Secret in Hiding
Disclaimer: Like I said before I do not own The Secret Circle
Chapter 7: Chamberlain and Conant Crystal
Faye put the last of her things in the bag she was taking with her to the lake house. She couldn't help but smile thinking about going up there. She walked down the stairs. "Well I'm leaving. Be back on Monday." Faye told her parents who were sitting on the kitchen table with the two little ones and they looked at her.
"Where are you going?" Dawn asked confused for a minute.
Faye rolled her eyes. "I told you yesterday. I'm going to the lake house with some friends for the weekend."
"Can I go?" Elizabeth asked with a smile very nearly jumping out of her chair.
"No," Faye commented and Elizabeth gave her a sad face. "You can make all the faces you want. You're not coming."
"Who are you going with?" There was a horn from outside.
"That would be them." Faye said as she started to walk to the door.
"Faye," Charles said thinking this was strange. "Who is it?"
"It's just..." Before Faye could finish the doorbell rang. Faye opened the door and Charles and Dawn went to look and saw Diana and Cassie standing there.
"Are you coming?" Cassie asked Faye. "Jake is getting impatient waiting for you."
Faye turned around to see the shocked look on her parents faces. "Like I was just saying Jake and I are bringing Cassie and Diana up to the lake house to learn how to swim since they don't know how." Dawn and Charles looked at each other not sure what to say. They hadn't realized Cassie and Diana were that close to the other four that they would go away with them.
Elizabeth and Thomas were looking over. They had heard about Diana and were excited to finally see her. "You're our other big sister right?" Elizabeth asked causing Diana to look at her with a look that scared her.
"No," Diana hissed. "You are not my little sister because that man is not my father." Elizabeth and Thomas backed away scared by Diana
Charles for his part was looking at Diana upset. Not because of Diana's reaction. He had expected that. He was upset because he had been hoping that when Diana had met Elizabeth and Thomas she would be a little more accepting. A week wasn't enough time though to correct 12 years of Blackwell. Charles knew Diana would always see that man as her father, but he was hoping he might be able to count as a second father in time.
"Does Amelia know about this?" Dawn asked. Cassie nodded and the two walked out.
"Bye mom," Faye said and walked out the door. Dawn saw the three get into Jake's car and drive away.
Dawn went over to the phone and started to dial. "What are you doing?"
"Calling Amelia," Dawn whispered and then waited for Amelia to answer. She was on the phone for exactly a minute before she hung up, "They knew about it." Dawn and Charles looked at each other. "This is a good thing. Right?"
"I think so," Charles answered.
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The four got to the lake house later that night. It was already dark out and it was pouring. "Why did we have to stop to go shopping?" Jake asked and turned to Faye.
"The two needed bathing suits," Faye told Jake. Jake looked at Cassie and Diana who had fallen asleep in the back seat. They had been less than thrilled with the stop too. In fact Jake was sure they hated shopping more than he did and that made Jake laugh. If there was one thing Jake hated was going shopping, especially when he was going shopping with a girl who could spend all day in a store. Faye might be a badass at times, but she did love picking out cloths at times and Jake just learned shopping for swim wear was one of her favorite things to do. Jake had ended up buying a bathing suit not just for the two girls, but also for Faye and somehow he got tricked into paying for a float too. How did he get himself into these situations?
"You realize swimming is not what this trip is about?" Jake asked Faye.
"We have to make it look good. You wake up your sleeping beauty and her sister. I'll go talk to grandpa." Faye got out of the car and ran up to the house in the pouring rain. She knocked on the door and it wasn't long before Henry Chamberlain opened up.
"Faye," Henry said bringing his granddaughter into a hug. "I haven't seen you in a long time." Truthfully Henry didn't like his former daughter in law and didn't really like Charles that much either. Because of that Henry very rarely went back to Chance Harbor, but he did miss his granddaughter "What are you doing up here?"
"Well it turns out two of my friends don't know how to swim, so Jake and I decided this weekend would be the perfect time to teach them. I would have called first, but you don't have a phone and cellphones don't work up here."
