Reincarnated Poet: I have a hug apology to make. I wasn't clear at all about the whole gods thing in my last little announcement on the previous chapter. I thought I was asked about the fourth god not the fifth. I apologize for the confusion, but you will be finding out about the fifth god in this chapter actually. My bad guys.

Anann had been sitting next to the window, watching as Alex lead Reid out the back door and toward the tree line. She sighed. Iovan would be hell to deal with when he actually had his blood power back. She stretched her legs for a moment and watched Caleb. The boy reminded her of things long past with his steady gaze and his quick thought. "Caleb." She called and the dark haired boy immediately left his girlfriend's side to take up residence at hers.

"Yes?" He asked quietly, not sure of her mood.

"I would like to talk to you for a moment of things long past for both of us." She stood and walked toward the front door. "Let us walk and talk at the same time, the rain will not hold off for long." Caleb fell into step easily beside her and there was silence for a moment before she spoke again. "You know there was a fifth." She said it easily enough but Caleb flinched.

"We had to kill him, he would have killed us." His face looked guilty but his voice was steady and strong. "Chase was confused and addicted."

"I understand." Anann answered. "His blood god was as well, although differently so." Caleb's eyes met the goddesses for a moment and she was crying although her voice held strong. "We live now through our blood bonds with your families. A god's power only lasts as long as he or she is believed in. Back a few years ago that stopped completely and he couldn't take it."

"How is Abnoba still here then?" Caleb asked, watching his feet pick through the grass. They were slowly circling the house.

"Belief. We're believed in again, but that is what I must speak with you about, Caleb." Her voice grew serious. "When your families stop believing, and they will, but when they do, it will be the end for us and all that has ties to our power." There was silence as both parties contemplated what would be said next. "Your power will die when we do."

Caleb nodded slowly. "What happened to Chase's god?" It was quiet and he already knew the answer.

"When Chase Pope died, as did his god." She grew quiet for a moment. "You must not blame Chase for his actions, Caleb. We crave the use of the power, it makes us stronger. His god simply craved more so than we." She took a deep breath. "Removing the curse returns the power of the curse to us, but it also removes our direct bond to the power. We're still attached but it becomes your choice to use it.

"It's our choice to use it now." Caleb countered.

"Yes, for you maybe." She smiled down at the boy as Alex and Reid came into view. "For him," she gestured toward Reid. "For him it's different. Iovan is a kind man but a man who craves what he craves strongly. When the bond is broken that boy will no longer feel the compulsion to use the powers. It will be his choice."

"It's always been our choice to use or not." Caleb said, staring at Reid who was just sitting down under a tree. "It's his stubborn streak that won't let him stop." A hand came down on Caleb's shoulder.

"You don't all have my resolve running through our veins, Caleb. You have to learn to be more patient with them. I do believe you know the pull quiet well, and I do believe that it was your choices not mine that lead you to know that." She squeezed his shoulder briefly. "But that was not what this talk was to be about. I need you to promise one thing, Caleb Danvers."

"Tell me what it is, then I'll make the promise." His eyes narrowed. In all the books making deals with gods tended to end better for the god than the mortal.

"Ever the careful one." Anann laughed. "Do not forget us." She said quietly. "Tell the stories to your children and their children. I've seen too many die because of my folly to let you forget and our children die once more." She watched as Alex's hair lightened and the wrinkles formed before passing into the tree. "She's special. She's taken more to this power than any I've ever seen."

"It's what she's supposed to do, is it not?" Caleb asked watching Reid stand up and stretch, rolling his eyes when the boy used to dry his clothes.

"No so easily, no. It should take several attempts, several sessions to completely remove the curse." Anann stopped and watched the girl move from one tree to the next, staring at Caleb. "She's calling you, it's time." The thunder rolled above them and lightening came down all around the pair.

"Time to lose another one, Anann." A voice echoed in her mind and she clamped her hand down on Caleb's shoulder and pulled him behind her.

"Go, run to the house, tell Abnoba and Iovan that he's here." Caleb looked around, eyes wide waiting for some mystical person to arrive. "Go!" Anann pushed him roughly toward the house, taking large careful steps toward Alex who still sat under the tree.

"Alex?" Came the call from the house, a light female voice. Kate. "Alex, come on, its not smart to sit under a tree in a lightning storm." The dark haired girl was running across the lawn toward Alex as Anann yelled at her to stop. Pogue was at the door, running after Kate. It happened so quickly that Anann wasn't sure she had actually seen what she saw.

He was standing there, behind Alex as she stood and ran toward Kate, laughter in her eyes. "It's fine, its just a little-" She never finished the statement. Pan's eyes darkened and lightning came down hard just as Alex and Kate met in a half hug.

