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Changing the Future

I'm standing in a—well I don't really know where I'm standing. Everything's just pure white. There's no floor, ceiling or walls, just... white space. Like heaven, but not heaven.

"Chloe," a soft voice calls.

I turn around expecting to see an angel with golden curls, soft feathers and gleaming robes. But instead I find someone better.
Derek
A smile broke out across my face and I start to run to him. He's some distance away from me, so I have to leg it to get to him. When I finally make it to him I fling my arms around his neck and he immediately wraps he arms around his waist.

"I've missed you so much," I say into the collar of his jacket. He was wearing the same thing he wore when he... when he got shot. "Am I dead? Is that why I'm here with you?"
Derek chuckled and released his hold around my waist to look into my eyes. His hand brushed a stray tear I didn't realized was going down my cheek. "No, you're not dead."

"So it's a dream?" I say disappointed.

Derek smiled. "I don't know, you tell me."

"You're not helping," I frowned. "The last thing I remember was fighting a guard and then fainting."

Derek's face turned serious and disapproving. "You made the guard feel death." He didn't say it like a question but a fact. "You shouldn't do that Chloe; I don't like you doing it."

"I know, I know. It's dangerous. And I know you don't like me doing it but that guard had it coming," I said but Derek was still frowning. "Hey," I try for a lighter note. "If this is my dream then why aren't you kissing me?" I pull his jacket so he's closer to me; I lift up on my toes so I can meet my lips with his. Even in a dream his kisses are like fire going through me, every single touch like electricity. I never wanted to stop.

"You have to leave," Derek whispered against my lips.

"No, I want to stay with you," I said, tears going down my cheek again. "Please don't leave me."

"Hey," he stroked my hair. "Finish what you started and we'll be together again. Nothing can keep us apart."

I shook my head, tear coming heavy now. "I can't do this without you, I need you."

Derek wiped away my tears and kissed my forehead. "Yes you can. I believe in you. Go back now." He gave me a small shove and I felt myself being drawn back to the real world, but not before I heard him say, "I'll always be with you."

I was on a soft surface, not a bed but a sofa. How did I get on the sofa? My eyes were still closed and I didn't want to open them, mostly because I heard whisper near me. Whispers that were about me.

"How long has she been out now?" Tori whispered impatiently.

"Two minutes longer than the last time you asked. Shut. Up." Simon answered her.

"What exactly happened?" Tori carried on. "I don't understand."

"She fainted, what is there to understand?" Simon said.

"But what was she doing to that man? It looked like she was choking him, but she was hardly touching him. What happened?" She repeated.

"Will you two shut up? You're really getting on my nerves." Derek growled.

"All I'm saying is—" Tori started, no longer whispering. I decided to open my eyes now; no way would it be convincing to sleep through all this bickering.

"Oh, good you're awake," Simon said over Tori. "Are you okay? You had us all worried there."

I sat up and saw that everyone was in different points in the room. Young Me and Simon squishing together in an armchair, Derek sitting on a opposite chair on the other side of the room, looking very displeased with Tori sitting on the arm of his chair and Rae and Andrew standing by the wall.

"Yeah I'm fine. Sorry about that."

"No need to apologise, but... what happened?" Andrew asked looking confused and intrigued at the same time.

"You made him feel death," Young Me said, surprising everyone in the room, including me. "I could see his spirit flickering in and out. You weren't killing him but... is it... is it like tricking the body and mind into thinking you were?" Me asked uncertainly.

"Yeah, something like that." Actually it was exactly like that. I ran my hand through my hair, noticing that I now have a splitting headache. I wanted to lie back on the sofa and close my eyes and sleep until the sun didn't come back up until, say, another couple of days?

"You don't look so good," Tori pointed out. "Are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine," I repeated.

"No you're not. Anyone can see that you look like you're about to collapse, again." Rae was really getting on my nerves now. She may have taken down the guards with me but she was the one who brought them here.

"I'm fine," I glared at her.

