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Uhhhh, I havn't updated in forever, and I wasn't really planning on it untill I saw the reviews, so they pretty much motivated me to keep going and finish this one, thanks guys!
I'm just going to say that this chapter sucked to write, therefore it might suck... Haha. But it get's some details out of the way for the next one, which will be much better! :) Sorry to Aaron fans, but from this point on he get's even creepier (if possible) and more stalker-ish.
To those who reviewed... You guys are sweet! Sorry for the delay, and the lameness of this chapter (I don't know, it just feels really choppy to me... And kind of boring :( ) Keep it up you guys, you are my inspiration! lol!
"Caleb, are you okay...?" Tyler ventured as he gently shut the door to his dorm. He stood awkwardly next to it, mainly because he was too afraid to go sit next to Caleb on the bed.
Caleb slowly shook his head, eyes narrowing. "No, Tyler, I'm not."
Tyler bit his lip. He knew it. He messed things up big time. "I know that this probably won't make you less upset with me, but I'm really sorry Caleb. I didn't mean to use again, I promise, it's just-"
Caleb's hands flew up in the air, "Hold up Tyler, don't get me wrong. I'm pissed, but there's no way that I'm mad at you."
Tyler let out a sigh of relief before looking at Caleb with a confused expression. "You're not? Wait, why aren't you?"
Caleb quickly stood up off the bed and grabbed Tyler's shoulders. "Tyler, why would I be? This wasn't your fault. At all. I should've.... I should've done something sooner."
"Caleb, you did do something. You saved me. If you hadn't had come when you did I don't know what would've happened."
Caleb's eyes hardened and his hand ran shakily through his hair. "That's the thing Tyler, I came, but I could've come earlier. I've been having this same vision for the last week or so. I see flashes of you, and Aaron grabbing you. I was going to tell you, but then there was last night. I thought that the vision was a warning about that, but I guess I was wrong... I am so sorry Tyler- I really fucked up didn't I?" Caleb gave Tyler a sad smile.
Tyler's eyes widened. "What!? No, no, no!! Caleb, don't you blame yourself for this!? Seriously! Just because you get random premonitions doesn't mean that it's your fault from stopping every bad thing that ever happens to us!"
"But because I didn't follow my premonition you got hurt!" Caleb yelled.
"Caleb, I'm fine, really. He barely even touched me."
"It didn't look like that from where I was standing." Caleb growled furiously. "Did he do anything else to you before I got there?"
Tyler violently shook his head. "No, he just told me about what he saw last night."
"Shiiiiit! He figured out last night didn't he?" Caleb groaned.
Tyler winced. "Sorry Caleb."
"Stop apologizing." Caleb said firmly. "It wasn't- and still isn't- your fault."
"But they're MY powers. It should be my job to control them. This never happened to anybody else when they ascended."
"Please don't make me say this again Tyler, I've had to tell Reid this every day. Different brothers ascend differently. Losing control of your powers for a little while is just a part of your ascending. It'll get better soon." Caleb smiled warmly
"Okay." Tyler smiled weakly. "But what do we do now, you know, about Aaron knowing about me?"
"That could be problematic. What exactly happened?"
"Well, he was getting a little.... Grabby." Tyler stopped to see Caleb's fists clench. "And I was feeling really overwhelmed. One minute he was there- and then he was flying through the air and landing on the sidewalk."
"Serves him right." Caleb chuckled. "It's about time that somebody gave him a face full of concrete."
"Yeah, I just wish that it had gone a little differently. He knows Caleb, what do we do about that?"
Caleb stayed quiet for a second. "I'm not really sure.... I guess we just have to wait and see what he plans on doing, see what he thinks he can get out of this."
"I mean, what would he gain if he told the whole school about you? 10 seconds of fame? I don't think that that'd be worth it for Aaron. He's probably trying to get something for himself out of this." Caleb looked at Tyler. "I don't mean to scare you, but you do know that he.... Likes you, right?"
Tyler gulped and shook his head. "No, he doesn't. I know he doesn't. I know him, and he's just acts like this to piss you guys off. Like at Nickey's last night."
Caleb raised an eyebrow. "You really think that that's it? Damn Tyler, you are oblivious. Don't you see the way that he looks at you? And I'm not talking about the last two days, I'm talking about the past month Dude."
"I've never really noticed I guess..." Tyler blushed.
"You haven't, but Reid sure has!" Caleb laughed. "That's why he's been PMS'sing this whole month. First you didn't notice his advances, and then you didn't notice Aaron's. Jeeze Tyler, do you live with your eyes shut and ears plugged?"
Both Tyler and Caleb laughed.
"What are you guys doing here, shouldn't you both be at classes?" Pogue said as he entered the room and shut the door behind him.
Caleb looked at Tyler and then and Pogue. "Aaron was giving Tyler a little.... Trouble."
"Again?" Pogue asked incredulously.
