Swirling Storm Inside is actually going up on Saturday but only because that's when I finished it. Actually it may have been up sooner but I got caught up in doing some plots.
Hopefully you've all seen the great big announcement where the calendars normally would be if you have not I advise that you read it please as it is an important announcement.
Thank you everyone and enjoy this very long chapter.
Ch. 42 Know They're Dark Returning
(FITZ)
"We're headed to Jay's we'll see you guys tomorrow, be safe," Sean calls as he leaves with Emma.
"Say hi to Jay for us," I holler back getting a clean shirt on. Since Emma moved in we've always had clean laundry which is nice.
"We don't have to go to this party," Clare says sitting on my bed.
"I know you want to meet Samantha and everyone's going to be there. You're not trying to avoid the party so that you don't have to see Jeff are you?" I question Clare.
I admit I wasn't exactly pleased when I saw Jeff wearing an Ice Hounds jacket at our school, only because of his history with Clare and knowing she lost her virginity to him. I also know he has feelings for her and she, as much as she might try to deny it to me, has feelings for him. If I didn't know that she loved me I would really be worried but I do know that she's in love with me as I am with her. She had been acting a little funny since seeing Jeff at the school but I know she was shocked and I'm hoping that's it. It's that she's still acting funny and trying to avoid being around him that has me a little worried.
"No I'm not trying to avoid Jeff, but I didn't want you to be uncomfortable going to a party at his house," Clare replies pulling me onto the bed.
"Technically it's Anya's house but it doesn't matter our friends are all going to be there. So unless you have a specific reason we shouldn't go we're going," I assert giving her a tender kiss before I stand up and pull her with me.
We finish getting ready and get into my car, I drive us to the MacPherson house and park behind Owen. We get out and walk in, looks like most people are here. Adam and Maya are getting food; Johnny is on the sofa talking with a girl I'm assuming is Samantha. We take our coats off and set them with everyone's which are piled on a bench near the door, all the girls are hanging their purses so Clare hangs hers as well. Jeff is talking with Dallas, Clare looks at Jeff and then looks away quickly before pulling me over to Owen.
"I was wondering when you guys would get here," Owen comments.
"I hear your date went well last night," Clare says.
"Yeah it went great thanks to your advice," Owen grins at her.
"Good I'm glad," she smiles.
Owen tells us about his date before Craig calls him over and Owen leaves us to see what he wants. Clare waves to Drew and he nods to us, then she looks around the room before she pulls me into the back and into the first bedroom we come to. She closes the door and pushes me to the bed kidnapping my lips. Her tongue slides across my bottom lip requesting access but I break the kiss instead. I look at her and now I see the room, I know we're in Jeff's room and I wonder if Clare knew that or pulled me in here by coincidence.
"You are avoiding Jeff," I accuse.
"I am not," she retorts defensively.
"We've been at the party ten minutes and we've only talked to Owen, you looked at Jeff and then pulled me in here. Clare tell me what's going on?" I request and no sooner have the words left my lips than Jeff opens his door and comes into his room.
"Avoiding me at my party and making out in my room on my bed," Jeff scolds. His tone is light and teasing but it's laced with some hurt and almost a desperation.
"It's Samantha's party and she's busy talking to Johnny. I'm not avoiding you," Clare insists but she stands up and steps away from me slightly. So now she's standing between the two of us and she sees it, she pulls her lip into her teeth and looks down.
"You haven't been here ten minutes and you're making out in my bedroom."
"Told you," I comment to Clare and look at Jeff, "do you know why she's avoiding you?"
"She's…" Jeff is beginning to explain when Clare goes to the door and runs out. Jeff and I follow her but she ducks into the washroom before either of us can catch her. We wait silently for a moment but we don't hear any noises from the washroom. "Clare?" Jeff calls knocking on the door softly.
"Clare you have to talk to us," I call through the door when she doesn't respond but there's still silence.
"Dammit I think she went down the fire escape," Jeff says.
He runs into his room and I get out my wallet and the lock pick I keep in it to open the lock. I don't need both tools but it's one of those pinhole locks from this side so I need a thin wire to poke in and turn the lock. Just as I get the door open Jeff comes back, he's wearing his Ice Hounds jacket, he hands me his Ice Hounds hoodie since I still have a hoodie on and has another jacket in his hands that must be for Clare.
