Notes : Alright! Thank you to those who rated and commented about the start of the story so far! I hope that you'll enjoy the rest of the story, and comment it also. If there's any problems with typos or such, you can tell me, and I'll fix that right away. And if you'd want to make suggestion, I'm open for that too!

Presences

A couple of days have passed since Reid had that vision…. Not only that, but every night since then, he's had that same dream over and over again. Just what did it meant exactly? So many questions bombarded his troubled mind. The fearful warning that the woman spoke in his vision was what really made him go insane. Just what was this "darkness"? Was it a force that was unknown to him and the others? Or was it a new enemy? Maybe it was even worse than that : both. His many questions were left with absolutely no answers to fill in those missing pieces of the puzzle. He didn't have time for all of this, he needed to concentrate on his exams, or else he could very well flunk the semester completely.

Reid wasn't the one you'd usually see stressing over school work, but the previous events made some sort of "change" in his morals. He groaned in frustration as he was then faced with a rather difficult question in his History report. He brought his gloved hand to his head and scratched it with a tired and troubled expression written all over his face. Reid didn't bother to study for the exam, which was soon going to be his downfall. He sat up straight while he ran his hand over his face, sighing in a frustrated tone. He rested his hands on his lap while his deep blue eyes wandered the room, until suddenly his eyes caught a dark, undead person who was near the exit door of the class. He jumped up in surprise, gasping lightly in the process. As soon as the figure appeared, it vanished just as fast.

Reid received many question marked faces that were glaring his way. Caleb, who was seated a couple of rows in the top, stared down at him with that "You better not have did something stupid" casual look on his normally stern face. He recognized that glare almost 100 of the time, and each time, he'd ignored it and do a sly smirk directed to him; his own way of making Caleb tense up for nothing. Tyler, who was right beside me, elbowed him lightly against his side.

"What's up with you blondie?" he said in a mocking tone.

Reid glared at him, not finding that the least amusing. If there was a thing that he despised more than anything in the whole screwed up world, it was being called "Blondie" "You didn't see that?..." he said curiously.

"Uhhhh…Are you high?" he said in the most simplistic of ways.

"How about you kiss my ass?" he replied defensively.

Tyler shook his head lightly and started chuckling amusingly while resuming his exam to put the finishing touches on it. Reid gritted his teeth, anger being risen a bit by what just happened. Was he the only one who saw the darkling? "No…It couldn't have been a darkling. That thing looked way too different.." he thought to himself. If what appeared then wasn't a darkling, and he had been the only one to see the sinister figure, what did this all symbolized…? His deep ponders ended once the high pitched sound of the academy bell rang, signaling that the class was to be dismissed. He felt relieved since he couldn't have stressed enough for the damn exam. He picked his backpack and sligned it over his shoulder as he then headed for the hallway.He was more than content that the mid-terms were getting to their ends soon enough.

"What was that all about Reid?" said a stern and chilling voice behind him.

He tilted around lightly just so he could glare at him coldly. What did he wanted from him now? Honestly, Mister All-That always had something against him and his ways, it ticked him off instantly. Reid really wasn't in the mood for Caleb, he needed to sort things out, on his own. He didn't feel like telling him about what he saw in the classroom since he'd just simply be called paranoid or plainly stupid. If they didn't see the being, then what was the use in telling them?

"Get off my back Danvers, I don't need your moral support." He said coldly. Reid didn't bother to turn around again as he walked off further down the hallway. He couldn't have helped but wondered if this was somehow all connected to his "dream"

"Ugh…Nothing can be worse than having a chick stuck in your mind…" Reid shook his head lightly as he muttered to himself a few words. But strangely…It suddenly started to feel rather chilling in the main hallway of the academy. Reid then felt a weird jolt inside him, meaning that someone had Used, and big time. He tilted his head side to side, slowly watching the reality that surrounded him unfold in another sort of dimension. Reid stood still in the newly founded surroundings as it then began to snow softly.

"What the hell…Alright, which one of you smartasses did it? It better not be you Tyler…"

If this were a trick, it was far from being amusing…Docile snowflakes started to gather in a pile in his short blonde hair, his warm breath turning into "smoke" because of the lowered temperature. It was a real winter wonderland…

"Find me…Son Of Ipswich…I'll be waiting here…" said a fluid and crystalline voice. It sounded so …so pure; it ringed into his ears like a soft melody. Reid recognized that voice immediately, it was the same voice that he heard in his vision like dreams…He turned around his heel, and out of nowhere, came face to face with a very feminine body with a creamy and smooth skin texture that took on the tint of a pale color; like snow. And she was…Naked?!

Reid took a step back, paralyzed in astonishment at this unknown woman. But he knew deep inside his gut, that this was the woman that appeared in his recent dreams. She wasn't entirely naked in the snow, she had luscious silky long black hair that covered her plump breasts, and her other intimate female parts. Those eyes…They were a pure icy blue that seemed to had mesmerized him just by gazing into them…

And from all the words he could have chose , he said the following "..whoa.."

He already felt a wide playful grin spread across his thin lips, sensing that his usual and oh so –natural- male instinct started to have kicked in. Reid thought this was some sort of, fantastic fantasy that he thought out while returning to his dorm. But this seemed all too real. So she started to take a step forward, and oh…was that step a graceful one at that.

"The darkness comes your way...Please, you must find me...My time is now." She spoke in a rather urgent voice.

"Well…Where will I find such a …fine woman like yourself?" Reid was playing it smoothly.If this was indeed –his-fantasy, well, why not play along? But something deep inside him, told him that this was all too real and the events that were going to follow also.

The woman closed her eyes slowly.

"You'll know when the time is right..."

Right after she ended her sentence, the reality around him shifted back into the rightful one. But Reid wasn't in the Academy hallway, he found himself back in his dorm…He indeed acted dumbfounded in front of the whole event that just happened, his mind was even more confused than before. Reid still didn't know who that woman was, only that she warned him numerous time about "the darkness" coming to get him he supposed.

Was the momentary reign of peace crumbling already? Or, is was it just a sick, tasteless joke set by the gang. After all , he had felt someone Used. The power felt and seemed different though. And finally, was this all linked to the kind of darkling he saw in the classroom? So many questions, and no answers to them….

Notes:Well, I hope you liked this chapter folks. I don't think this is one of my best ones but…I try lol!