Hey peeps, I just saw the Covenant movie again yesterday and realized I made a little mistake about housing arrangements. Reid is roomies with Tyler, Pogue lives at an apartment, and Caleb lives with his mother. Chapter 3 has been slightly tweaked to mend this mistake, but the only change in the story is Reid no longer has to find a new place. Sorry for the inconvenience, it won't happen again. That's it.
Oh, and one more thing. This chapter has some suggestive themes. You have been warned.
Read on:

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Chapter 5:

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Deep in the shadows of Spenser's halls, a dark figure glared through the windows, watching as the police herded Pogue Perry into a cop car, as his friends watched close by with distress on each of their faces.

And this person smiled.

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Caleb hung up the phone, and walked past the front desk to his friends standing by the holding cell where they were keeping Pogue. Caleb leaned his head on the bars of the cell, looking at his friend alone beyond them with such sadness.

"Alright," Caleb said to Pogue seriously. "Your mom is wiring the bail money as soon as the bank opens. You should out of here by tomorrow afternoon."

"Thanks, Caleb," Pogue replied in a low, defeated voice, sitting on the cot inside and staring at the wall ahead of him as if it held all the answers he was looking for. Sarah, Kate, and Tyler all watched in silence.

"You going to tell us what really happened?" Caleb pressed.

"You already know what happened," Pogue said, rubbing his face with his hands with fatigue. "I lost it. It was like there was something in my head, snapping the rope of my ability to control. Then I just exploded with It."

Caleb sighed with frustration.

"I just don't get it."

"You and me both, Caleb."

Then Pogue suddenly got up and went to the bars where Caleb stood.

"You know what I don't get?" Pogue said with a sudden intensity. "Why none of you felt me Using. You would think with that much power coming from me…"

Caleb furrowed his brow.

"God, I hadn't thought of that."

"Neither had I until just now. We can still feel you when you Use like that, even though you've already ascended."

Caleb shook his head, not knowing how to answer.

"God," Sarah piped up with worry. "You don't think it's him, do you?"

"What, you mean Chase?" Tyler asked, and Sarah nodded in reply.

Caleb scowled at the mention of the name of the man who not six months ago had caused him so much grief.

"Chase is dead," he insisted sharply, which quieted the room into an uncomfortable silence real fast.

"Look," he said seriously, looking Tyler and Pogue each in the eye. "This could have happened to any of us—and we can't risk it happening again… So I don't want anyone Using at all until we figure out what's doing this. Got it?"

Tyler nodded as Pogue said:

"You won't have to tell me twice. Once was bad enough."

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"See you tomorrow, Nicky!" Elle called over her shoulder as she exited the bar after a long day of work. She dug through her purse for her car keys, fishing through the items in her large messenger bag before she finally pulled out her keychain. As she put the right key into the lock of her Taurus, she heard a noise in the empty parking lot.

She looked around quickly and saw nothing, and decided to forget it.

Then she heard footsteps from behind her. She whirled around to catch the culprit before he could hide, but there was no one to be found in the dense fog of the night.

"Who's there?" she said with fear, but of course, there was no answer.

She didn't see the light shadow sneaking up behind her, the ghostly presence of a dark figure, who quietly came from behind her, only to stick a doused napkin over her nose quite suddenly.

She would've yelled for help, had it not covered her mouth. But soon, the world around became even foggier than before, a haze falling over her eyes liked she had been drugged, and she collapsed to the ground.

"You'll make a nice present for some appreciative young boys," the spirit hissed, before evaporating into thin air…

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Reid ventured through the fog by himself, alone on the night streets trying to clear his head. It seemed the more he walked the more flustered he felt.

Tyler was a wuss compared to him. Why would Elle choose Tyler over him? What did Tyler have that he didn't? Beside a clean slate with her, that is. Other than that, he just didn't get it.

She would see the light someday… he was sure of it. He'd make sure of it.

If Tyler wanted to go head-to-head over this girl, then a fight was what he was going to give him. Suddenly the Covenant brother he had always been closest to seemed like the evilest person in existence. Screw the covenant, screw brotherhood, screw Tyler.

Then again, Tyler couldn't really help it if he liked Elle. What man in his right mind wouldn't, with that body? And he couldn't really help it if Elle liked him, since Reid had made her life hell back when.

Reid frowned. That decided it. It wasn't Tyler's fault, after all. It was his own.

It was a thought that made him depressed, and when he was depressed, he wanted to Use even more than any other time.

Just a little bit wouldn't hurt… Just enough to feel better…

Oh, but it would hurt. His birthday was getting close and he was next in line to Ascend, followed closely by Pogue. Tyler still had a couple more months to wait, but Reid was the closer to addiction than both of them put together. He could feel it. Some days it was all he thought about.

It was too easy to just touch into the Power, to just let flow through his veins like a sweet case of ecstasy. It was a curse, more than anything. A bittersweet curse disguised as a blessing. A promise of something that was never truly reachable.

After a long time of walking, he looked up to find himself a more than a bit lost. The fog sure wasn't helping either.

He sighed.

"It's going to be a long night," he said aloud to no one in particular.

