Author's Note: this is in response to the Prison Charmed Challenge. I normally don't participate but it caught my interest. I'll include the challenge information for you to read. The first chapter is extremely short because it's just the prologue. Please READ & REVIEW.
Prompt:
AU-In a world where a witch is identified by their DNA at birth and sent to a prison on an island to be experimented on until three friends who have no idea they're sisters, decide to make a plan
Requirements:
They teach themselves magic in secret
Showing magic in front of the guards gets you punished
Paige slipped through the cracks, something to do with her whitelighter blood hiding her witch DNA
The three sisters stumble into a random house after their escape that happens to belong to Paige
The whole experimenting-on-witches is a government secret so the world does not really know about the existence of magic
To Whom It May Concern:
Ours was a world where our existence was maintained in the shadows. The dark of night gave no protection yet light didn't shine down on our faces either, because while most people got to lead their ordinary lives secure in their belief that the existence of magic was for the superstitious and the whack jobs, an elite few knew and took advantage of it while protecting their own interests.
That's why we were there; herded like cattle, though I guess you could say we had been rustled. The aforementioned elite group had not only kept quiet about the existence of witches, but had also kept their own presence secret from other organizations like the FBI, CIA, etc. etc. It wasn't until the new millennium that they presumed to make themselves known, and of course it was behind false names and newly created government agencies so as to avoid real detection and investigations into their business. Home Land Security? That was just another way to hide their sins. Pretty clever, though. Their unit knew how to use the law to steal us away from our homes and our families, though they had been doing it for more than a century.
You have to understand that my entire life has been spent in captivity; hidden from the world but not it's' cruelty, and so it was for every witch. So I might be more than a touch bitter, angry, distraught –all of the above—about the circumstances. I'm also extremely determined to fix that which has been wronged. This journal will be my written account of every experience I have while Iattempt to shine the light not only on my kinds' existence, but also on "theirs". The innocent must be protected; the guilty must be punished.
– P