Henry laughed. "You and your friends are welcome up here anytime. This will be all yours someday anyway." Henry looked at the car. "Well tell your friends to get inside."
Faye nodded as she ran back to the car to find Jake had just been able to wake up Cassie and Diana. "Come on, let's go in." The four ran through and into the house shutting the door behind them.
Henry looked at the three. 'Well Jake Armstrong I believe." Henry then turned to look at the other two. "Cassie Blake and Diana Meade." Diana and Cassie choose to say nothing. "I heard you were back. Didn't get many details though." Henry smiled. "Well you're welcome to stay the weekend, but I'm leaving in the morning and won't be back until Monday."
"That's okay grandpa. We'll be fine alone." Faye told Henry with a smile and she could see the other three smiled too. If Henry left that means they could search the house for the crystal as long as Henry didn't take it with him.
"I hope so," Henry said and then looked at Jake. "I trust you to take care of these girls." Jake nodded. "Well you kids should get some sleep. I'm going to go to bed now anyway." Henry walked up the stairs and went to his room.
Faye looked at the other three. "I have a room that Cassie and Diana can share with me, but Jake you're on the couch." Faye told the boy and then walked up the stairs. Diana and Cassie followed not to long later and Jake got settled on the couch.
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Jake woke up to find Cassie and Diana already up and looking around "What you doing?" Jake asked the girls.
"Henry Chamberlain left. We're looking for the crystal." Diana told Jake as she opened a draw. Faye came from up the stairs and looked at them.
"What's with the bag?" Faye asked noticing that Diana seemed to be carrying a bag around with her everywhere now. Diana didn't answer "Is that where you're keeping the crystals?" Diana once again didn't answer and Faye decided not to push it further. "Well it's a beautiful day today. Perfect for swimming."
"We have to find the crystal," Cassie told Faye.
"We have all weekend to do that." Faye told Cassie. "Let's have a little fun. Breakfast first and then we hit the lake." Cassie and Diana decided not to argue.
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Faye was the first to jump right off the dock and into the water. She stayed under for about a minute before coming up for air. Cassie and Diana just looked at her as Jake rolled his eyes. Jake started into the water. "Come on, you can stand over here." Jake told the girls who were just staring at them. Jake held out his hand for the girls.
Cassie and Diana looked at each other and then went in. "Come on, just show them how to swim." Faye complained and threw water at the three with magic getting them all wet.
"Faye, when you were a kid did your mom just throw you into the deep end and expect you to swim." Jake yelled at the girl. The whole teaching the two to swim thing had been her idea, but of course Faye was impatient.
"No, of course not." Faye said confused and then realized what Jake was saying. "Oh, this is going to be annoying." Jake gave the girl a look as he went to explain how to swim to the other two. Jake realized they seemed to have little interest in learning though. They kept on looking in the direction of the house and Jake knew all they wanted to do was search for the crystal.
Then Cassie went a bit too deep and was barely able to keep her head above the water. Jake took hold of her and brought her back into the lower end. "We're out of here." Diana said and the two left the water and headed back to the house.
"Come, on we should join them." Jake said getting out and grabbing his towel. He looked over at Faye who was floating on her back. "Faye, you coming?"
"I think I'll just stay here for a while." Faye called back. Jake rolled his eyes and started back to the house.
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By the time Jake got into the house Cassie and Diana had already started looking for the crystal again. "You could change back into cloths first." Cassie and Diana didn't answer him. "Why are you in such a hurry to find this crystal?" Once again there was no answer and Jake went to the bathroom to get changed.
When he came out Diana and Cassie were just sitting on the couch looking at something, When Jake came over he saw a crystal in their hands. "You found it?" Cassie and Diana smiled at him. "Where?'
"It was well hidden. We had to use a little magic." Cassie answered. "Don't worry about it." Cassie gave the crystal over to Diana who opened her bag and took out a box. Diana put the crystal in the box and then put the box back in the bag.
"So Faye was right. You are hiding the crystals in that bag."
"It's better to have them on us," Diana answered and held the bag closer to her.
