Secret in Hiding
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Chapter 9: The Elders
Jane Blake sat in her living room watching TV. For once she was all alone in this house. She loved her daughter but for the last 12 years Amelia had become a permanent fixture of the house never leaving. Now that Cassie was back and Amelia wasn't depressed anymore she had finally agreed to go out on a date with Ethan Conant. Also Diana and Cassie were out with the other members of their Circle. Jane still found it weird, but was happy she finally had some alone time in her house.
Then the doorbell rang and Jane looked confused. She didn't know who that could be. Amelia, Diana, and Cassie would just walk in and Jane hadn't been expecting anyone. Jane got up and went to the door. When she opened it she found her old friend Kate Meade on the other side of the door.
"Kate," Jane said with a smile and hugged her friend. "It's been so long."
"Too long," Kate said walking into the Blake house.
"What brings you back to Chance Harbor?" Jane asked as the two sat down in the living room.
"What do you think? The return of my granddaughter." Kate told Jane and looked around. "Where is she?"
"Cassie and Diana went out with Jake, Adam, Melissa, and Faye tonight." Jane informed Kate who smiled.
"The draw of the Circle has gotten to those two?" Kate asked.
"I guess." Kate knew Jane very well and she knew by Jane's face that something was going on.
"Jane, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing. It's just... I don't know. Cassie and Diana just getting right into those four right away is a little weird. You haven't met them yet, but the two are not sociable. They are not the type to make friends easily and I just have this weird feeling, but I'm sure it's nothing." Kate smiled understanding what Jane was saying and nodded. "You do realize Diana isn't technically your granddaughter right?" Jane wanted to change the topic.
"I loved that girl like a granddaughter and mourned her like she was my granddaughter. Now that she is back I don't care that Charles is not really her father. She is my granddaughter," Kate told Jane.
"I understand, but don't expect Diana to feel the same way. She won't talk to Charles." Kate nodded having heard Charles talk about Diana to her. She wasn't expecting a lot from meeting Diana. She just wanted to see the girl she once held in her arms and called her granddaughter. Kate loved Elizabeth and Thomas and when she was around she even started to include Faye as her granddaughter. There was just something special about the thought of seeing Diana again. Maybe that was because she was the first child Kate called her grandchild or maybe it was because Diana had returned from the dead in a way. Kate just found herself needing to see the girl.
"Any chance I can stay here for a few days?" Kate asked making Jane confused.
"Aren't you staying with Charles and Dawn?"
"Yeah, but I don't really like Dawn that much," Kate admitted. Kate had never been Dawns' biggest fan, but she did have to admit the women had been good for Charles after Diana had been taken. Dawn had been able to get Charles to move on from his lost and make a new life. While Kate didn't like the women she was happy Dawn had come into Charles life. It didn't mean Kate wanted to stay in the same house as her though.
Jane laughed. "What is it with you and Henry? The two of you could get together to start the "I don't like my child spouse club."
"If Amelia had married John you would be president of the club," Kate joked.
Before Jane could say anything back the doorbell rang again. "Well I'm getting a lot of unexpected visitors tonight. Wonder who that is," Jane said as she got up to answer the door. When she opened the door she almost just had to laugh. "Henry, we were just talking about you."
Kate got up when she heard that and looked to find Henry just walking into the house. "Now that is weird. We didn't even cast a spell." Kate had a smile on her face and so did Jane, but it go away when they saw Henry's face. The man would usually find this funny, but his face was stone cold.
"Where are they?' Henry asked clearly mad about something.
"Who?" Jane asked.
"Diana and Cassie. I think they have something of mine."
"What do you mean Henry?" Jane asked. Henry took a crystal out of his pocket and held it up. "Your crystal?" Jane was still confused and not understanding what Henry was implying.
"It looks like my crystal. It feels like my crystal, but I tried to use it. It's a fake." Jane and Kate looked at each other shocked. "The only people I can think of who were up at the lake house..."
"The girls," Jane said stopping Henry from completing his sentence. "That's the reason why Faye and Jake took them to the lake house. Not to teach them to swim." Jane then ran to where she hid her crystal and took it out. When she tried to use it she wasn't surprise to find that it was a fake. "It's a fake. They have my crystal too." Jane turned to Kate." Where is the Meade crystal?"
"I don't know," Kate admitted getting worried. "Elizabeth was the last one to have it."
"Then we have to assume they have that one too and the Conant crystal," Henry told the two girls.
"Penny," Jane said and ran for the door. Kate and Henry stood there for a minute and then followed Jane out.
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Penny Glaser was reading a book when she heard the knocking on the door. She opened it and was surprised to find Henry, Jane, and Kate all waiting for her. "Was there a Circle reunion I wasn't notified about?' Penny joked with the three but by their faces she could see they weren't up for jokes. "What's going on?"
