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Chapter 15: Coward

The cliffs were such an amazing place to look at the ocean, the way it crashed onto the shore some days and other days it simply lapped onto the sand and then whisked back out in a rhythmic tune. Today was one of those days, but the skies were dark showing a rainstorm on the way that would probably last for a few days. The water was a dark color and slowly picking up pace but it was currently still at a calm. Sitting on the cliff with feet dangling over the edge Tatianna stared out at the view before her thinking about everything that had happened in the past few months. It wasn't long ago when she was just a simple girl well she was a girl that only had two problems hiding a secret from everyone, and starting a new school in her last year of high school. Now she had people that knew of her secret, who also had their own that she had to keep which wouldn't be hard, a prophecy to figure out, a possible problem with a highly unstable power crazed killer entering the scene and she liked one of her closest friends at the school that had slowly begun to know more about her than she would have initially wanted. Thinking back on everything she sighed, 'It's really stupid of me to even be thinking about a relationship that isn't even anything more than friendship at least on one side, while there are larger issues out there' she thought to herself, sighing she looked at her watch she had two hours before everyone was meeting in the colony house hideout to look through books and try to find out anything they could about the prophecy. But that was the one problem, it was a prophecy if there were answers for it well it wouldn't be called that. She knew that she was simply going to try to decipher the thing, to some extent she knew it was about the covenant and that Chase was the sacrifice so to say, which means they would have to find spells and such things that deal with sacrifices.

"I'm thinking about this too much, but I should go to the water. I haven't been there for ages" she mumbled to herself, before dropping off the cliff safely to the ground below it. As she began to walk towards the water she stopped a few feet before it, removing her clothes so she could not get them wet in anyway until she came out of the water. She then made her way in, summoning her powers to circulate around her and calling on a vision. It wasn't working though; she tried a numerous amount of times but still got nothing every time. Tatianna broke to the surface of the water, looking at the sky she noticed that they were quickly gaining way towards the shore and town. She quickly swam out of the water and slipped her clothes on, deciding to head home and shower before meetings the others.

Colony House

Reid leisurely walked down the stairs into the darkened room, using his magic to make more of the candles to light up creating a brighter atmosphere. He looked around; Caleb and Sarah were already there in a well-lit area of the room while Pogue and Kate were behind himself and Tyler. Tatianna was the only one not currently there, shrugging he pulled out his cell phone and texted her asking where she was while he looked at the spines of many volumes of books on the dusty shelves. His phone vibrated as he grabbed one of the books and sitting down before opening his cell, 'Be there in five'. He closed it and began looking through the book for any sort of clues that would help him, Reid heard the front door open and shut then footsteps walking down the steps. Looking up he saw Tatianna, she was wearing a dark blue wool jacket with a black turtle neck sweater underneath, a pair of dark denim jeans and a pair of black boots. She looked pretty with her hair down and fanning across her shoulders and back, he couldn't help but examine her he always did each time he saw her no matter what she was wearing she was always beautiful to him.

"Hey" she greeted him softly as she sat down beside him, looking at the others she spoke to them "So I was thinking earlier, I don't think we should look for answers throughout books on what the prophecy means because we won't find anything. It's called a prophecy for a reason because it's a foretelling; instead I think we should look at it and try to decipher the clues. My vision showed that the one who must pay is Chase, so I'm thinking it could deal with a sacrifice or some sort of spell that we need to use in order to get rid of him. The whole point of this seems to be so you can gain the ability to not age when you use, so it can't be as easy as to just kill him".

Caleb looked at her thoughtfully, debating in his head the points that she made as did the others. "You are right, it is a prophecy so we have to figure it out or at least get some sort of idea what it's talking about. Then we should look at spells or anything that has to do with the repercussions of us using, just for how we age when we use" Caleb decided, it was the most intelligent thing to do after all and everyone agreed.

"Let's look at this thing" Pogue declared, picking up the book and placing it in the center of the circle. It immediately flipped to the correct page and slowly moved around in a circular motion letting everyone read its passage.

'One must pay to fix the curse.

Two must discover their hidden connection.

One must control the addiction.

Three must not interfere.

One must overcome their mind.

Five must unite.'

"So Chase is the one to fix the curse, we know that since Tat's premonition showed her that" Sarah spoke, more for herself than anyone else "Too bad it couldn't show you how" she slightly joked, trying to make this situation lighter so that no one got broody, Tatianna smiled at her.

"Yeah I wish, so now what's with this whole two must discover their hidden connection?" Tatianna questioned, a thoughtful look on her face everyone looked at each other also wondering who it could be.

"A connection, could that be magically or personally?" Kate inquired, if it was magically then that would be something she had no idea about but if it was a personal connection then it couldn't be her and Pogue or Sarah and Caleb, she presumed that it would have shown that in Tatianna's premonition. So if it was that it be either with Tyler or Reid, but she was at a loss whether that's what it was.

