A/N I've changed the summary I think it now suits the story better. Please review!

Oh I forget this before but I don't own the Darkest Powers trilogy I only own my OC's and the plot for this story.

Chapter Four

Nike

"I'm ready" I smile as I pick up my plate and stand as Tye nods and walks to the door. I hum the whole way a smile on my face. Tye had waited in the hall and I nod for him to continue. He does grunting for me to follow; he walks for a bit then turns left through a big open door. The room I walked into was warm honey colour with a large table in the middle covered completely by paper weighed down with empty coffee cups and even more paper. Tye walks around the table facing me. His dark eyes bore into mine and I nearly looked away feeling my stomach flutter. Instead I toss my hair over my shoulder.

"What do we need to talk about?" I ask to break the silence.

"You need to tell us everything you can of the Edison Head quarters" Tye states simply.

"Why?" I think I knew why they planned to attack.

"You tell us what you know first" I panic. They still didn't trust me. What should I do, if I was to tell them the lay out which I could do or when the guards swapped duty, how to disarm the cameras and alarms all which I could do. I know they will attack, and I will then be punished. I couldn't go through that again.

"I need to know why to give you the relevant information" I say keeping eye contact.

"Just tell us everything" He looked back a smug smile starting to twitch the corner of his mouth. His hair was messy he looked like he just rolled out of bed I wanted to brush the golden locks away from his eyes. I needed to think clearly and he wasn't helping. It was clear that out of everyone he didn't trust or like me the most it was probably his idea to lock me in my room with a spell. I could always lie but then they would expect me to go on this mission of theirs and they would find I had been lying. Damn!

"I can't" I stutter

"Why?" Tye snaps the smile now growing. I grit my teeth anger taking over my panic.

"I just can't"

"Not good enough, does it hurt too much to think of that place? To ashamed of all you've done the innocent people you've taken there to be murdered?"

"I-"I stutter shocked his voice was full of anger his eyes blazed with it even as his expression was neutral.

"No? Then you must be lying to us about leaving them and you have come here to infiltrate our group"

"I-" I try to think of an excuse but he was too close to what I was to do. The way he said it he made me feel guilty. For years I had pushed guilt away but with one sentence he had brought it back. I was getting weak. In the kitchen I had been laughing at Simon and Tori's arguing and then I teased Chloe! I had a normal conversation with May, something I haven't done for years. I was also thinking of Tye more than was necessary. This wasn't what I should be doing! And I defiantly shouldn't be thinking that what they were doing was the right thing. The Edison group had helped me. I hadn't been out of control for two years my powers worked for me. Anyway these people I got for them could be dangerous. I was.

"Nike?" Tye's voice was closer. I look up and see him right in front of me. I realise then I hadn't spoken I had in fact just been standing here. I blink and feel warm moisture roll down my cheek. I wipe it away.

"Nike?" Tye ask again.

"I'm sorry" I answer. I really was getting weak. Now I was crying! Crying! I didn't cry not since that day.

"Was I too harsh?" I look up to meet Tye's eyes something I couldn't decipher was behind the darkness. "Or too close to the truth?"

"What have I done to you!?" I snap going on the defensive. My change in mood once again surprises him. He blinks his eyes widening.

"You know nothing of why I do the things I do!" His eyes narrow.

"Then explain it to me. Why do you?"

"It's none of your business" Now I had let my anger out I regretted it. I felt weak and vulnerable. I never touched my past so I wasn't going to share it. The only time I was forced to remember was when I did something wrong.

"I don't think so."

"Why do you want to know? I was angry it slipped out. I'll tell you what I know" I know I'm giving in but I rather give in than mention what happened all these years ago.

"Nope I want to know why now. It's going to be the only way we will trust you, we don't keep secrets here" I look to Tye. His dark eyes bore into mine and it was something in them that made me drop my walls. The pain from my past came back and all I wanted to do was tell him. He didn't trust me or like me he didn't hide that, but it was just something about him. I thought he would understand, he wouldn't offer pity he wouldn't judge me; he wouldn't use it against me. I open my mouth, Tye tilts his head slightly and that movement breaks the spell. Suddenly I was running from the room and up the stairs. With each step I took I became myself again. I buried the pain. Once I reached my room I take a deep breath. I had to avoid Tye at all costs. I couldn't fail.

Evening

I had managed to avoid Tye the whole day. I had been worried about what Andrew would say and do when he found out that I hadn't told them a damn thing. But when he saw me he just smiled at me pitifully. I guess Tye had come up with an excuse. I had physically avoided Tye but his last look had been with me all day. I had talked to Chloe she was a nice girl who was dealing with a crappy situation better than I would have. She seemed to be distracted though and I felt bad for humming Love is all around. But it had been too hard to ignore it was so obvious they liked each other.

My resolve was weakening and every second I relaxed images from that day came back to me in full detail. I could even smell the smoke filled air. Before they had started to use it as punishment the doctors had tried to get me to open up about it. They said it would make my grieving easier to live with. That I would stop having the nightmares. Well that had been sorted with my first job when all I saw was Laura.

I wonder to the front room where I could hear the low hum of conversation and TV. I walk through the door to see Chloe, Derek and Tye, when I fully enter the room the conversation stops. At first I thought it was me but then they were all looking to the TV. The news was on.

"Still no sightings of fifteen year old Chloe Saunder's. Her dad has now risen his reward from half million to one million. Earlier to today Matthew Rodgers met the worried father" Then the screen was filled with a ragged tiered looking man. I hear Chloe gasp. I look to see her eyes wide and full of pain.

