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Memories

Chapter Six: Kate

Pain pulsed through my system. Pain I had never believed possible in the scheme of things. Magic induced pain.

Pain that made me want to scream until I couldn't scream anymore. It hurt but it began to pull me round.

Had I been fully conscious it probably would have made me want to pass out. But somehow I knew I needed to wake up. Something was pulling me back from the black.

I knew somewhere I was needed. As I woke up I screamed in pain as I realised black crystals surrounded me.

Trapping me in a cage made of black light, painful black light made of black magic; black magic that could hurt me the way Ranuk had hurt me.

It filled me with fear but as I started to move and try and avoid the black rays of magic I saw figures across the room.

I heard voices and then I heard Jarrod's voice. "Kate!" I looked up in time to see him be punched across the face. I watched as he reeled and a cruel voice laugh and say,

"She is beyond your help now."

The person in black was stood between Jarrod and me and I knew Jarrod was trying to find away around him. "Jarrod?" I said more to let him know I was ok, that I was awake or anything else.

I wanted Jarrod. I was confused. I knew these people were bad but what scared me more was that I knew they were here for me, I knew they were here because of the things I had seen though I didn't know why. It seemed right without reason.

"I'm here!" Jarrod said frantically with his mind and with his voice. I tried to focus on his mind voice but I was struggling to even stay conscious and I think he knew it. The thought of his voice and he connection we had was the only thing that was stopping me blacking out completely all over again.

I tired to hide the fact I was in pain from him but I could see just from the way he was looking at me that he knew it. I could see the fact he knew I was hurting was making him angry even in the position he was in.

He didn't seem to care and that scared me more than being in the cage. I closed my eyes and focused all the power I had on sending just on message.

Please don't get hurt.

He looked at me and his green eyes locked wit mine and I could see he felt helpless and he didn't care if he got hurt or not. I had seen him look like that moments before he had faced Ranuk. Faced Ranuk to get to me.

I closed my eyes I couldn't face the fact that he might get hurt, get hurt again, or worse over me. I had to accept now that I really did care for him, probably more than that and if I could stop him getting hurt at all costs I would do it.

The connection that seemed to last between us for an eternity when it was only probably a few moments ended when the guy in black stepped in black stepped in front of me blocking Jarrod from my view.

And blocking me from Jarrod's.

He laughed. He had the cruellest laugh I had ever heard and it made my heart freeze with black, black fear.

"Say goodbye Jarrod."

It was said mockingly, as bait and then he turned and looked at me and I froze. I recognised him and this time I really was afraid. "No," I whispered.

He laughed. He looked at his minions who were crowded round my cage as if guarding me, as if I could possibly do anything at all.

"You see that my minions she remembers me!" He seemed pleased. "I am impressed young Katherine." Then his minions touched the stones and he swiped his hand across me and the cage and the room immediately started to go fuzzy.

I realised then that he was using magic to transport us from the room even in my pain fogged brain this made sense. The last thing I saw was Jarrod's face staring at me in horror before the room disappeared from view.

We seemed to be moving for only a few moments and when we stopped I threw up all over the nearest minion. He hissed at me and advanced and looked about to hit me but a hand clasped round his arm.

"No. You will not harm her. Those are not our orders." The minion hissed but lowered his arm. "The mistress said she had to be alive not that she had to be in perfect condition!" snarled the minion he looked scandalised and had I not been so tired and to scared I would have laughed.

"That is not your decision to make, I think we have made our point quite clear to young Katherine." He grinned and me and I couldn't help but shiver. I was in so much trouble.

So much trouble and I had no idea how I was going to get out of it. It was then I realised that the Demon, for that was what he was. Shaped, as a human but nothing like one. Born from Hell to do the bidding of one of equal or more power.

Who could have possibly had the power to raise one as powerful as he? I was afraid of the answer but I knew that soon enough I would know and more than that me surviving depended on me knowing what I was up against.

Right now though I knew I didn't have that kind of information and I also knew I needed help. I struggled to send out my senses to feel for Jarrod's signature. I breathed a sigh of relief as I realised it was there.

He was alive, his signature was there faint but there. Then that was all that mattered it gave me the strength I needed to carry on. I knew that despite the fact I had told Jarrod not too he could come for me.

The least I could do was make sure he was prepared enough for what lay ahead. If I could leave him clues and leave him a trail to follow he would not be so unprepared but then, after facing balthozar I had to be stupid to think that Jarrod would think this as weak magic.

I didn't want Jarrod to come after me, if he came after me that meant that he could get hurt. I couldn't face that he night get hurt but I was also stupid to think that he wouldn't come after me. So the best thing I could do was to leave him clues of my location and what he was facing.

Balthozar was too busy with his minions and so I took off my mask and threw it on the floor under a concealment. Hopefully I would not have to do this for every clue I left but with the demons so close to me I couldn't risk that they would see it.

It weakened me to have to cast so much magic, especially since I was already feeling weak. But I would do it even if I thought it would kill me, for Jarrod. I would not have him coming against whoever wanted my magic blind. I would not let that happen.

After what seemed like an eternity the demons finished their babble and advanced on me. "Time to go Lady Katherine." Balthozar said mockingly bowing to me.

"You won't beat us!" I spat at him. He smiled.

"Of that I have no doubt my dear but ultimately it is not me you will have to face and somehow I think you will find her more intimidating that me. My Mistress is a powerful Sorceress, more powerful than you and even your lover. She is also not someone to keep waiting so we will be off."

I spat at him. "When I get out of here you will wish you were never born!" Balthozar smirked. "I look forward to the challenge though I hardly think it will ever come."

He snapped at his minions in a language I couldn't understand and I screamed in surprise as suddenly I was suspended in midair with the eight of them surrounding me like a guard. I also suspect it was to keep me a float. Levitating is not as easy as it looks and levitating something living like me is hard especially since I was fighting it every step of the way.

All the demons ignored this though and soon we were on our way.

I felt like I was going to pass out. I could tell that we were moving swiftly away from Ryan's house and more importantly I was getting further and further away from Jarrod. I felt like I was going to choke on the panic I felt every time I thought about it. All I could see was Jarrod falling to the floor.

I had tried not to think about it and I had been systematically been leaving clues both physical and magical to take my mind off the fact that the last image I had of Jarrod was one where he was falling to the floor.

I knew he was alive. He had reached out for me, probably for the same reason and while he had been weak I suspected he was growing stronger and this gave me a great sense of relief. I hoped he would not come after me but I felt him pick up my first clue which was miles behind me now and knew that was a foolish dream.

The Jarrod that had come back from the past was not one that let things go easy and if he thought he could help me then he would. The least I could do was give him as many clues as I could and hope that when he finally found me it would be enough to face whoever, or whatever lay at the end.

All to soon we came to a stop I tired to take in every single detail of the location but pain pulsed through my head making it difficult to concentrate. We were in a glade somewhere deep in the forest. The perfect place because no human ever came in here this far.

I stared at the glade and then Balthozar saw me and snarled, "Don't try any tricks! You'll only bring Jarrod to a quicker death." He slapped me across the face and then smirked. "But then perhaps he is coming anyway."

I couldn't look away and I felt him push into my thoughts. He saw my trail and my magical signature I was too weak to keep him out. He pulled out with an audible snap making me gasp in pain.

"You'll be pleased to know that you will be the reason the love of your life dies!" He smirked and then struck pain fogged my brain and this time I couldn't fight it and succumbed to darkness.

The last thing I remember thinking was…

Jarrod…