When Jake got home that afternoon the house was unusually quiet. Everyone else was still in class, or they disappeared without telling him where they went.

He suspected it had something to do with his and Raven's birthdays as there had been a lot of whispering, and then silences, when he or Raven approached the others.

Jake went up to his room and tossed his backpack in his closet. He sat on his bed and picked up the sketch pad from his nightstand. He opened it up and took out the picture of Aurora and looked at it again.

He studied it in amazement. She was real. Or someone was playing a really dirty trick on him.

Maybe Raven. She was the only one who knew of Aurora. But she wouldn't do that, would she?! He hadn't known Raven very long, and she could be quite the kidder, but no, he didn't think she do something that low.

Besides, she had no idea what Aurora looked like, and the girl in this picture was Aurora. There was no doubt about it. What now? How could he find her?

She obviously wanted him to find her now. She sent him those things. But he had no idea how to go about it.

He put the picture and card back in the drawer of his nightstand, covering them with some random stuff he'd thrown in there.

He took out the pencils and started sketching. He started with Aurora since this was her gift to him. He sketched her cute little braids and her overalls with her little legs sticking out. When he was done with her picture, he turned the page and drew Tony.

He drew him as he now saw him with laughter and kindness in his eyes. But also, with sadness in the depths of his eyes, that Jake was still trying to figure out. Was it because he had killed people in the past? That he had to still drink people's blood? Was it that Emily had broken up with him, and Tony still loved her? Or was it more than that?

Somehow, he thought it was, and he wondered at it, concern for his new friend. Yes, he was considering Tony now to be a friend.

He kept drawing, and drawing, everyone that he knew. His hand was starting to cramp. He looked up as he stretched his arm. Emily stood in his door.

"Hey," he said, smiling up at her.

Jake was always happy when she was around and even happier when she sought him out.

"Hey, watcha doing?" Emily asked, peering inside his room.

"Just sketching some," he answered, sitting up. "Come in," he said. She stepped in.

"What's with everyone hanging out at the doorways?" Jake asked, frowning in confusion.

"Tony," she said simply.

"Huh?" Jake asked.

Emily laughed. "Vampires. They can't come in unless you invite them. At least, on homes that have been guarded by a spell. A regular house they don't need to be invited in, and they can enter with no trouble at all. I guess the myth about them not being able to enter a home without an invitation came from them not being able to enter a witch's home. In any case, since we warded everyone's individual rooms, Tony has to be invited into each bedroom to enter. We re-ward the house every night, so he has to start over again every day. It's just a habit we picked up with him around."

"Oh," Jake said, nodding slowly as he took in this new information.

He didn't realize Emily was practicing magic spells, though he had seen some interesting looking books in her room and around the house.

"Hey, sit down," he said, patting his bed, and scooted over to make room for her

"Can I see?" she asked, gesturing to the sketch book as she sat.

"Sure," Jake said, handing it to her.

Emily went through each page, one by one, looking them over carefully.

"You're really good, Jake. Maybe you should minor in art."

"Nah. I just do it for fun," he said, smiling that she liked his drawings so much. Drawing was a part of him, so he felt she must like him some if she liked his work.

"So... what else do you do for fun?" Emily asked curiously.

Jake thought, then laughed. "Nothing. I'm such a bore," he said with a sigh and leaned back on his headboard.

Emily laughed. "There must be something!"

"I like hanging out with you," he said, leaning towards her.

"Good, I like hanging out with you too," she said, leaning in towards him.

"So, when do I get that date?" he asked, scooting in closer to her.

"How 'bout tonight?" she asked with a pleased smile.

Jake smiled back. "Sounds good. What do you want to do?"

"Whatever you want is fine," she said standing up. "Pick me up at seven?" she asked.

Jake grinned at the joke, since they lived together he wouldn't technically be picking her up.

"Sure," he answered, trying to keep his cool.

She leaned down and kissed him on the mouth sweetly.

"What was that for?" Jake asked in shock.

"To get it out of the way," she said with a shrug.

He studied her face and then smiled. "I don't think it's quite out of the way," Jake said, standing up, and he kissed her again with everything in him.

They broke away breathless.

Emily patted her chest. "Why, I declare," she said in a Scarlet O'Hara impression.

Jake smiled, his dimples popping out. "Let's go right now," he said, pulling her to him, and put his forehead up against hers.

