A/N: Hi all! Hope you are enjoying Unleashed. Sorry about the age issue I will go back and correct Trapped when I have time. lol! Not enough hours in the day. Hope you enjoy this update as Victoria and Pogue try to figure out what is going on. Loving the feedback. Please keep up the reviews! Thanks and enjoy! -Cat.

Chapter Fifteen

Pogue walked out into the still bright afternoon sunlight. He walked over to his parked motorcycle and realized Victoria was lagging behind him. He turned to look at her and she was already watching him with an apprehensive expression.

"What?" He asked raising an eyebrow.

She swallowed, looking at the ground, before looking back at him and walking up to stand beside him. "Pogue,"

"Yeah?" He straddled his bike and handed the helmet to Victoria. She traced a finger over the top but didn't put it on.

"Am I… did the dreams… is it…" She was completely flustered, looking everywhere but at him. An unsettled Victoria was a rare Victoria.

Pogue looked at her, sighing, "Spit it out Vicky." He said looking at her with what he hoped was a sympathetic expression.

She looked up at him, her eyes huge, "Is…." She seemed to be searching for a word she couldn't find, and instead settled for, "This," She indicated the two of them, "The reason you and Kate broke up?"

Pogue swallowed. He was honestly hoping she wouldn't ask that question and Victoria did look terrified of the answer. Pogue shook his head looking away from her, "I don't know what you want me to say here, Victoria." He pretended to pick and invisible piece of dirt from his bike.

Suddenly, he tensed as she put a hand out and touched his forearm. He looked up at her instantly, her eyes were soft, concerned. Eyes he had looked into for almost every night for the past five months. Eyes he would willingly look into the rest of his life, now. Not that that was his choice to make….

Victoria held his own intense gaze while she said, "I want the truth, Pogue. Whatever this is, whatever is happening to us…. we are in this together. It seems like no one will get it like we will. So, I want you to be honest with me. No matter what." She crossed her arms, leaning back on her left foot and looked right into his eyes.

Pogue held her gaze. He wondered if she really meant that, or if she would still mean that when she didn't like the answer. He took a deep breath looking at the low sun in the sky. "Honestly?"

"Yes, please," Victoria said smiling at him cheekily.

Pogue took a deep breath, "Yeah," He nodded looking at her. Even though he was fairly sure Victoria knew that was what he was going to say, she still looked like her breath caught in her throat when she heard it. "Yeah, it was."

"Oh my god," Victoria mumbled under her breath.

Pogue shrugged, "Thing is," Pogue took a deep breath. She wanted the truth, and looking up at her, Pogue found he felt like he owed it to her. "I thought I was gonna be with Kate for the rest of my life." Victoria looked unbelievably uncomfortable, but he persevered, "I mean, honestly, I had it all planned." He couldn't help but smile to himself thinking over it all, "Had it all figured out. I was gonna propose after our first year at school. It would have been hard with me in Harvard and her in Stanford, but that was the plan. I loved her from freshmen year, hadn't been anyone else." He took a deep breath, "Things started to change before I ascended, it was like I didn't trust her. The whole Chase thing happened, that didn't help. I felt this caesium opening between us and I figured once Caleb got rid of Chase that things would just go back to normal."

Victoria took a step toward him, engrossed in his story, "But they didn't?"

Pogue chuckled, "Oh no. Then after I ascended, and had the first dream." Pogue shook his head looking at Victoria. She looked like she felt horrible, "Ya know, it doesn't have anything to do with you right?"

Victoria gawked at him, "How can you say that? You start having intense pseudo-real dreams about me and your relationship with the girl you planned on marrying gets destroyed in the process? Feels kinda like my fault even if it was nothing I could control." She put a hand on her hip, looking upset.

Pogue got up off the bike so he could stand in front of her. He considered putting his hands on her shoulders. It seemed like such a natural thing to do but he held off. He couldn't let the fact that Victoria had had one dream make him over comfortable. This was all still new to her. "Look, it's hard to explain."

"Try me," Victoria prompted, looking up at him from under a furrowed brow.

