but none of them were home (Caleb)

[Jade Danvers]

Jade was sitting in the living room of the house drawing she was spread out over the living room table with her art supplies. There was paper, charcoal, pencils, colored pencils, ink, pens, and various other art supplies all over the living room table. Jade was doing what she loved to do draw, paint, anything with art really. Jade was an artistic girl by her very nature, it was just who she was. She was also a swimmer, her older adoptive brother Caleb had figured that out when he took her swimming for the first time in her life. He was the first person in any family she had ever been in that cared enough about her to take care of her. Jade had never had someone who was taking care of her like Caleb did. Jade was happy with the Danvers family even though both of the parents were pretty much useless. Evelyn was an alcoholic and though she was never abusive toward either one of them, she didn’t exactly take the time to care for them. But Jade was oddly ok with the benign neglect after all of the abuse that she had been through growing up. She was eight the first time she had ever spent any time in an asylum for people with things like schizophrenia and other disorders of the mind. Jade didn’t have any of that, she was a witch and it had scared the crap out of her foster family who then got rid of her.

Jade had spent a year there because the state decided that she needed it but she really didn’t. By the time Jade had gotten to the Danvers she was terrified of them. She didn’t want to be but her experiences were so bad with other families that she hadn’t been ready to be with the Danvers and their semi kindness. Jade had learned that Evelyn basically bought her whatever she wanted. The house was something scary it was all formal and sportsman’s like. She had been scared about breaking something for at least a year after she was adopted and got into the house. Everything looked expensive and kind of scary, the house was still very dark in its appearance and how it seems. The aura of the house was almost sad, but at the same time it was serious, warm and kind of cozy. It wasn’t something that she had expected. She hadn’t met Caleb until she got to the house, she hadn’t expected there to be anyone else in the house. Jade had been surprised that there was anyone near her age around. And by the next day there were his friends there, she didn’t realize that there were people her own age anywhere near them.

Jade had tried to hide her powers but the first time she had a nightmare her powers had gone off and she must have been screaming because Caleb had come into the room and comforted her. She had thought she was going to get hit at first but she got hit anytime she screamed anywhere else. But he had sat with her and rubbed her back. She had eventually fallen asleep again and didn’t have another night mare that night. The thing about Caleb was that he was always there while Evelyn just provided the money for food, water, and anything they could possibly want. Discipline didn’t happen much in the house if she messed up Caleb helped her fix it so that no one would notice. Jade was a scatter brain so he was always the person who made sure that she had her homework, lunch and anything else she could need.

The day she had come home crying about swimming and how she didn’t know how to swim, Caleb had taken her out to the pool and started to teach her to swim. They had spent a little over a week doing the swimming thing. She had taken to it naturally and quickly learned the ways of swimming. She eventually was convinced by Caleb to join the swim team. She had taken to that naturally as well. But if she got upset her powers were still out of control. Now at seventeen years old she was comfortable, on the swim team, in art club, in a book club and extremely active. Jade was drawing a picture of the Sons of Ipswich because they were friends of hers as well as her older brother. They were the people who helped her learn to control her powers. Her face was smudged with pencil at the moment which was nothing new for anyone who knew her well.

Her outfit was typical of her style to a vintage style outfit that made her look like she belonged in a different era such as the forties or fifties. She was dressed in a cream colored silk button up shirt with a bib look to it and false sleeves from Matthew Williamson, a vintage velvet and silk a-line skirt from Valentino, Bertie Adelia Vintage Mary Jane shoes in black, with 1940 styled chandelier earrings, with a matching bracelet and necklace. Jade was always like this her hair was down at the moment and her makeup was light but very forties in its appearance. Jade was a girl who should have been in the forties rather than the present day. She was always a vintage girl she loved vintage clothes, shoes, stores and anything like that. She was always that way ever since she was four years old. Jade had seen a mannequin in a store dressed in a vintage outfit and out of nowhere Jade decided that was what she was going to be for the rest of her life.

