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Tyler

Chase finally gripped both Sarah and Alice, who seemed to crumple into his arms on contact. They were knocked out. "Chase-" Caleb growled as Pogue held him back, and I held back Reid. "If you so much as-"

"Oh, sorry, Caleb. No threats. See, you're in no position to make those. I have all the leverage I need to make you beg on your knees at my feet, and you know it." Even though none of us wanted to admit it, he knew we were right. "Last time, I told you if you willed me your powers, I would leave what was left of the families alive. You didn't." He said in a dangerous voice that told me the massive threat was coming. He continued. "However, now I have a new target. Since I need her, I will keep her alive." He said. "And Sarah has always been a rather nice hostage, so she will be kept alive as well." There was an evil grin forming on the face. "But you might want to check on the rest of your family."

"What are you-" Caleb started, and then it dawned on him. "You sick bastard! You stay away from my mother!"

"Temper, temper, Danvers. What have I told you about threats?" He laughed his insane laugh, and then said, "Buh-bye now." before he disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"I will kill him!" Caleb said angrily.

"Not if I don't get their first!" Reid said darkly. "That twisted piece of-"

"He has Sarah, and-"

"And Alice!"

"And he threatened my mom!" Caleb said angrily.

Kate helped Amy up, she looked pale and stricken.

Suddenly, I looked at Pogue. "Wait a second… he didn't just threaten your mom, Caleb."

Pogue, the only other rationally-thinking male at this time seemed to get it, and he seemed just as horrified as I was. "He threatened what was left of the families…"

"My mom and aunt…"

"...Gorman…"

Suddenly Reid seemed to get it. "My dad… he's on a business trip, but still-"

Caleb seemed composed enough. "Go, all of you! We need to save them!"

"If they aren't already-" I started, but Caleb gripped my shoulder firmly.

"We need to go help anyone who is left. Every delayed second is every second Chase gets to murder them." He said.

I suddenly saw the most helpless face in the room looking to me in panic. "What about Amy? We can't leave her here alone, and someone has to explain-"

Caleb nodded. "I will take her with me. Don't worry." He said quietly just to me, "I need you to go with Reid. He may go off the deep end if anything else goes wrong." I nodded, and then he spoke to all of us. "Pogue, bring Kate with you, and go check on Gorman. Reid, call your dad, and go with Tyler to see if his mom and Aunt are okay. Amy, can you walk? Are you hurt? Okay, good, then let's go."

Caleb

I rushed to my house, trying to stay calm for Amy's sake, but failing miserably. When I got there, I ran up the walk, my eyes turning black as I yanked open the door, bolting inside, Amy in tow.

"Mom!" I shouted, running up the stairs two at a time to get to her bedroom. I threw the door open and froze. She was sprawled out on the ground, her eyes white. "No, Mom!" I shouted, dropping to her side, feeling tears beginning to overflow.

I heard a noise behind, and I turned to see Amy standing in the doorway, clutching the door's frame. She looked extremely paler, even paler than she had before, her eyes fixed on my mother's dead body.

"Amy, come on." I said, standing, wiping away the few tears that had managed to escape. I went to leave, but she didn't move. I turned back to face her, saying, "Amy, we-"

"Is she…?" She finally asked in a tiny voice.

I nodded. "Amy, we have to leave. It's dangerous. You have to move. Now." I said forcefully, finally taking her by the upper arm and pulling her out of my house as gently as I possibly could. I brought her to my car, opening the passenger door for her, and closing it behind her after she had finally seemed to snap out of it and gotten in on her own accord.

I jogged around the front of my car, ignoring the burning sensation in my eyes and the want to just collapse and let it all out. I got into the driver's seat and slammed the door with much more force than I had intended to, causing Amy to jump.

"Sorry." I muttered, wiping my hands over my face, before saying to her, "Buckle up." I buckled up myself just as the phone began to ring. I grabbed the phone, answering it as I pulled out of my driveway and sped away. "What?"