"Chloe-" Derek stats but then stops when she stands and walks from the room. I look to her in concern as she passes me. She smiles shakily at me then she was gone. Derek was frowning seeming torn then runs after her. Tye shakes his head then switches the TV off. Perfect, the day spent avoiding him was pointless I knew I was going to break. Seeing Chloe's dad, seeing her torn up was too much. These were good people. They had no reason to trust me in fact they had every reason to not trust me and they shouldn't.

"Nike-"

"Can we go somewhere private?" I close my eyes for a second before looking to him. Tye nods slowly then stands. I wait till he was in front of me then follow. He walks to the front door surprising me. I follow we walk down the drive and into the forest for a few minutes in silence till he stops and sits on some logs. It was getting dark the moons light filtering through the branches.

"Ok" Tye says.

"You really want to know?"

"Yes" I felt my body start to tremble not from the cool night air but from fear of reliving those moments. Of the pain. Of fear. I wasn't just going to tell him my past I was going to tell the truth. I may have been here a short time but in this time I realised that I couldn't do it. I couldn't drag these innocent people to them. They would be killed or used like me. It was a dog eat dog world but now things had changed.

"Five years ago I had an accident as I said before" I swallow looking to see that Tye had that expression on his face again. The one that was understanding, yet blank the one that made me want to tell him everything. One that I knew I could trust. The images came back in a flood as soon as I let the dam break.

"I was baby sitting my little brother my mum was out on another date, she was always going out coming back late and drunk. I always had to look after Chris. He was six, his dad was my mum's true love but when he died she went mad. It was why she went out. Anyway she came back early with her date, Martin. He was a huge man, he was nasty. Mum was drunk she didn't notice the way he looked at me." I shiver as remember his lingering gaze the way he would find an excuse to touch me "she kept bringing him back and each time she would be drunk and each time he would get worse" I fiddle with my hands grasping them tightly, rubbing them together. I had told no one this part. "Touching me more each time more personal, saying things to me. Then one night mum passed out. He-" I stopped a thick lump in my throat.

"Take your time" I could hear the compassion in his voice and I look to his eyes they shone with understanding not pity. He was so strange one minute glaring at me then next letting me pour my heart out. Why was he the way he was?

"He came to my bedroom where I went when I could. I was playing with Chris as he wouldn't go to sleep he didn't like Martin either. Marin sat down on my bed and just watched us for a while. I didn't like it and went to put Chris in his room then get my mum. I went to do this but he stopped me. He wanted to know where I was going; I told him I was putting Chris to bed. He smiled" I would never forget that smile no matter how hard I tried and the way he gave my shoulder a tight squeeze. "But when I went to get mum he stopped me. He shouted and pushed me against the wall. He was so angry I didn't know why" My voice was getting thicker and thicker with repressed tears and fear. I could see it and feel it all again "I shouted for my mum but Chris came instead. He told Martin to put me down but-" Tears break free. "Instead he knocked Chris into a wall, he fell unconscious. I shouted and screamed but no one came and he only smiled. He told me he had waited for this moment. He touched me and I felt angry. At my mum at Martin and my dad for not being here at Chris's for dying and making mum a drunk. I felt angry at myself I couldn't defend myself or Chris! For not being enough for mum to care! I remember my blood boiling and my hands tingling. I pushed at his chest but Martin just pushed me down to the bed and wouldn't get off. Then he was burning." I gag as I remember the stench of his cooking flesh. "I sprang free but the room was suddenly a blaze and ran from the room but then the hallway set alight. I couldn't stop the flames and they spread so quickly. I ran from the house but then I remembered Chris." I take a deep breath but it was ragged I was crying hard the pain my chest building taking over me body. "I ran to get him he was alive but as I touched him to carry him down his arm burnt and continued to-" I stop unable to continue. I had killed him. My six year old brother! Warm arms pull me into a warm chest. I cry letting it go till I had no more tears left. I pull back.

"I need to finish" Tye nods.

"I ran the Edison group helped me. The last job I was given" I look at him straight in the eyes "I was sent to retrieve Chloe, Derek, Simon and Tori" Tye stiffens and I see his eyes clear of emotion "But I'm not going to I can't! I'll tell you everything I know of the Edison Group all of their projects the lay out of the head quarters I'll contact them and tell them what you want. I'm not going to help them anymore"

"Why the change of heart?" His voice was a growl.

"What they made me do I've never seen the other side like this, Chloe isn't dangerous she's innocent. What they did to me." I sob "It's too much then need to be stopped" I look to him he was angry and he didn't believe me.

"They told my father they were going to help they lied you could be lying you have before"

"Let me prove it!" I think of an idea. It would be hard but I could do it. It would tell the Edison group that I had changed sides but I needed them to trust me.

"How?"

"I can get Derek and Simon's father back" Tye's eyes widen.

"You could just want to escape"

"Why would I? Why would I have told you all that? Just to get your sympathy I don't want or need it I got it last night. What I need is your trust and for you to believe me. I want to help. When I did something wrong they told me I was a murderer!" Tye lifts his head stubbornly his expression blank his eyes thoughtful. Then he was getting his phone.

"Andrew?" He pauses while I look to him questioningly "Nike and I are going out. If we're not back by morning know that I was going to the Edison Group and was with Nike" Then he snaps his phone closed and looks to me.

"Let's go"