A/N: So glad you are enjoying this story! Love to hear who you guys want Victoria to be with. Hope you enjoy this next chapter! -Cat

Chapter Sixteen

Reid opened the door to Victoria's dorm with his key and walked in, to find the room dark and empty.

"Huh," He looked around her room. No sign.

'They must be in Pogue and Caleb's dorm,' He thought and left, closing the door behind him.

Reid took off down the hall and sprinted upstairs to the boys dorms. He didn't think he was coming in that late but he had ended up in Salem for longer than Reid had originally planned, when he decided that he didn't want to wait and bought a brand new Lincoln Pick Up Truck. Reid was the only one with access to his entire trust fund, (an eighteenth birthday gift from his father) while his friends all had to wait for their twenty-first.

He had seen Victoria's new car in the parking lot, so she hadn't gone anywhere.

Reid walked casually down the hallway and saw the lights on in Pogue and Caleb's room across the hall from his and Tyler's room. Reid knocked briefly before walking in, only to be greeted by Caleb on his computer lying on his bed. No Victoria and no Pogue.

"Hey man," Caleb said not looking up from his screen.

"Hey," Reid walked in and slumped into Pogue's office chair at his desk. He spun back and forth on the casters. "You seen Vic?"

Caleb shook his head, "No, not since this morning at the hotel." He closed his laptop and sat up to look at Reid. "Have you tried her room?"

"Yeah, she isn't there." Reid spun around to look at Pogue's desk, "Last I saw her she was taking off with Pogue to study-" He stopped, his eyes catching on something. He picked up the text book and showed Caleb the title as he read it out anyway, "Political Science."

"Huh," Caleb shrugged, slumping back onto his pillows, "Maybe they are using hers?"

Reid tossed the book onto Pogue's bed, "I guess,"

Caleb ran a hand over his face, "Ya know, Tori probably only said that to get Pogue on his own to try and badger him into admitting what has been up with him recently."

Reid looked at Caleb, "She hates when you call her that."

"Yeah, I know. They will probably be back any minute."

Reid's eyes focused on Caleb, "Do you know what has been going on with Pogue recently?"

Caleb looked at Reid with keen eyes, "I was gonna ask you the same thing. You guys get into it recently?"

Reid shook his head, "No," Still he rolled back in his memory the last couple of weeks but still couldn't think of anything he had done that would put Pogue's nose out of joint and he certainly had been ready to jump down Reid's throat every chance he got. "Do you think Kate is boning Aaron?" Reid suggested.

Caleb shook his head, "No, Sarah says she's still upset over their break up."

Reid shook his head, "Really? How long were they barking at each other for?"

Caleb shrugged, "I dunno. Doesn't mean she thought he was gonna break up with her."

Suddenly the door opened and Pogue walked in and looked up at Caleb before his eyes fell on Reid whose feet were now on the end of Pogue's bed. Victoria walked in close behind him and seemed a little surprised, like a deer in the headlights to find both Caleb and Reid in the room.

"Well, speak of the devil," Reid said swivelling around to face Victoria.

"Oh, you're both here," She stammered. "Good, that's good." Pogue looked at Victoria like that was a matter of opinion. Reid looked at Caleb and they both sat up, instantly aware that something was going on.

"What's up?" Caleb asked his little sister.

Victoria looked at Pogue like she had no idea how to start and Reid felt himself getting pissed he didn't know what was coming.

"Well, better spit it out," He snapped, his voice had an edge. Caleb shot him a reprimanding look and Victoria looked at him surprised. Pogue glared over Victoria's shoulder at him but Reid didn't care. He didn't like the fact that his girlfriend, who he had planned to spend the day with had instead taken off with one of his best friends, lying about studying and Reid had no idea what they had been doing all day.

Victoria swallowed and crossed the dorm to stand facing Pogue, between Caleb and Reid. "I wanted to talk to you two before we went to the meeting tonight."

"What meeting?" Caleb asked, looking at Pogue who was sitting on the edge of Caleb's desk.

"My dad is calling a meeting of the Covenant tonight." He explained.

Reid looked from Pogue to Caleb back to Victoria, "Why? Just because you ascended last night? Cause we were all there, pretty sure we got the picture."

She shook her head, "No, it… isn't about that." She was wringing her hands. Reid sat up watching her. She was really freaked about something.

Evidently Caleb noticed as well, because he was the one to prompt her next, "So what's the meeting about Victoria?"

She looked over at Pogue, who Reid looked at as well. What were they keeping from him? Pogue shrugged, "May as well just tell them. It isn't gonna be any better tonight."

Reid stood up frustrated, "What the hell is going on?!" He yelled.

"Sit down, Reid." Caleb snapped.

