Chapter 6: Eclipse…No, Not the Twilight Version.

"So… How was you're the rest of your night?" I heard Kat ask me as she glanced through the open doorway towards the kitchen where Henry was with Chris.

"My night?" I asked feeling slightly more than confused.

"Yeah, with your boyfriend." Kat said putting emphasis on the word boyfriend as she leaned forwards towards me across the island that we were sitting at. "Yeah, how late were you out last night?" Tamora jumped in quickly, eager to get in on this conversation.

"Not that late. I was home by like, 10 o'clock." I said sending them a slight shrug.

"Ohh… you're no fun." Tamora said as she held her head up by leaning on her elbow. "Yeah, seeing as how it was you whose always bugging Prue about going to parties." Kat pointed out.

"There weren't any parties last night." I defended leaning my crossed arms on the counter as I moved in as well. Glancing into the other room, I saw Chris and Henry working on a potion. "So, how far have you gotten?" I heard Kat ask. My head snapped in their direction quickly, "What?" I asked taken off guard.

"You know… How far?" Tamora repeated as she gave me a duh look.

"Aaand, why would I tell you that?" I asked shaking my head while holding a laugh in.

"Because, We're your cousins." Tamora began as her eyes shifted to look at her twin.

"And you know you can confide in us." Kat finished with a smirk.

"Yeah, right." I laughed as I slid off my chair and headed to the fridge pulling out a blueberry muffin, "like the time in 5th grade when I wanted to try that stupid butter churner on our field trip in the old Amish town?" I asked through the bite of muffin.

Tamora laughed while Kat crossed her arms giving me a heated look, "You could've ruined their butter. The lady had already spent almost an hour trying to make it!" She defended.

I laughed at her exiting the kitchen and moving in to the sitting room/potion making room. "And you can just throw this in right afterwards." I heard Chris say to Henry as Henry tossed what appeared to be the eye of a newt into a pot. Henry then raced back over to the book of shadows, and slammed down a pointed finger shouting, "We have to boil it! C'mon, c'mon Chris. We gotta get it done!" He yelled as he looked up at Chris quickly.

"Whoa, whoa! Calm down there, killer. Treat the book with respect please." Chris began. He opened his mouth to lecture poor, little Henry some more however, I interrupted. "Please, how many times did you spill potions on that book while you were growing up?" I scoffed.

"Yeah? Well, so did you…" I heard him mumble as Henry quickly dragged him into the kitchen while carrying the pot. Looking over the book, I noticed that they were working on a confidence potion. I tried to wrack my brain as to why Henry or Chris would even need a confidence potion and came up with nothing. The twins were suddenly in the door, "What's up? You look as if you've been hit over the head with something." Tamora asked me as she came closer and snuck a glance at the book.

"A confidence potion? What d'you need that for?" She asked.

"Henry and Chris are making one. Not me." I said as I gave her a look, and then turned to Kat. "Are there any middle school dances going on or something?"

"Uhm…" Kat began as she gulped down a bite of the apple she'd taken from the fruit bowl on the island, "I think there is one coming up this week it's for "school spirit" or some crap like that. Why?"

"Maybe little Henry's got a girlfriend." I shrugged my gaze returning to the page.

"Ew." Tamora said as she walked towards one of our wicker chairs, "That's ridiculous that he thinks he has to make a confidence potion to ask a girl to the dance." Kat said as she shook her head also sitting down.

"I think it ridiculous that Henry thinks he has to ask a girl to the dance in the first place. Why can't he go alone, or have a girl ask him?" She asked as she began to veer off on one of her society standards are awful rants.

"Because," Kat sighed as she grabbed one of my shape magazines of the matching wicker table, "Henry wants to be able to have a normal high school experience rather than follow in your footsteps." She finished causing me to let out a chuckle.

"I've had a perfectly normal-oh, Melinda shut up!-high school experience, thank you." I was still laughing, but had quieted myself down after Tamora told me to shut up. She was glaring at her sister from across the room.

"I never said you didn't have a normal high school experience." Kat replied as she put back my magazine and kept her hands up in surrender.

"No! But you just-!"

"You assumed that I meant your experiences weren't normal." Kat replied as she stood up. Aunt Paige and my mom were standing at the door watching us. "Hi, mom." Kat said wearing a huge grin.

"Are you two arguing again? Didn't we already do this on the way here?" Aunt Paige asked as she crossed her arms.

"No." Tamora and Kat answer in unison. Paige looked back and forth between the two but shrugged a shoulder giving my mother a look of humor and said, "Well, c'mon guys. We've gotta go now if we want to make Henry's orthodontist appointment on time."