Pogue looked her in the eyes, "What I feel in the dream, the way I feel about Lady Ann or Sabine…. " You, It hung between them like a stifling weight but Pogue continued, "I didn't know a person could feel like that about anyone. And I knew I didn't feel the same about Kate. I don't know what is gonna happen. I want you to know I have no expectations of you. But if I can't have that feeling…." He shrugged, "Nothing else seems worth it." In order to be able to stop looking at her tortured eyes Pogue got on his bike again. He knew she was thinking about Reid.

'The new elephant in the room.'

He instantly felt guilty for even thinking like that. Pogue took a deep breath, there was no guarantee that Victoria would start to feel the same way he did about the dreams. Maybe she would stay with Reid, they seemed like they worked well together. Better than any other relationship Reid had ever had…. the only relationship Reid had ever had. Pogue reminded himself he was supposed to want what was best for his friends, not himself. He took a deep breath, "Come on, we better go, we can catch dad at the office before he is done for the day."

Pogue closed the door to his father's office following Victoria in. "Nurse said he would be in in a minute."

Victoria looked around the office, the desk was covered in pictures of Pogue. "Does your dad ever take a day off?" She asked sitting in one of the chairs across from the antique mahogany desk. "It is a Sunday after all."

Pogue sat down beside her, "Not really. Not any more." Victoria looked over at Pogue when she heard his tone of voice. He was looking at the biggest picture on the desk, which was a beautiful picture of his mother. Victoria looked into the women's kind face. She looked like Pogue, fine bone structure, green eyes, but she had bright blonde hair. She had passed away three years ago, just before Victoria had left.

Victoria swallowed. She knew what it was to loose a parent and she knew there wasn't anything anyone could say to her about it. Suddenly, she found herself (without really thinking about it) sitting up, leaning over to put her hand on Pogue's arm but was distracted when the door swooped open. She looked over to see Dr. Richard Perry walk in the office. She took a deep breath and sat back quickly.

"Hello you two! Wasn't expecting to see you guys this weekend." He walked over as they both stood up, he gave his son a hug and then Victoria. "I thought you would be partying all weekend."

"Got cut short." Pogue said sitting back down.

Richard's eyes fell on Victoria, "Everything ok? I know ascension can be overwhelming. And I can't imagine how it would feel to someone who never even had a taste of the power before now."

Victoria blinked, she had actually stopped thinking about her new found power. She had been completely distracted by the dream that had woken her up. "Oh, well, I am fine. I guess. Well," She looked at Pogue who was watching her with an amused expression. "As far as that goes, everything is ok so far."

Richard watched her, furrowing his brow, he looked at her with a frank expression, "Ok, now what is going on? Because I am sure something brought you two in this afternoon."

Victoria looked at Pogue not sure were to start. He didn't looked exactly eager to talk to his dad about the dream either. "Well, uh," Pogue shifted in his seat awkwardly.

Richard looked between the two of them, "Alright, now, now I am getting nervous. Better come out with it or else I am going to start jumping to some very unnerving conclusions."

"We've, well I've been having these…. dreams. And now last night, after ascending Victoria had the same one. I mean, the same exact dream as I had last night."

Richard didn't take his eyes off his son, he blinked putting his fingertips together over his desk, "What kind of dreams?"

"They are intense," Pogue said at the same time as Victoria said, "They are intimate."

They looked at each other, as they both spoke and Richard looked between the two of them. He looked at his son, "When did you have your first dream?"

"The night I ascended, and then Victoria had her first last night too, like I said." Pogue said sitting up on the edge of his seat.

Victoria sat up too and took the old text out of her bag, "And so we decided to do some investigation and found this," She stood up gently putting the book on Richard's desk opening it to the page of the Doubleganger.

Richard's eyes glanced over the words. He had probably already read it, not only was he Ipswich's foremost family physician but he was also the Covenant Families' Historian. He sat back in his chair. He looked over at his son, "I had hoped I would be wrong about this." Pogue's mouth dropped open as Richard's eyes turned on Victoria, "But when William brought you home…. a brand new baby girl for the Danvers, the first female Danvers in centuries…. my worries deepened."

