19.

Dougie sat in the long chair and studied his brother who still was sitting as still as a statue staring in front of himself. After Tom had told him Danny is a demon and that he will kill him Tom went back into his shock state. He didn't say anything anymore, no matter how hard Dougie tried.

Suddenly Dougie noticed Tom had Goosebumps. He immediately stood up and looked for a blanket but couldn't find one. Their mom always put things in a different place. She says it's to keep them busy. But it's annoying he has to search for hours before he actually finds what he is looking for and right now he doesn't have hours.

The only solution was to give Tom his sweater. His hand reached the zipper but he hesitated to open it. He looked around, there were no mirrors. There's no way that, unless he's going to look himself, he's going to see himself.

'Tom needs it more than I do' He said to himself with his eyes closed. He took one deep breath and quickly opened the zipper, took the sweater off and placed it over Tom.

'Is that better?' He asked even though he didn't expect a reply which he of course didn't get.

Dougie crouched down before Tom and put his hand on his leg. He looked into Tom's big brown staring eyes. It was like Tom couldn't even see or hear him, like he was in some kind of other world where there were no demons wanting to kill him.

Staring in Tom's glazy eyes Dougie suddenly saw his reflection. He immediately looked away to the glass door where, with the stand of the sun, he also saw himself into. He saw his arms covered with scars and the words "useless" and "worthless" written all over his wrists.

His head started to feel light and dizzy. The reflections of himself kept following around no matter where he looked. The walls came closer to him as he started to panic. He has to get out of here. He has to run.

And that's what he did. Dougie ran to the door and quickly closed it after himself, keeping his reflections behind him. He leaned against the door and took deep breathes of the fresh air to try and calm himself down and kept his head high to avoid seeing his arms.

After a couple of minutes Dougie had caught his breath and he slowly turned back around. His hand was over the knob but he couldn't turn it. He couldn't go back in there knowing everywhere he will look he'll see himself. But he also couldn't leave Tom on his own, not in this state. He needed his brother by his side but no matter how hard Dougie tried to push himself he couldn't bring himself to go back in.

'I'm sorry Tom' He said to the door. 'I hope you understand'

Dougie was devastated but mostly disappointed that now that Tom needs him the most he couldn't get over his own fears to help him.

He pulled his arms into his shirt and decided to walk for a while and then come back when he's completely calmed down. He looked at the ground to avoid people's questioning faces of why he was walking around like this.

He followed his feet, not knowing where he was walking to, until they stopped. He looked around, he hadn't been here before. There was just one building which said 'community house' on the front. Behind it was some kind of small forest. But there was no one to be seen. He decided to go check it out and walked towards the building. And when he wanted to go round the corner he suddenly saw Danny and hid himself.

Behind the wall he looked at Danny who seemed to be pretty busy but he couldn't see what he was doing.

'Dougie?'

Dougie jumped surprised up and quickly turned around. 'Harry! Geez.. Don't scare me like that!'

'What are you doing?' harry asked frowning and also looked behind the wall.

'Oh look it's Danny' He said and yelled 'Hey Danny!'

'No Harry don't!' Dougie said but it was too late Danny had heard Harry and was marching over to them.

'What do you want?' Danny asked sharp to Harry

'I just wanted to say hi..' Harry said and looked at Dougie with a -what the hell is going on- face. Danny followed Harry's gaze and suddenly froze.

'You' Danny said looking at Dougie. 'It's you, you're the one'

It might sound like the perfect words to hear from him if he hadn't said them with an evil undertone in his voice.

Dougie looked at Harry and back at Danny again. 'The one?' he asked

'Yeah.. The one I have to kill'

Dougie's breath lingered as his mouth fell open. Danny took one step closer to get to Dougie but suddenly Harry was standing between them.

'If you want to kill Dougie, you'll have to kill me' He said

'No harry!'

But Danny raised his shoulders and said 'Fine with me'. In a blink of an eye Danny was suddenly holding Harry around his neck.

'Please don't hurt him!' Dougie begged and looked at the terrified Harry. But Danny held his forefinger up and a flame appeared above it. He then put it against Harry's cheek where a burn mark appeared.

'STOP! PLEASE!' Dougie yelled with tears in his eyes

'Let him go Danny' A beautiful woman's voice said behind Danny, who turned around.

'Aah Vicky.. I should have known' He said

'Release him' She said with her teeth pressed together

'Relax! He's not in any danger'

'We both know you're lying Danny. I wouldn't be here if he wasn't in serious danger'

Dougie finally got to look at her. She had short blonde hair with big curls and fiery red lips. She was wearing a light white dress without any shoes.

'Oh please, serious danger.. I was just toying around and besides he's not the one I'm after' Danny said still holding Harry around his neck so he couldn't move.

'Danny..' Vicky said, her voice was warm but sad now. 'You're my favorite brother. I know what happened to you but..' She didn't finish and just stared at Danny.

'Your eyes..They're not entirely red yet which means your transformation isn't complete' She said more to herself than to him. 'You can still come back!'

Danny threw Harry away and Dougie immediately ran to check up on him. Apart from the burn mark he was alright, he just had a scare. And he's even more in the dark than Dougie is and couldn't follow anything they were saying.

'There, he's free. Now get the hell away from me!'

'I can't Danny. You know what our second task is.. To kill demons'

From Danny's back there suddenly grew big black bat wings and he flew away without another word said.

'Go to church, you'll find answers there' Vicky said to Dougie. 'And please look after my human for now, I have to go after Danny'

'Don't hurt him' Dougie said

Vicky looked at Dougie with sadness on her face. 'I can't make any promises' She said, grew her feathered white wings and also flew away.