The Darkest Powers 3
Kelley Armstrong
Tori, Simon, Derek, and Chloe are in the old, Victorian safe house. Chloe is woken in the middle of the night by a ghost. He says he knows about the Edison group. Chloe wants to know more, so she follows him. She is sure to make noise when she passes by Simon and Derek’s room and hopes Derek will hear her. The ghost leads her through a door and she is on the roof. He closes the door behind him and says he is a Volo (dead demon with telekenetic powers).
Chloe decides she can’t let the ghost know she is worried about the predicament she is in. She starts asking questions about the Edison Group, but the ghost wants his own questions answered. He asks about her relationship with Simon, but she tells him being on the run doesn’t leave much time for romance. She asks about the Edison Group, but changes all the names and titles around. The ghost agrees with her and she knows he doesn’t have any useful information for her. When she points that out, he starts attacking her with whatever objects he finds lying around. Chloe almost flies off the roof when he hits her with a board, but she steadies herself against a railing. She remembers she can use her powers against ghosts and concentrates on pushing him away. Derek comes out to get her.
Seeing that the roof is rotting, Derek takes off his shirt and knots the end to have Chloe pull herself onto the solid part of the roof. She is surprised when he doesn’t yell at her for going after the ghost. His mind is turning, questioning Tori’s story about her escape. Chloe assures him Tori wasn’t against them when they first escaped. Derek is unsure after this last escape from the Edison group. Simon comes out and sits with them. Chloe tells the story and notices Derek is bothered by something. He asks why Chloe followed the ghost. She tells him the Volo demon is the ghost of an Edison Group experiment kid who died in the house. Simon wants to ask Andrew about it, but Derek insists they find out on their own.
They all go inside and downstairs. Derek goes to the kitchen while Chloe and Derek look around the maze of rooms and hallways. Chloe finds Derek checking on some expired looking food and tells him to warn her if he thinks something is wrong. He agrees. Simon and Andrew join them and tell them breakfast is on the way. The members of Andrew’s group arrive: Margaret (business woman that is a necromancer), Gwen (young witch), and Russel (old shaman paramedic that used to work for Edison Group). There are more of them spread out through the state and country, but they don’t want to draw too much attention to themselves, so they sent who they thought could be the most useful in this instance. They tell them their story, but Margaret and Russel are skeptical. Each of the genetically modified kids gives their firm opinion that Rae and Aunt Lauren are in immediate danger. They treat them like little kids and tell them to check out the rooms upstairs so they can discuss whether or not they are going to help them. Derek flat out asks if they want them out of the room and Andrew says it would be easier.
Chloe goes to shower while Derek goes to the kitchen to eavesdrop. Tori gives Chloe tips for washing out the temporary black dye from her hair, but Simon convinces her she should keep it in case they need to leave in a hurry. He promises to ask Andrew for another color. When she gets out of the shower, Chloe runs into Derek. Simon joins them. The group is planning to do some reconnocense in Buffalo before they make any decisions, so the kids are going to have to wait it out a bit. They go to join Tori out back and Simon starts showing the girls some self-defense moves. Andrew calls them in shortly after for dinner. He explains that while they wait, Margaret and Gwen will be helping Chloe and Tori understand their powers. He is also bringing in Tomas, a man that used to handle the werewolves when they were still experiments, but left the Edison Group because of the way they were treated.
There isn’t much else they can do, so Andrew leaves the kids to their own devices. Tori asks Gwen to talk before she leaves for the night. Chloe heads upstairs. Derek gets her attention and is about to ask her something when Simon appears and asks what they are all doing because he doesn’t want to miss out on another adventure. Derek retreats into the boys’ room and Simon goes to talk to him. Tori comes upstairs and joins Chloe in their room. Simon tells them Derek is searching the house for clues and Chloe realizes he was trying to ask her to go with him. Simon suggests they continue their self defense training, but Chloe wants to try to summon her Aunt Lauren and Liz. Simon and Tori agree to stay with her in case the other ghost shows up.
Chloe switches back and forth between trying to summon Liz and her Aunt Lauren. When she doesn’t get any response, Tori suggests she take off her amulet. Suddenly there is a female voice, calling her baby, and telling her to leave the necklace on. She is trying to warn Chloe about a man that could appear if she takes it off. Chloe starts to take it off to be able to hear her better, but Derek comes in and pulls it back down. She explains what they were doing and how they were being as careful as possible. He agrees to let her try again and if she can hear the woman, he will let her take off the amulet. There are no more signs of ghosts. He suggests they go for a walk and try again further away from the house. Tori says she will go with them and shows her fireball. She accidentally throws it at the wall and leaves scorch marks on the wallpaper. Derek warns them they need to keep the level of their powers secret from Andrew’s group before they want to lock them up too. Andrew comes up the stairs and they leave the room. He gives Chloe a sleep aid and Derek encourages her to take it.
