Post by StoryGirl83 on Mar 19, 2011 1:03:44 GMT -5
Chapter Two – Half Darklighter?!
Several minutes after his friends had abandoned him, Toby found himself leaning against a wall staring at Piper and Chris. Chris still had a light grip on his wrist, which was really starting to annoy Toby. He shook his wrist. “Let go. I’m not going anywhere.”
“Why should I believe that?” Chris asked, skeptical. “Your friends did. And their methods of leaving weren’t exactly innocent.”
Toby shrugged. “Yeah, well I can shimmer and dark orb, but you know that . . . that doesn’t make me evil.”
Chris dropped his wrist as if it was on fire. “You’re a darklighter?”
Toby wiped off his wrist and glared at Chris. “Yeah. Well, half anyway. My dad was a darklighter.”
“Am I needed here?” Piper wanted to know.
Chris looked at her surprised, as if he had forgotten that she was even there. “No. Sorry. I think I’m okay. Thanks.”
Piper looked at Toby and Chris. “Be careful,” she warned her son before she walked back into the dining room.
Chris watched her for a second and turned back to Toby. You said you could shimmer, too. So your mom is a demon.”
“Yes,” Toby agreed, “but she’s gone.”
“Gone?”
Before Toby could answer a couple walked down the hall toward the door. Toby was silent as both he and Chris watched them. Once they were gone, Toby looked back at Chris. “Vanquished when I was a few weeks old.”
“Oh.”
“Don’t you want to know the rest?”
“What’s to know?” Chris retorted. “You’re half demon, half darklighter, and that makes you all evil.” Considering his brother’s best friend, it was mostly the darklighter part that bothered him. How could a darklighter be anything other than evil?
Toby shook his head. There was amusement in his eyes as he said, “Not exactly. My mom was a demon and your family vanquished her. I believe it was when you were on one of your vanquish-every-demon-to-protect-Wyatt binges.”
Chris stiffened a little. Though he didn’t really consider that himself, the reference grated. “And you want revenge.”
A man walked by them on his way to the bathroom. He gave Chris a look.
Once he was past Toby grinned. Sobering quickly, he looked at Chris to answer. “No. With my mom gone, my dad was busy a lot. Darklighters have clients and stuff. Anyway, I ended up meeting CT before the shift.”
“The shift?” Chris asked.
“Yeah,” Toby agreed. This time he was really grinning. “That’s what I called it when my powerful best friend lost all his powers and I could still use some of mine. I was two. He was three. Neither of us really remembers it, but since he was stuck there I had to go to him. Believe me, it’s a troublesome process, so I stayed longer and longer periods of time. My dad never noticed and eventually I didn’t return.”
“He’s a witch, right?”
“Huh,” Toby blinked at him in surprise. “Yeah, I guess. I don’t really think about it since I never met his mom, but he’s half witch. His dad raised him and more or less me.”
“And his dad is?” Chris asked, digging for more information, some clue as to their agenda. He may have trusted Seth with his life, but he didn’t know anything about this demon or his demonic friends.
“Not really an open topic of conversation,” Toby admitted, “but he’s a good man.”
“And the other. . .” Chris paused as another man headed past them down the hall. Once the man was passed, Chris sighed. “Let’s go somewhere without interruptions.” Making sure no one was coming Chris touched Toby on the shoulder and orbed them out.