Well hello people!! :D I'm so happy to day that I decided I was going to update. I'm trying really hard to wrap up this story but right now I've got writers block. So you'll have to bare with me. Here's chapter 27!!

27. Connie

Jake's lips were warm and soft against mine. He wrapped his arms around me and I tangled my fingers into his hair. We parted briefly so I could take in a ragged breath. His kiss always takes my breath away. He pushed his lips against mine again. I remembered when he first kissed me. Bree had tried to kill me but he saved me.

"BREE!!" I pulled away from him. He stared at me with a dreamy look in his eyes then sudden realization. We both remembered what happened at the house. Damion killed Bree. I suddenly burst into tears. I was never close to Bree but she died saving my life. Jake wrapped his arms around me and I continued to cry on his shirt. Something wet fell onto my bare shoulder and realized Jake was crying also. Then Damion popped into my head.

"Damion." I half whispered to myself. Jake pulled me away to look into my eyes.

"What do you mean?"

"Damion did this. He suppressed our memory." I then turned into my thoughts. If Damion did want to kill me then why would he make up a story of him loving me? Why would he marry me only to kill me in the end? Jake must have heard my thoughts.

"Maybe he didn't want you to figure out your powers?" He looked down at his shoes. "I know why Amy went along with it. She wanted to get rid of you so she could have me all to herself."

"Why would she do that if you're friends?" I asked. He looked away toward the ballroom.

"She likes me. She told me and I told her I could never love her the same way with you around." He looked guilty like it was all his fault. I pulled him into my arms and held him.

"What do we do now?" I asked. Jake sat upright.

"Well there must be a reason that they suppressed our memories and wanting us to marry. I think the best plan it to go along with that we don't remember anything about each other. That way we can figure out their plan. They'll have to meet after tonight to plan everything then that's when we share our information."

"What do we do after that?"

"We run so they can never find us again. I bet we can find Will and the others. After that. . ."

"Jake." I interrupted. " I love you." I leaned in and kissed him gently on the lips. Then our kiss grew more aggressive and passionate. I tangled my fingers in his is silky black hair. Then something tapped my leg. I pulled away and looked down to see a vine on my leg holding a piece of paper, a locket, and a pocket watch.

"What is this?" Jake grabbed the paper with the necklace and watch. He opened it and read the letter. His eyes grew wide. Then he looked over my shoulder to something behind me.

"Jake what is it?" I asked. Then the double doors opened and Damion along with Amy came outside.

*****

We made it to the top of the tree with Will's help. From the high branches we were in we could see over the wall to the Grimm mansion. There we saw Alice and Jake sitting on the edge of a fountain. Will had spotted them when came to investigate the noise. They were looking at the sky. Alice shivered and Jake handed her his jacket.

Tech gripped my hand and held it tight. I looked into his steel color eyes and smiled.

"Don't worry Connie, we'll get them out." He told me reassuringly.

When we woke up to find Alice and Jake missing and the body of Bree on the floor of our safe house we no longer felt safe. The entire gang was worried. Who knew what Damion was doing to them. Will was the first one to know where they would have gone. I have never been here but my parents use to tell me stories about the mystical kingdom filled with people like us. I always wanted to see the kingdom but not under circumstance as these.

A gust of wind came up the tree as Sasha and Kai ran up the tree and sat on some branches above Will, Tech and I.

"Well we found out what the party was about." Sasha said. "Well, apparently its and engagement party for Alice and Damion."

"What?!" Will, Tech and I said at the same time. Sasha shrugged.

"Don't ask me why but it must have something to do with Damion. How he got Alice to agree to him is a mystery to me but there is this story around that Damion and Alice were traveling the world when she was hit on the head and lost her memory."

"Damion must be suppressing her memory and most likely Jake's as well." Will said. "But if he suppressing their memory, then what are they doing over there, acting like they normally do."

I looked over to see Jake kissing Alice gently. I thought for a moment. "Maybe Alice's power is counteracting Damion's."

