Diligo Est Amicitia

Chapter 12: We'll See

LiasonFan2: I'm really very glad that you like my story lots but I won't be able to reveal much relationship plots so just keep reading!

RedRogue: Hehehe; yes, I really am having so much fun with DEA… as you said 'too much fun invested into it already to even think about quitting'. Lols, yup I sent them over the cliff. I didn't want it to be a 'the boys stopped the car just as it was about to jump over' because it seems a little too cliché plus I figured they had powers, so why not Use it? It's already been eleven chapters with no mention of them exposing… oh my god, what am I doing? Revealing plots again… you reviewers are sneaky! Just read the chapter and find out! ;)

Bigamericanflirt: Hmm… you think so? You'll just have to find out below, yeah? )

Adraia: Don't worry; I don't see me ending DEA yet... not too soon, anyway.

Hecate's Diamon: Yes, although I'm not sure whether that's what it's really called. Sorry if I'm wrong!

elffy: I'm sorry for the confusion it has caused but well, even confusion sooner or later will cease with reason, right?

"Catch up with them Reid!" Tyler shouted over the blaring of the horn. Reid so wanted to show him the finger. Didn't he think he was trying? Try harder, that rebellious streak of him seemed to speak. Reid's eyes went midnight black as he used the Power to manipulate the vehicle. Suddenly, maximum speed didn't matter anymore; the engine was working overdrive. This time, not even Caleb argued against his Using.

"Reid…" Tyler said, his voice growing more and more anxious with each second.

"I know." Reid replied. The girls were close, so close to the edge of the cliffs. How did it come to this? He wondered. Three new transfer-ins with bright futures and their lives were ending here just because of one wild, drunken night.

"Guys… we're not gonna make it." Reid concluded.

No one answered to that. They couldn't deny that but neither was they going to resign the three girls to their fates. But what were they to do?

"Guys, we've gotta save them!" Reid continued. "I need you to help me!"

This time, someone did object. Caleb who always had to be the one to try and protect their secret. Caleb who thought that being rational meant keeping quiet, even when three lives were at stake. "Reid, they're gonna ask ques--"

But someone else was on Reid's side tonight. "To fuck with that, Caleb!" Tyler interrupted, his eyes already the same shade as Reid's. "I am not gonna watch Fin die!" Apparently, Pogue agreed because as soon as the words were out of Tyler's mouth, Pogue's eyes went completely black.

"Caleb." The red Mazda only a stone's throw away from them, was on the verge of flying over the cliff. "Caleb!" The yelling become louder. The Mazda flew off into the fog, ensuring a fatal crash. "CALEB!!!"

Jamie closed her eyes as they left the cliff behind. They would splash into the waters below and hopefully, the boys would see it. The impact wouldn't hurt them; Fin would make sure of it. The waters, under the command of William would not seep in through the windows and with Lilith in control of the sea plants, which would ensure their safety in the water in case anything came along. Jamie's power of pyrokinesis was pretty useless in water.

"How are your plants going to help us exactly, Lils?" Jamie had to scream slightly. They were falling like any other heavy object would; Fin couldn't help them there since it would look a little suspicious that a vehicle weighing over a hundred tonnes would be floating like a feather as it descended. Impact would be confusing so it wouldn't matter.

"Um… well, I could get the vines to cover us as we move. Fin won't be able to use her telekinesis all the way through the journey so I guess we'll have to move slow and have some giant sea creature take us." Lilith was getting a little sick at the back; she prayed she didn't puke in her own car.

Lovely. Jamie scoffed. Waiting for a giant sea creature. That could take forever

The car was only just a few centimeters from the water… when they suddenly felt a sort of magnetic force pulling them back up as if someone had picked up the car and was dragging it back up the cliff. "Uh… guys?" Lilith sounded a little panicked.

"Fin?" Jamie looked at the redhead in the driver's seat.

"It's not me!" Fin raised her hands, protesting her innocence.

"Which just leaves one more option." Jamie realized.

"You don't think it's…" Fin trailed off.

"Figures. We jumped in front of a bunch of witches with no one else to make sure they don't use their power. Of course they'd save us." She stated unhappily. "God!" She dumped her face into her hands for the second time in 72 hours. "Why couldn't we have planned this out a little more?"

"So what do you think will be their excuse?" Lilith asked, sardonically. " 'I don't know what happened; your car just flew right back up'? Or even maybe 'You're so drunk you're hallucinating! You didn't jump!' "

"Sounds like it." Jamie nodded. She was quick to add, "But whatever it is, our secret remains secret, girls. I don't care if they tell you their related to the Queen, you're zipping your mouth about our powers."

"What powers?" Fin grinned at Jamie. "We know nothing about no powers."

"That's more like it." Jamie smiled back. She looked over her window at the cliff. "God, they're slow. Can't they just hurry it up a little?"

"Speak fer yourself." Lilith retorted. "I need to vomit."

"Oh, God, please don't do it in the car!"

The four Sons of Ipswich stood at the edge of the cliff, looking down at the red Mazda, which inched closer and closer to them with each passing second. They had to do it slowly; they didn't want to hurt it's passengers.

"What're we gonna say to them?" Pogue asked, his black orbs concentrated on the car below them.

"I don't know." Caleb said stiffly. "I wasn't the one all gung-ho to save them in the first place."

Reid gritted his teeth. "No, you were the one all cool about watching them die and doing nothing about it when you know we could do something."

"We… could have done something else than using our powers, Reid."

Reid let out a harsh laugh. "Like what? Calling the police?" He turned away from the car to glare at Caleb.