"Here it's freezing out there," he says.
"Thanks," I nod putting it on and following him out the window and down the fire escape. It doesn't take us long to catch up with her she has no coat and it's snowing and the fire escape is chilly and icy. We find her less than half a block away.
"Put this on before you freeze," Jeff tells her handing her the coat.
"Where did you think you were going?" I question her as she gets the coat on.
"I don't know out of there so I wasn't in the middle of you two," she replies.
"She ran because I was about to tell you we kissed," Jeff informs me. My heart pounds and sinks as a pit opens in my stomach, and yet I'm not surprised at all. I knew there was tension there, sexual tension that was obvious to everyone.
"You kissed me," Clare argues.
"No we kissed, you've been avoiding me and it's because of our feelings for each other. You love Fitz but you have feelings for me too you can't deny them."
"I never have but you just showed up without warning what were you expecting?" She counters but starts walking again so we follow her.
"I want to hear what you want," Jeff says.
"You mean who she wants," I correct.
"Yes," Jeff nods.
Clare keeps walking but remains silent, Jeff and I are on either side of her awaiting her answer. She doesn't say anything just chews her bottom lip and looks at her feet as she walks. We reach a park and she goes in, it's nighttime and snowing so the park is abandoned. Clare doesn't care she walks in and sits on the swing slowly pushing back and forth with her feet. Jeff and I sit on the swings on either side of her.
"Well?" Jeff and I both ask together after several minutes.
"Well I don't know!" She replies in a harsh tone as she hops out of the swing. "You know what I want? I want both of you. But unless you two can figure out a way to clone me so I can have both of you then that's not going to happen. Unless you want to do like Tris and his boyfriends and be in one relationship," Clare remarks.
"NO WAY," Jeff and I exclaim together.
"Then don't ask me choose. I'm in the middle of this and I don't want to be. I want you both, I can't have you both, I love you Mark you know I do but I have strong feelings for Jeff too, possibly even love him. Jeff cornered me and yes we kissed b…" Clare is arguing looking at me with pleading eyes when Jeff cuts her off.
"I cornered you because we needed to talk, you were avoiding me and we needed to talk. We could barely be in the same room without the tension getting so thick it was hard to breathe."
"That's true," I agree, "but you should have talked to me instead of kissing him."
"And told you what? Jeff is here now and I love you but I'm doubting our relationship?"
"If that was the truth then yes," I reply.
"You wanted to hear that?" She questions with a disbelieving tone.
"No I don't want to hear that but I don't want to be lied to either I knew something was going on. You didn't think you could hide your feelings for Jeff from me by being lustful with me every time you saw him."
"I…I don't know okay this is hard for me! I want you both, I can't have you both but you're both here. When Jeff was an hour away and we were just talking it was easier but now you're both here and you're expecting me to choose and either way one of us gets hurt. I don't want that. You have no idea how hard this is or how many emotions and thoughts about the three of us go through me every minute. What I want I can't have so what do you expect me to say? I'm with Mark and I love Mark but that doesn't change how I feel about you Jeff or that I want to be with you. I don't know what to do," Clare tells us in an aggravated voice throwing up her arms.
"You should break up with Fitz and be with me, give us a chance," Jeff asserts.
"Hey that's not your decision," I growl at him.
"I'm not questioning that she loves you but you heard her she loves me too and I think we should see where that love will take us, no offense."
"I do take offense you're trying to steal my girlfriend," I snarl grabbing him by the jacket and punching him hard.
He falls back but recovers quickly and tackles me to the ground. I've been DeGrassi's wrestling champion for the last two years and it takes me about two seconds to get the upper hand. I punch him again and he knees me in the ribs. I grab his leg and turn him over, getting him on his stomach and I get his arm behind him.
"She's my girlfriend she's not going to just break up with me because you suddenly live here. She may have lost her virginity to you but I've known her forever and we've got a deeper connection than you two ever will. Tell hi…Clare?" I question looking around the park but don't see her. I get off of Jeff and stand up, he stands up and looks around too.
"Where'd she go?"
"I have no idea but we need to find her," I reply.
"Maybe she went back to the party shouldn't we look there first?" Jeff asks.
"Do you really want to go back to a house with her brothers and friends and admit that we have no idea where Clare is?"
