Hey, sorry I haven't updated it awhile, I had my Mock Exams and then my computer decided to brake down and I could go on with lots of other excuses but I won't bore you. Hope you enjoy this chapter x

Changing the future

The sight of Jasper O'Neil's smirking face gazing down at us made my heart beat in fury and my stomach roll in disgust. His eyes danced with amusement at the sight of us, lying in a boot with our wrists and ankles tied up, completely vulnerable to his will. This is definitely not how I planned this.

"Ah, Chloe Saunders," he greeted me as if we were old friends. "And Rachelle Rodgers!" he said delighted like we arriving at his place for tea. He was mental. He sighed and looked down on us as if he were disappointed. "You've been giving me quite the run around, first time travelling, then getting rid of six of my guards, the reflectors and now here we are. What an interesting turn of events, wouldn't you agree?"

He was annoying me already. "Yeah, really interesting," I said after it looked like he was waiting for an answer. He chuckled and looked at me fondly and that just creeped me out even further.

"Boys," he said in a commanding voice, "help our guests out the car." And with that order he spun around in his polished Italian shoes and strode away and out of sight. Tyler and Austin came forward and reached down for us. Rae was locked in Tyler's arms and Austin had an iron grip around me. We thrashed and kicked but if I'm honest it just hurt my head even more. I was still confused as to how they tasered us from behind but at the moment I was too panicky to think too hard about it. I stopped struggling to take in my surroundings and was surprised to find we were somewhere quite normal. We were in a car park behind a tall building with coloured tinted windows. It was a private car park with expensive car dotted around but no people what so ever. Tyler and Austin pushed us through the backdoor to the building and shut it behind us with a bang that echoed liked a prison cell. We were in a corridor that was pitch black, I wouldn't have been able to see my own hand in front of me. But seeing as Austin had his hands clamped tightly around them I wouldn't to have been able to check anyway.

"C'mon then," Tyler nudged. "Let's not stand here all day." Rae and I tried to move as best we could down the dark corridor with Austin and Tyler holding onto us so tight. Rae stumbled a few times but I suspected she was just doing that to annoy Tyler. Eventually the darkness began to thin and a reddish glow appeared. Tyler and Austin lead us into the glow until we entered a—bar. A bar? No, not a bar a club.

Jasper O'Neil's club: The Supernatural world.

He could have thought of a different name instead of being so blatantly obvious about being a supernatural. He might as well as had a tattoo on his forehead saying he was a supernatural. As soon as we entered the club the few occupants all fell silent and stared at us. They were the strangest people I've ever seen all in one place. Definitely not human. The man—if I should call him that—behind the bar had black eyes, no whites in them what so ever just completely black. There were a group of women with different colour hair, like blue, green and purple, lounging in the corner on velvet sofas and drinking what looked like a green martini with something wriggling on a stick, which on of them dipped into their drink and plopped into their mouth as if it were an olive. They looked up at our entrance and their thin eyebrows rose and icy blue lips parted in surprise. Probably shocked from our mundane appearance.

Tyler and Austin ushered us over to the bar and sat us down on the stools. "We would offer you a drink but, I doubt you would take it anyway," Austin said to us. It's weird how they keep acting blasé about this. Like they didn't taser us, shove us in the boot of their car and take us to the guy that will most probably kill us.

"Actually I wouldn't mind a drink," Rae said, mimicking his nonchalant tone. "I've never had a gin and tonic before; I always hear it on TV though." I gave her a disbelieving look, to which she just shrugged and quietly whispered to me. "If we're gonna die, I at least want my last drink."

Tyler looked amused and gestured to the barman for a drink. Austin leaned in closer to me and put his hand on my knee. "What about you darling, want a drink?"

I shrugged off his knee and glared at him. "Thanks for the offer, but no thanks." He shrugged and leaned back on the bar.

"I've heard about you two," Austin said casually. "The genetically modified supernaturals who go around sabotaging the Edison Group."

"How can you hear about that? It hasn't happened in this time yet." I said coolly.

"Who said we're from this time?" he smirked.

"You time travelled?" Rae asked with her gin and tonic in her bound hands. I rolled my eyes at her and she shrugged indifferently.

"Yep, so don't worry about being too young for me," he said with a wink, which made me glare at him even more. "You sure you don't want a drink?"

