Destiny Takes Its Toll, Rebooted

Chapter 6

Over at Berkeley University, Chris was just coming out from his psychology class. There was always the good feeling he got when he went out in the open air with fresh knowledge from one of his classes. When he checked his phone, he noticed there was a missed call and a few texts in his and his brother's group text he missed from Andrew. Chris's expression faltered when he read he and his brothers had some demon work to do when he got home. Yay, great, just fantastic. Well, again, it wasn't really surprising given that the Source was somewhere out there anyway. Chris quickly texted the group chat, hitting send and bumped into someone causing him to drop his phone and books.

"Oh shit," the man who bumped into Chris was apologizing over and over, but Chris assured the man that everything was alright. Chris got everything picked up, taking some things the man had helped pick up and again told him everything was alright. The man just sort of stared at Chris for a few moments before shaking his head and excusing himself. Chris raised his eyebrow as he watched the man walk off with his phone in his hand as he made a call.

Shrugging, Chris made sure the text he wanted to send to his brothers went through and made his way to the parking lot where he found Jacob waiting for him. Chris placed his things on the floor of the passenger seat of Jacob's car and was immediately grabbed by Jacob from behind who proceeded to give his boyfriend a tight hug.

"I missed you," Jacob was saying and gave Chris a kiss on his neck.

Chris smiled and giggled, telling Jacob he missed him too. After another kiss, Chris climbed into the passenger seat of Jacob's car and his boyfriend got into the driver's side and turned the car engine on. "Okay, where are we going now?"

Chris nervously smiled at Jacob and told him they needed to go to the manor asap. He explained that Andrew stumbled on a new demonic problem but hoped it wasn't anything too serious. Jacob was always very understanding with Chris and his family in general, so it didn't really bother him whenever something supernatural came up, but he did make Chris promise he'd be extra careful with whatever was going on.

When they reached the manor, Chris basically jumped out of the car and hurried towards the manor's front doors. Jacob just shook his head and silently wished to whatever being was up there to keep Chris and his brothers safe.

Chris opened the front door and called out to Andrew, whose voice seemed to be coming from upstairs. Chris followed his brother's voice to the attic, and saw as Andrew was going through pages of the Book of Shadows. "Still haven't found anything?"

"No, there's multiple possibilities on what could be going on," Andrew informed his brother that whatever happened to the couple could have been done from rogue wood nymphs, naturally caused poison although he sort of doubted that one, to a complete cover up.

Chris scrunched his face in confusion, "Who the hell would cover up an attack with plants?"

Andrew chuckled and took out the flower he'd taken from the crime scene, "Here little man, take this and see if you can get a premonition out of this."

Chris took the flower and looked doubtful at his brother, "You do know I don't get premonitions from everything, right?"

The brothers were surprised by a call from Jacob coming from downstairs so the brothers made their way down to investigate. Chris was asking Jacob what was wrong and Jacob pointed towards the plants in the solarium. "I swear I heard something move in there."