CPOV

I woke up again. (I could see a pattern forming here) I was in my room at the safe house, but there was a sense of…eeriness that made you want to throw you head under the blankets and pretend to be five again. That sounded nice.

I sat up and looked out the window just like the first night when I had heard the ghost; she had seemed to have disappeared, along with Ted. Slowly I got up and walked over, trying to see any indication that something was wrong, finding nothing.

I slowly opened the door quietly listening. Listening for what exactly, I had no idea I'd just know when I heard it. I heard three voices I had come to recognize as the people I was closest too. The smell of coffee wafted up and hit me making me smile.

I took a step and Derek's voice stopped then I he was at the bottom of the stairs looking at me with a strange look on his face, one I had never seen before. The events came rushing into my head again, the woman I killed out of self-defense, the look of pure terror on my face.

Stumbling back and shaking my head Derek jumped up the steps in one bound and wrapped his arms around me. I stood there not letting his soothing words comfort me, my hands hung limply at my sides. Derek tilted my chin up and kissed me lightly, I didn't respond, I was numb.

DPOV

Chloe smiled at me, then a terrified look swept over her and she stumbled back. I ran up the steps and I wrapped my arms around her. She was out for four days it felt good to hold her again. But she didn't hug me back, she stood there stiffly. I whispered in her ear that everything was okay.

Finally I gently tilted her chin up and kissed her. She didn't succumb to the kiss and kiss me back like she usually did, she just stood there unmoving I looked down at her, and she looked up at me. I saw a small tear escape her beautiful right eye.

With my thumb I wiped the tear away, that's when she finally leaned into me. She didn't cry, she just wrapped her arms around me and buried her head in my chest. "I love you." I whispered.

She didn't say anything just nodded and stepped away. She looked up at me and blushed. "Sorry." She said quietly. I laughed at her.

She looked at me. "You're sorry for being human?" I asked.

She smiled a bit. "I wouldn't call us human exactly. But I'm going to take a shower, then I'll come downstairs and you guys can tell me what I missed." She walked back into her room and I could here her opening and closing the doors of her dresser looking for something to wear, finally she came out with a clean t-shirt and a pair of jeans.

She slid past me but turned around and quickly kissed me on the cheek before walking into the bathroom closing the door and I heard the soft click of the lock.

CPOV

I walked into the bathroom and locked the door behind me. There was no doubt he heard it but he thought I was probably worried about someone coming in, not exactly. I started the shower and sat down on the linoleum floor in my bra and underwear. I grabbed my knees, I didn't remember everything that happened, and I had to remember. Okay think Chloe, think. I tried to remember but all I could remember was me telling Derek I'd be fine, and then starting to climb the tree.

Finally I got in the shower and let the pounding of the water on my back stop all traces of my thoughts. But eventually they found there way back to me. I turned the shower off and stepped out wrapping a towel tightly around me. Some things were starting to come back, like the fact that my Aunt Lauren was dead, and the fact that The Edison Group will do anything to get us back…dead or alive.

These weren't things I liked to think about, but they were things I had to recall whether I wanted to or not. Quickly I changed and towel dried my hair, before unlocking the door and stepping out into the hall.

When I got downstairs a discussion was going on between Derek, Tori, and Simon. I caught bits and pieces of it. "But what if they do come? Sure they weren't dead, and sure we faked them out, but that won't last forever. You guys know that as well as I do." Tori said as I walked into the kitchen to see them all sitting around the island cups of coffee in each of their hands.

Tori and Simon looked up at me and smiled. "You know it wasn't the same without you awake, and there wasn't any havoc without everyone else here. It was strange." Tori said handing me a cup of coffee.

"Thanks." I said as I took a sip of the warm liquid. "Okay, so please fill me in on everything I missed, and what happened. Because truthfully I don't remember a thing."

Simon looked at me. "We found you an the Edison Group chick lying about ten feet from each other, which by the way t looked like you won. You were both barely breathing. We faked them out by saying we'd go back to the motel, and then we knocked her unconscious."

