A/N: I've had this chapter on my laptop for a long time but never put it up. The reason being that I'm not sure how to continue..curse you writer's block! I figured what the heck though.

Reid: Admit it..you missed me.

Tink: Like a hole in the head.

Pogue: What about me?

Tink: A little. Before you ask I missed you as well, Caleb and Tyler.

Caleb: Good to see you back.

Tyler: Yay! You missed me!

Chase: And me, Authoress?

Tink: ~Sighs~ I suppose I do have a soft spot for you somewhere.

On with the forgotten chapter of The Key!

Chapter Six: Betrayal and Pain

Seph's P.O.V.

Pogue and I arrived back at Caleb's house after being released from the hospital only to be welcomed by the wonderful sound of yelling voices. I glanced up at Pogue with a furrowed brow of confusion only for him to shrug and roll his eyes as if this was a regular occurrence. He pushed open the door without even bothering to knock, not like they would hear us anyway, and led me into the house.

"We have to go after them!" Tyler yelled as we entered the room.

"Not before we come up with a plan, it's too risky," Caleb argued.

"What the hell is going on?" I demanded with hands on my hips and Pogue right at my side.

Both of their heads jerked over to our direction. Tyler looked a bit embarrassed to have been caught yelling while Caleb looked like someone had just run over his dog. My heart dropped down to my stomach. Lux.

"Answer her, Caleb," Pogue practically growled.

"Reid's gone," Caleb said quietly with a sigh.

"Taken," Tyler added when we both looked at them like that was supposed to be bad, from what Lux had told me Reid was always taking off.

"Who?" Pogue asked.

"We think it's Chase but we aren't sure yet. Apparently, Lux has switched sides," Caleb answered with obvious difficulty.

"That's bullshit!" I exploded. "Lux would never do that, she would never betray us. I've known her a hell of a lot longer than any of you and I can tell you right now whatever you're thinking is wrong."

"You think I want to believe that my sister, my own flesh and blood would do this to me? You didn't see her today, she was all over Chase and she told Reid that she was just screwing around with him," Caleb raged in return.

"I suppose we know why we couldn't find her now," Pogue muttered with a sigh.

I took three steps away from all of them with my eyes wide in shock. I couldn't believe that they would all be so quick to think the worst of my best friend. I knew that it looked bad but I would trust Lux with my life, she knew that Chase was bad and I knew that she had to have a plan. I didn't know what that plan was exactly but whatever it was it wasn't her betraying everyone that she loved in the world.

"I can't believe all of you," I whispered, hurt lacing every word.

I looked over at Tyler, he liked like he was going along with this only because Caleb wasn't giving him any other choice. My gaze then went to Caleb, he looked exactly like the fearless determined leader everyone expected him to be and I knew there would be no changing his mind. My watery eyes finally landed on Pogue. His beautiful green eyes connected with mine and I realized he had already passed his judgment and that judgment was the wrong one.

Without another word my eyes faded to black and I was gone. Pogue's pained, haunted eyes the last thing I saw.

Lux's P.O.V.

I slowly opened my eyes when the creepy feeling of someone watching me could no longer be ignored. I knew without even looking that it would be Chase. The sick bastard probably got his rocks off by admiring his handy work that showed all over my body. I slowly raised myself off of the floor, where I had passed out, onto my elbows and nearly emptied my stomach of all it's contents. The thing I had been fearing the most had happened. There was Reid. Chained to the wall by his wrists, bloody and knocked out. His head was down so that his chin was touching his chest.

"What the hell did you do to him?" I shouted at Chase while shooting to my feet, completely ignoring the pain that coursed through my tired body. I had to make sure that Reid was still breathing.

"I assure you he's still alive..for the moment," Chase answered with an evil smirk that I wanted to slap right off of his twisted face.

"You can't hurt him or the deal is broken," I shot at him feeling triumphant. However, the feeling quickly faded when he started to laugh a chilling half-crazed laugh.

"I can hurt him and all of your precious Sons as much as I wish so long as I don't kill them, Pet. You'd be surprised what you can live through," the bastard smugly retorted.

I should have known going into this that he would find some way to get at them but what else could I have possibly done? I couldn't stand by and allow him to play some twisted game of cat and mouse with those that I cared about. He had already hurt Pogue and Seph, now he had Reid. He had Reid because of me, that was the worst part of it.

"What do you want?" I asked warily, knowing that it couldn't be as simple as just causing physical pain. Oh, no that would never be enough for someone like him.

