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Chapter 5

Simon's POV

I heard my name screamed loudly and was jerked awake. I could see a figure, barely lit from the dim light of the moon through my window. It was huge, taking up the majority of the door way.

It took a step into the room, the moonlight hitting his face.

"Derek" I sighed relieved. Then I saw his face, jaws taunt with rage. Eyes burning with fury.

"Simon?" Ella's soft voice, thick with sleep. The blankets around her fell; she was rubbing her eyes, suddenly looking like a child. Derek made a leap at her, barely giving Ella time to scuttle away; she fell off the bed with a thump. He pinned her beneath him. She shrieked quietly and I was up in a second.

"What the hell are you doing? Get off her!" I shouted grabbing Derek's t-shirt and attempting to throw him off her. He didn't budge.

"She sold us out" he growled through bared teeth.

"Derek..." Chloe whispered reaching out to touch his back, he relaxed a little. With a sudden movement he was on his feet. He reached down and took Ella's wrist in one hand and jerked her up roughly. She whimpered in pain and then was silent.

"Sold us out? What are you talking about?" I was so confused, Derek was visibly shaking. Ella had her head facing the floor and she would wince now and then when Derek's grip on her wrist was too tight.

"There are people coming for us" his eyes blazed into mine and behind the fury I saw fear. "Now"

"Now?" I repeated

"That's what I said!" Derek growled in frustrations.

"What? How do you know this?" Chloe asked her voice strangely calm considering the circumstances.

"Because I can hear them. Goddamn it! We need to get out of here!" Derek shouted.

Tori walked into the room "What's with all the shouting?"

I ignored her "What on earth does that have to do with Ella" I looked at her now.

"They said her name" her face snapped up to meet Derek's accusing gaze. "They said she'd be here" he pushed her to the ground now she fell with a thud and a soft groan of pain. At my feet.

"We go now" he told the group, meeting eyes with Chloe and Tori who both nodded. He turned to lock gazes with me now "She stays here" he told me. Not a question a statement. She wasn't to be trusted. She was to be left behind, no questions asked.

I nodded.

"What's..."

"Shhh" Derek interrupted Tori, straining to hear something. Tori scoffed in response, placing her hands on her hips but remained silent.

"Back door now!" Derek snapped pushing Chloe towards the door.

"What about our stuff?" Tori asked.

"No time. Now go!" he shoved Chloe who made a run for the back door. We ran through the hall and into the kitchen just in time to hear the ominous crack of the back door lock breaking.

"Crap!" Tori cursed.

"Front door" Derek ordered and I lead the way to it. We saw the dark shape of a figure through the frosted glass of the front door. Derek ducked us all down quickly and we seeked cover.

"What now?" Chloe whispered, panic seeping into her voice.

"I'm thinking" Derek grumbled pulling us all towards a cabinet to the left of the room.

"Well hurry up!" Tori snapped. He shot her murderous gaze. "Sorry not helping" Tori whispered.

"Derek the roof!" Chloe whispered. He turned to her confusion written all over his face.

"There's an emergency exit!" She sighed in frustration. His eyes lit up.

I can't get this open the figure at the door shouted.

"There's more than one of them?" I asked, hoping I was wrong.

"Four I think, maybe more" Derek answered. "We need to move. Stay low so they don't see us through the glass" we started to crawl - making our way to the staircase.

I got it Pete a second voice, a second figure in the door. With another crack the front door was open.

"I guess they heard us eh?"Pete stepped into the room catching sight of us cowering by the stairs. He was tall man, with a long thin build. His face was long and thin too, with a crooked nose and long lank blond hair. Derek stood up, facing the pursuers, blocking their path to us.

Another man came into the room, small and stocky with a mop of black curls. His dark skin and black eyes were restless and cold, strangely menacing. From the kitchen three more figures appeared. Surrounded, crap.