Derek looked at me. "We were only a couple miles from here, so we walked the rest of the day and I carried you, when we got here we tried to get you to wake up but it was like you were in a coma, your body just wouldn't respond. Once or twice your eyes would flutter but they wouldn't open."

Suddenly I began to remember, I didn't kill the Edison Group person, but I fought her, and I won.

The room grew uneasily silent. "I asked her a question. I asked if my aunt was dead and she said yes. So they could kill anyone else. They could be killing someone right now." I sighed. "Hopefully they don't have everyone." I took a sip of my coffee and looked up to see Derek nodding.

Tori traced the rim of her cup with her finger. "I need to see if we can use a tracking spell to find Andrew, hopefully we can reach him."

Simon nodded. "But you can't do it alone; I'll have to help you."

She thought for a second and nodded. "Your right, that spells to advanced for just one person, unless they've practiced for years."

Derek looked up. "What can I do to help?" He had to do something, that's just how Derek was.

"Sorry Derek," Simon shrugged. "There's really nothing you can do at this point, you've already done a lot."

Derek grunted quietly and walked out the kitchen door quietly. I sighed and shook my head. "Okay, so who is going to tell me everything that really happened while I was unconscious?"

Tori looked at Simon who looked uneasily back at her. "The Edison Group people we took down didn't remember anything, and just in case we pretended to go back to the motel but lopped around and continued back here." He said. "There was nothing really else that happened, we all sat here waiting and hopping that you'd wake up." Simon said looking back at Tori for clarification who just nodded and stared into her cup of coffee.

There was something they weren't telling me but I decided not to push further and just nodded. "So would the spell be located in the library?"

Tori shifted. "Slight problem, they went through things they may have taken any book like that."

I looked up alarmed almost spitting my coffee all over Simon. "What? They were here?"

"Derek said there were only two of them and they weren't here for very long. He said we shouldn't have anything to worry about."

I put the cup down and rubbed my forehead in frustration, this day was just starting and so far it already sucked. Simon put his hand on my arm, "It'll be okay." He promised smiling at me. I couldn't bring myself to smile back; I just grabbed my cup of coffee and went into my room.

My appetite was non-existent and I was so tired I felt like I would fall just going up the stairs. I didn't go and find Derek, he needed to work this issue of his out on his own, and I went back into my room and crawled into bed.

I didn't fall asleep I laid there, unmoving staring at the window watching the birds go past the window and the sky turn gray with the upcoming storm. Out of nowhere I had a sudden urge to talk to Liz. So I sat up cross-legged and started mentally calling her name.

I opened my eyes to see her standing in front of me in her giraffe socks and Mickey Mouse nightgown. She smiled when she saw me. "Chole!" She squealed smiling at me.

I tried my best to smile, I really did, but I guess she wasn't fooled because she sat on the end of my bed and looked at me a serious expression plastered on her face. "Hi, Liz." I sighed running a hand through my hair absentmindedly.

"What's wrong?"

I shook my head slowly trying to even comprehend on what she missed, which was a lot. "You've missed a lot." I said looking at her slowly finally meeting her gaze. "But basically I'm Derek's mate, we were betrayed by someone we thought was a friend to The Edison Group, and we were on the run again, finally we got to come back to our safe house, but we don't know where the others are."

She stared at me her mouth agape. "You've been here, what a week?"

I shrugged. "Something like that."

She threw her head back and laughed loudly. "God Chloe, you and Derek?" Of course out of all the other events that happened she would home in on that one specifically.

I nodded. "We...well, we love each other."

She shook her head. "Isn't Simon like in love with you?"

I shook my head. "Hopefully not." A knock came at my door and I turned.

"I'll be back later." Liz said then disappeared.

Derek walked through the door and shut it behind him and sat on the edge of my bed next to me. I looked at him for a second. "You know, you don't just walk into people's rooms without them saying that you can come in or not, it's not very polite." He broke out into a grin and shook his head.

"I'm in here because I want to know what happened the night we were in the woods."

