Enemy. A person who feels hatred for, fosters harmful designs against, or engages in antagonistic activities against another; an adversary or opponent.

"Facts are the Enemy of Truth."
- Miguel de Cervantes

Jackie stared at Ryan with wide eyes. Truth be told, Jackie never really knew what was inside Kelly. She could only sense Kelly's extreme strength growing inside of her. Was Kelly keeping a demon locked away inside her all this time, and not even know about it?Jackie sighed. She came back down to reality when a rain drop hit her cheek. Ryan just stood there, his fists clenched, breathing heavily.
"I don't care," Jackie said suddenly, "It doesn't matter to me what is inside of her. You've done enough damage as it is. Just leave and don't come back."
"You know sooner or later she'll evolve and take control of Kelly."
"Evolve?" Jackie frowned.
"The demon inside her," Ryan felt himself grin shamelessly.
"I don't care, Ryan! LEAVE!" Jackie turned and ran back inside. Ryan caught the door before it shut and Jackie turned and glared at him, "Let go of that door Ryan and step outside."
"I can't! I have to see her!" Ryan stepped inside.
"I'm warning you. If you don't lea-" Jackie stopped talking when she noticed the sudden change in Ryan's eyes. Ryan's eyes had suddenly turned a blood red. Jackie closed her eyes and re-opened them to make sure she wasn't imagining things. But they were still blood red. Jackie frowned. What should she do? "You and your thing inside you can stay out here." They could both hear the rain now pouring down outside the building. It smacked against the windows and thunder suddenly followed.
"My thing? My thing?!" Ryan frowned, "You're kidding me? Right?"
Jackie shook her head no, "It's part of you. So it's yours, Ryan. Leave. Now," Jackie began to grow nervous.
"You see. I can't leave though. Do you know why, Jackie?" Jackie took note in the sudden change of Ryan's voice and use of his words. "Do you?" Jackie shook her head no, "It's because of Kelly. Dearest Kelly Messiah."
"Her last name is Parrish," Jackie defended Kelly.
"Parrish?!" Ryan broke out into laughter, his hair began to turn black. Jackie's eyes grew wide again. "She's related to the asshole who made the thing inside of her! She IS the demon!" Ryan laughed again, except it wasn't really Ryan's laugh. Was Ryan changing? Jackie began to worry. If he changed here, this would be chaotic. He could awaken whatever was inside Kelly.
"She's the demon?" Jackie couldn't help her curiosity though. It just kept growing and growing. It was like an infectious disease.
"Of course she's the demon! She's not the true owner of that body!" Ryan's skin grew incredibly pale and Jackie began to step backwards very slowly, hoping Ryan wouldn't notice.
"Ryan... You're..." Jackie couldn't think of what to say.
"Not Ryan anymore," he grinned. Jackie's eyes grew wide.

Kelly stirred a bit in Tim's arms, causing Tim to realize they were still outside and finally notice it was raining. He picked her up, slowly and lightly enough that she didn't realize that he picked her up. Her arms lazily wrapped around his neck and he brought her inside and to her room. After he laid her down on the bed he tip-toed out of the room and back to the balcony, shutting the door. He thanked god that they hadn't gotten soaked. But he was grateful to be able to hold Kelly for so long. He'd always wanted to hold her like that. Always. But he had never had the chance.
Tim began to think to himself as he sat down on the couch, staring at the now closed door to Kelly's room. How long had it been since he had really ''hung out'' with Kelly? Forever. He sighed somewhat. Kelly would never return his feelings, not in a million years. He thought about how long he'd known Kelly and how long he'd liked her. He had since the first day he met her, there was no denying it. But he couldn't hide his feelings from her, it was too hard.
Kelly was the one thing in his life that gave him a purpose. Something to live for. He could never not like her. Never. He remembered the first time he had met her. It was special. Well, not special, not to other people. But for him it was. Before he had met her, he was like a walking corpse.
Nothing made sense to him when he was without her. She meant the world to him, and she still did. When Kelly smiled, hugged, touched, laughed, cried, was angry, or anything at all, she was beautiful. She was so kind to him unlike everyone else. Sure, Jackie was nice too. But not like Kelly. Kelly understood him and felt his pain. They understood each other in a way no one could ever understand. Tim wanted Kelly more than anything in the world. But he would always be under her radar. Just another friend of hers that she could talk to.
But did she ever really confide in him? Who was this Ryan guy? She never told him about Ryan. Kelly never really told him much of anything. The last time she ever said anything to him of importance was before he told her how he truly felt. Kelly had denied his feelings immediately, telling him they were just delusions and that he didn't feel that way. He was just infatuated, perhaps.
Tim felt his fists clench and a tear rolled down the left side of his cheek, "Kelly." He wasn't really speaking to anyone, just hearing her name brought a pain into his chest he would never be able to heal.
Love. Did he really love her? Was he seriously in love with her? Tim found himself begin to hate her, but it slowly dissolved and his appreciation for her came flying back into him at full speed. Tim sighed and stood up. He walked over to the door to Kelly's room and pressed his ear up to it, listening to see if she was awake. He heard nothing but the bed creak momentarily from her moving most likely. Tim sighed once again and walked away from the door. He would leave and let her be.
Tim walked over to the front door and slipped his old, black shoes back on and opened the door to Kelly's apartment, stepping out and shutting it behind him. As he walked away from her apartment he wondered if he should've left. He felt his body tense up and he stopped walking, "Maybe I should go back," he told himself quietly. 'No. Mistake! Don't go back!' Tim sighed once more and began walking away from Kelly's apartment, for what he decided, would be the last time he ever left it. He didn't want to go back to it. No, he did want to. But he couldn't. Not now, not ever. The pain was unbarable.
As he stepped into the elevator he saw the memories of Kelly inside him disappear and vanish. He wanted to forget her completely. And maybe he could. Tim closed his eyes and kept the one last image of Kelly he wanted. The one of her in his arms sleeping. His moment with her today. He would cherish for the rest of his life. Maybe.

