DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE COVENANT'S FORMER CHARACTERS. I ONLY OWN CAMERON DANVERS.

At that moment, a million things ran through my head. Those ten times I raised my voice because of him. After the fight above the stairs and when I felt so comfortable crying in his arms. The ring I was rolling around on my finger. How desperate he looked right now. How I had never seen him this vulnerable. How it scared me in a way. I was trying to find the words to say what I wanted to say. I held up a finger to him to signal that I needed a second to catch my breath on this one. He nodded and sighed, looking almost as scared as I felt then.

"Reid, honestly, I don't know what to think right now." I held up one of my hands to stop him from saying anything else. "I'm not saying I don't have feelings for you. I just…"

"Reid!" I heard a girl yell from across the parking lot. I sighed, thinking it was Kate or Sarah. When I turned around to look, I almost started crying. She was beautiful.

She was at least 5'8" without the high heels she had on. She had long wavy platinum blonde hair that ran down her back. She had a tan to die for. She was wearing a denim mini skirt and a low cut blue tank top that brought out the gorgeous blue in her eyes that were lined evenly with mascara. Her lips were a soft yet bold shade of pink, if that makes any sense. And she walked smoothly right in between me and Reid.

"Hey." She smiled. Her voice was even and seductive, and she placed her hand softly on his shoulder. The tension on his face was obvious. He looked like he didn't know what to do. I looked over myself again, feeling incredibly envious of her perfection. I looked like a small child next to her.

"H-Hey, Beth." He kind of smiled, looking at me for a brief second before locking his eyes with hers. He couldn't look away from her. I knew it.

"Why aren't you at the party yet? I'm sure they're missing you out there." She winked at him and smiled. Her teeth were perfectly aligned, and seemed to glow in contrast to the darkness around us.

"Well I was just…" He motioned towards me, looking like he was about to break a sweat. She finally looked at me, and I could see how he had such a hard time looking away from her. She was enchanting. She looked me up and down, smiling.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I interrupted something didn't I?" She laughed an angelic laugh, and it was almost like I couldn't even be mad at her anymore. "I didn't even see you there." She held her hand out to me. "I'm Beth, one of Reid's friends." She winked at him. I took her hand and squeezed a little bit harder than I meant to. She noticed. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, I was just… f-fine." I stuttered. She laughed.

"You're funny." She nudged me and started walking away towards the party. "You guys catch up with me, you hear?" She laughed and was soon out of sight. I let out a breath.

"Wow…" I said. "Do you go to school with her?" I asked him. He looked nervous.

"Uh, yeah, something like that." I cocked my head to the side.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I don't really see her around school…" I thought for a second and then a strange suspicion hit me. Is Reid still like that? Still that player he tended to be before? I looked up at him with shock.

"Are you sleeping with her?" He didn't say anything, and just looked at the ground clenching his jaw. "Reid…" I sighed. "She's gorgeous." I almost smiled. His head shot up.

"What do you mean by that?"

"I mean that I wouldn't blame you if you wanted to run after her instead of trying to talk things through with me." His eyebrows pulled together and he frowned.

"Are you trying to say that you think she looks better than you do?" I looked at him with surprise.

"Well I thought that was obvious!" I laughed. "And what's also obvious is that you two have something, right?"

"No, no, no, Cam. You don't understand." He waved his hands in front of me, almost smirking. "I mean, I slept with her. I won't deny that from you. I don't like her. I mean, really, that's kind of what I do…" He stopped and I looked down.

"…Is that what you're doing with me?" I asked softly.

"NO!!! Cam, no, I would never…"

"Can I talk to you about this tomorrow, Reid?" I looked back up at him. "I have a lot of things to think about right now… Plus a big brother waiting for me to show up over there." He nodded and kind of pushed past me hurriedly. I stopped, appalled that after everything he had just said, he was going to do this again, getting mad. It hadn't dawned on me that this time he actually had a reason to be. Then he stopped. I didn't really know what to do. Was he mad or not?

"Come on, Danvers. I won't wait forever." He smirked. Somehow I knew this was meant in two different ways. I smiled and walked up beside him.

"I know."

We arrived at the party, and immediately, a guy came up to the both of us and handed us red cups. I laughed.

"That was fast." I said. Reid smirked.

"Yeah, it usually is. You want me to take that for you?" He started to reach towards it. I pulled it away from him.

"No, I think I can handle it." I smiled. Truthfully, I thought I needed it. I took a large gulp of whatever it was in the cup, and somehow it didn't seem strong enough.

