Broken Promises

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The five teen witches were all sitting in the abandoned house looking at each other. They all had one thing on their mind and that was Cassie. None of them were thinking anything good about her. "I can't believe her," Faye finally complained out loud not being able to take the silent. "She ran to my mom and now my mom is being all godmother on her." Anyone could tell how angry the witch was by just looking at her.

"I feel sorry for for you," Adam said, but he was barely holding back a laugh at Faye's predicament. If he wasn't so pissed off that his dad yelled at him he would probably be laughing.

"You know it's seriously gross. My mom is being all motherly to her." Faye paused for a minute wondering if she should tell them this, but she needed to complain. "You know I went home this morning to get new clothes. I went really early so I wouldn't have to see either of them, but I found them both in my mom's bed. She was holding Cassie like Cassie was her baby girl or something. It was gross. I can't believe I'm that girls god sister."

"Consider yourself lucky," Diana said getting a little sick of Faye's complaining. "Your mom is just her godmother. You don't share any blood with her. I'm blood related to the terror remember. We're really sisters." Diana had a disgusted look on her face as she said this.

"Yeah, Faye and if you've forgotten we all got yelled at. My dad yelled at the three of us and Adam's father yelled at him," Melissa said. "The only one who didn't get yelled at was Jake." Jake had a small smile on his face as this was said. He had heard the others complaining about their parents yelling at them and it was the one time Jake was glad he didn't have any parents or anyone who cared enough about him to yell at him. This was one thing he didn't want to be yelled at about.

"I know," Faye said and looked around. "I swear who does she think she is. He comes into this town, comes into our Circle, and ruins everything. Then she has the nerve to get us in trouble. She was the one who moved here and ruined our lives."

No one talked for a while. "Well it's not like she choose to come," Diana said. Diana remembered her father, Charles Meade that is, admitting to killing Amelia Blake. It was his fault Cassie had come here and ruined their lives. Out of all the things Diana was blaming Cassie for she couldn't blame Cassie for coming to this town. She was blaming Cassie for everything that happened after she came, but not for moving here. "She didn't have much of a choice after her mother died. She had no home in Los Angeles and her grandmother was her guardian."

"You defending her now?" Faye asked. "I mean she is your sister. You getting soft for the girl who ruined our lives."

"I didn't say she didn't ruin our lives," Diana said to Faye pissed. "I'm saying hate her for the things she did after she moved here, but not for moving here." Diana paused for a minute. "Like coming into our Circle and messing it up."

Adam didn't want to be the one to disagree, but he had to. "Well..." Everyone looked at him. "If I remember correctly Cassie wanted nothing to do with the Circle at first. We kind of forced her into it."

"Seriously, now your defending her," Melissa said mad that her boyfriend was defending his ex. "You still like her or something?"

"No, you know that's impossible." Adam said back and gave Melissa a long kiss just to prove who he loved. "I'm just saying it's not like Cassie really forced her way into the Circle. We welcomed her in. We actually kind of forced her in."

"Yeah, well her actions still messed thing up. She killed Nick," Melissa complained. "If it wasn't for her that demon would never have been released."

"Well that wasn't all her fault," Diana said looking at Faye. "She couldn't have done the spell at the time if someone hadn't helped her." Everyone turned to Faye.

Faye looked around. Her part in the spell that released that demon was one of the things Faye didn't like to remember. "It's not like we knew the girl had a demon in her," Faye yelled to defend herself and then realized she had also defended Cassie. At that point she decided she had to blame Cassie for something else. "It's her that brought the witch hunters here. We were fine and they were leaving us alone before she got here."

"Actually..." Jake said making everyone look at him and the boy paused. He didn't want to say this but he had to. "The plan to come here and kill the Chance Harbor Circle was in affect for a while. In fact Cassie being here probably saved all your lives because it was her that kind of ruined our plans." No one knew what to say to this and Jake knew that he had to bring something else up that Cassie did wrong. "She did bring John Blackwell to us. That was her fault completely."

Everyone smiled thinking that was something they could complain about and no one could disprove that she had ruined their lives there. "Yeah, I told her not to trust him. She wouldn't listen," Diana said with a smile.

"Yeah," Faye said. "In fact she had us help her save his life. Remember when she was being controlled and almost killed him. We shouldn't have freed her until he was dead, but we did."

Adam laughed. "Well he was being a pretty good actor at the time. Pretending not to have powers and refusing to hurt Cassie.' Adam realized he had just defended Cassie and put a hand over his mouth. Everyone looked at him pissed and Adam knew he had to get this complaining back up. "But his story started to unfold pretty soon. We told her not to trust him, but she wouldn't listen."

