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Chapter 07: Switched
Reid and Tyler were at the hospital when Pogue and Kate awoke, both sitting outside Pogue's room. Tyler raced in as soon as he saw the older boy's eyes open. Pogue gasped for air and looked at Tyler mouthing to him 'Where's Caleb and Ella?'
"Calm down, Ella's with Caleb they're..." Tyler started to say as Reid clamped his hand over Tyler's mouth. Tyler licked Reid's hand but that only made the blonde laugh.
"Sorry baby boy," he smirked slowly moving his hand away from his mouth. "Now you can speak,"
"Fuck off. Sorry Pogue. I was trying to say that they're at Putnam Barn...I think," Tyler said, glaring at Reid whose eyes glinted mischievously.
"They'll be okay," Reid said confidently as a nurse walked into check on Pogue.
"Mr Sims, Mr Garwin if you could just step out of the room a moment," the nurse said looking at Reid and then at Tyler who nodded and walked out of the room and stood looking into the room watching.
Back at the barn Caleb had picked up Sarah and carried her out of the barn and over to Ella and an old piece of farming equipment. Ella looked to Caleb and then at Sarah sighing when she saw that the younger girl was still slightly out of it. Caleb lay Sarah in the back of an old wooden trolley that had some old bags in it as the rain started to ease up a little.
"Ella, are you okay?" Caleb asked turning to her briefly as she nodded before turning back to Sarah and moving her hair from her face.
"Yeah, I'm fine are you?" Ella asked, Caleb nodded as Sarah opened her eyes and looked at Caleb who smiled at her. "Caleb, don't use my power will you," she whispered knowing that if she didn't get it back with in the next month it would be too late.
"Hey," Caleb smiled, pulling her up a little before Sarah wrapped her arms around him.
"The fire brigade is on the way," Ella told them before Sarah stood up taking her arms from around Caleb.
Caleb took both girls hands and led them back to his car. He was always going to be protective over both of them, even more so since Ella had leant him her 'power' just moments ago. Within minutes the fire brigade was there drenching the flames quenching them of their need for oxygen.
"We didn't find anybody," one of the men said walking up to Caleb as Sarah and Ella looked at one another. "We looked everywhere and there's no one," as soon as he finished talking Caleb climbed in his car.
"Caleb," Ella started to say but was cut off by Sarah.
"What does that mean?" Sarah queried, as Caleb took her hand and Ella closed her eyes as Caleb used to fix his windscreen.
"Honestly?" he questioned pausing, as he knew it was what the girls had both meant. "I don't know,"
"I don't like the sound of that," Sarah whispered as Caleb started to drive back to the Danver's mansion.
At the hospital Pogue and Kate were being checked over as the doctors couldn't work out why both teens had suddenly woken up. Tyler looked at Reid and nodded, both knew that neither Caleb nor Ella would care at that particular moment in time if they used.
"How are we going to do this?" Reid questioned, watching as the younger boy searched his mind.
"I'm thinking," Tyler answered, running a hand through his hair as he glanced as Pogue and at Reid. "Book of Damnation, I remember some memory spell,"
"Is that the one that your dad tried to use on us but Caleb and Ella found out?" Reid questioned, remembering when they had first attained the power.
"Yeah, but Caleb and Ella, they need to be here for it to work," Tyler answered, remembering that all their fathers had been present.
"Won't it work with just us?" Reid queried, Tyler just shook his head, so Reid pulled out his cell and dialled Ella's number. "Hey,"
'Reid, what is it?' Ella asked not even opening her eyes when she answered it.
"Pogue and Kate are awake," Reid said, before Tyler snatched the phone from him.
"They're asking questions," Tyler said hurriedly as Reid glared at him.
'What sort of questions?'
Caleb listened to Ella talking to both Reid and Tyler while Sarah sat staring out the window. From what heard of the conversation he gathered that Reid and Tyler wanted to try something. Caleb decided to turn the car around and drive to the hospital instead.
Pogue lay in his hospital bed wincing whenever any pressure was put on any part of his body. The doctors, didn't understand why the young boy had so suddenly woken up the same thing could be said about Kate though the doctors simply assumed that it was the amount of medications that had been pumped in her body.
Within a matter of minutes Caleb, Sarah and Ella were walking back inside the hospital. Sarah still in shock as the events from the last few days clicked within her head. Caleb looked at Ella before he spoke.
"What are you two playing at?" Caleb questioned looking between the two youngest members of the covenant.
"We need to do the memory spell," Reid stated as Tyler looked at his sister. "They're asking a lot of questions,"
"Ella, you're different," Tyler muttered looking away from her and at Caleb.
"We're not doing it," Caleb said, looking at Sarah who had gripped his hand tighter.
"Caleb, it won't kill me," Ella hissed, she knew it was the only reason that he was refusing to do it. " I can tell that's the only reason you won't do it,"
"That's not the only reason,"
"Caleb, Ella, Reid, Tyler would one of you please tell me what's going on?" Sarah asked, as Reid walked over to Ella and took her hand.
"Don't really know how to explain it," Ella said, Tyler kept looking at her until she glared at him.
After a few minutes of silent arguing Caleb got a hit in the arm by Ella and Tyler both telling him to shut up. Though Tyler, Reid and Pogue still weren't sure as to why Caleb and Ella were arguing to begin with.
"Ella, why are you and Caleb fighting? You never fight," Tyler questioned, Ella just ignored him which wasn't like her.
"She gave me her power," Caleb said solemnly, Ella just nodded, she knew that they had a lot of questions. "She has no power,"
"Caleb, that's not true," Tyler muttered, he knew that there was something different about her but he couldn't figure it out. And it wasn't that she had no power.
"Can we just do the damn spell," Ella said, Reid still had her hand tightly gripped in his own.