"Damn, Danvers." Reid raised an eyebrow at me.

"Don't look at me like that." I smiled, trying to avoid his somewhat amused grin. I took another drink and the cup was empty. Dang. I must have been chugging it! I didn't even notice. Reid laughed at me when I looked into the cup, confused.

"Yes, you just downed a full cup of vodka."

"Dang." I shrugged and put the cup on a nearby table by a speaker. "Let's go." I smile and started off around the huge circle of people, spotting my brother and all of our friends. I turned around to see Reid close behind me, glaring around at people. I felt a little safer.

"Hey." I smiled and threw an arm around Kate's waist.

"Hey, how are you sweetie?" She smiled, eyeing both me and Reid.

"I'm… pretty good." I said, looking around for another guy with red cups. I knew I needed more. It was probably just stupidity that washed over me, or stress or something. I'm really not sure. Something, though, made me want to go out and get hammered. Maybe it was just the adrenaline of the night. Who knows?

Then I saw that Reid wasn't paying attention to the conversation going on in the group about the new movie that was coming out tomorrow. He was looking at her. At Beth. She was motioning for him to go over to where she was. His look made it obvious how hard it was for him to resist the temptation. But he shook his head. "I'm busy." He mouthed. Then she saw me looking at her, and quickly started to motion for me to join her, too. Reid's head snapped in my direction.

"Don't Cam." He said firmly.

"Why not?" I asked, curious.

"Uh... Just, please, Cam. Believe me on this one." His eyes pleaded me. "She's not the kind of girl you want to make friends with."

"She seemed nice, though." I challenged innocently.

"She is nice… kind of." He thought for a second and I looked over at Beth, who looked very confused. "She's nice when she's sober. And she doesn't stay sober for too long at these parties." A green light went off in my head and I looked over at her longingly. I really didn't want to stay sober for too long either.

"I'm just going to go say hi." I said calmy. "Okay?" I would have stopped if Reid had gotten mad or said no. But he didn't say anything, and just threw his hands out, motioning for me to lead the way. I smiled and started walking towards her.

"Hey Beth." I smiled at her.

"What was your name again?" She smiled widely and put her hand on my shoulder. Dang she's so much taller than me. I looked up at her.

"Cami." I laughed. She laughed too.

"You're so cute!" She took my hand and led me into the crowd of people dancing. "Come on!"

"Oh, wait, Cam!" I head Reid shouting for me. I could tell that he hadn't been paying much attention until I was being taken away from him.

"Reid…" I said his name and turned around, losing him in the crowd.

"Cameron!" I heard him one last time before Beth brought me right in the middle of the entire crowd of people dancing. I started to get a little nervous. Then a guy ran by us, stopping to hand me a red cup and winking at me. Ah. Just in time. I took a drink of the unfamiliar alcohol and handed the rest of it to Beth, who was looking at it longingly. I almost laughed. She downed the cup and tossed it on the ground.

"Thanks, hun." She winked. "Come on, let's dance." She pulled me close to her and we started grinding, laughing. I guess any other time I wouldn't have consented to doing this with a complete stranger in a mini skirt. Now, however, the alcohol that I'm not used to at all was getting to me and I felt like letting it all go. All of my morals and red flags going up in my head were pushed aside as the alcohol consumed me. Nothing I was doing felt wrong. And that was the last thing I remembered before I woke up dizzily to the sound of fists colliding with bodies.

I steadied myself to stand up, moaning when I slightly cut my hand on a sharp rock. It was cold outside, and suddenly I remembered that I had been drinking. I finally got on my feet, then gasped. Caleb's fist met with Reid's jaw and Reid flew to the ground, coming back up with eyes as black as the sky had been then.

"Stop!" I tried to yell, but somehow it only came out in a whisper. I frowned and tried to say it louder. "STOP!" It came out in somewhat of a scream. They turned to me as I felt everything spinning again, and Caleb made it to me before I hit the ground. "Stop…" I muttered again, trying to keep my eyes open. "Stop, stop, stop…" I latched onto Caleb's arm to make sure he wasn't going anywhere towards Reid, who was off the ground and wiping blood from his mouth. His eyes were still black. I pointed to him. "Stop…" I could tell he was holding back a smirk. I felt tears forming in my eyes. His jaw was beginning to swell. What have I done?

