The rain poured down as Carrie and Chase darted up the steps of Spencer Academy's Dorms and under the archway to get out of the rain. "I told you we should have driven," Carrie laughed as she started ringing out her hair.

"I thought a nice walk around campus after dinner would have been more romantic," Chase laughed in reply before moving some wet strands of Carrie's hair out of her face.

"I didn't say it wasn't romantic, but it would have been less wet." Carrie waved her hand out towards the pouring rain to make her point. It didn't really bother her, but she enjoyed playful teasing as much as the rest of them.

Chase smirked a bit when she said that. "A guy less mature than myself would make a comment about that."

It didn't take Carrie long to figure out what he was referring to. "Well luckily for both of us you are not that immature." She sat down on the wall beneath the exterior roofed area and smiled.

Chase moved to sit beside her. "I'm definitely lucky. Not many guys have had the pleasure of taking you out."

Carrie raised her brow at this with an 'oh really' smirk upon her face. "And how would you know this? Have you been asking around about me?" It was true. Carrie really didn't date much because of what she felt for Pogue. It wasn't until Chase that she didn't get a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach at the idea of dating someone who wasn't Pogue.

Caleb jokingly winced in reply. "Busted."

Carrie nudged his shoulder with hers. "I actually think it's kind of sweet. And honestly a bit refreshing. It's been a long time since I've had a conversation with someone who didn't already know everything about me."

"So you're really close with the rest of the twins? What did you call yourselves the Children of Ipswich or something?" Chase laughed towards the end there when he spoke their designated name.

Carrie felt like Chase was not-so-nicely teasing her and the rest of them a little bit so she lightly swatted him for it. "Hey, I didn't pick the name. And, yes, we've all grown up together. Our families are very close so it passed down onto us, I guess."

Chase turned on the wall and bent his knee so his leg was resting on the wall as well while the other hung over. "Hypothetical question – if you weren't one of the Ipswich Twins, would any of them be your friends?" He held up his hands in an unassuming manner. "I'm not trying to be a jerk. It just doesn't seem like Tina, Reid, and the others are really the kind of people you'd hang out with."

Carrie thought this question was a bit on the weird side, but answered it anyway. "Even if we didn't pretty much grow up together, I would like to think we'd still become friends somehow. I can't imagine it being any other way. Yeah, I know that Tina can be a bitch and Reid is the perfect match for her but there's more to them than that. Like Reid is a sweetie deep down, but he really only shows it to Parker. And Tina, oh man, you're lucky if you have her in your corner." She shrugged a bit because there really wasn't much else to say. "We've all got our faults. I mean, who doesn't? But that doesn't mean I'm going to wish I've never met them because of it."

"Fair enough," Chase smiled then took that moment to change subjects. "You doing anything on Saturday? I hear there's a Fall Fest or something going on."

Carrie hoped he was getting at what she thought he was getting at. "I haven't put much thought into it. I mean, us 'Ipswich Twins' usually end up going to stuff like that as a group." There was more to it than that, though. "And it's my birthday, well mine and Caleb's, so I'm not sure what the plan is."

"Your birthday is Saturday?" Chase smiled when Carrie nodded in confirmation. "I'm gonna have to plan something special for you then."

The last thing Carrie wanted was for anyone to make a big deal about it. It was already a big deal because she and Caleb were Ascending, but she couldn't tell him that. "Oh, no, please don't. I'm not big on birthdays."

"Too late. I already know exactly what I'm going to do." Before Carrie could say anything else, he leaned forward and kissed her softly on the lips. "See you soon." He winked before leaving the wall and heading into the Dorms.

Carrie hardly had time to process what had just happened because she heard a car pull up and saw that it was Caleb, right on time. After all, this was the agreed location to be picked up since they carpooled.

It took Carrie a moment to react to her brother's arrival because she lightly touched her lips with a smile. It wasn't until he rolled down the window and called out to her that she braved the weather once again and ran to his car.

Once she was inside and door closed, Caleb laughed at her. "Good date in the rain?"

Carrie smiled wide, "Excellent. You?"

"Same." Caleb put the car into gear and didn't look at his sister as he smiled, "Except we were smart enough not to get caught in the rain." He laughed when Carrie pushed his head for that then drove for home.

The Darkling appeared again for Carrie that night and she was still thinking about it even after swim practice the following day. She thought sitting back and hanging around to watch the guys practice would distract but her mind kept going back there.

