Alive
Chapter Fifteen
The moment Faith said they were there to see Catriona, she was handed a clipboard with a dozen papers
to fill out.“Damn, I don’t know half of this stuff,” Faith said. She handed the clipboard to Sarah. “Anything else you
can add?”Sarah jotted down some information then handed it to Elona, who also added more information. Faith
took it back to the nurse.“How’s she doing? And JC Chasez?” she asked.
“Mr. Chasez is doing fine, he’ll be released in a few hours. Ms. Kapera is doing better. She’s still asleep,
though, and she will be kept over until tomorrow morning, Tuesday morning if the doctor thinks she should stay.”“Thank you,” Faith said, and walked back to where Sarah and Elona were waiting. “She’s okay, but she
won’t be out until tomorrow morning at the earliest. JC’s going to be released in a few hours.”“Can we see Cat?” Sarah asked.
“No. She’s still asleep.”
“What are we going to do about tonight?” Elona asked.
“Do we have to have the entire coven there?” Sarah asked.
“For Samhain (Halloween) and an initiation, it is recommended that you do have the entire coven.
Actually, we can’t have an initiation without everyone there,” Elona answered.“So we don’t initiate Chris tonight,” Faith said. “What about the rituals?”
“Since Cat is in the hospital, we can forgo the usual rituals and just perform a get better spell and a pray
to the Lords of the Watchtowers and the Goddess to help Cat.”“I say we do that,” Sarah said.
“Then I’ll call Chris and explain.” Elona stood up and walked out of the waiting room so she could call
Chris.“I’m going to call Justin,” Sarah said, also standing up.
Faith was left in the waiting room alone. She walked to the nurse’s station and asked if she could see JC.
“Room 421,” the nurse told her.
Faith walked down the hall to his room, nervous about what she would say to him.
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“Cat was raped last night, and she’s in the hospital right now,” Elona told Chris. “So we can’t have an
initiation tonight.”“If these were different circumstances, I’d be all ‘damn, this is unfair, you can’t do this to me!’,” Chris
began, “but since she is in the hospital, I understand. I wouldn’t do it either.”“We couldn’t initiate you even if we wanted to. All members of the coven have to be there.”
“I was reading that book you gave me, and I was questioning some of the things in there.”
“I’ll answer your questions before we do initiate you.”
“Ok, good. Because I have quite a few questions.”
*~*~*
“Hello?” Justin said, picking up the phone.
“Hey Justin,” Sarah said.
“Sarah! Just the person I was looking for. I just tried calling you.”
“No one’s home. Cat and JC are in the hospital right now.”
“What?! Why?” Justin asked.
“JC has a minor concussion. Cat was raped last night.”
“I’m so sorry, Sarah. Are they both okay?”
“Yeah. I wanted to talk to someone, so I called you.”
“I was going to ask if you wanted to go to dinner with me tonight, but you probably wouldn’t want to now,
so I’ll just come down and visit you.”Sarah smiled. “Thanks Justin.”
*~*~*
Faith tapped on JC’s door and when he answered “come in”, pushed the door open. “How you feeling?”
she asked, sitting down in the chair next to his bed.“Like I got hit over the head with a baseball bat,” JC replied. He turned the TV- he’d been channel
surfing- off and looked at Faith. “I know you probably think it was me who did that-”“Why, if it isn’t your little friend from back home,” Wade said from the doorway. “I’m amazed she’s in
here. After all, it was basically your fault that her best friend is in the hospital.”“Get out, Wade,” JC said, gritting his teeth. He turned to Faith. “Don’t believe him. I didn’t have
anything to do with her rape. He and some of his jackass friends raped her.”“Do you actually believe JC’s lies, Faith?” Wade asked with a sneer in his voice. “It was all part of the
plan. He doesn’t give a damn about you or Cat. He just apologized to you so you wouldn’t suspect him when he
asked Cat out.”Faith looked from Wade to JC. “Josh, is this true?”
“No. Faith, don’t believe him. He’s just trying to get me back for not helping him.”
“He told me all about you, Faith. Such as your interesting name, Faith Brittany Moonbeam. Oh and how
you didn’t have any friends in middle school. And your parents had to send you away so you could make friends.
And then of course, he told me all about your suicide attempts and how your dear father beat you and starved you
because you’d attempted to commit a sin.”Faith looked at JC and he saw a single tear roll down her cheek.
“You fucking bastard,” JC screamed, lunging for Wade, knocking down a few things has he grabbed
Wade. “I didn’t tell you shit about Faith.” He shook him. “Tell her the truth.”“You turned your back on the wrong people, Chasez,” Wade said. “You and all of your friends and hers-”
he nodded towards Faith- “had best watch your backs. Cat was just the first. All of you are going down.”“You won’t be able to do shit,” JC told him. “I’m going to get your ass landed in jail.”
“Go ahead and try, Chasez, but you won’t succeed. Now let me go, you bastard, or else I’ll get security in
here.”JC dropped him and Wade stood up, grinning at Faith. “Keep an eye on your friends, Faith Brittany.”