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3.7

//michael//

She was sound asleep just like every other night -- well, the passed two nights. We'd finally gotten Ella home with the help of Calum's magic potion to make Ella's family forget that she was ever gone. While Ella wasn't particularly happy about it, it was what was safer for her. But she was always a stubborn little asshole so I'll admit I'd miss her. Besides the guys and Annie, she was one of the only people that never put up with my shit. But even sometimes the guys didn't so I guess it was just her and Annie.

I popped in just to make sure she was doing okay with her family, but I never really stuck around that long. Only long enough to know she was safe and asleep.

"Dude," Luke whispered from next to me. I wasn't surprised he could flash here since it was Cooper's old room, "you need to get back. Calum's decided to let Mali-Koa wake up."

Calum had been keeping Mali under a sleeping spell because he was afraid of what she'd do when she woke up and found out he had taken her away, and that Ashton and Cooper were gone. Ash and Bridge had called after they'd gotten to the apartment to let us know they were safe and they asked how we were. We told them that everyone was fine, Ella was home, Annie was coming to, and Mali-Koa was still out. We promised to tell them when the two girls recovered.

Annie, thankfully, was fine. With a little help from Calum, she recovered faster than she would've considering the magnitude of the shock. She was still feeling a little weak but Calum was helping a lot with that. And we were back to how we were before I died. It felt fucking fantastic to be able to hold her and kiss her again.

"Alright, let's get out of here." I agreed before we both flashed out and showed up at the house.

I ended up in the kitchen alone. I knew that they were probably in Calum's room which was where he was keeping his sister. I wandered through the living room and over to the stairs, bounding up them before going down the short hallway to Calum's room. Mali-Koa was still unconscious but everyone was crowded into the room, including Annie. Once she saw me, she immediately walked to my side -- she was much smaller without her heels -- and wrapped her arms around my torso. I welcomed her with an embrace of my own.

"See anything, Noel?" Calum asked as he uncapped a tiny bottle with clear liquid inside.

Noel stared out the window at the night sky blankly as she tried to look into the future events. It took her a few seconds before she spoke, "You might want Michael and Luke nearby."

Calum waved Luke and I forward. As I walked over to the bed, Annie followed closely behind me. When Luke stepped away from Emily, she stayed in the back with Noel. I figured that things wouldn't go well with Mali-Koa waking up so I was mentally prepared for whatever the crazy bitch threw at us.

"Ready?" Calum asked Luke and I.

"Totally." I nodded once.

"Yeah." Luke agreed.

Calum opened his sister's mouth, pouring the liquid from the container into it. We watched as she swallowed it and waited for her eyes to open. When they did, they didn't slowly flutter open, they flew open like she knew that something was wrong. Her eyes flashed from the ceiling to me, to her brother, to Luke, and finally to Annie because that's all she could see laying down.

"What happened?" she asked quickly, looking up at her brother. "Where am I?"

"Well, you're not at the Marco's anymore," he replied slowly. "Do you remember anything?"

"Where's Ashton?" she asked, ignoring Calum's question.

Calum looked to us quickly before looking back at his sister, "Well, um, he's...gone."

"Bridgette?" she questioned with gritted teeth.

"She's um...she's gone with him."

She bolted up so fast Luke and I almost missed her. We grabbed her arms and pinned her down while she tried to sit up and possibly tear our heads off.

"Guys." Noel whispered from the back of the room but it was serious enough to at least catch my attention. She was staring outside again, blank expression on her face as Emily looked at her with deep concern.

"Guys!" Emily called louder.

Mali-Koa continued to thrash around but Luke and I got her pinned down better. We looked from Noel to Mali to make sure Mali wasn't going anywhere. Other than that, everyone had stopped completely and they were watching Noel.

"Something's wrong," she said, her face turning from blank to concern. It quickly went to completely horror, her mouth wide open and her hand over it. She turned to Calum, tears in her eyes. "Oh my God."