Family Secrets (simple & sinsoul)

Alexis was not happy about the upcoming family reunion. She wasn't upset about having to share her room with a cousin, she had so many and space in the large five bedroom home was limited. The problem lay in the fact she was a witch in training. Not many members on her dad's side knew about her developing powers. The cousin, whom she learned was male on top of everything else, was one of those who didn't know. The 16 year-old ginger girl with bright teal eyes was cleaning her room, using the everything in it's place spell she had finally mastered, not realizing her cousin had just arrived and been let in downstairs. The petite 5'4" 34C-28-36 had too much else on her mind to worry about being caught using magic. from another member of the family .

Ember sighed setting his bags down beside the couch. His head buzzed with anticipation, he felt power surging through him with every move every stretch. This new environment his mother had put him in was his cousin's place, his auntie had offered him a place to stay until his parents came back home from their honeymoon, damn his mother! This was the fifth honeymoon she has ever had.
She dates too much she stinks of liquor and cigarettes, his mother disgusted him. Yet somehow she always stayed beautiful even with her bad habits.
"Hey cuz.....CUZ" he yelled out for her doubtful of a response, he was sure his cousin disliked him for being here, who would not? He thought. If someone was to come into his house with out consent of him first he would have flipped, and not just because of his secret but because of how anti social he was to new people.

His boredom overwhelming him he started upstairs, a strange tingling sensation running down his spine as he closed in on his cousins room. He usually felt safe in this house but something was off, he could sense something different this time around! Was it because of his pact that this was different then before, or was it just his nerves getting to him? As he stood in front of his cousin's door he noticed that it was slightly cracked open, pushing it aside to see if she was inside he smiled to see that she was as she stood in the middle of the room, but something was slightly off. What was she doing " hey cousin how ya doing......what ya up to" he said trying to sound innocent.

Alexis gasped and the floating books fell with a loud thud. The entire time she had been in her own little world, focusing on floating the books onto the shelf where they belonged. After clearing her throat a couple of times, she turned to face her cousin, showing off her not quite hourglass figure. Her blushing cheeks were about as red as her hair. "Uhh, hey." She moved some of her hair from one of her cheeks, revealing a good set of freckles. "Wasn't expecting you for another fifteen minutes, ummm, you saw what I was doing..." Alexis didn't relish explaining that. She frowned as she looked at him. Something peculiar about him she couldn't place: something dark. Little did she realize it was all a set-up. The family reunion was a sham in order for her to face her greatest test; saving her cousin!

Ember sighed, he did not want to act all Innocent, he felt as if he should show her his power to but something grasped at his chest in the thought of it, he pushed himself though and the grasp left but he swore he could hear someone telling him to stop " don't worry...... i wont tell. anyways.... look" he pointed his hands at the fallen books, reaching for the power inside of him he lifted them carefully into the air, by his command the slowly floated onto the shelf that Alexis had tried to organize them on.
"well know we both know each other's secret.... lets hear the details, what are you?" he asked plopping down onto her bed as if he had no care in the world, he could feel the burning sensation on his arm as the dark insignia swept across his flesh, it burned and he winced as it stopped. It left a stinging pain that he did not want to deal with.
He hoped she would not notice, but being as she is something of the supernatural she might as well already perceive what he had done. ember was taken aback though, he never really looked at his cousin, but now he noticed how cute she was ....huh.
the burning sensation gripped him again and Ember gasped out as he chocked down a scream, the sheer pain on caused his face to distort and twist in crooked ways, his chest felt like it was on fire, he payed no attention to this though looking at his cousin who seemed to be worrying " don't worry i am fine"

Alexis raised a well sculpted waxed eyebrow as she witnessed what she perceived as the impossible. Her dad's side of the family were either human or powerless. Her dad being the former, well half-human, with his warlock half being dormant at best . "If you tell me how you came about yours." She folded her arms, but showed no other disapproving movements with her body or tone.
Her mom's side was from a caste of sorceresses known for their benevolence and kindness, which was to her cousin's benefit, but it didn't stop them from making sound decisions based on facts, "Your mom, my aunt, know about your gift? Or is it just mine...your aunt?"
Alexis started to get the feeling from what she could sense, that he might be her next test, as her mom was always pulling these pop quizzes to strengthen her abilities .

