A/N: For this chapter I wanted to try something a little different so I will be writing in Dash's perspective instead of Ingrid's, so I hope you guys will still like it. I also wanted to take my own ideas of how the Mandragora affects Ingrid, and just a reminder these are my ideas on it and have no correlation to what it does in the show. As always please review.

Everything Ingrid has told me about what we are and what we have has been a lot for me to take in. Now looking at this grimoire just takes everything to another level, there are so many spells in here and to be honest there are so many that I would not know where you would use them. We were sitting in my living room and it was probably about one in the afternoon and I was so intrigued in what was in front of me.

Ingrid was sitting next to me and all of sudden I could feel her get up, "You'll have to excuse me, I'll be right back." I look up from the book and saw her stumble a few steps and catch herself on the chair in front of her.

"Ingrid are you okay, Ingrid." She turned back towards me as I stood up and before she could say anything she fell to the floor, I didn't understand why though. I had healed her wound this morning and she said that should do the trick. "Ingrid, Ingrid please wake up." I had no idea what to do, she wasn't responding to my voice.

I had to do something so I carefully picked her up and took her to the kitchen. In the kitchen I place her on the counter and had to think of something to do but nothing was coming to mind. I did the only thing I could do and I picked up the phone, it rang twice and then the woman on the other end answered, "Hello?"

"Joanna, you need to come to Fair Haven right away."

"Dash what is going on, what's wrong."

"It's Ingrid. She collapsed and now won't wake up, I don't know what to do." To be completely honest Joanna was not one of my favorite people at the moment but I knew she would know what to do about Ingrid.

"Don't do anything until I get there," I could tell that she was worried but I could also tell that she was a little angry as well so I didn't know what to expect when she arrived here.

I was pacing back and forth in the kitchen when there was a knock on the door. I ran to the door to answer it and not only was Joanna here but Wendy came with her. "Where's my daughter?"

"Follow me, she's in the kitchen. I don't know what happened, I healed her this morning of her gunshot wound and,"

"Wait, what gunshot wound?" I had totally forgot to tell them that Ingrid was shot two nights ago, I was too worried about getting her help that it just slipped my mind to tell her family.

"I meant to call you guys, but she was shot two nights ago so I took her to the hospital and got everything checked out. Then this morning she tells me that I could have just healed her with my powers and she walked me through it, did I possibly do something wrong with the spell."

"No, that spell is a pretty straight forward spells. There has to be something else wrong with her, I wish you would have come to us earlier with the gunshot wound but we are here now and we will figure this out." I was grateful that Joanna wasn't really angry with me and I was also grateful that I didn't do anything wrong when I healed Ingrid this morning.

"I thought about taking her to the hospital again but they would ask questions about how her wound healed up so fast and I also thought that whatever is wrong with her might not be a human problem." I wasn't completely sure if they knew where I was coming from but they nodded anyways.

"Joanna we have a big problem." Wendy spoke up and I was afraid of what she found out.

"Wendy was is it, what's wrong." Joanna was now at her sister's side looking down at Ingrid and had to see what they were looking at but I was not prepared for what I was about to see. I walked along the opposite side of the counter and looked down at Ingrid. Her thighs were covered in a bunch of scrapes and bruises.

"Joanna what are those from, why is this a big problem?"

"Dash do you have any sage or herbs of any kind around here?" Wendy asked frantically looking for my answer, but to be honest I had no idea if there were any herbs around. I'm sure my mother used them when she did her magic but I would not know where they would be.

"I have no idea Wendy but I can help you look, there has to be something around here that can help." I started to look through cabinets and drawers around the kitchen and Wendy did the same but they still hadn't answered me about what the marks on Ingrid meant, "Hey what are those marks on Ingrid from and why do the two of you looked so worried?" Wendy stopped searching for the moment to answer me and I could see the worry in her eyes.

"They are from the Mandragora."

"The what?"

"The Mandragora is a creature from our world, it feeds off of witches like Ingrid so that it can have more strength. Ingrid has no idea it's happening to her because the Mandragora summons her which puts her in a trance and she is basically hypnotized until the feeding is done."

"So what does that mean for her, if that thing is feeding off of her for strength how does it affect her? And why does it need this strength?"

"The Mandragora is basically taking strength from Ingrid which in turn is making her weaker. It needs the strength in order to kill, I sure you're aware of the two deaths that happened recently with that weird symbol craved into their chest."

"Yeah, I knew those two cases seemed too similar to be anything ordinary."

"Yes and the Mandragora is the thing that killed those two men. We can't be for certain why its here but we have to protect Ingrid from being summoned again. Now lets find some herbs."

"Of course, what exactly are we looking for?"

"We need sage so it can bless her so that the Mandragora can't summon her again and then we need any other kind of herb to heal her scrapes because a witches healing ability has no effect on the wounds from a Mandragora." That sort of freaked me out because I don't know what I would do without Ingrid, she's been helping me out so much with everything and I was growing closer to her.

"Alright, I think I found the sage." I had grabbed a bag of a leafy substance and I was pretty sure it was the sage they were looking for. Wendy at the same time had found some herbs she could use from one of the cabinets.

"Dash boil a pot of water and soak the sage leaves in there, and add a pinch of sea salt."

"Sea salt?"

