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Five

Reid awoke to find Tyler lying asleep on the floor beside the now blank TV. It was still dark in the room, the rain still beating down against the window. Reid looked at his watch.

3:36am.

As he propped himself up, by his arms, he realised Chloe's eyes were on him.

"Hey" she whispered. Reid smiled in return before heading over to sit beside her at the top of the bed.

"Is he still calling?" asked Reid noticing that the phone was out of the drawer. Chloe nodded silently.

"He'll give up eventually, he'll realise I'm not worth the bother" she spoke unwillingly, it was taking her all the strength she had not to answer her cell. Reid sighed in disbelief

"What?" Chloe muttered puzzled.

"Chlo', that's why he keeps calling, cause he knows what a stupid idiot he's been and he wants you back" he paused "and you are worth the bother. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise"

Chloe remained silent and kept her head down. Reid watched her.

"You know" stated Reid "You haven't changed, your still always putting yourself down"

"Yea…well..," sighed Chloe, thinking about how to phase her next question "Reid, are you gonna finish what Caleb had to tell me or am I gonna have to wait for him?" Reid looked up

"You know I'd tell you, but I think this is something Caleb deserves to tell you himself" Chloe nodded, She'd have to wait. Reid watched as Chloe got lost in her own thoughts. He stared intently

"Chloe what are you thinking?" he asked sincerely. Chloe smiled in return

"Well I was thinking about the sort of reaction I'm going to get from my mother. I don't think she's gonna be happy to see me…she never is but I'm just scared she'll send me back, I really don't want to go back there"

Reid listened carefully then smiled

"Your not going back if you don't want to. I won't let her send you away again" Reid paused and rephrased his previous sentence as Chloe looked up

"Caleb won't let her send you back. He missed you Chlo, we all have and if you want to stay then that's the only thing that matters." Chloe nodded.

"Yea I guess, but Reid you know what she's like…"

"Never mind that, we can handle her, trust me" he smirked.

After several seconds Chloe quietly laughed.

"What?" questioned Reid.

"Do you know what I was thinking about on the flight here?" Chloe asked.

Reid shook his head.

"I was thinking about just before I left…Mother remained silent through out the whole car trip to the airport. Remember how she wouldn't let any of you come with us?" Reid nodded silently

"Yup..We fell out with your mother over that whole thing. We didn't talk to her for months. I still haven't forgiven her for doing what she did, neither has Caleb…After she got back from the airport, Caleb and your parents fought, like really bad, he even moved in with Pogue for abit."

"Really? I never knew" stated Chloe "I guess there's a lot I don't know eh?"

Reid nodded and smiled weakly, he knew it was true.

Reid woke with a start and knew something was wrong - he could feel it. His eyes quickly glanced to where Chloe should've been sleeping. When Reid saw her, her face confirmed what he had felt. Tensed, scared and backed against the wall, Chloe couldn't move.

"Chloe" asked Reid suddenly anxious. Chloe's breathing quickened, but she didn't dare look away to answer Reid. Instead, a quick shake of her head was all she could summing her body to do. As the figure moved forward, Reid realised, all too fast, what was happening and what he had to do. Through instinct alone, Reid pounded from the bed to stand in front of Chloe. With his hands against the wall at either side of her head, shielding her from the approaching figure that set out to harm her. As he held Chloe's gaze, his eyes turned black. As the figure grew near, chloe caught her breath. Within a blink, the figure had gone and the room had returned to normal. Tyler had been using too, Chloe could see him at the other end of the room.

"Hey guys you ok?" asked Tyler anxiously as he approached them. But Reid hadn't seemed to have heard him.

"Chloe, are you ok?" asked Reid, searching her eyes for an answer, refusing to relax his stance. Only when Chloe nodded in reply, did Reid let his arms fall to his side. His eyes had returned to normal again.

"What was that?" Chloe stuttered breathlessly.

"A darkling" answered Tyler as he sat carefully on the bed "we need to phone the others" he stated as he pulled his cell phone from his pocket.