PART 9

PART 9

"Phoenix!" Blake called as he watched his soulmate jump towards Macon. But he couldn't do anything to stop her. She was out of control, tearing at Macon's stomach with her hands that had turned into claws. All anyone could do was watch on in horror.

"Phoenix!" Star called trying to get through to her. "What are you doing?"

"I think it's pretty obvious." Thorn said in morbid fascination.

Blake tried to get through to her in another way. He walked up to her and placed in had on her bare shoulder. She didn't even seem to notice him. "Phoenix, think about what you're doing."

"Get away from me." She practically snarled back to him. "I need to finish this." And that is what she did. Out of nowhere a bright ball of fire came out of her hands and was thrown at Macon. He disappeared into a ball of fire.

"No," He said forcefully. "You're my soulmate. Come back to me."

"Help me Blake," A small voice inside Phoenix pleaded to him. "I don't know how to deal with this."

"Just come back to me."

Phoenix pulled away from Macon, her hands all bloody. She looked at Blake then down at her hands and gasped. "Blake," she said in a small voice before she fainted.

Blake caught her before she hit the ground. He looked over to where Macon used to be. All that was left was a pile of ashes.

"Whoa," Thorn said looking at what was left of Macon. "Go Phoenix."

"Thorn," Star said rolling her eyes. "Shut up." She looked at Phoenix worried. "Blake bring her upstairs, Megan and I will look after her."

Blake did as Star told him, not really even realising it. He let his feet lead him to his bedroom. He didn't take his eyes off Phoenix the entire time. When he reached his room he found that Star and Megan were already there and had pulled back the covers of his bed. He carefully laid Phoenix down on them, brushing her hair back when it fell forward over her face.

"We'll take care of her Blake." Star said, taking his arm and leading him towards the door. "Don't worry about her." She pulled him outside his room then shut the door in his face.

It took him a while to realise what had happened. He banged on the door, trying to open it.. "Le me in!" He yelled telepathically at Star.

"Not until we're ready." She responded calmly. "Why don't you, Josh and Thorn go and get drunk or something. We'll fill you in later."

As if they had heard what Star had said, Thorn and Josh appeared at his side pulling him away from his room. "Come on Blake. Let the girls do their thing."

"She's my soulmate," Blake growled, "You can't expect me to just walk away from this."

"We're not," Josh said using his calm to try and get through to Blake. "But there's nothing you can do at the moment. You jus have to wait until the girls call us."

"Yeah," Thorn said, and his eyes lit up. "Star told us to go and get you drunk, and that's exactly what we're going to do."

Blake had to laugh at that. Thorn took any excuse there was to get drunk. "Star's actually letting you get drunk? I thought she was trying to stop you from doing that?"

Thorn looked a bit sheepish, "Yeah she is, but this is a special occasion. Besides, she told me to do it."

Josh and Blake could only laugh, and Blake was glad for that, he needed to get his mind off Phoenix, even if it was only for a little while. Everyone was right, there was nothing he could do at this time. So, he decided to get very, very drunk.

* * * * *

Upstairs, Star and Megan were trying to find a way to get through to Phoenix.

"What if I connected with her?" Megan asked. "If I can get inside her head, maybe I can find out what's wrong and wake her up."

"Yeah it could work." Star said, but not sounding very convinced. "You'll have to be careful though, whatever's keeping her unconscious could harm you. You're mind will be completely open, you know what could happen."

"I know, but it's our only chance." She placed her hands on Phoenix's temples and closed her eyes. The connection was almost immediate. She was in Phoenix's mind and was shocked. Megan had been in contact with many powerful people before, but she had never seen anyone with as much power as Phoenix, unlike the others though, Phoenix kept her power bottled up. But that wasn't the only thing that shocked her. She snatched her hands away from Phoenix's temples and looked down into her open eyes. "You're working for Circle Daybreak."

* * * * *

"The thing about women," Thorn slurred, "is that they don't know what they want. I mean, one minute Star and I are fine, the next she jumps up and is all pissed off at me. I don't get it, we're soulmates, perfect for eachother, meant to know everything about eachother, but then this crap happens. I just don't get it."

"We're not meant to." Josh said frowning into his glass. Josh was very funny when he was drunk. He'd drink all his drink, then look down to an empty cup and wonder where it went.

"Some bloody bastards drunk all my drink. I need some more." He got up and stumbled over to the liquor cabinet, filling his drink, then looking around to see if anyone was there to steal it.

