Chapter 20
"Tell me something," Lexi said stepping towards the figure. "Do you hate me?"
"Of course not why would you even-"
"Then why are you torturing me!" Lexi screamed. "He is dead because of me and you expect me to believe that he's not?" Lexi turned back to where Quinn was standing.
"What's she saying?" Poppy asked. Lexi turned sharply to her.
"She's saying he's still alive." Poppy started to frown. She looked around then started to talk.
"Is that meant to be some kind of sick joke?" she yelled herself. Thea stepped forwards she was mumbling something then Lexi saw she was holding some sort of stone that was glowing orange.
"Where is she?" Thea asked while continuing to mutter. Lexi, Quinn, Ash and Jez all pointed towards the ghostly figure who look completely confused. Suddenly Thea through the stone so it passed right through the figure. The image fluttered then became solid. Lexi watched as a human body formed and her mother was stood before her. Lexi stepped forwards to touch her but her arm still went through the body.
"Oh my God. So you're not all insane," Morgead said which earned him a slap in the back of the head from Hannah.
"Shut up you idiot. Did you not hear what Lex just said?" Hannah whispered sharply to him.
"He can't be alive, his neck it snapped." Eric said. "I checked it myself and I used to work with ill animals so I'm guessing that if a rabbit can be killed in that way then so can a human."
"But what if he wasn't human?" The figure said calmly. Lexi froze and glared at her.
"Excuse me?" Suddenly all eyes were on Lexi.
"Lexi you didn't did you?" Rashel asked.
"No of course not! I was trying to stay as far away from him as possible. Let alone bite him!"
"So who else could have." Lexi went over the events of the past few days.
"Then I left and-"
"Stephen went missing." Quinn said. "He was upset and ran off. I followed him but when I had finally caught up with him he just disappeared as if he wasn't really there."
Ash suddenly caught on. "But wait that means that the only person who really had access to him was-"
"Hunter." Lexi said blankly. Suddenly she thought back to when he last bit him. Stephen had bit Hunter as well. Lexi suddenly turned and looked at the dead body in disbelief. "It could be true."
"It is true!" her mother said.
"But why isn't he moving why isn't he awake?"
"He is you're just not listening." Lexi closed her eyes and listened hard but couldn't hear a thing.
"There's no sound!" she cried.
"That's because you're listening with your ears Lexi. You're soul mates. Listen with your heart." Lexi sighed and closed her eyes again. She was suddenly hit with memories of Stephen and his face and how much it hurt her to see him dead then she heard it. It was like a whisper from far away but she heard it.
"Elexis." Lexi's eyes flew open as she looked at the body on the floor. She quickly ran over and lifted his shoulders to rest them on her lap. She then felt a sudden burst of energy flow through her. She felt her eyes change and her hands glowed this time. Everyone seemed to stand back as an almighty amount of light formed. Suddenly surrounding everyone was a large green circle of fire. Ash jumped and moved away from a large shot of fire that came shooting towards him. The flames rose to the height of a person then dropped suddenly. All the time that the flames danced around the room Lexi stayed frozen next to Stephen's body. All of a sudden Lexi felt a large amount of power. Suddenly she was surrounded by fire herself. Next thing she knew there was a huge explosion and the walls of the building came crashing down around them all.