And suddenly I was waking up, sun pouring over me, in my old room. I must have passed out again. I jumped up, realizing what had happened last night, though not remembering all of it. I got out of bed, almost falling over, feeling like I had been hit by a sixteen wheeler. I steadied myself enough to make it to the door, then falling over and leaning against the frame of my bedroom door. I banged my head on the wall, wondering why I had done this to myself last night. It's not like me to drink that much. It's not really like me to drink at all.

"Cami?" I turned my head too fast and almost fell to the ground, but was able to steady myself enough to stay sitting up straight. It was Kate.

"Kaaate." I whined, putting my hands on my head. "What happened?" She shrugged.

"I'm not really sure. I just know that you got hammered and Caleb and Reid got into a fight." She shook her head and looked at me pitifully. Then she smiled. "Welcome back." I laughed, and then moaned at the intense pain in my head.

"I'm surprised I haven't puked yet."

"I think you did enough of that last night, actually."

"Ugh!" I moaned again. She laughed and stood above me.

"Need some help up?" She finally got me down stairs and into the kitchen to find Pogue going through the refrigerator.

"You look peachy." He smirked.

"Shut up", was all I could say. I found a chair and sat on it, burying my face in my hands. "I'm so stupid." I heard Pogue laugh.

"I warned you." I looked up to see Reid leaning in the door way of the kitchen, looking at me with concern. "Not feeling so well?"

"How ever did you guess?" I closed my eyes and laid my head down on the table. "Where's Caleb?" It was quiet for a second.

"He's staying at Sarah's." Kate answered.

"Okay. Is that a big deal?"

"I guess not. It just means that he's really mad though." Pogue said.

"At me?" I questioned.

"Of course not at you." Reid scoffed. "How could he be mad at his baby sister? He's mad at me."

"But you didn't do anything." I was very confused. "Right?"

"You don't remember anything do you?" He asked, suddenly concerned.

"Not much. I remembered that Caleb punched you. And I told you to stop." He laughed.

"You were telling us to stop for like an hour."

"Well, what happened?" The curiosity was killing me.

"Guys, I've gotta go to town." Reid avoided my gaze.

"Reid! Now?!" I couldn't believe this.

"For what?" Pogue eyed him.

"Gotta get some groceries for my mom…" He turned to leave, stopping for a second to look at me. "Cam, nothing happened."

"Are you trying to hide this from me?" I almost shouted.

"Yeah, Cam, I am." He disappeared out of the doorway. Somehow I found the strength in myself to- clumsily- follow him.

"Reid! I want to know if it was something I did…" I shouted when I saw him across the lawn and I tried to step down off the porch.

"Cam, go back inside. You're going to hurt yourself." I heard him saying to me. I stubbornly continued towards him.

"I'm sorry; I know I shouldn't have gotten drunk. I should have listened to you." I said, stumbling across the stones and leaves on the ground.

"Cameron, go back inside." He said sternly.

"No…" I got a sudden pain in my head, holding my hand up to my temple, attempting to shake it off. I heard footsteps coming towards me, and I was soon staring him in the face. "What did I do?" He shook his head and looked down.

"You didn't mean to do anything." I was torn to see the hurt that he was hiding from me.

"Reid, I…" I reached up to touch his face, and suddenly I couldn't breathe. It was like I had been punched in the stomach. Everything went black, but suddenly I was back at the party at the Dells, seeing everything through Reid's eyes, hearing everything that Reid thought.

I told her to stay away from Beth. I warned her. And here I stand, watching her being pulled into a crowd of drunken, lusty men, by the craziest alcoholic there is. I tried to keep up with them. I called her name. But soon she was gone, and I didn't know what to do. Tell Caleb? No. He'll have my ass. But Cami… I guess I'm going to have to risk it. I jogged over to where the others were, already feeling panic rising in me. What if she gets hurt?

"Hey, Reid, what's up?" Pogue looked me over.

"Where's Cami?" Kate nudged me curiously. I panted and put my hands out, about to explain what had happened, but things had already started.

"FUCK, Reid!" Caleb growled. "You lost my sister?! HERE?!"

"Let's go." Pogue grabbed Caleb's arm and started towards the crowd, obviously trying to save my ass.

"You guys search towards the crowd and we'll look around it."

"Well when I lost her she was kind of being pulled into the crowd…"

"REID!..."

"By who?" Pogue interrupted Caleb. I paused and sighed.

"Beth Burmingham." Everyone gasped.

"She got pulled into the crowd of dancing drunks by your FUCK buddy?!" Caleb's laugh seemed amused. "That's rich." I couldn't even feel anger right now. Worry was consuming me, and it wouldn't rest until I found Cami.