"None of the family except you now knows about this" he looked at her oddly, she seemed calm as he thought she would be, but a little to calm, he wanted to tell her how he came about his powers but what if she would get mad, not his cousin but she,it,that. Whatever word you use to describe a demon.
He sighed deeply making sure to get the tension out of his muscles from the burning sensation moments before; he felt relief finally telling someone, as if he had no more worries. He looked at her for a second then spoke.... but it caught in his throat. He tried again “I made a pact.... not a deal so to say but a pact" his voice wavered only slightly, was he scared? Yes maybe a little but not because of what his pact owner might do but what his cousin might do “Alexis..... don’t tell anyone ok, if my mother finds out she wont even want me anymore, and if your aunt finds out I will have to go to heaven and hell and then back again for her to forgive me." his voice got louder as he spoke, as if frustration was sweeping over him again. He caused this situation to happen and he had no idea how to deal with it.

Maybe he was to run, hide, escape; his skin was crawling with anticipation to do something. But he just stood there waiting for her response, knowing all to well that if he tried to run he would most likely just be plucked into the air by what she may call magic.

Lightning sparked around Alexis as she exploded. "ARE YOU OUT of your gourd?!" Lightning shot in all direction as if static electricity could be visible. Her hair suddenly looked like she had stuck her fingers into a light socket. "A pact?! Like with the DEVIL?! WHAT were you thinking?!" During her tirade, her 'static electricity' had slammed the door shut without touching anything else. She didn't plan on going off, and scaring her cousin. Her eyes glowed red as her hair for only a few moments, long enough to blow a gasket and shout the questions at him. "Awrite. Deal's a deal." She said gathering herself. "If you haven't already guessed after my little tirade: I'm a witch. Well, I'm 3/4ths full blood witch. My mom was a high sorceress before marrying my dad, a half-warlock." She almost wished, and by her scowl he might guess, that instead of a comfortable futon, he'd be sleeping in a doghouse. Currently, that's where he was with her. "I don't approve, but Iwon't tell, unless you use that ill-gotten gift to get ME in trouble." With that said, she opened the door and stomped out, and to the bathroom, where she slammed THAT. door, prompting her mom to yell, "Young lady, stop slamming those doors, or you'll fix them the hard way! Do I make myself clear?!"
Alexis yelled "As crystal." through the shut bathroom door.

(Wow, either this can turn into a funny ecchi scene or he can run of and get himself in some deep shit...... lets do some deep shit)
Ember had no words to explain how angry what she had said to him made him feel, he had no emotion's to express, the pent up force inside of him seemed to be growing at a rapid pace, who does she think he is some sort of idiot. He would never make a pact with the devil...... only lesser demons that thrive off of small amounts of energy, feeling pent up he rushed to the front door and went outside so quick and silent no one would have even notice he had left. He walked slowly down the sidewalk, cars passed him every know and then. The owners of those cars gave him glares that stung and said what kinda kid walk's alone at night looking like that. Well apparently he did, but he need not worry about such things, for heavens sake he told his cousin that he had made a pact, and he had not even told her with whom he had made the pact, maybe he should go over the things that had happened today in his head, maybe it would change things; but right as he was about to something interrupted him and pushed him down....... it was a murderer he had recently seen on the news.
"Hey punk. stand up real nice and slow"
Ember was confused, was this man telling him what to do, anger boiling from deep withing his gut seemed to push itself to all parts off his body " Mr murderer, it was a bad day for you to pick on a little kid" and with that ember lost reality, everything was red and joyfull, and when he came to a state of sanity the sidewalk pavement was drenched in blood. And all that was left of the murderer was his clothes torn across the street " oh shit what have i done, i just so caught up in the moment.. oh god what do i do"
He started running, he did not where he was running to but he knew he was running, his heart pounded and his lung's burned. and as he came to a stopping point he found himself at the city's park, there he sat listening to the sound of the night.... it was nice finnally having some peace. But that peace was being shredded away by his loss of sanity of the scene he had beheld when he regained his sanity. What was he to do?
( i was thinking of her getting worried and going out looking for him with a lost and found spell)

