Chloe's POV

The clock above the door read nine p.m. I'd been in the 'werewolf safe haven' for a few hours now. I had no clue how long I should stay down here but I knew Aunt Lauren wasn't going to give up looking for me that quickly.

I was huddled in the back corner of the room with a bottle of water and the cleaning bucket. For the last hour or so I felt like I had been on the verge of throwing up. I tried to convince myself it was from nerves. That I was scared of being taken away from my friends. But I knew I was fooling myself. It was symptoms of the change.

I pulled the burner phone from my pocket, thinking about texting Tess. It slipped through my hands, I hadn't realized that I was starting to sweat.

"I can't text her," I told myself. "If she gets followed..."

I set the phone down and took a sip of the water. I was on my own for whatever the night had in store for me.

Half an hour later I could be mistaken for someone who just went swimming. I was drenched in sweat. As self conscious as I was, I peeled my t-shirt off. Trying to get some relief. I wish Tess had a fan in here. I leaned my bare skin back against the cool metal fridge for relief.

"Wherever you are Derek. I hope you know I'm safe," I said to the empty room.

Was I really though? I didn't know what was going on within me. I was being forced into a change I wasn't ready for. My guardians were trying to separate me from my friends. Why was my life so complicated?

There was a numbness that spread through me. I took a deep breath, this was either a heat stroke or the change. I slid down until I was lying flat on the floor.

"Come on Chloe, you can do this," I told myself and forced myself to sit up.

I was breathing heavily but I managed to scoot myself to the center of the room. I wiped sweat from my eyes and got down on my hands and knees like I'd seen Derek do. The numbness faded and I let myself think that I was acting prematurely.

Before I could let out a relieved sigh, my skin started to move. It itched unbearably. I scratched and scratched until I broke the skin. Little beads of blood welled up and got washed away by drips of sweat.

The all too familiar pain of needles being shoved up my spine knocked me off my knees. I gasped for breath. Telling myself just keep breathing, that's all you can do right now. Just keep breathing. My spine jutted out and forced me into an unnatural V shape. I clenched my teeth.

My skin lit on fire as hair tried pushing its way through. Tendons and muscles started moving under my skin and I cried out. My stomach finally gave and I threw up onto the carpeting. I screamed as my back shot out again and the ground started to shake.

Liz and Kyle appeared with other ghosts.

"Chloe, you've got to stop. You're summoning!" Liz exclaimed.

The ground continued to shake around us. More and more ghosts appeared around Liz and Kyle. Blood rushed through my ears and I couldn't hear a word they were saying. The energy of the dead rushed through me. Over my bloody ears I could hear the ground coming apart outside.

I felt the bones in my body start to break and readjust. I cried out again as I threw up.

"Liz!" I shouted, "The chains!"

Liz looked around for what I was talking about and saw the cabinet. She opened it, there were several sets of chains. I used the energy to move the ghosts out of my way so I could see the chains. They all looked the same except for a pair of handcuffs on the far right. It had symbols etched into it.

"Right," I said before crying out in pain again.

I had no idea what I looked like but I was probably a twisted heap. My bones broke and fused back together. Dark shadows of hair passed over my skin. Liz grabbed the cuffs and ran over to me, closing them around my wrists.

The ground stopped shaking. The room was full of ghosts and more kept appearing. The enchantments were limiting my power but no stopping it.

"Focus your energy somewhere else," Liz shouted over the other ghosts.

I pictured the heap of the Edison Group's building, funneling the energy there. It was somewhere I didn't care about demolishing more. The ghosts started leaving the room one by one, going there instead.

"Keep focusing," Liz said as she disappeared.

I kept thinking about the building through the pain. Wave after wave hit me but they got more and more spaced apart. I laid on the floor crying, human. My skin rippled as my muscles continued to move underneath but I knew I wasn't going to get any further this time.

I sat up to wipe blood and sweat from my face. Before my hand reached my face, I fell back unconscious.