"Okay," she whispered, touching his cheek.

"Hey, guys!" Ray's voice bellowed in the hall. He rushed in, "I need an emergency meeting right now!"

He carried a bunch of paper printouts and sweat poured down his face from his temples.

"What's wrong?" Emily asked, pulling away from Jake.

"Come downstairs," he answered, rushing down the hallway.

"Raven downstairs, now!" Ray yelled, banging on her door.

"What's going on?" Raven asked, as she followed Jake and Emily down the stairs after Ray.

Jake shrugged as they hurried after him. "Don't know," he answered, glancing over his shoulder.

"George, living room!" Ray yelled into the kitchen before walking quickly down the hall and banged on the basement door. He opened it and yelled for Tony to come up, as well.

Ray took a seat in one of the armchairs in the living room and waited for them all to get there.

"No!" he snapped, stopping Jake from sitting. "Jake and Raven, you sit here," he directed, pointing to the couch next to him.

Raven and Jake moved from where they were going to sit and sat where they were told. Confusion was plastered on all of their faces.

"What's going on?" Raven demanded as Tony and George finally joined them.

"Raven, remember when I asked you what you wanted for your birthday?" Ray asked her.

"Yeah, that was about a month ago," she said, glaring at him.

"Tell them what you asked me for."

"I don't see what that has to do with anyone else. It's my business," Raven protested.

"Trust me. You'll see, I promise," he told her, touching her hand."It's important or I wouldn't ask."

Raven sighed and looked down at her hands. "I asked him to help me find my birth parents," she said, looking embarrassed.

"What's that got to do with the rest of us?" George asked Ray. "If Raven wants to find her birth parents, what's the big deal?" he continued, looking totally clueless as to what his friend was getting at.

"Plenty," Ray said certainly.

"Well, are you going to tell us or what?" Tony demanded, annoyed.

"I'm working up to it," Ray told him. He nervously wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Well, first of all, Rave, I got some bad news. Um...there's no good way of saying this, so I'll just say it. Your parents are dead," he told her apologetically.

Raven nodded. "Okay," she said, trying to hold back her tears.

"Maybe, I should explain something to Jake first," Ray said, turning to Jake.

"I'm a hacker. I can break into computer systems. That's how I was able to obtain this information," he explained, like he'd gotten into top secret files of the military or something.

"Okay," Jake said with a nod.

He'd heard of hackers before. Who hadn't?! He knew it was illegal, and Ray could get in serious trouble if he was caught. Somehow, he couldn't see Ray in an orange jump suit.

And despite his black belt in Karate, Jake didn't think Ray would last a day in prison, never mind years.

"Well, since this morning, Jake, you said you were also adopted, and your birthday is tomorrow too. I thought that I'd look for both of your parents and let you know what I found out tomorrow," Ray said carefully.

"You looked for my birth parents?!" Jake snapped angrily.

He didn't want to know the people that had dumped him. Jake thought if they didn't want him, then he didn't want them. He loved the family he had. He didn't need another one.

"I thought you'd want to know," Ray said defensively.

"Well, I don't," Jake told him, annoyed.

"I'm sorry, Jake, but it's done now, and I need to tell you anyway, no matter how you feel about it. They're dead, too," he said quickly, like ripping off a band-aid.

Jake looked at him. Dead. Jake was stunned. He thought that he'd be okay not to know them, but for them to be dead... that was different. Jake felt a pang of loss in him that he wasn't prepared for.

"So, we weren't dumped then. Our parents were already dead?" Raven asked.

She thought she could handle their death knowing she was loved, rather than if they hadn't wanted her, or loved her.

"Yeah, that's right. Your parents died, and then you were taken in by the orphanage," he explained, "Both of you. Together," he emphasized each word.

"I don't understand," Jake said, shaking his head in disbelief.

"Raven's your sister, Jake. Your twin sister," Ray told him.

Everyone stared at Ray in shock. "You're kidding!" George exclaimed. Emily shushed him.

"I'm not," Ray said. He handed Raven and Jake some papers.

"Birth certificates, your adoption papers, your name change request forms , your parent's death and birth certificates," he pointed out each set of papers as he passed them out.

Jake stared at them, still not believing even as he saw his name written clearly: Jake O'Sullivan. His name was changed to Jake Rourke less than a month after he was taken into the orphanage.