Reid's eyes were trained on Victoria however and when she eventually nodded, he sat back down. "What's up Vic?" He asked only looking at her. Her eyes looked so sad. His heart started to race when he realized maybe he didn't want to know what she was going to say.

"Well, um, so my ascension wasn't the only thing that happened last night. Um, well, we had this dream last night-"

" 'We'?" Caleb looked from Victoria to Pogue who nodded but Reid didn't look away from Victoria.

She came over and sat on the bed beside Reid, "So, it turns out that Pogue and I are Doublegangers,"

Caleb looked between Pogue and Victoria confusion on his face. Reid furrowed his brow, "Well, you don't really look anything alike….."

Victoria smiled but she still looked so upset… "No, not that kind of doubleganger. It's a type of witch, I guess. They only happen in the Danvers and Parry family descendants evidently."

"Ok, so what does that mean?" Caleb prompted.

"It means that after we ascend we start having flashes of our old lives come back to us in dreams." Pogue explained his voice sounding heavy.

Reid glanced at Pogue before looking back at Victoria. "Ok, so, that's weird," She smiled at him but her eyes still looked angst-riddled, "Is that why you were so squirrelly this morning?" Reid asked her.

Victoria looked down at the bedspread, a deep blush colouring her cheeks, "Yeah,"

Reid chuckled, "Ok, well that makes me feel better. I thought I had been bad in the sack or something."

"Oh goddamnit Reid!"

"What?" Reid shrugged at Caleb's outburst but noticed Pogue's hands tightened where they were holding on to the edge of the desk, his knuckles going white. Reid looked up at his friend but Pogue's eyes were trained on a spot on the floor. Reid decided to ignore Pogue, who evidently was not over his bout of PMS and instead refocused on Victoria, "So what were the twenties like? I feel like I shoulda been born then."

"This isn't a joke, Reid!" Pogue snapped filling the air with tension once again.

Reid slowly turned to face his friend, "I know it isn't." He said quietly... dangerously.

Victoria took Reid's hand suddenly. He looked back at her, "It doesn't work like that." She said, blowing past Reid's almost confrontation with Pogue, "We don't get to pick what we see, we just get... shown."

"Ok," Reid said shrugging.

Caleb looked between Reid and Victoria, concern clouding his expression. Slowly, Caleb looked up at Pogue, "So, how come it's Vic? Why not me?"

Victoria looked at Pogue at Caleb's words but it looked like Pogue tried intentionally not to look back. Reid didn't like the way they seemed so... in sync they seem to be. "My dad says it has to be a guy from the Parrys and a girl from the Danvers. It's the only way it can happen. We are the first pair in a few hundred years, since Sabine and Jack Parry."

Reid's attention was caught by something said by Pogue, "Sabine and Jack Parry? What were they brother and sister or something?"

"No, I just said, it has to be a boy Parry and a girl Danvers." Pogue answered before Victoria got a chance to respond.

"Sabine was a Danvers, until she married Jack." Victoria said softly.

Reid looked at her. He felt like there was something big that wasn't being said. He looked at Caleb and from his friend's expression Caleb thought so as well, "Ok, so good for them."

"Thing is," Victoria said very quietly. "It would seem that all recorded Doublegangers are partners, or couples or whatever."

Reid blinked at her, not completely understanding what she was implying. "So?"

"Doublegangers are soul-mates." Pogue answered again before Victoria got the chance.

Reid, Caleb and Victoria all turned to look at Pogue. Victoria stood up, "Not making this any easier Pogue," She ground out.

Pogue shook his head looking unbelieving, "Nothing will make this easier, Victoria. There isn't anything that makes this better, let alone for Reid."

It was Reid's turn to stand up, "Look, I don't know what you think you mean by that, but I don't need you to worry about what makes this bullshit better for me."

"Reid!" Victoria snapped.

Pogue advanced, "The fact that you think-" Caleb leapt up to get between Pogue and Reid, "This is bullshit just goes to show how far up your own ass your head actually is."

Victoria grabbed Reid's arm, but he struggled against her bumping into Caleb in the tight space of the dorm. "Fuck you man, I don't need you to help me deal with what Victoria is going through."

"Actually, dude you do. Since I am the only person who actually knows what is going on." Pogue yelled back.

"Enough!" Victoria screamed. Reid was thrown back onto Pogue's bed, Caleb hurtled back onto his own bed and Pogue slammed back into his office chair. Victoria alone was left standing, glaring at all of them with her fiery black eyes. "From all of you." She growled before she blinked and her eyes went back to blue. She took a deep breath. She looked at Pogue, "I'll see you tonight," He nodded, not taking his eyes off her. 'God, he looks like a lost puppy', Reid thought he was gonna vomit.

Victoria's eyes fell back on Reid, she looked pissed. "Come on." She stormed out of the room and Reid, lacking anything else to do followed her.