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The Second Chance

Chapter 5: Road Trips And Car Talk

Reid's POV

Come on Blondie, let's go get married.

I swear when Jules said that sentence my heart stopped. Marriage within the Covenant doesn't last long, and most of the time there's no happily ever after. I knew she was joking, but it also made me realize that she had no idea of what me and the rest of the guys were born into. What we really were. Yes she knows of our fathers, but she doesn't know the actual history. She doesn't know the power that our bloodlines were cursed/blessed with. The thing is though I'm not sure I want her to know.

That wasn't the only thing we all had to think about. Juliet was shot and it seems like she blocked it out. There was no nightmares, no need to talk about it, no nothing. Frankly that isn't healthy, and I've vowed to myself to get her to talk about it.

I was sitting on her bed watching her flutter around her room like a butterfly, packing for a road trip that was actually Golden Boy's idea. Who knew he was actually capable of spontaneity, what with his need for everything to be planned and all sides need to be discussed to death.

"Reid? I'm ready." I snapped out of my fog and turned my attention to Jules, who was zipping up her suitcase, or trying to.

"Juliet you do know this is only a four day road trip right? I mean the wedding is at the end of the week, so why do you need so many clothes?" I raised an eyebrow at her quizzically and tilted my head to the side as she hopped up onto her suitcase to try to close it.

"I'd rather have too many choices of outfits then not enough. Plus there's spares and outfits for sudden changes in weather." As she got up and started jumping on her overflowing suitcase, I shook my head and grabbed her slim waist, hauling off of the poor abused object.

"Get down you crazy woman." I pushed down on it and the zipper struggled closed. I grabbed the suitcase's handle and Jules' hand, dragging her out of her bedroom and down the stairs. "Listen Jules there is a few things we need to-"

"Bye Dad, bye Angela!" Juliet interrupted, slipping into her shoes and heading out the door. When Caleb had brought up the idea for the trip, Juliet had mentioned it to her father and soon-to-be step mom, who both agreed that it would be fine if we took a little time to ourselves.

"Bye sweetheart, have fun. Reid you take care of our girl you hear me?" Christopher said from the doorway, holding a purple piece of fabric and scowling.

"You know I will Chris, and by the way; purple isn't your color." He looked down at the fabric and I smirked, waving goodbye after hauling Juliet's monster luggage out of the house and closing the front door.

Walking down to the driveway where Juliet was sitting in the driver's seat and playing with the radio, I shoved her massive suitcase in the back of my vehicle. Walking around to the driver's side I stuck my head in the open window.

"Uh excuse me, what exactly do you think you're doing?" She turned to me and smiled impishly.

"I'm driving."

"No you're not, this is my Jeep and you're not driving it. You drive like a girl."

"If driving like a girl means driving safely and not having chicken races with other drivers, then yes, I drive like a girl. But you can quit bitching, I'm still driving." She smiled smugly at me and turned back to the radio, finally deciding on a suitable station.

"I'm not bitching. Get out of the driver's seat before I-" I was interrupted by a car honking and Jules and I both turned to see Caleb driving towards us.

"Let's go! We don't have all day." Caleb called, sticking his head out of the window.

"We could get moving if Bookworm here ever moves her ass." I felt her slap my arm and I turned to see her glaring at me.

"Either get in the passenger side or go ride with Caleb. I don't care, because I'm still driving."

"Let her drive Reid, you can take turns." Pogue popped his head out of the passenger side window of Caleb's mustang.

I sighed and turned to face my stubborn girlfriend once again. "I rent out an expensive hotel room for you, and this is the thanks I get?" I turned away from her and mock pouted. "You're just lucky I was nice enough to cancel the room early, even though I was hoping for a three day stay there, but noooo.

"Awe Reid, come here." She kissed me and smiled. "Build a bridge and get over it. Nothing you can say or do will change my mind about driving. So get your ass in the passenger seat and hush up Blondie."

Giving up and scowling at my snickering brothers a few feet away, I walked over to the passenger side door and slammed the door shut. "One scratch, and I mean one, and you'll be sorry." She stuck her tongue out, and smiled, revving the engine.

