Cordelia sat in the living room of the academy silently staring into space whilst drinking an expensive wine. She thought about Misty with her bright eyes and wild heart. She drank her feelings away for the young woman. She couldn't feel like this, It was wrong. "Come on Cordelia, Pull yourself together." She heard her mother say. She laughed and with her voice deepened from intoxication yelled at the top of her lungs, "Screw you, you crazy bitch!"
She knew no one was there except her but she imagined Misty there with her, touching and feeling, kissing, who knows what else. She stumbled up off the couch and into the bathroom where she looked at her reflection. She was so battered looking. Her straight hair stuck up in some places, her mascara smudged under her eyes, her lips were chapped, and her skin was nearly transparent. She rubbed her eyes but something appeared behind her with a mask over their face. The figure threw a liquid into her eyes and slowly strode away. It took a moment for the burning to start but when it did, Cordelia's screams of agony could be heard for miles. She fell to the floor covering her face with her hands still crying and screaming. Where was Misty? Where was Hank? She needed them.
Misty looked down at the Headmistress laying in her hospital bed. She had been unconscious ever since the girls had found her on the bathroom floor with severe optical burns. Misty and Hank were the only other two who had stayed behind with her for the past three hours that she had been here.
Even though the hate that the two shared for each other was apparent, someone that both of them loved was hurt. Hank was too focused on his wife to even acknowledge Misty was on the other side of the bed, tears streaming down her face. "Come on Miss Cordelia, wake up please." She said almost inaudibly. "I need you." Hank looked up from his wife's closed eyes and narrowed his own. "What the hell did you just say?" He stood up. Misty looked down at her feet as he yelled from across the bed. "Did you say that you need my wife?" He pointed down at Cordelia and raised his voice even louder. "When she wakes up and comes home, you are leaving the academy and going back to that damned swamp you merely existed in before! My wife has been way too nice with you and you have exhausted your welcome! Leave!"
He was shouting. Misty had to stand up for herself. "I am not Leaving! I will not leave until Miss Cordelia comes to me and asks! You are no good Hank Foxx! No good at all!" She screamed right back at him. "What the hell are you talking about?" He yelled back. Misty was losing her mind. "You hit her! You beat your own wife up and then expect her to sleep with you at night! That shows how much of a damn coward you are! Do you really think she could love someone like you? You are pathetic!"
A nurse entered the room with an annoyed look on her face. "Whatever is wrong in here, one of you needs to go. You are disturbing other patients." She looked at Hank and shook her head. "Sir I'm going to have to ask you to leave." Misty smiled slightly and replaced Hank on the side of Cordelia's bed. "Miss Cordelia.." She said in a musical tone. She sang "Has anyone ever written anything for you" quietly as she held the Headmistress's hand, when she finished the song she smiled and rubbed her fingers over Cordelia's knuckles. "I would write something for you."
It felt like forever that Misty sat there, weeping, praying for the woman with scarred eyes who laid beside her to wake up. She tried reading her thoughts, seeing what kept those beautiful dark orbs of sight out of view from her; her attempts were effectless.
She jumped when the nurse who had been tending to Cordelia entered the room. "Ms. Day?" She asked quietly. Misty stood up from the Headmistress's side and nodded. ."That would be me." The nurse handed her a chart with Cordelia's information on it for her to sign. When she did the nurse looked down as she spoke. "Ms. Day I am sorry to say that Mrs. Foxx will be permanently blind from the sulfuric acid that was thrown into her eyes. We will be releasing her for you to take her home around three this afternoon."
Misty felt the tears well up in her eyes as she stammered out. "She's blind?' Her hands shook as she released the tears from her Blue eyes. The nurse merely nodded as she turned and left the room. Misty looked at the clock through blurred vision. 12am. She sat back down and brought her trembling lips to Cordelia's forehead. "I'll be back, I promise." She wiped tears from her cheeks as she took a last look at the Older witch before striding from the small room.
Cordelia was walking through a forest full of white trees. The road beneath her feet was made of pure gold, her toes painted a beautiful light shade of blue and she admired the way they shined as she walked. A white dress that reached to her ankles hugged her body and a string of pearls hung around her neck. She walked for what felt like thousands of years until she reached an enormous golden gate with a crowd of people dressed similar to her stood. She progressed to the front of the crowd as the gate opened for her, making her smile of pure happiness. A man dressed in light lilac robes took her hands and walked with her to a small mansion in the kingdom. "Cordelia Goode, sweet Cordelia." He said smoothly. "You have lived a hard life, but all of that is over now my dear. You are in the afterlife now." Cordelia could feel nothing except happiness even though she wanted to cry, her cheeks burned but that smile still masked her true feelings. The man's friendly manner remained as he looked to his right where another man stood, his menacing face penetrating her soul. "Cordelia Goode you are hereby banished to the Underworld where you will pay for your sins of witchcraft for all eternity. Take her." The other man grabbed her and she appeared on another road, except this road was black and surrounded by dead trees. Her toenails were painted with a wine color and her dress was now black with diamonds hanging from her neck. She kept walking as before but couldn't reach her destination no matter how much she tried. She couldn't scream, she couldn't breathe. She only saw darkness. And then, She woke up.
Misty had gone back to the Academy searching for Fiona franticly. "Fiona!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. Zoe and Madison came down instead. Zoe ran to Misty and hugged her slightly before pulling away. "How is Cordelia?" Misty shook her head as the wetness reappeared on her face. "She's gonna be blind forever Zoe. The doctors couldn't do anythin'."
Zoe nodded. "I'm so sorry." Misty looked at Madison who showed no sympathy but looked somewhat pleased. "What the hell is wrong with you!" She yelled at the actress. "She did everything she could for you when you killed that man and you don't give a God Damn!" Madison shook her head. "Look swamp rat, you may be in love with the bitch but I couldn't care less if she fell off the face of the earth. Honestly, I would celebrate with her own stash of liquor."
She laughed and walked back up the staircase into her room. Zoe sighed and hugged Misty again. "If you need help bringing her home or if anything happens, call me. I know you care about her Misty and I respect you two's relationship." Misty blinked and stopped her. "We aren't in a relationship." Zoe smiled at her and looked down. "Okay, tell Cordelia I said hello." she turned and got halfway up the staircase before stopping, not turning around. "I'm just saying, you two need to have a good bit of romance in your life. You both deserve to be happy."