"Caleb, man, shit. We got problems." It was Pogue, and he sounded stressed and pissed off. I could also identify Kate's soft sobs in the background as she tried to stifle herself, and I knew Pogue was holding her. My body ached to hold Sarah right now as tightly as I knew he was holding her; to tell her everything would be okay like I knew Pogue had most likely said a few moments before picking up the phone to call me.

"Pogue, what happened?" I asked, which caused Amy to look up at me with alarm in her eyes.

"Gorman's dead. I found him right outside of his house." He told me, trying to hold back his anger.

"Shit." I swore under my breath, causing Amy to place her head in her hands- she didn't know who, but she could tell by my reaction that someone else was dead.

"And Caleb? Man, his eyes… they were white." I shucked in a shallow breath.

"Dammit." I said angrily. "It was definitely Chase."

"How do you figure?" He asked. "And please tell me you got to your mom in time-"

"She's dead, Pogue. I was too late. And her eyes were white too. It's not a coincidence." I said, trying to detach my own emotions from the information I needed to get to him, and from the need for me to be the strong leader right now. It was necessary.

Pogue was silent for a few moments, before saying. "Caleb, Man, I'm sorry." This set of another round of sobs from Kate in the background.

I was about to reply, to say it was okay, I was okay, and that Kate didn't need to worry, we would fix this, but then there was a beep on my phone, signaling another call on the line coming in. I looked at the caller id before saying, "It's Reid, Pogue. I gotta go. Do me a favor, and get Kate the hell out of there. I don't know where, just get her away; it's not safe. Just drive around town for now until me or one of the other two calls you to tell you where we are meeting, okay?"

"Alright, man."

I clicked over to the other line. "You okay Reid?"

"Caleb, Tyler's a mess." Reid said immediately. He didn't sound too peachy either, but the fact that he was able to call me meant that he was holding himself together- and that Tyler was clearly not. "We found his mom and Aunt Zoe dead in the kitchen of his house." He said as Amy and I came across a red stoplight.

"Let me guess; their eyes are white." I said, gritting my teeth.

He was quiet for a moment and said, "Yea, man how'd you-"

"G-D DAMMIT!" I shouted before he could finish, hitting the steering wheel, causing Amy to let out another strangled sob. "He got them too? He's killing everyone!" I looked at Amy out of the corner of my eye; she wanted to break down and cry, but she wouldn't. She wasn't like that. I had a feeling my outburst didn't help her, so I took one of her hands with my free hand, rubbing the back of it softly with my thumb to calm her down.

Meanwhile Reid was silent for a moment, struggling to grip the reality, and afraid to know for certain what he could already guess. Finally, he said, "Caleb, man, what are you saying?"

"My mom is dead, Reid. So is Gorman." I said through my teeth. Chase is keeping good on his promise to kill what's left o the families."

"Man… I'm sorry dude." Reid finally said. The light turned green, and Amy let go of my hand so I could drive.

"What about you Reid? Is your dad…you know?"

"I called him. He's alive. Chase probably didn't want to waste his time to try and hunt down where exactly my dad was on a business trip to. I can't actually believe it, but the man's work-a-holic behavior turned out to save his life." I let out a breath of relief that seemed to ease Amy's sadness a bit as well.

"Good. At least one is safe. Where are you guys now?"

"My house." He told me. "I know it's only right next door to Tyler's, but I didn't know where else to go. I couldn't leave him there, and like I said, Tyler's a mess."

"Okay, well stay put, and call Pogue for me and tell him that we are meeting up at your house. I'll be there shortly."

"No problem, Caleb."

"See you in a bit." I hung up my phone, looking at Amy. "I think… it's time for me to explain to you what is going on here."

Sarah

I started to stir, feeling sore and groggy. I shook my head, going to brush my hair out of my face, but I found that I couldn't. As I started to wake up more, I realized I was bound to a chair.