"Yoo-hoo," Tina whistled as she snapped her fingers in front of Carrie's face before waving her hand in front of it. "Earth to Carrie, do you read me?" She went as far as to knock on Carrie's head to ask, "Anyone in there?"

Carrie pushed Tina's hand away with a bit of an eyeroll. She looked around to make sure no one could hear before saying, "I saw the Darkling again."

"I still think it's that Sarah bitch." Tina wasn't going to let that go.

"Don't say that around Parker," Rayna chimed in as she looked over to where Parker stood as she cheered on Pogue in the water. "Sarah's her friend."

"It can't be Sarah," Carrie reasoned, "she doesn't have a twin." That's the way things worked with the Children of Ipswich; If a Daughter died then the Son would get full Power but if a Son died before the Daughter then the Power died with them.

Tina was really getting sick of that getting pointed out to her. "Maybe she absorbed him in the womb or something and that's a loophole. I don't know but I still think it's her." Tina started holding out fingers one by one as she made her points. "She has direct and frequent access to Parker. All this excess Use didn't start until after she showed up. And I don't trust the bitch – didn't trust her the moment I met her."

Carrie held out her fingers one by one and countered Tina's points. "Everyone in school has frequent and direct access to Parker in one way or another, Sarah isn't the only new arrival this year, and you never trust anyone after your first meeting. Oh and did I happen to mention that she doesn't have a twin?"

Tina scoffed and slouched back against the wall. "Pointless. It's absolutely pointless trying to talk to either one of you. Maybe you and Parker should be dating, you two deserve each other."

Rayna took the opening to change subjects. "Carrie, look, Chase is swimming against Caleb."

Carrie's attention was pulled straight to the pool and she stood up when the whistle was blown to start the race between them. "That's Caleb's swim." She didn't like the idea of anyone else trying to swoop in and take it, even if it was the guy she was crushing on.

"Chase doesn't seem to care," Rayna pointed out before whistling and cheering for Caleb.

Carrie took a step forward to get a better look because it seemed like the guys were neck and neck. "Come on, brother," she said to herself and when they pushed off from the wall below where she stood with Rayna and Tina, Carrie was practically jumping out of her skin in anticipation. That anticipation soon turned to horror when she saw Caleb hit his head against the wall and fall under the water.

"Caleb!" Carrie cried out and ignored the 'no running' signs hung up on every wall and ran like hell with the other girls to get to the other side where Chase was pulling Caleb out of the water with him.

Once Caleb was out of the pool Carrie dropped to her knees to check if he was bleeding or anything. "Caleb if you won't wake up right now I swear by the deity of your choosing I'll drown you myself!"

Soon after that vow, Caleb returned to consciousness with a groan, making Carrie lean back with a heavy breath of relief. "Don't you ever scare me like that again." If anything ever happened to Caleb she'd lose her damn mind.

"Lucky Chase was there to get you out before you sucked up the whole pool," Tyler laughed, a lame attempt to make light of the situation.

Tina eyed Chase a bit after Tyler said that. "Yeah, lucky." She crossed her arms while the guys and a very worried Parker helped Caleb to his feet. Maybe Parker and Carrie were right, maybe it wasn't Sarah she should be setting her sights on but the other newest transfer to Spencer. And it sure as hell isn't the one who the cops found dead.

It was Tina's train of thought that led her to pull aside Caleb and Pogue later that day after school. Once they were down a hall and far enough away from the crowd of students, she moved her pointed finger between them. "You both have made your accusations and now it's time for me to make mine. I think Chase is the one Using. I don't care what anyone says about the fifth bloodline existing being impossible. No other explanation makes sense – it has got to be him so I think we should check him out." She left out the whole part about originally suspecting Sarah, a deliberate exception at that. Tina knew Caleb was dating Sarah and wasn't going to give him any ammunition to not take her newest suspicions seriously.

Caleb happened to agree with her. In fact, he and Pogue already made plans about checking out Chase's records to get a better idea about him. "I agree with you, Tina."

Tina wasn't expecting either of them to actually agree with her because no one ever really did about…well anything. She thought she'd have a lot more convincing to do. "Seriously? That was easy."

"Caleb thinks Chase's eyes were black in the pool today," Pogue answered, still not sure about it himself – Despite the fact that he couldn't stand the guy especially since he was dating Carrie now.

Tina looked to Caleb as she said, "Makes sense. You're not the kind of swimmer to lose focus and crack your head on the wall." Her mind's gears started turning a bit. "And it made him look like the hero which no doubt earned him brownie points with Carrie."

