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Changing the Future

Previously
"Okay, so you're telling me that in the future Derek and I are... together. Like together, together."

I couldn't help but smile now. "You bet,"

She smiled at that but at the same time someone walked into the room.

My back was to the door so I had to turn my head around to see Tori walk through the door. Both my face and Young Chloe's face fell and looked relived at the same time when a shocked, but smirking, Tori stood in the doorway. She had her moth gaping open, twitching at the corners in an attempted to not laugh.

"You...," she pointed a finger at both of us and put her hand over her mouth to muffle the giggles coming out of her mouth. "You and Dog Boy? Are you serious? In the future? How does that happen? Oh my gosh. I really didn't see this coming. How did I not see this coming? Oh, this is too good." Tori's little rant seemed to last forever. Her constant giggles and questions had our faces flushing a very unattractive red. We fidgeted in our seats and waited until her laughing fit subsided.

"You finished?" I asked when she leant on the door frame, clutching the sides of her stomach and wiping away a tear.

"Yeah," she sighed, and then giggled a little bit more. "Okay, I'm done now. My fun is over." She straitened up, smoothed out the wrinkles in her clothes and walked over to the nearest seat. "So tell me," she said in a complete fake conversational voice. "How do you and Derek get together?"

I gave her a sceptical look. "Why should I tell you? You just spent the last ten minutes laughing about it."

She gave me an outraged look (fake of course). "No, honestly, I really am interested."

Young Me snorted. "No, you're just bored. Am I right?"

Tori sighed and slumped back in her seat. "So what if I am? I have no entertainment—and yes I know, I'm not here to be entertained, blah, blah, blah. But c'mon! I thought you two—or is it just you?—were nice. I need someone to talk to." She did seem genuinely bored and it's true, she doesn't have anyone to talk to.

But that's not my problem. Tori won't ever change she's exactly the same in the future. She has to know everybody's business and when she finds out about that person business she can't keep her mouth shut. I know she'll never change but all of Tori's flaws are what makes up Tori. The Tori that I love like a sister—not that I'll ever tell her that in this time. And yes, I may love her like a sister but she needs to learn how to butt out.

"I'm not telling you anything," I said simply.

"Oh, c'mon," she whined. "Please, please, please, please, please. I'm your friend aren't I? Sort of? Please? C'mon, trust me." Tori carried on like this for another ten minutes. Now imagine how this would get on your nerves and how easily it would be too cave in to her constant plead. I wish I could say that I was one of the strong ones that can just ignore her and not tell her anything. But I'm not, I always give in to Tori in the end.

"Fine, fine!" I shouted over her begging. "I'll tell you, just... shut up."

"Okay," she agreed brightly. "Now tell me how you get together."

I sighed and fidgeted to get myself comfortable but mostly just to stall for time. "Well," I began. "We get together not long from this time, a week, maybe more—"

"But you just went out with Simon," Tori said turning to Young Chloe. "You're certainly making your way around the group."

Young Me's face turned bright red and all she could manage was a quiet, "Shut up Tori."

"Anyway," I said to get their attention. "There really isn't much to tell. I started to like Derek and he started to like me and after the Edison Group..." I struggled to find a word that wouldn't reveal anything, "drama, Derek and I were official together. There was a bit more... drama because we were together but you'll have to wait and see what happens because I'm definitely not saying anything about that."

"Simon drama?" Tori asked like it was obvious.

"No, actually, Simon was fine with us. He even drew me a picture."

"A picture of what?" Young me asked.

"You'll see," is all I said.

"If it wasn't Simon drama, then was it parent drama? You know, like, the whole 'you can't be together' thing?" Tori asked.

"Well... sort of, that was one of the dramas but not the one I was talking about*. It was much bigger than that."

Tori raised her eyebrows in surprise and opened her mouth to say something but I cut her off. "No more questions about that drama. You'll have wait and experience it for yourself."

"Okay, I'll drop it. Just one more question." She said raising a finger to represent one. I nodded for her to go on. She opened her mouth and out came a very un-Tori like question, "Were you happy? Before we all... died," her voice broke at the last word. "Did you love each other?"

I blinked at Tori's question in surprise. "Err, yes," this time my voice broke. "More happy than you could ever imagine." My eyes started to cloud over with tears but I gave them a watery smile to tell them I was fine. I tried to blinked back the tears after a moment and then I made a silent sniff and smiled more fully. "So," I began, hoping my voice didn't crack. "Anymore questions?"

Tori and my young self shook their heads silently and looked at me with sympathy in their eyes. "Well, I'm glad you were happy," Tori said. I furrowed my brow and was going to ask why she was not talking like her annoying self but then someone walked into the room. Again.

As you know my back was to the door so I turned again to see Andrew looking between me, young me and Tori with an eyebrow raised. "I couldn't help but over hear—"

"Because you were eavesdropping?" Tori suggested.