"I know what you mean." Blake said. He was the drunkest of the lot, having drunk a whole bottle of vodka and was starting on his second. "I mean, when I followed Phoenix into he room not long after she arrived we started…excuse me," he laughed, "I burped. Anyway we started kissing, and it was going good, great actually. I mean, there we are lying on the bed when zoom," he waved his drink around, spilling half the contents. "She pulls away and says she's not ready. Bull shit she wasn't ready, I've never seen anybody so responsive to me." He looked down at his shirt, noticing it was wet. "Some idiot spilt his drink on my shirt." He shrugged, "Oh well," he pulled his shirt off and threw it away, his muscles rippling at the motion. The shirt landed on Josh's head, and they all cracked up laughing.

It took them a while to calm down, but they did eventually and they got on the topic of woman. "We're the men in this household." Thorn said jumping up. "They should listen to us. We're stronger than them, they should do what we tell them."

"They should." Josh nodded, "But they don't, and there's no way I'm going to say that to Megan. Do you know what she'd do to me?" He shook his head looking horrified. "I tell you, there's no way I'm going to go through that."

"What would she do?" Blake said taunting him. "Yell at you? Not talk to you?"

Josh shook his head, "Wore than that. There'd be no sex, for god knows how long."

Blake and Thorn looked horrified at the idea. "Don't tell her buddy." Thorn said. "Nobody deserves to go through that."

"I know," Josh said seriously. "So I'm not going to risk it."

Blake snorted. "At least you have something to loose. I don't."

"Don't worry," Thorn said hitting Blake on the back so hard it almost made him fly out of his chair. "When Phoenix wakes up we'll… I don't know, we'll lock you two in room or something.

Blake's eyes lit up, "You'd do that for me? Oh, guys thanks." He walked up to them and drew them both into a bear hug.

"Okay," Thorn said uncomfortably. "Personal bubble, you're invading my personal bubble!"

"Sorry," Blake said pulling away from them. "Got caught in the moment."

"Blake?" A little voice said from the doorway. "Was' goin' on?"

Blake turned around to see his little brother and sister in the doorway holding hands. He walked up to then, stumbling a bit, and picked Brianna up in his arms and taking Nickolas' hand. "What are you two brats doing up at this hour?"

Brianna giggled, touching his face. "Your breath smells funny." She wiggled, wanting to get down. Blake set her on the ground and she ran over to Thorn, jumping into his lap. "Uncle Thorn what's going on? Why is it so noisy down here?"

"Yeah," Nickolas said scowling just like his brother. "It woke us up disturbed our sleep and everyfing."

"No it didn't." Brianna said, she turned back to Thorn and pouted. "Nicky woke me up from a really good sleep."

"Did he?" Thorn said in mock anger, trying to sound sober for Brianna's innocent sake. "Then we'll have to do something about that, won't we?"

Brianna nodded happily. Thorn went and chased Nickolas around the room, who laughed gleefully.

"He never grew up did he?" Blake asked Josh as they watched Thorn chase Nickolas around and around the room.

Josh shook his head laughing. "Well you know what they say. Of you can't beat 'em, join 'em." They laughed and proceeded to chase Nickolas and tickle Brianna.

* * * * *

Phoenix looked into Star's and Megan's accusing gazes. "Wait guys, you have to listen to me."

Megan backed away, her eyes filling with tears. "You work for Daybreak! You were sent to spy on us! How could you do this? We trusted you."

Phoenix tried to reason with her, her eyes pleading them to understand. "Please listen to me. I can explain everything."

"Explain how?" Star yelled. "Explain how you lied to us? I must say something though; you're a great actress. Oh god!" She said her eyes widening. "Blake, he thinks you're his soulmate. What did you do to make him think that?" She asked furiously.

"Nothing," Phoenix said, her eyes too were filling with tears. "I didn't do anything to him, or to any of you. What you've seen when I'm with you guys, is the real me. I didn't act anything. It's all true, what you see is what you get."

"No it isn't, not entirely." Megan said, tear rolling down her cheeks. "You lied when you told us that you worked for the Night World."

"Yeah I did. And I'm sorry about that, but it was my job, I had to do it. You would have done the same thing if you were in my situation."

"But we're not in your situation!" Star yelled. "We'd never be in your situation to begin with. Where exactly were you meant to do here? Gather information? Kill us? What?"

"I was meant to get all the information I could on the fourth Wild Power." Phoenix replied looking Star straight in the eye, showing her that she wasn't afraid.

"But we don't have any information." Megan said. "The only information we have is what we took from Daybreak."

"Really?" Phoenix asked confused. "Thierry was certain that the Night World had something."

Star was beginning to calm down now and she remembered something that Phoenix had said before. "Wait a minute Phoenix, weren't you shocked when we found the Circle Daybreak had some information about the forth?"

Phoenix's eyes widened. "Yeah I was. Thierry had told me that we didn't have any information at all. He was lying to me?"