"Aw, leave the poor little Necro alone Austin," said one of the women from the corner. She had black and blue hair with blue lips and ice blue eyes to match; her skin even looked a little blue. She made her way over, swinging her hips and batting her lashes at Austin in what she thought was a flirtatious way, but it just looked like she had something in her eye. She draped her arm over Austin and pressed her cold lips to his cheek. "I'll take that drink though."

Austin swung on his seat so her arm dropped from his shoulder. He gestured to the barman and he bought over another green martini. She took it with a flirty smile and pressed her lips to the glass. As she did, ice spread from her lips and covered the glass all the way down to the stem. She saw me watching and narrowed her bitter eyes at me. "So," she said in a bitchy voice. "You're the one O'Neil's got his knickers in a twist about?" Her frigid eyes ran me up and down. "You don't look like anything special." I ignored her and looked away as if the sight of her bored me. This, apparently, was the wrong thing to do as her frost bitten fingers grabbed my cheeks and turned me to face her. I hissed as ice spread across my face. "Don't ignore me," she snapped. Her grip on my face was yanked away from me and she was roughly pushed back.

"Go away Amargo," Austin glared.

Amargo straightened her Goth dress and pouted at him. "What does she have that I don't"

"For starters she's not clingy," Rae randomly put it.

Amargo turned her ice stare on Rae. "Fire user," she spat. "I bet you don't like the cold—want to know what it's like to freeze?"

Rae matched her glare with her own and said, "Want to know what it's like to melt?"

"Just leave Amargo," Austin glowered. He took her arm and hauled her away.

Rae and I turned around on our bar stools, as best we could with our ankles together, so we were facing the bottles and glasses that lined the wall behind the bar. "What is it," Rae began, "with the evil guys falling for you?" she took a sip of her drink and said "huh" at the taste.

"What?"

"First reflector Derek and now creepy Austin. Maybe you give off some sort of—I dunno—magnetic force which attracts the evil guys."

I shook my head at her and rolled my eyes. "I think that alcohol's gone to your head."

"I've only had a few sips."

From beside us a chuckle sounded. "Don't mind Austin," Tyler said. "He's just a flirt. And don't mind Amargo either, she's just bitter… literally. Her name means bitter in Spanish, did you know?"

"No," Rae and I said at the same time and went back to ignoring him. Austin came back eventually and sat back in the bar stool next to me.

"Sorry about that," he smiled at me. "We went out a couple of times but she doesn't seem to get that I'm not interested in her. I guess it's not her fault, I'm just too good to let go."

If it wasn't for the fact that they could kill us at any moment I would have rolled my eyes and gagged on his shoes but I just raised an eyebrow at him started to ignore him.

"I don't think she's interested Austin," Tyler laughed, "besides, you know she's a werewolf's mate."

"Yes, but the werewolf's dead, so it doesn't count." Austin countered. Without thinking I struck at him with my bound hands but they went straight through him. Austin vanished liked smoke in the wind. Here one moment gone the next. I almost fell into the bar stool face down but someone count me round the waist and pulled me against them. "Careful," Austin said in my ear. "Wouldn't want you hurting yourself."

I turned in his embrace and tried to push him away but he held me tight. "You're a supernatural too. That's how you tasered us from behind." I said.

"Yep," he agreed. "Sorry about that. How's your head?"

"Fine," I lied.

"Sure," he chuckled disbelieving.

"Well, well, what am I looking at here then?" an oily voice said from the base of the stairs leading up to another floor of the club. Jasper O'Neil regarded the whole scene with amusement. Me in Austin's arms, Rae sitting at the bar with a drink in her hand and Tyler laughing at the whole thing. If it wasn't for the fact that Rae's and I's hands were tied together and I wasn't staring daggers at Austin it would look like were just a bunch of friends at a bar one evening. "Tyler, Austin, bring our guest upstairs, no dawdling."

Rae set her drink on the bar and Austin and Tyler picked us up in their arms rather than have us try to walk with our ankles tied together again. They carried us bridle style up the stairs and across the top floor. It was more deserted up here than down stairs, only a few people, just as weird looking as the rest. I guess it wasn't opening time yet because chairs were still on top of tables. Tyler and Austin carried us into what looked like an office.

It was big and was lined with bookshelves and computer screens in odd places. The first thing you see is the massive wall which is just one big window, looking out at the streets of New York. It was a beautiful view and I had a beautiful thought of me pushing O'Neil through it and watching his body go splat on the curb. Unfortunately, O'Neil sat at his desk regarding us calmly. He indicated the two chairs in the middle of his office for Tyler and Austin to set us down in. "Sorry about the wait and you having to put up with Tyler and Austin's company but I had to sort a couple of things out before I kill you."

