I am so sorry this has taken to long…I had intended on posting it a few days ago but as I work at Toys R Us and it's almost Xmas I don't have a life and considering I live in Australia and play ice hockey sadly my free time is spent training…hope you enjoy it and thanks for all the reviews from the last chapter

Chapter 4 – Memories

Tayla rolled over in bed but came into contact with an empty side. Sitting up she let her eyes adjust to the darkness and listened out for any sounds in the bathroom. But it wasn't the bathroom she heard, it was voices. "Don't worry Livia. I would have preferred you to come here now than wait till morning." Olivia? What was she doing at his house at 2am? The girlfriend part of Tayla was being jealous and she didn't like it one bit.

Tayla waited for more sounds but there was a long pause without one and so she decided not to upset Peter by confronting Olivia while he was in the room, she rolled over and tried to get some sleep.

Peter watched as Olivia spun on her heals to search the room. In the last few days he had noticed that she had become very skittish but couldn't work out exactly why. She turned back to face him, determination written all over her face. "Peter, this Joshua Rowe told me that he hadn't been to the club before but his name and photo ID is on the list and we also interviewed him at the school."

Peter stretched again and took a seat on the couch, offering for Olivia to follow, which she did albeit a little more slowly than she normally would. "Peter, the other students said that Marcus had been spending a lot of time with this kid Joshua but when I asked him about it he said he didn't know Marcus…he was also there the night Marcus was last seen and we have a small amount of surveillance footage of them leaving together." Olivia flipped open the flies on the coffee table and slid them closer to Peter so he could have a look.

"Liv, I remember this kid. He had tattoos on his arms. There was a pentacle and a ruin, it think…I noticed it because he kept mentioning occult and stuff. Strange kid." Peter rubbed his hand over his forehead, motioning that he was thinking. "Do you think they have been hanging out together and both interested in the all of this? Because that would explain why he just suddenly left."

Olivia tilted her head slightly as if confused. Peter noticed and so he continued, "Well Joshua seems to believe most of this stuff is real…magic and powers and stuff…so if Marcus was believing in it as well maybe he has been convinced to leave in search of it." Olivia nodded silently. She spoke suddenly as a thought struck her.

"You don't believe it? Magic and powers and stuff?" Biting her lip slightly she waited for an answer.

Peter just shrugged, "I don't know. Not really I guess but I never believed in some of the stuff we have seen and yet we have seen it so I guess there is no one to say it's not real until we see it. How about you?"

Olivia smiled again but before she had a chance to answer the buzzing of her phone echoed through the otherwise silent house. "Dunham…yes Sir….tomorrow lunch time…of course sir…you want me to bring him?...yea no problems sir." He watched as she shoulders rose at the good information she had received and then dropped at the bad.

"Broyles had a lead we need to follow tomorrow. We can't go now because of bad weather so we are leaving tomorrow lunch time." She was being vague and Peter hated it.

"Bad weather Liv? There's not supposed to be any rain here this week…" Peter tired to think of any rain forecast in Boston but came up short.

"Well your theory of interest in the occult seems to be making sense, Marcus has been spotted in New Orleans, known for it's belief in Voodoo. We are going to New Orleans for about a week so I guess I'll leave you to pack. It's very bad weather at the moment so pack warm." With that Olivia left the house faster than he had ever seen her. As if on instinct Peter shivered at the empty house but instead of staying up and packing he went back to the bed where Tayla had fallen back asleep.

Olivia had to get out of that house. There were to many memories there and they were bombarding her senses. Ignoring the presence she felt was making it worse for her because she was struggling to keep her thoughts down. Jumping into the car Olivia glanced at her rear vision mirror but wasn't surprised to see him sitting in the back. "Hello."

"God, what do you want now? Do you honestly expect to scare me? You aren't back so don't even bother. Nothing you say or do right now is going to scare me." Olivia kept looking straight ahead in the mirror because she knew if she turned around she wouldn't find anyone sitting there but the hairs on the back of her neck stood as the voice came to rest near her ear, whispering like the wind. "Make sure you keep an eye on him I'd hate for you to lose him." At that Olivia swung around to face the back seat but much like she expected, there was no one there. Slamming her hand down on the steering wheel Olivia let out some of her anger before she sped away to try and work out how, all of these things happening at the same time, were connected.

Olivia had been sitting at her desk in the lab office since about 6 am. She had packed but hadn't been able to sleep at all, her mind was driving her crazy trying to find a solution to the question. How were these events connected? By 9am she hadn't even heard the lab doors swing open but when a knock at her door made her jump she looked up to find Tayla glaring down at her.

"Now I don't know what your problem is Olivia, but you show up last night at 2am, spend an hour with Peter downstairs. Now you are both going on a trip to New Orleans for a week. He has a girlfriend so tell me what you expect to get out of this trip. He isn't going to sleep with you, he loves me." The out burst from Tayla had shocked Olivia to begin with but before she could answer Peter came through the door. "Morning Liv. We need to leave soon but there is someone here to speak to you." Peter looked from Olivia, who had a shocked look on her face, to Tayla who had a small smile. Olivia only nodded and made a break for the lab but stopped in her tracks.

"What are you doing here? You always told me 'never around other people.'" Peter and Tayla had followed Olivia into the lab where she stood facing a man. Walter and Astrid had stopped working at Astrid's computer and were watching the scene in front of them.

"We don't have time, I had to come. Please come with me." They all watched as the man went to leave but Olivia exploded.

"Goddamn it Dad! Tell me what you know because I have to spend the next week in New Orleans with him and I don't really have time to screw around. He came to me last night again and now he is threatening people close to me. What is going on up there?"

The man sighed, "Complete and utter confusion. That's what's happening. Olivia you survived when you shouldn't have. Three years ago you should have been in the ground and you know that! God why do you have to be so stubborn all the time!"

"Olivia what is going on? I thought your father died…?" Peter's voice pulled her from her anger and she turned to face him. "I'll explain later…" turning back to her father, "…as for you, has he just been waiting for me to come and see you? I haven't heard from him since I was a kid and now he is back because I went to visit you! Why do I think this has something to do with you!" Olivia shot back at her father who looked about ready to scream.

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