(You read my mind, right down to type of spell)
Alexis paced in her room for a good hour before walking over to a small table mirror that sat on folded wooden legs. "Now I'm worried, but what he said...a pact." She picked it up muttering, "Better perform the lost and found spell." It was different for each family. Alexis's for example said the old adage for businesses followed by the name of the individual or item searched for, and the question asked in two classic tv series titles. "The first rule is location, location, location! Cousin Ember where are you?"
She gasped as the picnic area of the park came into view. "Argh! That's idiot! That park is crazy central after dark! You get yourself killed before I get there, so help me...I'll kill ya!" She grabbed her flying vacuum and flew out the window, bound for the park at top speed.
When she came into the park for a landing, she had a police escort, because she was well over the speed limit. She had explained why and the female officer escorted her there and was sticking around with her vacuum to escort them both home. From his view, it may look. like she called the witch police on him. Alexis approached him with a look of concern. "You had me worried sick. Let's get out of this area. It's not safe here after dark."

Ember jumped as Alexis spoke, his body shivered as he turned to her, most of the blood on his body had been wiped off but one drop was left on his hand, what had he done before he had lost reality for that small amount of time, and how was he going to explain it to Alexis. He tried to smile as he saw she had a guest with her " uhh....h...hey cous, you thought the same as me.... I just can’t remember how I got here" his voice was wavering, he was afraid...... afraid of himself. What would he do if he came to realization that he had killed someone, who would protect him from what he would be accused of.
But no one saw me; no one knows what I did..... No one need's to know “ok Alexis, lets go home. I am sick of this place" his emotions shifted so quick that not even he himself had noticed it, was it his new found powers that was making him this way, no they could never do that, they were supposed to help him not drive him insane. He left that thought at that as he glanced at his cousin, and once again he saw the beauty of her he seemed to never see before. The way her body curved, how thin she was..... And most of all her pretty face, he shook this feeling of, what was he thinking about his cousin! For heavens sake he needed to get a grip on himself.

The trip home was quiet, save the sounds of the vacuums as. they headed back to the house. Before Alexis restarted her vacuum, she stated, "Hold on tight, on the shoulders, I saw how you were looking at me. I'm your cousin, daughter of your mom's brother, for Pete's sake!"
The officer, said calmly, "Speaking of whom, you do know I have to tell YOUR. folks about the speeding, even though it was for a valid reason?"
"Yes,ma'am." Alexis didn't have anyone to blame but herself, she could have watched her speed .
After the officer told Alexis's mom the story, also explaining how it was on report as necessary, the mom glared at the two. "Just go upstairs and go to bed." She waved her index finger at Alexis's room, where there was a flash of lightning with no noise, and said, "You keep your. vacuum, but you know where YOU sleep tonight, young lady. The three of us are going to talk in the morning." Upstairs, Alexis's comfortable full bed became a large cat bed. The kind a lion might use. Ember's futon was untouched.

Ember looked solem as he walked upstairs, why did he have to sleep in his cousins room of all places, at least let the room be seperated so he did not have to feel the deep evil glare of his cousin on his back. He felt as if this night had only just begun, but as he walked into Alexis's room he payed no attention to her as he laid himself down on the futan, but something made him keep looking over at his cousin, he wanted to ask her if she had seen the body he had left behind, did he even leave a body behind. For all he knows it had never even happened, for all he knew his cousin did not even know he had made a pact.
Tossing and turning in his futon he felt as if his skin was crawling, taking his shirt of he stood up to look at his chest, it shocked him what he found. Black sit-ups riddled his body up and down scars stretched along his back and his muscles were damaged here and there, how did he get like this..... No when did he get like this. Even he had trouble remembering how it all came to be like this , "Alexis.... May I talk to you" he wanted his cousin to know that he had in no means want her to hate him.