Rae and I exchanged a look that clearly said the same thing: this guy is a psycho.

"What?" O'Neil asked. "Like you weren't planning to kill me. Oh, wait, no you weren't, you were going to erase my memory with that silly contraption that crazy fool Dave Michelson made." He looked over to Tyler and Austin who were leaning against the wall. "Where is the Memory Eraser?"

"We couldn't find it in their bags," Tyler said.

"Did you check their pockets?" O'Neil said to them as if he were talking to very small children.

Tyler and Austin shared a wary glance. "Er, no." Tyler answered again. O'Neil just gave them an annoyed look and they quickly launched off the wall and pulled us off the chairs. Austin, predictably, made a beeline for my pockets, smirking and taking his sweet time with the back pockets of my jeans. If my ankles weren't tied together I would have grounded his toes into the floor already. He found the Memory Eraser in my right back pocket but decided to fumble around in my pocket before he pulled it out. There wasn't more I could do but glare at him and hope he dropped dead at my feet.

O'Neil went around his desk and took the eraser. He gazed at it in the palm of his hand and fiddled with it. He pushed the red button on the side and they came apart, he put it back together and held it up to the light. "Interesting," he said eventually. He held in his palm and suddenly crushed it in his fist as his it were a packet of crisps. The pieces fell to ground like gravel and scattered across the floor. "Now that's out the way lets get down to business," he said after brushing the left over pieces from his hand, not a scratch on him. "Seeing as you were kind enough to come here without the intention of murdering me like a couple of savages, I'll make your deaths nice and quick," he smiled, making my blood run cold.

"That's so nice of you," Rae said dryly.

"From me it is," he replied normally. "But for you Rae," he shook his head, "I'm not so sure. I gave you a simple task 'get the eraser from Chloe', but no! You failed that!"

"Chloe's my friend, I couldn't betray her."

"Didn't stop you before," he countered.

Rae clenched her teeth and glared at him. "I won't make that mistake again."

"Lets get this over with," O'Neil sighed. He held his hands slightly out at his sides and dark shadows moved around his finger tips as if alive, like little snakes. He reached out for Rae first and her head jerked back against the back of the wooden chair. The tips of his fingers only a breath away from Rae's neck— suddenly the sound of a knock at the door had us all jumping out of our skin, even O'Neil jumped and jerked his hand back. Rae slumped in her seat and I breathed I sigh of relieve. O'Neil cursed, stamped his foot, and screamed "Idiots!" and stormed out the room, slamming the door behind him.

"Ohmygod," Rae let out panicked. "We need to get out of here. He almost killed me. You know how people say they see their life flash before their eyes? That just happened to me and I saw that my life sucks."

Before I could respond someone else did. "Don't bother, you can't escape. Once O'Neil's got you, you're like a rat in a trap," Austin said from the wall. I forgot they were there. "Maybe I can convince O'Neil to let me keep you a little while longer," he winked at me and Tyler scoffed at him. I shivered at the thought of him 'keeping' me and turned away.

I thought O'Neil would come storming back into the room but minutes passed without him. It was quiet in the office, I turned to see Tyler and Austin amusing the selves with a pack of cards, sitting on the floor. Rae tapped my wrists as best she could with her hand tied together and she gestured for me to be quiet with a finger. I nodded and she showed me hands glowing like embers. My heart lifted with hope and I tried to get a grasp on my power but when I did my head just hurt. Smoke began to rise from the rope and I quickly looked over to Tyler and Austin hoping they don't notice. They just carried on with there game. Rae's rope burned slowly and eventually burned to a thin crisp. She pulled her wrists apart and the rope snapped. We both looked at the two boys in the corner and thankfully they were still non the wiser. Rae reached down to her ankles and done the same to rope there. She quickly leaned across her chair and I offered my wrist to her and she done same to my wrist and ankles. We were both free but the element of surprise was gone.

"Do you smell burning?" Tyler asked with his nose in the air. Both their eyes snapped to us and they dropped their game and came barrelling towards us. We stood up and prepared for a fight.

Rae, in full control of her powers, which was completely unfair, had her hands engulfed in flames and took a swipe at Tyler. Then there was me, not in control of my power and had nothing but my fist and feet.