"Where is your crystal?" Jane asked.
"In the house. Why?" Penny asked.
"Go check on it," Jane told Penny. Penny nodded still confused, but went to get her crystal. In her bedroom she looked at all her crystals, but couldn't seem to find the right one. It took her a few minutes to realize it wasn't here anymore.
Penny went back to the front room. Jane, Henry, and Kate were still standing by the open door. "Let me guess. It wasn't there." Henry stated and Penny nodded.
"I knew they were up to something," Jane mumbled and it looked like she was about to cry, "I knew there was something wrong, but I refused to see it. I didn't want to see it because she was my granddaughter."
"Okay you have to tell me what's going on?" Penny asked getting really confused. "Cassie took my crystal?"
"Apparently Cassie and Diana are using our grandkids to get all six crystals. We just discovered they replaced mine and Jane's with fakes. We have to assume they found the Meade and Conant since we don't know where those two were hidden. That leaves..." Henry was cut off by a voice behind him.
"The Armstrong crystal," the group turned around to find Royce Armstrong behind them. "So this is where everyone has been. Checked the Blake house first, but I must have just missed you."
"Royce, what happened to your head?" Kate asked seeing the cut on the top of Royce's head.
"Well, Kate, your granddaughter and Jane's granddaughter decided to torture me for the information on where the Armstrong crystal was." Royce informed the group.
Jane was horrified by the information. The two had actually tortured someone. "Did you give it to them?" Henry asked.
"I told them where it was. Thought I would be able to get all of you and then we would be able to stop them. Didn't think they would be able to knock me out so well. It was hours ago. Even with the spell I have on that mine to not let them in I'm sure they have the crystal by now. The other four would have gotten it for them," Royce told the group.
"Where did you hide the crystal?" Penny asked finally getting caught up with what was going on. "We need to go there."
"I don't think we can stop them anymore." Royce told Penny. "I'm sure they have it."
"If we're assuming they were using our grandkids to get all six crystals and we are also assuming they have all six crystals then that means they have no more use for our grandkids. We have to go make sure they are okay."
It took a minute for what Penny said to sink in. "Get in the car," Royce said running to his car he had parked right in front of Jane's car.
"I'll follow you in mine," Jane said opening her car door. The others all jumped into a car and they drove away.
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When the five elders got to the mine the first thing they saw was a car parked there. "That's Adam's car," Jane informed the group having seen the boy drive the car before. "They must still be here."
The five wasted no time getting in to find the four teenagers. "Melissa," Penny yelled seeing her granddaughter on the floor curled up in a ball crying. Penny went to Melissa and bent down. She put a hand on Melissa, but the girl moved away. "Melissa's it's me."
"I wouldn't expect her to answer," Royce told Penny getting down besides the women. Royce mumbled something under his breath and then nodded. "Dark magic. A spell has been cast on her and I can't undo it. It's going to have to wear out."
Royce then turned around to find Jane, Kate, and Henry checking on the other three. Henry had Faye in his arms and was moving hair out from in front of her face. "They're alive," Jane informed the two as Royce came to be near Jake. Royce looked at the boy. He hadn't really seen Jake since Jake was little and this was not the right way for Royce to finally get back into Jake's life. Oh well, things happen, Royce thought as he looked at his grandson. Jake moved his head at the moment. "And I think they're starting to wake up," Jane added.
A few minutes later Faye, Adam, and Jake all started to open their eyes. "Melissa," was the first thing out of Faye's mouth as she jumped up. It took her a minute to realize who else was here besides her Circle. "Grandpa, hi um... I loved the weekend at the lake house."
"I'm sure you did and I'm sure your friends liked stealing my crystal," Henry stated. Faye looked at the two boys.
"I think we're busted," Faye stated.
"Oh what gave you that idea? The fact that all the elders are together or the fact that they're all where we just stole the last crystal from?" Jake yelled getting pretty pissed off.
"Don't yell at me because yours and Adam's girlfriend ended up being evil and torturing Melissa." Faye was right near her friend now, but she had no better luck then Penny with calming the girl down.
"They were not our girlfriends," Adam and Jake said together, but truthfully they were both crushed by the girls betrayal.
"I think you three have some explaining to do," Jane stated making the three look at each other. "Back at my house." The three knew they had no choice now.
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Not too long later in the Blake house everyone was in the living room. By everyone that meant all five elder, Amelia, Dawn, Charles, and the four kids. Melissa was still on the floor crying and Penny had put a blanket over her. Faye, Jake, and Adam had just finished explaining everything that had happened with Cassie and Diana and the crystals.
No one was saying anything. "Make it stop," Melissa finally choked out making everyone look at her. Penny was right next to her and put her arms around Melissa bringing the girl closer to her. Melissa didn't move away from her this time.
