Loving Him
Chapter 4
A/N: Thanks so much for all the nice reviews I've gotten. It's cool to know my first Sweep fic is being so well received.
When Morgan came home, I was sitting at the kitchen table, staring into a cup of coffee dismally that I'd made myself a half hour ago. I'd felt Hunter in my head again, but I immediately sealed myself off, trying to block him. I'm not sure why, but this new 'power' or whatever the hell it was, was starting to disturb me greatly.
"Hard afternoon?" Morgan quipped, taking her jacket off and waking over to the kitchen table, sitting down in a chair across from me, laying a hand lightly on mine.
I nodded, tearing my eyes away from my coffee, looking up at her. "I called Hunter" I told her, "Accidentally. I was just thinking about him and –poof!- he was talking to me"
Morgan nodded sympathetically, "It' hard to get used to at first" she said, "To be able to think about someone with out accidentally calling them" I nodded, looking pensively into my coffee again, Morgan smiled slightly and laid her hand of top of mine ,and we stayed there silently each lost in our own thoughts.
My cell phone rang a second later, making us both jump. "Oh!" I exclaimed, pulling it out of my back pocket and clicking it on, "Hello?" I asked into it.
"Kate" Hunters voice respond sounding strained and nervous. "Are you okay? Why did you call me?"
I blushed and whispered to Morgan, 'It's Hunter'
"I didn't mean to call you" I told him, "I was just thinking 'Hunter' and it happened." I admitted, "But it freaked me out when you actually replied, so I sort of…blocked you" I told him feeling like a child about to be chastised.
Hunter was silent on the end of the line for a moment and I worried that he was mad, but when he answered his voice was tinged with excitement. "How can you send a witch message? Do you have powers?"
"Not that I know of" I replied, "It just happened today, Morgan thought something and I heard it" I said, "Then I just started being able to send witch messages" I paused, thinking, and then asked him a question, "You didn't put a spell on me today at Starbucks, did you?"
Hunter laughed, "Really Katie, do you think I would?" He asked sounding very much more British then he had earlier.
I smiled in spite of myself at the absurdity of it. "No, of course not" I replied, "I'm just really freaked out" I admitted, "It was just always Morgan's thing, you know? I just didn't expect it to happen to me"
"Well there has to be a reason why" he said rationally, "Do you want to come over and maybe we could figure it out?" My heart leapt at his words, and the thought of being alone again with him. "And you could bring Morgan, she might be able to help" he added, and my heart sunk as if it had a leaden weight attached to it.
"I can figure it out Hunter" I said icily, "I'm a big girl, I can take care of myself" I told him and clicked my phone off, avoiding Morgan's curious eyes that I could feel on me. "He's concerned" I told her vaguely, "He wants to figure it all out" I said bitterly, "It's none of his business anyway! He was almost lecturing me!" I exploded, "He just sounds so, so proper, so…British!" I said, hands curling into fists at my sides.
Morgan smiled knowingly, "That's Hunter" she said plainly.
I nodded, pouting a bit more before asking, "How was the doctor's appointment?"
Morgan smiled, "Fine, my baby's going well; she's healthy"
"So you found out the sex then?" I asked, surprised that Morgan would to that with out Ethan, her husband, being there.
She shook her head, "No, but 'she' sounds better then calling my baby 'it' until I have her, don't you think?" she said, laughing. I nodded, noticing how she beamed when she talked about her children, I wonder if I'll be that happy one day.
"I'd better go" I told her, standing up and pulling my jacket back on, "I have to study for a Spanish test I have tomorrow" I told her, grabbing my purse and hugging her before walking out the door and to my shiny sliver Honda, climbing in and turning on the radio.
I backed out of Morgan's driveway and turned the radio volume all the way up; wanting to immerse my self in music and drown out my own confused thoughts.
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