Once everyone was settled in the room, Elijah stood to get everyone's attention.

"Alright everyone," he said. "We are staying here for tonight. Tomorrow a few of us will head back and disable those spells. Meanwhile the rest of us will stay here and stay safe."

"Do we really think it's a good idea to go back there?" Derek asked. "No offense to Tess, cause it is her home. But they know of that safe house's location now. Who's to stop them from coming back whenever they want or giving the information to others in the future?"

Elijah went to say something but Tess cut him off.

"I agree with him actually. I planned on getting ahold of my safe house contacts tomorrow and arranging someplace new for the nine of us. Well eleven if Kyle and Liz need accommodating."

Matt cleared his throat, "Eight."

Tess glanced around checking her math. My mind flashed to my conversation with Matt. Him telling me that he didn't need a safe house anymore and needing to move on. Derek glanced over at me confused, he must have caught the snippet that ran through my head.

"What're you talking about?" Tess asked.

"We know my time in safe houses is up. I'm just taking up space now that someone else could really need. Once all of you are settled somewhere new, I'll be splitting from the group."

Dead silence followed for a split second and then everyone's opinions came out at once. No one wanted him to go. Everyone was talking over each other, saying that he needed to stay with the group.

Matt held up a hand to stop the commotion, "I didn't say that people couldn't come with me. But what I do for a living is dangerous."

I looked over at Tori, Simon, and Derek and raised an eyebrow.

"What do you guys say?" I ask. "Ready to leave safe houses behind?"

Everyone's jaws were on the floor, this was a huge decision just sprung on them.

"Now hold on," Kit interrupted. "You kids are not going to just up and leave like that."

I frowned, Matt was more of a father to me than Kit ever was. So why did I have to listen to Kit? Why couldn't I make this decision for myself? Matt looked over at me and winked, he wasn't going to let Kit dictate my decision either.

Tess spent the remainder of the evening trying to talk Matt into staying around. She'd grown accustomed to his company over the years. I turned on the motel TV but barely paid attention to the movie that was on. My eyelids felt heavier and heavier.

I woke because of my neck, falling asleep in a chair really made it stiff. I sat up and rolled my head side to side trying to loosen it up. My movement woke Derek up who fell asleep in his chair next to me.

"What're you doing?" He asked sleepily.

"Just stretching," I said. "Sorry if I woke you up."

Derek reached over and grabbed my hand. He pulled me up from my chair and onto his lap. I laid against his chest and fell back asleep. One of my first nights without nightmares. Probably because of how mentally and physically exhausted I was.

Time skip to morning. This was too short to leave the chapter here.

It was chaotic in the two small motel rooms, everyone was trying to get cleaned up with what few things we had. The adults continued debating on Tess' house. They agreed that they at least should go back and try to take down the spell barriers but now they debated on possessions. Should we take the risk of taking anything out of the house? The Edison people could have bugged furniture or put tracking spells on stuff.

It slowly separated into the adult's motel room and the kid's motel room because we were getting sick of listening to the debating. I gave Simon a look while Derek was in the bathroom showering.

"What?" He asked even though he knew why.

"You need to tell him," I said.

Simon shook his head. I glared at him.

"Why?" He asked.

"Because he deserves to be included in something important like that."

Simon searched for a reason not to tell him.

"How about that?" I pointed at the mark the spell left on his hand. "How're you going to explain that when he sees it? Or when he sees that Tori has it too?"

Simon sighed, "Alright fine I surrender."

Good, I thought to myself. The less secrets between us all the better. We needed everyone to know everyone's strengths and weaknesses so we can fight our best. Knowing that Simon could use magic and Jeremy had heightened werewolf senses were advantages that people outside our group didn't know.

Derek got out of the shower a few minutes later and I looked over at Simon. He looked back at me unhappily.

"Hey," Simon got up and walked over to Derek. "Can we talk for a second?"

Derek nodded, a hint of confusion in his expression.

Simon took a deep breath and spoke quiet but the room was small, we could all hear him still.

"Look, so, Tori and I. We did a spell a while ago. I've got magic like a regular wizard now. I'm no longer an Edison success."

I expected Derek to blow up at him. I think we all expected that. But Derek must have decided to work on that because he just raised his eyebrows surprised.

"What took you so long to tell me?" Derek asked adjusting his shirt sleeve.

"We didn't want anyone knowing because we were afraid that people would try to take it away from me again or take away Tori's spell book. No one wants us getting more powerful."

Derek nodded, "Understandable. How much have you tested it out?"

Simon shrugged, "Not much. We tried a few simple spells at the house and I did a few blasting spells during the fight."

I thought back to coming down the stairs and getting hit by Simon's blast of magic. It definitely worked good. Derek glanced over at me, dang it! He probably saw my flashback.

"You hit Chloe with it?" Derek asked his hand tightened into a fist but his voice remained calm. He really was trying to control his outbursts.

"It was an accident," Simon defended himself. "I didn't know it was her."

"Just, please be careful." Derek said.

Simon nodded, "Of course."

Derek said something else to Simon but I got distracted by Kyle and Liz coming into the room.

"Most of them left," Kyle said. "To get supplies or to go to the house."

"Hey," Liz said nervously. "Could you ask Tori if she's ready to repay me for the spell book? With no adults around right now, it's a good time to do it."