It wasn’t until she was ten that she was able to do it though, the Danvers family gave her money for clothes, shoes and anything she could possibly want or need. Her room was done in a vintage style but she liked to draw in the living room. Jade liked to draw somewhere where she could see when people were walking into the door. She liked to know who was coming in the house so she didn’t make herself look like a crazy person because Jade was a natural scatter brain her stuff was always scattered through the house. She had shoes in almost every room of the house, probably several hats, gloves and scarves from the years scattered everywhere in the house, she didn’t know how to keep track of everything she’d get into the house in winter and pull off all of her winter gear on her way to her room. Caleb had sometimes trailed behind her picking all of that stuff up and making sure that it got to her room. Making sure that she had it for the next morning, Caleb was always more of a parent to her than Evelyn was, and she understood what James’ reason was for not caring for her but it didn’t mean that she appreciated it. She was glad that she had Caleb but she felt bad that he was sometimes more of a parent for her than either of the adults. She had quickly and quietly learned to be as independent as possible so that she could help Caleb with things. Anything that he needed help with she was around. She was supportive to him through the whole thing with his girlfriend. She felt bad for him because of this though too and she was doing what she could to ease his burden.

This mean that she was home every night making sure that Evelyn was getting into bed and not sleeping on the couch. She was also making sure that there were meals made when Caleb would come in everything. He had helped her through most of her issues like not being able to swim and getting over the abuse she had told him about. Some of the abuse she hadn’t told him about she wasn’t going to tell him about it though. She wasn’t going to tell him about the psychiatric ward that she had spent a year in because of her early developed powers that no one knew what to do with.

Looking around the house Jade was kind of wondering where everyone was, Evelyn had long since head into a different room to sleep and Jade had let her go. If the woman wasn’t drunk she was hung over or working on getting drunk. Jade was used to it though and she had adjusted just knowing only to talk to Evelyn when she was alert enough to be bothered. Jade didn’t often go to see James Danvers she hadn’t known of his unfortunate fate until she was about thirteen herself and she went with Caleb to where his father was. Jade had been a little freaked out by him but she had adjusted quickly, she was quiet and silent most of the time she was there. Jade was the person who just sat by and let Caleb do what he needed that.

Jade jumped when she heard the house settle slightly and it freaked her out. Jade was jumping when she was in the huge house when she was basically alone. Her history of abuse was extensive enough that she probably did have a few minor psychiatric issues including a little bit of post traumatic stress disorder. Jade hated closed dark spaces because of being locked into a closet it also made her jumpy. Jade was better though and she wasn’t nearly as bad as she was six years ago when the Danvers had adopted her. But her powers still went extremely haywire if she was anywhere near anything that would lock her in and leave her in a cold dark place she hated the cold and the dark. Not that anyone she knew blamed her for that though. Jade decided to pick up her iphone and plug in her pink skull candy headphones and listen to her favorite songs for the moment until someone showed up.

Jade started to quietly sing with the music, Jade wasn’t a powerful singer in any sense of the word but she could sing quietly to herself. She was listening to things that were kind of upbeat because they made happier. She was currently singing Pocket Full of Sunshine and now dancing in the living room like a moron. She used her powers to manipulate some of the stuff in the room to dance with her. She had her powers under so much more control than she did before. She remembered a time where she was worried about hurting someone with her abilities but she wasn’t going to tell that to Evelyn because she hadn’t told Evelyn about her abilities. In fact the only people who knew were Caleb and his friends because they were helping Jade figure out why she had powers. She wasn’t sure about it and not knowing who her birth mother was made it more difficult. She had no way of figuring out her family’s lineage and Caleb was helping her look. Without a name and her adoption slash foster care run was a closed run because in her opinion she wasn’t wanted by her birth parents and the Danvers were the first people who truly wanted her.

Jade knew that her family’s lineage was important though to figure out what kind of powers she might come into or gain with time. She had no idea and she had no intention on meeting her birth parents, if they didn’t want her than she didn’t want them. She was somewhere that she was loved now, and she liked it where she was. Jade decided to think about things that were happy like Tyler Simms. She couldn’t get her thoughts off of her brother’s dark haired friend who had kind eyes and a romantic soul. He was a quiet soul and laid back and almost the exact opposite of Jade herself because of his laid back nature. Jade was always on the go because of her easily distracted nature she rarely finished a project when she was supposed to. Jade was dancing to the Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling now though because she was too distracted for homework at the moment and music sometimes killed enough energy to keep her focused on a task at hand.

[Caleb Danvers]

Was Caleb Danvers finally losing his mind? After the funeral of Sarah Wenham, he swore he had seen her angel. Sarah was pure enough to be an angel. Was it all just an illusion? It couldn’t be. Caleb wasn’t weak-minded and never had been. But trauma could drive a person mad and it sure felt like Caleb had post-traumatic stress from all that had occurred. It felt as though the weight of the world was on his shoulders after he let Sarah get attacked by Chase. The guilt was perhaps was what was making him lose his senses. Or perhaps it was Chase playing mind-games with him yet again. The cause of all the bad things that had recently occurred in his life were stamped with Chase’s name. That piece of garbage would soon get what he deserved. In a way, he didn’t want to fight him back because that was what he wanted. But in another sense, he needed to avenge Sarah and stress how much Caleb wasn’t one to be messed with.