Pogue was standing by the stairs, frozen it seemed. His jaw jumped and his eyes blackened. If you looked closely you could see Kate's reflection in them. Stiffening in pain. Going limp. Falling to the ground. Both girls were laying there in the wet grass, but it didn't seem to matter to Pogue. The biker's mind had shut down after seeing Kate. He took a ragged step as Iovan and Abnoba came from the back door. The three gods converging on the rogue god that stood over Alex and Kate. He was smiling. Pogue watching that smile and one of his own passed over his lips. He took half a step forward and the power flared out.

The smile left Pan's face as his flesh left his bones. Something akin to a muscle diagram was all that was left to fall upon the ground next to Kate and Alex. The gods turned to look at the boy, Abnoba stepping forward and trying to calm him as Iovan scooped both girls up and took them into the house. When Kate left his line of vision his knees gave out and he fell forward onto them, silent sobs racking his shoulders. Anann crouched over the form of Pan, skinless and motionless and closed her eyes. One hand came out and touched the form before he disappeared into smoke.

"He's dead." Anann informed Abnoba who was hauling Pogue to his feet. "He was reckless staying in a human form afterward. He thought we would be the ones to come after him." Anann helped the boy to stand and guided him up the steps.

It was quiet in the Danvers' mansion, two girls lay on separate couches, wide eyes staring down at them. It was Caleb that first checked for pulses. Alex heart beat, slow and sure under his fingers and he exhaled deeply. "Kate?" Came Pogue's hopeful question from the doorway. Caleb looked toward the dark skinned girl and felt for a pulse, head falling when he found none.

Pogue watched as his best friend's head bowed and that was all he saw as Abnoba's hand came down hard on the back of his neck, sending him into a world of darkness and dreams. Alex and Pogue both slept out the day, never once stirring. Kate, they took and tucked into a bed upstairs, not yet calling the police to come and collect the body. Pogue would want a chance to say goodbye.

Iovan was furious, mind racing to try and save his new fledgling daughter. She wasn't completely human and longer, but she still fragile enough for this world to have destroyed. "My power should have protected her." Her cried, head falling heavily into his hands as the other gods watched.

"Iovan, she's a mortal, a human girl." Abnoba reasoned. "The power is what kept her body from being destroyed." Abnoba's eyes fell to Alex, who laid sleeping on the couch. "There's always-"

"No." Anann interrupted. "We have no control over the decisions of mortals, let alone the decisions of those who live among them as godlings." Three pairs of immortal eyes fell upon the girl who slept on the couch. "We would lose her forever." Anann whispered as if saying the words too loudly would make them real.

It was Alex that woke first, slowly moving as her muscles echoed complaint. Her eyes fell on Pogue, asleep next to her, and the broken faces around her and the lack of Kate's presence filled in the story. Tears came from her eyes as the gods looked on, unable to do anything. "Caleb." She finally said, hauling herself to her feet. "Come on, let's get you curse free." She weaved to the door and waved off Tyler's help and his suggestion that she wait. Caleb followed her slowly back to the tree she'd been sitting under earlier.

Caleb sat down hard in the grass in front of her, eyes watching carefully even though he was told the god was gone. "I need you to relax a bit." Alex said quietly. "Reid was tense and it made it worse." Her hand grabbed Caleb's before he had time to register her words. His eyes clamped shut and it was over before he'd even known it had begun. The only sign that anything had happened was another set of leaves joining the other three on the ground. Caleb marveled as the feeling of weariness left his body as Alex got to her feet and returned to the house to find Pogue awake and staring at her in the kitchen.

"Pogue." She said it quietly, not sure of his state of mind.

"Did it hit you?" he asked, voice quiet and angry. "It hit you and moved into her, didn't it?" He asked, voice growing louder and angrier. Alex's eyes fell and she watched her feet as she left the kitchen. Had it? Had she passed the electricity through her body like the power? She shook her head against the thoughts as Iovan pulled her into a bone crushing hug.

"She's done here, we can go home." Iovan insisted, looking from Abnoba to Anann.

"It's her decision, Iovan." Anann reminded as Abnoba growled.

"Give her the gift and let her decide what to do with it." Abnoba said finally, leaning back against the window sill. Anann's hand came down lightly and pressed against Alex's breastbone. A warmth radiated through her chest down to her fingertips followed by power. Her posture straightened and she felt strong.

"What did you do?" she asked as Anann pulled away.

"We gave you the gift of immortality." Anann said quietly. "You can return with us and live a life free of mortal death. Murder and suicide are the only means we can be killed." Anann corrected as she thought of Pan's body laying in the grass. "It is…your decision what you do with this gift, Alex." Anann looked at her rather harshly before glancing at Pogue as he entered the kitchen. Alex's eyes widened and she glanced at her father, who was facing away from them. She nodded slowly and turned away to talk to Caleb.

