Everyone was still in shock from the bounty announcement. I didn't want to be there anymore, so I headed back to the main house. I needed a drink, and a moment to myself. Max followed me into the kitchen.
"Cassie, are you okay?" He asked, touching my shoulder.
What once would've been sparks, now there was nothing present there.
"Define okay." I replied back, pouring a glass of milk.
"I am sorry, I should have been following you in the woods."
"It wouldn't have mattered, besides we were training, don't blame yourself."
"I feel bad."
"Well don't."
"But I do, I feel bad with how everything turned out."
Now he had completely lost me, "What do you mean by everything?"
"Cassie, I never explained why you saw those messages from Phoebe."
I groaned, I really didn't want to get into this right now. "Max, I don't need to know, and you don't have to tell me. You're with her now."
"I know but Cassie you deserve to know everything, and why, I think I owe you that much."
I looked at him, "Max I don't know."
He continued either way, "I was cheating on you."
I looked at him like he was dumb, "I know with Phoebe. It doesn't take a genius Max."
"No Cassie, there wasn't just Phoebe."
I was confused by what he was trying to say. "What do you mean Max?" I said, slowly saying my words.
"There were more Cas."
"More what?" I asked, starting to get slightly angry.
"Not too long after we dated, you started ignoring me, and I needed attention."
I held up my hand, stopping him in his tracks, "What the actual fuck Max. Are you telling me the whole time we were dating you were cheating with other girls just because I focused a little more on school, and work?"
Max shrugged his shoulders, not meeting my gaze, "Yeah Cas, I am so sorry."
I looked at him, "Phoebe is a horrible person as is, and I was okay with you being with her. This. This Max draws a line."
"I know, and I am so sorry."
"Sorry doesn't fix anything with you anymore."
He started to come towards me, but I held up my hand towards him again. I was taking in what he was saying. It stopped him in his tracks. I put my glass in the sink, and left the kitchen. I glared at him on my way out.
I started to run out of the house. My mind was racing from just finding out about Max, and Phoebe. I glanced over to her, she was smiling, that pitiful evil smile. I started running towards the woods again, transforming in mid-air. I never ran so fast before, even faster as a wolf. I thought about Max, and all the times he was at practice. I should have known, right?
What the fuck is even love anyways? A heartbroken mess of stuff. An unbroken promise of forever? Screw that crap. I'm tired of feeling useless and empty. This generation is so screwed up. Can't date older because you don't know half the stuff they talk about.
Can't date younger, because red alert you would be a pedophile, even if they are eighteen years old. Still pretty much a baby at some point. So, how do you find love in this modern world? When you figure it out let me know.
I don't know how to explain love, or half the messed up stuff I have been through. I don't like going into details either. I am just so mad and frustrated at everything and everyone. When will it be my turn? I don't want to pine, but man, I am hurting. Literally, why does everything end terribly for me?
I preach about kindness and loving each other. Just because the world is ending, doesn't mean that it really is. I forget, in that moment, the world is burning, crashing down hard core in the middle of the earth. I forget that the world, in that moment, is a flaming inferno with nothing stopping from it burning. Everything is being consumed in one moment.
I hurt so much. Mentally. Physically. You would think I would have ended up in a psych ward by now. Maybe even have a therapist, but who could afford them anyways. No, I just have this thing called me, myself, and I.
A fucked up mess. Losing a friend. Losing a pet. Losing my mind slowly. I never once found a spark, until I had met him. Everything became so consumed by him. Then, he decided to leave. There was a new Him. Then. Everything came crashing down, a burning inferno.
I want to say I was mature about it. That I was chill, relaxed. But nah, I want to burn the whole world down. I want people to feel my pain. I want them to feel the hurt I am feeling. I was always down for feminism, let no man make you feel like shit.
At that moment, you don't care. At that moment, I didn't care about what anybody thought. I don't want to feel anything, but I want to feel everything. And that people, is why you never give anyone the reason to turn the tables.
Never make a young lady mad, or she will go bad crazy, and show you why she's crazy in the first place. So, I'll leave this to you, you decide who is the villain in the end.
I was still mad after transforming back into my human form. Max shouldn't have done that, why didn't he tell me? I mean I tried. He still shouldn't have cheated, but I know I am to blame for his cheating. I won't blame myself, because that would just be pathetic. Him and Phoebe deserve each other. Now I understand why they were paired as mates.
On my way back, I was still human in the woods. I should have changed back closer. I came across a rock that read, "Portae ad caelum et infernum." What could that mean? Cassie didn't have her phone on her. She must have left it at the house. Which meant she would need to go back there.
It was bothering her, but she couldn't figure out why. It felt familiar to her somehow, in some way it felt like she needed to be here. It was important for her to be here. It called to her, almost like how the prophecy called to her. This was somehow stronger.
Cassie braved herself, she made her way back to the main reservation. Going into the house to collect her phone that was still on the counter. Her dad was propped up on the couch, alongside Mike. Beside them were Max and Phoebe, who was giving me the biggest smile.
"I am ready to go home now dad."
He looked up at me, then glanced at Max. "Let's go."