I looked at my surroundings; I was in a dank, dark room. It was musty, with a dirt floor and wooden walls. It had a lot of open space, and a door across the room. There was a tiny window on my right that was letting in a small amount of light.

I looked to my left, suddenly aware of another presence in the room, and gasped. Alice was also bound to a chair beside me, only she was still unconscious. The previous events leading up to us being in this predicament came flooding back to me.

"Ali!" I hissed, trying to wake her up. "Ali! Ali! Alice! Alice!"

I heard voices by the door. I fell silent, in order to listen.

"How could you kidnap them? It's illegal, Chase!" said a semi-familiar male voice.

"Funny, you've never seemed to have a problem with it before. Since when did you start to worry about breaking the law, huh? Since Alice?" Said a taunting female voice.

"Shut up Brooke! For once, just SHUT UP!"Said the familiar voice again.

"You are sooo dumb, Evan!" Said the taunting female voice; the one called Brooke. They were by the doorway, and suddenly I knew who they were. Evan Marcus and Brooke Daniels; the new students from school! "How could you fall in love? You have the natural ability to seduce woman! Get a freaking hold of yourself!"

"I'm not in love!" He shouted back at her. "Even if I was, who said I was in love with Alice, huh?"

"So you are in love!"

"I never said that!"

"Enough!" Chase's voice came as he stepped in-between them. "Both of you." Suddenly, I realized they would be coming in soon, and I pretended to be unconscious. "The spell will wear off soon. You cannot be here. If they identify you, our plans will be ruined. Now, go!" He said, and they nodded. Brooke grabbed Evan's hand and the two of them disappeared in a puff of smoke. I couldn't believe my eyes. They were… not human.

Chase walked in, and I pretended to just be stirring. "Good morning, sleeping beauty."

"What the hell is going on?" I asked through gritted teeth.

"What's going on?" He laughed his sick and twisted laugh. I was beginning to think he loved his own laugh so much that he did that just to hear it. "Oh, Sarah. What's going on is that you've once again become my bait to get to Caleb. What's this, the third time now?" I looked away, squeezing my eyes tight shut to keep myself from crying. He used his power on me, forcing me to look at him.

Just then, Alice began to stir, and he dropped his hold on me.

She groaned, waking up, looking around, mumbling, "Where am I?" She caught sight of me, the rope binding me to the chair, and Chase, and then she seemed to remember.

"Hello darling."

"I'm not your darling." She growled at him.

"Oh, you're a feisty one, aren't you?" HE said, grabbing her by the jaw- hard. He put his mouth by her ear. "But hear this. Your mother is dead."He practically spat the words at her. She tried to look away, trying to close her eyes to keep her tears at bay. I sat there in shock. Mrs. Danvers? Dead? "And your brother, Reid, the others, and the few members o the families who have been able to escape my wrath are soon to join her." He paused, and then said, "And there is nothing you can do to stop me. It is your entire fault, you know."

He released her face finally and stood back up. "Unless you do as I say, they will all die." He smirked at her. "So tell me, Alice; how does it feel to be completely powerless?" She didn't answer; she just sat there, shaking. His hand shot out suddenly, smacking her across the face, startling me enough to make me let out a short scream. She sat motionless, and still refusing to speak.

"You will answer me the next time I speak to you." He growled. "You will be mine." He then turned to walk away, but said over his shoulder to us, "Oh, and don't even try to use. There's a spell on the ropes, window, door, and room." And with his annoying yet evil and bone-chilling laugh, he slammed the door.

Only then did she break down and begin to sob. I let the tears run down my face freely as well as I thought of all the others; of Reid, Tyler, Pogue, Kate… and Caleb. Mrs. Danvers was dead, and I'm sure some, if not all, of the other parents were dead too. "Alice, they'll… they'll save us, won't they?" She didn't answer. "Won't they?" I pushed.

She shook her head, looking at me gravely. "I don't know, Sarah. I really don't know."