Meeting The Circle

Thank you for sticking with me through my writers block!

This chapter isn't very exciting, but Mary-Lynnette needed to meet the Circle and I thought this would work.

Anyway -

DISCLAIMER - I am not L.J. Smith.

Hannah accepted Thierry's hand as she got out of the back of the Limo. She still held the hand as she walked though the parking lot towards the building their meeting was set to be held in. A figure came running out it.

"We are just setting up the chairs now, Sir, how many do we need?" David asked him, stopping half way.

"Around twenty. If we need more, we can draw more." Thierry answered, walking straight past him, "And call me Thierry."

"Of course, Thierry." David jogged back to catch up.

Gillian opened the door when they reached it.

David put an arm around her and followed Thierry and Hannah into the hall.

The hall itself had been rearranged to there was four tables lined up next to each other, chairs around the edges. The rest of the tables, and unused chairs were stacked on top of each other and had then been pushed to the edges of the room.

Thierry took his seat at the head of the table and Hannah sat beside him.

James, Poppy, Phil, Thea, Eric, Gillian, David, Rashel, Quinn, Jez, Morgead, Maggie, Delos, Illana and Keller took their seats around the table.

Kestrel hovered around, not knowing what to do.

"Sit here, Kestrel," Jez patted the seat beside her.

Kestrel took it, thankfully.

"Erm… Thanks…"

"No problem."

No one seemed at all confused about why she was there, and no one said anything to her, so she calmed down a bit. She guessed Ash had told them everything; sometimes she did really did love her idiot of a brother.

"Where's Ash?" Poppy looked around the table.

"Who knows." James moaned. Knowing his cousin, he was going to show up fashionably late as always.

"No need to fear, Poppy, I am here." Ash strode into the room and took his seat beside his sister, "why are you here?" he asked her.

Kestrel didn't know what to say.

"She is a part of this circle, Ash, she belongs here." Hannah explained.

Ash accepted that without question, then and turned to face Thierry.

"What's the plan?"

"There is no plan," Thierry sighed, "We have nothing."

"We do have something." Hannah attempted to comfort him.

"What?" Quinn asked, "A year? There are millions of people who were born seventeen years ago."

Everyone knew Quinn was right, but nobody said anything about it.

"No need to be so pessimistic, Quinn" Illana turned on him, "If we have nothing, then surely neither do they."

A low conversation began.

"There must be some way of drawing the list down." Maggie looked at Delos.

"I don't know," the vampire prince bowed his head.

"Maybe the three Wild Powers we have can use some kind of power to figure out who the fourth is." Eric guessed wildly.

Delos, Illana and Jez exchanged glances, before turning to Thierry.

"You know Eric, that might work…" Delos turned to Thea. "Could you teach Illana a searching spell of some kind?"

"You need to know who you are searching for to do that." Thea said sadley.

"Would using their blood work?" all eyes turned to the door, where Mary-Lynnette was stood listening, "I mean there must be something in their blood that links them together somehow."

She approached the table and took the empty seat on the other side of Ash.

"Mary-Lynnette has a point," Morgead bit his lip.

"There are only four of us after all," Jez agreed.

"Can you make a searching spell using blood alone though? Or would you just find their families or something?" Rashel asked Thea.

"I have no blood family, not close anyway." Jez sighed.

"Me neither," Delos added, "all I have left is Hunter."

The low rumble of talk began again.

"I do," Illana looked crest fallen.

"We know who they are, so we can search for an anomaly." Gillian smiled at her.

As the circle discussed how such a spell would work Mary-Lynnette listened, not understanding, but watching everyone as they spoke. She felt very out of place, but one of them had called her by her name, which meant Ash talked about her. Thinking of Ash made her glance sideways at him. His blonde hair was falling in his eyes as he talked animatedly to the beautiful blond girl sat opposite him.

Looking around the table Mary-Lynette noticed they were all beautiful, she found it almost hard to believe that some of these people were human, she could tell who the vampires were no problem.

The one who called her by her name, Morgead, she had learnt. Ash's friend Quinn who was in many of the memories Ash tried to hide from her, the one at the head of the table, Thierry, their leader. The girl with bright green eyes beside her soulmate, both looked about 16, but they were vampires, they could be any age.

Three of the girls had violet eyes, the way they were talking told her they were witches.

The others she couldn't tell what species they were, any of them could be human, Shapeshifter, werewolf or other witches. She didn't know.

"Mare?" Ash's telepathic voice made her stop staring, "They want to introduce themselves to you."

Mary-Lynette turned to him, he smiled.

"Time to meet the Circle"

Lots of talking; but I wanted to make sure everyone was doing something, and that is hard with 20 characters in the same place at the same time.

I thought Mary-Lynnette could be useful to them somehow.

I know I missed loads of people, before you point that out to me.

Tell me what you think of Mary-Lynnette's idea and if you think it would/should work or not.

Thank you all for reading.

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