"No!" Andrew said and anybody with ears could tell he was lying. "I just happened to be walking by when I heard that you and Derek," he said turning to me, "are together in the future and there's... drama? What... what sort of drama?" he asked. If you looked closely at Andrew you could see his eyes shifting, almost as if he were nervous.

"Don't worry Andrew," I said trying to put as much ice in my words without making it too obvious. "It's nothing for you to worry about."

His shoulders lifted and fell with relief but not for the reason Tori and Chloe thought. "That's... good. I hope you and Derek... were happy?" To me the last words sounded like a question. Derek and I can't be happy now, seeing as there is no Derek but 'were happy' sounds about right. We were happy.

"Who were happy?" Rae said joining everybody in the room and sitting next to Tori, who scowled at her but didn't move away.

"Chloe and Derek," Tori said simply.

"Ah, yes," Rae said nodding her head in a knowing way. "They were practically inseparable. You wouldn't see one without the other, it was cute," she added with a smile.

"Cute," Tori scoffed, obviously turning back to herself. "Sounds annoying... and clingy," she put in after a thought.

We all just rolled our eyes at her and Rae carried on talking. "Remember when we all went to the supermarket and me, you and Tori were looking at the clothes when these boys came along and started to flirt with us but you didn't realise they were flirting and just kept on talking to them." Rae stopped to laugh at the memory and Tori and Andrew laughed at the story but me and Chloe started to turn pink. "Derek saw," she started again, "and on the way home Derek was in a strop and you had no idea why and me, Tori and Simon just couldn't stop laughing."

"I don't see why you couldn't have just told me and then we could have avoided the whole thing."

"Avoided what?" Tori asked, eager for the rest of the story.

"Well, Derek was in a strop and you know what he's like when he's in a mood. So when Chloe asked what was wrong Derek completely blew up about the whole flirting thing and they started having an argument that lasted at least, what, a week? Neither Chloe or Derek wanted to apologise first but, being the perfect that they were"—there was that word again, 'were'—"they both apologised at the same time. And to make up for the loss of a whole week they were even more inseparable and... clingy," she finished with a smile and a chuckle. Chloe was pink but smiling, Tori had her nose wrinkled at the mention of clingy but she still had a small smile on her face and Andrew had a tiny smile but there was still the constant worry in his eyes. Then someone walked through the door. Once again.

Simon had his eyebrows raised at the smiles on everybody's face and by the look on his face he heard the whole story. "Well...," he started awkwardly (I hate awkward). "That was a... cute story."

Everybody sat in awkward silence as Simon walked to a chair and sat down. Young me shrank in her seat and the soft pink that dusted her face had now turned bright red. The silence in the room was maddening, nobody said anything because nobody had anything to say and nobody left because that meant admitting this scene was awkward, which it most definitely was.

Tori 'coughed' and straightened up in her seat. "So, you heard Rae's trip down memory lane?" Simon just nodded but Tori carried on, "Cute story wasn't it? I mean, something like that would never happen to me but it was sweet," Tori rambled. I didn't know if she was trying to make things better or worse.

"Mmhm," Simon nodded then after a moment he sighed. "Listen Chloe," he said.

"Yes?" Both of us answered at the same time.

"Um, young Chloe," Simon explained.

"Oh, right, of course. Sorry," I stammered.

"I was a jerk Chloe," Simon said looking at the younger version of me. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been so insensitive—" Tori laughed quietly at the word –"and just leave you there in the woods. I'm sorry. Can I be forgiven?" Simon asked with pleading eyes that nobody could resist.

Chloe smiled at him and stood up walking towards him with her arms raised to hug him. Simon smiled and stood up to hug her too. "Of course I can forgive you," she laughed a little. "There's actually nothing to forgive."

Simon laughed too and pulled away from the hug. "Sounds like you and Derek will be happy together," he smiled at me over Chloe's shoulder and I smiled back at him for not say 'were'.

"Yeah," Chloe smiled. "I—"

"Okay enough with the hugging and the smiling and the love. It's getting boring. We get it Chloe and Derek love each other."

"Tori..." Andrew began but then someone walked into the room. Do I need to say who it was?

Derek came in slowly looking at everybody in the room. My face and Chloe's face both blushed simultaneously when his eyes landed on us. Nobody knew what to do or say but luckily it was Andrew that came to the rescue.

"Er, Rae, Chloe, Tori, Simon. Come help me with... food."

"But we've already had dinner," Tori began.

"Now." Andrew finished. We all got up without complaint and rushed out the room, only Derek and young me staying in the room.

Rae let out a dramatic breath. "Well... this has been an interesting evening. And I am actually hungry, anyone else?"

Surprisingly we all agreed and even more surprisingly we all helped to make sandwiches. Everybody was in a light mood and smiley and we all smiled when a blushing Chloe and a slightly pink Derek, which was very rare, walk in the kitchen.

