Chapter One

"The past is but the past of a beginning."

—H.G. Wells—

Rain.

While most people would rather have a warm, bright sunny day to run around fields of green in, Faye preferred the rain. Freezing cold, droplets of water falling from the dark grayish clouds above were what she liked. Unlike any other form of weather, rainy days provided the perfect disguise to an angst filled heart.

Sunny days were blunt and completely honest about revealing your deepest and darkest emotions without a single hope of hiding. Or enough time to come up with an easy and valid reason for explanation. Snow days were suffocating; the clumps of white pounding against the earth piling up into annoying mountains she would only have to shovel down. Providing a far too perfect disguise that only led to asphyxiation underneath the below zero temperatures, crying tears that burned against frostbitten cheeks.

No, rainy days were undoubtedly the best. Faye could cry her out and no one would be any wiser. Tears mingling with rain cascading down her cheeks it were the perfect cover up. No one would be any wiser if Faye was to cry her heart out.

Then again who would ask, if everybody Faye knew didn't care about her.

Diana whom she's known since they were kids had looked down on her abrasive attitude and always found fault within her. Adam never liked Faye; it was plainly obvious that he thought of her as an unstable presence. One the Circle didn't need. Melissa the only person from the group she could call her friend, had now latched onto her boyfriend Nick and completely forgot about her. While Nick only tolerated Faye due to her heritage, he wanted nothing to do with her in the first place.

Then there was Cassie the sixth member to join, she was immediately snatched up into Diana and Adam's own little circle. Diana was bent on being the best friend to Cassie while it was clear to everyone that Adam had his own intentions for the blonde. Thankfully, Cassie picked up on this and set the record straight that she just wasn't interested.

Even so that just left Faye with no one to lean on or to even have a shoulder to cry on. Everyone in the Circle was with someone romantically or platonically. Leaving Faye to question as to what truly was the point of her even being there? When according to them, all she did was cause mayhem to the point of almost killing people. With an almost kill-count of 3, it was enough for their minds to be deadset on believing that Faye Chamberlain was a danger to everyone around her.

She bit her lip hard as she watched the waves crashing gently against the sandy white shore, below her. As the rain slowly trickled to a stop, it gave Faye the sign to stop crying as well. As custom, she would cry to heart's content and wipe the remaining tears away fixing her appearance so when she would return home her mother wouldn't see anything out of the ordinary. Only to repeat the process again, it was like a routine.

So she found herself sitting back on the now damp pier, staring up at the cloudy sky and calm ocean. Luckily, powers weren't bound to the Circle that didn't even like her, but without the privilege of doing magic by herself. Everyone's great fear of her inability of taming them, to spiral of control and now she couldn't even be given the smallest of opportunities to gaze at the stars above.

"Stars, come out." It was a quiet command, but firm.

Nothing happened.

"Stars, come out." The feeling of pointlessness washed over her as she took a deep breath.

"Stars—"

"Come out."

A melodious, amused voice that drifted to her on the faintest of breezes. The clouds steadily retreated and then there were the stars. They shined down at her, lights in the form of billions of little smiles. Smiles she was rarely given during the day. Still, the newly cleared view of the universe was far less important than finding the source of the voice.

"Nothing to worry about, I won't hurt you…after all, we're both witches here."

She was standing not far from her at all. In fact, the new girl was only a few feet away. She had managed to get that close without Faye hearing a single thing out of the ordinary and she did not like that fact at all. It was clear that she were much stronger than her and even though she had her own powers; it was her inability to control them that left the chance of defending herself, very slim. Anxiety rose in Faye's chest as she quickly brushed away a few stray tears and put on her best 'unimpressed bitch' face.

"Look, I'll prove it." The first girl smirked at her lazily, presenting flat, empty palms and suddenly water from the ocean a couple of feet below them rose and circulated into ball in her hands.

Her features were pretty, delicate and with a certain deviousness. With a head of black hair, fair skin and dark coffee brown eyes—just smiled as she brought her hands together in front of her face, murmured something indistinguishable and then blew a gasp of air at the ball. The small spiral of water curled into the atmosphere and solidified itself into the shape of a small bird.

Faye stared at the figure. It was the exact size and shape of a fucking real bird like the ones she's seen flying all over town and on her windowsill in the early mornings chirping and tweeting. The watery figure, with all the mannerisms of a real life bird picked at its liquid wings before bouncing off into the air. She starred at the animal, alarmed, but couldn't stop the feeling of being impressed and jealous.

"Awesome isn't it?" It was apparent that this girl with long shinning black hair was a bragger. Boasting about her superiority over others whenever she had the chance.

"Someone could see you, you know." Faye didn't sound as confident as she would have liked.

"Oh come on, like you don't do it either!" She said with a smile, as if the girl had read Faye's mind.

The two girls exchanged a glance and, with a single word, every bit of magic that had been performed disappeared. The sky was cloudy again; the bird that had formed in the raven-haired girl's hand flew into the water and died; melting away and becoming one with the ocean.

"Faye Chamberlain." The raven-haired girl was closer, sitting beside her on the pier now. Her voice lowered to that of a purr.

This definitely set Faye on edge and the worry bubbled back to the surface.

"Of the Chamberlain witches." The raven-haired girl was somehow within inches and she felt paralyzed, rooted to the spot.

"I'm Sarah. Sarah Amelia Davidson." The raven-haired girl waving off the introductions as an irritating formality. Her eyes bore into Faye's intensely. Same eyes, same color, different feelings. "My Coven has been looking for others. Yours is the closest but… It seems as though you're still tied to them."

"Sort of, but how—"

"A tracking spell told us." There was a mischievous twinkle in Sarah's eye. Faye frowned. It was really annoying to keep being interrupted like that. But, these were actual witches. New witches that she could learn from. Be taught how to control her powers, and not rely on the Diana, Adam and the rest of them to tame her when things got out of hand.

Especially that Cassie Blake.

And yet on some level, Faye felt as though they were on the same one. As if this Sarah girl had cried before about the same things she had cried about minutes before. But was it so?

Before she could ask what was on her mind, Sarah grinned and whispered, just centimeters from her ear, "How would you like to play with some real witchcraft, Faye Chamberlain?"

AUTHOR'S NOTES FOR CHAPTER ONE:

This is my first Secret Circle fanfic, centering mainly on the Faye/Cassie pairing or ship as you'd like to call it, or the popular Chamberlake name for the pairing. Since the show is pretty dark in it's own right, I plan on making this story just as dark, if not darker. You can thank for the showing bringing in demons for that, I've already got the main events going down in this story. And some of the chapters might be short while others are longer, focusing entirely on the goals have for this story.

Also, the whole "Faye joining a new Circle/Coven - add Chamberlake" idea came from reading this awesome story called "Speculum, Speculorum" fic by Valley of Rainbows (tumblr username) on her "Bang! Energy" tumblr. Also her FFnet pename is Asutex. She inspired me to do this kind of story, I'm just adding my own dark twist and turns on the pairing and fandom. But seriously for some reason, I think that it's going to be like a chain and a cliche in the fandom if people pick it up. But those are just my thougts on it.