Okay, so I haven't updated in over a month but that's because my laptop decided to break down! Don't you just love it when they do that? So here's the next chapter and I hope it's okay... :D

Changing the Future

I was in a bad mood. Not because Andrew was kicking us out the house, our only sanctuary, but because I knew he was right. I had better get moving; I'm not accomplishing anything by being stuck in the house with people from the past. They have their drama to get on with and I have mine. There were arguments about Rae and I leaving but eventually Andrew won out.

"You can't kick them out!" Simon protested. "It's not safe out there."

"It's not safe anywhere, Simon," Andrew tried to reason. "You know Chloe can look after herself now anyway, Chloe and Rae will be fine."

"But Chloe's helping me with my powers, you know I can't completely control it yet," my younger self tried to add her part of the argument. "You can't just kick them out like this."

"I can and I will. They can't stay!" Andrew snapped at them all. "You didn't expect them to stay forever did you?"

"No, but we didn't expect you to kick them out like this," Derek stated.

"Guys, it's fine," I said before more banter could break out. "Andrew's right," I reluctantly said, "we have to go. How else am I going to get you guys back?" I gave them a weak smile and got out my seat, pulled a scowling Rae out with me and headed upstairs to our room. I walked over to my temporary bed and flopped down on the unmade duvet, crossed my arms and matched my scowl to Rae's. "'Hate Andrew," I simply said.

"Yeah, me too," Rae walked to her bed and sat down heavily on the mattress. "I can't believe he's kicking us out. Are we that much of an inconvenience to him?"

"Yes; I know what he's going to do before he does it, so he doesn't want me getting in the way and telling the others."

"So where will we go?" Rae said, the scowl smoothing over into worry lines. "New York, to look for the club O'Neil has?"

I sighed and shook my head, not really knowing what to do anymore. "I guess...," I said uncertainly. "There are no other leads."

"O'Neil must know where we are anyway; after all, he did send guards and reflectors after you."

"'You'," I frowned. "You mean 'us'."

Rae smiled weakly and turned around to look for bags to put the little stuff we have into bags. "Yeah... us." She pulled out two dusty duffle bags out the bottom of the wardrobe and threw them on her bed. Dust swirled into the air, making us sneeze and cough and make our hair look grey. Rae took one look at me and I took one look at her and we simultaneously burst out laughing.

"They didn't look that dusty," I choked out between sneezes and laughs.

"You look like you've aged thirty years," Rae chuckled, pointing at the dust that made a grey wig on my strawberry blonde hair.

"Your one to talk," I grinned, gesturing to her copper curls. She shook her head back and forth, making the dust fly all over the room. I tried to move away from her crazy whirl wind of hair and shield myself, but she ran over to me and ruffled my hair until the dust was all over our hair, clothes and the floor.

We laughed and jumped all over the room, sending up puffs of dust everywhere. "There," Rae said amidst a cloud of fluffy dust. "A little goodbye present for Andrew. I know how much he likes clean."

We doubled over laughing, trying not to breath in the dust floating around the room. I looked over at Rae and realised for the first time that I'm glad she was here with me, with her I know I can do this. "I'm sorry," I said to her, sobering up.

"For what," she frowned.

"For being so cold to you before, I know you've always been my friend and I know you would never betray us like that again if you didn't have a choice," I took her hand and squeezed it in a friendly way and smiled at her with gratitude.

The humour went out of Rae's eyes and she tensed. "Chloe...," she began carefully. "I need to tell you something."

I was about to reply when we were interrupted by the door swinging open. "Andrew's gonna kill you," Simon said, his eyes sweeping all over the room.

We straightened up and tried to wipe our clothes clean "Oh I'd like to see him try," Rae said dismissively, the humour returning slightly to her eyes. "What's up?"

"Just thought that we might be able to find a way to make Andrew change his mind," he said stepping into the room.

"Don't worry about it Simon, we have to leave," I said smiling at him. "Besides, I'm sure Andrew will love the little gift we're gonna leave him," I gestured around the room and the worried frown that was etched onto Simon's face was replaced into a humorous smile.

"He'll love it," he joked.

"I know right," I joked back.

Rae started putting clothes into a dusty duffle bag and I followed suit with Simon's help. It didn't take long but we had a long laugh when Simon, blushing furiously, came across our underwear draw and quickly retreated out the door.

You wouldn't have thought that only a few hours ago we were plotting to kill the Reflectors who were plotting to kill us.