After taking the sleeping pill, Chloe wakes up once through the night. She wakes up again in the very early morning and sees a boy in Tori’s bed dripping blood onto the floor in a pool. She realizes it is just a ghostly image, but she starts hearing crying and laughing (ghost images don’t have sound). She goes to the boys room and tries to wake Derek up without intruding. She opens the door to see his bed is already empty. She goes downstairs and sees evidence that he has already eaten. The backdoor is unlocked, so she goes out back and calls quietly for Derek. He is upset when he sees her until she tells him what is going on and she came out to find him for backup. He tells her he couldn’t sleep and was on the roof when he saw a light in the woods. He has been looking for it since. Chloe offers to leave him to his task, but he tells her to stay if she wants to. Andrew comes out and has a worried expression on his face seeing the two of them in the backyard together. They all go inside. Derek goes to shower and Andrew asks Chloe to help with breakfast. While they are working, he warns her that Derek is half wolf and very dangerous. Chloe is frustrated that people keep warning her about Derek when Tori and her uncontrolled spells and temper have hurt her more than Derek ever has.
Gwen comes by to start Tori’s lessons, but is called into work before Tori is even awake. Before she leaves, she asks Simon if he noticed that she was a witch before she told him. He said he couldn’t tell. Gwen says the Edison Group wanted to genetically take out the ability to detect a witch or sorcerer by sight to keep the groups from prejudice against each other. She starts to talk about what happens when the two mix genetically, but stops and changes the subject. When the others leave the room, Chloe goes to ask more about it. Gwen already knows Tori is potential the child of a witch and a sorcerer. The rumors say it is Simon’s dad, Kit, but Chloe finds that to be unlucky as Tori doesn’t have any Asian features. Chloe tells her that she overheard this in a lab and Tori doesn’t know. They agree to keep it a secret from her.
Margaret insists on taking Chloe out for her training. Tori wants to go with them and Chloe lies and says it will make her less nervous. As Margaret is driving, Chloe asks how to block out Residuals (ghostly images). Margaret says she will not see them for a few years and should just walk away from them. Chloe asks how to tell them apart from a real person. Margaret points out they don’t make sound and you can’t interact with them. Chloe is frustrated that she is only being told things she already knows. The arrive at a cemetery. Tori tells Margaret she can’t take Chloe in there because she could accidentally raise the dead. Margaret says it would be impossible for her to do because she doesn’t have the power or right tools. They tell her about Chloe doing it before, but she claims it was the Edison Group messing with her. Tori pulls Chloe aside and points out Margaret is jealous of Chloe’s power and to lay low with them.
They make their way to the back of the cemetery and find the grave of a woman named Edith that died in 1859. Chloe asks about her amulet, but Margaret says it is just a superstition that it dulls a necromancer’s glow (what ghosts are attracted to). Margaret tells Chloe to ask the dead woman to talk to her while she prepares the ritual to summon her. Edith appears instantly after Chloe asks for her. She is excited to see two necromancers as she has only heard some friends talk about them before. She says Chloe has a much brighter glow than Margaret and assumes it is because she is younger. Chloe asks to test her necklace and Edith agrees. Chloe takes off her necklace and hands it to Tori. Suddenly, ghosts start appearing everywhere and Margaret grabs the necklace and has Chloe put it back on. Ghosts start fighting amongst themselves to get to Chloe. Margaret says she can help them and then uses vervain to banish them. On old man pleads to give Chloe his message first and she agrees. Tori supplies paper and pen to write down his information to send to his wife. Once he is gone, Margaret tells Chloe she can’t send the message or else she will have ghosts coming to her all the time asking for favors.
Margaret takes Chloe to a few more graves until she finds a ghost that is reluctant to be summoned. She then has Chloe slowly ramp up her power to summon him. Chloe stops when her internal alarms starts telling her enough. Margaret encourages her to keep going. Chloe tries a little more until she sees a dead squirrel come back to life. She stops, but Margaret points out she needs to finish pulling the ghost through because he is stuck between their world and limbo. Chloe wants to push him back, but Margaret says that is a terrible thing to do because you don’t know where you are sending the ghost. She pressures Chloe to pull the ghost through quickly, and Chloe gives it her all. The ground splits open and they can hear the zombies scratching at their coffins. The pallbearers at a nearby funeral drop the casket when they hear the body inside is alive. Chloe concentrates as hard as she can until they are all released. Tori lets her know when it is all done. Margaret sends them to the car without her. On their way, a man stops them.