"Hey, Garwin!" he heard a familiar voice call to him. Aaron Abbott.

"And only getting longer," he complained to the sky. Aaron drove slowly alongside of Reid in his white Tundra, hanging out the window like he was calling to a hooker.

"Look what I found!" he boasted with boyish excitement.

Reid turned to face the obnoxious bully, who deliberately antagonized him and the other Sons because he was insanely jealous of them. His mere presence made Reid's fists clench and body tense up.

"Look, Abbott," Reid said through his teeth. "It's late, I'm tired, I'm already feeling a hangover and I'm in a hell of a bad mood. Scamper off with your little friends and play the dick somewhere else."

Reid waved them off, letting them know that the conversation was over.

"Oh, I intend to," Aaron slurred to Reid's back. Aaron was quite obviously so drunk that he wouldn't remember anything in the morning. His eyes were glazed over as if ready to pass out at any moment, and he drove in a zigzagged fashion.

"I'm going to play my dick right up her…!" he finished.

That's when Reid stopped in his tracks. He heard a moan from a female voice come from the backseat, and walked to the car slowly, suspecting what he might see next but hoping to God he was wrong. The sight came slow, as Reid came up very gradually, his eyes echoing his dread. Reid let his eyes fall to Aaron's friends sitting behind him, and saw the woman held in their arms, a thin woman with long legs and wavy mahogany hair.

"Was just being friendly," Abbott said innocently, though his tone was taunting. "I just wanted to know if you'd like a piece of her too!"

She looked like she was almost unconscious, phased out for an unknown reason. He could only assume that Abbott had done something to her—perhaps gave her a drugged drink of some kind… or a date rape pill… Then offered to drive her home from the bar…

Reid's whole body swelled into anger, his eyes falling dark and beads of sweat beginning to form on his brow. He was mad, and the more Abbott spoke the angrier he became.

"Are you just going to stand there or are you going to answer me?" Aaron called. "I can only be generous for so long… I'll tell you what--"

Aaron looked at Reid with a drunken grin.

"--I'll even let you go second… after me, of course."

With that Reid's hands each launched balls of slimy energy at Aaron's car, making two holes in his side door. Too easy.

"Like hell, you will," Reid said, yanking Aaron through the window and slamming him on the asphalt. "You do and you lose it, you hear me?"

When Aaron tried to get up, Reid smashed him down again with more of the Power.

"Stay down, now," Reid said. "You don't want to tempt me like that, trust me."

Aaron looked up to his attacker with terror all over his face, sighting Reid's pitch black eyes for the first time.

"What… are you?" Aaron stammered through his fear.

Reid kicked him in the ribs, hard, making Aaron curl up into a ball in pain.

"Seriously pissed off," Reid replied, then spat on the jerk's face. He then turned back to the truck, easily pulling the back door off as well. He grabbed the one in his way and threw him next to Aaron, the grabbed Elle away from the other, who seemed too scared to even think about protesting.

"Elle, can you hear me?" Reid asked, sitting her up in the seat.

She moaned and stirred.

"What?" she mumbled. "Reid, is that you?"

"No, its Santa Claus here to give you a Christmas wish," Reid said sarcastically. "Com'on, let's get you out of here."

As he reached to pick her up, his cell phone began to vibrate in his pocket. He sighed, and checked the caller ID, though he already knew who it was. He pressed the button to accept it and put it to his ear.

"Kinda busy, Caleb," he said with irritation.

"I noticed," Caleb said from the other end. "I just felt you Use… A LOT. What the hell are you doing?"

"Whoops," Reid said mockingly. "Did you miss your 'Anals Anonymous' support group meeting again?"

"I'm serious, Reid," Caleb countered. "You don't understand—Pogue, he…"

"Ahh," Reid interrupted, putting a hand on his suddenly pounding head.

"What's wrong?" Caleb asked.

"My head…" Reid struggled to say. "Ahh-- It hurts!"

"Oh, my God," Caleb droned. "Reid… listen: if there's anyone near you— you need to run!"

"What?" Reid asked with confusion. "Why--?"

"Now, Reid!" Caleb insisted.

"But--"

"RUN, GODDAMMIT!" Caleb shouted.

Reid took one glance at Elle, then high-tailed it down the road as fast as his legs would carry him.

Suddenly he stopped, the pulsing pain in his head too much to force it to command his body to do anything more. Reid called out in pain, clenching his temples and falling to his knees. It was like something inside wanted to burst through his skull. He couldn't fight it— Couldn't hold it in--

Suddenly an explosion of energy burst out of him, making him erupt like a human bomb. Small trees fell like a tornado had blown them over. Cars parked on the street flew straight up into the air, only to come crashing down, alarms blazing, making people inside the surrounding houses turn on their lights. The asphalt under him crumbled into a trench like he had dug his own grave.

Elle was sitting up in the distance, looking straight at him with surprise and confusion.

He knew then that he was in some seriously deep shit.

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Signed,
--RedRogue

PS. Songs that are cool and could be fitting to the story: "Alive with the Glory of Love" by Say Anything, and"Too Little, Too Late" by JoJo… Good songs-- check them out.