"Okay good point let's go find her. Just one thing before we go," Jeff says and then sucker punches me in the face hard. I stumble back a little but recover quickly, I can fight with Jeff later right now I need to find Clare.
We walk down the street towards Clare's house because I'm sure that she didn't return to the party. We weren't fighting that long she couldn't have gotten too far but we walk all the way to her house and don't see her. We go into her house but it's dark and she's not here.
"So where did she go?" Jeff asks.
"The ravine maybe," I shrug and we leave Clare's house but I grab the spare to Bianca's car and we take that so we can get around faster. I leave a note incase Bianca comes back. We drive to the ravine but she isn't there and no one has seen her. Before we get back in the car I call Sean thinking that she may have gone to Jay's since most everyone else is at the party at Jeff's.
"What's up bro?"
"Is Clare with you guys?" I question. He doesn't answer but I can hear him getting up and walking out of the room. I'm assuming so that Spinner doesn't hear him.
"You lost her?"
"No, not entirely but Jeff and I were fighting and she must have run off."
"Great. No she's not here but you'd better find her soon or I'm going to tell Spin."
"We're looking, I'll call you later," I reply hanging up. "She's not at Jay's I know a few more places we can look."
"Good because we've already looked everywhere I could think of," Jeff says getting back in the car.
We go to The Dot and Above the Dot but she isn't there. I try calling Lucas but he doesn't answer and I know he had a date with Mia tonight so I'm assuming they're occupied in his bed. Clare knows that they had a date too so I'm pretty sure she didn't go to his place. Jeff and I go to my place and when she's not there we spend about an hour driving around and hoping to see her.
"I think we have to go back to the party, we can't find her alone and there's a chance that she's back there," I tell Jeff.
"Yeah I guess you're right," Jeff sighs.
I drive us back to his place and park Bianca's car behind mine. We go inside and as soon as we walk inside everyone looks at us.
"Where's Clare?" Adam asks as he and Drew walk toward us.
"Well the three of us were talking and then the two of us were fighting and she must have run off," I admit and Drew goes red. He grabs us both and shoves us into the wall hard.
"YOU LOST MY SISTER!"
(CLARE)
"You should break up with Fitz and be with me, give us a chance," Jeff tells me somewhere between pleading and commanding.
"Hey that's not your decision," Mark growls and his fists clench.
"I'm not questioning that she loves you but you heard her she loves me too and I think we should see where that love will take us, no offense," Jeff argues of course it doesn't help anything.
"I do take offense you're trying to steal my girlfriend," Mark barks and then punches Jeff.
Jeff fights back tackling Mark to the ground. I have no desire to see them fight and I can't choose so I run. I turn and run without a destination in mind or any idea where I'm going. I run down the street and behind an apartment building, zigzagging through the alleys back here to be sure they won't find me. Stopping behind an apartment building to catch my breath I lean against the wall closing my eyes. What I want most in the world is what Tris has right now because the truth is I'm in love with two boys and I want so badly to be with them both. Of course in Tristan's case his boyfriends were already together and brought him in while Jeff, Mark and I are just a triangle. Worse than a triangle, a tug of war and I'm the rope, and I have a feeling I'm going to end up hanging with it.
I release a breath and keep walking again, I know eventually I'll have to see Jeff and Mark and they'll be waiting for an answer. Stay with Mark or be with Jeff? I can't make that decision I simply can't, I love them both and I want them both I just can't have them both. I don't really want to go anywhere they can find me because I don't want to see either of them right now. However, I should call Adam to let him know I'm okay and just need a bit of space, and a cloning machine, or the ability to make Mark and Jeff bisexual. Then I realize I left my purse at the party, along with my coat which is why Jeff gave me one of actually it must be Anya or Samantha's coat because it fits me and is a girl's coat. I'll have to try and find a payphone or maybe get to Lucas' place he lives fairly close, he's out with Mia tonight but I know where the spare key to his apartment is, he showed me so I'd have a place to go if I needed. Jay and Johnny did the same although I think they all did it at the insistence of my brothers.
The building I was hiding behind has a playground behind it and then an alley out to the street. It doesn't occur to me that this way might be more dangerous only that if I stay behind the buildings I have less of a chance of being found by Jeff or Mark. I'm entangled in my thoughts again, my heart so equally divided by two boys and a decision I can't make, so I'm not at all paying attention to the people in the playground until one of them speaks.
"And here I was thinking it was going to be so hard to get you alone somewhere."
