1. Losing ground (1/1)

hey guys this is my first story and is based on the darkest powers series by kelley armstrong. it takes place 3 years after the last book the reckoning. chloe and derek are living together in a tiny apartment in somewhere on the east coast while derek tries to be a part of a new pack. hope you guys like it!

disclaimer: i don't own any of this. all owned by the wonderful dazzling kelley armstrong.

a new day

"let me go chloe, i don't feel like that for you anymore. it was a mistake. why can't you just let go." i stared at him in disbelief. this was my boyfriend of 3 years and he was saying that what we have is a mistake? i couldn't believe my ears.

trying to be calm, i put on my best reasonable voice when really i was dying inside. "baby, i don't know if i believe you. i know we had fights before but that doesn't mean it's a mistake derek. you can't just say that." chloe said in her most placid voice.

chloe wanted to cry. these past years derek has been the best boyfriend she could ask for. except for those few horrid nights when he couldn't control the change. but she believed they were one of the couples that were going to last forever. well she had, until now.

"chloe you just don't get it. you're tying me down. the boys have been pretty lenient but it's just not working. i got to fulfill my destiny, and you're just not a part of it." derek said with an irritating reasonable voice. how dare he even think this? after what we've been through these past years, he just wants to walk away?

okay, sure it was true the boys were pretty lenient with derek. the pack allowed him to sleep in the apartment with me and not in the big reservation they had for the pack and their mates. but could they blame us for wanting to have a little privacy once in a while. i sighed as i thought of all we've been through.

three years ago i was on the run with my 3 friends from a group of malicious people called the edison group. they wanted us for what we were. super humans. oh alright, and a lupine. derek was a werewolf. not really part of the genesis project as the edison group kindly put it when they tried to kill him. i, chloe saunders was a necromancer. it was a fancy way of saying i could talk and hear the dead. it was a power that haunted chloe at first, but now she has it under control.

then there was simon. he was my more or less boyfriend before derek. he was also a sorcerer. he and his dad were on the hunt of more kids' part of the genesis project. i left simon and his dad, kit behind to stay with derek as he built his pack. that was over a year ago. i sighed dramatically thinking of simon. lately, i've been missing him more and more.

oops, almost forgot tori. actually, who could forget tori? at first tori was the mean girl who trampled all over chloe. she even locked chloe in a crawl space before! chloe shivered at this memory in distaste and thought of the good ones. she and tori became friends when they were on the run and they call each other daily. tori now lives with her boyfriend jake and they could never be happier. they live a town away from chloe in the cutest little cottage. jake, like tori is gifted. tori the sorceress and jake the sorcerer.

"uhm, chloe?" derek said

eaking her out of her reverie. "what!" she snapped. why am i even here? tori would take me in, until he cools down.

"i know what you're thinking chloe, but i mean it. i don't love you anymore, i love- it doesn't matter, we're through." he said it firmly.

chloe couldn't fathom the words he was saying. this arrogant jerk. with as much venom as she could put in her voice she said, "you know what? i'm done. have fun with your pack i'm sick of this."

with that chloe walked out of their tiny little apartment and ran to the nearest bus stop. this wasn't over. derek was just being a jerk and needed to get over himself. i'm going to move on from this stupid jerk, who needs him anyways. getting her bearings chloe sat on the bus seat thinking of what was next to come.

so sweethearts that was the first chapter! what do you think? like or dislike? hate or love? review, review, review! please. thanks so much!

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