This is an alternate storyline to season 3. There will be some major changes. Warning there will be some graphic scenes.
Bloom was lying in a bed opposite them, gazing up at the ceiling. Since she had returned to the school she had not, as far as anyone knew, uttered a single word. Nobody really knew what was really wrong with her, either. Her usually wild fiery red hair was tangled and messy, but otherwise she seemed to be quite unscathed.
"Headmistress Faragonda says she's just in shock," whispers Flora.
"More like sulking," Stella said not bothering to lower her voice. Which made Bloom sit up straight with a jolt, looking around wildly, and breathing heavily.
"Anything wrong, Bloom?" Called miss Ophelia, poking her head around the office door.
"No, no," said Bloom sinking back into her pillow. "No, I was just dreaming." Her eyes were blank and expressionless. Ophelia had a worried look on her face, but let it slide for now.
Bloom used the following day to relax and recover. She was excused from classes on Faragonda's orders, and used the time to catch up on what she missed during her absence. Before she knew it a day had gone by, and she had seemingly gotten back to normal. The school year was over, and Alfea hosted a party to celebrate the defeat of Lord Darkar. Cloud Tower and Red Fountain was invited as a thank you for the help they had provided in the fight.
The celebration party had been a big blur for Bloom. She remembered Sky acting really weird that evening. He seemed pretty shocked that she could remember what he had said to her when she was in Darkars trance. The fact was; she could remember everything. What Darkar made her do to her friends, what she had done to her friends, and what Darkar had done to her. It had been like a first class ticket to a real life horror movie, and she had no choice but obey. When the whole thing was over, all she was left with was a sense of guilt and paralyzing feeling of fear.
That evening she started drinking hoping it would take the edge off, and everything that happened after they took those group photos was really not clear. Sky got an urgent phone call sometime after that and had to leave. He couldn't even look her in the eyes when he told her he had to leave, which made her feel like a burden. He had barely spoken to her that night. For three weeks she had been in hell. She had only just gotten back, and now Sky was leaving her.
She was sitting in her room with the rest of the Winx. They were having a pajamas party after the main party had ended. Stella had insisted that they all needed a last girls' night together before the vacation started. Flora, Stella and herself were the only once still awake, the others had fallen asleep on top of a pillow mountain between her and Flora's bed. Flora was sitting on her own bed facing them while Bloom was laying in her bed with her had on Stellas lap.
"You know he was pretty worried about you." It was Flora that pulled her out of her thoughts. "Sky I mean."
"Yeah, he was like all worked up about getting you back. He would barely sleep. He was spending so much time here at Alfea, Ms. Faragonda had to call Brandon to escort him back to Red Fountain several times. It was his plan to ask princess Amentia for help" Stella confirmed.
"Then why did he just leave me without any explanation?" She asked them.
"He wouldn't leave you if he didn't have to," Flora reassured her. "There was probably some kind of emergency back at Eraklyon."
This calmed her down a bit. "Yeah you're probably right."
"I don't know about you guys, but it's 3am and I need my beauty sleep." Stella yawned, standing up leaving Blooms head to fall onto the mattress below.
"We should probably try to get some sleep, there is a lot to do today. You can try calling him again in the morning, you can ask him then."
"What shall we do with Musa, Aisha and Tecna?" Bloom asked not sure what to do about her friends that were all cuddled up on the floor.
"I don't think we should wake them up right now." Flora said. "None of us have had any real sleep in a while."
"Well if they're not leaving then I'm staying to. Bloom scoot over." Stella said making her way under her friends covers. Flora made her way under her covers too, but before she laid down she whispered a small spell to summon a duvet to cover their sleeping friends. Soon the last of them had fallen asleep as well.
What they didn't know was that Aisha wasn't sleeping. She was very much awake and had heard the whole conversation. She was resting her eyes when she heard them talking about Sky, but was too scared to open her eyes. Afraid that they might find out the truth about what had happened when Bloom was held captive. Afraid that Bloom would hate her for what she had done, and that she would be frozen out by her friends. So she kept her eyes shut, and pretended to be asleep.