Jackie only had a moment to think before the man before her struck her and she flew to the side. Her head hit the fall and she felt the world flutter beneath her. She let out a small yelp and quickly stood up, somewhat staggerdly. She looked over at the man before her and put her hand to her head, withdrawing it and seeing no blood. She sighed with relief then focused her attention back on the man infront of her. "So you're the one Andy talks about. The one he sealed inside Ryan, right?"
"Yeah. The one and only. Name's Raven. I mean, you can call me Ryan if you'd like. But it might make me angry. And then I'd have to kill you," Raven let out a small chuckle. Jackie stared over towards the elevators down the hall then at the stairwell. "Don't even think about running, you can't anyway. Seriously! Try to move!" Raven said ecstatically.
Jackie did as she was told and felt she couldn't move, "What the hell?!"
"Haha! You see! You can't go anywhere anyway! So you might as well stick around for the show!" Raven's eyes narrowed and he walked up to Jackie, staring into her eyes for only a moment. Jackie began to feel weak and useless, and then there was nothing. She couldn't see or feel anything. Just blackness, swallowing her whole. Was this the power of the demon inside Raven? Was this it's capabilities? The elevator doors opened and Raven panicked, taking Jackie around a corner and covering her mouth.
Tim yawned in the elevators as the door opened and he stepped out. He looked around for a moment and saw nothing and shrugged. He walked over to the front entrance. As he walked up to the glass door he saw something in the reflection. He acted as if he was checking the time on his watch but stared at the two in the reflection. Jackie and... Who was that with her? Raven's eyes narrowed as he realized they had been noticed. But he didn't move, just in case he was wrong. He didn't need to kill anyone, not yet anyway.
Tim froze. He didn't know what to do. What the hell was he supposed to do?!

Kelly woke up suddenly and flew up. She blinked and looked around her room, her eyes focusing in the darkened room. She blinked again and she could see properly. Kelly wondered where everyone had disappeared too and why no one had woken her up...
Kelly got up quickly and walked out of her room and into the open, looking around and seeing nothing but turned off lights. She could hear the rain outside hitting things aimlessly. A deep sigh escaped her mouth from her loneliness. She didn't like being alone. Not like this. Especially since no one told her they were leaving, except for Andy. And how was Andy? Should she check on him? No. She couldn't. But she knew who she wanted to talk to.
"Ryan," she said silently. She thought about how she had reacted when she read his mind. She thought about the way he had kissed her when they were in Andy's room. The way he had done everything. She touched her hand to her lips and closed her eyes, thinking inside the empty room of her apartment.
Kelly's eyes opened when a random thought flew through her mind, 'Kelly!...' Kelly nearly jumped. She stared at her door and her eyes seemed to wander through it. The world had frozen and she was flying through the apartment building suddenly, except she was still in her room. Kelly felt the outside world vanish and she headed towards the elevator. Instead of stepping inside, she went through the doors and down the floor of the elevator and down the shaft. She was going so fast, she couldn't stop either. Her mind brought her into the hotel lobby where she spotted Tim. He seemed to be staring at his watch, or was he? Kelly's mind gave her a closer look and they spotted the look on his face. Her mind turned around and saw Jackie being held back and kept quiet by some man. Had Tim noticed?
Suddenly, it happened so fast, Tim was shoved through the glass door and the door shattered into a million pieces. Kelly's mind looked towards the unknown figure and she screamed, "NO!"
Raven was knocked backwards and he took Jackie with him. Raven grunted when Jackie's elbow hit him in the gut as they well. He immediately winced in pain and felt a seering sensation. Kelly felt herself disappearing from the scene, "NO! NO!" She screamed over and over again. Raven could hear her screaming and he began to grow entralled. Jackie had already gotten up and headed to Tim's aid. Kelly was growing angry. But then she wasn't there.
Raven grinned and got up as fast as he could, heading for the stairwell and pushing the door open, running upstairs, following the whining of Kelly's NO!'s. He couldn't even hear himself think. But he knew what he had to do. As he ran he began to sweat, grabbing at his chest as he felt Ryan trying to push his back into the open.

