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Joanna woke with the sun and made her way down to the Salvatore kitchen. She opened the pantry and began to take things out for breakfast. While she was peeling potatoes, Amelia entered the kitchen.
"Mornin'," Joanna said as she watched Amelia sit in the chair opposite her.
"Mornin', Chere," Amelia replied.
"How are you this morning?" Joanna asked.
"Fine, worried bout my youngun, doe," Amelia answered.
"How did you make it down the stairs?" Joanna asked curious.
"Dat nice Salvatore boy, Stefan," Amelia said.
"Oh," Joanna said. "I figured I'd have breakfast ready when everyone got up this morning," Joanna said.
"Pass me a heavy bottom sauce pan, da butta, suga and da salt," Amelia said. She placed the things in the pan and asked Joanna to melt the butter and boil the mixture. "Bring me da flour, four eggs, a wooden spoon and da vanilla." Amelia added the ingredients and beat the mix until it was smooth.
"What are you making?" Joanna asked.
"Beignets, chere," Amelia informed her.
"They smell delicious," Joanna smiled.
"I needs a skillet," Amelia said as Joanna placed a skillet on the stove. Amelia pulled herself from the table. Once she was at the stove, she poured olive oil into the skillet and once it was hot she began to drop balls of dough into the hot oil.
"Do you have any ideas about getting Zavrina back?" Joanna asked.
"No. I ain't never dealt wit da Gemini Coven," Amelia said.
"Me either but it seems like they can't be trusted," Joanna said.
"Not if dey stealin' babies," Amelia said.
"Right. They can not have that child on the magic," Joanna said.
"Sho you right!" Amelia agreed. The two ladies continued to chat and cook until they were joined in the kitchen by Lucy.
"Luc, take these things to the dining room," Joanna told her daughter. Lucy complied and before she finished Stefan materialized to help. When all the food was on the table Stefan zoomed upstairs to tell everyone that breakfast was ready. When everyone was seated with a fixed plate, Ric addressed the room.
"Does anyone have any ideas about our next step?" Ric asked.
"Is the entire Gemini Coven responsible or just a few members?" Mary asked.
"We don't know. Dr. Ex witchy is going to call daddy dearest to find out," Damon said with a smirk.
"Fine," Jo said pulling out her phone. "Dad, it's Josette," she said.
"Hello Josette," he answered.
"What's going on?" she asked.
"What do you mean?" he asked confused.
"Bonnie's cousin has been kidnapped. She won't be returned until Bonnie returns her family's magic," Jo told him.
"I don't know anything about that, I swear. Only a few members were aware that our coven was guarding the Bennett magic. So it's unlikely that any plot is widespread," Joshua Parker told his oldest child.
"Who would know then?" Jo asked.
"Anna, Andrew and their guard," Joshua said.
"Where are they?" Jo asked him.
"I don't know. They left a few hours after you did. They said they had coven business to attend to and they took Jeffery, Jennifer, Jesse and Jessica with them," Joshua said.
"Is that then entire guard?" Jo asked.
"No, they left Annabelle and Abel in charge with a few guard members," he said.
"Thank you, Dad," she said.
"Josette, please understand that while I do not condone their actions I can't help you further. It's against my oath to the coven. Lucas and Olivia are adults and I can't order them to anything but please make sure they understand," Joshua stressed.
"Understand what?" Jo asked her voice strained.
"That by helping in the retrieval of the Bennett witch they are undermining the wishes of the coven. It is punishable by death or banishment. And because no Bennett witch is going to help create another prison world, death is certain," Joshua said sadly.
"No! Luke and Liv are their successors. They can't do that!" Jo said upset.
"They are current leaders. Lucas and Olivia have made it clear they do not want to be in a leadership role. Anna and Andrew are doing what is best for the coven," Joshua said.
"No, Anna and Andrew are power hungry and they won't get away with it," Jo said to her father.
"Just be careful. All of you," Joshua said before he ended the call. The entire table sat in silence.
"What the fuck is wrong with them?" Trace asked in the silence.
"Trace, language!" Ric said sternly. Trace looked around at the elderly Bennetts and her face bore a look of contrition.
"Sorry; but seriously what is wrong with them?" she asked them. "No offense," she added looking at Luke and Liv.
"None taken," Luke said with a grim smile.
"What's the big deal? They don't even have to be involved. We can just send Damon to get her," Arissa said snidely. "He's supposed to be the great Bennett protector or whatever, right? It seems like this rescue mission is a job for him," she said shrugging.