Alexis had difficulty sleeping in her cat bed, rolling every direction, and flipping like a fish out of water. Her movements had moved her long sleeve ankle length nightgown 's skirt all the way up to reveal her blue.panties. completely to the lace waistband. When she heard her cousin's voice, she sighed.and saw him looking toward her with his shirt off. Not knowing she was giving him THE panty shot to end them all, she asked, "Is there a problem? Exactly what kind of 'pact' did you make?" At least, now she was willing to listen, still unaware of the show she was putting on for him.

He stood up and showed her his body , the sigils should tell her clearly that it was lilting who gave him his powers " I am marked by my pact makers name, along with other things". He said this as he noticed that her panties were showing, they were pressed against her bodie so tight he could see the curve of every point on her body, his nose trickled blood from the overdose of adrenaline, he turned his face, not really wanting to say it he spoke " your... Umm panties are showing". He glanced again to catch the curve of her round ass, for some reason she seemed so alluring to him, his cheeks flushed a deep red as he turned from her trying to act as if he had seen nothing, and that he was not at all excited about seeing his cousin half clothed.
He started to stretch trying to get his mind out of the gutter " the demon I made a pact with was Lilith..... And yes I mean the seductress Lilith, and no I'm not going to tell you how I convinced her to give me power beyond my very wishes". He felt content that what he said suited the situation quite well, and if he was wrong then he would get a blas spell, but no big deal he was resistant to most spell's anyway. Lilith did say he was different, he had an ability no other human in the world possessed , but what that was she did not tell him, this leaving ember flustered and confused.
Checking over his scars he noticed he had gotten another one under neath his only slightly toned abs, he was no physique god, but he was stronger and better looking then most. So at least he knew that he would not be ridiculed by his cousin for looking bad.

Alexis shook her head as she fixed her gown's skirt. "Hmmm." She throated walking around him. "Mmmm. Mmm-mm-mmm." The young witch's sounds were not sounds she wanted to make, not to mention he'd want to hear.
"Still learning my runes...but..unless we can break the curse before you turn 21... let's just say, you're fucked. Was she worth it?"
She pulled a large thick bookwith designs.all over the covers, front and back, off the bookshelf and onto the desk. She pulled out her. digital camera, took pictures of every mark, just incase supposed scars were more runes. She downloaded the pictures onto the computer and pulled them up on screen, pointing to the desk's chair, Alexis said, "Homework. We decipher every. single. rune. "

" I already know what they mean, and also at the age of twent one Lilith is allowed to.... Umm, let's just say I have to do everything she says for a month when that day comes, even if it is an order to kill, but I made the pact on certain terms so don't worry I won't die, I have no intention on dying anytime soon" he huffed as he said this, he wanted her to understand he could handle this, at least he thought he could handle it. But him killing that man was proof of him having no control over his own powers. "Hey do you know how I can learn to control..... My powers? Because they have been going out of whack recently and I don't really know what to do with them." He was shocked that he was admitting his, but why he would he not admit stress was pushing him into things he would never expect. Turning from his cousin he tried to use his powers as he did when he first saw his cousin today, the object he was focusing on was a book, and as it slowly lifted into the air it shook violently before imploding in on itself, it left nothing behind but a waft of black dust that smelled of rotten flesh, but it passed quickly and was gone as fast as it came, "we'll shit, did not expect that to happen, do you know what that means?" He asked his voice slightly hushed, he was becoming afraid of himself, not truly knowing how to act or respond. Would someone else other then him act out in frustration. He didn't know so he sat there waiting for his cousin to respond to him.

Alexis didn't waiver on her stand she had decided to take. "I'm sure you do, Lilith told you. What demons never tell you, is those same runes hold the key to breaking that same spell." She stared at him while he asked the next question. "Control is relevant to what we can handle magic wise. A normal human cannot normally control that much power. Lilith said you were not typical, yet you can't control it. You were given too much too soon. Sure, I can show you how to be more in control. Remember how emotional you saw me earlier? You need to do the exact opposite, almost constantly. Can you do that?" As she watched one of her books, thankfully not a favorite, disintegrate in a stench, she sighed and folded her arms, muttering, "I rest my case, now will you trust me and help look through those runes for the ones with double meanings? Wouldn't you rather be free of it instead?"