"Fine," Caleb sighed, before he realised that if they said it with Sarah at the hospital she would have no recollection of any of the events that had happened lately. "Shit, Sarah if do it you won't remember anything,"
"Anything?" Sarah questioned, looking at Ella, Caleb, Pogue, Reid and Tyler as she bit her lip.
"I'm sorry," Ella whispered, the others all nodded in agreement except for Pogue who mumbled.
'Let the memories of those who ask questions be altered. Thoughts, Beliefs, Ideas, Truths, Images, All of these you hold onto tightly, What I mention now you will release,'
When they finished the spell the only thing that Sarah could remember was who each of the teens was. Ella smiled at her before she pulled Caleb aside. Reid and Tyler looked at one another.
"Caleb, you know that there might be a way for her to remember everything," Ella told him quietly wishing that she did have her power back.
"How?" he asked quickly and quietly as he gave her a hug.
"A memory reversal spell," Ella muttered looking at Sarah she hugged Caleb back.
"Are they together?" Sarah asked, causing both Reid and Tyler to laugh.
"Nah, they're just really close," Tyler said as Reid tried his hardest to stop laughing. "They dated years ago," he added before Reid spoke.
"And now she's with me," Reid grinned, looking at Ella as she and Caleb walked back to them. "Or will be," he added quietly. Tyler had only been speculating that Reid was with his sister as Ella was yet to give Reid a definitive answer.
"Hey Pogue," Ella whispered, as she walked over to the teen's bed going straight past Reid, Tyler and Sarah.
"I'll take Sarah to Kate's room cause Ella and I need to talk to you three," Caleb said looking directly at Reid and Tyler before he spoke to Sarah. "I'm going to take you to see Kate, I'll explain everything later,"
Sarah simply nodded at the tall boy before she took the hand that he held out to her. Sarah followed Caleb as he walked from the room. As they walked Caleb couldn't help wondering what was on Sarah's mind.
"Sarah, do you remember any of the past week?" Caleb queried, looking at her and giving her small smile.
"Nope, sorry all I remember is starting at Spencer's," Sarah paused looking up at him before she continued. "And meeting you Caleb, Tyler, Reid, Pogue, Kate and Ella," she added uncertainly before they arrived at Kate's hospital room.
"Okay, well go in with Kate," Caleb said quietly before he let go of her hand and started to walk away from her slowly. "I'll explain it all later, I promise," he added in an almost inaudible tone.
Back in Pogue's room the three teen boys were sitting staring at the older girl. Ella sighed before she decided to poke Tyler incessantly. Tyler swatted at her hands before he gave up and Reid took them in his own.
"Ella what did you do?" Reid asked not letting the older girls hands go.
"Does it matter?" Ella queried in reply as she tried to pull her hands back from Reid before he pulled her into his arms.
"Yeah, it matters Ell," Pogue muttered, causing the three of them to look at him as Caleb walked back into the room.
"Caleb what did my sister do?" Tyler asked suddenly as he looked at the older boy.
"She gave me her power," he stated in an almost whisper.
"She what?" Reid gasped, trying to comprehend what Caleb had just said.
"I have him my powers, only I didn't 'will' them to him," Ella said quietly not bothering to try and get free from Reid's grip. "I did a spell, and I can get it back whenever he or I choose,"
"You're still a witch right?" Reid questioned, taking one arm from around her and taking his hat off to scratch his head.
"She's still a witch, it's in her blood," Caleb said looking at Ella as he spoke.
Tyler hoped that only Ella's power has been switched and not Chase's as well as that could be catastrophic. Reid wrapped his arms tightly around Ella and rested his head on her shoulder while Tyler and Caleb moved so that they were sitting around Pogue.
"Did Chase's power go anywhere?" Pogue asked, quietly the question that was sitting on each of the boys' minds.
"No, the spell only gave Caleb my power," Ella told them as she closed her eyes. "I know this because I only said my name and no one else's,"
"What if he did it too?" Tyler asked, he was still trying to figure out why she was different.
"Tyler sweetheart, that spell I did was in no book," Ella muttered, she didn't dare tell them how short she had just made her life.
"What if you had died?" Reid and Tyler asked simultaneously as Ella looked at them both.
"But I didn't,"
"Yeah, but what if you had or Caleb had," Tyler questioned almost angrily as he ran a hand through his hair.
"If Ella had died, I'd be pissed off and devastated..." Caleb paused staring at Ella before he continued speaking, this time about himself. "If I had died it would have been the end of the Danver's line," he finished, all of the teens knowing that it was true.
Pogue lay back in the bed trying to stay as still as he could as the better part of his body ached to no end. He looked between Reid and Ella and then at Caleb and Tyler who both shrugged. No one was entirely certain what was going between the pair of them.
"When did this happen?" Pogue muttered closing his eyes briefly before looking at Ella again who had subconsciously managed to wriggle free from Reid's arms.
"When did what happen?" Ella questioned, innocently before smirking at Reid, both of them knew what was being asked.
"You know exactly what Pogue's asking," Caleb said, in truth he was a little jealous of Reid.
"Officially or unofficially," Ella asked, as she looked at Tyler who hadn't spoken a word.
"Officially," Tyler muttered almost glaring at his sister.
"I don't really know," Reid answered, as he hadn't technically asked Ella out.
"Reid, be serious!," Caleb exclaimed, watching as Ella sat in the chair next to Pogue's bed, which Tyler had previously been occupying but stood up briefly. She then proceeded to pull the younger boy down next to her.
"Kiddo, Reid's not lying,"
Tyler sighed, he currently didn't care that he was seventeen years old and sitting on his eighteen year old big sister's lap. Caleb muttered something under his breath about wanting to give Ella her power back. None of the boys knew what would happen if she didn't get them back.