"Hello there" the man at the head of the three newcomers shot Derek a smile. That did it, the smiles, the civility. Just like the Edison group. I shot up to face the newcomers. I felt Tori stand up beside me, facing our attackers. Chloe must have stood up too because the whole group started to laugh, all except the dark man that my eyes couldn't seem to stray from, her stared ahead with a cold calculated expression.

Be calm. Analyse the situation. My inner thoughts sounded a lot like Derek... But it was a good idea. I looked at the men. The leader and the dark man had strange bulges beneath their shirts, near their hip bones. Guns my inner voice provided me. I immediately felt my palms sweat more, my heart beating faster. Now we know their physical power, what about their supernatural power? None of them were a sorcerer or they would have been able to magically open the doors, they weren't spell locked.

"Now as interesting and amusing you lot are" the leader said, his tone changing his voice and expression turning serious. "You're not what we need"

"Where's Ella?" the one called Pete sneered, taking a step closer to Chloe. Derek growled a warning at him but that just made his smirk bigger.

"You know where she is. She's working with you lot!" Derek shot back at the group.

"Ah you misunderstand." The leader said, inclined his head towards Derek and smiled. "You see Ella belongs to a friend of mine and they would very much like her back"

"Bullshit" Derek whispered.

The dark man stepped forward, his restless eyes locked on Derek. "Look mutt; tell us where Ella is or..." with a blinding fast movement he pulled Chloe from beside Derek, a gun poised on the side of her head. "I'll blow her brains out" he smiled, a cruel smile.

"Let her go" Derek growled, taking a step towards the dark man.

"Oh I wouldn't do that if I was you boy" The leader said. His gun now pointed at Derek's head.

A pair of hands grabbed my wrist and pulled them back in a way that wasn't at all comfortable. A red headed man was behind me, a thick beard covering most of his face.

"My my we do have a situation here" Pete sneered stalking up behind Tori and grabbing her wrists. He pulled her close to his chest, sniffing her neck.

"Let me go" she snarled as his fingers traced her neck. "or you'll be sorry" she said calmly.

"Don't try anything little missy" the leader said. "Or I'm going to have to shoot your friend here" he motioned to Derek who was stuck still, his jaw taunt. The dark man had moved further back now, making it impossible for Derek to grab for the gun. Chloe was in the dark mans arms, crying silently. Derek was shaking.

"Where is Ella!" the dark man shrieked, pushing the gun into Chloe's temple harder. She let out a small squeak of fear.

"I'm right here" Ella's voice floated its way into the room. She stood in the doorway of the office, in her pj's with bare feet.

"Well hello Ella" Pete smiled at her. She wondered past him, eyes on the dark man, he stared at her hungrily. Like a predator eyeing up his prey. He pushed Chloe violently to the floor; she collapsed with a loud moan. Derek growled, poised to run to her.

"Don't move" the leader told Derek. Derek turned to eye the man, staring at him with a loathing that made the leader shiver a little.

Ella now stood in the middle of the group. Facing the leader.

"I'll come with you, but you have to let Derek and all the others go" Ella told him, her voice was the loudest I had ever heard. Clear, confident.

"Since when did you speak to us like that" the dark man snaked behind her, his voice low and muted. He began to circle her; she kept her gaze with his. He swooped forward grabbing her arms and whispered "don't forget what I'm capable of" he pulled the long sleeves of her top up. Her pale arms were peppered with bruises. Small oval bruises. Fingerprints.

"We can't let them go Ella" the leader smiled. "Your all going to have to come with us, I'm afraid"

"Over my dead body!" Tori shouted and with a curse Pete behind her began to shake like he was being tazered. He fell - a dead weight on the floor. Tori whipped her hands round to slam an energy bolt into the guy behind me. It missed but the guy stumbled backwards and with a single twitch of my fingers he flew into the wall behind him.

Derek ducked and grabbed Chloe's hand. I started to run to them only to be blocked by a large man. Tori was fighting with the leader and Derek was hurrying to help her. I tried to use knock back but it didn't work the first time and the guy hit me square in the nose. I ran at him in a rugby tackle, but he was a lot heavier than me. He pushed me into the nearest wall and hit me in the face again. I groaned, he hit again this time in the gut. I doubled over. Suddenly the man was flying through the air. He landed on the cabinet in the room with a crash.

