Sorry it took me so long!! Sorry! But you see i have a brilliant excuse!!! (uhh not really but yea...) I wanted to get this RIGHT 'cause I didn't want to disappoint you with a crappy ending. Please don't hate me for how I've written this chapter. It coulda been worse...It coulda been the first ending I came up with...Also this chapter is rated T for language...I don't know if it's really that bad, but better to be safe than sorry, eh?

Hope you enjoy!

Asa Pike

b.1989

Taken

Adolescent

Were-Beast

Location: Walking Aimlessly Through Bloors Academy Attic

Chapter fourteen

Erin pressed her ear to the door of Ezekiel's room.

"Was Leah right? Are Dr. Bloor and Ezekiel still having their late Thursday nights?" Charlie asked, with a worried expression. To his surprise Erin started giggling. "What?"

"They are both in there..." She continued to laugh.

"What? What's going on?" Charlie put his ear against the door as well, inside he could hear Dr. Bloor talking, only getting a series of grunts as a reply. Charlie raised an eyebrow, "Is she grunting?!"

"Seems so..."

Suddenly footsteps came close to the door, Charlie and Erin exchanged a look of panic. What are they going to do? - Before they could panic some more a piece of paper flew out from under the door, Amber must have kicked it underneath. Charlie grabbed at it and tried to use the light coming from underneath the door to see what it was.

"What is it Charlie?"

"It's a photograph," Charlie quickly flipped it over to face Erin, "What is it of?"

Erin squinted,

"A younger Dr. Bloor."

"Emotions?"

"He looks distracted...Or angry...Or something."

Charlie turned the photograph around and listened;

'Stand still Harold...' a impatient voice scowled.

'I can't you stupid old man! I have paperwork to burn, and Manfred will also be very busy.'

'So you have gotten rid of the girl?'

'Of course I have! I will not have a little girl poking her nose where it is not needed.'

'And your positive she's not endowed? I heard the mutt say something about her behaving odd.'

'That's just her. She has no endowment, I have little use for her-'

Erin tugged at Charlie's sleeve,

"Charlie! We have to get in there!"

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"Asa?" Manfred called into his fogged surroundings, "Asa! Where the bloody hell are you?!"

"He's sure as hell ain't here."

Manfred spun around,

"Ah...Torsson. I'm assuming this is your doing?"

Tancred came into view - but only because his nose was almost touching Manfred,

"It looks like it doesn't it?"

Manfred narrowed his eyes,

"What have you got planned?"

Tancred mirrored Manfred's piercing glare,

"Why should I tell you?" Manfred's eyes flashed, and Tancred dropped his eye contact.

"Because it'll be your sorry arse I'm going to kick if you don't," Manfred jumped as he heard sniggering coming from behind him, "Who's there?"

"Take a guess."

Manfred still couldn't see Leah but he knew that voice anywhere, he was suddenly shoved into Tancred who shoved him back.

"Tanc, can I see him please?" Leah requested. The fog began to disappear, at the same time Leah appeared, holding a picnic basket. She spotted Manfred eyeing the basket, "Thought you might wish to go for a spot of picnicing..." She laughed, eyes flashing, similar to her brother's. Tancred shifted uncomfortably where he stood. "Now Manfred, lets see what I have packed for today..." Leah got down on her knees, opened the picnic basket and began emptying its contents onto the floor, "We've got some water...Jam...Stale bread...and a dead mouse I've been keeping for you..."

Manfred wrinkled his nose,

"Do you really think you are going to get me to eat that? Leah, being banished seems to have done something to your mind..."

Leah shook her head,

"You're not going to eat it now, Freddy!" She pulled out the last thing that remained in the basket - The Blue Boa. Manfred attempted to bolt when a lightening cracked a small distance from his right foot. Leah continues like she hadn't noticed, "You're going to eat it later. When you get to feel how hungry Ollie and I got when we were victums of Dad's and yours vicious plans. You're not going to get any other food until you and dad have your own shares of these foods."

Manfred tried to conceal his worry,

"Do you think you have the strength or the intelliegence to trick Dad into the trap?"

"Well that really isn't your problem is it? Now stay still or I'll get Tancred to lightening bolt your arse from here to Mars..."