Still dressed in his all black formal clothing, he took his Mustang back home, knowing his sister would be home. Caleb stayed behind for a few hours after the ceremony and he was glad that he did. But if he was seeing Sarah’s angel that had a mission out to protect Caleb as she said, then that wouldn’t be Chase’s doing. The angel couldn’t remember anything about their relationship...maybe Sarah was really a reincarnate of an angel. She showed all of the signs of one, especially with the case of a lost memory only to have a mission and a name. All Caleb could do now was figure out what role he had to play now. And figure out why Sarah was back and why her mission was to protect him. There were a lot of questions he needed to answer and it would take time. But before he could solve anything, he needed to pull himself together. Caleb had been deserting his friends and his family in order to deal with his own emotions and everything was just making it worse by doing so.

Arriving back at the mansion, Caleb stepped out of his car and kept his eyes to the ground. He was lost in the questions and how to find the answers to his dilemmas. Chase was getting serious in his threats and it wouldn’t be long before he took Jade everywhere that he went if Chase was insane enough to go attacking the ones Caleb held the closest. And in that case, next would be his sisters and then the other Sons. Even though his mother was apart of his family, she never cared enough for the two of them for Caleb to value her as a valuable mother. No doubt that he still loved her for raising him and giving him the life that he had lived, but lately, the alcohol was more important to her and the siblings left it at that. The two lived with one another and depended on one another. Even more so when their father died in willing Caleb his powers. Was everything bad that happened because of Caleb? First his father in order for him to become stronger and then Sarah?

Entering inside of the mansion, Caleb needed to finish some homework that had been long deserted after all that had taken place. Homework, but how was he to focus properly? Well, he would try. Caleb needed to stop focusing on the negatives of everything and somehow see the positives, even if they appeared to be quite small at the moment. He was always smart and there had to be a meaning behind all that had happened. His eyes focused upwards at the staircase as he began to climb it and the closer he got upstairs, the more he heard the music from Jade’s headphones. Reaching her room, his hand rested on her door frame as well as the side of his head as he watched her for a moment, smiling lightly. At least she wasn’t letting all of the sadness and darkness get to her. Caleb needed to be the same and continue to live his life instead of acting like there was nothing left. Sarah was his everything and still was.

Caleb stood there waiting for Jade to look up and find him in her doorway instead of scaring the living life out of her by coming up behind her and tapping her on the shoulder. The female was dancing like a silly goofball that she could be when she felt comfortable about it. Seeing homework on the desk, she was just having a little fun while working on her homework. Jade was always loyal in finishing her homework with all of her effort as well as doing it on time. Caleb needed to do the same in order to remain the big brother that she could look up to. He may have let everyone else down, but he still had his sister who he was very close to and wouldn’t let her get hurt, even if it took everything that he had to protect her. Though she was adopted, he still considered the two of them to be blood-related. It didn’t really matter, what built their bond was everything that they had gone through. Unbuttoning the jacket to his formal attire, he took off his jacket and hung it a hook located on the hook on the back of Jade’s door when entering inside. Caleb took a deep sigh and tried to piece everything together.

[Jade Danvers]

Jade hadn’t heard Caleb come in he had come in noiselessly or she had been too absorbed in her music. Jade always dressed like she was from another era entirely, young and lost were some of the words used to describe Jade when she was first adopted. Jade had gone from a very timid ten year old to the confident young woman she had become. Jade had turned her personality around because of Caleb urging her on in a positive way. Caleb had been the one to find out that Jade’s issues with her personality weren’t what the adoption agency said they were from. He was the one who had found out that the psychotropic medications she was on were muting her powers. And leaving her at a point that she was too drugged out to notice what anyone was saying. They had slowly weaned her off of any of the medications prescribed to her and Jade had started to blossom. She had gone from an underweight ten year old girl to an average if not a little slim girl. Jade had grown up relying on Caleb from the time she was ten. She had no idea who her mother was, she had no pictures from when she was an infant in fact her pictures started at the age of ten with school photos and Caleb had made sure she was in all pictures that he could manage to get her into.