"Well it was her father," Jake said making everyone give him a look. Jake took a step back, but decided to continue anyway. "Well, I'm just saying. The man was her father brought back from the dead. If our parents came back from the dead wouldn't we want to see the best in them even if everyone was telling us no." Jake felt sorry he said it, but he kind of had to.

Everyone looked at Jake thinking about what he said. All of them realized yes they probably would have wanted to believe their formerly dead parent. No one knew what to say to start the Cassie bitching back up.

Melissa bit her lip and then spoke up. "You know I heard my dad on the phone with Ms. Chamberlain this morning. From what I heard I think they were talking about the possibility of Cassie killing herself and having to keep a close eye on her."

Diana looked at Melissa shocked. "What? Why would she want to kill herself?" Diana didn't know why, but that news hurt her a lot. For some reason she couldn't stand the thought of Cassie actually dying no matter how pissed at her the girl was.

"There's only one reason I can think of." Melissa didn't even have to say the reason out loud. They all kind of knew it. It was because of them.

"Do any of us care if dark princess number one kills herself," Faye asked and looked around. No one answered, but she could see by their faces that they did care. Faye knew she cared too. She didn't want the girl to die for some reason. No one said anything out loud for a while.

"I loved her," Jake said earning him a slap from his girlfriend. Jake held up his arm to defend himself. "What? It's true. I left the witch hunter, probably one the best decisions of my life, for her. She didn't ruin my life. She saved it. It wouldn't have been long before the witch hunters killed me too. Like they kill every witch who works for them." Jake looked around. "I don't know why I was mad at her. I think I just jumped on with you guys because it was easy. Now I see I was wrong and I'm not going to let her kill herself. No matter how mad Faye gets at me." Jake looked around.

Melissa was the next to speak up. "She ran into a burning building once to save my life. We barely spoke to each other, but she was willing to risk her life for me. I don't know why I was mad at her. I think she was the easy one to blame. We didn't grow up with her. We didn't know her a year ago. It was just easy to put blame on her when she clearly did nothing. We just disproved everything we blamed her for."

"I loved her too," Adam said and Melissa looked at him. "Don't slap me. You know it's true. I can't love her again because of that elixir and the curse, but I remember loving her. Your right Melissa. She was the easy one to blame." Adam put his arms around Melissa and held her.

Then they heard a soft sob and turned to see Diana in tears. "She's my sister," Diana choked out. "I always wanted a sister and I was horrible to her."

"You wanted a sister who nearly choked you to death," Faye said.

"She did that so my dark magic would activate and we would be able to kill John Blackwell before he killed all of you." Faye didn't know what to say to that. "She's not a bad sister. I'm the bad sister." Diana cried for a while and everyone just sat there.

"Come on," Faye said grabbing her coat from the old couch she had thrown it on when she arrived.

"Where are you going?" Melissa said.

"Back to my house to apologize to Cassie and make sure she doesn't kill herself," Faye said shocking everyone. "Don't give me those looks. You're all right and I'm not going to let her die because of our damn pride. Are you in?" Faye walked out and Diana quickly followed her. The others weren't far behind.

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Dawn and Cassie were sitting on the couch once again watching TV. Dawn realized Cassie seemed to like the kiddie shows because she went right away to turn on the disney channel. They were watching a show called 'Wizards of Waverley Place", which Dawn found weird since they were witches. Cassie seemed to like the show though so Dawn didn't complain.

They both heard the door open and turned around to see the other five members of Cassie's Circle walking in. Cassie got as close to Dawn as possible when she saw this and buried her head in Dawn's shirt. Dawn looked at the six. They seemed unsure of what to do and nervous about something.

Diana came over and sat down on the couch. "Cassie," Diana said putting a hand on her back but took it away when Cassie moved even further away. At this point Cassie was basically on top of Dawn's lap and Dawn could feel the tears start to come out of Cassie's eyes. "Cassie, will you look at me?" Diana asked, but all Cassie did was move her head her further away from Diana still keeping it buried in Dawn's shirt. Cassie hand was around Dawn's arm and she was digging her fingernails into Dawn's skin. Dawn choose not to comment on the little bit of pain Cassie was causing her there.

Dawn saw tears come to Diana's eyes. "Cassie I just wanted to say..." Diana couldn't finished and turned around to the others.

"Oh my god, we're sorry," Faye finally spit out in typical Faye style. "We were wrong to say and do those things to you." Cassie turned her head to look at them and they could all see the tears in Cassie's eyes and the way she looked. Well she looked like she was miserable and it actually broke the rest of the Circle's hearts. Why hadn't they seen this before?