Jack - Leaving Cassie's school
I left the human world, I had found her. Cassie. I was sent there to kill her. If I found out she was anything more than a human. It wasn't too long ago that I had been transformed into a vampire. I stopped counting my age a long time ago. It was starting to get hard to track, and unbearable, especially when you live forever.
I was turned by this vampire named Camila, she was a renowned powerful vampire. She was born that way, she had these powers that would stop you dead in your tracks. Not only was she strong, but she was powerful as well. I only had ever answered to her, that was until the Headmistress Aofnx came into the picture. Her and Camila were good friends, and Camila sent me to her.
It was later until I realized she wanted me to serve Aofnx. When the Headmistress asked me to kill Cassie I couldn't. I found nothing supernatural about her. She was normal. I don't kill innocents. When I hunt humans, I look for the sick minded. Those murderers that suddenly went missing, or you think just happen to get away. It was probably me. That pedophile that you can't really catch doing the bad stuff, and they so happen to die? Yeah, that's me too. Disgusting how the human mind works sometimes.
When I met Cassie, she was nothing like how they described her. They tried to poison my mind with lies about her. She wasn't dangerous, she was just Cassie. The Cassie I witnessed helped her friends. She kept to herself most of the time. Not starting a fight, more worried about being late to class, or work. What kind of danger would that impose on someone? I made it back to the Academy, I had been traveling after concluding my research on Cassie. I made my way to the Headmistress's office.
"Did you find her?" The Headmistress Aofnx spun around in her chair.
"Yes Headmistress." I said to her, head bowed down, standing across from her.
"Are you sure it's her Jack?" She asked, thumping her fingers on her desk.
"I am positive." I said, looking up to meet her gaze.
"Well what are you waiting for? Go kill her." She gestured, turning her chair away.
"Headmistress Aofnx, are you sure you want me to do that?" I hesitantly asked, fearing displaying in my voice.
"Of course I am sure, why wouldn't I be?" Headmistress Aofnx replied back.
"Cassie is your daughter after all, Headmistress." Daring to meet her gaze again.
"She can't become more powerful than me." She said, both hands on her table, glaring at me down.
"Cassie is human, I swear to you." My hands are going up defensively.
The Headmistress glared at me once more. My cold lifeless soul, piercing through me.
"She better be, if you can't kill her I will send someone else in your place." She said back down in her seat.
I quickly left her office. I didn't understand why a mother would want to kill their own daughter. She had never met Cassie, who was one of the sweetest souls around. I couldn't take her life, I only did that when they deserved it. Cassie was innocent, I wouldn't do that to her, no matter who was in charge. Screw that, she can send someone else. Now I just need to go into hiding.
Damian -
after meeting Cassie The Headmistress first told me about Cassie, I didn't believe it. When I met her, she was the most amazing human being. I didn't think she was a witch for a second. I was surprised when I found out she was part wolf too.
The Headmistress had sent me there, to see if she truly was a witch. Turns out, Jack had lied, and the Headmistress was mad. I didn't blame Jack for not realizing it though, you wouldn't suspect it. It was almost as if she was protected. When Cassie showed up at the Academy with us, I didn't understand why she was shaken. The Headmistress that is.
It wasn't until I had come to her later. When she called me into her office once more. "I need you to kill her."
"Kill who?" I asked, puzzled by this request.
"Cassie of course."
"Why would I need to kill Cassie?"
"That way she's not more powerful than me."
"You don't know if she would be more powerful than you."
"Oh but she will."
"How do you know that?"
"Must I give you a reason with every order?"
"No. I just want to know why I would need to kill an innocent person."
"You've done it before."
I hesitated for a moment, "This is different."
"Don't tell me you have feelings for her."
I hesitated again, Cassie, the way she scrunches up her nose. How she is so careful, and cautious. How clumsy she is, one tip of a finger, and she would fall over.
"No. I just want to know why I would kill an innocent person."
"She's my daughter."
"Why would you kill your own daughter?"
"She is the spawn of me, my dead ex-husband, and her brainless wolf of a father."
"I didn't know you had an ex-husband, what did you do, kill him?"
The Headmistress raised her eyebrows at me, "You did kill him didn't." I asked her.
"Of course, he was having an affair with my twin sister."
"What did you do with your twin sister?"
"I killed her too."
"Cassie mentioned she had an Aunt Marley, how is that possible?"
The Headmistress only smirked at me. " You don't need to worry about that."
"Well you can kill her, I don't want any part of that."
"If you don't help me, I will tell her everything."
"Is that a threat?"
"No, because once I tell her, I'll kill you too."
"Do it, you think you're so powerful don't you? You know, maybe you do have a right to be scared of Cassie. She grows stronger by the day."
"How dare you speak to me like that."
"I'm not scared of you. I only did this out of boredom."
The Headmistress glared at me. "You will help, whether you want to or not."
I shrugged my shoulders at her, "No, I am done running your little errands. Tell Cassie, but just know you'll be revealing who you are to her. She will want to know, and she will have the heart to want to try to connect to you."
"I don't want that connection, I want her dead Mr. Hayes."
"Why not teach her? She can be powerful by your side."
The Headmistress side eyed me, "Once you tasted your power, fully, it will consume from the inside out. Cassie is the strongest of her kind. She will be more powerful than anyone to exist."