Raven handed him her papers, and he did the same, passing her his papers. He looked at hers reading them carefully, "Katherine O'Sullivan."

Her name had been changed to Raven Morgan. They were both adopted on the same day to different families. They had been taken away from each other.

Raven gasped and tears ran down her face. Jake turned to her and hugged her hard. He fought his own tears away. His sister. Hadn't he felt it the whole time? Why hadn't he known it?

He'd had some explainable bond with Raven that he'd felt since the first day he moved in. He felt like they could talk to each other about things they weren't comfortable sharing with the others. He'd always looked at Raven like she was a sister to him, and now she really was. Had always been.

Raven pulled away and wiped her eyes. She smiled at him. His dimples were popping out of her cheeks. She pointed to them.

"I try to keep them under cover," she said, embarrassed.

He poked one of them like she had done to his so many times before. "They're cute," he told her. She hugged him.

"I hate to break up the reunion, but there is more," Ray told them, raising his voice to be heard over the multiple, excited conversations happening around him.

"What else is there?" Emily asked. concerned.

"For one, how their parents died," Ray said, raising an eyebrow.

Ray was wearing his glasses, so he looked like a professor challenging them to piece the clues together to find the answer.

"How?" Jake asked, looking through the papers for the death certificates.

Molly O'Sullivan died from smoke inhalation and severe burns caused by a house fire. He looked at the next one. Jake O'Sullivan died of smoke inhalation and burns caused by a house fire. The death certificates were dated on the same day.

"Fire," Raven gasped, shivering, disturbed that one of her powers could have caused her parents death.

"Look at this," Ray said, handing her a printout of a newspaper article.

Raven read aloud, "Molly and Jake O'Sullivan of Jessup Street died yesterday after lightning struck their family home, catching it on fire. Six month old twins, Katherine and Jake Junior, were rescued by a neighbor, who saw the fire, called the fire department, and broke into the home to try rescue the family. The twins were rescued with only minor smoke inhalation, but their parents were unable to be saved."

"Sounds eerily familiar," Ray said, looking pointedly at Emily.

Jake glanced at Tony, who was looking more like a vampire with how pale he had gotten. He was whispering choice curse words, and had dropped into one of the empty armchairs. Tony was rubbing his hands across his face, through his hair, and back over his face again.

Jake didn't blame him. Tony had rescued Emily and Brian, but had been unable to save her parents. The stories were practically the same.

"The demon," Emily said with a curse of her own.

"I believe so," Ray said, looking at Raven and Jake.

"But why?" Raven demanded. Jake put an arm around her.

"All this time, we've been thinking that the demon is after Emily. She's got great powers. Even Brian thinks that one day she will be more powerful than him," Ray said. He looked at Raven and Jake. "But I think he wants you."

"Why us?" Jake asked him, puzzled beyond belief.

All he did was dream. Emily could do spells to protect the house, she could heal, and read minds. Jake was nothing compared to her.

And Raven? She could just shoot fireballs out of her hands and control the weather. Why would anyone want to hurt her?

"I don't know. Maybe together you're more powerful than even Emily. Maybe together you can defeat him," Ray said.

"So, he killed our parents and maybe hoped to kill us. And when that didn't happen, we still ended up being split up anyway," Jake said doubtfully. "Until we ended up together."

"Exactly," Ray said, pointing at him excitedly.

"Then why has it been after me all these years, if it wants Jake and Raven?" Emily asked with a frown.

"Maybe it knew that Raven and Jake would end up here with you. And it didn't want them to be together. Especially, if you helped them learn their true greatness of power," Ray suggested.

"So, it tried to kill me, and succeeded in killing my parents, just to prevent them from ever meeting me?" Emily asked.

"Just a theory," Ray said with a shrug.

"It's a good one." Tony spoke up. He looked a bit better, his coloring in his face had warmed back up as the conversation went on.

"So, what do we do now?" Jake asked Ray, since he seemed to be taking the lead on this.

Usually everyone listened and followed Emily, but she was looking shell shocked and wasn't in any condition to lead anyone into anything.

"I'd stick with Raven. I think the two of you are safer together. Maybe test your powers together. See what happens," Ray told him.

Thunder and lightning suddenly crashed outside causing them all to jump out of their seats.

Ray smiled proudly. "I don't think he liked that suggestion very much."