" yes i want free of it..... but im tired of being powerless. i dont care if being used, i dont care if someone takes advantage of me, because in the end what that will lead to is me getting power." he faced her dismay on his face, she had no idea how he was feeling, she was a witch she had all the power she could ever want. he sighed not noticing that he was about to say all this out loud " you just dont understand do you, you have all the power you could want, im just an ordinary fucking human, the only that does not think that is lilith" he sounded as if he was complaining to an adult, why did he have to suck up to her, he had no need to satisfy her.
He was almost mad at her for telling him what to do, he was angered just at the thought that he should even listen to her. his eyes glazed over and if she were to lookat his eyes she would find them to be a drak purple, standing up he walked over to the window in the room " i dont have to explain myself to you" as he said this he touched the window and the area around it turned a dark purple, before blowing out, leaving a hole just big enough for him to walk through. something was wrong with him, he did not want to do this but his body was reactin on it's own, and with one jump he was out of the house that he knew was the only one that held his safety, his body took itself to its limit and made him run off into the night, laughing all the way unitl the house could not be seen.
(lilith is controlling him, so he wont get changed, this should end in a chase and when she catches him he say's he sorry, but lets see how it goes)

Alexis was satisfied; at first. She even sat down and started deciphering, though she could use help. While he was telling her how much she couldn't understand his position, she figured four of runes out. Position wise. they made no sense. Cousin three you fuck."
By the time Alexis. called him saying, "What the hell does this mean?!" She felt a draft. Turning around, she saw the hole where the window should be, she blurted, "Aww come ON, Ember, AGAIN?!"
She took after him in a dead run, flying out the window in hot pursuit, her mind trying to decipher those four words.

His mind stayed blank as he ran, off to nowhere off to anywhere. He felt his body tiring as he ran faster and faster, his feet were racked with pain and his lungs were about to burst. could this be pain he thought, he had not felt pan for a while and this for sure he thought was pain, he felt misunderstood, almost as if he was invisible, like he had been before he had made the pact with lilith, he could feel the tears rolling down his cheeks. Why was he crying of all things why did he have to cry, stopping mid stride he fell to his knee's, as his bare skin touched the ground he felt releif as he let it all out in one blood curdling scream, the air shook with its strength and the ground vibrated with protest, what was he supposed to do if he had nothing, if she got rid of his pact he would be nothing again, all of these feelings seemed to be pouring out of him and affecting the scenery around him, the grass turning purple and the moon becoming a dark shade of purple, was he doing this, how could he stop it? could it even be stopped.

" fuck FUCKKKKKK, why lilith, you told me i was different.... then why am i so useless..... im just a human who cant do anything himself." he yelled out shaking the ground around him, and then sound stopped, everything was silent, so silent it was..... so peaceful he thought, ember felt a hand touch his face, and he knew lilith had come to comfort him, tears rolling down his face he spoke " what do i do if i have nothing lilith" and with the question asked an answer came, it came as a thought, just be you! was that all ember thought, if he was himself all he was nothing, he could not bear being nothing, it would tear him from the inside out, he felt as if there was a hole inside of him and nothing could fill it.

Alexis was tearing up one block and down the other in what she was beginning to think was a fruitless search. She called out for him every few minutes. Suddenly, she heard a primal scream that chilled her to the bone and the shaking ground actually threw her off her feet. She landed face up, and watched the pearl white full moon turn a dark purple. "What the HELL?!" She gasped in surprise.
As soon as the ground stopped shaking, Alexis clamored to her feet. and took off in the direction of the scream and came across her cousin on his knees crying.
She dropped to her knees, embraced him and kissed his cheek. "Was that you're doing? That power is way too dangerous, even for a 3/4 witch like me. I'm still learning." She smiled as she dried his tears with her fingers. "Who told you a witch's powers are unlimited? Even mom, a head sorceress can only do so much, even SHE'S limited. Now come back to the house; I wasn't trying to judge, I was trying to protect. Okay?"