"Aww, well isn't that just cuuute," Tori teased in a sugary voice.

Derek scowled at her. "Shut up Tori."

"Nope," she said as she put the platter of sandwiches on the kitchen table. We all sat down and helped ourselves to cheese and pickle, ham and mustered, BLT and chicken and mayo sandwiches. "So," Tori said around a mouth full of sandwich. "Do you have any more interesting secrets?"

"Not that I can think of right now." I said.

"I do!" Rae said brightly. "It's a big one, very dramatic." She turned to face me. "Don't you think Chloe?" She slyly moved her eyes to Tori then to Simon, luckily nobody else saw.

The big secret of Simon and Tori being brother and sister. I stopped mid chew and put down my sandwich. "Don't," I had to swallow to say the rest. "Don't even think about it."

Rae giggled and put her hand over her mouth to stop from laughing. "But it's a bigger secret that the you and Derek one and now that I've thought about it I won't be able to keep it in."

"Well, try," I said, looking panicked and annoyed. "It's not our secret to tell."

"Hello!" Simon said. "We're still here."

"C'mon, tell us what it is. If it's a bigger secret than Chloe's and Derek's then it sounds interesting.

At the sight of Tori and Simon wanting to know the secret that was about them Rae started laughing uncontrollably and a big smile started to creep up on my lips.

"Rae, stop laughing!" I said playfully smacking her arm. She just laughed harder.

"Please," she gasped. "I need to tell them. I wasn't there when they found out the original time."

"Uh-oh," Chloe said looking at me and Rae then at Tori and Simon. "Is this what I think it is?"

Rae stopped laughing and looked at young me. "You know?"

"I thought it was just a rumour," Chloe said and put down her sandwich down to cover her mouth in shock. "It can't be true."

"What can't be true?" Derek asked.

"How do you know?" Tori asked.

"C'mon, tell us." Simon begged.

"Don't say anything. Not now. Not yet. It would be chaos." Chloe said with a frantic but amused look in her eyes.

"I agree. Rae, don't say anything. Or I swear I'll—"

"Fine," Rae put her hands up in surrender. "I won't say a word." She mimed zipping her lip and throwing away the key.

I rolled my eyes at her picked up my sandwich again.

"That's unfair," Tori frowned. "Chloe gets to know but we don't?"

"We didn't tell her," Rae said. "She just knew." She paused for a moment. "How did you find out?"

Young Chloe looked to me to see if was okay to say anything, I just shrugged my shoulders. As long as she doesn't say the actual secret, which she won't because she's me.

"A demi- demon told me," she said simply. "But she wasn't sure either."

"Huh," was all Rae said before she went back to her sandwich.

"Please tell us. I need to know now," Tori begged.

"Well, you'll just have to—" I began.

"Wait and see, I know, I know." Tori said grumpily

We all laughed at her expression and, thankfully, the subject changed. This night would have been a good one until Derek stiffened.

"What's wrong bro?" Simon asked looking worried.

"People. Coming through the woods. At least six."

Me and Rae were already out of our seats and running up the stairs to grab our guns and then sprinting back into the kitchen. Everybody was looking out the glass doors trying to see who was coming through the woods but it was too dark.

"Stay inside this time." I said to them before me and Rae went out the deck. The automatic light on the wall eliminated to the garden and the edge of the woods. We couldn't see anything and we couldn't hear anything but we had our guns ready anyway. My heart was beating so fast I thought it was coming out of my chest. I didn't want the thing that happened last time to happen again. Looking over at Rae I could she look perfectly calm.

After a few moments later... nothing happened. I looked back at Derek, a question in my eyes but he wasn't looking at me, he was looking behind me, a disbelieving oath on his lips. I look back at the woods and still nothing was there. Nothing that I could see.

Suddenly three dark figures emerged from the woods. They came closer and none other than Kit, Aunt Lauren and Rae's mother Jacinda walked forward side by side. Rae faltered and her hand with the gun in it lowered a little. A tight knot in my stomach also had me lower my gun a little too but then I thought, didn't Derek say that were at least six.

As soon as I thought it three other figures emerged from the woods.

Simon, Tori and Derek.

I lowered my gun completely, my mouth hanging open, not sure whether to scream or not. Instead I just grabbed Rae's arm and pulled her inside and locked the door.
What's happening?

Well that's the long awaited chapter and I'm sooooooo sorry for the wait.
* notice that? Well the drama that Chloe was talking about you can read on the Darkest Powers Blog. If you don't know about the blog just Google the Darkest Powers Blog and then you can read about Tori and Simon in the Awakening when they get separated from Derek and Chloe and the newest story which is set after the Reckoning. All written by Kelley Armstrong herself.
Again, I am extremely sorry about the loooooooooong wait. I'll try not to do it again...
Miss WolfGirl...xx