The voice slithers into my ears and makes my skin crawl and my heart begins beating like a sledgehammer. My breath stolen by his presences and my fists clench yet my feet stop, petrified with fear but hoping that I'm hearing things and it's not him. Before I can turn around he steps in front of me and he's not alone.
"Reese," I spit out his name with a venomous tone. I want to punch him and kick him so hard in the nuts that he can taste his own balls, so why can't I move?
"Hello Baby Doll. I was just telling my boys that we'd spy on you and wait until you were alone and here you fall right into my lap," Reese grins.
"What the hell are you doing out of juvie after beating Mark? The judge gave you eighteen months you can't be here," I say almost as a command, as though saying it with enough conviction will make him disappear. I start to back up but get stopped by one of his cronies and he grabs my arms.
"You mean Fitzy boy? I got solitary for that but no extra time. I been an angel since then, had to go out so could I get you and Fitzy and all your friends. I know how your tightknit group works I hurt you I hurt all of them. Besides your mine and everyone should know that," Reese grins.
"But you can't be out yet, you were given eighteen months!" I exclaim beginning to feel trapped in a nightmare. Reese is supposed to be in juvie so how can this be real?
"Like I said I got out of solitary and became an angel. I did everything I could to get on the good list and prove that I'd turned my life around. I went to the chapel, did all the work duties, everything. Then just my luck a brand new social worker comes to juvie looking to make her name. I gave her my sob story about a bad home and being misunderstood and how I just wanted to get out and prove how I was a good person now. So she fixes me up with a work release program during the day and I went above and beyond, even the warden was impressed with me and thought that me beating Fitz and the time in solitary was a wakeup call. You know what all the time in solitary gave me? It gave me a lot of time to plan my revenge. After the work release program, they decided I was all reformed and juvie was getting overcrowded anyway, so a couple of days ago I'm released free and clear. Now you walk right into my hands, looks like everything is going my way," Reese smiles wickedly and steps forward.
"If you come near me I will make you bleed," I hiss at him.
"It's not nice to make threats Baby Doll. I can't wait to get you to a bed, when I'm done with you Fitz and your brothers won't even recognize you. You're mine, you should know that, Fitz should know that, your brothers and all their little friends should know that," Reese's vile grin gets wider, he steps forward grabbing my chin and forcing me into a kiss. I'm not about to let his lips and tongue tangle with mine and I bite down on his tongue and lip as hard as I can. "Agghh BITCH," Reese growls and back hands me and across the mouth. I bit hard enough to draw blood and he hit me hard enough to split my lip, I spit the mixture of blood from my mouth but laugh because he's holding his lip and he's bleeding quite a bit.
"I told you that you would bleed," I grin spitting more blood onto the sidewalk. Reese wipes his mouth, looking at me with menacing eyes, and steps forward. I spit out more blood and this time I spit it right into Reese's face and I laugh again.
"That was stupid Clare, let's get her inside so I can hurt her. First I'm going hog tie you and rape you and then I'm really going to make you hurt," Reese says but his words slur a bit because of the bite to his tongue and lip.
There is no fucking way I'm letting Reese kidnap me and violate me. There's four of them and one of me but I have three brothers, a bunch of friends that are like brothers and learned to cat fight from Paige and Bianca I can totally do this. I use the one that has my arms first, I lean back and jump up kicking my leg out and kick Reese in the face, now he's really bleeding! They're all kind of shocked and Reese is on the ground. I manage to get out of his arms and I punch him hard then knee him in the nuts so he goes down. And now there's only two, standing on either side of me, they're either very dumb or just shocked. Either way I grab them by their jackets and careen them into each other knocking their heads together. It's enough to stun them or make them dizzy or in pain, possibly all three but all I care about is that they aren't focused on me at all. I know that they won't be felled or distracted by my beatings for long so I take off running but Reese grabs my ankle as I run past him and I fall, not only landing hard on the pavement I hit the corner of the wooden sandbox barrier. It gets me right in the stomach, I feel dizzy and almost throw up.
"I'm going to rape you right here and then take you inside and cause you pain in every way I can think of you fucking bitch. You belong to me," Reese hisses with a slur in my ear.
