"Where's Hilary?" Will hissed. His fury kept building the longer he was away from his sister.
"She's probably playing with him." Chase said meaning Reid.
Caleb and Kat sat in the field near what was left of Putnam barn in Ipswich. It all led back to this place.
"So he died here?" she asked him quietly.
"Yeah," Caleb said trying not to remember the circumstances of how it happened.
"I'm sorry." Kat said trying not to cry again. They were going to die soon. "I had no idea."
"None of us did." Caleb said knowing that she meant Chase's coming back.
"He's the one who possessed Cole. He was innocent and chase made him do all of those things. Then he made me do things." She said in a quiet defeated voice. "How does he have so much power? Can't you fight him? You're just as powerful."
"And he has backup and we don't." Caleb said. It wasn't a bad idea, but he was outmatched. At the moment he was just biding his time.
"This part of memory lane is a bit worn out don't you think?"
Chase and Will turned as Caleb and Kat looked up hopeful.
"Tyler." Kat breathed smiling. She didn't care if it hurt to. She barely caught it, but Tyler smiled to at her.
"Just you?" Chase laughed.
"No." Everyone's head shot to the left where Reid had appeared. He had Hilary by the hair. Dry blood was spread on her face and throughout parts of her hair. She struggled furiously, but to no avail. "It took me a little bit trying to find out where the party was and this little tart tried to kill me."
Kat snorted and received a hit to the back of the head by Will. If her hands weren't bound she would've hit him back.
"Qwerty's safe." Reid told Tyler. Tyler breathed a sigh of relief then turned back to Chase and Will.
"It seems we have a standoff." Tyler said crossing his arms over his chest.
"Let me go you bastard!" Hilary screeched.
"Shut up." Reid said coldly. She'd said it multiple times since she woke up from having been slammed against the brick wall. He looked at Will who had a glint of hatred in his eyes directed at Reid. It only made his smirk feeling pleased. "Want her back? Come get her."
"Hold on." Tyler said hold and arm out across Reid before hell broke loose. "How about a trade?"
"What!?" Reid exclaimed. "Hell no!"
"Give us ours, we'll give you yours." Tyler said ignoring Reid. Chase thought about it.
Kat gulped and looked up. Clouds swirled overhead. They were dark and ominous.
"Caleb." She said still looking up. "I'm a little scared."
"You're not alone."
"You should know something." She said breathing shallowly. "If I had a brother, he'd probably be you. You're annoying enough."
Caleb coughed into a laugh.
"Thanks, I think. Just quit talking like that okay? We're not dead." He said.
"Yet." She added.
"Sure." Chase said. Caleb and Kat froze. A giddy feeling that the chance of walking away from this alive swept through Kat. Chase gestured at Will.
He moved to Caleb and grabbed him from behind and pushed him forward.
Reid kept a firm grip on Hilary. She whimpered as he tightened his grip on her.
"Kat too." Tyler said.
"Oh no. You said yours. She's not yours. As a matter of fact she's mine. She's been mine from the very beginning. She just didn't know it." Chase said cocking an eyebrow at her. Reaching down, he pulled her to her feet roughly. "She stays with me."
"No deal." Reid growled. The snap of Hilary's neck in his hands echoed across the field. She fell lifelessly to the ground.
"No!" Will yelled angrily. His eyes flashed black. Caleb was tossed to the side and Will went after Reid.
"Reid!" Tyler hollered as he watched his friend fight him.
Tyler cursed and rushed to Caleb's side. Caleb had already 'used' to undo the rope around his wrists. They were raw and bleeding.
"You okay man?" Tyler asked as he stood.
"Yeah." The two turned and faced Chase who held Kat in front of him as if she were a human shield.
"You let her go!" Caleb shouted. Chase looked at Kat face to face. it looked as if he would kiss her almost. Kat's jaw clenched.
"No, I think I'll keep her. She needs an actual boyfriend, not a ghost." He said.
"You son of a bitch!" she screamed. Chase pinched her face in one hand so that she was forced to look at her friends. She shut her eyes as she saw Reid kill Will. He didn't snap his neck like he did with Hilary. He shoved his fist right through him. The visionary twisted Tyler's stomach.
"It's okay. They were expendable. I always have a backup plan." Chase smirked. His eyes turned black. Caleb took a step to advance on him. Chase let go of Kat's face and held out a finger to stop him. "I wouldn't."
