The Librarians and The Possibilities

by angellwings

Episode One: ...And Morgan le Fay's Return

Act One: Lima, Peru

Morgan le Fay was in Lima, Peru.

That was the first thing Jake remembered when he came to. They'd been chasing after surges in Ley Lines, and as far as they figured they were chasing after an ancient artifact that had to do with the Incan Goddess of fertility, Pachamama. But when they'd reached the source of the surges they'd found Morgan le Fay and something that could only be referred to as apparition.

With one flick of her wrist Jake and Ezekiel had been flung against the furthest wall, and that's when the world went black.

Cassie. What happened to Cassie?

"Come on, Stone, get up. We've got a big problem. A possibly apocalyptic one."

He sat up with a groan and found Ezekiel standing over him. The room was lit up with a bright light but he couldn't seem to focus on the source.

"What the hell is that? Where's Cassie?"

"Mate, that is Cassandra," Ezekiel said worriedly.

He stood up and focused his eyes on the light and, sure enough, he could make out Cassandra's red hair in the middle of it. He took a step to go after her but Ezekiel stopped him.

"Don't. We don't know what will happen if you do."

"But Cassandra is—"

"You bitch!" A voice yelled from the left of the light.

He recognized that voice. Morgan le Fay.

"That child has no right to the power you've just given her!"

"And you thought I would give it to you?"

The voice that came out of Cassandra's mouth was definitely not her own. The light around her dimmed considerably and Jake could see that she was floating. Cassandra was floating in the middle of the room. The color in her blue eyes had vanished completely, leaving her eyes a blinding white. The sight left Jake with more fear than he'd ever felt in his life.

"You don't have a choice!" Morgan yelled. "I didn't come here for you to give it to me. I came here to take it! Do you think she can host your magic? She doesn't even know the potential she holds! She's barely aware of her capabilities. I hate to break it to you, sweetie, but if you plan on using her as a host that one's defective!"

"This one is strong. You are weak. My hosts do not effect me, I affect them," said the thing that was inside Cassandra.

"We gotta do something, Jones! That thing has Cassie!"

"Yeah, I'd love to help but I've got nothing. I'm a thief, not a…well I don't know what could handle this," he said as he watched the scene with wide eyes.

"Cassandra!" Jake yelled. "I know you gotta be in there, kid. Fight back!"

"Hush now," the creature yelled as it turned Cassie's eyes on him in a stern glare. "The child is safe. You do not need to worry."

"Surprisingly not comforting!" Ezekiel yelled in return.

Morgan stomped like a petulant child and flicked her wrist at Jake and Ezekiel once again. Suddenly it felt as if a hand were on his throat, strangling him.

"Yes, Cassandra, let the power go. Or I'll have a little fun with your friends here. Surely, you won't let her get them killed," Morgan said with a sickening grin. Jake could feel the blood leaving his face as his vision darkened around the edges.

"Enough!" Cassandra yelled. That was Cassandra. His Cassandra. "What do you want?"

"Just her," Morgan sneered. "You are insignificant and so are these two idiots. I just want her."

"You'll kill her," Cassie stated.

"Well, of course I will, darling, but it's either her or them," Morgan said. She circled Cassandra as her feet landed on the floor of the Stone Temple. "Now, let her go. And I'll let them go."

Cassandra glanced over at Jake and Ezekiel. She looked torn and sad and broken, but her eyes were blue again. He breathed a sigh of relief at that, at least.

"I—I can't," she stuttered as her eyes began to water.

"Choosing to save yourself over your friends again, are you? Can't say I'm surprise after what I've heard from dear Dulaque—"

"No," she said with a glare. "I can't. I'm not holding her. She's holding me."

Her hands went to her temples and she winced in pain as she fell to the ground. Jake fought against the magic that was holding him, but it was no good. She turned those blue eyes to meet Jake's and manage to speak through her tears, "I'm so sorry. I can't fight her. I can't." Cassandra went rigid all of a sudden and then slowly her body began to float again. The light returned to her eyes and softly encased her body.

"I am sorry," the strange voice said as it too apologized to Jake and Ezekiel. "I did not intend for anyone to be hurt. But the witch cannot obtain my power. She'll let the world burn. You must understand. I have no choice."

Blood dribbled from Cassandra's nose and her hand reached up to wipe it away. "Poor child," the voice said in a tone that was filled with despair. More despair than he ever thought a person could feel. But then he doubted the thing inside of her was a person. "Morgan le Fay, I leave with you with one warning. Heed my words or pay the price when next we meet. Do not kill The Librarians. If I find they have been harmed your eternal life will come to a very sudden end."

