The Soul Keeper- The situation

Disclaimer and stuff in part one.

A hand curved itself tightly around the glass that sat on the bar table in front of him. Picking it up, he brought the cold beverage to his lips, where he took a long sip. He returned the glass to its former position. And looked back up with a smile, a voice broke his peaceful moment of thinking.

"So what happened next?" Harry said impatiently, looking at his best friend with a smile.

"Isn't it obvious? I jumped," Tom answered with a smile, remembering it with ease. Harry however looked shocked. That was not the answer he was expecting. Tom was telling him about the time he was chased around Paris by some police. It was a funny story and Harry had been impatient to hear the end. But now he wasn't so sure that he wanted to know what happened.

"You did what?" Harry shouted with wide eyes. Paris rolled his eyes and prepared to say it again.

"I…. j…u…m…p…e…d," Tom said in slow motion with the smile widening across his face. Harry looked confused.

" But you said you were 80 feet up. The jump would have killed you," Harry stated confused. Tom paused for a second, but didn't let his moment out of sync show through to his friend.

*Harry, Harry. Can't tell him anything about my past can I?* Tom thought grabbing his drink again. He hadn't mentioned the fact that this event took place 200 years ago. He had missed that bit out so it sounded remotely normal, *People would become more suspicious if I didn't have tales from my past to share, but I can't tell him that I survived because I can fly, or well more like float* Tom thought with a smile.

He had kept his secret for over six hundred years and that was how long he had been a Keeper. He had had seven different parents, all oblivious to his true identity. He had been born with the memory of his former lives, but it didn't reveal itself until the age of ten. But now the time of the Keepers was drawing to an end. The good Keepers were being killed off by the bad as the two groups fought for control.

Soul Keepers are a race that can read people's souls, for better or worse and in order to protect. Many years ago only people with a pure soul would be turned, turning a bad soul was forbidden. But no one knew there was a third kind, called a Mid-way. If a Mid-way was converted they were more powerful than any other Keeper was. Because of this the pure Keepers went out and turned as many as they could, not realising that the Mid-ways were more likely to become bad than good. Once the first one was a Keeper, he turned dark, and started converting more bad. Only a few of the pure kind were not wiped out, but he knew that they would find him. They only had a few Mid-ways on the good side, as the bad always turned them. He was one of the pure Mid-ways, and he was sure the good Keepers would fight back, one day. If the bad Keepers won, havoc was sure to take over the universe, and nothing would ever be the same.

"Tom are you there? You didn't answer, are you ok?" Harry asked concerned. Tom looked up and smiled.

"Yes, now I've got to go," Tom had been daydreaming about the bigger problems in his life, while the crew remained happily oblivious.

*I wish I were oblivious* Tom thought walking towards the door. Harry called after him.

"How did you survive?" Tom thought for a second, and then got it.

"Friend transported me out, very good friend," Tom said, walking out the door of the holodeck. At least Harry bought it, he thought and walked into the empty turbolift.

Just as the doors closed a vision hit him. This was the fourth time this month and he knew exactly what it was, another Keeper's death. The vision passed and his eyes focused in shock. It had been another killing. A Mid-way had killed a pure Keeper. This Mid-way had been powerful. The murderer had to be to stopped- permanently.

Sandrine.

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I know I know this part is short and terrible. But I had to get the facts out so everyone understood. So it's got a huge like history block, but the next one is where the voyager crew start to get suspicious, and dig into his past. It will get better, I hope. Please review and tell me how to make it better, and make it easy to understand.

Thanx

Katta15