I aimed a swing at Austin but he did his little evaporating trick and he was behind me with his arm around my neck, choking me. I did what I wanted to do all day and elbowed him just below the belt line. He doubled over and I spun around and kicked him in the same spot and he went down. For someone who had a cool power her wasn't very good at fighting. He withered on the floor and I grounded the bottom of my shoe into his nose. It broke with a satisfying crunch and was out unconscious while blood steadily flooded out his nose. I knew he was out like a light but I still aimed a kick at his head. "Derek may be dead, but I'll always be his," I said to limp body on the floor.

I looked over to Rae and saw that Tyler was on the floor too, either dead or unconscious I didn't care. Rae and I met in the middle of the room, breathing heavily. "Wanna make a break for it?" Rae asked.

"Definitely." We turned towards the door and there was O'Neil propped against the door frame.

He clapped and smiled a sly smile. "Well done, that was most entertaining." He strode into the room and spread his hands like every supernatural does before a fight. "But it looks like we're coming to the finale of our little show."

Rae, stepped in front of me and urgently said, "Chloe, I'm gonna get us out of here. I'm gonna show you that I'm worth forgiving."

I looked at her warily. "What are you going to do?"

"Yes Rae," O'Neil laughed. "What are you going to do?" he mocked.

"Burn," she simply said. She pushed me roughly away from her so I hit the wall. Rae closed her eyes tightly, clenched her fists and she began to glow like fire. The glow grew and grew until Rae herself was just a column of fire, completely unrecognisable. The fire around her spread until it engulfed the whole room, apart from me. The fire didn't touch me. It pressed against the walls but didn't go further. The fire converged on the two bodies on the floor and before I knew it they were gone, swallowed my the fire. The fire converged on Jasper O'Neil. He tried to run to the door but the fire reached out as if it had a hand and closed the door. The fire reflected in O'Neil's eyes. There was also something I've never seen before in his eyes. Fear. Jasper O'Neil was afraid.

O'Neil was backed against the wall, the flames licking at his face. "STOP!" he screamed "YOU'LL KILL US ALL!"

"No," Rae's voice resounded from within the flames. "It will only kill you. Like you killed your brother in the fire you started, remember?"

"NO! No! I didn't mean to kill him! Stop! YOU'LL KILL ME!"

"That," Rae's voice echoed from the inferno, "is the point." With that the fire gave a little burst and I shielded my eyes from the light and heat. A bloodcurdling scream sliced across the room shattering the massive window into small shards of glass and scattering out into the New York street.

The fire decreased until there was nothing but a glowing humanoid figure in the middle of the room. The room was charred black nothing survived the inferno, not the books, not the computers, not Tyler and Austin, not even Jasper O'Neil. He was dead. A charred body slumped on the floor.

Jasper O'Neil finally dead.

"Well," a weak voice said from the centre of the room. "It's over." Rae said. She took a step towards me but collapsed onto the burnt floor. I ran to her side and knelt beside her.

"Rae!" I said panicked. "Are you okay?"

She smiled weakly and her eyes drooped. "There's only so much a genetically modified Exustio half demon can do, you know?"

"What?" I squeaked "what do you mean?"

She took my hand and held onto it tightly. Her brown eyes locking onto my blue eyes. "Am I forgiven?" she asked pleadingly.

"What? Rae—."

"Am I forgiven?" she asked more strongly, holding my hand tighter.

"Of course you're forgiven," I said holding her hand just as tightly. "You just killed O'Neil and saved our lives, you're more than forgiven."Her weak smile lifted slightly but her eyes got heavier. "Just hold on a few minutes, 'cause we're going home soon, Rae." My voice was thick with tears as her breathing slowed but her grip stayed tight. Now that O'Neil's dead, non of this should be happening we should be back in our time soon, right?

"You're fading," Rae said faintly. I looked down and she was right. I was fading like a ghost, like I didn't exist anymore. This never happened so it doesn't exist.

I let out a happy/sad/relieved/frightened sob as my image became fainter. Rae's grip on my hand slackened and I panicked. "Just hold a second Rae, were going home."

"Thanks for forgiving me," she said so quietly I barely heard it. Her eyes closed slowly and her limp hand slid from my grip.

"Rae?" I said shakily. I shook her as if she would wake up any second. "No, Rae." The tears free falling down my cheeks. "No, Rae, we're going home now. We're finally going home." I cried as I started to fade, the walls fell away and even the image of Rae started to drift away. "No!" I tried to grab hold of her but she disappeared as if she were made of mist. "Don't leave me," I whispered as everything…

Just…

Faded…

Away…

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