"Yeah, and now he knows something's up." Caleb explained solemnly.
"Pogue sat down on Reid's bed and looked at the two boys. "So what's our plan boys? Want me to show Aaron a lesson or two?"
Tyler smirked. His brothers always knew how to make him feel better. Now he just had to wait and prepare himself for Reid's reaction to what happened to Tyler. Tyler grimaced, it would be nearly impossible to keep Reid form tearing the school apart and finding Aaron to give him an ass whooping. Despite this thought Tyler smile grew. 'It'll all be okay.' He told himself. 'As long as I have my brothers this whole thing will all work out.'
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Aaron sat slumped in his desk, watching the clock and counting the minutes till his last class of the day ended. Sadly, it wasn't helping to ease his boredom.
Aaron felt his eye's become heavy and his head roll forward as the monotone voice of his science teacher started to put him to sleep. He opened his eyes when he heard the light 'clank' of his pencil falling onto the stone tiling below him. He slumped down further in his seat and reached out his hand toward the utensil, but he didn't have to reach very far. He felt a millisecond shiver of sheer energy pass through him before the pencil and was lying on the ground just a moment ago seemed to fling itself into his grip.
'What the...' Aaron thought as he looked at the pencil that was currently residing in his hand. With wide eyes he dropped the pencil to the ground once more and in the same manner he slumped in his seat and slightly reached out his hand toward the pencil before it once again flew into his grasps.
If Aaron could've have seen himself he would have seen his eyes flashing black.
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"That asshole! He had better run, because when I find him I'm gonna shove those grabby little hands of his so far up his ass that not even using will get 'em outta there!" Reid huffed as he stood up and abruptly headed toward the door, determined to teach Aaron a lesson after hearing about what happened to Tyler today.
"Reid- wait!" Tyler called as he grabbed Reid's wrist and shut the door. "We have to think before we do anything else, okay? We just all have to lay low, you know, avoid him for a while."
Reid rolled his eyes and growled. "You really think that avoiding him is going to fix this?"
Tyler shrugged. "What else can we do Reid?" Pogue asked.
"I don't know, but anything other than this. I mean, we're just sitting around to see what he's going to do next? Seriously, isn't there anything else that we could do?"
"It's not like we haven't thought through all of our other options, Reid. We've been thinking about this for a while, and I think that this might be the best move for now." Caleb said.
"What if he comes after Tyler again? What if he tries to make him use?" Reid's fist clenched and he swung on his heels back towards the door. "That's it, I'm gonna go find him. I can't just sit around and wait for him to come after Tyler like this."
"Reid, please!" Tyler pleaded, but Reid just ignored his call and swung the door open. "Stop it Reid!" Tyler reached out his hand towards the door, waiting till it shut itself before Reid could leave and do any rash. But the door didn't move.
"What the...?" Tyler mumbled as he looked at his hands.
Pogue and Caleb walked towards Tyler. "Tyler, what happened?" Caleb asked as he worriedly inspected Tyler.
Reid heard Caleb's question from the hallway and quickly made his way back to the room and joined Caleb and Pogue next to Tyler.
"I don't know... I meant to use on that door and stop Reid from leaving, but nothing happened. It felt... Weird." Tyler explained while looking at his hands and looked up to see three worried faces.
"Hold on a second Tyler, try something else..." Pogue quickly glanced around the room looking for an object that would be easy to use on. "Try turning the TV on." Pogue suggested.
Tyler nodded before concentrating for a moment and then frowning deeply. "It didn't work... I don't know why, but I couldn't do it."
"What the Hell is going on here Caleb? You can't tell me that this is normal for members of the Covenant who are about to ascend!" Reid yelled.
"Calm down Reid!" Caleb yelled back at Reid before turning to Tyler once more. "Tyler, can you remember the last time that you used? Did it feel weird then?"
Tyler shook his head. "It was today, with Aaron. It felt completely normal, why?"
Caleb sighed. "I'm going to be honest, I've never heard of anything like this before. A member of the Covenant unable to use... That's just weird, even if he is about to ascend."
Do you think that this really does have to do with Tyler's ascension?" Pogue asked Caleb.
"It's definitely possible." Caleb bit his lip. "Alright, Tyler, things have changed. You are to stay home from classes tomorrow. It'll be best if you and Aaron don't even see each other."
Tyler nodded. "And what about his powers Caleb, what are you going to do about them?" Reid yelled at Caleb.
"I don't know Reid! What the Hell do you want me to say!?" Caleb pulled a shaking hand through his hair.
"We'll just go to class tomorrow as planned. Maybe Aaron will have something to say to us about today. Meanwhile Tyler will stay home and see if his powers come back. Maybe it really is just his ascension."
So that's chapter three, took forever, but I should have chapter four much sooner, because I think that that one will be more fun to write! As always, review, because if finishing this story was like running a race, then reviews would be my gatorade....