Chapter 2
Catherine sat opposite Tyler at the restaurant. She was awfully quiet, and constantly glancing at Caleb and Pouge. Her chest is throbbing, her head is spinning but she can never show that she is weak in front of her brother. Her nonexistent breakfast threatened to come out of her stomach. Her body is burning up. She knows what she was getting into when she stepped onto the plane.
She rested her head on Caleb's shoulders. Pouge looks at Tyler questioningly. If anything was going on, they would be the first to know.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Caleb asked.
"Just tired. I'll be fine." She answers.
"Andy, I'm sorry. Cal, I'm sorry I did not tell you this sooner but, I do think he should know." Tyler said. Catherine just shook her head and Pouge was trying to make him not say anything. "When she turns 15, we got to know that she have leukemia. We tested our blood to match a marrow donor. But she would not do it. Now I think it's time for you and Andy to talk about this." Tyler said as he excused himself from the table.
"Tyler, wait." Catherine said. "5 months. Why can't you just let it go?" she asked.
"Because it is not matured yet. You have no idea what you can have when you turn 18." He answered.
"Hold on you two. What is not matured? What 5 months?" Caleb questioned. Pouge just stood up and turn away from the table. Leaving a clueless Caleb and Reid. Tyler stood there silent not wanting to have to explain himself. "Andy?" He turns and looks at his sister.
"Nothing. He is just rambling nonexistent things." Catherine said.
"It's not nothing." Caleb protested. "Why aren't any of you telling me?" He asked.
"Well, Golden Boy, why don't you ask Evie." Catherine shoot at him.
"What does she have to…" Caleb trailed. Like a light bulb flicked in his head, he remembers he read about the most powerful witch in the covenant before. "My god. The first born girl in 44 years. Tell me you are not the chosen one." Caleb said. "That is why mom sent you to London. To part us. To make you forget your ancestry. It all makes sense."
"It does not make it right." Tyler said.
"Shut up, Tyler." Reid said.
"She has every right to learn everything. We had our chance. She's being cast off because of what she could be. How do we know that she is not already as what your mother fear?" Tyler argued.
Pouge came back in and pulled Tyler outside. Reid merely followed as he left the two siblings to 'discuss' what is left to be discussed.
"I gave her my word. So did you and Reid. Why the hell did you do that?" Pouge blow in rage.
"He has the right to know about it. She has to tell him soon. I'm merely accelerating the process." Tyler reacted.
"It is neither the place nor time and certainly not your place to make a decision. Not without telling me first." Andy yelled as she walked towards Tyler. Her once pale face is red with anger. Caleb trails behind her, lost.
"He is your brother. He deserves to know. And we both know that you will not end in 5 months time." Tyler said.
"I am only human Tyler. I pledge to myself not to practice what I have. Could you just stop. I'm not him. I will never be like you guys and I will never be like my father. If I could I will 'Will' my share right this moment." Catherine burst.
"Catherine Alexandria Danvers, open this door right this second." Caleb said banging on the door.
"Or what? You can open it yourself. Caleb just go away. I made a huge mistake coming back. I should not have." Catherine said angrily.
"You made the right choice coming back, Andy. Just let us in. Let us explain the whole thing to you." Pouge tried. Unwittingly, she gave in and opened the door. Her bags in her closet that she just began to unpack, now are all packed again. "You can't go. You made a choice. Don't turn halfway." Pouge said.
"You gave me your word. I never thought this would come out from you." Catherine said with spite to Tyler. "Don't say another word. I don't understand what makes you guys unquestioningly loyal to Caleb."
"This has nothing to do with our loyalty. I told him because I know what it feels like to lose someone. I know the pain and the agony of being lied to. Andy, stop making this about us. About you, me and Pouge. This is about all of us. I might be the most ignorant among them. But I know. I know the extent of this. I am not about to think about myself and about the thing
you asked me to keep just so you could kill yourself just to shun away from your family and to run away from your destiny." Tyler said. Pouge, Reid and Caleb just stared dumbfounded at him.
He was always the quiet one. Never inferring in any problems. But he is different. Stronger in his action. He's taking his own stand. Making his own choices. Taking risks. Tyler is petrified with what is going on with Catherine. He is so sacred that he does not care about the consequences that might hit him before long.
Each of them fell silent. Caleb is lost for words of what was happening. Reid could not think of a joke that could make this situation better. Pouge could not think of a sentence that can change the emotion of the two siblings. Catherine could not think of a response to fight what Tyler just said. None of them expected this from the quietest person, the person that would never stir up any commotion.
"Think about it. Please. Think about what I said to you at the airport and about what we talked about this morning. Promise me, that you would never dismiss the importance of family. You keep us close but you shun away your own mother." Tyler said to Catherine. "And you, you treat her like she is some invalid." He turns to Caleb.
"Do not bring her in this, Tyler." Caleb said in a warning tone.
"And why not, Caleb. Because I sent you darling sister away? Or because if I am no more an alcoholic to you, I am no one?" Evelyn said from the door.
"Mom?" Caleb and Catherine said concurrently as the turn their head to Evelyn Danvers who was standing there, for god knows how long.
"She will never be the chosen one. Once every 44 years, the most powerful witch is born. But the cycle will be in reverse for every 5 witch. It starts with Putnam, then Danvers, followed by Parry, Garwin and Simms. When the cycle is done, it will be in reverse, Simms, Garwin, Parry, Danvers and Putnam. In 1692, the noted woman witch in the covenant was of Parry descendent. If my calculation is correct, this time it will be another of Parry descendent." Evelyn said.
"But there was never a witch in our colony." Reid corrected.