"We all are very sorry," Melissa said. "We needed to blame someone for everything that happened and you were the easy one the blame. We grew up with each other. It was a lot easier to put the blame on someone we didn't know last year, but we were wrong to do it. Your a great person and didn't deserve that."

"Yeah, and when we were talking about everything we realized how you did nothing. In fact you saved all of our lives. We're sorry," Jake said and Adam agreed with everything.

"I don't care if you live here," Faye added as an after thought.

"Cassie, I always wanted a sister and I was horrible to you. Please forgive me. Let me be your sister. I'll be better this time." Diana said and actually started crying again. "I'll be better. I promise."

"Do you forgive us?" Adam asked. It took a while, but Cassie finally nodded. "And your not going to do anything rash?"

"Huh?" Cassie asked.

"Your not going to kill yourself," Faye said and Cassie looked at them shocked and then looked at Dawn. Dawn herself was confused on how the kids knew that piece of information.

"I heard my dad on the phone with you this morning," Melissa explained seeing the confused looks.

"Cassie, are you thinking about killing yourself?" Diana asked getting closer, but all Cassie did was look away. "Cassie. Don't. Just please don't. Your my only family left." Cassie looked at Diana and nodded.

"I thought of it, but I'm not going to." Cassie said.

"Good," Diana said and then hugged Cassie. Cassie didn't move, but she didn't return the hug either.

Dawn thought it might be good to leave them alone to talk, but she couldn't. Cassie was still on her lap and still holding tight onto her arm. Cassie looked up at Dawn and Dawn knew right away Cassie wasn't ready to be alone with the rest of her Circle. "Well are you five going to stay and watch TV with us?" Dawn asked and the rest of the Circle sat down.

"Who watches this crap?" Faye asked when she saw what show was on.

"I do," Cassie said and no one said anything as they watched the show.

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That night Dawn was sitting at the kitchen table looking over papers. Both Cassie and Faye had gone to bed and Dawn decided it would be a good time to take a look at the Blake's accounts and stuff that Cassie had given her access to. To see how badly Cassie actually needed money. Cassie hadn't been lying when she said her money would run it. Dawn hadn't realized how badly the Blake's money problem had been, but Dawn wasn't sure why she was surprised. Jane had worked until she had her memory problems and at that time she ended up in a nursing home. Those places cost a lot, especially a good one like Jane was in. Cassie seemed to have been living off what was left of Amelia's and Jane's life insurances and most of that had gone to funeral cost.

Dawn threw the papers aside. The selling of the Blake house would give Cassie a bit of money in savings. It seemed ashamed to actually sell the place. That house had been in the Blake family since the six families move to Chance Harbor from Salem, but they had to do what they had to do. First though they had to go through everything and find anything magical that might be hidden in the house and take it out. They could also sell some of the antiques and other things that were surely locked up in the attic long forgotten about. Dawn found she couldn't think of this any longer and decided to go to bed.

Walking up the stairs she heard moans as she passed by Cassie's bedroom. Walking in she found Cassie in the middle of one of her nightmares. "Cassie, come on wake up," Dawn said shaking the girl. Cassie woke up not long later and Dawn held her again as she cried. "What are these nightmare about?" Dawn asked. She had assumed before it was about Cassie's Circle, but now that the Circle had apologize it didn't seem likely that was what was causing Cassie's bad dreams. "Do you want to talk about it?"

"It's just about..." Cassie paused and looked down.

"Talking will make it better. I might be able to help." Dawn said.

"Just about my dad," Cassie said and Dawn nearly hit herself on the head. Of course Cassie would have nightmares about John Blackwell. The girl had literally killed her father. Dawn didn't know what to say to help Cassie through this.

"Do you want to come into my room?" Dawn asked and Cassie nodded. The two got up and went into Dawn's bedroom. Cassie went to the bed right away and got under the covers. Dawn got next to her and held Cassie. It wasn't long later until the teenage witch was asleep. Dawn smiled at the girl. This was the first time since finding her that Dawn actually believed Cassie would be okay. Dawn kissed the top of Cassie's head and closed her eyes to get some sleep. The last thing Dawn thought before drifting off into her dreams was you see Amelia. It might have taken me a while, but I finally kept my promise.

THE END

AN: okay that was it for this one. Like I said before this chapter was co written with my friend and fellow writer for the Secret Circle Project Forcystus5. Remember to check out the secret circle project. Episode 10 is up and next week is our midseason finale. We have big plans. Remember to follow us on tumblr, twitter, and facebook. Links on my profile. Okay now remember to REVIEW.