Secret in Hiding
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Chapter 5: Witch Hunters and Demons
Jake was at home bored and looked through his bedroom window. He could see Cassie in the room across and smiled. Over the last few days Adam and him had spent more time with the girls and Jake found himself really liking Cassie. Unfortunately the girls just seemed not to be able to get it. They did not know what a boyfriend was or what a date was. They barely knew what a friend was. Also the two refused to be away from each other. At least not far away from each other and not for a long time. Jake wanted more then anything to be in a real relationship with Cassie, but he knew that would have to wait for Cassie to become more used to this new world she was thrown into.
Right then he heard something come from downstairs. It sounded like his door opened, so Jake started to walk down the stairs to investigate."Jake," it was a familiar voice and Jake wasn't happy to hear it. Inside his house was a former friend who was also a witch hunter. He was also one of the witch hunters who helped kill Nick.
"Samuel," Jake hissed throwing the witch hunter down to the floor with his magic. "Give me one good reason why I don't kill you now."
"I need your help," Samuel mumbled. "Eben has something planned. Something major that will kill your entire Circle." Jake was really about to kill Samuel until he said that. Jake hadn't protected Nick, but he would do everything to protect the rest of his Circle, especially Cassie.
Jake let Samuel stand up. "You have five minutes to explain and then I will decide whether or not you get to live."
"Eben is going to summon demons." Jake froze at the word. He knew very little about demons, but he knew that they were hard to summon and nearly impossible to kill..
"He can't. He's not a witch." Jake pointed out.
"He has some witch working with him. He plans on summoning the demons and putting them inside him. Then he'll use them to kill all the witches he can starting with you and your Circle." Jake knew everything Samuel said could be true. Witches have worked with witch hunters before. Hell Jake himself had worked with the witch hunters. "He's crazy. This is an insane plan and he plans on killing me to summon the demons." Now Jake knew why Samuel came to him. "You got to help me."
Jake looked at him. "Look I'm sorry about your brother. We didn't know. All we saw was a witch, but come on. Think straight here. What's more important. Getting revenge for your brother or stopping witch hunters."
"You have a plan?" Jake asked deciding which one was better right away. Nick was dead and gone. Jake missed his little brother, but he couldn't let the rest of the Circle die because he wanted revenge. He needed to protect his Circle.
Samuel nodded. "Yeah, but we're going to need your Circle." Jake kept his eyes on his former friend as he called up Faye.
"What do you want?" Faye hissed. Jake very nearly rolled his eyes. Things between him and Faye had never been great after their relationship blew up to pieces.
"I need the Circle to meet at my house now." Jake told Faye and the hung up. He knew Faye would get everyone ready. Since she had found the spell book she had been kind of like the Circle leader almost. "Sit." Jake pointed at a chair to Samuel. "And don't you dare move." Samuel knew Jake meant it from the venom in his voice, so Samuel decided to sit and wait for the rest of the Circle to show.
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It hadn't taken long for the other three to show up and get filled in. Now everyone was sitting in Jake's living room wondering what they were going to do. "I know this seems bad, but you can fix this." Everyone looked at Samuel and Samuel almost regretted talking. "Look I know where they are going to summon the demons. I can bring you there and you guys can stop it."
"No we can't," Melissa stated. She was scared now and getting really worried and that showed in the tone of her voice. "Not without a full circle." Faye and Melissa looked at Adam and Jake who tried to avoid eye contact.
"Did you hear Melissa?" Faye sounded calm, but by looking at her face you could see she wasn't. Faye was getting really angry. "We need a full circle now. We need your girlfriends."
"They are not our girlfriends," Adam said defensively, but truthfully he would love for Diana to be his girlfriend. He knew the same thing as Jake. That the two weren't ready yet for boyfriends. That they didn't even know what a boyfriend was.
As though Jake was tuned into Adam's thought or maybe he was just thinking the same thing because Jake said, "The two don't even know what a girlfriend or boyfriend is." Adam agreed. "I really don't want to scare them." Adam once again agreed with Jake which was unusual since before Diana and Cassie they always argued. Those girls seem to be bringing them together.
"They know more about magic then any of us." Melissa stated. "And we need them." Jake and Adam looked at each other. They knew the girls were right.
"Okay, we'll go get them." Jake stood up and Adam followed. "Keep an eye on him girls. If he tries anything kill him."