"It could be either" Pogue stated simply, unsure of what it could mean either. "What about one must control the addiction" he then mentioned and everyone looked at Reid he was the only one that had an addiction problem asides from Chase.

"It's under control, I haven't used nearly as much as I used to. Haven't used in a month and a half," Reid informed them slightly heatedly, not liking how they all quickly looked at him everyone except for Tatianna she knew about Reid's problem with addiction but she also knew that he had been using at all lately.

Tatianna screamed slightly causing Reid to look at her quickly, he noticed her eyes wash over white and then to their dark blue as she just sat there. He watched her, her fingers started to tremble a small amount and her face had no expression on it. Caleb got up slowly, watching Tatianna unsure of what was going on and then suddenly her eyes went back to white and then their natural gray color her trembling stopped and she gasped taking in a large breath of air.

"What just happened?" Sarah asked, rushing over to Tatianna to make sure she was okay.

"I'm fine, it's okay Sarah it was just a vision. It seems the prophecy just got a bit easier, I was in this room alone with the book again. The line that says one must control the addiction was crossed out in blood, before it flipped through the pages to the family tree page. Garwin was underlined in blood" she explained quickly, while still holding onto the images in her head so she could remember what she had seen. Tatianna glanced at Reid, he looked slightly relieved of what she was unsure.

"Okay wow, well this is going on smoother than I thought it would" Tyler suddenly said, he looked at the others who all agreed with him. They continued to look at the prophecy but the rest of it wasn't making any sense to them. So they spent the rest of the night looking through books of spells and sacrifices finding a good portion dealt with the after effects of using too much. It was late when they finally decided to call it a night, deciding that they should meet up again on Thursday night since the guys had swim practice and a meet the next two days. Everyone left, Reid told Tatianna he was going to come with her to her house which she made no objection too.

"I was worried there for a few minutes" Reid told her, turning down the music as they drove to her house.

"What do you mean?" Tatianna asked him, glancing at him before returning her eyes to the road.

"You went still, and your eyes changed color. Not to mention you were trembling" he informed and quickly grabbed her one hand, more for himself than her.

"I've haven't gotten a premonition out of nowhere in a while, I mean I get them when I sleep or I'm in the water but it's been years since it just happened during the day. But I'm sorry for worrying you, didn't mean to" she replied, smiling at him while she turned into her driveway and parked.

"Really? That's random" Reid suspected, walking in behind Tatianna and shutting her front door before he kicked off his shoes and followed behind to the kitchen.

"Just stressed, I can't control them as easy I do normally if I'm under a lot of stress or anything of the sort" Tat clarified while rooting through her fridge.

"Hey darling, Reid" Tatianna's mother gracefully entered the kitchen, smiling at the two teens while pouring herself a cup of coffee.

"Still up? I'm surprised" Tatianna said while she grabbed supplies to make a sandwich, leaning back so that she could be seen passed the door she looked at Reid "Want one?" she asked him.

"Sure, how are you doing Mrs. Anderson" Reid replied and then asked Tatianna's mom, who laughed at Reid's statement.

"I'm good Reid, and I've told you to not call me that. As for you're statement Tatianna, yes I am still up. I've been busy working on a big business deal for the company so I'll be heading out in a few days for Los Angeles" her mother told them, taking a sip of her coffee.

Tatianna finished making the sandwiches before placing them on plates and handing one to Reid, she turned towards her mom and smiled "Well that's good news, I'm tired so I think after I'm done eating this it's bed time. Night" she said, and then turned to walk out of the room. Her mother said good night to the two and then headed into her office, Tatianna slowly walked out and up the stairs to her room Reid walking beside her as they went into her room she sat in front of her laptop checking her email and other random things.

"So Tat got a question for you" Reid suddenly declared, after eating some of his food and watching Tatianna for a few moments. She slowly turned towards him, looking slightly perplexed but nonetheless curious.

"And that is?" she asked him, taking a small bite out of her sandwich before standing up and walking to get a drink from her mini fridge. Tat tossed one to Reid, while returning to her computer chair.

"Promise you'll answer me honestly?" he then questioned back and saw her roll her eyes as soon as he was finished speaking.

Shrugging her shoulders Tat looked at her laptop screen, typing on the keyboard "I guess I can do that" was her simple answer never taking her eyes off what she was looking at.

"Were you really just mad the other night about me not defending you, or was I right too" Reid asked her in the most honest voice he could, he truly wanted to know what the whole thing had been about so he figured he'd give her at least two days before asking. He watched her as she continued to stare at her laptop, her body tensing slightly as he finished his question, he could tell she was uncomfortable and thinking about what to say. She cracked her knuckles on one hand, and her jaw went tense which made him immediately think she was going to start yelling. Suddenly he wasn't so sure if he should have asked her after all, if it was only because he had done that then he should have left it alone and if it was the other situation too he wasn't quite sure what he was going to do about it. He wasn't sure how he felt about her. He heard her take in a deep breath and saw her close her eyes while tapping her fingers on the desk and then she opened her mouth and his eyes immediately went shut in fear of a loud scream or something.