"Anybody have a good idea?" Bonnie asked rolling her eyes at the obnoxious teenager.
"That is a good idea! You are just mad because something may happen to your vampire boytoy," Arissa said nastily.
"It's not a good idea because you thought of it simply to put Damon in danger. That is not ok with me," Bonnie said raising her voice.
"Enough!" Ric said. "Twin magic is powerful and no one person, vampire of not is going to be able to do it alone. So we need a plan that involves all of us in one way or another," Ric finished. Arissa huffed and crossed her arms. Mary gave her a warning look with Arissa ignored.
"Is there a way to get around the cloaking spell?" Stefan asked.
"Yes and no," Liv answered.
"If a magical object comes into contact with it then the cloak is broken," Luke said.
"But on one is going to randomly just throw things and hope for the damn best," Pauline said.
"There is a spell to take the cloak down," Luke said.
"Good! You and crazy locks can do that, we'll storm the house or whatever and viola, Bennett rescued," Damon said.
"No," Liv said, rolling her eyes.
"Why not?" Lucy asked, eying the twins wearily.
"Liv and I aren't strong enough. Not even together," Luke said.
"We saw you take on more Gemini witches than that in Oregon and you were alone," Jeremy said.
"I know but that was a regular lunar spell. It didn't require twin powers," Luke tried to explain.
"You have a table full of witches! Get them to help!" Caroline said.
"Not that easy. The cloaking spell is a Gemini creation," Jo said.
"Meaning what?" Pauline asked.
"Only Gemini can undo it," Liv answered.
"Do you mean from your coven or just Gemini?" Benny asked.
"Any Gemini," Liv said.
"Awesome!" Lena and Benny answered together. "We'll help," they said again in unison.
"We still won't be strong enough," Liv said sadly.
"Why?" Bonnie asked.
"Because the people doing the cloak are six of the most powerful in our coven. We may be able to weaken it but weakened is still invisible," Luke said.
"Not for me, mate," Enzo chimed in.
"That could work," Ric said, "if you weaken it enough for Enzo to see the rest of the witches could direct some kind of pulse toward it to reveal where they are holding her and then we storm the house," Ric said.
"That's a brilliant plan except for one thing," Tyler said.
"What?" Ric asked.
"We don't have any idea where she is. At all," Tyler answered.
"Right," Ric said.
"Will a locator spell give us her general location?" Lucy asked the Parkers.
"No. We can do cloaks on the move so they probably cloaked the minute they grabbed her and they wouldn't have any reason to lift it. Locator spells can't penetrate the cloak," Liv said with a hint of pride.
"But we Bennetts witches, chere. Da strongest since Salem. I thinks we may can get through dat dere cloak," Amelia said.
"Even if it's not an exact location, it's a start," Ric said.
Zavrina woke with a start; her head snapping up when she heard someone enter the room she was trapped in. She tried again to free her wrists from the arms of the chair she was tied to with no success.
Jesse placed a table in front of her and Jessica placed a tray on it. It had gummy looking scrambled eggs, two pieces of toast and a cup of tea. Jesse untied one of her wrists so that she could feed herself. As much as she wanted to knock the plate to the floor, she was too practical and hungry to do so. She knew she should keep her strength up. She was worried about why she didn't feel the pulse anymore but she assumed it was because of the anti-magic circle she was being kept inside of.
"How long are you going to keep me here?" Zavrina asked after she had finished her bland tasting breakfast.
"That is up to your thieving family," Jesse answered.
"What?" Zavrina asked confused. She knew her grandmother and her cousin had never stolen anything.
"Bonnie has stolen from our coven and we want it back!" Jessica said shrilly.
"I don't know any Bonnie. What do I have to do with this?" Zavrina asked still confused.
You have everything to do with this. Without you, they are less than twelve," Jesse said as he tied her wrist back to the arm of the chair. Jessica removed the tray from the table, which Jesse removed and they exited the room.
Zavrina knew that at least twelve witches made a coven but she only knew two other Bennetts. She guessed that whoever Bonnie was she was a Bennett as well. She didn't know if Bonnie had stolen anything but her instincts told her that a relative of hers wouldn't steal from other witches.
That left Zavrina at square one trying to figure out what was happening. The more she thought, the more tired she became. As she drifted off to sleep it occurred to her that her breakfast had been drugged.