The man and a woman want to make sure Chloe and Tori are alright. They blame the “earthquake” for the earth opening up and the pallbearers dropping the casket. They send them on their way. ON the way back to the house, Margaret thinks Chloe raised the dead just to prove a point. Chloe tells her she would never force a soul back into its rotting body just to prove she is right. Back at the house, Chloe and Tori listen into Margaret telling Andrew what happened and that the kids are too dangerous and will have to be under observation for the rest of their lives. Tori marches in and tells Andrew the entire situation was Margaret’s fault. They are shooed out of the room. Chloe realizes Derek was right and that she made a huge mistake by showing her power.
When Chloe and Tori decide they have heard enough, they start to go upstairs. Derek finds them and starts telling Chloe how wrong she was to use her powers when she knew she shouldn’t. He tells her she has to say no and stick to it. Tori sticks up for Chloe and Derek starts ripping into her about how he doesn’t trust her. Simon sees this and signals for Chloe to get away with him while Derek is distracted. They go outside and sit on a garden bench. Simon asks Chloe to go to a gas station that had a sign for ice-cream as their first date. She accepts, but after she gets back in the house, she starts feeling wrong about dating a guy she is on the run with. Margaret is gone, but Russel is there and watching over the kids like a hawk. Chloe spends the afternoon in her room saying she is napping. When Derek comes to the door, she plans to wait a few minutes to open it so she can talk to him, but he is gone by the time she gets there.
Tori is surprised when she comes up to their room after her new job of housekeeping and sees Chloe is still there. She gives Chloe the leftover paper from the cemetery and tells Chloe she can probably get the ghost’s information from the impressions left on them. They agree that Andrew doesn’t have the backbone to stick up for them. Simon finds Chloe so they can keep watch inconspicuously while Derek is checking out the basement. Andrew comes into the room they are in and explains the house’s previous owner, Todd Banks (first experiments on supernaturals) had a son, Austin (the dead boy in Tori’s bed), and his nephew, Royce (the half demon ghost), living with him in the house. Andrew thinks the kids went to live with other relatives after Todd died. After Andrew comes up, he says he found boxes with the last inhabitant’s names on them. He plans to keep looking. Simon tells him Andrew approved his and Chloe’s date for that night. Derek seems surprised and leaves them alone. Simon gives Chloe and Tori another self-defense lesson. After dinner, Chloe gets ready for the date. Simon comes to her door and she is excited about her first date when she sees him.
On their way to the store through the woods, Simon tells Chloe about the difference between sorcerers and witches. Each is only one gender and breeds that gender to pass down their power. sorcerers use greek, latin, and hebrew with hand gestures to do offensives spells. Witches don’t have the hand gestures and do defensive spells. When they arrive at the store, Simon goes in to get the ice-cream. Simon shows her some spells afterwards and they start heading back. Simon goes to kiss Chloe and she jerks back at first. The next attempt, she tries to kiss him back, but it is awkward and doesn’t feel right. Simon guesses there is someone else and knows it is Derek. She tries to tell him it isn’t like that between her and Derek, but Simon knows better. He gives her the completed picture he drew of her and leaves her standing at the edge of the woods.
Derek comes out to find Chloe standing alone and he notices she has been crying. He asks about Simon. She points towards the woods and tries to get around him to get to the house. He asks what happened, but Chloe doesn’t want to talk about it, so she tells him to ask Simon. He continues to push the subject until Chloe tells him Simon thinks she likes Derek. She says it isn’t true, and he replies that it better not be. He won’t let her past, so she decides to go to the woods. When he finally lets her go, he follows her until she gives up and goes in the house. She notices he is sweating and his eyes are feverish. He says he isn’t changing yet and goes to get Simon.
Up in their room, Chloe tells Tori the date didn’t go well. Tori automatically assumes it was Simon’s fault. Chloe tells her she froze up when Simon kissed her, but doesn’t want to say why she doesn’t want to continue dating Simon. Chloe decides to go sleep in the next room over so she can be miserable by herself. Derek wakes her up in the middle of the night to ask her to go outside with him while he changes. She refuses and tells him how awful she has made her feel about that morning in the cemetery and Simon even though she admitted she messed up and already felt bad about it. He begs her and eventually she agrees to go because she sees how panicked he is.
