Seto’s POV

“Ready as I’ll ever be.” Ian says, then he goes under the water. My mother has already passed me three bottles of potions. I have a healing potion, and regeneration and blood.

“On three ok?” My father says.

“One.” I say.

“Two” Seta says.

“Three” My parents yell in unison. We pour them all in and the water turns a deep red. The potions all start to sink in. Then, the blood in his veins starts to turn a bright, iridescent, light blue. His breathing slows. Then his heart stops. I yell.

“MOM!! You said he’d live!! What happened?!” I try to move towards him but am met by my father.

“Stop Seto. He lived. Remember, a sorcerer’s heart always stops. It will start again once he absorbs all my blood. I promise.” Slowly, I calm down. I decide that I have to go back to see the guys. Ian and I just disappeared. They’re probably worried sick.

“I’ll be back in a little while ok?” I start to walk away before saying,

“Seta? Watch him ok?”

“Ok brother.”

With that I teleport to my living room. I see all the boys in the living room. I run over.

“Seto! Where the actual fuck did you go? We’ve been worried sick about y—wait. Where’s Ian?” Ty starts to freak out at me.

“Guys, just come with me. We’ll explain soon.”

“Where are we going?” Tyler asks.

“Just come on.”

I teleport us all to my parents small house. We run in.

“Mom, dad. These are the guys. Ty, Husky, Kermit, Seto, Ian, Martin, Tyler, Brice, and Jason. Mitch, Adam, Dan and Rob aren’t with us. But they will be once they wake up. I preserved them all except Mitch. Mitch was mid change and I froze him. Mom, can you help me fix him?” My mom’s eyes light up.

“Seto. Go get him. Now.” I quickly teleport away. I run into my room and down the stairs. I pick up my sleeping brother and run back.

Seto- Seta, tell Ty to hold Jerome.

Seta- Ok man.

I teleport back to see Ty holding Jerome who screams when he sees Mitch. Ty held him and tells him everything will be ok. By the time I got back, my mother and father have already set up a second tub with the same potions.

“Seto wake him up.” I slowly start to unfreeze him, seeing him burning again. He starts to scream.

Mitch’s POV

After what felt like an eternity of nothingness, I wake up to feel the burning again.

“Seto what’s going on? I was falling in darkness. What did you do to me? It burns. Help me…” I pull at his shirt.

“Mitch, these are my biological parents and my little sister Seta. You’re changing into one of us and so is Ian ‘because I fucked up. Really bad. Just listen to my mom ok? She’ll get you through this. I promise. Just trust them ok?” Seto says with tears in his eyes.

“Mitch, go under the water completely. Cover your head and don’t open your eyes. We are gonna put about twelve potions in there and a vial of my blood. Don’t worry. You’ll live. I promise. It’s just gonna hurt. And it will hurt a lot. You ready?” I gasp.

“No, but yes. Wait. Where’s Jerome?” I quickly turn, looking for my love. I turn again to see him being held down by a scared, worried Ty.

“Jerome, stop. Please. Don’t make me punch you out again.”

“JEROME!!! Come here!” Jerome gets up and pulls me out of Seto’s arms planting kisses all over my face.

“Jerome, you gotta give him back. We gotta get him in the bath before he passes out again, in pain.” Seto’s mom says. Jerome leans in and kisses me passionately. I cut it off with a scream. And suddenly, Seto takes me away from him. Jerome tries to fight him, but Ty jumps on him. He’s crying. Ty quickly picks him up, cradling poor Jerome in his trembling arms. All the guys, shocked and scared, haven’t said a word. Seto lays me down in my bath, and moves closer to kiss my forehead.

“Hold your breath and close your eyes. Don’t open them. Drop totally under the water. You will die, but then live. Your heart stops, Ian’s did. Trust me ok?” Seto says, quiet and terrified.

“Ok bro. Let’s do dis!” I drop under the water and slowly lose total consciousness.

Jerome’s POV

I watched my love die. He died in that bath. I try to run in, seeing Seto teleport in front of me.

“Don’t you dare touch him. He died but is gonna wake up soon. Trust me.” Seto says, surprisingly calm. He’s not ok, but he’s calm.

“Promise he’ll be ok?” I say in a very shaky voice.

‘I promise. Now go get some sleep… Ok?” He puts a hand to my face, trying to comfort me. I walk away to one of the rooms, looking for Ty. I eventually find him, seeing he’s crying.

“Ty, are you ok?” He sobs quietly, not answering. I walk over to him, lying down beside him and wrapping my arms around him.

“Shh, it’s ok.” Ty cries harder.

“I let him die. I broke the final straw he had left. I hurt him that morning. It’s all my fault. I should’ve been the one to die… not him. Not my beautiful Adam…” He sobs even harder into my shirt. By now the shirt is soaked, but I don’t give a single fuck. He needs me.

“Shh, Ty. It’s not your fault. Nobody knew why he did it. It wasn’t your fault. But you’re gonna get him back. I promise. And when we do, you can be the first to go to him. But don’t say a word. Just kiss him.” I say. He starts to cry a little less.

“Jerome…?”

“Yes Biggums?”

“Will you stay here tonight? With me?”

“Of course darling”

“Promise you won’t leave?”

“Wouldn’t dream of it.”

Jason’s POV

Everything that has happened… It’s too much. First the party we all don’t remember, then Adam. Now Mitch and Ian. It’s too much. I have been chronically depressed for about 5 years. Ever since he died. I’m so mad at him for dying… and I was the only one who knew why he did it.

Danny had been a strange kid. Two people clashing within him. If you can even call them people; they were voices. They drove him crazy. In case you don’t understand what I mean, I’ll make more sense of it. He had schizophrenia. He had seizures and totally broke down in my arms so many times. He was put on so many medications, it was bad. And I miss him more and more every day. Long story short, I was madly in love with him. He hid the medication and seizures from everybody, except for me. He trusted me. And in the letter he wrote to me, it said he had loved me but couldn’t deal with the voices. It was way too much. So he killed himself. Man, I still can’t even say it. It hurts my heart every time I think it. I’ve wanted to kill myself ever since then. I have long slits up both my wrists. Wrapping around, forming words and roping around to show how badly I hurt, they swirl and wrap around beautifully. Nobody knows though. I add more every night. And I will continue to till I die. My life has no meaning without Danny…