Reid looked towards where the four of them stood forty feet away. His hand dripped with blood. His chest tightened as Kat stared at him. he read the fright in hers eyes.
"No. Don't." he breathed getting the idea of Chase's final move. His eyes began to water. He prayed to be wrong with his assumption. "No."
Reid started running.
"I." chase started.
Don't!" Reid shouted. Tyler and Caleb looked back at Reid who was running full force towards them confused then at Chase.
"Will."
"Chase no." Caleb shouted in realization. He was giving her his power. All of it. "You'll kill her!"
"You." Chase smiled widely. "You wanted me dead. I can only do so much Danvers."
"Chase!" Tyler charged at him, but flew backwards into Caleb. Tumbling to the ground, the two sat up fast.
"Everything."
"No!" Reid shouted only five feet off. Lightning cracked across the sky coming down and hitting both Chase and Kat. Her screams pierced the three men. Reid drop to his knees feeling the electricity crawling through him from the strike.
"Katherine!" he yelled.
The flash was there then gone. Chase's grip on Kat loosened as the life within fled him. Kat fell with him.
Reid ignored the surging pain and numbness in certain parts of his body.
"Wake up." He said taking Kat into his arms and away from chase. Caleb ran over to Chase. Holding two fingers to his neck he looked up at Tyler and shook his head stiffly. Reid rocked back and forth holding Kat in his arms. She had no heartbeat. Her body was smoking from the hit. Her hair was smoldered and fringed. "Wake up."
Tears fell from his eyes hitting her cheeks.
"Please." Her arm hung limp as he continued to rock back and forth. "I love you."
Caleb and Tyler looked at Reid holding her.
"I'll call Pogue." Caleb mumbled. Tyler stood there speechless. Caleb didn't know what else to do. Everything felt numb, emotionless as his housemate, one of his best friend lied in the grass in the arms of another housemate, best friend.
"Hello?" Pogue said answering his cell phone. He glanced at Qwerty lying on the hospital bed by Whitney who slept.
He stood quickly and watched her dark veins fade.
"Caleb, she's getting better. She'd going to be okay." Pogue said not hiding his glee. His brows furrowed as he heard the tone in Caleb's voice. "What's wrong? Did you get Kat back?"
"What? No."Pogue said in disbelief. Caleb kept going though not giving Pogue the chance to argue. Chase had been dealt with himself, but not without taking somebody with him. His games were over.
Pogue looked over at Qwerty who was blinking groggily. She gave him a worried look. He turned away from her.
"I'm going to go." Pogue hung up. The beating in his chest hurt now.
"She's getting better." Qwerty commented as she brushed small strands of Whitney's hair from her face. "Chase must be dead right? That's what this means?"
"Yeah." Pogue answered sullenly.
"What's wrong? Everybody's okay right?" she asked. She hoped he'd say yes. Everyone was fine.
"Qwerty…"
Qwerty got up from the bed and walked over to him so that he didn't wake Whitney. Pogue told her the news. Qwerty just stood there unsure of what she just heard. She stared at Pogue blankly who was fighting back tears. Slowly, her legs felt weak.
"No." she said. "She doesn't die. She comes back from this kind of thing. She's not dead."
Here legs caved from beneath her and she fell to the tile floor.
"She's not gone." She breathed. Pogue watched as she began to cry.
"What wrong?" Qwerty and Pogue looked over. Whitney had awoken.
"Wake up." Reid pleaded ignoring Tyler and Caleb.
"Reid." Tyler breathed barely. "She gone."
It's funny about life and death situations. Supposedly, right before you die you see your life flash before your eyes. Katherine didn't see much. Just a bright flash of light. It was painless. The world in her eyes just stopped moving.
It was Tyler, Caleb and Reid who had life flash before their eyes that night. From the moment they first met her two years ago up to this moment.
"Well, wait. There are a few questions I need to ask you to see if it's alright." He said
Kat froze in her steps and turned to look at him surprised. He chuckled at the look on her face.
"Uh, okay." She said
"Your name might be a good start." He said
"Oh, right. Kat Pandora and yes I know the last name is weird." She said with a half laugh.
/\/\/\/\/\
"No, get the hell out of this room." Reid said coming into the room.
Kat just finished putting something away and looked at him.