"There were. We are not allowed to practice. The witches are to be willed her powers to the head of their colony at the time. The last time was your father. And now you." Evelyn explained.
"But if I am not a witch or even something apart of this than I would never be able to do this." Catherine said as she levitated a few feet in the air while still being seated cross legged.
"The only thing is I cannot control the thing. I will just fall." She said as she moves towards her bed and flops on it.
"Catherine, believe me. I am never mistaken in this. I could not be." Evelyn said.
"But you are." Catherine said. "And no one calls me Catherine anymore." She added.
"Andy, enough. I don't understand. Will she not able to do what she did if she is not from a Parry bloodline?" Caleb asked.
"No. She will just be like me." Evelyn said.
"I am certainly not, am I?" Catherine spat.
"Andrea stop it. Enough!" Caleb bellowed. "There is never a time that you could sit in a room and not fight."
"There will be." Catherine said. As she walked to her dressing table and opened a box. Only a glance and she shut it back. She quickly moves to her hand bag that she would never leave home without.
"What are you doing?" Caleb asked. Catherine just kept quiet, and keep on searching for something. "What are you searching for, Andy?" Caleb asked again.
"My medication." Catherine answered simply. Evelyn looked at Caleb for answer. Catherine took 2 pills and swallowed it. "It's called drugs." Catherine rolled her eyes at Caleb. Evelyn is still lost. "Whatever bloodline I am from or whatever abilities or curses I have, it will not matter soon. Just don't cremate me." Catherine joked.
"How long is it going to take to make you realize that this is not a joke? What will it take for you to listen to us?" Tyler asked.
"To you Ty. Never. I am never going to go through another round of chemo. Or ever going to have the marrow transplant." Catherine answered.
"What exactly this means?" Caleb asked.
"Pouge. Shut up. Do not say a word." Catherine warns. Pouge is stuck in between the siblings. He did not voice one word since the restaurant scene. He just shook his head.
"What is it? What does it mean, Pouge?" Caleb asked again.
"She has my word. I am not going to break the trust. I am not going to be involved in this. Tyler, you made a huge mistake." Pouge said.
"Reid?" Evelyn turn to the young man who she could trust to rat on anyone.
"Not this time, ma'am." Reid said.
"Quel est le problème? Andy? Tu m'a promis que vous allez bientôt lui." Pouge said to Catherine. Only Catherine and he are fluent in French therefore he have no problems talking in codes with her.
"J'ai moins de 5 mois selon le médecin. La situation s'aggrave. Je ne sais pas ce qui va se passer maintenant. Mon médicament est tous allé et je ne vais pas revenir à l'hôpital pour plusieurs jours. S'il te plaît comprendre." Catherine retorted.
"5 mois? Et tu ne m'a pas dit? C'est ce que Tyler était parle. Vous devez indiquer à votre frère. Si ce n'est pas pour lui, le faire pour moi." Pouge said trying to coax Catherine.
"Okay. You tell him." Catherine said.
"Why can't you, tell him?" Pouge questioned.
"Parce que j'ai besoin de vider mon estomac vide." She said as she rushed to the toilet.
"Andy. Stop this." Tyler ran after her. "Andy, what… My god. Pogue, come here." He shouted.
"Ty get out." Catherine said as she continues to empty her stomach. "You're not supposed to see this." She said, as she tries to push him out of the toilet.
"Quand est la dernière fois que vous mangez?" Pouge asked, disappointed looking at the blood mixed vomit.
"Yesterday morning." Andy said weakly as she splashes cold water over her face after she flushed the toilet.
"Manger? That's eat. You have not eaten since yesterday?" Tyler questioned.
"Apparently, so." Pouge said as he helped Catherine out of the bathroom. "Vous mes chers besoin d'un médecin. Pas d'excuses." Pouge said. "She needs a doctor." He said to Evelyn and Caleb.
"English please, Pouge." Caleb said as Pouge sat Catherine down on the chair. "You. Tell me what's going on." Caleb said as he lower himself beside Catherine's chair.
"Really want to know? With Evie here?" Catherine said. Caleb just nodded. "I have less than 5 months. That was my last pill. This is soon to disappear. I have not been doing my chemotherapy for months, and my cancer is progressing." She said quietly. The guilt of not telling Caleb earlier was not as painful of a feeling if compared to how she was put to exile by her mother and her brother. "And no. No more treatment. Please" She begged.
"Tell me why?" Caleb asked.
"I have had enough of it for a year. And I have had enough meds in my body to kill me." She answered.
"Why do you keep this from me? Do you hate me that much that you are willing to…" Caleb stopped himself before he regrets what he says.
"I love you that much that I don't want this family and you guys into anymore trouble." She replied. "I have given you all enough trouble for 16 years."
"Don't say that. We've been apart all those years. Give me one more chance." Caleb pleaded.
"At least let me redeem myself." Evelyn said. "I was terribly wrong to do what I did. Please let me do this one last time. Give me this last chance."
"I'm sorry. I can't." Catherine said.
"If you really don't want to go through the treatment any more, you would have taken your line out. It's still there. You still want to do it. But you are scared. I know you are. But you have us now. We'll be there. Caleb's going to be there this time." Tyler reasoned.
No other person knows about her line except for these three people. And what Tyler said is true. She is just scared. She's terrified to go through the chemo alone again.
"Pourquoi êtes-vous réticent?" Pouge questioned her.
"Parce que je veux lui de savoir le sentiment d'être rejeté." She answered.
"Allez-vous continuer le traitement si nous vous demandons de nous? Si je vous prie?" Pouge asked again. Catherine just simply nodded. "Good. Can the two of you stop fighting now?" Pouge said referring to Caleb and Catherine. Catherine just nodded.