It was the hardest thing in the world for her to endure, watching him go… watching the pain and confusion as they ripped him away from her under the guise of giving him the very thing he wanted most.

Just hours before he'd come to her room like a giddy child on Christmas Eve, telling her how everything was going to work out, he swung her around the room and danced with the child before heading down stairs to perform a little home surgery on his sister, her spleen had ruptured and needed out, so as the good brother he was Kai merrily removed the organ and stitched her up. Not before she'd locked away the twins with more protection charms than she thought she knew.

Annora had warn her favorite yellow dress and had a black ribbon holding up half of her crimson curls, she wanted to look nice for the Merge, it was a big deal after all. However something was wrong, she saw that tight lipped frown on Kai's face before the shadow of Joshua appeared from the tree line.

"KAI!"

She wanted nothing more than to run to him, to save him, but three figures she'd almost forgotten appeared around her muttering their own magic "mom?"

Annora didn't know what do to, she tried to cast a protection spell, anything, anything to save him but words escaped her, she could barely move let alone speak as her mother, an almost mirror image of the young girl, and her two uncles chanted apart from the Gemini's. She could see him across the trees, laid out on the floor in agony, and then with a blinding white light he was gone. The chanting stopped and Annora's world crumbled.

She pushed past her estranged mother to the spot where Kai had been just moments before, clawing at the floor and scanning around every figure before turning to Joshua and screaming "Where is he? What did you do?!"

Joshua stared down at the girl with nothing but contempt "You… that monster is gone, somewhere he can never harm anyone ever again."

Tears streamed like a faucet down the little redheads cheeks as she shook her head in utter denial "no, NO! Bring him back! G-Give him back t-to me! I need him, please… please!"

A shadow slowly dropped beside the heartbroken girl "Annora?"

She looked up to find her mother's dark green eyes staring down at her "Mom, mommy. Please… Kai, yeah he did wrong but it's not his fault! He's broken, they broke him. Please mom… he saved me, he loves me."

"Annora, honey… Malachi can't, sociopaths don't love. He's a monster and you were his pet… I'm sorry this happened. I'm sorry we have to do this, but you've chosen such a dark path. We had no choice." Danielle moved to try and hold her daughter, god how she'd missed her, those eyes that screamed with such emotion.

Annora had other ideas; shoving her mother into the ground the six year old glared fire "just like you had no choice when you tried to kill me? I didn't do anything wrong, you say he's a monster but Kai's never tried to gut me, so yeah, yeah maybe he is a monster but he's my monster so you bring him back, bring him back or you'll be sorry!"

Wiping away an unshed tear Danielle shook her head at the child "oh Annora… what have you become?"

"It's time Danie." The older woman looked from her brothers to her child before turning her back on the girl with a deep sigh of aguish.

This did little to smite Annora's anger; she raised her hand ready to hex both covens however as the words left her lips nothing happened. Not a damn thing.

Except of course for the sharp sudden pain from the needle bring shoved into her neck. Annora didn't understand what was happening, but as one of her uncle's tried to grab her Annora made a run for it.

Racing back to the bloodied house Annora's world started spinning, her head filling with dizziness as she tried her best to stay up right. She barely noticed the blood she slipped in as she somehow got to the lounge. Annora was scared, so scared, she didn't know what was happening or what these people planned to do with her now. Would they kill her? It's not like they hadn't tried before. Tears once again fell hard as she hid behind the sofa, hoping the soft leather would swallow her up and protect her from harm, she saw it then, the broken glass of the picture frame and Kai's smiling face staring back at her.

With that picture staring over at her Annora felt her heart breaking… he was gone.

Kai was gone.

Then as everything finally slipped into a twisted sea of blurriness she managed to grip the picture, because if she was going to die then Kai's face was the last thing she wanted to see.

-1994 PRISON WORLD-

Kai woke up alone amongst the trees as the sun began to reappear, he didn't know what had happened but seeing as how the woods were abandoned Kai all but ran towards the house… he was filled to the brim with a familiar rage, even as he found the house deserted also.

He didn't understand what had happened, how in a single moment his entire coven, including his devious twin sister and terrible excuse for a father, had vanished into thin air. However he planned to make them pay as he climbed into the family car and drove into town…

Not that it did him much good, the town was deserted. Every store, every car, every home he peered into was empty. Panic quickly spread through every vein in the young siphon body…

"No. no this isn't happening… he wouldn't dare. He couldn't… Dad, Dad, what the fuck did you do!... AAHHHHAAAHHH!"

