The Mediator: Changes- (Based on the mediator series by Meg Cabot/Jenny Carroll)

Sorry...school...boring, time consuming, no fun school! So, here's chapter 13... this one should be interesting! (By the way- this starts off in the same day that part 2 ended in.) ~Chels

Chapter 13: Truth's Revealed (Part III)

"I think now is a good time to call Suze," thought Paul later that day. He picked up the phone and dialed the hospital's number and the extension to Suze's room.

Suze answered with a very sleepy sounding "Hello?"

"Hi. It's Paul."

"Oh, hey!" said Suze, trying to sound cheerful.

"Feeling any better?" Paul asked Suze.

"Yeah. I can remember things now- Tad broke up with me and I didn't know who he was... it was funny, but confusing." Said Suze, laughing.

"Did you know who that other guy was? The one that looked like he could have been Jesse's twin?" Asked Paul. his question actually meant: 'Who was that guy and should I be jealous of him?'

"That's right." Thought Suze, "Paul doesn't know Jesse's alive- or a shifter." She took a deep breath, "No," She answered sighing, "He had to explain himself- I didn't recognize him."

"What?" Asked Paul, confused.

"Are you sitting down?" Asked Suze.

"No. Why?" Answered Paul cautiously.

"Sit down and I'll explain." Said Suze.

There was a pause while Paul sat down, "Okay." He said

"Paul- That guy WAS Jesse." Suze said. Paul was silent, waiting for an explanation. Suze continued, "He's alive and so is his family."

"I don't understand." Said Paul.

"Wait, there's more." Said Suze. She took a deep breath and said, "Paul, Jesse's a shifter."

"How?" Asked Paul, sounding stunned.

"I don't know." Answered Suze quietly, "I don't know."

There was a long silence. "Suze?" Asked Paul, "Are you still there."

"Yes." Came her barely audible reply.

"I'll be right there," said Paul. He hung up the phone. Trying to disappear, Paul realized that he couldn't..

"What the hell is going on?!" Yelled Paul. He picked the phone back up and called Suze back.

"Hello?" She answered.

"Suze," Paul said, sounding worried, "I can't shift.

"When was the last time you did?" Asked Suze.

"When I was teaching you," Paul said after a moment of silence.

Suze hung up the phone. "Chad come here NOW!" She thought. He appeared a few seconds later.

"Chad, how did Jesse become a shifter?" She asked.

"I cannot tell you." Was his reply.

"Paul is no longer a shifter." Stated Suze, "Why?"

"He let his emotions rule him, he let you rule his emotions, and he would be better at leading a normal life- less chances of him hurting people." Chad answered, then disappeared.

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Do you think Chad's last statement was really true? What did Suze see in her premonition? Find out in the next installment of 'The Mediator: Changes'