"With pleasure," Faye called after the boys and looked at the witch hunter with a smile. Samuel swallowed and moved his legs wondering if this was such a good idea after all. Maybe just running away would have been better than going to Jake.
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Jane Blake was just getting home when she saw the two boys walking over. "Adam and Jake, we see a lot of each other lately." Adam and Jake smiled at Jane.
"Yes, well we were wondering if we could borrow Diana and Cassie for a while." Adam told Jane. "Are they in?"
Jane looked at the two boys. She still found the relationship the boys were forming with the girls a little weird, but she was choosing to ignore it. "I don't know, but they never go anywhere unless it's with you."
Jane opened the door. "GIRLS," Jane yelled and found them sitting on the floor of the living room playing chess. Amelia was sitting on the couch watching them. The TV was off and Jane knew Amelia usually kept it that way now. Diana and Cassie didn't like the TV that much and would usually not be in the room if the TV was on. Amelia liked to keep it off so she could sit in the living room and watch the girls, if the girls felt like being around her at all that is. "GIRLS." Jane was once again ignored by them and was planning on throwing the chess board again, but Jake and Adam got in the way.
"Diana, Cassie," the two said and Diana and Cassie turned around right away.
"Jake, Adam, what are you doing here?" Diana asked the two boys.
"I was hoping you two would want to come over my house, like now. Faye and Melissa are over and we're planning on all of us hanging out and maybe even going out somewhere later. Are you in?" Jake asked hoping the two would say yes. He didn't really want to have to explain more in front of Amelia and Jane.
The two girls had one of their silence conversations that Jane and Amelia had become used to. Jane still couldn't figure out how the two did it. Cassie and Diana smiled. "Sounds like fun."
Jake and Adam smiled and the two girls left with the boys. Jane watched them leave and then looked at Amelia again. "You still don't find that strange?" Jane asked her daughter who was looking at Cassie's and Diana's unfinished game of chess.
"I'm telling you. It's the Circle drawing them to the other four. Charles and Dawn agree with me." Amelia once again told her mother. Jane nodded deciding once again to ignore her gut feelings that something was wrong. "You know I think Cassie had Diana this time. Diana wins mostly, but I've seen Cassie win before."
Jane looked at the board. She knew Amelia was right about Cassie and Diana's games. Diana was the better player, but Jane had seen Cassie win at times. "No," Jane told her daughter. "Diana would have had Cassie in three moves." Amelia looked at the board again trying to see what her mother saw.
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Faye and Melissa were just sitting down staring at the witch hunter when Jake and Adam walked in with Cassie and Diana. The two girls looked around and saw Samuel. The two looked at each other and it seemed like they were talking to each other again. "What's going on?" Cassie finally asked looking at Samuel. "Who is he?"
"Well, let's get this out of the way first. We know you know we're all witches and we know you know about the Circle. Whether you realize you are the only two who could complete the Circle or not we don't know, so I'm going to make this clear. You two complete our Circle. You got that?"
Diana looked at Faye. "We know." Diana stated which caused Jake, Adam, Melissa, and Faye to look at each other.
"You know?" Melissa asked confused. If they knew why didn't they ever mention it. Jake and Adam have been spending a lot of time with them and they had never said a word.
"Father trained us in magic. He told us everything we needed to know about being a witch including about our mothers Circle." Diana told the group.
"Why didn't you ever say anything?" Jake asked confused.
"Why didn't you?" Cassie countered. No one said anything for a while. "So who is he?" Cassie pointed at Samuel who decided it was better for him not to speak for now. Jake took a deep breath and then explained everything to Cassie and Diana. The two listened without saying a word and when Jake was done everyone waited for Cassie and Diana to say something.
"Well, then. Let's stop these witch hunters." Diana stated and then smiled.
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Things had gone wrong with the plan to stop the witch hunters when it turned out Samuel had a demon in him. Samuel had ended up dying and Eben had gotten six demons into him before he ran off. Now the entire Circle was at the abandoned house. Jake, Melissa, Faye, and Adam looked defeated, but neither of the four realized the small smile the other two girls had on their faces.
"Well, that's it. We can't fight six demons. Eben going to come back eventually and kill us." Melissa mumbled looking like she was ready to cry. The other three agreed with Melissa right away.
"Cassie's right," Diana said causing the four to look at Diana confused and Cassie to give Diana a look. Diana for her part was horrified by her mistake.
"Cassie didn't say a word," Faye pointed out after a minute.
