Chapter 6: A New Enemy or an Old Friend?

Pogue POV:

We quickly went back to the hospital to tell Reid. But I kept thinking about everything. 'She doesn't age? How can she not age? She doesn't age. She. Doesn't. Age. Hmmm. Interesting. Kind of. I- I can't stop thinking about her! What did I do? Oh shit! What the hell did I do? Maybe it was just the double date. It wasn't like that before. It's too late now… she fucking hates me… I just don't know. Maybe this isn't the best time to date, with this evil whoever. But if it's not the right time now, when will it be? I just don't know… maybe-' someone interrupted

"Pogue?" I heard a voice ask me. I hoped it was Alyssa, but it turned out to be Sarah. "Can I talk to you? In private you know?" she said directing her gaze over to an empty corner. Caleb gave her a strange look. She winked at him as if to reassure him that she was just talking to him.

"Uh yeah, I suppose…" I said, following her to the empty corner.

"Look, you really hurt Alyssa. She loved you, and she thought you loved her too. You really hurt her. And I thought you loved her too. I just wanted to know why." She explained.

"I- I don't know. We went on a date, a double date with her friend Sky, and it didn't really seem like a date, so stupid me mentioned it to her, and I said something about this maybe not working, and she got really pissed and she wouldn't talk to me, and damnit I messed up…" I said, all in one breath.

She looked surprised, then taken aback, then actually happy. "She misses you Pogue. You should talk to her." She said, smiling.

"She won't talk to me." I said, kind of frustrated. I suddenly got an idea. "Will you talk to her for me?"

She sighed. "I suppose, but you guys need to communicate better than through me."

"We will, but until she starts talking to me, we cant. She acting like Kate." This made Sarah turn around quickly, and I could see the anger in her eyes.

"No Pogue! No she's not! Because unlike Kate, she wasn't just using you as a trophy boyfriend! She actually loved you! And you messed things up this time! So fix this yourself!" she yelled, and turned around and walked away. Fuck. She's right.

Alyssa's POV:

After flipping through the book for forever, we finally went back to the hospital. I ran in and was about to yell 'Reid! Guess what? I don't age!' but I realized that there were nurses and stuff, so I thought it would be a bad idea. I sat next to him and whispered it into his ear. He smiled and looked down at his leg.

"Okay, but not too much, or it'll be suspicious." I said. I placed my hand over about where his knee was. A blue wisp emerged from my hand and transferred into his leg. He let out a sigh of relief. It was almost completely healed, and he should finish healing by himself in a few days.

"Excuse me miss, but visiting hours are over now." A nurse said.

I sighed. "Alright." I hugged Reid. "See you tomorrow." And I walked out. It was dark out by the time by then. All of the sudden someone grabbed my arm. I formed an energy ball and quickly threw it at the person, but they dodged it.

"Whoa Alyssa, Calm down." I heard a familiar voice say. I knew the voice. And the voice made me want to throw up. I tried to twist my arm out of his grip, but I couldn't. "Please, just listen to me." he begged.

I sighed. "Fine." I said coldly.

He explained it all. How he thought he was so stupid. How he was so sorry, all of it. And I didn't know what to do, or say. So I did the worst possible thing. I fell on the ground of the parking lot and cried. And cried. And cried. And for a while he didn't say anything. He just sat down next to me. When I finally stopped, he turned towards me like he was going to say something. But he didn't. He leaned in and kissed me. And I kissed him back. And finally, the sparks flew. It was the kiss that people waited a whole lifetime for. And it happened to me. If it were anyone else, I would have been scared to death, but it was just anyone else. It was Pogue. And I knew I loved him. And from that kiss, I could tell that he loved me too. We didn't stop for a long time. But finally it had to end. I got up and brushed the rocks off my butt. I walked back to my mom's car, where she was waiting for me. (Luckily we were out of her vision.) I hopped in smiling.

"What took you so long?" she asked. I quickly thought up a lie.

"Bathroom, sorry." I said. Wait a minute, where's Sky? "Mom, I gotta go find Sky, be right back." I said, and then hopped out of the car. I finally found her flirting with this doctor.

"Sky!" I yelled, and she turned and glares at me. "We have to go!"

She sighed and says goodbye to the hot doctor dude. She walks over to me.

"Dan?" I said.

"Oh, like that will last." She said, rolling her eyes.

"Do you hear yourself?"

"Ooh. That did sound kind of slutty didn't it?"

I nodded and hugged her laughing. She smiled, and for that second, everything seemed so unbelievably simple. Why does everyone always turn simple things difficult? Do they enjoy things being difficult? I sure as hell don't.

