Pretty Little Witches

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Chapter 5: Signature

Dawn walked into the Meade House and found Charles in the kitchen. "What was so important I had to run here right away? You know I do have to be at my job."

"You have plenty of time before school starts," Charles said.

"Where's Diana?" Dawn asked looking around.

"At school," Charles said and Dawn gave him a look. "Okay, I see your point. This won't take long though. The group in Rosewood is going to give us Cassie's big secret that we have to torture her with." Dawn made a face.

"Why do we have to be apart of this group again?" Dawn asked. She was all for getting their powers back and everything but this seemed to be going a little too far.

"I told you. That group wouldn't have let Cassie leave. They would have framed her for murder. The only way to get Cassie here was to join this group and kill Amelia."

"But now that Cassie is here why do we have to go along with the group?"

"Because if we don't they'll frame Cassie for murder and get her sent back to Rosewood." Charles put a hand on Dawn's shoulder. "I know what I'm doing." Dawn was about to say you better, but was stopped by the binging of Charles's computer signaling he had an email. Charles opened the email and read it. "Interesting. According to them Cassie has psychotic depression and used to cut herself. They want us to torture her back to that."

Dawn had a horrified look on her face. 'Charles, you can't do that. If that's true Cassie is a real danger to herself. She could kill herself."

"I have to Dawn. For us to get our powers back." Charles said. "Look as soon as we have our full powers back and not relying on a crystal for power we'll take care of this A Team, but for now we play along. We're not going to let anything really bad happen to Cassie. We're here. We'll make sure she's fine."

Charles went to put a hand on Dawn's shoulder again, but Dawn took a step back. "If anything happens to her it's your fault." Dawn walked out of the house without even a goodbye.

"Women," Charles mumbled and took out the special cellphone he had bought for this. There was only one number in it and he went to type the text message.

No mommy, no friends, no one to help to you. Your all alone. At least I'm still here. -A

Charles paused as he looked at the text message. Was he really going to send this to Cassie? He pushed the send button and watched the cellphone until the little message that said sent appeared. He put it away and took a deep breath. He had to get to work.

-TSC/PLL-

Cassie looked around the Boathouse as she took another sip of her drink. Once again her grandmother had to work late, but she promised Cassie that they would spend some time together this weekend. Cassie had once again decided to come to the Boathouse for dinner.

She was basically done when Diana and Faye walked in. It didn't take the two long to see Cassie and come over. "Can we sit?" Diana asked and Cassie nodded. Even though she had decided to be friends with the Chance Harbor Circle she had avoided them today at school. She couldn't help, but still think one of them killed her mom. These two though were the two she was sure were innocent. She might as well start with them as friends.

"So what were you two up to?" Cassie asked.

"Nothing," Diana said really fast and seemed nervous about something and Faye had a smirk on her face. Before Cassie could think about the situation though Ethan Conant walked over with a tray.

"Buffalo Wings. On the house for three of my favorite girls," Ethan said and walked away. Cassie looked at him confused as Faye started digging into the free food.

"I don't think I've said two words to him since I got here. How am I one of his favorite girls?" Cassie asked the two. She was curious why she was getting all this free food.

"He's in love with your mom," the two said together without pausing shocking Cassie. "When we were little we always had to hear about Amelia Blake the lost love of Mr. Conant's life when we were over. It got a little annoying." Diana explained.

"Oh, didn't expect that." Cassie said taking one of the Buffalo Wings. "Different topic. What TV Shows do you guys like?" it seemed like a safe topic to Cassie. Not too personal, but something they could talk about.

It took a while, but they found a TV Show that all three of them liked which was Vampire Diaries. Unfortunately Cassie was a bit behind the other two. With everything that happened with A she didn't really have time for TV Shows. "I thought you said you liked this show," Faye commented with a laugh.

"I do. It's just been a hectic year. I haven't had time to watch much TV," Cassie defended herself.

"What's been going on that keeps you so busy you don't have an hour to spare?" Faye asked and Cassie looked down at her feet.

"Just Circle stuff," Cassie mumbled.

"What type of Circle stuff?" Faye asked curious. Magic always made Faye curious. Diana could see though the question was making Cassie uncomfortable.

"Faye, cut it out. She doesn't have to tell us anything," Diana told Faye.

"Who says your the boss of me. I just want to know." Faye said.

"Maybe Cassie doesn't want to tell us. It must be hard for her being so far away from her Circle." Diana's words reminded her of the text message she got from A this morning. It was hard. All Cassie wanted to do was go home and be with her friends.

"You two fight like a married old couple," Cassie commented. She didn't realize the effect her words had on the two. They both shut up right away and Diana seem to be getting antsy. She couldn't seem to sit still anymore. Faye for her part had shut up and had a small smile on her face like she won something.

"Well we better get to the abandoned house and meet up with the other." Diana wanted to leave the booth, but Faye was in the way and the bigger girl wasn't moving. "Faye come on."

"I'm having fun talking to Cassie. Hey maybe she's been practicing longer then us." Cassie gave Faye a look confused. "Think of everything she could know that we don't. Maybe Cassie should come join us at the abandoned house."

"I don't want to join your Circle," Cassie reminded them.

"You don't have to join," Diana said. "We can just be friends." Cassie nodded and figured hanging out with the witches at the abandoned house was better then being alone at home. Cassie got up and left a nice tip on the table since all the food had been free.

Faye finally got up letting Diana out of the booth. Cassie followed the two thinking this could be the perfect opportunity to read the others magical signature. Maybe by the end of today she would know who killed her mom.

-TSC/PLL-

It was like being at one of Ali's wild parties, when all the girls used to get together and do magic. Cassie remembered those days like they'd only been a week ago, and not months. Sometimes she couldn't even decide if she was glad that they were in the past. She'd had so much fun with the girls; she and Aria had been especially close.

Sighing, she focused herself to the task at hand. She'd already checked Diana's and Faye's magical signature, but not the others. Since they were doing a group spell it was easy enough to do all of them at once. Closing her eyes she reached out her sense to be able to read each magical signature. She had to find the right one, but she couldn't. There were five magical signatures here, but none of them were the right one. They were all innocence!

Her eyes opened again. Adam and Nick were talking to each other. Melissa was laughing at something one of the two boys had just said. Diana and Faye still had their hands linked from the spell, since it required physical connection, and Diana was blushing furiously. After a minute she pulled her hand away.

Well, at least none of them were the culprits. Cassie liked all the Chance Harbor witches, and she wanted to be friends with them. It was nice that she wouldn't have to have a confrontation with any of them. It just didn't make sense though. They were the only witches with any reason to want her here. How could it not be one of them?

Next to her she could hear her cellphone make a bleeping noise. She scooped it up, and saw a new text from A.

They're not guilty, but one of their parents is. ~A

AN: sorry this chapter isn't the longest. It's more of an in between chapter then anything else. Please REVIEW

MUST READ: both me and my co writer for this fic are returning to school soon. While we are not going to stop writing the updates might be slower then they have been. We will have school, work, homework, and The Secret Circle Project to think about. With fanfics the project comes first and anything else second. We will be updating but probably not as often. Sorry.