"Did you not hear me when I said that this was my room?"
"Oh," she said as if just remembering "No actually, I was ignoring you."
Reid's face flushed red in anger and Kat just stared at him blankly.
/\/\/\/\/\
"I'm Qwerty by the way." She said. "I know it's a stupid name. Trust me, I asked my parents over and over why they'd name me that." She chuckled to the look on Kat's face. Kat cracked a smile and held out her hand.
"Kat." She said plainly.
/\/\/\/\/\
"It's just too funny is all. You two into the whole occult thing." She still struggled not to laugh "Just don't volunteer me for being the sacrificial lamb."
/\/\/\/\/\
"Hey what are you exactly? An it?" Reid smarted off
Caleb was curious himself.
Guy, dude.
Reid smirked knowing that it was sarcasm.
"Well, I guess there are four people living up in here. It's a full house Cale." Reid said "An oblivious normal girl, two warlocks, and a ghost."
/\/\/\/\/\
"You know we love you." Caleb grumbled.
/\/\/\/\/\
"Cole." He introduced himself casually
"Kat." she said
"Sounds mysterious. I like mysteries." He said
/\/\/\/\/\
Reid followed her and continued going until finally she just turned on him and put a hand over his mouth.
"Be quiet." She said
He stopped talking then suddenly licked her hand. Kat squealed and wiped her hand on him.
"That was disgusting!" she exclaimed
He just laughed and put and arm around her shoulder.
/\/\/\/\/\
"I didn't do anything stupid did I?" Qwerty asked
"Nope." Kat said smirking
Qwerty let out a sigh of relief.
"You just shoved your tongue down a guy's throat." Kat finished
Qwerty's eyes went wide at that moment and she just slammed her head down on her desk. Other students looked at them curious.
"She's just hungover." Kat said laughing.
/\/\/\/\/\
"Careful Kat. Wouldn't want to think you're comfortable." Reid said in a hushed tone.
"Kat this is Baby Boy." Reid said with a smirk
Baby Boy huffed and held out his hand to shake hers.
"It's Tyler." He said laughing.
/\/\/\/\/\
"You all have so many secrets and you know what? They're gonna bite you in the ass!" Qwerty nearly yelled the last part.
/\/\/\/\/\
"You can't do this." she breathed
"Why?" he dared ask.
/\/\/\/\/\
"Caleb," Kat mouthed "there's something wrong with him…"
Then she started backing away from Reid.
"Kat, let me explain." He said knowing exactly what was going through her head.
"You're like him!" she spouted barely and painfully
/\/\/\/\/\
"Uh, excuse me? I don't know who you think you are, but you can't just walk into people's houses." Reid said to a red head in a yellow t shirt and shorts with tanned skin that had her back to him.
Where did she come from? I didn't even hear the door open, Reid thought.
She turned around and faced him. Sunglasses covered her face as she stared at him. They stared at each other for a few seconds. Reid wondered why she looked familiar. He took a step closer. She seemed rigid.
"Hey, what's going on?" Caleb asked as he made his way down the stairs.
"I-I'm sorry." She said
She turned and started walking out. She cursed herself.
"Wait." Reid said "Turn around."
She obliged for reasons she didn't know. Then hesitantly she pulled off her sunglasses. She took a step back whereas Reid took a step forward in disbelief. He didn't think he'd see her ever again, and yet here she was. He wanted to touch her and poke her to make sure she was real. She was alive. Sure enough though, his mouth hung open. It hung open for a young woman he at first didn't even like. Someone he wanted to be gone at one point.
"Kat." Caleb said
/\/\/\/\/\
"Dick tart." Kat said feeling impressed with putting two and two together.
"Nice," Reid said impressed himself then shaking his head "wait no, not nice you twat cake."
"Hey! Don't you go mixing cake and my twat in the same sentence. I don't freak that way." She said as she hit him in the arm.
/\/\/\/\/\
"Can I copy your notes later?" she asked.
"Yeah, let's just go before we miss lunch." He said.
"Always thinking about your stomach Tyler." Kat said in a playful huffy tone.
/\/\/\/\/\
"Plus, what could really happen? It couldn't be worse. I me-" Reid covered her mouth right then and was giving her a crazy look.
"You don't say shit like that. You can jinx all kinds of things." Reid exclaimed.