Caleb agreed with all of this which was a main reason why they needed to take some sort of action and soon. "We're breaking into the Admissions Office tonight to find out more about him. You in?"

"You're asking me if I'm down for breaking and entering?" Tina crossed her arms and placed a hand over her heart. "I'm offended you even had to ask, Caleb. Of course I'm in." She walked past the boys, saying, "I swear, it's like you don't know me at all."

True to her word, Tina met up with Caleb and Pogue that night and it was raining yet again. She ignored the raindrops as they fell down upon her, actually finding comfort in it. Tina always found comfort in the rain where others tried to get out of it as quickly as possible.

When Caleb and Pogue sprinted towards her, she stood up, saying, "Took you long enough. I've been here for a half an hour already."

"Surprised you were able to break off from your posse for that long," Pogue commented because it was rare for Tina to be away from Tyler, Rayna, or Reid for longer than the duration of their separate classes.

"Despite what you think, I'm not always with them. I often like being alone, not that it's any of your business." Tina waved her hands towards them. "And what about you? Where's Carrie, Parker, and sweet-sweet Sarah?"

"They're at the movies," Caleb answered since he was the one who got the three of the tickets. "Some new Brad Pitt movie or something. None of them could say no to that." Since that conversation had run its course, Caleb hopped the fence with Pogue and Tina in tow and led the way through the rain to the Admissions Office.

The few locked doors they met along the way were no match for their Power so presently no obstacles were faced. Once the trio reached the Admissions Office, they went straight to the student files. It didn't take long to locate Chase's file which the three split up to look through.

Caleb read in a newspaper article that Chase's parents and his sister Charlotte died in a car accident and Pogue discovered thanks to a birth certificate that Chase's real name wasn't Chase Collins but Chase Goodwin Pope. That revelation caught Tina's attention.

"Did you just say 'Pope'?" Tina snatched the birth certificate from Pogue's hands and shined the light on it. "I know that name. How the hell do I know that name?"

"When was his birthday?" Caleb wanted to know as he looked at the article of Chase's adoptive parents' deaths.

"July 14th 1988," Tina answered as she handed the birth certificate, wracking her brain as to why the name Pope sounded so familiar to her – why the name Goodwin Pope sounded so familiar.

That information sealed the deal as far as Caleb's suspicion was concerned. "That's the same day his adoptive parents and his sister died. They all died on his 18th birthday."

"That son of a bitch," Tina seethed and kicked a file cabinet, much to the chagrin of the guys who shushed her. "Don't shush me," she shot back at that. "That son of a bitch killed his sister!"

The loud thud of her kick drew the attention of the security guard making their rounds and moments later, the sound of keys jingling was heard at the Admissions Office's door.

The three of them kicked their Power into gear and levitated high above the floor – thankfully the Office had cathedral height ceilings. The security guard did their thing below; Shined a flashlight all around, closed the drawer that was left open, and didn't notice the three teenagers floating above them or the files that started to fall but were caught by Tina's Power to keep them floating before they got too far.

Since the security guard didn't find anything out of the ordinary going on, he left the room as he left it. Well, almost exactly as he left it. He did close the file cabinet's drawer after all.

Once it was safe, Tina, Caleb, and Pogue lowered themselves back to the ground and returned the file where they found it. Just as they were about to leave, Tina gasped, "Agnes Goodwin Pope!" She finally remembered why that name sounded so familiar.

Caleb whipped around to shush her again before asking in a quiet tone, "What did you just say?"

"It wasn't the history book I should have wanted to look in but the Book of Damnation." Tina looked between the guys. "Agnes Goodwin Pope, remember?"

Caleb needed a moment or two but finally he remembered the story. "Goody Pope."

After Tina snapped and pointed at Caleb in a 'you got it' manner, he said to Pogue, "Call Reid, Tyler, and the others. We're having a Covenant meeting now."

Parker had a lot of fun with Carrie and Sarah at the movies but she was glad to be back at the Dorms once they dropped Carrie off at home. As soon as Parker got into her room, she tossed her bag aside, plopped down on her bed and opened up a book.

Sarah laughed at this familiar turn of events. "Well it's nice to know you can act like a normal teenager every once and awhile." She grabbed her robe and shower caddy, saying, "I'm going to take a shower."