Faye walked in not too long later. "What's going on?"
"They found the crystal," Jake answered.
"Great, now we can spend the rest of the weekend swimming." Faye said with a smile, but from the looks on Diana's and Cassie's face Jake realized they probably wanted to go home as soon as possible.
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The three got home late Sunday and met Adam and Melissa at the abandoned house before actually going home. "Did you guys get it?" Melissa asked and the three nodded.
"What about you two?" Diana asked.
"We found out my grandfather liked to cloak things." Adam explained. "We uncloaked a hidden compartment at my place, but the crystal wasn't there. We figured since we undid his cloaking spell now you two could find it with the map thing."
Diana and Cassie wasted no time taking out the map and getting the crystal ready. It wasn't long before the map had one glowing spot on it. "That's the high school," Melissa stated looking at it.
"He was a teacher. You think we can sneak in now." Adam asked.
"Let's do it," Cassie said as she helped Diana put the crystals away.
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At the high school the six teenagers had to use magic to get in. "Where would he hid the thing?" Faye asked Adam looking around. Truthfully the high school was a big place and the crystal could be anywhere.
Cassie and Diana were having their own privet little conversation in their heads deciding whether or not to use the same trick they used to find the Chamberlain crystal. They were ready to draw their blood and do the drawing, but were stopped when Jake started to talk. "Hey, guys, what's in the trophy case?"
"Trophies,' Faye said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "They are all exactly the same as when you left. In fact they have been the same trophies for the last 16 years. Our school wins nothing."
"I don't remember that being in the trophy case," Jake pointed out causing everyone to look. Behind one of the trophies was a small little crystal.
"Good eye Jake," Melissa said as Cassie went for the crystal. She tried to open the door, but found the trophy case locked. That was corrected with a simple 'lock unlock' spell. Cassie took the crystal and handed it to Diana.
"Five down," Adam mumbled. "Now all we need is the Armstrong one." Everyone turned to Jake.
"My grandfather might have it, but we will probably have to wait until this weekend to go and see about that." Jake stated and then added "you three have school anyway." Cassie and Diana appeared upset at the news, but decided not to argue about it. "Come on girls, let's get you home. It's been a long weekend anyway."
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We only have one left, Cassie thought to Diana that night both excited by the news and upset that they had to wait a while to get the last crystal. The longer we wait the more of a chance Jane Blake and Henry Chamberlain will realize we replaced their crystals with a fake.
I know, but what else can we do. We need Jake to bring us to his grandfather to find the last one and he won't do it without the rest of the group. Beside you heard your mom. We're joining the others in school this week. Cassie rolled her eyes at this information remembering what Amelia had told them when they walked into the house. That they were going to start at the high school tomorrow with a privet tutor to see what they know. The two already planned on not talking at all tomorrow.
We have to get out of here soon. Cassie thought and Diana agreed. Cassie looked out the window and into Jake's house. The more time she spent with that boy the more she didn't want to have to leave him. Maybe he could come with, but Cassie quickly discarded the idea. Their plans did not include anyone else in the Chance Harbor Circle after they found the last crystal.
I know, Diana told Cassie having heard Cassie thoughts. The truth was they were becoming way too attached to Jake and Adam. Come on, let's go to bed. Diana got into bed and Cassie joined her going to sleep right away.
AN: okay I promise getting the Armstrong crystal will be more interesting than getting these two. Anyway sneak peek for the next the few chapter the girls get the crystals and leave the circle and all the remaining elders come into the story. If you're confused there are five elders alive which brings me up to a point. I plan on killing one and want your option on who will die so vote:
Which elder will die?
Henry Chamberlain
Kate Meade
Penny Glaser (Melissa's grandmother who I made up a name for)
Rules of the vote. You can suggest killing two or all three, but I will not promise more than one will die. You can not vote for Jane or Royce (I have plans for them). You cannot vote more than once. The one with the most votes by the end of the next few chapters will die.
Okay I'm done. Episode 5 of The Secret Circle project is up. Please go read that and REVIEW both stories.