"Yeah I found some in the cabinet, here." Wendy handed me the sea salt and I started a pot of water on the stove. She was busy mixing the herbs she found with her own pot of water. Joanna was still at Ingrid's side and had not left since they arrived.

"Dash do you have some bandages we could use, we need to wrap her bruises and scrapes with the herbs." Wendy had asked as she continued to mix the herbs together.

"Yeah in my medical bag at the bottom of the stairs, there should be everything you need in there." I motioned to the stairs as I said it so that Wendy could find it in a hurry.

"Thanks, is that sage almost done?" I had the water boiling with the sage leaves in it and I was pretty sure that they did everything they were supposed to do. They leaves were pretty soft at this point so I poured the water and leaves into a cup and handed it to Joanna.

"Yeah it is, do you need help with those bandages?" I walked to Wendy's side and she handed me the bandage.

"When Wendy lays the herbs over her thighs you can wrap the bandages around her." Joanna spoke up and nodded toward Ingrid as she said it.

"Got it." I nodded to show I understood as Wendy proceeded to lay the herb mixture over Ingrid's thighs. As soon as she was done with the one thigh I immediately wrapped the bandage around her leg and fasten it so it wouldn't come undone. Wendy did the same to the other thigh and I bandaged it in the same way.

"Now that, that is done we need to get this sage mixture into her body. Dash be aware that as soon as she drinks this she will wake up and be really confused so we have to be calm with her." Joanna explained because I must have had a confused look on my face.

"I understand, is this going to completely heal her." I asked.

"It's the best thing for her now. Will you please help me with this?" Joanna asked and I nodded, "Now all you have to do is hold her head up so that she doesn't drown herself with this mixture."

I walked over to the counter so I could hold Ingrid's head up as Joanna poured the mixture down her throat. It took a good minute before Ingrid's eyes open and she took in her surroundings. You could definitely see that she was confused and a little panicked, "Where am I, what's going on?" she asked in the midst of her confusion. "Mom, Wendy, Dash, please someone just tell me what's going on?"

"Honey, you passed out here and Dash wasn't sure what to do so he called me. As soon as I got the call from him I knew something was wrong, we came as soon as we could. You have some scrapes and bruises on your thighs, do you remember getting them at all?" Joanna asked, concerned about her daughter.

"I remember one night I woke up in the middle of the forest and they were there but I just figured that they would heal on their own in time. Why are you asking this and what is that horrible taste in my mouth?"

"That taste is sage leaves and it's going to protect you from the thing that gave you those bruises. That thing is called a Mandragora and it came through when you opened the portal. It is nothing but trouble for us. We don't know why it's here or who sent it but we know that it has been summoning you to feed off of," Joanna tried to explain everything to Ingrid but as she went on I could tell that Ingrid was just getting more confused.

"Wait, the Mandragora or whatever you call it, has been feeding off of me and I had no idea it was being done." Ingrid asked in her confusion.

"Yes what it does basically seduces you and that is how it feeds off of you and I assume that it's done it more than once because you passed out from being weak." Wendy chimed in this time trying to explain it to Ingrid.

"What if it summons me again, I won't know it's happening will I?" I could definitely tell that not only was Ingrid confused but she was starting to get worried as well.

"This time is different, the sage mixture we made you drink is going to prevent you from going to the Mandragora. You will hear the summon but since you have the sage in your system you will be able to control your urge to go to the creature and we are going to help you as well." Joanna was trying to explain everything in a way that wouldn't freak Ingrid out. "It seems as if the Mandragora only summons at night so you should be good for a couple hours, but I want you to drink a glass of the sage mixture every hour so it is constantly in your system."

"This is a lot to take in all at once. Are you absolutely sure that this sage mixture is going to do the trick?"

"It's not the best thing to ward off bad energy but it is the best thing we know of in this world. We had to think of something so this wouldn't happen again. I'd rather have you fight your urges and go through a little pain than having you completely drained of all your energy, we have no idea what the Mandragora is capable with a witch's energy in its system." Joanna exclaimed.

"When you say go through a little pain what exactly do you mean?"

"Anytime you are fighting an urge from a creature from our world there is a little pain that comes with that fight, just like humans fight urges to do certain things they gets pains. A witch however goes through physical pain rather than mental pain that a human might go through." Wendy tried to say it in a way that would make the most sense to Ingrid but I could not tell what Ingrid was feeling at the moment her face was emotionless.

After about five minutes of silence Ingrid spoke up, "So where do we go from here?"

Joanna answered before Wendy could chime in, "Wendy and I are going to get a plan together to find the Mandragora and get rid of it, you are going to stay here with Dash," she looked at me asking for approval and I nodded that she was able to stay with me. "I don't want you going anywhere until we get this figure out. Dash I'm entrusting my daughter's safety in your hands, don't let me down."

"Of course Joanna, I won't let anything happen to her."

"Ingrid this will all be over before you know it," Joanna hugged Ingrid before her and Wendy went to leave, "Come on Wendy lets figure this out." Wendy hugged Ingrid as well before they left.

As soon as they left, Ingrid starting pacing back and forth in the kitchen. I could tell that she was on edge with everything that just went on in my kitchen, hell I was on edge myself. I have no idea what to expect when that creature goes to summon her tonight and she goes into all that pain, all I know is that I have to be here for her tonight.