"Oh yeah," she raised her eyebrows. "Then stand up. Show us all how fine you really are," she said sarcastically. I knew if I stood up my knees would just buckle and I'll fall back on the sofa, but I did it anyway, just to prove her wrong.

I stood up and the world before my eyes started to spin but I, sort of, managed to keep my balance. "See? Perfectly fine," I said, not even wanting to know what my expression must look like.

I obviously wasn't convincing; everyone's face was in denial. "I am fine!" I said throwing up my hands, which I completely regret. I fell back on the sofa hitting my head on the cushions. They were soft but it felt like my brain started rattling in my skull. I moaned and put my head in my hands. Oww.

"Told ya," Rae said with satisfaction in her voice.

"Did you faint because you did that, um, thing to the guard?" Simon asked.

I nodded but then moaned at the motion.

"Does that happen often?"

I didn't want to answer that. Derek already thought that my powers were dark magic, which they are... sort of. He also thought that the magic was going to corrupt me, which it won't. But sometimes... occasionally it can take a lot of self control to stop, and when I can't... well it takes a lot out of me. Hence the fainting.

"Yes." Rae answered for me when I took too long to answer.

"No!" I glared at her again.

"Yes." She persisted. "When we first found out about this power..."

"Shut up Rae."

"...she was unconsciously doing it, not really realising what she was doing..."

"Rae," I warned.

"In fact she started doing it that to anybody she touched and it started to get out of control. It took up a lot of her energy—completely draining her—"

"Well guess what Rae?" I shouted. "I have enough energy now; maybe you'll like to feel some death. Shut. Up."

I didn't scare her one bit but I got a few startled, shocked and scared glances from everyone else.

"Chloe! They need to know this, for your safety!"

"No they don't!" I said still shouting. "This is my business, not yours to mouth off to anybody you want."

"They're not just anybody, Chloe. They're concerned about you. You just fainted."

"Hardly life threatening. Beside they have nothing to worry about."

Rae opened her mouth for another retort but Tori cut her off.

"Hello! We're right here! No need to talk about us like we're not." Tori seemed like the only one who wasn't fazed by Rae's and I's argument. "Now," she breathed. "We were worried about you because you just fainted right in front of us. You just took down six Edison Group guards and you fainted, I don't know about everybody else but that's kind of worrying."

Tori's opinion had everyone staring at her in astonishment. "We never knew you cared that much about Chloe, Tori." Simon said, breaking the silence. "It's so sweet." He said covering his heart with his hand.

"I don't care about Chloe," she said defensively.

"Thanks," Me said with a frown.

"I mean I don't hate you, but I don't know—I don't know. Never mind." She huffed and leaned back on the chairs back, elbowing Derek in the process.
Derek glared at her but she seemed oblivious.

"Well as long as you're okay, then everything else is okay," Simon said brightly and I couldn't help but smile at him.

"I am okay, thank you."

"That's good because there are a couple of angry Edison Group guards tied up in the basement," Rae said nonchalantly.

"What?" I said standing up and was surprised that I stayed up this time. My head was still dizzy but at least I wasn't falling over again.

"The Guards that we didn't get are tied up the basement. We didn't know what to do with them so we just shoved them down there. Cocky little bastards—well the ginger one is. You think a guy that just got kicked in the head wouldn't be up to making threats, but you'll be wrong. So annoying," she shook her head and rolled her eyes. "What do you think we should do?"

"How many are there?"

"Three—and can I just point out that they're all the guards that you fought. All the ones I fought are—"

"Yes, Rae, I think we all know what happened to the ones you fought," Andrew sighed.

"What happened to the, uh, guards Rae fought?" I didn't know what it was but I didn't want to say, 'the guards Rae killed' in front of my young family.

"I called in a favour, they were taken care of," Andrew said. I didn't really want him to get into the details about how they were taken care of. "What do you think we should do with the guards in the basement?" I could tell by Andrews tone that he was afraid I would say 'kill them'. But after a moment's thought I had a great idea.