Pogue stood watching from the doorway as Anann reached down and touched Alex. He felt the life and energy flow into her body and his shoulder shook with anger. It wasn't fair. His head dropped to his chest in defeat. Maybe it was fair.

Alex hugged Caleb quickly, thanking him for his help. She mused quietly to herself about how his power had tasted. It was electric and steady, a flow, very much like the lightning. Tyler came next, placing a chaste kiss at the corner of her mouth. The spot burned as she hugged him, feeling the calm radiate through him and into her. Reid raised an eyebrow suggestively as she said good-bye and murmured something about going away sex before he jokingly gave her a hug and kissed her forehead. She was smiling by the time she turned to Sarah and got a half hearted teary hug. Kate was Sarah's best friend, it made sense that she would be effected by her death.

It was Pogue that floored her. She stared at him for a moment, shifting from one foot to the other. He sighed deeply and pushed against the door frame, draping an arm around her shoulders and giving her a sideways hug. "I…I want to say good-bye to Kate." She said it quietly and he stiffened by grabbed her hand and led her toward the stairs. "Good-bye." She murmured again and the three gods nodded, leaving the home behind.

The three boys in the living room looked at each other oddly and shook their heads. The actions of gods were beyond their ability to think about at the moment. Caleb was comforting Sarah again while Reid and Tyler half heartedly played a game of poor. A few minutes later Pogue returned to the living room, pulling a phone from his pocked.

It rang once before the other line came through, "911 what is your emergency."

~R.P.~

Pogue had left, telling Alex that he was going to call an ambulance to come for Kate. Alex nodded her head slowly and sat down on the side of the bed the girl was laying in. She let her hand trail out across the girl's eyes and nose before smiling. "Kate, you know he can't do this without you." It was quiet at first, but the truth to the words was undeniable. She let the hand trail lover and rest over the dark haired girl's heart while her other hand came up to rest on top of her own.

A slow hum filled the air and Alex could feel her heart slowing. Boom boom. Boom boom. She caught her breath when the next beat was under her other hand. Boom boom. It was back in her own chest. Boom boom, back into Kate's. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she collapsed as the beat took up rhythm in Kate's chest more so than he own.

Pogue came through the door a minute later, yelling for help as he saw the girl collapsed onto of Kate. He pulled her off and down to the floor, checking for a pulse, marveling as he found it slow and light under her skin. Caleb came through the door and a rapid fire round of CPR started as red and blue lights flashed through the window. A team with a stretcher came through the door and took over.

Pogue was pushed away and up onto the bed where he sat looking down at his girlfriend. She was still beautiful, he mused, tears prickling at his eyes. A hand came up and trailed over her face. The second skin touched skin he froze. "She's warm." He said quietly, eyes falling to the gentle rise and fall of her chest. "Caleb, she's alive." He said it quietly but the eldest son heard it over the shouted orders of the EMT's.

Caleb's eyes met Pogue's and both sets fell down to the girl on the floor. The paramedics had her on a stretcher and someone was still pumping on her chest as they rushed her from the second story floor of the Danvers' mansion.

~R.P.~

Pogue had Kate tucked carefully under his arm as the pair walked somberly across the grass. Kate held his hand as if it were a lifeline. In Pogue's other hand he held a clutch of flowers. They were late. The others would already be there, but it had taken a while for Kate to adjust to the idea that she had died.

Their footsteps were quiet and loud at the same time, it seemed as they drew closer. A lump formed in the boy's throat and guilt washed over both faces as they saw her. Wires and tubes had been removed and her skin was pale. Blue circled lay under her eyes. A hospital gown adorned her skinny frame and a sheet was pulled up to her shoulders. Reid was leaning against the opposite wall, eyes scanning between the people in the room. Tyler was sitting on the other side of the bed, head hung in his hands. Caleb and Sarah were curled up in the empty bed in the room.

Kate sat down opposite of Tyler and started crying as Pogue rubbed slow circles into her back. The form on the bed took a deep breath. "Jesus Christ you'd think I was dead." She groused.

"Wrong god." Came the quiet reply from everyone in the room.

REINCARNATED POET: This is the end. I realize that it just ends but I felt it was a good way to wrap up the story. This might actually be the longest chapter yet. I was going to split it into two and give a bit more of the aftermath, but I like how it worked out. A bit of mystery in the last bit up until the end. Anyway, let me know what you thought. The next story I'll be posting (full length story anyway) should begin making an appearance tonight or tomorrow. It's a Supernatural Buffy the Vampire Slayer deal that will run anywhere between eight and twelve chapters. I intend to make those chapters quiet a bit longer so the story will be shorter chapter wise. Check it out if you have time.

Thanks again to everyone to read this! You guys have been great!