"The fact that you're able to talk to us and realize who I am means the spell is wearing off." Penny told Melissa. Penny was actually crushed that she couldn't do anything more for Melissa. Melissa mumbled make it stop a couple of more times and then just continued to cry into her grandmother's shoulder.
Everyone else was just sitting around on the couches. No one knew what to say about what the kids told them. "We should strip the kids of their powers." It was Henry Chamberlain who suggested that idea. "This world has no place for magic anymore."
"I won't do it," Penny was the first to disagree. "Besides even if we wanted to we couldn't touch Diana and Cassie anyway. They are too powerful for us."
"I won't do it either." Jane told Henry. "It was wrong of us to take away our children powers. We had no right. If we hadn't taken away their powers Diana and Cassie might have never been taken or if we had allowed them to train their kids they might have not been fooled or they might have come to us about the witch hunters instead of just blindly following the two. We walked right into this."
"I agree with Jane. We should have never done that spell all those years ago. So there was an accident with magic. It happens." Kate spoke up.
"I'm with the girls," Royce said. "You can't take away our grandkids powers by yourself." Henry had to admit defeat even if he wasn't happy about it. "Everyone realizes what the girls want right?" Royce asked looking around.
"The crystal skull," Charles stated for everyone. He was looking at his feet and it looked like he was about to cry. Dawn had an arm around him, but she didn't know what to say.
"Crystal skull?" Faye, Adam, and Jake asked confused.
"The most powerful magical weapon there is, but it is also pure evil. Long ago when our six families left Salem they split it into our six crystals. The only way to get the skull back is to destroy the crystals," Royce informed the kids.
"So, Diana and Cassie were telling the truth then. If it's that powerful it could take out the witch hunters," Jake pointed out wanting to be able to defend Cassie.
"Yes, it could, but I don't think that's what they want it for." Royce told Jake and Jake had to admit Royce was right. If Diana and Cassie had really wanted it for the witch hunters they wouldn't have run off and stole his car. That was seriously getting Jake pissed off too, but he loved Cassie. He wanted to find some way to defend her even though she was making it impossible. Jake finally had to admit Diana and Cassie had been using them the whole time.
"I was a fool. Getting tricked like that. Thinking somehow she loved me," Jake said and Adam agreed too. He had thought somehow Diana had loved him. He had been fooled.
"We were all fools," Dawn stated talking for the first time. "They weren't the greatest actresses in the world. We all had the feeling something was wrong. Jane stated she thought something was wrong, but we didn't want to believe it. We didn't want to see it. All we saw when we looked at them were our lost children. The girls who had been taken when they were little, but they are not our children."
"Dawn, Cassie is my daughter," Amelia said.
"Yes, biologically she is, but she stopped being yours when John Blackwell took her. He raised her. He molded her into what he wanted her to be. Same goes for Diana. I'm sorry Charles and Amelia to have to say this, but they are not your daughters. They are his and they always will be." Dawn finished and the only sound in the room for a while was Melissa soft crying.
"What do you think they're doing?" Faye asked looking around. "Where are they going to complete whatever plan they are going to do with this crystal skull?" Faye looked around, but no one had an answer for her.
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The car finally stopped in front of a motel and Cassie and Diana looked at each other. Is this the place? Diana asked Cassie.
I think so. Do you remember what we were told? Cassie asked Diana.
Go to room 6, Diana thought back and the two got out of the car. It was pretty easy to find room 6 and they knocked on the door. The door opened.
"Girls," John Blackwell said with a smile and hugged Diana and Cassie. "I've missed you."
"Missed you too father," Diana and Cassie said together.
"Did you get them?" John asked and Diana took the box out of the bag. She opened the box to show John Blackwell all six crystals. John smiled. "That's my girls. I knew you could do it." John took the box from Diana. "Come in. There are people I want you to meet."
Diana and Cassie walked into the small motel room which had four other people inside. None of the four realized anything had happened. Two of them appeared to be asleep and the other two were looking at a spell book. "Hey, get up." The two who were looking at the spell book turned around right away and the ones who were sleeping slowly got up.
John pointed to the two boys who had been looking at spells. They both had dark hair and light eyes. "These are your older brothers Lucas Mitchell and Ryder Montgomery." John then pointed at the two who had been sleeping. Diana and Cassie noticed the two looked very similar. They must be the twins John told them about. "This is your younger brother and sister, Dylan and Claire Giles." John put one hand on Cassie's shoulder and the other on Diana's. "These two are my children who I raised; my most powerful children and the two who are in charge of your Circle if I'm not around. This is Diana and Cassie Blackwell."
AN: okay who seriously thought John Blackwell was dead? If you did I did a better job then I thought I did. Lol.
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