UnTamed [Book 3]

I Catch Myself on Fire

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Chapter Quote:
“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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Chapter 11: I Catch Myself on Fire

Derek 

It was four in the morning when Derek was woken up by Luke shaking him.  He grumbled an annoyed ‘what’.

“Have you been in Bryn’s room since we got back to camp?” Luke whispered.

“No.  Why would I go in there?  I don’t want to go in there.  Not when it’s empty,” he mumbled.  His brain had no filter on it this early in the morning, but Derek realized he’d said too much.  Opening his eyes, he saw Luke back away; Silena stood next to her brother, looking confused and tired.  Mrs. Winchester and Mr. Drew stood alert in the doorway.  Rubbing the back of his head, Luke said to someone on his cell phone, “Derek hasn’t been in her room either… And Neville didn’t bark at anything?  That’s weird… maybe he knew the intruder… stranger things have happened in our lives, dad.  For all we know, it could be her… I’m coming home.  I want to see if I can determine anything else they took.  I’ll call Mrs. O’Leary.  I’ll give her a ton of things to eat and drink so she can have enough energy to shadow-travel me back… yeah, love you too, Dad.”

“What’s happening?” Derek asked once his friend had hung up.

“Someone robbed Bryn’s room.  Only her room.  Your parents discovered it when they came home a couple hours ago.  They weren’t greeted by Neville so they went searching for him and found him in Bryn’s bed.  Then they realized her closet door was open.  They know for a fact they had her closet, bathroom, and bedroom doors had all shut when they left.  So how Neville got in there is a question in itself because I don’t think he knows how to open doors.  But then they found pictures missing.  You remember that bulletin board thing where she pinned up pictures, over half of them were gone.  Picture frames were gone, her phone charger was gone, her iPod charger was gone, makeup bag was gone, and a ton of clothes.  Whoever stole from her room knew what they wanted.  Question is: who did it?”

“Maybe it was Bryn,” Derek suggested. “You’ve said you’ve been dreaming about her right?  And some of those dreams have been coming true.  So maybe-”

“If it is Bryn, it’s not the Bryn we know,” Luke stated.

“What do you mean?”

His friend sighed. “She came to visit me in a dream, like her actual purpose was to see me.  She said she’s waiting to see what Underworld field she gets put into so she’s been watching over us.  She also said the Bryn I’m dreaming about is not her.  It looks and speaks and acts like her, but it’s not our Bryn.  She warned me to stay away from her and Penn.  I told her I’d try, but-”

“-But you want to know why Penn’s helped us,” Derek finished. “You promised her, but Silena and I didn’t.  We can find out what she’s up to without you breaking your promise to Bryn.”

Luke nodded. “All right.  I told dad I was heading home.  If you two want to stay here for a bit, that’s fine, but I’m going back.”

“I’ll come with,” Silena offered.

“Me too.  Bryn was my sister.  I could probably name a few things the person took too.  Let me get packing.”

Luke agreed and announced he was going to go call Mrs. O’Leary.  He went downstairs, followed by Mrs. Winchester and Mr. Drew.  Derek figured they were probably wanting to see a friendly hellhound because the idea itself was pretty ludicrous until you saw it for yourself.