Tancred caused thunder to boom overhead for added effect, Leah giggled,

"Sounds like Asa's stomach..." And then she set to work, she draped the Blue Boa across Manfred's shoulders, she then patted it's head, murmoured, "You know what to do..." Manfred's eyes bulged as the snake slithered around his thin frame,

"You can't do this Leah! How is this going to help anything?"

Leah hummed a small tune,

"It won't help anything," she cupped his cheek, "But my dear beloved brother, revenge is mighty sweet." She then turned back to her basket and pulled out her pink leash with bells on it, "I saw this and immediately thought of you, you know..." She looked down at the snake's progress, already most of Manfred's torso was invisible. She smiled to herself and continued her humming as she fixed the collar around Manfred neck, "That comfortable Freddy? Or does it need to be slightly losser so you have growing room?"

"That is just fine," Manfred replied through clenched teeth.

Leah kissed him on the cheek,

"It's okay Freddy! I'll take good care of you! I'm good with wild brutal animals!"

"Just like Asa?" Manfred shook with anger.

"No silly! I was meaning the wild animals that lived around me in one of the many places I've visited during my...Travels..." She grinned, then hissed, "Plus Asa is twice the man you'll ever be, were beast or not."

"You know, you two are perfect for each other! Both decietful little sh-"

"Now, now calm down..."

Manfred shook his head as his feet began to disappear,

"I WILL NOT CALM DOWN LEAH! YOU BETRAYED YOUR FAMILY AND ASA BETRAYED HIS OLDEST FRIEND! HIS ONLY FRIEND! YOU TWO CAN ROT TOGETHER IN HELL!"

"Oh we will...And for the record: MY FAMILY BETRAYED ME!"

Tancred watched on in horror as Leah and Manfred continued to shout back insults, and the snake weaved silently back up Manfred's body to finish it's job.

"NO! YOU BETRAYED US! WHY DO YOU THINK WE GOT RID OF YOU?!"

"I KNOW WHY YOU GOT RID OF ME! UNLIKE YOU WHO HAS ONLY BEEN FEED AN ANSWER TO JUSTIFY SOMETHING AS RIDICULOUS AS BANISHING A NINE YEAR OLD GIRL!!!"

Manfred looked temporarily caught off guard,

"What?"

The snake wove around his neck...

"Do you know why I was banished?!"

"You were spilling family secrets!"

Leah's eyes flashed mroe dangerously than ever,

"THAT'S WHAT THEY TOLD YOU?! THAT I WAS SOME BLABBERING LITTLE GIRL!!!"

For the first ever, Tancred saw Manfred wince.

"Then why were you banished?"

"BECAUSE," Leah puffed, "YOUR IDIOTIC FATHER DEEMED ME USELESS BECAUSE I HAD NO ENDOWMENT!"

"But Dad isn't-"

Leah took a deep breath,

"Exactly. But that didn't stop him did it?"

Manfred stared her,

"You're lying!"

Leah slapped him hard across the face,

"How dare you."

Tancred cringed as he saw a red hand printed already showing just before it vanished into thin air. They all stood in silence until Manfred was completely transparent.

"Come." Leah commanded, pulling Manfred's leash, "We have to hurry, we don't want to leave Amber with Dr. Bloor for too long."

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Erin and Charlie burst through the to see Dr. Bloor yelling at Amber, with her now relatively long brown hair tightly clutched by his fist,

"You stupid, prying, little whore! What were you doing?!" Spit flew into Amber's face as she cowered, "How dare you! What was your plan, you spoilt brat!"

"Leave her alone!" Charlie yelled.

Dr. Bloor looked up,

"Ahhh...Charlie Bone. How come I'm not surprised to see you here?" He kept his grip on Amber's hair.

Charlie ignored him,

"Let go of her."

"Now, why would I do that?"

Amber elbowed him in the groin, Dr Bloor bent over in agony,

"You bitch!"

Erin stepped forward and flicked her hands in a brisk circular movement, a ring of fire sprund up around Dr. Bloor.

"What is this?" Dr. Bloor demanded.

"This is revenge, my dear father."

They all turned around to see Leah and Tancred at the door. Dr. Bloor smiled tightly,

"Sweetheart, nice of you to pop in!"

Ezekiel who had been trying to roll his wheelchair silently out of the scene was suddenly surrounded but Erin's ring of fire too,

"Nahah, old man...You're not going anywhere."