Saltwater wells in my eyes and my heart is beating so fast and hard I can hear it through my chest. I can hardly move from this position and if one of his buddies recovers I'm done for. I begin to make peace with it, saying silent goodbyes to those I care about but then Reese unwittingly helps me by turning me over. I can move a lot better from this position and I'm not done fighting yet. I bring up my leg and kick Reese in the family jewels and while he's gasping from that I take a handful of sand and toss it at his face. He sits up and I kick his side then take off running again, as hard and as fast I can, anything is better than being in Reese's clutches. I'm breathing shallow, wheezing a little from the fall and still feel nauseas but I keep running, out to the street and toward Lucas' place which was my original destination. I look back to see if any of them are following me and sure enough Reese and the one that was holding me are up and running for me. I look ahead again just in time to run smack into someone, I start to fall back and he catches me. When I see his face all I can think is, "Drew is right I am a magnet for trouble."
"I know you, Baby Mason right?"
"Hi Nic," I reply looking back at Reese and try to run but Nic is still holding my arms. Nic went to Lakehurst and had a rivalry with Lucas, not that Nic got along with anyone well but he and Lucas hated each other and I never got the full story about why.
"Thanks we'll take her now," Reese says running over.
"I don't think so, I know all of her brothers and her friends and you ain't a one of them. Pretty sure she was running from you actually," Nic replies. Given his history with Lucas I'm surprised he isn't just giving me to Reese.
"She's my girlfriend it was just a little fight," Reese tries telling him.
"He your boyfriend?" Nic asks and I shake my head. "Where were you headed?" Nic questions.
"Lucas' place is close," I tell him.
Nic releases one of my arms is still holding my other arm, he turns with me and starts walking. I look over my shoulder at Reese but we don't continue down the street he takes me into a house. Pulling me into a party, we walk to a very big guy who has to be at least 6'3 and about 250 pounds Nic whispers something to him and the big guy comes out with us, which is when I realize he's there to keep Reese and his buddy from getting me. Nic and I start walking down the street again and I stop in front of Lucas' building.
"This is his building I'll be okay from here, thanks Nic."
He just shrugs and walks off and I'm not quite sure what to think of Nic helping me, at the moment though I only care that Reese is gone and I'm safe. I go into the building and upstairs to Lucas' apartment knocking on the door, I start shaking and I can't stop but I'm not cold. I hear a few noises but I can't tell if they're coming from Lucas' apartment or not. I knock again and there's no answer so I take the spare key from it's hiding place and unlock the door. I go in closing the door locking it behind me, now that I'm somewhere familiar and safe everything catches up with me and becomes overwhelming. I'm still trembling, I begin to cry and I feel like vomiting again. I also feel pain in my stomach but it almost isn't noticeable over all the other things I'm feeling.
"What the f…" I hear Lucas grumble as he comes out of the bedroom and I see that he's not even dressed. Something I would find far more enticing if I didn't feel so ill. "Clare what the hell happened?" He questions.
"Drew w…" I begin to say but then the world goes all wobbly and the floor comes up to meet me very fast.
(DREW)
"YOU LOST MY SISTER!" I yell at the two idiots that were vying for her attention and yet managed to lose her. "Tell me why I shouldn't just knock your damn heads together right now?" I growl at them.
"Drew find Clare now, kill them later," Adam says putting a hand on my shoulder so I'll calm down a bit.
"Fine," I grouse letting them go, "where did you two look?"
"We looked everywhere, your place, mine, Jay's, the ravine, The Dot, we drove around, we looked everywhere. We can't call her because she left her phone here," Fitz tells me.
"If she's hurt I'm going to kill you both," I snarl at them before releasing them and looking at Adam. "Where is she?"
"If I knew I would have told you, our twin thing is not two-way radio but sometimes we can hear each other's thoughts or feel what the other is feeling," Adam replies with some agitation in his tone. I can't tell if it's worry for Clare or just frustration.
"Okay we split up and get the word out. Owen take Dallas and…" I stop when I hear my phone ringing.
"Is it Clare?" Adam questions although if it had been Clare I'm sure she would have called him or Fitz not me.
"It's Lucas," I tell everyone before answering. "Hey Lucas, Clare is mi…"
"She's here," he informs me and I let out a relieved breath. "She just showed up, looks like she's been in a fight. She got through my door asked for you and passed out. I made her lie in my bed, Mia's with her but you should probably get over here."
"On our way," I reply and hang up. "She's at Lucas' Adam let's go," I command but Adam is already grabbing our coats.