"It's quite simple really. I want the order the Sons will Ascend in, their weaknesses, strengths and any other tid-bits you might be able to think up," Chase practically purred as he stalked over to circle around to the back of me. I shivered as I felt him brush some hair over my shoulder.

I closed my eyes for a moment and sucked in a deep breath. I knew what he would do with the information but I if I didn't tell him I couldn't even imagine what he would to do Reid, my Reid. While he couldn't kill any of the Sons he could cause a lot of damage and I was stupid not to see that coming. I had underestimated Chase Collins and it would cost me dearly.

"If I tell you will you let Reid go?" I asked in a small voice that I didn't even recognize as my own.

"You have my word," Chase whispered right next to my ear.

"The first to Ascend will be-" I started but didn't get the chance to finish as a huge hole was blasted into the wall.

I dove for the floor, covering my head with my arms as best I could. I heard a body make impact with one of the remaining walls and prayed that it wasn't Reid.

"Get him free!" someone yelled over the chaos and my head shot up as I recognized it to be my brother's. The cavalry had arrived and it was about damn time.

I jumped to my feet and went to run to the Sons I loved so dearly but the look on Caleb's face stopped me dead in my tracks. He had an energy ball in his right hand and was looking right at me with a heated glare.

"Caleb," I nearly whispered.

He raised his arm and before I could react fierce pain hit me right in the chest. I was sent crashing into the wall and landed right by Chase's unmoving body. I couldn't believe it. My own brother had attacked me.

"What are you thinking, Caleb?" I heard Tyler yell.

"Do you realize what you just did? That was Lux! Our Lux!" Pogue added.

"She betrayed us. This is the fate she chose," Caleb said in a very monotone voice.

I could hear them moving around and footsteps coming towards me. A twinge of hope appeared inside of me thinking that they would at least take me with them.

"Leave her," Caleb snapped and all hope vanished.

The last thing I heard was Tyler whispering, "I'm sorry." before everything went black.

Unknown P.O.V.

I had always considered myself a fairly positive person but at this point in time I was finding it very hard to look on the bright side. I glanced away from the road and over to my twin who was humming happily along with her iPod. I shook my head and returned my attention to the road. Should have known, nothing ever bothers the perfect Isabelle DeWinter. We'd been on the road for a little over ten hours and she was still just as perky as could be. I wanted to stab her.

My body tensed up as a foreign feeling invaded it. I looked over at Izzy once again to see that she had removed her ear-buds and was sitting stock still, meaning that she had felt it too.

"Tell me you felt that," she nearly pleaded.

"They're close," I reassured her with a nod. I wasn't quite sure if it was her or myself I was trying to comfort.

"What if we're too late?" she asked, her bright blue eyes shining over at me with fear. Sometimes it sucked being the brave one.

"We can't be," I ordered.

"Joey, they had to have been Using an awful lot for us to have been able to feel it from this far away," Izzy argued.

It was true, we were just now reaching the city limits of Ipswich and already we were sensing the Power. That wasn't a good sign but I couldn't allow myself to think the worst. Not yet.

"Then we'll arrive right on schedule," I told my twin with a note finality, putting an end to the discussion.

I could only hope that I was right, if I wasn't that would mean they wouldn't survive and if they didn't survive the consequences would be dire. With that thought in mind I pressed down harder on the gas pedal and sent up a silent prayer to whoever might have been listening that I wasn't speeding off to our doom.

Tyler's P.O.V.

Sitting in the chamber under the colony house, watching Reid pace back and forth I tried to get a grip on what had just happened. Every time I closed my eyes all I could picture was the look on Lux's face as she was hit, it was like she was the one that had been betrayed. Something just wasn't fitting right. When Reid finally woke up he immediately demanded to know where Lux was. When we told him he started yelling saying that pretty much we had royally fucked up. The way he put it was that Lux had made a deal with Chase, she traded herself for us. Caleb was refusing to see it that way though. He was so quick to condemn her, it made me worry about what was becoming of our family.

"We have to go back for her," Reid growled, not stopping his pacing.

"What part of what just happened are you not understanding, Reid? She chose him, not us," Caleb said, sounding much older than his seventeen, nearly eighteen, years.

"She chose him to save all of our asses and you bastards just left her there! She trusted us, sacrificed herself for us and this is how we repay her?" Reid demanded with clenched fists.

What Caleb would say next would send my already spinning head into hyper-drive.

"If we go back she will be treated as a threat, an enemy, equal to Chase," our leader calming stated.