"I'll be here with my book," Parker answered without taking her eyes off the page. She intended to stay right there but her phone rang, and since said communication device was still located in her bag across the room she had to stand up to get it.

Parker set her book aside with a groan to see who was calling her, but she didn't even make it to her bag before Sarah came back into the room. "Forget something?"

"Yes, actually, I did." Sarah stalked towards Parker like a predator towards its prey. "It's time we've had a little chat."

By now the phone stopped ringing so Parker was focusing completely on the situation in front of her. As she backed away from Sarah, she asked in a worried tone, "What's going on?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Sarah asked as her eyes turned pitch black. "I'm going to finish what I started."

Parker couldn't believe this was happening. She couldn't believe Tina was right. How could this be possible? Sarah told her she was an only child…and Parker believed her. There was time enough for whatever was going through Parker's mind later, right now she needed to defend herself so that's exactly what she prepared herself to do.

Parker's eyes turned black as she prepared her Power for whatever Sarah might throw at her.

Sarah gave Parker a slow clap for this little display. "Very scary, Parker. I mean it. You're giving me the shivers." Sarcasm dripped off every word they spoke. "Let's see if your bark is worse than your bite."

Parker threw her hands forward Using the Power to send Sarah flying across the room before Sarah could do anything to her.

Sarah hit the picture frame on the wall between the two beds before dropping to the floor with the bits of shattered glass falling on top of her. She laughed as she returned to her feet. "That was unexpected. Let's see if I can even the playing field." With that said, Sarah's appearance smoked away to reveal their true identity; Chase.

Parker stepped back with a gasped, "Chase?!" She did not see that coming.

"In the flesh." Chase did a twirl to show himself off as he walked towards Parker before stopping as he spoke with his hands. "How did you like my little illusion?" He smirked, adding in, "It was so good, wasn't it."

"Everything about you is an illusion!" Parker shouted and was about to Use on him again but he beat her to the punch this time and sent her flying into the bathroom.

Parker hit the sink hard and cried out a bit in pain before pushing through it and Using back on him.

Chase levitated to dodge the little Power burst she shot out at him and landed with a laugh. "There is more fire in you than I thought. Pity it's time to douse it." He held his hands out to his sides as he conjured hundred of spiders, all of which were making their way towards Parker.

Parker got to her feet and darted out of the bathroom, Using her Power to disperse the spiders before going after Chase to no avail. He seemed to disappear in the blink of an eye only to appear behind her with a "Boo" before he Used his Power to throw her against the wall.

Parker hit the wall with a loud thud and landed on the floor with a strong gasp as the spiders swarmed all around her. No matter how much she Used to get rid of them more appeared to take their place. "Why are you doing this?!" she screamed as she continually tried to keep the spiders away.

"Because you're the easiest target," Chase answered like it was the most obvious thing in the world. "And you mean the most to your dear brother and to Caleb. Of course, I could have easily enough gone after Carrie, but I have other plans for her." He returned his eyes to normal before he crouched down to her level. "It's a little poetic, isn't it? I mean, spiders? They've been a part of this since we first met."

Parker realized then that the spider Chase plucked off her the night he walked them back to the Dorms was nothing more than his conjuring. "Stop this!" She pleaded, Using even more to try and keep the spiders away.

"Not yet." He rose to his feet with a sigh. "It is a pity really. I truly did think you were adorable." Chase's eyes turned pitch black once again and Used his Power to accelerate the spiders until they completely engulfed a screaming Parker.

It didn't take long for the multitude of spiders to overpower Parker and soon her screams faded to nothing as her strength gave out and she collapsed upon the floor, her body riddled with spider bites.

Now that this was done, Chase removed all the spiders and set the room to rights before taking his leave. Things were most certainly going according to plan and he intended to keep it that way.

Sarah didn't return to the dorm room until a little while later after her shower, saying as she entered the room, "I was thinking I should set you up with someone. I don't think I've seen you date anyone since I've been here…" her voice trailed off when she didn't see Parker reading on the bed. Sarah's eyes went to the other end of the room where Parker laid on the floor, still unconscious.

"Parker?" Sarah gasped and rushed over to her. "Oh my god…" welts covered Parker's body and after checking for a pulse that was there, she scrambled for a phone to call 911. "I don't know what happened to her. Her skin is covered with welts or bites or something and she's on fire. Please hurry!" Once the 911 operator had all the information Sarah returned to Parker's side. "Don't worry, Parker. You're going to get taken care of."

End Part 5