"I'm coming with you," Fitz says.
"Me too," Jeff speaks up.
"No you're not, you two are why she ran in the first place and Lucas said it looks like she's been in a fight. You stay here and I might let you come and see her in the morning," I tell them through clenched teeth.
"But Drew she…" Fitz starts to argue.
"Go we'll keep an eye on them and meet you at home later," Bianca tells me.
I give her a passionate kiss, glare at the two morons that were fighting and let my sister run off, and then Adam and I leave. We get down to my car and I quickly drive us to Lucas' place. We're both silent, both wondering what happened to Clare when she ran off and who hurt her so we can hurt them. I park near Lucas' apartment and we run upstairs, Lucas opens the door after I bang on it and we run back to his bedroom, Clare is on the bed holding a towel with ice in it to a busted lip and has a wet washcloth on her head. Mia's sitting on the bed with her and she seems okay other than looking a bit pale but when Clare sees us she breaks down, bursting into tears and sitting up curling her knees to her chest. Adam and I go on either side of her and put an arm around her. She's shaking now, sobbing hard and she clings to me. It's the fact that she's clinging to me so tightly that has me the most worried.
She hasn't clung to me this way since Dad died, and before that not since we were little. She's cried on me before, wanted me to be close when she was upset but she doesn't cling to me. She clings to Adam like this, and probably Fitz, maybe even Jeff but not me or Spin. She's gripping my shirt like she's afraid to let go, there is not much that scares her so badly that she wants me to shield her and protect her, usually she hates it.
"It's okay you're safe, we've got you and I'm never letting you out of my sight again," I tell her and she pinches my side, guess she doesn't want me to be that protective. I hear her trying to control her crying but she can't seem to manage to. Since we're not going to get much from her right now I look at Lucas, "What the hell happened?"
"I told you she showed up, asked for you and passed out. I carried her to the bedroom, got dressed and called you. Mia was with her," Lucas says.
"She didn't talk much except to ask for the cops but I forgot to tell Lucas that while I was getting dressed. I wanted to get some ice and a cold compress for her," Mia enlightens us.
"Clare tell us what happened so we know who to kill. I know Jeff and Fitz didn't cause this," I remark. She takes a deep breath and wipes her tears so she can talk but she's still shaking.
"You were right I am a magnet for trouble," she whispers to me with tears streaming down her face again.
"Yes you are but what happened tonight? Who hurt you?" I ask her brushing the tears from her cheeks.
"Reese," she whispers and I tense up and then start to leap up but she grips me tighter. "Don't Drew, just call Turner, stay with me please," she begs in a whisper and I force myself to relax.
"Lucas can you call Officer Turner and figure out why the hell Reese is out of juvie so quickly?"
"Sure and then I'm going to find him and kill him," Lucas replies stepping out of the room with his cell phone.
"I don't feel so good," Clare says holding her hand to her mouth. I know that look so I grab the trashcan by Lucas' bedside and hold it for Clare just as she throws up in it. She starts to sweat a little, when she's done throwing up she groans and lies back a bit but still clings to me.
"I'll clean this up and get her some water," Mia says taking the trashcan.
"Thanks," I smile. I want some more details from Clare about what happened with Reese but she's not really in a condition to talk right now.
"Turner's on his way, should I call Spin?" Lucas asks.
"Not yet he's at Jay's we'll take her home after we talk to Turner," I reply.
While we wait for Turner we're pretty silent, Clare rolls on her side and curls up but won't let go of me. She's no longer sobbing but she's still pale and sweating a little. When Turner arrives Clare sits up so she can talk to him.
"Hi Clare, Lucas tells me you ran into Reese Delaney tonight can you tell me what happened?"
"He and three of his friends surprised me and Reese was telling me how he did everything he could to get out early to get his revenge. One of his friends was holding my arms. He was talking about how he was going to rape me and hurt me to get back at everyone and then Reese kissed me so I bit down hard on his lip and tongue," Clare tells us and I grin with pride for the way she fought back. "He was bleeding a lot but then he hit me," she says motioning to her busted lip and I stiffen up again tightening my arm around her without realizing it. "He was angry and talking about how he was going to take me inside to rape me and hogtie me," she says and I stiffen up even more. "I wasn't going to let that happen so I fought back, I kicked Reese and then the one holding me, and when he let go of me I knocked the heads of the other two together and I ran," Clare says and I grin again because she fought off four guys by herself and not many people could do that at all let alone a five foot-two, hundred-pound girl. "I ran but Reese grabbed me, I fell and thought I was done for, but then he turned me over and I was able to kick him. I threw sand in his eyes and ran again, I ran into Nic and surprisingly he helped me. He walked me to Lucas' building and kept Reese from getting me."