"Let them go."

"What? Are you crazy? Has your powers finally gone to your head? What are you—?"

"Shut up, Rae. Jeez, don't you ever stop? I have a few questions for them first and after that we let them go. But when we do they won't remember a thing." I gave Rae a look hoping she'll understand my meaning. She looked at me like I was crazy and I held her gaze. After a few long moments she gasped.

"Crazy Dave's...?" She trailed off, finally understanding. I'm not surprised that she knew about Crazy Dave's memory eraser—what supernatural didn't? "You... you have that?"

"Of course, what's the point of being here if I didn't?"

"What are you talking about?" Tori asked with a frustrated sigh.

I turned my head to the bemused faces of Simon, Me, Tori, Derek and Andrew. "Tori, if you would've just shut up, they would have forgotten we were here and carried on with their conversation," Simon said shaking his head.

Simon was right; I did forget they were there while I was having a silent conversation with Rae. If it wasn't for Tori, either Rae or I would've said too much. "Never mind," I turned to Rae. "Let's go to the basement."

Rae pushed herself off the wall and headed towards the door—along with everybody else. I stopped in my tracks and turned back to them. "Where do you think you're going?"

"We're going to the basement," Simon said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"No you're not, you're staying here."

"But there could be danger!" He argued.

Rae laughed. "If there's danger Chloe and I can defiantly deal with it," She looked at me. "Where is the...thing? I'll go get it."

Did she think I was stupid? There was no way I would go anywhere without the memory eraser. Without it then I don't know what I'd do. I narrowed my eyes at her. "No need," I patted my pocket. "I've got it right here."

"Oh okay, I'll just go to the basement."

"Got what?" Tori asked frustrated again.

"Nothing. Just stay here, okay?" I gave them a stern look before I left the room.

I met Rae at the door to the basement; she was leaning against the frame, my glocks already in her hands. She handed me one and opened the door. "You know I want my other gun back, right?" I said as we walked down the steps.

She laughed. "For someone who hates shooting people, you do like your guns." She was right, I do like my guns, even though I don't like to shoot people. Weird.

Three guards we tied up in wooden chairs, their hands, ankles and torso tightly wound up. One was out cold—the one I made feel death—the other two were awake. One of the two had a bandage around his leg and the other had a big red mark around the side of his face. I'm guessing these were the ones that I shot and kicked around the head. Looking at them I felt no sympathy, just hatred.

"Alright boys, are you up to answering some questions?" Rae asked.

The guard that I kicked around the head scoffed. "Why would we tell you anything?" His voice sounded menacing but I just couldn't take him seriously with a big red mark around his face.

I laughed and both guards and Rae looked at me like I was crazy. "How's your head."

He scowled at me and his lips curled in anger. "When I get out of here I'm gonna—"

"See that's the thing," I interrupted. "You won't be getting out of here unless you answer what I want to know."

He scoffed again. "Is that a threat, Necromancer?" He said with disgust.

I sighed. "Of course it is." I walked over to him and pointed the gun at his forehead. I wasn't going to shoot him through the head; I just wanted to scare him. It didn't work. He met my glare with his own. But his friend on the other hand, he looked petrified. He looked at me, then the gun, then his friend. This just might work to my advantage. I turned towards the guard I shot before, the gun still pointed at the other guards head.

"Tell me where to find O'Neil," I said in the hardest voice I could manage, "or your friend here is gonna get a bullet through his brain."

He just looked at me with wide, scared rabbit eyes. I took the safety off the gun to prove my point. "Five seconds!" I was bluffing but he obviously didn't know that. "Five..." I pressed the gun harder on the guards head and he sucked in a breath and closed his eyes, his will power lowering. "Four... three." The guard opened his mouth but no sound came out. "Two..." Still nothing. I didn't want to shoot him, but if I didn't then they'll know I was bluffing and won't answer my questions. I sighed. "One."