"Tim!" Jackie cried out. She could see the blood smeared across his face. He had been knocked into the rain and onto the road. He grunted somewhat and attempted to open his eyes, but he couldn't. "Oh my god! Hold on! I'll take you to the hospital! Let me get my car!" Jackie had completely forgotten about Kelly. She got up and ran off to her car, whipping out her keys. Tim was already beginning to stand up.
"Kelly..." he mumbled underneath his breath as one of his eyes finally opened. There was a new fire inside of him, one he had never felt. Then he fell. His body slumped to the ground and the side of his face smacked onto the pavement. He felt the glass sink deeper into his face and then darkness came. His old friend. He'd been to it once before. Tried to let it swallow him whole. Maybe it was time. He would gladly open his arms and hold it tightly, never letting go. But... Soft hands grabbing him and hoisting him to his feet.
"Kelly?" he barely got out.
"No... Jackie..." There was a muffled sniffle and Jackie began to basically drag him to the car. She already had the door open, reading to bring him inside her car, "Don't worry, Tim. I'll have you at the hospital in no time! I promise!" Then it hit Jackie as she got Tim into the car. What about Kelly? Jackie stared down at Tim as she shut the door to the back seat. She looked back up at the apartment. "I know you'll be alright. Won't you?" Jackie gave a weak smile up at the apartment then ran to her side of the car and got in, shutting the door, buckling in, and speeding off in the rain.

Kelly stayed sitting on her couch, waiting for her door to come flying open and some stranger come inside to try and kill her. She had already thought up a plan, not that it was much of a plan. She would try to hold the stranger still. Somehow. Hopefully. Suddenly, she seemed to find her hopeless and unable to do much of anything. To be honest, Kelly had no idea on what she really doing. All she knew was that there was some angry stranger running up the stairwell to come and get her. And for some reason she kept seeing Ryan. Except... It wasn't Ryan, was it?
Kelly jumped when the door to her apartment burst open. She stood up immediately, ready for the attacker. But she dropped her arms when she saw who it was, "Andy!?" she cried out.
"Kelly! Come on! Please!" Andy ran over to Kelly and grabbed her arm, dragging her out of her apartment and taking her the opposite way and down a different set of stairs Kelly had seen the stranger coming up in. Andy seemed to be urgent and worried. Maybe he knew what was happening. "I could feel him changing. I know you could too!" Andy said as they ran down the stairs. Kelly was drawing complete blanks, "I know you could too, Kelly! You don't think I know? I look at you and I sense it. I sense everything different about you!"
Kelly withdrew her hand from Andy's and stopped moving. Andy look mortified, but so did Kelly. "What the fuck are you talking about?!" Kelly frowned, "Everything different about me?! YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME!!" she cried out. All her anger was suddenly flying out at top speed, "I KNOW I ASKED FOR ANSWERS! BUT THEN YOU LEAVE!"
"We can't do this now!" Andy tried to tell Kelly.
"Shut up!" Kelly cried out. Andy froze up but then he grabbed Kelly's hand and began dragging her again, "Andy! Let go!" she tried to get him to let go, but it was useless.
"I'm trying to save your life, you idiot!" Andy continued running down the stairs. As they ran they heard the door to the stairs open above them and they both stopped. Raven peeked over the railing and grinned when he saw Kelly, but frowned when he saw Andy, "Shit." Andy looked at Kelly then back up. Raven disappeared and they could hear him whistling and running at the same time. He seemed to be whistling some old tune... A happy one.
Kelly ran faster suddenly, fear striking her heart out of nowhere. Andy noticed to. He took advantage of it and sped up. Raven seemed to be catching up. But Kelly and Andy were already at the bottom. Andy ran through the door, taking Kelly with him. Kelly suddenly felt words fly out of her mouth and she looked back at the door and held her right hand towards it, "Lock!" The door turned black and they heard a muffled cry come from the door as it was banged upon. Andy took Kelly around a corner and began running down a street.

A/N: So... This is getting interesting, isn't it? Sorry it took so long for the latest installment. But I hit a bit of pickle while typing this chapter. I'm glad people like this. It is a very hard story to write. Considering it is all practically made up. w00t!

Anyway, hope you all enjoyed this chapter and it's somewhat-a-bit-of-a-cliffhanger-type-one. Lol.

Fal-Chan.