Hello! Sorry for taking so long to update! But here it is the long awaited chapter...I have like five different versions to this chapter. This is the one that I decided to go with. I hope that you like it. And that you are too mad at me for taking so long to update!
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Disclaimer: If I owned the Covenant...There would have been a Covenant 2. Because well there just needs to be okay?
"Tell me, how long you're going to pretend you don't remember." Lena didn't know where she was. The room, if you could call it a room was empty and reminded her of an interrogation room. Not that she knew what one looked like personally. And the voice was familiar...and female.
"Who are you?" She asked a little pissed off that someone had yet again forced their way into her dreams.
"Oh come on, Lena. You seriously don't remember me?" The person questioned. Lena didn't reply as she turned in her place looking for the source of the voice. "Come on, you remember. It's located somewhere in this room." At that the person, this girl about her age walked into the sole light of the room.
She had vibrant red hair that flowed down her back and startling yet haunting blue eyes to go along with it. If it wasn't from the evil vibe that Lena got from her she would have said she was pretty...Along with that evil vibe Lena felt as though she knew this person...
In her hands she held a folder flipping through it.
"It would seem that your parents don't want you to remember me either. Explains why they suppressed these memories. But look here. I found them." She shut the folder and slammed it on the table. Lena blinked not knowing where the table had come from. "You were always a dumb bitch."
"Who the fuck do you think you are?" Lena growled. The girl laughed as she flicked her wrist and the folder slid to Lena. It opened once in front of her.
"Sophomore year we got into a fight. Remember that much, right?" The girl questioned. "My dear foolish brother tried to reason with you...he liked you, you know...but you were a little monster. You tried to kill me, Lena! Granted I did start it. And I plan to finish it with a little help of course from that fine guy, Chase." Lena gaped at the girl. "Oh is this all shocking to you? Well there's more to our history. You proceeded to attack me even after I couldn't defend myself. Look at me, Lena. And tell me you don't know who the fuck I am!"
Lena looked at the girl as though she couldn't control her own movements. The red hair...the blue eyes...the screaming...the crying...the laughter. Lena's eyes jumped down to the opened folder. In it was a picture of four children. Their names written across the bottom of the Polaroid. Abby Shaw, Scott Branch, Lena Shaw, and Natalie Branch. Each had their arms thrown around each other. It was clear it was a summer day. They were happy...it was before the disagreements, before they started to understand the world they lived in. She remembered...
"Natalie..."
"Is that remorse I hear in your voice?" Natalie questioned, but she laughed. "It's far too late for that, hun. I won't ever forgive you. I'll get rid of you for good. Taking out your little friends is just a little added bonus..."
"Keep them—"
"Times up, hun. Wakey wakey!"
Lena bolted up in bed, a thin coat of sweat coated her forehead, she was panting as though she had just ran for two miles. She pulled her arm from her sling and flung the covers off her body before she jumped out of bed. Her movement woke the other three people in her room, but she didn't care even when they complained when she turned on the light.
"What are you doing?" Reid's groggy voice questioned as Lena changed into a pair of jeans.
"Abby...I remember." Lena said ignoring Reid and running to pull her sister out of bed.
"Remember what?" Abby asked as she yanked from the bed.
"The Branch family." Lena said.
"The what family?" Tyler questioned.
"Scott! Natalie!" The three teens watched as Lena practically went into hysterics. "I remember them. Don't you? Mom and dad...They suppressed the memories of them. They...Oh god..." Lena sat back on the bed.
"Scott and Natalie Branch..." Abby said quietly. "Brother and sister...Scott was a year older then us right?" She asked. Lena nodded. "And Natalie was in our year right?" Another nod. "We were all friends then in our freshmen year, something happened to Nat and she became a completely different person. One that used her powers on others to hurt them..." Abby said as though trying to piece everything together. "Then you taught her a lesson...when..." Abby stopped and gulped suddenly turning pale.
"It's Natalie...she was in my head. She made me remember." Lena said. "She's helping Chase..."
"This is the same chick that you didn't think had anything to do with this?" Reid questioned. Lena nodded. "Are you sure it's her..."
"Yeah..." Lena mumbled into her hands.
"There's one way to find out..." Abby said. Lena looked at her almost mortified. "Call Caleb and Pogue...you guys will be meeting our parents."
"I feel like such a child..." Kate said as she climbed out Tyler's car. The group now stood in front of the very house that Abby and Lena called home. After a long discussion with Caleb they had decided on this road trip. For safety measures they had to bring Sarah and Kate with them. Leaving this unintended was just as bad as taking them with them...no where was safe. But it eased the mind when there was a good eye on them.
"Sorry about that..." Lena mumbled as she stared up at the large home. It was just as big as Caleb's was if not just slightly smaller. "I feel like there should be lightening and thunder in the background." She said.
