Pogue was late to pick Kate up for their date. Caleb and Tyler decided to grab something to eat and invited Reid, but he declined saying that he needed to clear his head. He went for a walk instead.

Reid didn't know where he was going or why he was going there. He just started walking. He needed to think. He needed to figure out what was going on with him. He needed to admit to himself that he was in love with Jamie. Of course he had known all along that he was crazy about her. He'd been crazy about her since they were kids. But he had never seen her with another guy before. He hadn't thought it would make him so jealous.

Before he realized it, Reid ended up at the school. He noticed it was getting late because the sky was completely dark by then. He decided to head back to the house. He would cut through the woods behind the school to save time because of the rain storm that had shown up while he was with the others at the Danvers' house.

When Reid reached the woods he could tell something was wrong. Something bad had happened there. He couldn't see anything, but he could feel it in every part of his body. That was when he heard something faint a few feet in front of him. Instinctively he turned his eyes black and allowed a light to appear in front of him, lighting his way.

There was a pile of rubble five or six feet ahead of him. At first he figured it was someone's lousy attempt at a bon fire. But as he got closer Reid realized that there was something under the rubble…or someone rather. Reid rushed over and began pulling the branches away from the girl trapped underneath. Reid thought he was going to be sick when under all of the branches and rocks he saw the only girl he had ever fallen in love with.

"Jamie! Jamie, can you hear me?" he called to her, pulling her up and holding her in his arms. She was still breathing. But she wasn't moving. "Jamie!"

Jamie could hardly make out someone calling her name. No. Not someone. Reid. Reid was there. She knew she would be okay. Reid had been right and Jamie should have known all along: Reid would never hurt her or let her be hurt. After all, Jamie had said it herself, Reid was safe.

"Don't worry Jamie; it's going to be okay. You're going to be okay," she heard him say.

But Jamie could hear the fear in his voice. Chase had done a number on her. That much she knew. His power was a lot stronger than hers. He'd kicked her ass. Her head was throbbing worse than any headache. She couldn't feel her left arm. That couldn't be good. And there was a stabbing pain in her side.

Jamie slowly opened her eyes. They filled with rain water almost immediately making her vision blurry. She could still make out Reid's silhouette in the glow of his cell phone pressed against his ear. The paramedics, Jamie assumed.

She was quickly proved wrong. "Mrs. Danvers? It's Reid. I need your help." Reid sounded panicked. Why was he calling Evelyn? Then Jamie remembered that before she had Caleb, Evelyn Danvers had been an ER nurse. Nice going Reid.

Reid touched Jamie's left arm softly and a wave of pain shot through her entire body. At least she could fell her arm again. That was, however, the last thing Jamie remembered until she woke up at home.

Jamie recognized her living room. She recognized Reid's voice in the background. Who else was there? Someone was stroking her hair, someone with soft, smooth, steady hands. It certainly wasn't Reid's fidgety hands that had been calloused from holding a pool queue so often. It was a woman.

"Jamie, dear, it's Evelyn. Can you hear me Jamie?"

"Where's Reid?" Jamie asked, still groggy and unable to think straight.

"I'm right here Jamie!" Evelyn moved out of the way so that Reid could sit by Jamie. In the last forty-five minutes Evelyn had spent with Reid—the longest she had ever been alone with him—he had been completely focused on Jamie. When she had suggested Reid change into dry clothes, he had refused to leave Jamie's side. Evelyn had known Reid his whole life and she had never seen him care so much for anyone but himself. It was obvious that Reid Garwin was a boy in love.

"You're all wet," Jamie noticed as Reid sat next to her, holding her hand.

"You are too," Reid reminded her. He let out a small laugh. Was she really that concerned about his being wet? She had just been attacked by something horrible.

"Jamie, what happened to you? Who—or what—did this?" Evelyn asked her from in front of the fireplace.

"It was Chase. He's back and he's mad," Jamie told them. "Have you talked to Tyler?"

"I called him, but he wasn't answering his phone. Neither are Caleb or Pogue," Reid recalled. If Chase was back, chances were, Caleb was at the top of his shit-list. Everyone knew that it was only a matter of time before Caleb ran into trouble with Chase again.

"You don't think…" Jamie couldn't finish that thought.

"Both of you need to stop that," Evelyn said with a smile. "Caleb and Tyler are fine. I'm sure they just weren't able to hear their phones over the music at Nicky's. That place is horribly loud. I can't even begin to tell you how many phone calls Caleb has missed from me because he was in that place."

"Reid, you have to find them. You have to make sure that they're okay. And Pogue and the rest of the families. If Chase would come after me, what would stop him from coming after any of us?" Jamie was suddenly extremely concerned about her brother. She knew Chase wanted to get back at Caleb. If Tyler was with him when Chase attacked, Chase would have no concerns with taking him out too.

"Evelyn is right. Tyler and Caleb went to Nicky's for dinner. They probably can't hear their phones. And Pogue was taking Kate to a movie tonight. His phone is on silent probably," Reid assured her.

"Reid, please. Try to call them again," Jamie begged. She needed to know that they were alright. She needed to hear her brother's voice.

"Okay," Reid agreed. He pulled his cell phone from his pocket and walked out of the room to try to call them. He had a bad feeling and didn't want Jamie to over-hear his call.

"Jamie," Evelyn said as she walked back over to the girl. "I think we should take you to the hospital. You've been hurt really bad. Your shoulder was dislocated. Reid and I were able to push it back into place, but some of these cuts are deep. You need to be looked at by a real doctor. And by the look on your face, you need some pain medication stronger than aspirin."