Leah walked up to the edge of Dr. Bloors fiery cage,

"So Dad...How's life treating you these days? I'm sorry it's been so long..."

"Pretty good until you came back."

Leah ignored his comment,

"Yea, I'm pretty good too...'Cause you see...I have a little plan so that you pay for what you did to Ollie, the Blue Boa and I...Manfred will fill you in on the rest later, won't you Freddy?" Manfred grunted from the end of the pink leash Tancred had given to Charlie. Leah bent down and brought out the Blue Boa, she fondly patted it, before whispering, "Leave the head."

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After locking Manfred, Ezekiel Bloor and Dr. Bloor in a room in the Bloor Academy attic the group walked in awkward silence until Amber couldn't take it anymore,

"So what's going to happen to Bloors Academy?" She asked the question that was on everybodies minds.

Leah adjusted the Blue Boa who was lying lazily across her shoulders,

"I don't know...I could run it...I mean how hard can it be?"

Asa sniggered,

"You...Run Bloors?"

Leah playfully hit him on the back of the head,

"I could try! Plus there's Cook, she could do it..."

"She's a cook not a school head master," Erin pointed out.

Leah's shoulders slumped,

"Well I don't know! I didn't think that far!"

"Well, you have to know fast, because I know who'll step in if you don't..." Charlie said gloomily.

Leah frowned,

"Who?"

"The Yewbeam sisters."

Leah gasped,

"Oh my god! Good point...Bother..."

"Charlies Uncle could do it!" Erin said excitedly.

"What?!" Charlie raised an eyebrow.

"Who's your Uncle, Charlie?" Leah asked.

"Paton Yewbeam."

Leah wrinkled her nose,

"He's a Yewbeam Erin...We don't want a Yewbeam running the school," Leah dirrected them to Ezekiel's room. The only evidence that something had happened was two ringed scorch marks on the carpet. Tancred shut the door behind them all.

Charlie shook his head,

"No, my Uncle isn't like his sisters. Infact he dispises them and goes out of his way to ruin their plans."

Leah chuckled,

"Sounds like a good man...Ask him Charlie if he's interested in running a school."

Comfortable silence took over the room as they sprawled out on chairs and the rug in front of the fire.

Leah suddenly stood up from Asa's lap,

"Guys...I just want to thank you for what you all did today. I mean, you all risked a lot...And I just wanted you guys to know it meaned a lot to me and there was no way in hell I could've pulled that off myself."
For a moment they just sat their in silence before Tancred began to clap. Soon they were all clapping, none of them entirely sure why they were clapping...But they just did.

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The room emptied as everyone left to go back to bed, all except Charlie who walked over to Leah and sat down beside her, pulling out the photograph of Dr.Bloor,

"You know this photo was taken shortly after Dr. Bloor banished you..." Charlie said.

Leah paled,

"What'd it tell you?"

"That they banished because you had no power and something about you being nosy."

Leah laughed,

"That's it! Isn't it pathetic," Leah spat bitterly, "Little did they know...Asa knew. So did Manfred, but then neither of them told him, stopped me from being banished. For years I hated both of them for that. But I could never be angry at Asa for long, he was only and oldest friend. And it wasn't him that betrayed me. I had told him not to tell them that I could make my fingers disappear. He was simply being loyal."

"Yeah, well you got them back tonight..." Charlie said reassuringly.

A tear ran down Leah's cheek,

"But they're still my family Charlie. My flesh and blood, I've locked up my own family!"

Charlie shuffled on the spot uncomfortably before he knealt down hugged Leah awkwardly,

"Hey, they don't desearve your tears..."

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Erin had noticed Charlie hadn't come out of the room, so she decided to double back, then maybe she could finally tell him how she felt. She made it all the way up to the room again and hadn't bumped into Charlie, so she pecked into the room to see if Charlie was still in there. He was. Erin gasped as she saw hugging Leah on his knees, their faces close as Charlie spoke to her softly. Erin choked,

"That two timing slut..." she turned on her flaming heels and ran.

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"What was that?" Charlie asked hearing a strange noise outside.

Leah stood up,

"I don't know...Stay here..." Leah vanished. Soon Charlie could hear her voice coming from the door, "Nothing here...Now."

Charlie walked over to the door and stood beside the reappearing Leah, immediately he saw scorched footprints in the carpet,

"Erin..."

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