A/N: And here we go with another chapter. I have had the worst week in the history of me. I've had to participate in cleaning out a freezer that died three weeks ago, but it was left to thaw out and rot for two weeks. We have part of the entrails in the garbage can and siphoned out about six gallons of toxic sewage water from the bottom of that freezer into the sink. Then, I got to clean the entire area with chlorox about three times until I was satisfied I'd killed everything. Then, we had to clean out the rest of the junk for the guys coming to bring us the new freezer to take away.
I suggest burning it and burying the ashes somewhere close to the magma layer of the earth's interior, someplace where it will never show up ever again. Imagine the world's worst smells and shove them together and then let them ferment in the sun for three weeks. That was what we were pulling out and sticking our heads into.
Urgh, I'm glad we have the new freezer.
Chapter Twelve
Charlie went to school on the bus with Fidelio and Morgan. Morgan seemed quieter than she should have been and her eyes were puffy and red, jaw clenched and looking out the window forlornly. Fidelio looked to Charlie with a frown. Both she and Olivia were acting abnormal and Olivia's abnormal behavior was beginning to make Fidelio a little worried.
However, that seemed to change when Morgan looked over at Charlie. "What the hell happened to you!" she gasped.
Charlie told her and Fidelio about Asa Pike and the attack, leaving in a good portion of the details. Morgan looked like she was going to eat someone alive. "That horrible, dirty, ASS!" she growled. "I heard him! I heard him tell Manfred that he was going to be his little lackey from now on."
Charlie wasn't too surprised, but the absolute misery and anger etched into Morgan's face made him frown. He wasn't too certain what was going on between her and Asa, actually he did, but he really didn't want to think about Asa getting a girlfriend, but he knew for sure that Asa seemed as though he was changing for the better, which had been throwing off the Bloors and their side of things. With Asa back on their side made things back to where they had been, with the Bloors side getting stronger with the more forces they had. Mary Dawson, Rosemary Lace, Joshua Tilpin, the Branko twins and Catherine Pest were all aiding the Bloors.
Fidelio spotted Emma and grinned at Charlie when she came up to him and hugged him tightly. "Are you feeling any better, Charlie? You had us worried!" she said.
Charlie blushed and shot Fidelio a glare before nodded and prying Emma's arms from around his neck. Morgan looked like she would burst laughing if she opened her mouth. She sniggered and walked off as Fidelio went off with her. Olivia ran right into his chest and fell down.
"Careful, Livy, don't want you getting hurt," he said with a grin. Olivia went pink and straightened her cloak.
Charlie smiled at Olivia, though she didn't return it. "Are you okay?" she asked. She'd apparently been told about the attack as well. He nodded and she smiled faintly. "Good! I'm glad!" Then, she hurried off, still looking as down as ever.
Charlie sighed and looked to Fidelio. Fidelio shrugged and they walked into the school.
The King's Room was eerily silent, Charlie starting to feel bad as was Morgan and Emma. He looked to Gabriel and he looked as though he was going to throw up. Tancred grinned at Charlie strangely as Joshua grinned at him. The Branko twins were gazing at Morgan like they were waiting for the signal for an attack on their hated enemy.
Asa, on the other hand, was gazing at Morgan with a strange expression. Charlie couldn't quite figure out if he was thinking, as his gaze was incredibly shadowed and guarded. Morgan sneezed and coughed, sounding like she was coming down with a cold of some sort. She groaned and put her head on the table, covering her head with her arms.
"Something the matter, Miss MacGregor?" said Manfred without looking up.
"Don' feel good," she mumbled.
"Get your work done and I'll let you out," he said with an amused smirk.
Charlie clenched his fists around his pencil. He wanted to scrape that smirk right off his face. He was tired of the Bloors getting the advantage. Morgan pulled out a Kleenex and blew her nose before trying to write again. However, her pen kept being moved by itself. She frowned as she looked at the message the pen wrote on her paper.
"If you keep doing that, Ideth, Inez, I will be forced to hurt you severely," said Morgan through her teeth.
"Detention," said Manfred.
Asa twitched slightly as he gazed at Morgan. Morgan started to write again and her pen went off on its own again. Asa twitched again and Morgan yelped in pain, holding her shin. Manfred looked at Asa for a moment and frowned. "Detention, Pike. No kicking," he said as he gazed at him through his eyelashes suspiciously.
Asa frowned and looked to his work. Morgan looked to him with wide blue eyes for a moment before looking to her work.
When the time to go to bed came, Charlie found himself almost running to get away from the feeling of being sick with Pest there. He nearly ran into Billy, who looked as though a part of his soul were leaving right then and there. Charlie stopped and looked to Billy. "Billy, are you all right?"Billy looked down away from Charlie and shook his head. His cheeks were sunken slightly and his eyes had dark circles under them from lack of sleep. What was it that Billy was going through at the Pest household that was making look so terrible? Surely Catherine Pest's family controlled their powers so that they didn't make each other sick, right?
Catherine came close and Billy scampered away. She sneered at Charlie and walked off. Charlie grunted and rubbed his stomach before heading to the boys' dorm.
Morgan coughed as she walked toward the stair case to the senior girls' dorms. She suddenly felt a strange pull in the air and she flew backward. The force that she hit the wall behind her was enough to knock the wind from her. She slid down and hit the floor face forward. She coughed and started to lift herself up when a desk in the hallway moved straight for her. She just managed to make it move away with a hand up to deflect it.