On the way out to the clearing in the woods, Derek tries to get Chloe to talk to him. He tries to talk to her about what happened at the cemetery. He says they should experiment more with her amulet. He tells her he gets frustrated easily when the change is close. Chloe tells him they aren’t going to be friends because he apologized. His continued behavior is something she can’t put up with. He starts to double over in pain, but has something he insists on telling her before he changes. Chloe points out there isn’t time after several attempts. He gets on the ground and Chloe comforts him as his body transforms. This time, he becomes the wolf.
Chloe suddenly realizes that she is in the woods alone with a wolf that might be wild. She waits until Derek, who is completely exhausted, signals that it is still him inside the wolf body. She is relieved and starts to go to give him his space, but he tugs at her to get her to stay with him. She ends up falling asleep next to him. When he wakes her up, she apologizes for using him as a pillow. He starts working on how to move around as a wolf. Chloe starts to tease him and tell him he needs to stop thinking about it and just do it. They start goofing off and Derek realizes she is right. Derek hears something. The silence is followed by a howl, and he knocks his head against Chloe’s leg to tell her to run. When she tries to move slower and quieter, he bumps her again to keep her going fast. They hear a whistle and both stop to wonder who it came from. He motions her to keep running.
It isn’t long before their pursuer starts gaining on them. Derek pushes Chloe into a thicket of bushes and follows as far as he can. Suddenly, they see another wolf in the clearing and Chloe recognizes the fresh scars on him: Ramon. Derek goes out to fight him, but Ramon keeps acting like he is going to go after Chloe. She climbs up a nearby tree until she is high enough to avoid him. Derek sees her out of harms way and fully attacks. Chloe sees a nearby cliff and shouts it out to Derek. Derek is eventually able to push Ramon off. Liam is still coming after them in human form. They put some distance between them and Ramon, but Liam is nearby enough for them to hear him call for them. They hide in another patch of bushes, but Derek starts changing back into his human form. Chloe encourages him but knows Liam has heard him. She pulls out her knife and goes to distract Liam until Derek is done with the transformation.
Chloe finds Liam and plans to lead him away from Derek. Liam’s phone rings and he says they are tracking the kids. He is supposed to separate them and only bring the caller Derek. They know Chloe by name, so she assumes it is the Edison Group. Once he hangs up the phone, he starts asking Chloe where Derek is. Since Derek is still changing, Liam can hear his painful cries. Chloe follows him with her switchblade, but Liam realizes it is a bad idea to have her behind him. While walking in front of him, she dives for his cane. He throws her to the side and she starts summoning anything dead around her into its body for help. She manages to get a rabbit and then a dog. They both attack Liam at her command. Liam realizes she is the one controlling them and goes after her. Suddenly, Derek is there in human form to fight Liam. Chloe starts releasing the animals. There is a loud snap and Liam goes still in shock.
Derek realizes that he accidentally broke Liam’s neck. Chloe tries to keep him calm by saying it wasn’t his fault and Liam would have killed them both if he hadn’t. She takes the cell phone out of Liam’s pocket. When his ghost arrives, Chloe starts asking questions. He is determined not to tell her anything, so she starts putting his ghost back in his body. He says he will talk, but disappears before they get any useful information out of them. Ramon stumbles up and says he doesn’t want to fight. He just wants to take Liam’s body to the pack to clear everything up. Ramon was never really involved in the politics, he just did what Liam told him. He warns Derek to get as far away as possible because people will continue to come after him. Humans generally don’t like other predators and they will pounce on him as soon as he makes any mistake. Derek helps Ramon get Liam’s body over his shoulder. Ramon leaves them in the woods.
Chloe takes the phone and sends a text to the last number called saying they have the kids cornered, but could lose them if they try to bring them in alive. The reply text confirms Derek and Chloe should be killed. The number is saved as RSS and they think it could possibly be Russel. They try to work out the timeline of events to see if it makes sense. They go back to find Derek’s clothes from his first transformation and then to the house. They tell Andrew what happened and he is furious after confirming the number is Russel’s. He calls Margaret and Gwen to get them out there as soon as possible. Derek and Chloe go to wake up and fill in Simon and Tori respectively. They leave out that Derek fully changed and killed Liam. Derek and Chloe are both anxious to get away, but they both know they can’t leave yet.
While Chloe is in the shower, Simon leaves her a pictogram message asking her to forgive him. He tells her he is okay with just being friends and she agrees that is what she wants. They are left out of the adult discussion again, and Andrew leaves without telling them why. Simon is ready to leave, but Derek points out the Edison Group would probably be on them as soon as they left. Chloe wants to try to summon Royce. They have Tori keep Margaret occupied and go to the basement. Chloe tries summoning, but doesn’t get anyone. Simon says her eyes twitch when she tries, so she keeps trying. She gets Derek to agree to let her slowly take her necklace off, but the woman’s voice returns telling her not to. She realizes it is her mom.