"What do you mean?" Tech asked. I looked at him and smiled.

"Alice, for some reason, has some power that Damion doesn't like. He must be weakened by Alice and that's why he wants her dead."

"But does that mean that only Alice remembers or does Jake remember as well?" Will asked. I glanced back over at them kissing each other as if the earth was about to end. I remember kissing Tech like that when we were first together. If Damion was suppressing Jake's memory as well there was no way they could forget each other with a kiss like that.

"I think that Jake remembers everything as well." I said. Kai touched my shoulder.

"So what's the plan?" Kai asked. To be honest I never had to come up with a plan. The plan making was always up to Bree and Jake. But I took control when both were gone. I was thinking of a plan the entire way here.

"We need to find a way to contact Jake. But at a party like this Jake won't hear us and if we go to close to him with Amy around she'll pick up our scent with her animal senses."

"Why don't Kai and I run really fast around him and tell him?" Sasha asked.

"Because it rained this mourning and you'll leave footprints." Will said. Sasha turned to glare at him.

"Well what do you suppose we do then mister smarty pants?" Sasha hissed at him. Will held his breath as he thought. Suddenly he exhaled and shook his head our powers were very limited without the whole gang. I turned to look at Alice and Jake, they were holding each other tightly. We had to do something to get them out.

"I have an idea." Tech said. I looked away from Alice to Tech. He was smiling at me. "Give me your necklace."

"Tech. . ." I touched my collar to my locket that he gave me. He bent it from a piece of copper and gave it to me a week after he met me. The locket was engraved on the back with my initials. "If Amy sees it. . ."

"Trust me." He smiled at me again. My heart pound and I wanted to kiss him. I held myself back and unclasped the locket. He gripped the locket in his hand and squeezed. I flinched as I heard a crunch of metal from his hand. But when he opened his hand again there was only a copy of the necklace.

"When did you learn to do that?" I asked. He smiled and placed the original locket to its proper place around my neck. The copy he gripped and I could hear a small scratch. Tech opened his hand to find my initials gone and Alice in its place. Then locket had kept its shape but was silver except for the copper Alice. I smiled at him.

Then Tech pulled out his pocket watch. He had once told me that it had been his great-grandfather's. I watched as he copied the pocket watch and changed the metal to a copper with a silver Damion on the backside of it. He also pulled out a piece of paper and a pen. He wrote something on it and folded it. Tech handed the paper and both the pocket watch and locket to Will. Will looked at him confused.

"Give this to Jake. The note will explain everything to him."

"How would I do that? I can't just walk up to him. Amy would find out." Tech rolled his eyes than looked at Alice and Jake.

"See that vine beside the fountain that they're sitting on." Tech pointed. Will looked over then slapped his forehead with the palm of his hand. He held his hand out for the locket and pocket watch. Tech handed it to him and Will handed it to a tree branch. The branch let it down on the grass on the other side of the wall. The grass carried it across the lawn to the fountain. Then the vine grabbed it and tapped Alice on the leg. They were kissing again and Alice pulled away to look at the vine, but Jake grabbed the note and read it. He looked past Alice straight at us. Tech waved.

"He got the message." He smiled as he turned to me. I kissed him lightly on the lips then pulled away quickly. I could her Sasha making noises of her disgust. I didn't care. I leaned on Tech's shoulder and he put his arm around me. But then I shot up and nearly fell out of the tree. Because the two people I didn't want to see came out and Jake still had the note in his hand. Amy and Damion.

*****

"There you are Alice darling." Damion said as he saw me sitting on the fountain. Jake quickly hid the piece of paper behind his back. He grabbed the locket and pocket watch as well and held them in his other hand. I didn't know what the paper said but it must be important.

"Yes. Jake had a slip with a knife and got light headed." I said.

"Oh I hope you're alright." Damion said. He turned to look at Amy. She was staring at me and I realized I had Jake's jacket around me. But Damion took her attention from me to him. "But I guess the lightheadedness is common at big parties like this one."