"Yeah, yeah…" Tamora said as she stood and walked towards my mom giving her a hug goodbye. Kat followed suit as Henry came racing out of the kitchen. "I did it! I did it! Look!" Henry was holding a tiny corked bottle in his hands as he raced over to Aunt Paige.

"What is it?" She asked him as she took it out of his hand and brought it to her eye. "Confidence in a bottle." My brother said as he came in from the opposite doorway, "It's so he can ask some girl to his little dance this week. Because he's too scared to do it himself." Tamora said as she snatched the bottle from Aunt Paige.

"No!" Henry yelled as he gave her a glare and tried to snatch it back but Tamora wouldn't let him take it. "It's to help me ask this girl to the dance. I can do it by myself, I- I just would feel more comfortable with the stupid potion on me. Now give it back!" He hollered as Tamora managed to toss it towards Kat. She caught it and began to tease Henry. "Girls!" Aunt Paige yelled but they ignored her. Seconds later there was a shout of bottle and Paige was holding it in her hand, she gave the bottle to Henry as she ruffled his dark hair with her right hand.

"No fair! You can't use magic, we don't have any powers." Kat whined.

"Maybe you shouldn't torture your brother, then." Paige suggested.

"Maybe you shouldn't use magic." Tamora said. "It's demoralizing to Kat and I. We should have gotten powers by now."

"We'll talk about this in the car girls; I've really got to get Henry to his Dentist appointment." Paige sighed. Kat and Tamora exited the room still complaining about not having any powers. Paige looked to my mom and gave her a hug then quickly made her way to me then Chris. "See you guys soon, I hope." She said as she left.

"I'm so glad all of you ended up with powers so I didn't have to deal with that problem right there." Mom said with a slight chuckle. I shrugged as I sat down and picked up the magazine that Kat put down. Mom sat across from me and Chris began to pack up the potion making stuff. Suddenly, there was a crash from the living room, which was right next to the sitting room. "What the hell was that?" Chris asked once we all jumped up. I raced out of the sitting room, Chris right behind me. There in the middle of the living room stood Wyatt.

"Wyatt?" I asked disbelief was the only tone in my voice. Wyatt turned to face us, his face was scratched and bruised. "Oh, my god." I said softly as I ran into the room towards him. Chris however was faster. Wyatt took a step in our direction, and crumpled. He almost hit the floor but Chris caught him and placed him on the couch.

"Wyatt! Oh, my god. What happened to you?" Mom yelled as she raced past me towards him. Please don't say it, Please, please don't say it. I thought as I bit my lower lip anxiously. "The- the vampires. They- they found me." Wyatt uttered the words I was dreading.

"That's it. We have to do something. Now." Chris muttered his anger escalating.

"Wait, just wait one second." Mom began as she threw out an arm preventing Chris from leaving the room. "How did you come into contact with the vampires? I thought you were working?" She asked him.

"I- I was." Wyatt's breathing was labored. Chris leaned over and held his hand over Wyatt's face, in an instant everything was healed and he was back to normal. "I took my break and was walking down to the subway across the street and saw a vampire was feeding off of a girl. He was between two buildings in the ally and I tried fighting him off, but then more came. It was as if they knew I was going to be there. I- I think it was a set up." Wyatt sat up slowly now and looked back and forth between the three of us.

"I'll call your father, hopefully your aunt Phoebe isn't too busy, we'll use all the help we can get." Mom said as she turned and walked off to the kitchen. I looked to Wyatt then to Chris. "I'll look in the book about summoning one." Chris said as he turned and went back into the sitting room.

Wyatt looked at me, expectantly almost. "You okay?" I asked him softly as I sat down next to him. He nodded. "I've gone through worse. The most they did was beat the shit out of me. I don't think they were trying to kill me."

"Who was the girl?" I asked him.

He looked at me somewhat surprised, "It's funny that you ask me that because, at first… I- uh- I thought it was you. It looked just like you from the back, but the girl's eyes were blue." I nodded slowly Wyatt and I left it at that for a while until Chris called him into the other room. My head was still reeling. Why would the vampires try to set Wyatt up if they weren't trying to kill him? Are they hoping that we'd back down, or are they looking for a fight? I asked myself. There was only one way to find out so I raced up into my room and called out for Aaron.

C'mon… get your ass over here. I thought as I gritted my teeth. Is he really going to ignore me? I thought to myself. Maybe he was in on it? That last thought hit me like a ton of bricks.

"C'mon Aaron." I muttered angrily.

"The one and only." I heard at my ear. I jumped turning around. My heart was beating 1000 beats per minute. I gasped in a breath trying to calm myself down.

"You've got to stop doing that." I told him as my hand hovered over my heart. "I just thought you'd like a surprise." He told me as he enveloped me in a hug. I just stood there and let him hug me. "You know, you can correct me if I'm wrong but you don't seem very happy to see me." He responded as he took a step or two back.