Chloe continues to summon her mom even though she tells her to stop because it isn’t safe. Derek tells Chloe he has heard that necromancers usually can’t summon their own family members. Her mom tells her to run and their is no where safe. Her mom disappears and Chloe tries again, but she brings back Royce instead. He tells Chloe there is a secret room in the workshop, but she knows he just wants to use the tools inside to hurt them. He starts going through a box of his things and throwing them at them. Derek tells Simon to get upstairs and he eventually goes. Chloe works on pushing him back. She almost completes the task while Derek protects her, but someone comes up behind them and demands to know what she did.
Dr. Banks is there and tries to warn Chloe. Derek urges her to let him go, but she keeps trying. He starts to coach her and tells her that she needs to stop pulling and instead welcome him. She does what he says and he starts to possess her. She is suddenly outside of her body and can see Dr. Banks controlling it. Derek puts the necklace back over her head and she is thrown back into her body. Dr. Banks tells her he is going to use her body to track down all the experiments and destroy them before they go crazy like Royce. He will then kill her friends and her. She sends him away with one furious push and tells Derek they need to leave. Andrew returns and tells them Russell was already gone when he got to his apartment. They decide they have to get the kids to Kit and Aunt Lauren. Chloe does her best to describe the layout of the Edison Group headquarters before falling asleep in a chair. Derek is watching over her when she wakes up. He asks her if she wants to talk about what happened in the basement. When their eyes meet, she accidentally drops her water glass. Derek moves to catch it before it hits the floor and they find themselves face to face when Simon comes into the room. They both jump up in guilt and Chloe goes to change her water soaked jeans. Derek calls after her, but neither of them can think of an excuse to be alone together, so he just asks her if she wants him to grab her something from the kitchen.
Chloe dries her jeans with a hair dryer and then takes her time getting back to the boys. She follows a vacuum cord to find Tori dusting the library. Chloe quickly realizes there is a computer in the room and that Tori was most likely on it. She doesn’t believe Tori’s story that she was trying to email friends. Tori shows Chloe some deleted emails that were not cleared completely off the hard drive. She has been suspicious since she was let go so easily when she was captured at Andrew’s house. They go through a few that show all of Andrew’s group has been conspiring against them. His friend Tomas gives instructions on how to hand Derek over to the Pack. There are even a few that prove Andrew is in on the scheme. One was from the day Liam and Ramon first attacked Chloe and Derek; a day that Andrew was supposed to be in the Edison Group’s custody.
Tori keeps going through Margaret’s laptop for informaiton. Derek comes to ask Chloe if she wants to look through files in the attic with him to learn more about Dr. Banks. She tells them what they have learned and Tori shows him the proof. He tries to think of what they need to do. Tori wants to leave immediately, but Derek isn’t ready to bolt without having all the information. Chloe offers to get Andrew’s laptop and Derek agrees that she should. Derek goes to get Simon away from Andrew.
Chloe asks to read the manuscript on Andrew’s computer he had offered previously. He tells her his laptop is in the library and to have at it. She takes Tori with her and they start going through the emails. Tori continues to go through while Chloe goes to get Derek and Simon. She finds Derek first and asks about Simon, but quickly decides she should show him first. She takes him to the laptop and Tori goes to get Simon. When Chloe shows him the first email, she hugs him in excitement. She pulls back quickly, but he holds her. He puts her on his knee while they go through the rest of the emails. The read that Andrew has been sending Kit all over looking for the boys when he knew exactly where they were. Chloe jots down the latest email and phone number and gives it to Derek. He puts her arms around his neck in another hug. They jump away from each other when Simon approaches. They let him read the emails and then decide they are leaving right away.
They split up so that two of them are packing while two of them are talking like normal teenagers. Andrew stays in the kitchen and when they are ready to go, Derek decides he will stay behind to distract him. Tori and Simon point out it would be better to use a binding spell and then tie him up so that he has a harder time following. Suddenly, Margaret arrives. Derek sends Simon and Tori to take care of her first and assigns Chloe to move their bags to the closet. Derek goes to distract Andrew. When Simon and Tori appear, they are not only with Margaret, but two other members of the group, Gordon and Roxanne. Since they don’t know their particular powers, they agree it is too risky to attempt escape right then. Tori asks if they can go get ice-cream after dinner, but Andrew says they have to stay in the house since they are leaving for Buffalo the next day. After dinner while the adults are all gathered, Derek sneaks a cell phone and Simon tries to call their dad while Derek and Chloe talk to cover it up. He gets a hold of him, but the call doesn’t last long enough to tell Kit exactly what is going on before the call is disconnected. They decide they will try again on the pay phone at the service station on their way out of town that night. Derek erases the record of the call before replacing the cell phone.