"He could have been," Star said. "I think we'd better get the guys and tell them about this. They'll know what to do."

"No!" Phoenix said jumping up from the bed. "You can't, they'll all hate me. I can't have that, I can't have my soulmate hating me."

"He won't," Star, said smiling, "The only thing he won't like was they you lied to him. But he'll get over it."

"Besides," Megan said. "He'll be more angry at Thierry for lying to you, then he would be mad at you."

"How do you know?" Phoenix asked nervously. "What if he ends up hating me? What if he wants to kill me?"

"He won't," Megan, said soothingly, all her anger forgotten when she saw how lost and sad Phoenix looked. "He'll understand, we'll make him understand if we have to."

"Alright," Phoenix said sounding defeated. "At least let me start to pack before you call him to tell them all."

"Too late." Star said. "I've already called them, they're one their way."

"Great," Phoenix muttered putting her head in her hands. "Just want you to know that's it's been nice knowing you guys."

"Oh, don't say that," Megan scoffed. "Blake'll understand. He won't kill you."

"You haven't seen inside his mind." Phoenix said. "He's capable of anything, don't think that me being his soulmate will stop him if he wants to kill me."

Suddenly Blake burst into the room holding his brother and sister. When he saw Phoenix was awake he immediately put them down and went to her. "Phoenix!" He moved to hug her but she pulled away from him, not looking him in the eye. "What is it? What's wrong?" He looked at Megan and Star for an answer but they wouldn't look at him either. "What's going on?" He demanded.

Phoenix sighed and he immediately looked at her. "You might want to be sitting down for this." When he just stood there stubbornly she continued. "There was another reason Star called you here, not just about my waking up. You see there's a different reason why I knew my way around Thierry's house."

"You told us it was because you had to know the house for another project." Josh said looking at his soulmate wondering what was going on, but Megan just kept looking at the floor.

Phoenix shook her head. "No that wasn't why." She took a deep breath and just blurted it out. "I work for Circle Daybreak."

"WHAT!" All three guys yelled, Blake's voice being the loudest.

"What do you mean you work for Circle Daybreak?" Blake demanded moving away from Phoenix with disgust on his face.

Phoenix's heart broke as she watched Blake move away from her. Her head drooped on her shoulders and she wouldn't look at anyone, she figured that she would tell them the whole truth because it wouldn't matter if they killed her anyway, she was already dead inside. "I work for Circle Daybreak, I was send here to get all the information on the fourth Wild Power that you had."

"But we didn't have anything then." Josh protested.

"I know that now. But Thierry had told me that you had information and I was sent to get it." Phoenix explained.

"But what Thierry didn't tell her was that they had info on the Wild Power." Megan cut in looking at Blake trying to get him to at least look at Phoenix again.

Blake just looked away, a cold expression on his face. "That probably what she wants you to think." He looked at Phoenix but the look on his face wasn't a nice one. Phoenix flinched at the barely leashed hostility in his face. "I want you to leave." Blake said dangerously, moving towards the door. "I want you gone. If I come back here and find you still here, I will kill you."

"Why's Blake being so mean uncle Thorn?" Brianna asked a little scared of the way her bother was acting.

Thorn took her hand and lead her and Nickolas towards the door. "Because he thought that someone was helping us, but they weren't, they work for our enemy. "Thorn spat out, looking directly at Phoenix. He left the room and Josh followed him giving Phoenix his own look of hatred.

At least he didn't kill you." Star said softly, surprised that she and Megan had been wrong about Blake's reaction.

"It would have been better if he had." Phoenix said wiping her eyes. She got up from the bed and got her suitcase out of the closet. "I have to start packing."

"You're leaving?" Megan asked in shock. She had thought that Phoenix had more guts than to run away what the situation got bad, and she told her so.

"I don't usually run away." Phoenix said turning to Megan. "But them again my soulmate hasn't told me that if he sees me again, he'll kill me. Forgive my if I do something that could save my life."

"Blake just needs some time to get used to all of this." Star said helplessly as she watched Phoenix shove all of her things into the suitcase. "He'll come around soon."

"Yeah, probably with a nice big iron knife." Phoenix said picking up her suitcase and moving towards the door. "Sorry, but I'm not going to be around for that. Now please got out of my way so I can leave." She said to Star and Megan who were blocking the doorway.

They moved away, if a bit reluctantly. "At least leave us something to get in contact with you of something happens with Blake." Star implored.

Phoenix paused for a moment before moving again. "Every night I go for a walked in the park. If you want to talk to me I'll be there." She left the house not looking back and began the long walk back to the Daybreak mansion.

TBC

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