"You okay?" Derek asked.

"Yeah" Derek helped me up and slapped me on the back. The large man started to get up and made a bee line for Chloe. Derek hurried to stop him. I could only catch glimpsing of what was left. Pete was starting to wake up I wondered if I could limp towards him, knock him out again. Derek was fighting the big man who was surprisingly quick on his feet. Tori shot another energy bolt at the leader that missed him as he smashed the gun he was holding into her head, using it as a club. She fell with a thump.

"Tori!" I shouted. I noticed the leader was walking towards me, wiping the blood dripping from his nose. I tried to move away but a pain in my lower chest stopped me. Damn it! I must have broken a rib. He grabbed me by a fistful of my hair and marched me to the middle of the room.

"Enough!" he shouted. Pushing the gun into the back of my head. I was right in front of Ella who was being held by the dark man. She stared at me with wide apologetic eyes. Derek and the man had stopped fighting, Derek was facing me. Chloe had stood up from her hiding spot. Tori lay a heap on the floor, I couldn't see if she was breathing or not.

"Nobody move" the leader said. "Or say bye bye to Simon, that's your name isn't it?" Derek growled and Chloe watched with tearful eyes.

"Let him go!" Ella shouted, struggling against the restraints the dark man had over her.

"Hush!" the dark man said and slapped Ella around the face. It was horrible to watch, degrading. Something someone would do to a dog not a human being. Ella eyes were downcast now, closed.

Pete stood up rubbing his head. "Where is that bitch?" he enquired, looking for Tori.

"Pete get the blond, Don restrain the werewolf" The leader ordered.

"Quite a tame werewolf, aren't you" Don whispered into Derek's ear. Malice and hate heavy in his words. "Werewolves are barely worth anything, but tame ones? Well there worthless" he spat at Derek's feet. Derek growled.

The leader cocked the gun and pushed it further into my scalp. Derek stopped still.

"Now here's what we are going to do" The leader started calmly "you" he pointed to Derek "are going to take the witch wherever we tell you too" pointing to the still unconscious Tori. He looked all around the room. "You will not argue, you will not fight or I will kill you" his voice was cold. "Understand?"

I hadn't been paying attention; my eyes had been locked on the girl in front of me. Her head was still down, her eyes closed. She was panting, breathing loudly and shaking almost. With a jerk she stood up to face the leader and me. She opened her eyes and they were the brightest gold, shining like suns. The whites of her eyes glittered and she had tiny white slits for pupil.

With a scream her arms caught fire; the dark man dropped them quickly and screeched. The smell of burning flesh. With another screech Ella pushed her arms forward, all the glass in the room shattered and those closest to the windows, Derek, Don and Chloe scrambled for cover.

"Ella, now let's not do this" The leader said slowly, dropping the gun from my head and taking a step back. I could see her now, her curls blew about her face with the wind from the broken windows. She took a step towards the leader and he fell back. I saw the dark man start behind her, he tensed.

"Ella!" I shouted as he leapt in the air, she didn't seem to hear me, she whipped round fast. A bolt of lightning shot through her palm, hitting the dark man square in the chest. He fell with a loud crack.

Don, Pete and the leader all started towards Ella slowly. She watched for a minute, or waited. I could see her palms tingling. Small sparks flying through them. She smiled a beautiful smile and with a final scream pressed her palms to the wall beside her. A large crack ran up it and the already unsteady ceiling crumbled, falling over us in a huge shower of plaster. I looked up to see a huge bit flying straight for me.

"Simon!" Ella shouted and reached towards me. I was suddenly flown backwards by an invisible force and hit the back wall. The large bit of ceiling missing my feet by centimetres. I saw Ella now, in the midst of the destruction, her eyes rolled backwards in her skull and closed. When they opened again they were her usual orange and full of fear, and hate. She looked at me with an expression of terror before she collapsed into the rubble.