Tori wakes Chloe up from a deep sleep when the alarm on the watch Derek gave her goes off at 2:00 am. Simon comes in to tell them he can’t wake up Derek. They all go in and see that Derek is still sleeping. Tori starts to check his vitals when he wakes up. He still feels groggy and Chloe realizes Andrew drugged him. Chloe and Tori each carry two bags while Simon helps Derek move around. They start to make their way out of the house and are suspicious when there isn’t any sign of Andrew. They get to the door, but it is locked by a spell. Andrew is there with a spell for an energy bolt just one word away from completion. He tells them he wanted Derek to go with the pack so that he could learn to control his power. He had nothing to do with Russell telling the other werewolves to kill them. He tries to tell them his group is not necessarily all his friends. He didn’t want to tell Kit where his sons are because that takes away the immediate danger inspiring his group to attack the Edison Group. They knew the kids were going to run because it has been their pattern. Derek lunges to knock Chloe to the floor, and Andrew hits him with a spell. Derek falls on top of Chloe and tells her it is okay. Tori uses a binding spell and Simon goes to pull Andrew’s hands behind his back. Derek gives the orders to tie him up.
Andrew admits that his group set up the supposed Edison Group attack at his cottage. They wonder what else he has been lying about. They can’t agree on a plan to see if the house really is surrounded by his group. Derek and Simon go to question Andrew more while Tori and Chloe search his laptop again. A few minutes later, Simon appears and asks if Derek is with them. Chloe agrees to help him look and ends up finding Derek on the roof. She begs him to come down before he gets shot, but he doesn’t move. He says they need to talk and she says they can do that inside. She leaves him on the roof and comes up with her own plan.
Chloe makes her way out the back door and heads for the woods. She decides she will try to make it to the service station and back as a test. She has a flashlight, but keeps her hand over the lens to keep from drawing attention. She hears laughter behind her and she keeps going. Royce appears and asks her if she wants to hear about his pretty girl or the curse of necromancy. He tells her he didn’t go crazy, he always like to hurt things. Chloe starts to run, but Royce throws things at her until she falls down. She starts to fight back and he hits her in the head. She sends him flying back and suddenly Liz is there to distract him. She keeps him occupied until Chloe is able to send him away completely.
With the immediate threat out of the way, Chloe and Liz greet each other as best they can. Chloe explains what is going on and Liz says there are people out in the woods making sure they don’t run away. Liz hears someone coming and goes to check it out. Suddenly, Derek is there and Liz hits him in the back with a large stick until she recognizes him. Simon and Tori are with him. Derek starts to scold Chloe for coming out in to the woods, but she points out that there are people with guns and spells out there. They get back to the house and Derek restarts his speech about how stupid it was for Chloe to go out alone. He thinks he did it because she was angry at him. She explains that since he wouldn’t come off the roof, she was the next best choice because she didn’t have any powers that would threaten the people watching them. Chloe puts an end to the discussion quickly and decides they need to come up with a plan.
The kids decide they don’t have a chance of escaping until the people outside let their guard down when the others arrive during the day. They let Andrew go, but keep him in the basement, knowing they will have to convince him they want to go with them to take down the Edison Group. Derek and Simon stay with him while Tori works on his laptop. Chloe doesn’t have anything to do, so she grabs some paper to work on a scene for a movie out of their latest experience. Derek comes in shortly after and tries to get her to sit with him. When she refuses, he tries to apologize for getting angry when he is worried about her. She tells him the issue is that they are not allowed to worry about him because he doesn’t think he is worth it. She tells him she thinks he is and kisses him. Simon approaches, so they jump apart. Andrew has to go to the bathroom, so Derek goes to take him. When he asks Chloe to join him, she says she has to talk to Simon.
Chloe explains that if the adults think Derek is gone they may relax their guard. He agrees it is a good idea. Tori arrives and then Derek. They all agree to the plan and Derek goes to the attic to hide. Chloe asks Liz to look after him. They let Andrew out of the basement and tell him Derek ran into the woods to wait for an opportunity to get away. Margaret arrives and the kids are all jumpy. When Gwen arrives with muffins, they are all suspicious. She says she wasn’t able to answer or return Andrew’s calls because of work, but Andrew is the only one who doesn’t think that is unlikely. Chloe sends Liz out to see if they have any exits yet.
