"Shouldn't he be done by now?"
Reid was pacing around the room, eyeing all the dead, stuffed, animals. They had always creeped him out, still did. It was as if they watched your every move and would come alive at any moment.
Pogue had turned Evelyn Danvers' chair so that its back was to the fireplace. He lounged in it and watched Reid. The guy was driving him insane. "You know Caleb. He's probably checking the thing twice."
As if on cue, they heard the front door open and close. Reid and Pogue looked toward the doorway, waiting. Caleb came around the corner, hands in his jacket pockets. Pogue stood up and walked closer so they could talk quietly.
Reid crossed his arms and leaned on the wall. "What took you?"
Running his hand through his hair, Caleb sighed. "It took longer then I thought to finish reading the book. I went through it twice just to be safe."
The smirk on Pogue's face was pure 'I told you so.' Reid did his best to ignore Pogue, "Planning on telling us what you found?"
"I thought we'd wait for Tyler." Caleb rubbed his eyes, exhausted. The only sleep he had gotten since the fight with Chase was through catnaps. Almost all of his time had been spent going through the Book of Damnation.
Pogue glanced at the stairs directly across from the room. "We'll fill Baby Boy in later. Spill."
Caleb turned around, following Pogue's gaze. He figured Tyler must be upstairs with Faye. Looking back at Reid and Pogue, Caleb came to the conclusion that waiting was not an option with them. "Fine. According to the Book of Damnation, none of the lines have ever produced twins. I even checked out the number of females born into the families and there's barely any. I counted ten cases and most of those were in the Garwin line."
Being his impulsive self, Reid butted in. "What's that supposed to mean?"
Pogue placed his hand on Reid's shoulder, "Dude, calm down. You're taking things personally again."
This seemed to calm Reid down about. Reid even had the sense to look guilty. "Sorry."
Pogue motioned for Caleb to continue. Caleb eyed Reid as he spoke, "From the looks of it, every generation stopped having children after producing an heir. Basically, there was only ever one child per family."
Pogue and Reid waited for him to continue but he did not. Reid sighed in frustration, "Honestly, Caleb. Cut the cryptic crap, it's for the movies. Blunt works best."
Caleb knew Reid was right but he did not have a clear answer and it bugged him. "There's nothing in the book to prove or disprove that Faye can Use. It's possible that being a twin allows her to."
"I still don't believe it. She's a girl, it's not possible." Pogue clenched his jaw.
"The twin thing is probably true. Identical twins share one hundred percent of their DNA and fraternal twins share fifty or more."
Caleb and Pogue stared at Reid with their eyebrows raised. Reid looked between the two, "What? The only thing I could find on tv was a documentary on twins."
Pogue recovered first, "Sorry, Professor, but the power we inherit can't exactly be explained by science. It doesn't work that way."
Reid's voice went cold, "Remember what I told you? Her eyes had gone black and she Used to get me out of the room."
Before Pogue could argue, a loud set of thumps came from the stairs. Pogue looked over and noticed Tyler coming down the stairs. "You sound like an elephant."
Tyler frowned at Pogue as he walked into the room. Caleb was the one to speak, "Any change?"
Shaking his head, Tyler's frown deepened. "She's still sleeping."
"It's been three days now. I'm starting to get worried," Caleb stated. While Caleb was just starting to worry, Reid and Tyler had been worried since this ordeal started.
The boys knew they could not take Faye to the hospital. For starters, how could they explain what happened? They could not . . . not without ending up in the psych ward. Faye's condition made little sense to them.
She had only one or two scratches on her. Sarah had told them that Faye's back was covered in bruises. However, there were no apparent injuries that would cause her to remain unconscious for three days. Tyler had assured them that she was not in a coma. She reacted to stimuli as if she were merely asleep.
Reid had found it amusing at first. Pogue had tried to wake her up by shaking her and got punched. Reid had thought it was incredibly amusing. As time went on, though, Reid lost his amusement. Now he was scared.
"Question . . . any ideas on the light show we got?" Pogue was the one to break the long silence. Everyone had been lost in thought but now they had a focus.
"Maybe it has something to do with Chase. We were able to hurt him after it appeared." Tyler had been wondering about this for a while.
Pogue let out a heavy breath. "Maybe. I just want to know where it came from and what it means."
Caleb did not say a thing. Instead, he watched Reid. At the mention of the light, Reid's body had stiffened and his gaze roamed the room. Reid was looking anywhere but at the others.
Most people did not realize or notice how still Reid normally was. Now, however, it was as if Reid had hot coals in his shoes. Reid shoved his hands into his pant pockets, not knowing what else to do with them.
"Reid?" Pogue was watching Reid as well.
Reid's gaze jolted to Pogue and quickly away again. "I'm, uh . . . I'm going to go get some water for Faye."
Reid started to head for the stairs as Pogue called out, "She can't drink it. She's asleep."
Instead of stopping, Reid continued up the stairs. "She'll need it when she wakes up."
With that, Reid was gone. Caleb and Pogue exchanged glances but it was Pogue who voiced their shared thought. "He knows something."
Tyler continued looking at the top of the stairs where Reid no longer was. "I don't think he's really sure what he knows . . . but he'll tell us once he works things out for himself."
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A/N: Okay, I know it's short but I felt like I had to give you guys something. I had this and about half of the next part written. I was going to put them together but it has been a while and I needed to update.
Cheers to: burning your throat on food and making you more susceptible to getting a cold; to actually getting a cold; to mid-terms; to work! And if any of you thought I was being serious you should be shot. That is my list of reasons for being so late with updating. I have no free time to be creative. Doesn't that suck?
Stick with me people. I have not left loopholes because I have planned on explaining them all! Any who, on to the reviews:
Big thanks goes out to kEs-2717, Mrs. St. John Allerdyce, HyperSquishy, Miss. Allerdyce, Rotem, Skye Mercer and La Rose Noir.
ElizabethxAnne: I'm hoping to explain the Tyler and Reid thing in the next chapter or so. There is a reason, a good reason . . . at least I think it is a good reason.
Draco's Secret Lover: You're probably right about them basically annihilated me. Glad you loved the different versions of Reid. Why Reid could hit Chase and the others couldn't will hopefully be explained in the about two chapters or so. And about the blinding light . . . muahahahahaha! That is a secret for a later time. The power will be explained in the next chapter, I believe.
gordongirl18: Wow! Thank you so much! Rambling is absolutely okay. I do it often. Thank God someone finally sympathizes with Chase. It is always good to understand the bad guy because they are still human, even with their bad decisions.
xBrokenDreamerx: Reid and Tyler are bound to have some tension when they like the same girl. Look for it in the next chapter.
GossipGirl05: You may have thought that. Faye has not decided between the two.
Philyra: I hope you will not be disappointed with my explanation in not the next chapter but the one after . . . I think. I used what I learned in University for the explanation.
Daydream1: You're an angel . . . a devilish angel but still an angel. Those half-naked Covenant boys sounds real good right now. They'd probably help get rid of stress too. (Wicked thoughts and unstoppable giggles!)
AND BIG THANKS TO ALL NEW REVIEWERS, ALL RETURNING REVIEWERS, AND THOSE WHO HAVE THIS STORY ON FAVOURITES AND ALERTS.