-REAL WORLD-

Annora woke up into a room she didn't know, in an unfamiliar bed, the walls were stained in damp and if the clutter and noise was anything to go by the girl wasn't alone. Her head was pounding and a sickness coiled into her stomach. When she finally managed to sit up was when she noticed the IV hanging out of her arm, without thinking she ripped out the needle blood squirted all over her dress before she'd managed to wrap it with some cloth torn from the bedding.

She didn't understand what was happening, where she was, why she wasn't dead!

Annora decided to walk around and try to find out where she was and how the hell she was going to get out.

The six year old walked the unfamiliar hall's passing people by with little to no interest. When she saw the backdoor a spring jumped into her heart… however it wouldn't last long as her weak body couldn't open the door, she groaned in frustration before muttering a small spell only for the door to remain as she found it.

Locked.

"That won't work… nice try though." Annora turned on her heel like lightning to see on older blonde woman wearing a worn blue dress.

She strode into the room like she was very much at home before leaning against the paint chipped island. Annora stood firm, with a fierce determination in her stare while childish fear crept up the back of her neck "Where am I? Who are you?"

The blonde laughed before taking a bite of her barely their nails "wow you really are new, I'm Lou and you are in the beautiful home of Dowager Fauline, home to the insane and unworthy witches of New Orleans. So which are you sweet-pea?"

"Dowager?"

Annora remembered how Joshua had threatened to send Kai to that place, the paleness on his face at the threat. This was bad, very bad.

"I… I need to get out of here!" Annora turned and tried the shake the door off its hinges when that and few spells she could mutter didn't work Annora felt a strange pit in her stomach before screaming a deifying scream, so powerful that it forced her magic to the crest and shattered the glass of the backdoor whilst also launching it across the lawn and was impaled on the large gated fence.

Some people came running after the stunt to try and restrain the girl, they dragged her kicking and screaming from the kitchen, Lou looking on in an almost I told you so attitude.

-PRISON WORLD-

It had been three days… well the same day three times so Kai pretty much got the gist of what the hell was going on and why he was all alone.

His coven had created an entire reality stuck on repeat just for little old him. God why didn't they just kill him?

Oh, because that would have been kinder or whatever right.

He'd searched through each page of every spell he could find in the house, even the ones his father would hide but the only mention of a Prison World was the one that had been created a century before he was born but that was it; just a brief mention, not the actual spell or even a hint to how the holy fuck he was meant to get out of the stupid place.

He ended up burning the house down after a little tantrum and throwing the lit candelabra across the room. It soothed him for a moment, watching the room engulf in flames and when he sat outside under the starlit night sky, sipping a soda and watched his childhood home burn to ash calmness overcame him. It was almost as if burning down that house unchained him, if just for a moment.

However with the repeating sunrise the house was rebuilt… no not rebuilt, never burned, even his siblings blood still stained the walls. It was like he'd never done it.

His actions meant nothing here.

So Kai decided do something he'd always wanted to do, he snooped. He went though his sister's diaries. They were pretty boring really, Eloise was mostly about boys, Gretchen about resentment and Jo's was all complaining. I mean seriously the girls a powerful witch and all she does is moan about how she doesn't fit it? Now something's just not right there.

Kai found weed in Joey's room, naughty boy, and a lot of porn in Reese's, mostly older women, you know wrinkles and stuff. Not really Kai's thing but whatever did it for the guy, right?

Then after that he decided to actually get back to getting out of that place. He needed to search the rest of the coven's homes, the family vault…any trace of his family's tainted fingerprints.

-REAL WORLD-

Annora woke up in the same room as before, her vision blurred and an IV shoved back into her hand, but this time she wasn't alone, Lou, the blonde woman was sat in an old tattered chair near the boarded window with her bare feet resting on a pile of trash bags Annora guessed was her clothes from the lack of wear "rise and shine sleeping beauty. Bout damn time, I almost figured they'd killed you."

Lou stood with an unsure stride before stretching her hand out to the girl "here, this was on the floor, figured it was yours."

