A/N: What happened to all my readers? -sob- Anyways. This is a CxC songfic set to "Jack the Ripper" by Morrisey. (If you want to listen to the song while you read, I suggest listening to the AFI cover. I like it better and that's what I listened to while I wrote it.) It's AU. Chase and Caleb don't fight, Chase doesn't die, blah, blah. I threw this little number together in a matter of thirty minutes, so if it sucks, don't hesitate to tell me. I don't think I like this one. REVIEWS MAKE FOR A HAPPY AUTHOR. A HAPPY AUTHOR FINDS MORE INSPIRATION. MORE INSPIRATION MAKES FOR QUICKER UPDATES!!!! (usually. XD)

The rain was pounding and Chase was watching Caleb drive up to the Putnam barn. He watched the raven-haired teen search the barn. He let Caleb wonder for a little bit more before he kicked open the barn doors. Caleb whirled to face him and stopped short. This is what he was supposed to be fighting? Chase didn't look like he had much fighting spirit left in him.

"Where is she? Where's Sarah?" Caleb demanded.

"The dance, where you told her to go."

"Reid and Tyler said-"

"Reid and Tyler were too busy paying attention to eachother to notice her go to the bathroom." Chase rolled his eyes.

"Are we going to do this then?"

"Do what? Fight? An hour ago I would've said yes. Now?" Chase shook his head.

Caleb regarded the other teen with suspicion.

"I envy you. You have it all. The girl, the car, the money, the house, the friends, the Power. I guess life doesn't always shuffle the deck right, does it?" Chase smiled sadly.

Chase took a few steps towards Caleb, quickly closing the gap between them. Caleb's mind flickered back to Sarah's bathroom and the kiss he hadn't been expecting. He tried pushing his toughts to something else, but with those soft lips so close to his own and so within reach...

"I take it I made an impression." Chase said tiredly.

"It doesn't have to be like this." Caleb protested.

"I know. I don't want it to be this way."

"My Power won't save you." Caleb continued.

"Damnit Caleb! I know all of this!" Chase yelled, pushing Caleb back a step.

"Then why?"

"Because I didn't know what else to do. Imagine, five years of not knowing what was going on. Wouldn't you have tried anything too?"

Oh you look so tired.
Mouth slack and wide.
Ill-housed and ill-advised.
Your face is as mean
As your life has been.

Caleb led Chase to his car and started the engine.

"I'm sorry." Chase said softly.

"What?"

"For everything. I didn't intend to hurt Pogue so badly. I lost my temper. I was scared."

Something told Caleb that Chase was being honest. He wasn't sure if he should be so trusting, but chase didn' look like there ws much fight left in him. He looked like an orphan that was tired of running from his problems and was ready to lay down and let his demons catch up to him. There was something saddening about the sight of this strangely broken Chase.

"Fighting the addiction to the Power can be taken care of, just like addiction to anything else." Caleb said slowly.

"Then why didn't our fathers use it?"

"Because it hurts. Just like every other addiction. But this one hurts so much more..." Caleb trailed off.

There was something in Chase's dark eyes that made Caleb's heart skip, just a little.

"Will you help me through it?"

Crash into my arms.
I want you.
You don't agree
But you don't refuse.
I know you.

Chase's room was surprisingly clean and rather empty. Chase pushed Caleb into the room and closed the door behind him. Red flags went up in Caleb's mind. He felt a small bubble of Chase's power wash over him and he was pushed back onto the bed. Chase sat on him.

"I can see why they made you their leader. You're so strong-willed, noble...It's very attractive." Chase purred.

Caleb was confused. He was half expecting an attack or maybe Chase suddenly being civil. But this was something Caleb hadn't even begun to consider.

Chase pressed his lips to Caleb's again and this time Caleb gave up rational thinking. Did it matter the Chase had hurt Pogue? If any of them had been put in that situation, they probably would have done the same thing. Well, except for Tyler, but he was the only one of them that had a good head on his shoulders.

"Do you kiss Sarah like this or are you more gentle?" Chase asked.

Caleb wrapped his fingers in Chase's hair and pulled their faces closer together.

And I know a place
Where no one is likely to pass.
You don't care if it's late.
And you don't care if you're lost.

"They'll start wondering where you are." Chase sighed through slightly swollen lips.

"Let them wonder." Caleb growled before kissing Chase again.

"What am I to you?"

Caleb stopped at the question. Why was he doing this? What about Sarah? And hadn't Chase threatened to kill everyone? But there was something else, some redeeming quality that Chase had. Caleb wasn't sure what it was, but he couldn't force himself to care. Caleb answered as honestly as he could.

"All that I want."

Chase's lips ghosted over Caleb's neck. He whispered things to Caleb, sweet things littered with dirty comments and promises. Caleb gasped as Chase kissed his way down the younger teen's neck.

And oh, you look so tired.
But you night you presume too much.
Too much, Too much.
And if it's the last thing I ever do,
I'm gonna get you.

Caleb rolled them over and looked down at Chase. He was beautiful, but shattered inside. Caleb knew that he couldn't go any farther with Chase, not without feeling like he'd taken advantage of a boy in a delicate situation. He kissed Chase once, twice, three times, and then a fourth before laying beside the Covenant's black sheep and pulling the distressed teen into his arms.

"If your friends were to see us right now, they'd-"

"Have to deal with me." Caleb finished.

Chase rested his head on Caleb's chest and listened to the gentle thump of his heart.

"What will you tell them?"

Caleb didn't answer for a long moment. Is this what he wanted? A relationship like this with Chase? If he told the others, they'd think he was brainwashed. And what about Sarah? What would she say if he broke up with her so suddenly? And if he didn't tell the others, he'd only be hurting Chase more by treating him like some dirty secret.

"I shouldn't have brought it up. Do what you will."

"What?" Caleb asked, startled.

"Do what you will. To me. About me. With me. I'm beyond caring."

Caleb kissed the top of Chase's head and told him to stop thinking like that.

Crash into my arms.
I want you.
You don't agree
But you don't refuse.
I know you.

"I'll explain to the others that you had a change of heart. They'll listen." Caleb promised.

"I doubt Pogue will ever forgive me, and Reid's too much of a hothead to believe you."

"But I trust you and Tyler trusts me. Two out of four isn't bad."

"It is when the other two are homocidal."

"I don't want to feel like I'm lying to them, Chase."

"Please? Just give them time to cool off. Then you can tell them." Chase looked pleadingly into Caleb's dark eyes.

"I don't like this." Caleb grumbled.

Chase craned his neck and kissed Caleb's jaw softly.

"You're too nice for your own good." Chase sighed.

He felt Caleb tense under him and sighed. Of course Caleb was still on edge.

"When are you going to trust me?" Chase asked sadly.

"I'm learning." Caleb replied with a slight smile and a gentle kiss.

Crash into my arms,
I want you.
You don't agree,
But you don't refuse.
I know you.