Simon folds up a piece of paper and asks Chloe to get it to Derek in the attic. Suddenly, Margaret is looking for both of them. Chloe hides in a room and Simon answers her. She tells him she needs their help bringing up chairs from the basement. Simon leaves and Margaret calls for Gwen. Chloe locks the door of the room she is in as quietly as she can and tries to hide. She hears Gwen and Margaret talking and then there is a thump after they part ways. Suddenly, Chloe can hear Gwen in the room she is in and then see her. Chloe realizes Gwen is dead. Gwen tells her she needs to warn Simon and Tori. Chloe starts making her way to the basement, but Margaret and Russell are blocking her way. She goes into a room and sees Andrew, but Margaret is about to answer. Andrew waves her over to hide behind a table, but Chloe slips on something and lands on the table. Margaret finds her and injects her with something. The last thing she sees is Andrew’s dead eyes.
Chloe wakes up in a van to hear Margaret and Russell talking about keeping Simon sedated messing up his diabetes. When she wakes up again, they are at the Edison Group headquarters and Dr. Davidoff is there to great them. Chloe and Tori are strapped to wheel chairs and pushed through the halls. He shows them Simon being given fluids because he was dehydrated from throwing up. He points out the doctor helping Simon is Aunt Lauren. Chloe asks to see Rae and Dr. Davidoff says they will, but she has been transferred. Tori becomes upset and starts yelling at him. She frees herself and tells him they have seen Liz and Brady’s ghosts. He admits there was an accident with Liz, but he says Brady is with Rae and Amber at a special school for supernatural children. Tori demands a video conference with them to prove they are still alive. Her mother, Diane, comes in and calls her outburst a tantrum. Dr. Davidoff wants to deal with her without medication, but Diane keeps pushing her. Tori frees herself and starts making a ball of energy. While Tori is distracted, Diane creeps behind her and uses a spell to stop one of the guards from breathing. She blames Tori. Chloe saw Diane cast the spell and says so, but an invisible force slaps her across the face. She blames that on Tori as well. She uses a binding spell to freeze Tori so they can restrain her while Dr. Davidoff takes Chloe to her room.
Once Dr. Davidoff drops Chloe off in her room and leaves, she starts weighing her options. She summons the demi-demon and promises to free her if she helps get her and her friends out. The demi-demon agrees and tells Chloe her plan. Chloe refuses to kill anyone for the plan (the demi-demon requests Diane) so she summons the recently killed guard to her room. He uses his card to enter and is furious with Chloe. At the demi-demon’s suggestion, Chloe takes his gun. She does her best to have his spirit move on. The demi-demon takes over his body and tells Chloe to keep the gun on her just in case. She tucks it into her waistband and they start to go.
Chloe and the demi-demon make their way to the security room. The guard there recognizes the dead guard. The demi-demon says that the shaman was brought in to heal him and tells the guard he needs to go to the doors. As he walks by the dead guard’s body, he smells the burning. The demi-demon knocks him out and calls Chloe into the room. The Edison Group is meeting in a room and debating about something. Chloe finds Aunt Lauren locked up in her own cell and the demi-demon says her aunt tried to escape as soon as she was brought back. Aunt Lauren is added to the list of people to rescue. They find their way down to the cells and find Tori first. She is not surprised to see the dead guard’s body. Next, they get Simon. Chloe tells him everything and they both agree they need to be careful.
Tori says she wants to get to Dr. Davidoff’s computer to get information about their other experiments. Once they are out, she wants to warn others like them. Simon wants to find a phone to cal his dad. Chloe agrees both of those are good suggestions and they head the other way. The demi-demon leads Chloe towards her Aunt Lauren, but an alarm starts to go off. They hide as best they can in a closet and the demi-demon drops the dead guards body to go see what is going on. When she comes back, she tells Chloe that the Edison Group is looking for her and think she has already left the building. She points out they will need a distraction, which she could provide with her magic if Chloe frees her. Not seeing any other options, Chloe asks what she needs to do.
Once the demi-demon is free, the entire building starts to shake and pieces of ceiling and wall fall on Chloe. The demi-demon leads her out of the closet and into the room. She continues to tell her to get out and to the hallway, but there are invisible hands grabbing at her. The demi-demon explains that the ritual opened a tear to a demon world and there are a few pesky demon spirits that are trying to get out. She points out they can’t do anything unless they have a dead body. They suddenly both remember the guards dead body. She tells Chloe to put her back in him, but it is too late. The closet door opens and the lights go out.
Chloe can hear the body approaching her in the dark. She starts trying to release it like she would a ghost, but keeps trying to get away from it. She hits her head, reopening her wound and bloods starts to drip down her neck. She decides to stop trying to get away so that she can send the demon spirit away. It crawls over her and starts licking the blood from her head. She gets away and falls over a chair. When the lights come back on, she sees the distorted guards body licking her blood off the floor. The demi-demon returns to distract it while Chloe releases it. When the body finally falls to the ground, Chloe feels hot air like a furnace and the demi-demon tells her to hurry.