Morgan opened her mouth to protest but before she could utter a word Cassandra's hand clapped over her head and there was a flash of light that lit up the entire room.

Then she was gone. Cassandra was gone.

Morgan le Fay screamed in frustration and released Ezekiel and Jake. "I finally had the old girl cornered and then your little bimbo with the brain tumor had to ruin it all! DAMN YOU, VIVIANE! You can't hide from me forever!" She shouted at the ceiling. "When I find you, and I will find you, you and the kid are dead! You hear me? You're dead!"

Jake and Ezekiel scrambled to stand up as Morgan stormed toward them. She scoffed and rolled her eyes as Jake took a fighting stance.

"Please, you Barbarian, I could take you down with a wave of my pinky."

"Where did that thing take Cassandra?" Ezekiel shouted.

Jake glared at Morgan le Fay. "You said Viviane."

"That's right, I did. Should I repeat it? Maybe slower this time?" Morgan asked with a quirked brow. She huffed. "And I have no idea where she took her. She could be anywhere. Your guess is as good as mine. Now, get out of my way. I don't have time for amateurs," she said dismissively as she pushed the two of them aside and walked calmly passed them.

"Y—you're not going to kill us?" Ezekiel asked. Jake tossed him a silencing glare and Ezekiel shrugged in response.

Morgan smirked at him and tilted her head to the right. "Would you like me to? Because I could, you know, if you reall—"

"No, no. No need. Just checking," Ezekiel said in a rush.

"If you hurt her," Jake sneered at the Sorceress. "I swear to God—"

"You'll what, exactly?" Morgan asked with a chuckle. "You can't kill me, you can't even touch me. You are weak. As for your little wannabe witch, you'd better hope you find her before I do. She's the only thing stopping me from getting what I want. And I always get what I want."

With that, Morgan le Fay turned on her heel and left them alone.

"Now what?" Ezekiel asked hopelessly. "How the hell are we going to track whatever the hell that thing—"

"That thing was Viviane."

"Yeah, okay, should I know who that is?"

"The Lady of the Lake, Jones. Viviane is the Lady of the Lake."

"Right, okay, so how do we track the Lady of the Lake through Ley Lines without Cassandra? I don't know about you but I can't view multi-dimensional maps in my head like a certain synesthete we know and love."

"We need Flynn. He and Jenkins could track her."

"One week as independent Librarians and we're already calling mommy and daddy," Ezekiel said sarcastically. "We're off to a great start."

"Come on, we don't have much time," Jake said hurriedly. "Call Jenkins, find out where we need to meet The Door."

"What are you gonna do?" Ezekiel asked as they left the temple and headed back to where they left their car.

"Research," he said darkly. "Figure out how to separate Cassandra from the Lady of the Lake."

"That's the first time I've ever heard the word research spoken like a death threat," Ezekiel told him. "You're downright scary sometimes, you know that?"

"What do you mean she took Cassandra?" Flynn asked nearly an hour later when Ezekiel and Jake finally made it to The Annex.

"We mean, the Lady of the Lake parked herself in Cassandra's body and then vanished," Jake said angrily.

Jenkins ran a hand across his forehead. "She had no other options, Mr. Stone."

"Yeah, neither did Cassandra," Ezekiel said with a glare.

"Think about what she saw in Cassandra, though. Should Morgan le Fay get a hold of her, Viviane would surely die. Just because she's a being of pure magic doesn't mean she can't die. She was desperate to live. Who else do we know that is desperate to live?" Jenkins asked them all pointedly.

"She picked Cassandra because she related to her," Eve said with a slow nod. "She saw something in her that she thought was strong."

"The desire to live," Flynn agreed.

"Yeah, well, while the Lady of the Lake lives Cassandra's trapped in her own mind," Jake said with a tense jaw. She's terrified of her own mind, was the sentence he didn't say. But it hung in the air anyway. They all knew it was true.

"Jenkins, let's get to work on tracing those Ley Lines," Flynn said as he grabbed Cassandra's cup of yellow markers off the main table and the satellite maps she'd been working with before they left. Jake swallowed thickly and wished she were here with them. The chair she normally sat in while she read or wrote in her notebook was empty but he could picture her sitting in it. Smiling to herself as she worked out yet another brilliant thing he didn't understand.

"Stone," Flynn said sympathetically. "Thumb through every Arthurian resource book we have. We need everything we have on Viviane."

"Already on it," Jake said as he held up the very old and thick book he held in his hands. We're coming, Cassie, he thought to himself as he thumbed through the index for any reference to the Lady of the Lake.