I looked across to Pogue, he looked just as lost as I was. Not only had he lost Lux, a girl who had somehow made the usually brooding biker crack a smile but he had also lost Seph. I didn't really understand how Pogue and Seph fit together so well yet somehow they just did. Now they were both gone leaving two of my brothers completely devastated and me scrambling to hold everything together while Caleb was determined to blow everything apart. Being the youngest sure as shit didn't have many perks and a hell of a lot of downers.

"You're making a mistake, Caleb. I'm trying to warn you now because I know you'll regret it more than anything you've ever done," Reid said, for once being totally serious.

"Seph was right," I barely heard Pogue whisper.

"What was that?" Caleb questioned.

"I said that Seph was right," Pogue said louder and then went on to explain with a sigh. "She has known Lux a hell of a lot longer than any of us, she would know if this was really a betrayal or not."

"Unless they were all planning on stabbing us in the back for revenge from the very beginning," Caleb countered.

Before Reid or I could react Pogue was across the room with his hand around Caleb's throat. I went to step in but Reid's hand on my shoulder stopped me. I looked back at him but he just shook his head.

"Don't ever talk about her that way again. Brother or not I will make you eat your words," Pogue threatened right in Caleb's face.

To his credit Caleb held up his hands in a show of surrender and Pogue sent him a warning glare before backing off. I had never felt so much tension between the four of us before, even when Caleb got on Reid for Using. That just seemed like child's play to me now. My eyes snapped over to Reid as he dropped down into his chair. I had never in all the years that I'd known him seen my best friend so..so..broken and that scared me more than anything.

"What are we gonna do?" I asked warily, afraid of the answer I would get.

"Chase has to be stopped," Caleb said.

"You don't stand a chance against him until you Ascend," Pogue stated while rubbing a hand down his face.

"No shit, Pogo Stick but all we have to do is distract him for a while until our fearless leader does Ascend. Simple," Reid shot back with a roll of his eyes. It was good to know that his charming personality was still intact.

"One problem," I carefully butted in and three sets of eyes landed on me. Well, fuck me.

"What's that, Baby Boy?" Pogue grumbled.

"Lux," I answered simply as if that would be enough, obviously not because they were all still looking at me. So, I sighed deeply and elaborated for my slow brothers. "She's a distraction and a weakness for all of us, if Chase has her with him, which he most likely will, we'll all be royally fucked."

"We know one of us doesn't have a problem hurting her," Reid snapped with a glare sent at Caleb.

"Look, I know you think you love her and you think that she actually cares about you but she doesn't, she chose him. What's it gonna take for you to get that, Reid?" Caleb asked tiredly.

"You're wrong and I'm not gonna leave her there for that fucked up psycho to do who the hell knows what to her!" my best friend yelled.

"Just cool it," Pogue broke in. "We'll go after Chase and if he has Lux with him we'll deal with it then."

No more words were spoken, just hesitant nods. We didn't have a plan, we could barely be in the same room with each other without trying to commit murder and we were about to go against our worst enemy. Usually I'm an optimist but even I could see that we were totally fucked. Love makes people do stupid things and boy is she a bitch for sinking her hooks into my brothers.

Lux's P.O.V.

It was cold and dark when I finally came to. My entire body hurt, something that I was sadly getting very used to. I slowly rolled over and came in contact with another body that wasn't moving. Oh no. My eyes snapped open to find Chase laying sprawled out next to me with half of his body covering mine. Damn it if a twinge of fear hit didn't me at the thought of him being dead.

"Chase?" my voice cracked and sounded weak to my own ears. He didn't move.

I carefully sat myself up, wincing as my tortured body cried out in pain, and gently rolled Chase over onto his back. There was a deep gash on his forehead with dried blood surrounding it. At least it wasn't still bleeding but I had no way of knowing how much blood he had lost. The Sons had done this him and they'd left me here, abandoned me as if I were their enemy. Rage rolled through me as I looked down at Chase, even if he was their enemy this was still no way to treat him.

"Please wake up, Chase. Please," I begged and was shocked to feel tears come to my eyes. Although part of me hated him if he didn't wake I'd be all alone and I didn't have a clue what I would do.

"Lux?" his voice sounded so strained it was almost painful to hear but it meant he was alive.

I gripped his hand in mine with a whispered, "I'm here."

"Wha...what...happened?" Chase asked softly.

"The Sons..they attacked you and-," my voice cracked and left me as I went to explain the rest.

"They left you," he stated. I could only nod. "Let me rest a while and we'll figure out what to do."

"You'll help me?" I questioned with shock clearly showing in my voice.

"Of course," he responded like it was a promise.

That is how I found myself cuddled up to my enemy's side with his arms holding me tightly to him and hatred for the Sons burning inside of me.