Eventually the girl attacked again. It was winter break, so I decided to spend the weekend at moms with Sky and Reid. He had healed, to the hospitals shock, in about a week. Anyway, she attacked again. And it felt great to be able to attack back. The only thing was, I think she expected it. We fought for a while, until Sky walked in. the girl threw a whatever she throws at us at her but Sky dodged it and took cover behind a desk. Sky started torturing her and eventually we were easily beating her. We had her unconscious in about ten minutes. We bound her to a chair with magic and she finally awoke. She cursed loudly and was quickly out of the bind. Well that plan failed. She laughed, but it wasn't an evil laugh, it was a regular laugh. Which is why I recognized it.

"Alex?" I asked. She stopped laughing. Sky looked up at her.

"So, you figured it out." She said. Sky was still looking at her amazed.

"Wait, what the fuck?" I said.

"God, you never were that bright. I. Am. Evil. Is it that fucking hard to understand? Oh and Sky, nice power. I forgot you even had that." She laughed as if we were all best friends again.

Sky rolled her eyes and they started yelling at each other for something. She sent an energy ball flying but Sky dodged it.

"Motherfucker!" Sky screamed at the top of her lungs. "I want my fucking sweater back!" another energy ball flew past her head.

"You fucking bitch! Stop that!" Sky screamed yet again, seriously disrupting my train of thought. I was thinking of something, but what? Ah damn. There it goes again. Ooh! I remember now!

"What about Lily?" I asked. Alex and Lily had gone to college together too. What happened to her?

Alex laughed, somewhat evilly, so I guess she really does practice. I mean what kind of super villain practices their evil laugh? Anyway, back to Lily.

"Oh Lily? Yeah, to make a long story short, I asked her if she wanted to be evil and whatnot, and she said, no, are you fucking kidding me, and so I said, come on it'll be fun and she starts screaming about how she's gonna tell you and you're going to kill me and that I'm crazy and she'll hurt me, and so I killed her. Ha! The bitch."

"Okay, one, short? How was that story short in any way? Two, what the fuck do you mean kill her? You would get mad at us if we killed an ant when we were roommates! Oh god, please don't tell me you're Chase in someone else's body or something. I mean really, that is so unoriginal. Ew or that you're like his sister or something, because his parents died. And you can't be his adoptive sister or you wouldn't have powers unless you-" she cut off my babbling.

"Stop babbling. And who the fuck is Chase?" she asked "and okay, maybe I didn't kill her." She added. I rolled my eyes.

"That is really cheesy Alex. I mean really. Come on. Don't go around saying you killed people when you didn't. It's just plain stupid. Now please, go along with the standard bad guy good guy fan fiction format and tell us what the real story is." Wait, this moment is missing something…

I threw an energy ball at the mirror.

"Alyssa, what the fuck?" Sky asked, looking at me like I was crazy.

"It was for dramatic effect." I said quietly. Sky rolled her eyes. Sometimes she just doesn't understand me.

"Anyway." Alex said. "I'm a witch hunter. Yeah, I know corny title, but it really explains it all. Witch hunters hunt witches. Duh. I was born into a family of them, and we've been trying to catch your family for a while now. My parents sent me to Spencer's to keep an eye on the sons. I was roomed with Lily and Sky that year, and eventually Sky told us her secret. She wasn't technically a witch though, and the sons were my main concern. We found out about Chase and we thought he could hold off the boys until we came up with a better, foolproof plan, but then you came along. You managed to kill Chase, and eventually you told me your secret too. I gained your trust, which made it easy for me to follow you and the sons." She explained, like we were five-year-olds who didn't understand addition.

"But why attack now?" I asked.

"My family, and all witch hunters, we live off of the power and blood of witches. My parents sent me out to kill the sons of Ipswitch. Recently my father has grown weak, and he will not live unless I complete this mission." She explained.

I thought a moment and tilted my head to the side. "What are those things that you throw at us?" I asked.

"They're an ancient weapon my people used a long time ago. They're old fashioned, but they work well and I'm used to training with them."

"Are they like ninja stars then?"

"No. Do they look like ninja stars to you?"

"No, well actually kinda. I don't know."

"No, they're called Apenhatepaans or something. They're named after some Egyptian queen or something. Anyway, now we just call them WHD's. They're kind of like ninja stars, only better."

"How can something be better than a ninja star?"

"Will you stop with the ninja stars already?"

"Never!"

"Ugh! So, the WHD's, if a witch is hit by them, it absorbs not only they're powers, but they're life as well. It slowly sucks the life out of them, but only if a witch doesn't stop it first, which in your case, Reid did. Lucky you."

"Yeah, right, lucky."

"Maybe we should give it a test run!" she threw a WHD at me. I luckily dodged it.

"Dude what the fuck! There was no warning for that, and you used the stupidest line I've ever heard. Come on."

She rolled her eyes. "Stop stalling Alyssa. Either you're scared, or you have serious problems dealing with intense situations. Either way, it shows you're weak. And that can and will be used against you." And with that, she disappeared.

People people!!! Attention please! I need reviews telling me to either end this story either happily or tragic, or both, or a little bit more one than the other, or etc etc etc. so pleeeeease review! If not me for Alyssa! Or Sky or Alex or whoever! Please please please!