"No. No hospitals." Jamie wished she could go to the hospital. She would love for them to give her something to make her body so numb that she couldn't feel the pain that came with her fight. But Jamie's parents were both MIA. If she went to a hospital, they would get the cops involved. That couldn't end well for Jamie. There was no way they would let her stay in a house with her eighteen-year-old brother and two of his eighteen-year-old friends. Her dad was the only adult on Earth irresponsible enough to allow that sort of living situation with no adult supervision.

"Jamie, you're in a lot of pain. You need to go," Evelyn argued. Apparently Caleb had yet to mention to his mom about Jamie's current situation. Or there was the fact that everyone knew Evelyn was a bit of an alcoholic and it was entirely possible that even if Caleb had told her about Jamie's parents, she wouldn't remember a word of the conversation.

"Evelyn, look, I can't go to the hospital. My dad is away on business—at least I think he is—and my mom is gone. No one has heard from either of them in weeks. They would call it neglect and they would take me away. I won't let them do that. Besides, I'll be okay, really. I have a really big tolerance for pain." Jamie was lying. She had absolutely no tolerance for pain actually. She freaked out if she got a paper cut. But she didn't feel like explaining to Evelyn that if she was admitted to the hospital—which she likely would be with no legal guardian to speak of—there was the distinct possibility that someone would have to explain why the furniture in her room was floating in the middle of the night or why the windows were all breaking on their own. The hospital wasn't even a possibility in Jamie's mind.

"Jamie…"

"Evelyn, I'll be fine."

"Okay. No hospitals. But if you need anything tonight—if the pain gets too bad—you'll call me? We'll figure something out to get you the help you need."

"Absolutely."

"Take care then. And get some sleep. It's getting late and you've had a trying night."

"Thank you Evelyn."

"Anytime my dear." Evelyn kissed the top of Jamie's head and left to find Reid. A few minutes later, Jamie heard the front door open and Evelyn's car pulling out of the driveway.

Reid walked back into the living room a moment later with a gruesome look on his face. Jamie knew that something bad had happened to Caleb and her brother.

"Chase found them, didn't he?" Jamie asked.

"Caleb is in the hospital. Tyler says he wasn't there. He had told Caleb he would meet him at Nicky's. Chase was already gone by the time he had gotten there," Reid told her, relaying the conversation he had just had with Tyler and again with Evelyn. She had left to go to the hospital to see her son already.

"We should change into something dry before we go," Jamie suggested. She couldn't wait to get out of her heavy, cold clothes.

"Where are we going? Jamie, you should stay here. You need to rest," Reid told her. "We dealt with Chase before and we can deal with him now. You shouldn't put yourself in the middle of this."

"I'm already in the middle of this Reid! Chase already involved me. Besides, I really don't want to be alone right now," Jamie argued. She tried to put on a brave front for Evelyn, but Jamie was scared. Chase had beaten her without breaking a sweat. He could easily have killed her if he had wanted to. He could just as easily kill her in her house, by herself, while everyone else was at the hospital with Caleb. She didn't want to be there by herself.

"I'll call Aaron for you. I'll ask him to stay here with you. If anything happens, you can call me. We'll be here before you know it." Reid hated the idea of Jamie and Aaron being there together alone. But it was better than leaving her alone. She was really hurt and there was no telling what bones she had broken that they didn't know about or whether or not she had hurt her head. A million things could go wrong and he knew that Aaron was better than nothing at the moment.

"No! Not Aaron!" Jamie exclaimed. She had almost forgotten about Aaron until that moment. But at the mention of his name, all of the tears were back and streaming down Jamie's face.

"What?" Reid asked. "What happened?" His stern expression quickly turned to one of compassion and concern. He could tell from the look on Jamie's face that Aaron Abbots had broken another heart.

"We broke up. It was really ugly. That's why I was in the woods to begin with. I could feel it rising inside of me, the power, and I knew that I couldn't control it. It was going to come out and it was going to be strong this time. I went to the woods so that no one would see me. Chase did. That's when he found me," Jamie re-told the story. "I can't face Aaron right now. Besides, I want to be there with you. Tyler, Pogue, Caleb and you can protect me in a way that no one else can. You're the only ones who can stand up to Chase. I want to be with you guys. I don't want you to leave me. And I want to see my brother. I need to see with my own eyes that he's okay."

"Okay, let's go." Reid started to help Jamie up from where she had been lying on the couch.

Jamie flinched from the pain as she sat up. "Stop!" she called to Reid. "Fuck!"

"Is it your arm?" Reid asked. Evelyn had found an old sling for Jamie, but her arm was still really sensitive and he knew that the slightest movement would hurt like hell.

"No. It's my side."

Reid lifted the bottom of Jamie's shirt to look at the spot on her ribs that was already beginning to swell and bruise. He felt of her ribs but none of them felt broken. "I think it's just bruised. We'll have Evelyn look at it when we get to the hospital to make sure though."

Jamie stood the rest of the way up and Reid helped her upstairs to her room where she changed clothes and pulled her wet curls into a ponytail. She looked in the mirror. She looked rough. Her lip was a little swollen. Her shoulder hurt worse than any pain she had ever experienced in her life. She had dark circles under her eyes because she was so tired. She knew Tyler was going to freak out when he saw her. As much as she was hurting, it looked a lot worse than it was.