Victoria felt a ringing in her ears. It was Pogue who spoke first, "You knew? You knew this could happen to us and you didn't say anything?" His voice was dangerously low.

"I did not want to burden you with the very real possibility that you may have no choice over your own life and destiny? To experience memory after memory of a previous life?" Richard looked sad as he looked at Victoria, "And as you grew up, I didn't think it was as big of a concern as we had thought. I down-played it in my own head, convinced myself that it wasn't the case. Just a strong family resemblance to the Doublegangers. There was never any indication of a connection other than that of childhood family friends."

Victoria's stomach dropped out of her seat. She thought back to when they were younger. She had been madly in love with Pogue since before she could remember. A mad crush that Caleb used to tease her about all the time. All her childhood diaries were scribbled with 'V.D. + P.P. 4 Ever' and 'Mrs. Victoria Parry'. But then she had gone away to London and besides, what was the point in crushing on Pogue when he had Kate?

"No, instead this happened to us without any warning!" Pogue snapped.

Richard looked at his son, "Why didn't you say anything to me after the first memory?" Pogue and Victoria both looked at him when he referred to it as a memory.

Pogue shrugged, "It was embarrassing! And none of the other guys were having weird intense dreams about anyone they shouldn't be. So. I figured it was just in my head or something…. Like a crush."

"And when Victoria ascended last night? Why didn't you mention anything then?" Richard continued.

Victoria was looking between father and son like she was watching a tennis match, "I could ask you the same question."

"If you will both recall, I did want to speak to Victoria last night, but you all left to go to prom instead." Richard sounded like he didn't approve.

"That was my fault." Victoria piped up, sounding meek to her own ears. She wasn't used to being talked to with disapproval by an adult who she actually respected. Normally, she didn't care what anyone thought of her, "I was really keyed up from ascending and everything last night, and I wanted to get as far away from … Evelyn as I possibly could, so they guys just followed my lead."

Richard watched her with sympathetic eyes. He nodded relenting, "Well, all of that doesn't matter now. Now we know, we need to prepare."

"Prepare for what?" Pogue asked furrowing his brow.

"We need to have a Covenant meeting tonight, all the ascended. Everyone needs to know the current situation with you two."

Victoria felt like she was gonna throw up on the floor. She could feel Pogue looking at her but he looked back at his dad before asking, "Why? It seems like it's between Victoria and me. I don't see why everyone needs to know about… it…all."

Richard looked at Pogue, "I am afraid you don't understand. If- and I mean if, for I put no expectations on you two, but if you ever were to find your way to each other, Doublegangers are immensely powerful when together. Normally being with your Doubleganger partner would simply intensify your powers Pogue. But as things stand, with Victoria's ascension, it would make you both much more powerful."

Victoria swallowed, "Ok, so since we aren't …. together or whatever….?"

Richard sighed, "It's hard to say with you both in such close proximity with each other. I am afraid history makes your connection somewhat…inevitable."

Pogue shook his head, "Ok, so what does it matter if we were to be more powerful?"

Richard looked sad, "I am afraid it isn't simply more power, it's a more intense power. It behaves like a beacon to other ascended. The Doublegangers are the highest evolution of our kind, or at least that is how some have felt in the past. Your joint power will call to others. And unfortunately our numbers are not….firm."

Pogue sat back and Victoria looked at him confused. He met her eyes, "Chase." He said simply.

Victoria's head swivelled back to RIchard, "What? So if we were to get together or whatever- it's gonna like call to him or something?"

Richard looked at her, "It is something we need to prepare for. Sabine and Jack Perry were some of our most powerful ancestors and leaders-"

"Leaders?" Pogue asked.

Richard smiled gently at his son, "Yes, Jack became Governor of Massachusetts and the leader of the five families. However the power he and Sabine held and shared among the families… some believe that was what drew attention to the five families and eventually led to the witch trials."

Victoria and Pogue sat in silence, "Oh well, nothing to worry about then," Victoria said sarcastically.