I sighed. I'd seen this coming. "Nothing." I lied not meeting his eyes that would make me tell the truth.

"Chloe." He said quietly and touched my hand which sent an electric shock through my body. "You and I both know what a terrible liar you are. Why do you even bother?"

I glared at him. "I'm not lying." He stared me down until I would look at him.

"Really Chloe?"

I sighed and leaned back into the headboard. This wasn't a burden he had to carry on him, he didn't have to know. I could lie, just lie. "Nothing happened."

"What did I hear then?" He demanded.

"I was…" I racked my brain for something anything that sounded at least semi-possible. "I was sleep walking. I don't remember what happened, or what you're even talking about."

He looked like he was starting to get angry; he got up and started pacing in front of my bed. I watched him go back and forth, back and forth. "Chloe." he said trying to keep his voice level but it came out as a growl. "Tell me what happened."

I got up. "Nothing happened!" I was really hanging on to this lie.

"Bull shit! You and I both know something happened and you can't carry this burden of whatever happened by yourself!" His voice was steadily climbing.

"I looked at him. "Nothing happened." I gritted my teeth slightly. "Really." I did my best to smile.

He glared at me. "God damnit! Chloe it can't be only you who knows!" His voice was so loud it made my ears ring.

"Why Derek? Why can't I just know? Why can't I have my own secret?" I silently swore because I realized I just confessed that something did happen.

"So something did happen? Chloe why can't you tell me then? Why can't I know what's going on so I know you are okay? Chloe you aren't making this easy on me." His voice lowered back to normal and he stopped pacing and stood in front of me.

I looked at my feet because I felt guilty. He had a right to know, and I wasn't making this easy on him, but if my hunch was right it wasn't good.

"Derek, it's, it's not good. And I, I didn't want to upset you." I whispered.

"Chloe." I looked up when he said my name. "The only thing that would truly upset me is that if you got hurt."

He didn't get it; he didn't understand that I didn't tell him about Jamie at all. He would just be angry that I didn't.

"P promise you won't get mad?" Stupid stutter!!

"I promise."

"I met this ghost when I, I got lost in the woods, and it was a different kind of replay. I scared him away. The guy who tried to kill her. She looked no older than five. She helped me find Tori..." I told him everything and watched his expression harden as I went further and further into the story. "My hunch is that Neva is a demi-demon I met back at The Edison Group head quarters. She wanted me to set her free, but I didn't. She brain-washed Jamie and she was the one possessing us. I don't think we can stop her either. I'm pretty sure she's not happy that I didn't set her free."

I looked at Derek, his face masked anything he was feeling but nodded for me to continue. "The thing is she said she was the thing that held the head quarters up, so if I did free her, the whole building would fall. But she would cause so much destruction, I just…I couldn't bring myself to do it." I sighed.

I noticed him shake his head. "Why didn't you tell me?" He demanded.

"It wasn't an option at the time. I'm just hopping my assumption isn't correct."

He looked at me for a second and shook his head. "So if a necromancer does let the demi-demon free, she'll be wreaking havoc all over the world, but The Edison Group will be destroyed." I nodded. "So either way we're screwed."

I shrugged. "If you want to look at it that way, but we have to get rid of her to defeat the Edison Group." He looked at me.

"So now we know how but the only problem is figuring it out."

I nodded, and then heard Simon and Tori screaming. "Yes! We found it!! Yes!"

Author's Note

Okay, it's been a very long time unfortunately. :( But I've been busy with school, soccer, and the book I'm currently writing and am very happy with so far. But this is just kind of like a fill in chapter. And Chloe dreams other people's deaths. After this fanfic is over I'm debating about writing another, if you want me to just write it in your review! I'm not sure what this one is going to be about but I have some ideas, I might pitch to you guys next chapter. Hope you guys liked Derek's and Chloe's first fight!! :/ Sorry I had to put that in there, every normal couple gets into fights. Hope you guys like Chloe's assumption! If you have any ideas feel free to tell me them!!

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