"Right," I sighed, swinging my bag over my shoulder. "Do we have everything?"

"I think so," Rae said, looking over the room. "Money?"

"Check."

"Memory eraser?"

"Check."

"Car keys?"

"Check."

"Guns?"

"Check."

"I think we're good then."

We made our way down the stairs; bags swung over our shoulders and were met by young Chloe, Derek, Simon, Tori and Andrew. "This is it then?" Derek asked, he actually looked... sad? My heart warmed with the thought the he might miss me.

"Yep, but if I have it my way we'll see each other sooner than you think," I smiled at him. He smiled back and before I could blink he swept me up in a hug. I hugged him back, tighter than was normal. "I'll see you soon," I whispered into his ear. He nodded against my shoulder and put me down. I turned away from him before tears could spill out of my eyes. Derek stepped back so his arm was around my younger self. I don't know whether I should hug myself or not but after a moment of hesitation I did.

"I know we can get them back," is all she says before she steps back into Derek's waiting arms. Next it was Tori, she wasn't glaring at me but she had her arms crossed in a way that said 'don't even think about hugging me'. I smiled at her and nudged her arm.

"You love me really," I teased. She rolled her eyes but didn't deny it. Simon grinned at me as it was his turn for a goodbye. He didn't mind hugging me and gave me a folded piece of paper that said 'To Chloe and Rae'. "Can we take a look?" I asked. He nodded and Rae stood by my shoulder, looking at the paper too.

I unfolded it and it revealed a picture of me and Rae, standing side by side with our arms linked. I was surrounded by a dark glow but it brought out the brightness of my blue eyes. I was holding out my hand, holding what looked like a ghostly ball of blue and black fire. Rae was drawn similarly, surrounded by a yellow, red and orange glow, highlighting her copper curls and bright brown eyes. She also held out her hand holding a blazing ball of fire. We looked strong and united. We looked powerful.

I looked back at Simon and smiled gratefully. "I love it, it's amazing. It's great, isn't it Rae?" I asked her. Rae looked like she was about to cry and her hands trembled slightly.

"Is it that bad...?" Simon frowned.

"Of course not," I said to him and then turned to Rae. "What's wrong?" I panicked. "Are you alright?" I put my hand on her arm but she slipped it out of my grasp.

"Please don't hate me?"

I frowned, worried, suspicious and confused. "Why would I hate you?"

She looked down and shuffled her feet about. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," she whimpered.

"What are you sorry about?" I was getting scared now.

She took a deep breath and looked up, tears brimmed her eyes. "I didn't get chased here. He sent me here—"

"'He'?" I asked in disbelieve. "'He' as in O'Neil? Please, please tell me you're not talking about O'Neil," I begged.

She nodded slightly and I gaped at her, too shocked to believe that she's betrayed me not once but three times. "He has my mother, you know that," she pleaded. "He said that if I bring him the memory eraser that he would spare her life, my life and all our lives, please believe me."

"What I don't understand is," I said, ignoring her. "Is why you would believe he would spare anyone's life? He's a murdered with no conscience what so ever, you thought he was going to spare our lives? How could you be so thick Rae?" I was shouting now. "He doesn't spare lives, he ruins them! Have you been spying on me? Trying to steal from me? Plotting with the reflectors to kill me?"

"No, no, of course not! I would never... I just needed to get the eraser away from you, I thought that I could get it, go to O'Neil give it to him and everything would be all right," she tried to plead her case but I was too angry to sympathise. We all stared at Rae, sobbing with tears streaming down her face but no one comforted her. Everyone's face was a mixture of anger, disappointment and betrayal.

"Wow," Tori said after a few moments silence. "If you believed that then you must be seriously deluded." I couldn't help but agree with her.

"How could you betray me?" I asked with sadness in my tone. I laughed without humour "Three times?"

The tears came heavier now. "I—I—." She stuttered but I cut her off not wanting to hear her excuses and apologies anymore, I've heard them too many times now.

"Here," I thrust the picture of me and her into her hand which was wet with tears. "Something to remember me by; you won't be seeing me again."

I cast one last glance at my young family, smiled reassuringly at them, hefted my bag over my shoulder and walked past Rae without another glance.

"Chloe, please," she cried as the door closed behind me.

I know it's short but I just wanted to get Chloe out the door in, what I hope, a dramatic way. I wasn't sure if I should have done this chapter in Rae's POV; it might have been more interesting that way. So should I rewrite this chapter or should I add a little bonus chapter after this one or shall I just leave it as it is? x
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