/\/\/\/\/\
Reid sat down beside Kat. He could see her eyes brimming with tears.
"I miss her so much." She said.
Reid couldn't say he understood. He was an only child. So he just wrapped his arms around her and pulled her onto his lap where he just held her there. She broke down into a sob.
/\/\/\/\/\
"Whoa, what?" Qwerty said with her mouth gaping and her intent on rehearing what just came out of Kat's mouth.
"It's not like it's anything serious. It just happened. I was feeling bad and he was actually being…nice and-"
"Him, nice. It's strange. We're not in the twilight zone are we?" Qwerty asked.
/\/\/\/\/\
Kat gasped in air and coughed as she bolted upright, her eyes wide and terrified. Tyler just as scared jumped to his feet and caught her by the shoulders before she fell off the metal bed. She looked around wildly confused.
"What happened? Where am I?" she asked scared.
"Relax," Tyler told her "you're in the morgue."
"What!" she exclaimed.
/\/\/\/\/\
"You going to take advantage of me again?" she joked.
"Thought crossed my mind." He smirked.
"Oh really? Because I should tell you, I'm not looking for a relationship." She grinned.
"Eh, they're overrated."
"Good, then there won't be complications." She said.
Reid kissed her before she could say much more. Kat couldn't complain either. He was good.
/\/\/\/\/\
"Hey! You don't slap a chick!" he tried.
"It's my body! I'll do what I want!" she screamed loudly from his body. "And your going to fix this."
Tyler stood and looked down at himself taking in Kat's body. Kat put her hand on her hips and glared at him from his body.
/\/\/\/\/\
"Let me say it this time." Reid said as she looked at him shocked. "You think it's over, it's not for me."
/\/\/\/\/\
"Look, there are people looking for me. People you don't want to mess with." Kat threatened.
He was quiet at that. His smile didn't fade though.
"Oh I know. I've already called them."
Kat's eyebrows scrunched together out of confusion.
"You called them." She said blankly.
"Yeah, you'll be here for the next few days." He said. "I'm Pogue by the way. Pogue Perry."
/\/\/\/\/\
"What if she doesn't come back?" Qwerty then asked.
She didn't look up. Reid looked at her sharply and so did Tyler.
"I don't know. You don't think she wouldn't come back do you?" Tyler asked.
/\/\/\/\/\
"Oh come on! It's predictable!" she said trying to prove herself "That dumb chick is going to run upstairs."
Pogue watched the screen and like Kat said she ran upstairs. Soon enough both of them were laughing and calling out what would happen next and even started making up their own lines of what the people would say in the movie.
Tyler and Reid came back from classes to see them laughing and carrying on. They both looked at the screen to see a man getting stabbed.
"They've lost it." Tyler said.
/\/\/\/\/\
"Ryan's gone. He just faded away." She said trying to breathe.
"Are you sure?"
"I can't see him!" she sobbed.
/\/\/\/\/\
"It's like staring at myself." Kat laughed.
They were both wearing blue jeans with Tyler's jacket.
"I do like this jacket." Whitney laughed.
"You'd like the one I got it off of even more." Kat winked.
"I bet. Since when do you live with boys anyway? Mom would be shocked."
/\/\/\/\/\
"So, did Caleb leave?" Kat asked.
"Yeah, he has to go get Sarah from Harvard." Tyler replied.
"Good. I can't wait to meet her." Kat said. Her eyes were beaming.
/\/\/\/\/\
"So, you and my sister?" Whitney said while they sat at the bar. Her finger traced the rim of the glass she drank from.
"No." he said.
"No?" Whitney said feeling shocked. "No."
The word wasn't sinking in.
"No, that's not a good answer." She finally said.
"I don't care. That's the answer you get. We're only friends…she and I."
Reid didn't want to be her friend. He never did. He kissed her forehead as he thought about the times since their meeting. He caressed her cold cheek. The sky overhead rumbled with thunder which was followed by a sudden hard downpour.
"Katherine." He sobbed being soaked by the rain.
Caleb watched Reid break. It was unrecognizable.
Tyler's head fell into his own hands. He couldn't fix her this time. She was lifeless. Chase gave her something she couldn't take.
But that happens right? There's always that one person who you can't save.
Everything in italics is flashbacks from nearly every chapter thus far, remembering everything they'd lived through. The theme for the chapter was Yellow by Coldplay.
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