the kind words of his cousin hit him like a wave, but they had no affect, the kiss only tainted the ground more, spreading the curruption that lay inside his body, he could feel the power gushing from his body then rebuilding itself back again, and it hurt, each breath shook the ground around him each tremble made the sky moan with wind, he looked into his cousins eyes as tears rand down his face, he felt raw ......sore to the core, and he did not like being exposed to his cousin like this, it was as if all his dirty secrets had been revealed.
and to seal them he had to do something quick, something drastic.
He grasped his cousins chin and pulled her close to him, he could smell her odor, her scent. She smelled sweet of fruit and flowers, just like he thought she would, unable to hold back he pulled her lips to his and embraced his cousin in something taboo and forbidden, but he still embraced it fully knowing the consequences, it was a passionate kiss full of emotion, and he could feel himself relaxing as he pulled away from her, he pulled her in close. and he felt her heat against his body, it was calming, the feeling of his cousin's body against his, it made his heart stop a couple beat's " so....sorry alexis.... i must be a nuisance....... lets go home and figure this out....together" he felt as if this was going to be easy, as if when they got home he would just be able to solve the problem and be done with it, but no it was going to take more drastic measures than that.

Alexis's eyes were calm, and she had thought calming; at least it looked that way, til there was another build-up, she kept close, drying the tears with her fingers and softly hushing him with "shh, shh, it's okay, now."
Alexis's. eyes suddenly widened in surprise as he grabbed her and kissed her; on the lips, yet! "Mmpphhh!"she gasped in it. Jeez! Her. first kiss WOULD be her cousin. AND. her cousin WOULD be having..issues HE didn't even understand! While he was getting clear of gutter thoughts, she was getting them. What the HELL am I thinking?! she thought to herself, not knowing where the thoughts had come from.
"Nothing taken...except my first kiss." Alexis said calmly as they rose. The rest of the walk back to the house was filled with an uneasy silence. When they got back to the house, Alexis had to concentrate extremely hard, as she uttered a fixing spell. When.it was repaired, she wiped the sweat from her brow with a handy towel. "Any luck finding the other three double meaning runes? I did notice a pattern: the four I found would've easily been mistaken as scars by the untrained eye."

(Did you remember the three words Ember's supposed to find? PM me if not)

(yeah i remember, sorry again i got cought in work, im replying know thought)
"yeah i remember what they mean" he thought over the words lilith had told him, what he had to do to break the special curse, it was unmodest and worst of all he had to do it with a relative, three things he had to do, and it would disgrace whomever he did it with, and because of this he really did not want to admit or tell this to alexis, he felt like she would be disgusted with hime, he felt like she would shun him at the slightest thought of what lilith had said had to be done for the curse to be broken " are you sure you want to hear it, it is kind a of ..... unmodest.... and it hads to do with one of my relatives, well really any of my relatives"
He winced as he said this expecting his cousin to retort back with that she could deal with anything and everything, but he thought back to when she had said that witches could not do everything, and the things that they could do were ussualy restricted to how strong they were, in most term's this would be called selflessnes but tin this case he thought it was a little bit of ignorrance, not really wanting or trying to know how to do something, he let out a sigh as all this went through his head in a ramble of thoughts " it involves activity that is kind of sexual.....you wouldn't want to do it anyway's so why even try?' he was trying to get away from the conversation but he knew that it needed to be faced head on and with a strong blunt force, no procrastinating here, they had to do what needed to be done, and what had to be done were three indecent thing's with his cousin, of course he was resistent to the thought of having a sensual relationship with his cousin, but he also wanted this relationship to happen, the thought of it quickened the beating of his heart and made his head go wild.
" if you really want to help me, tell me because if you do there is no going back."

"Ugh. Unmodest. Hate that word." Alexis folded her arms. "Three different sexual things. I suppose it'll only work with me because I'm a witch, not just your cousin? Well, the fact that I'm 16 and you're 18? Just that makes any relations like that taboo. If neither of the other two are anal, I'll agree. There's just something creepy about that way." She shivered to indicate her displeasure with the thought of it, but still added, "Gross." for good measure. There were indeed two other ways, oral and unprotected intercourse, but the virgin witch didn't know that.