"Now Reid you know I'm not into the kinky stuff." I chuckled and shook my head for what seemed like the hundredth time today. I wasn't worried about her scratching my car, she's a great driver after all, but still I'm a guy and this is my car.

We drove in silence for awhile, the only sound coming from the radio. I was lost in thought about how I should bring up the shooting from a few weeks ago, but then I had images of Juliet getting pissed, driving off the road and head long into a tree. Looking at her out of the corner of my eye, I debated on whether or not to wait until I was in the driver's seat.

"Juliet, we need to talk." Her head snapped in my direction and it dawned on me as to how exactly that sounded. "It's not that talk, it's…we need to talk about the shooting. There's someone still out there that wants you dead and I don't like it. The guys have been looking into it, and I made them swear not to breathe a word of it, but only because I was hoping you'd want to talk about it." I turned in my seat to face her, and she moved farther away, sitting closer to the door.

"There's nothing to talk about, I'm fine. It was a one time thing I'm sure." Juliet glared out the windshield, avoiding looking at me.

"You don't know that, none of us do. There are people out there that want you dead all because they shared the same notion as Rhys did. They won't stop until they get you."

"There's nothing to worry about because I know you and the boys won't let anything bad happen, not when you have those magic powers of yours." Juliet said it so casually that It took me a few moments to process what I heard.

"Wait a second, you knew about us? How come you've never said anything, and how long have you known?" It felt like someone had poured a bucket of freezing water over my head. I had been agonizing over how to tell her and here she was, all casual about the biggest secret me and the guys could possibly hide.

She started fidgetting; gripping the steering wheel and biting her lip. "I overheard a conversation you had with the guys. When I heard Tyler mention your ascension, I got curious and dug a little deeper into your family history. I found this book in the library, and I don't know, it all seems like a movie." Juliet peeked at me out of the corner of her eye and nibbled on her lip. "Is…it's all true isn't it?"

I looked at her for a few minutes, shocked to the core that she already knew about me, and yet here she was, sitting next to me and not scared at all.

"Uh…yeah it is." I replied, scratching the back of my neck. "How come you're not, I mean not that I'm not glad that you've, uh I mean I…shit. Why aren't you scared?" I looked out the passenger side window, holding my breath for her answer. Maybe she was scared and she thought if she tried to get away from me I'd hurt her. Oh god please don't let that be it.

"Because I love you. I know you wouldn't hurt me." I whipped my head back to look at her and she turned and smiled at me. "You've been Mr. Over-protective since this whole Rhys debacle. An evil man wouldn't be that way. Plus now that I've got you, I have no intention of letting you go. You can't get rid of me just because you're can do something very few people can."

I reached over and grabbed her right hand, bringing it to my lips and kissing her knuckles. Juliet smiled.

"You have no idea how happy and relieved I am to hear you say that. You know though that Caleb is going to shit a brick when he hears that you already know."

We both laughed and imagined the hell storm that would happen once Caleb found out and started yelling. "Ha no shit huh? How about we wait until after the trip to tell him. The last thing any of us needs is more drama."

I nodded and turned back to look out the windshield. My eyes widened and I looked over at Juliet, "Juliet stop!"

She stopped laughing when she saw my face, turned back to the road and gasped. A tall figure was standing in the middle of the road, we could see the guys making a U-turn and I figured they saw the person as well. Juliet swerved to the right and the person smiled as we ran off the road and hit a tree. Before I blacked out from my head hitting the dashboard, I looked over to see Juliet slumped over the steering wheel, and the person looking in through the busted window, smiling at me with an evil grin. He waved at me jokingly and winked. Everything went black a few seconds later.

Author's Note: So I'm ending it here, and I just want to say I'm 100x sorry that the update took so long. I'm not really feeling this story as much as before, but I'm NOT giving up on it. I just need to take it in a more exciting direction, and I hope you all are still with me and enjoy this chapter.

Oh and I'm deleting "A Father's Love" since the only people who have reviewed are kvsgrl and Miay255. Love you both so much for encouraging me, but frankly I'm a little disappointed that nobody else has taken time to give that story a chance. And really though, no matter how many people deny it, people post here hoping to get lots of reviews, let authors know that their time isn't being wasted. SO I'm scrapping "A Father's Love" and carrying on with this story.