"You can stand here being pissed at me all night, Danvers. I'm going to go find Cami." I walked away from the group with much larger steps than usual, scanning the crowd. I saw Aaron grinding with his girlfriend, Kira, and felt a bit relieved that at least he couldn't try anything with her. I continued looking around. Finally, I found Beth… But where the hell was Cami?!

"Beth!" I shouted, almost sprinting over to her.

"Reid!" She looked at me enthusiastically, and as soon as I was in her arm's reach, she wrapped her arms around my neck and pressed against me. Somehow, I found it way too easy to push her back off. I held her gently by the wrists.

"Beth, where is Cami?"

"Who?" Seriously, Beth?

"Cameron. The girl I came to the party with. Who YOU took into the crowd of people! CAMI!"

"Oh!" She grinned stupidly. "Uhm, she went off with some guy, I think." Beth was trying to concentrate to remember, but that was all I needed to hear. I let go of her and ran around through the trees, betting that any guy that would take a girl from a crowd would have her in the woods or in a car, trying to score.

Soon enough, I found her leaning against a tree, letting some guy light a cigarette for her. I started sprinting again when I saw her inhale.

"Cameron!" She turned towards me.

"Reid!" She sounded way too much like Beth Burmingham. She even had that same goofy smile on. But this time, when she threw her arms around me, it was much harder to get her off.

"Uh, Cam…" I couldn't look away from her. She's so magnificent. I snapped back into it when I smelled the smoke. "Cami, what the hell are you doing?!" I snatched the cigarette from her hand and threw it on the ground, pushing her away from me. I couldn't hide the disappointment on my face, and I really didn't feel like trying. She just looked down at the ground for a second, and then looked back up at me, confused.

"Reid, are you okay?" I almost ripped my hair out of my head.

"Cam, why are you smoking?!" She laughed.

"I've been smoking for a while now, silly." She giggled, and I felt like crying. Not Cami…

"Come on, you're going home." I tugged on her arm, away from the guy who was too wasted to notice at the moment.

"I like the sound of that…" She pushed herself onto me and wrapped her arm around my waist.

"Cami, quit." I said with my teeth gritted, pushing her off me and holding her by her arm again.

"Why?"

"You're drunk."

"And if I wasn't drunk?" She smiled and bit her lip. I started sweating. I finally got to Tyler's hummer, and thanked God that I had jacked his keys earlier. I took out my cell, still keeping a firm hold on Cami's elbow.

"Tyler? I found her. I'm at your car. I'm taking her home." Tyler agreed that he and the guys would come meet us there and the girls would take Caleb's car back to Caleb's for the night. We would all be staying the night at the Danvers mansion.

"Reid." Cami whined and pressed her tiny body against mine. The pleading look in her eyes was to die for. I was hoping the guys would get there soon enough to save me. "C'mon, let's get in the car…" She pulled open the back door. I forgot that I had unlocked it as we walked up. She climbed in, and attempted to pull me in with her by my shirt.

"Cami cut it out. Your brother is on his way." I figured this would scare her out of trying to seduce me. Get me off the hook. I wanted her, but not like this…

"You think I care what he thinks?" She grinned mischievously and started to pull her shirt off. I grabbed her hands away and pulled her shirt back down.

"What are you doing?!"

"Well, I was going for you."

"STOP IT!" And suddenly her hands were on the back of my neck, and her mouth was against mine. It took me a second, but I pulled away. "Please Cami. Wait until you're sober…"

"No. I want you now." She pulled herself to me again, and when I pulled away, she jumped out of the Hummer after me. She reached one hand up to pull on my neck again, but I pinned it against the Hummer. She grabbed a handful of my shirt with the other hand, and soon I had that one pinned too. Here I was, staring down at Cameron, looking so confused and hurt that it was heart breaking to me. All it took was her to look at my lips once, and I couldn't resist anymore. I leaned down and kissed her. Her lips were so soft on mine and I felt like I was floating; that is, until I heard Caleb roar from behind me.

"Cami? Cameron?" I opened my eyes and saw Reid, looking at me as if he was scared for me. "Are you okay? You just spaced out."

"We kissed?" I blurted out. He was completely taken aback.

"Well… yes, but I swear I didn't… How did you know that? I thought you didn't remember?" He looked washed over with concern.

"I think I just saw it…" He looked confused. "Reid, has there ever been a daughter of Ipswich?"

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