Suddenly, the guards body stands up and looks human again. The new possessor says to stop and Chloe does. Diriel, the demi-demon, calls him master and he is not happy that she has been away so long and not answering his summons. She tells him she will explain after she completes her contract, but the demon sees Chloe and says she is powerful enough to not need a demi-demon. He and Diriel disappear. The door starts to open and Chloe gets the gun ready. Aunt Lauren comes in and takes the gun from Chloe, who doesn’t tell her aunt about the demons that just left. They start making their way towards Tori and Simon, but they run into a guard. Aunt Lauren tells him to go back int the room he came from, but Diane shoots him from behind and uses a binding spell on Aunt Lauren. Suddenly, Derek arrives in wolf and attacks Diane. Liz is with him and explains she helped him get there. Once Diane is knocked out, Chloe runs up and hugs Derek. She tells them they need to find Simon and Tori and asks Liz to scout the way. Aunt Lauren is shocked. Chloe tells her she is okay and they start moving.
They run into Simon and Tori , who where on their way to find Chloe. Aunt Lauren leads them to an unused wing of the building and they start making their way through using the dead guards key card. Derek tenses up as he sees room where he grew up with his three brothers. Liz comes to tell them someone is coming and they use the card again to get into a locked room. They all split up to find a hiding space and Derek and Chloe stay by each other. They find a spot among towers of boxes and get the others to join them. They hear men outside their door talking about using the empty wing as the base of their operations. They need to catch two out of four of the kids before Mr. St. Cloud arrives. Diane eventually shows up and says she wants Derek dead. Chloe asks Liz how they got there. She explains that Derek drove and she communicated by paper. He got stressed out when they got the guard station and then he changed. Derek starts to change back. Chloe tells everyone to give him some room. He tugs on her sleeve to get her to stay with him. She tells the others to leave if they get the chance before Derek is done changing. They all eventually agree, hoping it won’t come to that
Derek changes back quicker than before and Chloe gives him time to recover. Simon brings him some hospital scrubs Aunt Lauren found. He tells Chloe to give Derek the note. Derek looks at the picture and gets dressed. He talks to Simon for a moment and then comes back to Chloe. They are about to kiss when Tori comes around the corner and expresses her surprise. Chloe goes to let everyone know Derek is ready to go. Aunt Lauren asks to speak to Derek for a moment and he complies. When he returns to Chloe she knows her aunt told him to stay away. When they hear one of the men say there was a break in a perimeter spell, Aunt Lauren runs out yelling for Chloe like she is looking for her. She tries to go after her, but Derek hold her back and she realizes this is what she was talking to him about. Diane uses a binding spell on Aunt Lauren and takes her gun. She points it at Aunt Lauren, but Kit shows up and announces himself.
Simon immediately stops moving and heads towards his dad. Chloe, tells Derek to go fight. She tries to stay out of the way so she doesn’t get anyone hurt. Tori starts casting spells against her mother and makes the entire building shake. Part of the ceiling comes down and Derek tackles Chloe to keep her safe. When the dust settles, Diane is dead, but Dr. Davidoff has a gun pointed at Aunt Lauren. He uses a board to knock out Tori. Liz is about to use the same board on him, but he points the gun at Tori and tells her to hold it so he can see her. Chloe puts Diane’s ghost back in her body and makes her shoot Dr. Davidoff. They hear the Cabal SWAT team coming for them, so they get out as quickly as they can with Derek carrying Tori. They make it over the security wall and on their way before the team makes it through the debris to get to them.
Kit has a van not to far away and they all pile in and drive until they are far away. They get a couple of hotel rooms and Chloe ends up in one with Aunt Lauren, who wants to tell her Dr. Davidoff’s death wasn’t her fault. Chloe knows she indirectly killed him, and Derek will be the one to help her to deal with it. She demands they let her dad know she is okay. Chloe goes outback of the motel to find Tori. They sit next to each other and Tori leans agains her and cries over the loss of her mom. Derek comes out a while later and Tori leaves them to be alone. They both hope their groups will stay together. Kit comes to gather them all together. They all agree it will be fore the best that they stay together and on the run. It will be a while before the Cabal will come after them, so they will have some time to warn the others on the lists Tori got off the computers. Kit has a few ideas on where they can all go. After dinner, Chloe and Derek go out for a walk to spend some time alone. They finally get to really kiss and she decides she is happy with her new life.