"Sounds like you handled yourself pretty well Clare," Turner says.
"She handled herself amazingly," I grin and Clare smiles, Adam and even Lucas are smiling at how she fought back.
"You can press charges for assault and attempted kidnapping. I'll get an APB out on Reese do you know the name of his friends?" Turner questions and Clare shakes her head. "Okay I'm going to take a picture of the bruise on your face and then I'll let your brothers take you home."
Turner snaps a couple pictures of the bruise on her cheek and her busted lip and then he leaves.
"Thanks Lucas sorry I interrupted your night," Clare says.
"Shut up Clare I'm just glad you're safe," Lucas replies kissing her forehead.
"Me too," Mia tells her and Clare smiles.
"We'll come by tomorrow," Lucas comments and I nod.
We go down to my car, Clare sits in back and I drive us home, she wants to shower when we get there so she goes into the washroom. Adam gets out his phone to text Maya and I call Bianca. I tell her that we're home and about Reese and everything. Bianca says she's coming home and she'll tell the others that Clare is okay and about Reese, and that she'll keep Fitz and Jeff from coming over. Just as I'm hanging up with Bianca Spin and Paige get home so Adam and I tell them everything that happened. We are just finishing telling them when Bianca gets home and Adam goes back to check on Clare.
"Clare is going to bed she says she's tired. I'm going to stay with her until she's asleep," Adam tells us.
"I'm going to go in and say hi to her, see how she is," Spinner tells us.
"I'll come with you," Paige says.
"I'm proud of you for not going out to kill Reese," Bianca comments when they all go back to Clare's room.
"Only because I was worried about Clare and she was gripping to me so tightly."
"How is she?"
"She fought off Reese and three of his friends by herself. I'm really proud of her."
"You should be," Bianca smiles.
Spinner and Paige return from Clare's room, the four of us sit in the living room and we watch TV for a while. Adam comes out of Clare's room and he takes a shower before going to bed. Spinner and Paige go to bed early but Spin opens tomorrow. Bianca and I get ready for bed a little after two. Bianca is in the washroom brushing her teeth and I hear noises coming from Clare's room so I go inside. Clare is thrashing in her bed and crying, she's obviously having a nightmare so I walk over to wake her up.
"No Reese get away from me," she whimpers and then sits bolt upright panting hard. She notices me and starts to move back I guess not seeing that it's me and not Reese in the dark.
"It's just me," I tell her sitting on the bed and then she breaks down. She starts to cry, her head on my chest and she holds me tightly again. "You're safe, Reese won't get to you ever again I'll kill him first."
"It won't matter I'm a magnet for trouble like you said," she sobs.
"Clare you fought off four guys on your own, you're definitely a magnet for trouble but you're strong and you can take care of yourself."
"I don't feel good, I think I'm going to throw up," she says.
I throw off her blanket and help her up so she can get to the washroom but she doesn't quite make it. She leans over and vomits on her floor. I turn on her lamp so we don't step in it and can clean it up. When I see Clare she's so pale she's nearly ghostly white, she's sweating and shaking slightly. What's worse is when I look at her vomit I see that it's mostly blood and I feel the breath leave my body with fear over why she's vomiting blood. Before I can react Clare groans again and I look at her, she's holding her hand to her head.
"Drew I don't feel good," she says in a rough, weak tone that's pleading for help. And then I watch in terror as her eyes roll back into her head and she drops back on her bed like a dead weight.
"Clare? Wake up," I assert feeling her cheeks and looking in her eyes.
"What's going on?" Bianca asks coming in.
"SPINNER ADAM!" I scream for my brothers while trying to wake my sister but she isn't moving. "B call an ambulance she won't wake up."
How was that for a long chapter and a mean cliffhanger? Update soon will probably start from Johnny's pov earlier the same night at the party (yes I am that mean) and include Fitz and/or Jeff pov and I'll probably let you know what's happening with Clare.