"No, it wasn't just because you let her call me a slut" her voice was soft and low, like she was trying to force out the words. Reid opened his eyes slowly and saw that she was still looking in the same place, but she didn't seem mad in any way. "You were right, about me being jealous. I… I guess I do like you" she softly stumbled over her next statement.

Reid looked at her shocked, she liked him, she seemed so unsure of whether or not to say it and he wasn't even sure what to say back to her. He truly wasn't, he couldn't just say he liked her too because he didn't know if he did and he didn't know if he should say that he thought of her as just a friend because he wasn't sure of that either. He sighed slightly and closed his eyes thinking of what to do and what to say. Tatianna glanced over at him and saw him contemplating; she felt his shock, his uncertainty, and many other things that made her stomach churn she should not have told him that just now. She knew when she was thinking it over in her head whether or not to tell him that she shouldn't, but the other part of her won over and said that she should tell him because he did after all ask her to be honest. Tatianna felt awkward, so she did the only thing she could think of at that very moment just to get away from the situation for a little bit.

"I'm going to go have a shower, after hanging out in the dungeon of candles I feel dirty" she joked, trying to make it seem like she wasn't affected by him saying nothing while she walked into her bathroom, successfully shutting and locking the door.

Tatianna's POV

I looked at myself in the mirror, after turning on the shower. While waiting for it to heat up I just looked at myself glaring at the reflection, 'What the hell was that!' I thought to myself.

Walking back over to the shower I felt the water, it was the perfect temperature so I stepped in and shut the curtain behind me. I stood there facing the wall letting the water run down my head and then onto my shoulders and back while I thought about what had just happened, this was going to be awkward I can already tell. 'He doesn't even know what he feels for me, and from the emotions he was putting off he was scared of hurting me, which means one thing. This is a one sided event. Great now what is it going to be like when I walk back out there' I pondered the many possibilities while I rubbed shampoo through my hair. Nothing in my head seemed to work out, it was either him telling me that he was sorry but it wasn't like that or saying nothing at all about it and leaving the subject alone or else bugging me about it. It was a list of numerous negative endings.

I continued to shower and think about what we had learned tonight at the colony house, it wasn't a like we found many answers but we did find a staggering amount of articles, spells, sacrifices and other magical things that could give us some answers. I was glad that this was finally rolling along, glad that I had actually told the others it was easier to fight and figure something out when it was more than just one person. Two heads are better than one, and I'm guessing seven heads are extremely better than one. As I finished up in the shower I dried off and changed into the shorts and tank top that I had brought in with me and towel dried my hair before finishing the rest of my nightly routine you know the usual cleaning my face, brushing my teeth, putting on lotion etc etc. When I ended by little routine I stood in front of my door, talking myself into going out there.

'It's going to be fine' I told myself as I opened up the door, and walked out looking around. I did a double take of my room, Reid was no where in sight 'Maybe he went to the other bathroom' I decided making my way to my bed. But I stopped as I saw and piece of paper on it. Grabbing it I read it, and narrowed my eyes.

'Sorry Tatianna,

Had to go. Have a meet tomorrow, so it's early morning practice. I completely forgot. See you tomorrow.

Reid'

I crumpled up the paper and growled "Bullshit, they have swimming practice as a first class. They never do early morning practice, worst lie in the fucking world" I said to myself, angrily I shut off my light and then crawled into bed. 'What a coward' I thought to myself as I laid there awake.

Reid's POV

""I'm going to go have a shower, after hanging out in the dungeon of candles I feel dirty" I heard Tatianna joke, and then make her way to her bathroom grabbing some pajama's as she went. As the door shut I let out a large breath of air that I didn't know I was holding, I groaned and looked around the room. I couldn't be here right now. 'I just can't be here it's to awkward I need to think; I need to get away from this.' I thought to myself as I grabbed my cell phone out of my hand and pressed number 2 for speed dial.

"Hey man sup?" came Tyler's voice through the cell phone, 'Thank god you answered'.

"Hey can you come pick me up?" I quickly asked him.

"Yeah sure, why can't Tatianna just bring you back" he asked me 'Oh yeah like that would be a great idea' I thought.

"She's too tired, so can you come soon like right now" I then questioned, I knew he could hear the urgency in my voice and he didn't question me all he said was that he was coming right now. I hung up my phone and then listened, the shower was still running good. I waited till I saw Tyler's headlights, before I left her room careful to write up some excuse on a paper and leave it there. I jogged down the steps and then jumped into Ty's hummer before we headed back to the school.

'What do I do now, what do I think about this' I thought as we drove away.

End

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