She sat up and looked around with a shuddering breath. Where were the twins?
A table against the wall flew at her and rammed her against the wall again. She held it off with her hands, but not enough to keep a small flow of blood flowing down the back of her head and down her neck. She breathed slowly and looked around before shoving the table off and throwing it. The table broke against the wall as she stood up.
"Iiiiiideeeeeeeeeth," she said in a low voice, her nose bleeding slightly. "Ineeeeeeez…. Come out and play, since you seem to want to so much," she said in a soft taunting voice.
There was a growl in the darkened hallway. She looked to the source and stared right into a pair of yellow eyes. Except the face was not an animal, but human. Asa moved out of the shadows at a speed she could barely comprehend. He tackled her to the ground and fought her hands, pushing them to the ground.
A set of footsteps came out of the darkness, one limping slightly. Morgan gasped as she shoved against Asa, trying to get a hold with her powers, but unable since Asa had interlocked their fingers and held them above her head. He panted slightly as he gazed down at her through his eyelashes, his eyes more animal like than ever.
"There's only room enough for the two of us, MacGregor, no other telekenisis users," said one of the two girls.
"Therefore, you are only redundant," said the other.
The one on the right held a large book and held it over Morgan's face and took her hands away from it. It stayed suspended in the air as Asa leaned back slightly, her hands freed slightly, but still confined. Was it just her or was his thumb rubbing against her wrist, the more sensitive part of it?
The girls grinned eerily as one as the book dropped.
Morgan's eyes widened for a split second and she yelped. Suddenly, the book veered off and hit one of the two in the stomach. That one flew backward and then hit the ground. Morgan found that even with her fingers and hands confined, she could still use her powers, she could feel the book in her hands even if they were pressed into the rock floor. She grinned and looked up at the twin left. "Ideth or Inez?"
The girl looked at her with wide blue eyes. "Ah…"
"Doesn't matter," she grinned and the book flew right into the girl's face, throwing her backwards.
Mogran laughed. She couldn't help it. Her powers had grown in that one moment! However, she still had Asa above her and the feel of the book was still in her hands. She made it hover over his head as he moved over her to get in her face. "Don't try it," he muttered almost against her mouth.
She gasped at how close he was to her. His animal like eyes gazed at her with a strange intensity. She stared into them fearfully, the book faltering over the both of them. "Get… let go of me, Pike," she said.
Asa let out a low growl, the stars shining outside through the window. He seemed to shift slightly, his form not really there. His form went into that of a great gray beast and shifted back into his human form as he held her there.
Morgan's heartbeat accelerated as she watched. What was he planning?
Then, he moved away slightly, smirking down at her, yellow eyes glowing slightly in the half light. She blinked and started to move, but he still held her hands immobile. "Asa…. Let me go, please," she said without thinking about calling him formally.
Asa swooped down and she gasped as she felt teeth sink into her neck. She yelped in surprise and tried to move him off of her. However, there was a strange feeling against her skin, the teeth lightening on her skin. She moaned as felt a strange suction feeling on her skin, her heart skipping beats. She writhed under Asa for a few more moments before he licked her skin and up to her mouth where he kissed her. Morgan's senses were erratic and dulled all at once. She gazed up at Asa in a haze as he moved off of her and walked away out the doors to the outside. She moved her head to look at him only to see him look at her and then become a beast that ran away into the night.
Morgan stayed put for a few moments before getting up and walking to the dorms, rubbing her neck.
"What the hell is that!" gasped one of the girls next to Charlie.
Charlie looked up to see Morgan sit down at breakfast with them, her shirt unbuttoned at the top button and tie still undone. On her neck was a large bite mark and then an area of red, bruised skin. Charlie stared at it. "Did something… bite you?"
Morgan blinked and turned red. "Er…. Yeah, but how do you know?"
"You haven't looked in the mirror," said a girl next to Morgan.
Morgan blinked and took the proffered mirror from the girl. Morgan went more than red, she looked as though she was going to faint right there as well as kill something. She hurriedly gave the girl the mirror and buttoned the collar and tied her tie. It managed to cover most of the strange bruise and bite mark.
Charlie continued to stare at it. After a moment, he realized the bite mark was human and that someone biting her probably meant someone used to biting people, Asa Pike. As he looked at the mark on her neck, he also realized that if Asa bit her, the bruise was what he'd seen on the telly as a hickey.
The thought grossed him out. Asa had gone back to the semi-romantic version of himself again it seemed, because him kissing her neck would only mean he was trying to make her his girlfriend again.
Once again, Charlie gagged at the thought.
What crazy girl would like that freak!
Only Morgan seemed to like him and she wasn't necessarily insane. When she became enraged, she could seem like she lost her mind, but otherwise, she was eerily sane.
Charlie grunted and looked to Billy sitting next to Mary Dawson and Catherine Pest. Billy looked the worse for wear, but otherwise all right. He sighed. It was taking forever to figure a way to get Billy out of the awful home. First they still had no idea where Pest lived, and second, the Pests seemed quite keen on keeping their whereabouts well hidden.
Emma had even gone so far as to fly overhead of the bus and follow Pest and Billy home, but lost track of them along the way. Poor Emma had to find a way to get her clothes back before going home. Things were not going the way they had hoped. The only left for them was to try following Billy home again, only this time, directly instead of overhead.
With that in mind, Charlie went to work thinking out how they were going to accomplish that feat.