Annora took the crimpled piece of paper and once she opened it broke down in tears; it was Kai, a picture of his charming smirk and mischievous glint in those baby blues. She must have still had it in her hand when they carted her off to that horrid place.

She just couldn't take it, she didn't understand what was supposed to happen now, Kai had become more than a boy she'd lived with, a teacher, a brother. He was a part of her; he'd carved out her soul and branded it as his. How was she meant to live the rest of her life without him? How was she meant to survive?

The girl had been so distraught that she hadn't even noticed Lou pulling her close and stroking her hair, soothing and calm words making her cry harder. If this had been Kai he'd be awkward and trying to get her to smile with some stupid bribe… she looked down at the picture as every piece of her heart broke and shattered, she could feel it all and it was worse than anything she'd ever felt before.

"Hey now, it's ok… well it's not but you'll be ok." Lou was trying to sooth the girl but all it did was make her cry harder.

That was until Annora remembered this woman is nothing but a stranger to her, why was she being so kind after letting those others drag her away "what do you want from me?"

Lou looked at the child with almost broken expression "oh honey, they hurt you bad huh?"

Annora didn't understand, she just knew she was in a strange place with strange people and the one person she actually counted on was gone. She didn't know where or how just that he was gone. This woman offered her comfort and some sort of companionship and Annora just didn't want to be alone…

Then she remembered the IV in her arm and turned to Lou "what is this?"

She tried to forget her tears, tried to be strong "a solution taken from the Lobelia's that grow out back, they usually give us pills but I guess you're a special case… it makes it almost impossible to get the magic juices flowing."

Annora hated all of it, she knew she was trapped in that place; she could feel the magic and almost see the shimmer of the force filed locking them all inside the grounds.

But Annora made a promise, a promise that she would escape that place and find Kai and together, they'd finish what was started.

-PRISON WORLD-

Kai stole a big black tuck right from a lot up the street with as many supplies as he could manage to fit into the back, the Gemini Coven's reach was far and he knew he had a lot of ground to cover, plus making some choice photo opportunities along the way.

He'd looted the store and even snagged a few weapons from the old hunting lodge in town, mostly because he just wanted to trash the stuffy old relic of a building. He remembered how he used to break into that place as a boy, just to course some trouble, to watch them trip over themselves and see his father drink himself into a stupor.

It was his little secret and Kai kept it.

He didn't know why, didn't even know if Joshua knew Kai knew what he got up to on those long winter nights. Regardless he'd kept his secret, maybe in hopes of some sort of acceptance, more likely as leverage to loom over the old man.

Kai wasn't much of the sentimental type, but as he ransacked his family home for whatever he could use, he stalled outside a door only to kick it open lightly. It was Annora's room, his little Annie-Bee. She hadn't even crossed his mind until that moment; it was curiosity that made him wonder what would become of his little witch. Picking up her favorite stuffed rabbit a small smile took hold as thought of the outcomes; would they kill her? No, she was too valuable and now far too powerful for that, they wouldn't have stood a chance. Would they finally succeed in turning the girl against him? He doubted it, she was loyal and he'd bought her eternal loyalty with the life of his mother. He knew that.

A sick and cruel smile emerged as he taught of how well he'd trained her, tainted her, but at the corners of that sinister smirk were biting edges of an actual smile as he remembered how that itsy bitsy little firecracker had brought the oh so great Gemini leader to his knees, how many times she defended and defied for him.

He almost missed her… he thought as he twirled the silver rune wrapped around his neck and without warning a white shudder ripped though his mind and shook away the sight of the room around him…

He now saw a grubby room he wouldn't keep a dog. The edges of his vision blurred like a dream, then he saw it, a mass of crimson curls sleeping with a troubled frown and dried tears on her cheeks. A blond woman he didn't know stood over the child, seemingly caressing her aura with a sinister smile "Soon, sweet-pea."

"Kai…" Annora mumbled in her sleeping haze.

Kai was thrust back into the yellow painted room, his breath quickened while he looked down at the necklace in shock "What the fuck was that?"

So what do you guys think? Any Idea's on Lou and how Kai is going to take to the prison world? One person said they didn't want me to do anything about the eighteen year gap but things happen there that you'll need to know for the other half to make sense.

Please let me know what you think. Thanks so much, JJ. Xoxo