Diana looked at Cassie who was still giving her the look. "Not to you, but she did to me, through our sisters bond." The four looked at each other and then back at Diana confused not knowing what she was talking about. "We developed a mental link with each other when we were young. We can talk in our minds. We also share thoughts, dreams, basically what one knows the other knows too."
"Which would be why you never say a word out loud to each other." Jake realized.
"And why you always have those silence conversations. Mom and dad are really annoyed about that." Faye said with a laugh finding it funny.
"Yeah, do us a favor and don't tell anyone about this. We enjoy keeping it a secret." Diana didn't think she had to tell them this since the four were hiding that they knew about witchcraft from their parents, but she decided to make sure. "Anyway Cassie reminded me about something. The crystals."
"Crystals?" Adam asked. "What crystals?"
"Our families each protect a crystal. Alone they are powerful and can defeat one demon, but if we put all six together they becomes amazingly powerful. With all six we can defeat the witch hunters."
"Where are they?" Jake asked.
"The elders probably have them," Diana told the group.
"Well, then let's just go ask for them." Melissa said thinking that was the obvious thing to do.
"NO," Cassie and Diana both yelled together making Melissa jumped from the reaction. "You can't ask the elders for them." Diana started to explain. "You know what the elders did to our parents?" The four looked at each other, but then shook their heads no. "They stripped them of their powers and if the elders knew you were practicing they would strip you too."
Faye looked at the two girls. "What about you two?" Cassie and Diana looked at her confused. "You've made it pretty obvious you are practicing. Why don't they take your powers away?"
"The Blackwell line is an older and more powerful line then theirs. We are more powerful than them. They cannot touch us, but they can get you. Do you want to be powerless?" Cassie asked Faye who decided to shut up. The last thing Faye wanted was for her powers to be gone.
"Then how do we get the crystals?" Adam asked.
"We already know where one is. We saw where my grandmother hides her crystal. We can steal it." Cassie explained. "Tomorrow we'll steal the Blake crystal as for the Meade's crystal while the last one to have that should have been Diana's mom. It might be hidden in her stuff."
"That's in the attic of my house," Faye said. "I can look through it tomorrow after school."
"Good, take Jake with you for backup." Diana told Faye causing Faye and Jake to look at each other. The two wanted to say something, but decided not to argue about it.
"If my family has one it would be with my grandmother's place. I can sneak into her house after school tomorrow." Melissa volunteered feeling bad about having to steal from her grandmother. Melissa loved her grandmother, but decided to go along with the plan.
"Take Adam with you for backup." Cassie told Melissa. Adam and Melissa looked at each other, but they too decided it wasn't worth commenting. "Well I think we should get home now. Just one thing. What is this school thing?"
Faye laughed. "Trust me you don't want to know and if you two ever start talking to people they will make you go too. In fact they will probably make you go anyway." Cassie and Diana looked at each other and then they walked out of the house.
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Well this worked out well for us Diana thought to Cassie that night before bed. We're finally getting them to do what we want. Soon they will hand the crystals over to us.
Yeah, this witch hunter thing was really good timing. Cassie commented back. Although I can't believe it was you who messed up with the link thing. Diana threw her shirt at Cassie who caught it and dropped it to the floor.
Okay I made a mistake, but it's not that big of a deal. The plan is on its way. Diana smiled and so did Cassie. Then Cassie looked out the window and into Jake's house. She saw Jake getting ready for bed himself. There's that feeling again. What is it?
It happened to you when you see Adam too. Cassie told her sister who had to admit Cassie was right. I feel kind of bad using him like this.
We have to Cassie. We have to. Cassie agreed with her sister. Jake had to be used to get what they wanted. Jake and Adam don't matter. All that matters is getting those crystals and completing the plan.
I know. Once we're out of here Jake and Adam will be nothing but a memory. Cassie smiled at her sister and jumped into the bed. The two girls went to sleep not too long later.
AN: okay who knows what Cassie and Diana are planning? If you don't I don't know how I can make it more obvious without just saying it. Anyway, anyone have any idea where Charles and Dawn might have found that first crystal because all I can think of is in Elizabeth's stuff, so unless anyone has a better idea that's where it will be. Also sorry for the skip between Jake's house and the abandoned house. Didn't feel like writing what happened with the witch hunters since it would basically be almost the same as the TV Show, just without John Blackwell. Also I will say The Secret Circle Project has updated and episode 4 is now up. Go check it out and please REVIEW both this story and that one.