"No! No! I'll tell you. He's, uh, he's in New York! Yes, he owns a, uh, club of sorts. It's called 'The Supernatural World'. You can't miss it, big building, and lots of lights. That's all we know. Please don't kill us!"

Whoa. This guards rambling had all of us looking at him in disbelief. I even lowered my gun from the guards head and gaped at him. Rae had a look on her face that clearly said 'pathetic'. His fellow guard was looking at him with an expression that said 'you idiot'.

I snapped out of my gapping and pointed the gun at the guard who was rambling. "You swear? If you're lying... well maybe I'll aim a little higher than your leg next time."

He gulped. "No, I swear, I swear. That's where he is."

I turned around to look at Rae but the kept the gun on the guard. "What do you think? Is he lying? Should I shoot him?"

Rae shrugged like it was nothing. "I don't know. He could be a really good actor or he really is this pathetic." Rae said playing along with me.

"No, I'm pathetic, I'm pathetic!" He sobbed. "Please don't shoot me." He was actually crying now.

He really was pathetic.

"Toby," the ginger guard moaned, waking up from unconsciousness. "Is that you wailing? Shut up, I have a killer head—" He opened his eyes and froze when he saw me.

"Morning sunshine," Rae smiled. "We were playing twenty questions, it's your turn. Where Is Japer O'Neil?"

He looked at us with defiance and mostly fear with me. Rae sighed. "That's okay; you don't have to answer me but my friend on the other hand..." Rae shook her head with fake sorrow. "She won't be too happy if you don't."

He sat there staring at us, head held high.

"Chloe," Rae gestured to the guard with a jerk of her head. She seemed to have picked up that the guard was afraid of me.

I put the gun in my waistband and stretch my hand out towards the guard's throat. I wasn't really going to do it but his face paled and his eyes widened. I got as close had my fingertips brushing his skin before he broke.

"New York! He's in New York. He has a club, it's called—"

"Alright, alright, we know all this. The pathetic guard was telling the truth. He shouldn't be hard to find." Rae stepped up so we standing side by side. "Memory eraser?" She asked me.

"Memory eraser," I agreed.

"What?" Pathetic squeaked.

I pulled the small circular, metal sphere out of my pocket; pressed the red button on the side and the two parts pulled apart. I walked to the guard I shot in the leg and placed them on his temples, he was trembling so bad it took awhile to put them on. As soon as they were in place the guard tensed and his eyes almost went out of his sockets.

I backed up a few paces and stared at him with fear and curiosity. For a moment he sat there tense and rigid—but then he started screaming.

I put my hands over my ears and Rae and I shared the same 'what the hell' look.

He eventually stopped and he slumped in his chair unconscious. I walked over to him cautiously and the sides of the memory eraser came apart easily. When they came off he let out a breath, still unconscious.

The same process was repeated with the second guard and the third was the only one that thought it was important to have his last words while he still remembered them.

"It's useless you know," he sneered. "You go looking for O'Neil you'll end up like the rest of your friends, with a bullet through your heart. Isn't that what happen to your werewolf? Oh, didn't I mention? I was the one that shot him. You were running for that portal and I shot him dead centre. It was too easy." He smiled. "Too easy."

I rage so huge was building up inside of me. I felt my face go red and tears sprung to my eyes. I punched the guard over and over until blood was coming out of his nose, mouth and teeth. All the while he was smiling and all I wanted to do was wiped that stupid grin off his face.

I drew my arm back for another punch but I couldn't move—someone froze me. Rae pride the memory eraser from my hands and placed them on the guard head. He tensed and screamed, and then he was unconscious.

Whoever cast the binding spell, Andrew, Simon or Tori, I don't care, uncast it and I was no longer frozen. I punched the guard again, not caring he was unconscious, and didn't stop until strong hands grabbed my arm and pulled me away.

I didn't resist, I just cried and cried. My legs couldn't hold me anymore and I sunk to the floor, wrapping my arms around myself and cried, for the first proper time, for the family I lost. For the family I loved.

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