It's not that bad..." Reid said giving her shoulder a reassuring squeeze. She smiled a little at him before taking a step toward the house, but stopped and looked at Abby.
"Couldn't we have just called and asked them?" Abby rolled her eyes and grabbed her sister by the hand.
"It's too late now, Lenny...Come on..." She said pulling her to the door. Their friends stayed put on the lawn...It would be strange to have six people come to your door uninvited.
Lena thought it was utterly ridiculous that they knocked on their own front door. But then again...it wasn't like it was any other day when they lived there. It wasn't long until the large door opened and standing there was their father a look of confusion flashed across his face. He looked over both girls heads and out to their friends before he looked at his daughters again.
"So what trouble have you gotten yourselves into this time?" He asked.
"More like troubles, dad..." Lena said.
Elizabeth and Eric Shaw sat before the teens and listened to what had been occurring for the last few months. From Abby's first encounter with Chase to the most recent and then to the remembrance of two childhood friends.
"You always find a way to stay in trouble don't you, Lena." Elizabeth said. "Even going as far as to drag them into this...though they aren't what I would call suitable company." Reid's eyes narrowed at the older woman.
"Now's not the time to go into your rant about why the Sons of Ipswich are no good, mom." Abby said. "We wouldn't have come here if we didn't need answers. And you're going to give them to us." Elizabeth's eyes narrowed at her daughter.
"You know better than to talk me like that, Abigail. Seems as though you spend far too much time..."
"Just listen to them Elizabeth." Eric said with a small sigh. Abby and Lena both looked at their father. Lena smiled slightly, though she didn't like either of her parents much...her father was by far her favorite parent.
"What is it you want to know?" Elizabeth asked after a small sigh.
"Did you or did you not suppressed our memories of the Branch family? Our childhood memories of our friends?" Lena asked.
"Yes. But it was for your own good." Elizabeth said.
"How so?" Abby questioned.
"You were both a complete mess, Abigail. More so than you are now." Elizabeth explained but her gaze lingered on Lena. "I couldn't let my daughters go off the deep end. No matter how close they may already seem."
"One more question, mom..." Abby said. "What happened to them? The family I mean...They left and it seemed quite convenient that you squish our memories and they leave town."
"They moved down south when you had your little...conflict." Elizabeth said. "We didn't keep in much contact with them after that."
"You're forgetting the boy, Elizabeth." Eric said crossing his arms over his chest. "He moved back here. Came looking for the two of you, but you were already gone." He explained when his wife didn't say anything. There was silence in room as everyone took in the information.
"Thanks for your help..." Lena said standing. "We should be leaving now." she said with a small sigh. "Happy Holidays..."
"And what do you plan to do with this information, Lena?" Elizabeth questioned. "You'll only get you and your friends killed if you try anything." Reid laughed. He stopped when he was glared at by a good portion of the room, but the smirk never left his face.
"You don't know anything about us...what we can do." Reid said. "You don't have to like us, because really I don't like you very much. But how could you blame everything on her? Before it even happens."
"Young man I'm not blaming anything..."
"You are." Reid cut her off.
"Come on, Reid time to go." Caleb said grabbing the blond boy by his arm. "Nice meeting you, Mr and Mrs Shaw. Hope we meet again."
The teens walked out of the old Hartford home. None of them saying anything. Abby was the last one out of the house. She sighed as she closed the door.
"You shouldn't have done that..." Lena said as she leaned against Reid's car.
"Done what?" Reid asked innocently. Lena rolled her eyes. Abby ran over to them in that moment.
"Lenny...What the hell are we going to do? That was barely enough information to do a damn thing..."
"I have to agree, Len." Pogue said walking up to them, Kate hanging on his arm.
"Well it was your idea to drive for two hours to get our questions answered, Abby." Lena said. "But this trip won't be wasted." Caleb ran a hand down his face. "Don't worry too much, Caleb...It won't be too much trouble..." She smiled a little. "Our parents gave us just the right amount of information."
"I'm really tired...and hungry. Could you please just get to point, Lena?" Sarah asked quietly.
"We're going to pay Scott a visit."
"You don't even know where he lives." Tyler said with a small sigh. Lena shrugged her shoulders.
"He was never very hard to find. But it always took us hours." Abby mumbled looking up at the sky. "He was usually...in the most obvious place, you wouldn't even think to look for him there."
"Amazing how you two can remember things about someone you were forced to forget." Reid said.
"I guess you just never truly forget..." Lena said. "This is life or death after all..." Caleb sighed.
"If I was told that my senior year would be spent battling evil warlocks and trying to keep the people around me from dying. I would have just stayed a freshman for the rest of my life." Caleb said. If this had been a normal day, and they had been normal teenagers, they would have laughed...but they didn't. But they all did agree with him.
Not sure how I liked it at all. If you're confused just let me know I'll try to explain.
I need to be going now!
Hope you liked it though! Until Next time!
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-TR
