"Well first of all it looked fun and secondly I'm just getting use to it, if I have to time share my life with you and a mini you I'm going to need a lot of stress relief and that seems like the perfect thing." Charlie joked.
The others laughed but Reid just frowned at her playfully. "Not funny."
"But you love me." Charlie said tiptoeing up and kissing him softly on the lips.
"I do." He whispered against her lips.
"Come on love birds lets go." Tyler said and ducked out of the way of Reid's fingerless gloved hand. They all laughed and headed off to the second limo that would take them to the Garwin Mansion for their after graduation celebration party.
Party:
Reid found Charlene upstairs in his room looking out the window. "Everything is going to change isn't it?"
"Baby I don't want you to worry. If something happens to Caleb, Pogue or myself Tyler will know and he'll wake you up. It'll break the spell and we'll be forced back in to our own bodies."
"That isn't what I mean. When we make it out of this everything is going to be different. Our lives are going to be different."
"Yeah." Reid stepped up behind her wrapping his arms around her waist and he rested his head on her shoulder. "But we'll deal with it."
"What if we find we don't want to be together? What then?"
"I don't know. I would hope that we'd be able to stay friends for our sons sake." Reid said. "So I've been thinking, I'm still going to college come fall, but I want to be there for you and the baby so I was think maybe we could get an apartment in the city."
"Are you asking me to live with you Reid Garwin?" Charlie turned around smiling as she put her arms around his neck.
Reid nodded. "I am."
"Then I accept. You know I think we should tell your parents and my grandmother before we go to the colony house tonight. Just in case."
"We will. As soon as every one is gone we will." Reid said softly bending his head to rest upon hers. "I'm not letting anything happen you. Either of you."
"I know." Charlene kissed him softly and Reid returned it with such love and warmth it made Charlene's knees weak.
Colony House:
"So how'd they take it?" Sarah asked as her and Caleb climbed out of the mustang that was parked in the middle of the Hummer and the BMW. Charlene was leaning on the hood of her BMW and sighed.
"Grams was a little irate but she was coping when we left." Charlie told her.
"And my folks were disappointed but also proud in a way. It was strange really." Reid said.
"Ok now that we've got that over with let's do this." Charlene said and her and Reid started for the colony house. Gorman was standing at the door.
"What good is a covenant of silence if you can't keep it silent?" He snapped at the boys.
"He old man move or I'm going to take that rifle your holding and shove it so far up your ass you'll be spitting bullets." Charlene snapped. She didn't much care for Gorman's attitude. She'd met him one time and it wasn't a pleasant experience. In fact he'd shot a warning shot off using the very rifle he held now.
Reid chuckled, Caleb sighed, Pogue smirked and Tyler grinned. Sarah and Kate were both shocked she'd spoken to Gorman like that but both secretly proud cause they were sick of the way he treated them as well.
Inside Reid and the other's took Charlie upstairs to one of the small bedrooms and they sat while Caleb grabbed the book. When he joined them Charlene was already laying on the bed. Sarah and Kate were sitting on the floor next to the chair Tyler was sitting in. Pogue was leaning against the wall and Reid was holding Charlene's hand sitting on the edge of the bed.
"Just remember to push everything out. If you can force a new surrounding, woods or and empty field." Reid instructed.
Charlene nodded. "K. And just remember don't touch me, it's like he can sense when you're powers around me."
"I won't as soon as your asleep I'll let go."
"I love you Reid."
Reid didn't want to do this but he didn't want to regret not saying it in case something happened. "I love you too Charlene." He bent down and kissed her forehead. Charlie sighed and closed her eyes.