The Reckoning By 331

This is what happens after the Awakening by Kelley Armstrong

I do not own anything and it all belongs to Kelley Armstrong. I am just using her characters and adding a few of my own.

Chloe's POV

Previously:

I pulled Derek back in for another hug, and cried on his shoulder. He just rubbed my back, comforting me. I thought I heard someone open the door. I looked up, and I screamed. It was Diane Enright. And I fainted.

Everything was red. I couldn't open my eyes, but could feel everything that happened to my body. I felt myself filling with power, power I didn't, didn't need. It filled me all the way, and then kept going. I felt like I was being torn apart at the seams. Each jolt felt like it was tearing my skin off. Everywhere was pain. Like a thousand needles were moving in and out of my skin over and over again. I knew I could use this power, but I had no clue how, and the idea frightened me. That fear forbid me from doing anything, and my powers had taken control. Every time a jolt hit me, a new round of needles would attack my skin, and I would gasp in pain. And each time one jolt came, the next one would be worse. The jolts progressed from just needles to burning needles, and my gasps turned to shrieks. I just wanted to die, to relieve myself of this pain. My fingertips buzzed with energy, but instead of me being able to control them, the energy shot up my arms and pulsed through my body with every jolt. And the shrieks turned to screams. I felt something hard and numb pushing on my skull, and it got heavier with each jolt.

And suddenly, there was a white burning in my chest. It was worse than the others, but my mouth did not allow me to scream, and my arms and hands did not allow me to rip the skin off my chest. I had to internally writhe in silent agony ad the white burning turned to blue, and spread through out the rest of my body. I heard a strange muttering in a language I didn't know, and it came from everywhere. I screamed in my head because my body would not respond as the blue burning engulfed me and then―

Black. I didn't hurt, there weren't any more jolts of needles, it was just, black. I saw nothing, felt nothing. It was like I was dreaming about blackness. And then I woke up.

I opened my eyes, and saw Derek. He was staring at me with so much emotion, like he would never see me again and wanted to never let me go.

"Derek?"

"Yeah?" It looked like he was shaking.

"What's wrong?" I saw him look down and I couldn't see his face, and then he lunged forward and he kissed me with so much passion I had no choice but to kiss him back. It was the most aggressive kiss he'd ever given me, but it wasn't dirty or anything, just filled with so much love and feeling, that I never wanted it to stop. And neither did he. We kissed for at least ten minutes, with small gasps for breath in between. Finally, I pushed him back. He reluctantly stopped kissing me, but then lifted me up and sat on the bed, with me on his lap.

"Derek, what's going on?" He didn't answer, just put his face in my hair. I pulled away and turned to face him. He tried to pull me back, but I didn't let him.

"Derek! Why won't you tell me?" he looked down, and his hair fell in front of his face. And as I watched, a saw tears fall from behind his bangs. I froze.

"Derek...," he looked up at me. His eyes were red, and there were tears streaming down his face. He looked down again, but I could still see his eyes.

"you're going to die," he whispered. I didn't understand it.

"Wha..?"

"YOU'RE GOING TO DIE!" he screamed, and punched the wall. It was filled with despair and pain, and seeing him like this hurt me more than those words. I started crying too.

"YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, AND I CAN'T STOP IT! I'M SUPPOSED TO PROTECT YOU, AND I CAN'T DO ANYTHING!"he was leaning up against the wall, staring at the ceiling, tears streaming down his cheeks. I finally registered what he said. My heart stopped.

"I'm going to.....die?" my voice cracked, and I wrapped my arms around his torso. I cried into his chest, and he cried into my hair. I didn't want to die. It would mean leaving. Leaving Derek. And I couldn't do that. My brain wouldn't comprehend it.

"Don't leave me," I looked up at his words. The pain in his eyes broke my heart.

"Never."

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Narrator's POV (author's POV. Me!)

Everyone heard everything. they heard Chloe screaming at Diane, Chloe's shrieks of pain, Derek shouting at Diane to go away, then to make it stop, and after Diane came back, they heard Derek shout

"YOU'RE GOING TO DIE! YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, AND I CAN'T STOP IT! I'M SUPPOSED TO PROTECT YOU, AND I CAN'T DO ANYTHING!"Diane explained to everyone about Chloe's new powers, and how she needed to control them, or die. They left Chloe and Derek alone, knowing they needed to be with each other for a while. Tori stopped speaking, she still couldn't get over the fact that she was born because of a dead guy in a woman's body. And Simon left to go to his room, and no one knew what he was doing in there. Shane went outside to run, Joey, Damien, Lacie, Angie, and the twins were being treated by Mike and Sarah to heal their multiple wounds from the battle, Caleb hadn't been seen since they got back to the safe house, and the adults took Diane into one of the offices to be questioned. The mood wasn't happy. No one wanted Chloe to die, and everyone knew it was because of Diane, even if it wasn't her spirit, but it was her body that was at fault, for stabbing Derek, and awakening Chloe's powers. And no one trusted her either. And it seemed, that the despair coming from Chloe's room had enveloped the whole house, because no one could find anything good to take their minds off the impending fact that Chloe was going to die. By the time everyone had gone to sleep, no one had eaten, or really even spoke to each other. They were just too depressed. But tomorrow, Kit said they were going to find a way to stop Chloe from dying. And that's all that was said. Derek and Chloe never came out, they just slept in there, hugging each other. All in all, that day wasn't good.

Hey guys! I know this is kinda sucky, but I can't think of anything to write. Maybe I'll have another Taltheranian show up in one of the next chapters, but I'm still drawing a blank on how to do it. Please review and give me some ideas!