"Yes, the crowds don't help with them all thinking different things." The Amy turned her purple eyes back to me. I decided I was going to stupid up.

"I'm afraid I have no idea what you are talking about. How can someone get lightheaded from being in a too big of a crowd all thinking different things?" Damion smiled. I'm guessing that he thought his suppressing our memories were still working.

"Jake is one of the special talents I was talking about. He can read minds." I made my eyes wide in shock.

"Really?" I looked at Jake. "That is quite amazing."

"Thank you." He kept a serious face but his eyes were smiling. I wrapped my arms around me and realized again that I still had his jacket on. I stood up and took it off and handed it to him.

"Oh and thank you for letting me borrow your jacket. I am quite warm now." I saw him tuck the paper into one of the pockets. I went and stood beside Damion. He was absolutely beaming when I came to his side. "Damion can we please go back in I feel very tired suddenly."

"Of course Sweetheart. I'll fetch a maid and she will help you to bed." He wrapped his arm in mine and kissed the back of my hand. I forced a smile. Then he turned to Amy and Jake. "I apologize but we must be going. It was good to see you again."

Damion and I turned and headed back for the ball room.

"Oh wait!" Jake called. Damion turned. Jake was running toward us. He handed Damion the locket and pocket watch. "I almost forgot your engagement gift."

"Jake," Amy wrapped her arm around Jake's. "I thought we didn't get a gift?"

"I felt weird not getting a gift so I had the blacksmith's make them for me."

"A very thoughtful gift, thank you." Damion took the locket and wrapped it around my neck along with the butterfly necklace. The metal felt cool on my neck and I flipped it over to see my name on the back.

"It is very beautiful." I said. Then Damion turned me back around and we walked into the house together.

He led me to the stairs and kissed me on the cheek goodnight. I walked up the stairs to my room and collapsed on the bed. The dress I wore felt awkward and poufy. I wished for jeans and a t-shirt. Everlin walked in and helped me undress. She placed me in another nightgown. A long nightgown, which came to my ankles and had itchy lace all the way to my neck. The sleeves were tight around my wrists and I felt just as uncomfortable in this as I did in the dress. I wished for pajamas. Everlin helped me into bed and tucked the covers around me. She left a lamp burning on my bedside table and left the room.

I tossed and turned trying to find a comfortable spot in the bed that couldn't be found. I wished for my bed at home. Then I thought, the apartment where my Aunt and Uncle who stole my parents possessions, beat me, and made my life miserable lived. I didn't want that bed. I thought of what bed I wanted. I wanted the bed in Jake's room with me in his arms or maybe the bed in the Hotel De Plaza. Sure I had a bunch of hurtful memories from that place but that was closest place I felt to home.

Think of that bed made me warm and tired. My eyes slowly began to droop and close. There was the sound of a clock ticking somewhere in the room. Tick, tick, tick. Like the sound of small rocks hitting a window. Then the sound became annoying. I covered my ears with a pillow and rolled over.

But the ticking continued. I rolled over and sat up. The light from the lamp threw shadows over the furniture but there was no clock. The ticking seemed to be growing louder and louder as I searched for the sound. Then something moved outside the glass doors leading toward the balcony. I grabbed the light and shone it in the direction. The ticking had stopped. I pulled the covers over my shoulders and laid back down staring at the window.

Lighting flashed outside and I heard raindrops on the roof. The light flashed again and I saw a shadow. I bolted up and nearly ran for the door.

"AAAALLLLLIIIICCCEEE!!!!!" The shadow called. A soft girl voice.

I hesitantly walked over to the glass doors. I waited a moment then opened the doors. The shadow ran into the room and wrapped their arms around me.

"Oh my gosh, thank goodness you're okay!" the girl voice said. I noticed brown curls and a bright voice. I held the person hugging me at arm's length.

"Connie?" I asked.

"You remember!"

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