"Why did your nest-."

"We're called a clan, Melinda." Aaron corrected me.

"Whatever, why did it attack my brother?" I asked him quickly. He gave me a confused look as he slowly shook his head. "We didn't…" He replied slowly.

"Uhh… yeah you did. You're the only vampires that we've dealt with in a long time." I told him.

"Yeah, we're the only vampires left in this area. They all moved out east seeing as how the population of hunters grew increasingly out here."

"Precisely, so… Why did your clan attack my brother?"

"I- I don't know. I mean… it's weird I'm usually informed on everything. But not this, I guess." Aaron said as he glanced around the room nervously. I watched him begin to pace back and forth in my room.

"Okay, well… My brothers are working on a summoning potion to get some vampires here tonight-." I began however, Aaron cut me off. "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

"What? Why not?" I asked confused. "It's the only way we're gonna get any information." I defended.

"Well, you've got me for information, but hey if you want to invite some uncontrollable vampires in your house, you be my guest."

"What're you talking about?" I asked him.

"Well, tonight is the eclipse. And needless to say vampires get reckless during them. The closer to the eclipse we get, the more we're ruled by emotions." I couldn't help but laugh at that, I mean really? The Eclipse… that Stephanie Meyer must have been on to something when she titled her book.

"What?" Aaron asked almost impatiently.

"Nothing. It- it's just-. Eclipse, really? Can you say Twilight?"

"This is not the Twilight Version, Melinda." He stated his face as serious as stone.

"Alright, alright, I'm sorry. But, why?" I asked him as I sat down on my bed waiting to hear the story behind it.

"I think for some reason the atmosphere changes, and we become more in tune to our emotions, which is already a hard thing for us to maintain control over. So if I were you, I'd tell your family to wait until tomorrow, after the Eclipse." Aaron warned me as he sat next to me.

"How the hell am I supposed to get them to believe that when I can't say where I got the information?" I asked feeling annoyed.

"I don't know. Think of something." He answered as he began to lean in towards me.

"Aaron. Now's so not the time to-." He cut me off by pressing his mouth to mine. I tried to push him off but he was too strong, I doubt he even felt it. So then I began to lean back but he only got on top of me. "Aaron… Aaron stop." I tried, but his mouth wouldn't leave mine. His mouth moved down my neck open mouthed. I began to try and fight him but, my mind was getting cloudy, and it was getting harder and harder to think of reasons to not sleep with him until the biggest most important on hit me.

"We can't-. Not here anyway." Suddenly we were in his house, on his bed. "Oh." I said surprised once I tried to sit up only to have his mouth all but attach itself to my neck. "Aaron." I tried to say it sternly, but it came out in a moan once I felt his hands grip my hips tightly. He jerked them against his roughly, I groaned at that. My head began feeling light, and I couldn't think straight any longer. "We can't-." I began.

"We can." He told me his voice a little like a growl against the skin of my neck. I took in a breath hoping to clear my head but it had the opposite effect. It seemed to only make me dizzier Aaron's hands ran down further from my hips to the outside of my thighs. You know you want this. A part of me said. It's what you've been wanting. So just go with it. I lost control and went with it, my hands slid from his shoulders up to his neck and around so that one of my hands slid into his hair pulling him roughly against me. He groaned now.

"Please Aaron." I breathed out. Although at the moment, I wasn't sure what I was asking for. For him to stop, or for more.

"Melinda…" I heard him breath at my ear. I clenched the hand that was tangled up in his hair as my other hand slid down from his chest. I slid his shirt off quickly and attempted to toss it as far away from us as possible. Then hands were under my shirt and at my lower-back. His fingertips seemed to press against my muscles hard. His other hand slid lower to my thigh pulling it up around his waist. I groaned as he dropped his body on top of mine. "Aaron" I groaned in response.

He chuckled lowly at that as his hand released my thigh and slid my hair out of my face behind my ear. There was a sudden flash of bright light out of the corner of my eye, and I jumped. Aaron did too, he quickly reacted by placing himself between me and the "threat". Only to see nothing, Aaron was growling fiercely now, then I felt arms wrap around my waist and pull me back into someone. Then there was another flash of bright light all around me, accompanied with a distant angry growl.

"I-. Wha-?" I began as I felt myself on solid ground again and the arms slid away, looking around I saw that I was in a completely different place. Where the hell am I? Thinking quickly I turned around to be faced with Eric. Whaaaa…? My jaw dropped and I had to remind myself to breathe again. "Wha-? How-?" I began again, but no matter what I just couldn't get a full sentence out of my freakin' mouth. Eric just smirked at me as an answer.