At first Jade had been timid even shy of the camera that was supposed to be safe for her to be in. But as Caleb helped her she learned to be more comfortable in front of it. Just like how it was in school he had to teach her how to make friends and she had made friends with his friends who all seemed as determined as Caleb was to keep her safe. She liked his friends especially Tyler who she had developed a crush on. Jade hadn’t told Caleb that in the light of Sarah’s death though the thing that was so hard on him. Pulling out her headphones and looking at her brother since she had finally noticed him Jade went over and hugged him tightly kind of wishing she could make it better. Jade was worried about Caleb more than anyone in her life. She was cared for by him when she was sick or heartbroken. He’d been the one who had sat with her after she had cried about her first break up. A guy who had been on the football team had asked her out but he had no real interest in her at all. All of his interest in her rested in having sex with the virginal little Danvers girl. Jade hadn’t liked him that well and really had just wanted to assert that she had some independence. But the day she broke up with him Jade had called Caleb crying wanting to go home and he had come and got her just like he promised he would while when she was heading out.

Jade kept her arms around her older brother, comforting him as much as she could. Trying to do for him what he did for her all of those times that she had been crying in her room. Jade had been through hell as a child and the Danvers family had taken her out of her personal hell. Jade had quickly fallen in step with her brother and his friends. Hiding her powers from everyone for a while because of her fear of asylums and being drugged again. Jade had been nothing but a scrawny waif all those years ago and now if anyone looked at her they wouldn’t believe she was a pretty young girl. Since becoming part of the Danvers family Jade had quit focusing on the fact that she was adopted and started focusing on the fact that she now had a sibling and a nice one at that. Jade was doing what she could to comfort and protect Caleb, he had been through hell recently and it was her turn to take care of him. ”I am so sorry Caleb” said Jade gently and honestly.

Jade had stood around after the service for a little while but she had then headed back to the house. Partially to intercept any phone calls from people to prevent Evelyn from having to talk to people. And partially to be there when Caleb got home because she knew he needed her and she was going to be a good younger sister. The two of them had long stopped thinking about her as the adopted child she was pretty much blood related as far as Caleb, Pogue, Tyler and Reid were concerned. Jade was often left in the care of one of the guys when she was younger when Caleb had swim meets before Jade’s swimming was strong enough to be considered for the team. That and her age wouldn’t allow it at the time. Jade would stand around with whatever one of the guys wasn’t swimming at the time. Jade looked at Caleb right now he looked tired, weary and just downright miserable. Jade pulled on Caleb gently trying to signal to him to go to her bed.

”Caleb, you should lay down, rest” said Jade gently. She wasn’t going to force him into anything but she was going to make gentle suggestions of lay down, sleep, just get some rest. She knew it was hard on her brother right now and she was going to do what she could. Jade by her very nature was sympathetic, empathetic and just compassionate. Jade didn’t want to tell Caleb she could feel his despair and confusion because that would not end well right now. Her ability to sense people’s emotions might not even be a sixth sense. She could just be incredibly perceptive about people. Jade had always been influenced by her environment. That was why when she moved in Caleb helped her turn her room into a cheery place that she could get away from the gloomy antiques of the rest of the house. They had also made sure their rooms were close to each other. It was situations like this that made them do that. Jade worried about Caleb and Caleb worried about Jade. Evelyn though their mother wasn’t usually apart of the close moments between the siblings. Jade loved her brother and felt that he was someone who needed to be cared for now. Everyone was trying to be sympathetic most had failed.

Jade had turned away more than enough casseroles since Sarah’s car accident. People who were more curious than sympathetic and threw something together for an excuse to come satisfy their curiosity, which did nothing more than pissed Jade off. Jade couldn’t handle that kind of stuff and she had turned them away, it was the same with most phone calls. She had messages written down for Caleb from Pogue, Tyler and even Reid all asking to make sure he was alright, asking if he needed them to do something for him. Jade had been to one other funeral in her life and that was James Danvers, her dad who she didn’t call dad ever, she didn’t know him well enough for him to be dad to her. She hadn’t ever been able to take to that. Jade looked at Caleb again to see where h is emotional state was and if she could get him to sit down or even lay down. Jade had no problem giving up her bed for a few nights if it would make it so Caleb could sleep. Jade just pulled on his arm again still gently still trying to urge him to the bed. ”Caleb, you should lie down” said Jade again trying to get him to do as she asked.