"Look, all I'm saying is the less people in about our secret, the better. Once we get them on here with us, the first thing they're gonna do is to ask questions." Caleb tried to reason with his Covenant brother but it was hard when you were talking with such a punk as Reid.

"Oh, so what you're saying is you'd rather commit a crime by watching them die than do something about it?"

Caleb let out a snort of derision. "Since when were you so upright?"

That did it. Reid strode over to Caleb and grabbed him by the collar of his black shirt. "Maybe I'm not the most moral person here in Massachusetts but I've got my heart in the right place and that's with saving my friends and I'm not caring if our stupid Covenant's exposed to the whole world." Releasing a horrified Caleb, he turned his attention back on the car.

"It's coming close now." Tyler observed nervously. "We should stand back, don't you think?"

They took a few quick steps backwards as the jack of the car came into view. It flew a little more higher before slamming back to the sandy ground, upright and in parked mode. The four Sons of Ipswich glanced at each other warily. They didn't know what they would find in there. Three bodies bloody and wounded from being shaken about in the car or would all of them come out all right? Pale and dazed maybe but no serious injuries. Caleb was the only one brave enough to find out.

He hadn't taken more than two steps towards the car before the right door of the back seat was pushed open and out ran Lilith to the edge of the cliff. Caleb's first instincts were to run and grab her before she did something stupid but as he hurriedly approached her, he heard the unmistakable sound of vomit. He turned away to give her some privacy and hurried back to the car after making sure that she was okay. Pogue, Reid and Tyler were already dragging out Jamie and Fin from the front seats. Their skin was clammy; probably from being thrown down a thousand feet before being jerked up again. The bad part was that the jolt had probably shocked them into sobriety.

"Hey, you okay?" Caleb asked Jamie, whom Pogue was stabilizing. But the girl didn't answer. Instead she just stared at him, her mouth slightly open. "Caleb." Pogue called. When Caleb looked over to him, Pogue indicated his eyes and Caleb cursed. They were still black. He turned away and felt the Power fading away deep into his soul, lingering and waiting for him to Use it again.

"What the hell," Lilith had come back from the edge of the cliff. "Just happened here?"

The four boys looked at each other.

Reid and Pogue drove Lilith's car back to the dorms while Tyler and Caleb pushed the three girls into the back Tyler's truck. "So… what are you?" Fin glanced at Jamie who had taken the first step. She was probably leading them in the right direction of asking questions so that they would neither appear too interested nor too freaked out.

Up front, Caleb and Tyler shared a look. "We're witches." Was the simple answer.

"Oh. Is that why you had those weird black… eyes?" Lilith asked.

"It's a sort of a side effect from Using our powers." Caleb explained.

"Ooh-kay… anything else you might wanna tell us?" Fin invited.

There was a silence. "You're not freaked out?" Tyler asked.

The three of them laughed nervously. "Oh, no… your powers are… kinda cool." Jamie managed to say.

"Yeah, well, with each Using, we age prematurely."

Hmm… interesting. Jamie thought. "So how old would you say you were now… I mean, after you saved us and all." Caleb thought he heard a strain in her voice as she said this.

"In our mid-twenties maybe…" Tyler replied. "We Use a lot…"

"You're shitting me right?" Lilith suddenly burst with laughter.

"Lils…" Jamie said, disapprovingly.

"No, she can laugh." Caleb grinned at the blonde through the rearview mirror. "I suppose it is kinda funny if you heard it for the first time."

"Anymore interesting facts?" Lilith asked, still chortling with laughter.

"No." Caleb didn't feel like telling them anymore about their powers, at least until he had something about them too so he turned the tables. "What about you? Anything you wanna tell us?"

This time it was Jamie who laughed. "What could three normal human eighteen-year old girls possibly hide?"

Oh, really? Caleb raised an eyebrow as he turned away and concentrated on the road. We'll see.

A/N: Okay, so this will be my last chapter for about… two weeks? Yeah, I'm leaving in a few hours now to pursue adventure and possibly think up of new excitement for the story and how to resolve the relationships! But before I go, let me give up a few lines for the plot of the upcoming chapters…
What's coming up:

There are always secrets… the world has more of them than there are people…

Minister: The Pack must remain covert! No matter what the price!

Secrets can be made up of matters that scare you…

She fought not with the power of an Archos but with the desperation of a woman trying to save her dignity.
Jamie: Please don't do this! Stop! Please, stop! Let go of me!

Memories that leave a scar…

Lilith: There's a reason why she's acting like this and I wanna find out. Use your Power.

Secrets can be something as simple as love…

Reid: You wanna grab a coffee sometime?

But no matter how you much you try to hide it,

Jane White: What the hell was that?

Secrets… have a tendency to be found out.

Tyler: Is there something you wanna tell us about?

And truth; always prevails…

COMING SOON

Yeah, God knows it's cheesy but well… lols. Oh and by the way, here are the vote counts for the role of Jamie Chapman:

Jamie 01: 2

Jamie 02: 1

Jamie 03: 0

Jamie 04: 2

Thank you to naturelle, CeltiCrimson, Draco's Secret Lover and RedRogue for voting. The other vote comes from my cousin who has helped me in picking out the names for the three girls.

And as a future reminder, please do NOT PM me to vote; leave it on the album page so that everyone can see it's a fair contest. You can vote as many times as you want for any 'Jamie' you want. Like for example, you think Jamie 01 and Jamie 02 both fit the role, go ahead! All right people, adios for the next two weeks and happy weekends!

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