A/N: This chapter does follow some of the events of Love AT First Sight so I hope you enjoy.

Chapter Eleven

Temptation and Fights

Esmerelda was let out of hospital a week later and as soon as she was released she went to Cackles to visit her little sisters. Her parents had agreed with the teachers that she could visit during Halloween and stay for the feast. She knocked and waited and the door was opened by Ethel.

"Esmie!" Ethel said happily

"Ethie!" Esmerelda said wrapping her arms around her sister happily. She had missed Ethel despite everything. "I am glad to see you" Esmerelda told her and Ethel smiled.

"I am sad we will have to say goodbye again after the feast though" Esmerelda told Ethel holding her hands. Neither of her sisters knew about her hospital visit or her suicide attempt so luckily Ethel was not looking at her worried.

"Maybe not" Ethel said before looking around and turning back to her whispering "I have being trying to tell you for weeks but mum and dad were always there and I missed your last visit, I can definitely, one hundred percent, get you your powers back" Ethel told her with a smile.

"What? How?" Esmerelda asked her sister. Ethel took her hand and started to lead her up the stairs. She led her to the highest point at Cackles which was not in use. The turret. Ethel walked over to an old chest in the corner and reached in pulling a pretty pinkish/orangey stone out of it before she turned around and smiled at Esmie.

"Ta- da, don't say I never do anything for you" Ethel told her sister beaming at her. Esmerelda walked forward smiling at how beautiful the stone was.

"What is it?" Esmerelda asked her sister wondering how this would help her get her powers back.

"It is the founding stone of the school, it will give you your powers back, it might even make you more powerful than you were before" Ethel told her sister beaming.

Esmerelda was shocked but the girl was desperate. She in that moment did not care what happened to Cackles. She needed her powers back, it was her only way to get away from her miserable life in the non magical world unless she killed herself, but she didn't know why Ethel had gone through the trouble of taking it.

"Why are you doing this?" Esmerelda asked her sister staring at the stone.

"I cloned it and replaced it with a fake so no-one would be suspicious" Ethel told her sister smiling.

"Why would you do that?" Esmerelda asked and Ethel looked down before replying.

"I just wanted everything to go back to normal" Ethel explained to her sister.

"What things?" Esmerelda asked not understanding what she meant.

"Everything" Ethel replied with a shrug. Esmerelda's angry streak seemed to have increased the last few weeks and right now that response made her blood boil.

"Like the fact that mother dearest is not talking to you right now?" Esmerelda replied sneering the words out. Ethel was confused as to the way she was speaking but tried not to get angry herself as she replied.

"No Esmie….I just want to help you, I have really…..missed you…." Ethel admitted before thinking of something else to say. "And I know things have being difficult for you with your new school and things..." Ethel commented. She had been able to tell during their mirror calls Esmerelda hated her new school.

"I tried to kill myself last week, my life is a living hell, difficult is an understatement" Esmerelda shouted out at Ethel not caring anymore if she knew or it upset her.

Ethel was stunned into silence at that. She couldn't of possibly heard her sister right….there was no way.

"What…..." Ethel said not able to say anything else.

"That is right Ethel, your 'perfect' "Esmerelda said really sneering the word perfect out. "Big sister tried to top herself because I have spent the last year going through hell that YOU caused, why did you trick me into giving up my powers to Agatha? Do you hate me that much you want me to be beaten up and lied about is that it?" Esmerelda shouted her eyes blazing with anger as she started to back Ethel into the wall.

"You...are being bullied?" Ethel asked her amazed. She didn't see how anyone could bully Esmie she was so sweet and kind it made no sense, but maybe that was exactly why they targeted her.

Esmerelda glared at Ethel but did not respond. Slowly the girl took her jacket off and Ethel looked at her in confusion until she showed Ethel her arm with the cut on it. It was an ugly deep red cut. It looked like someone had being trying to carve something into her arm by the shape of it but had not done a very good job of it. Esmerelda made sure Ethel got a good hard look at her arm before she spoke again.

"Bullied is an understatement, those animals cut all my arm up and I have no idea how to fight against them as I have never fought someone without powers, this is what you trying to get mummy's attention does Ethel" Esmerelda told her and Ethel just looked at the mark on her arm as tears started to form in her eyes as she realised what she was looking at, nearly dropping the stone from her shock. She knew the pain her sister would have felt when the sick people who attacked her did that to her and that if she had magic she probably could have fought them off. Ethel just looked away no longer able to look at it.

"I have being lied about, rumours have being spread about me and the girl I thought was a really good friend turned out to be a coward, you have no idea the hell I have being through" Esmerelda replied getting closer to Ethel who was now openly crying in shock.

"Give me the stone, I want my magic back" Esmerelda told her sister pulling it out of her arms. Ethel was still upset but she did tell Esmerelda what she had to do.

Esmerelda put the stone on the floor and kneeled over it putting her hands either side before she said the spell.

"My powers are gone, my powers have flown, share with me your powers oh gracious stone" Esmerelda said as orange ray of sparks started to surround her, her magic coming back. She could feel it through her fingertips and after a few seconds she knew she had magic again. Ethel smiled through her tears.

"You have magic again" Ethel said smiling at her honestly happy about it.

Esmerelda did not know what came over her in that moment. She had never in her entire life thought about hurting Ethel, even after everything she had done to hurt her she had never wanted to hurt Ethel but something inside her snapped in that moment and she shot a curse towards Ethel who only just managed to block it.

"Esmie what are you doing?" Ethel asked her backing away. She was actually scared of her. She had never seen such a murderous look in her sister's eyes before.

"You want to know the pain I have felt this year don't you?" Esmerelda asked her sending another load of sparks towards her. Ethel backed right into a window and as she never went up there she didn't really know where it led but it must be safer than Esmerelda in that moment. Therefore she ducked down quickly climbing through it only realising she had made a mistake and she was on a roof once it was to late to go back.

"Es….Esmie…." Ethel said struggling to maintain her balance "I am stuck" Ethel told her sister trying her best not to look down.

"Whatever, I am just going to wait until you come back" Esmerelda sneered not caring in that moment what Ethel had to say.

"Esmie..." Ethel said before she slipped and fell only just managing to hold on. She screamed loudly and her scream shocked Esmerelda back into her senses. Esmerelda rushed over to the window and saw her sister hanging onto the roof for dear life.

"Ethie!" Esmerelda shouted looking out the window panicking.

"I am sorry for everything Esmie….I wanted you to come back because I love you and miss you and no one understands me like you do….." Ethel said as one of her hands slipped off the roof and she was holding on one handed.

"Help please…." Ethel said feeling queasy as she was forced to look down. Esmerelda came to her senses and flicked her fingers casting a spell and transferring Ethel of the roof and back into the room. Ethel fell face forward onto the floor and Esmerelda helped her up pulling her into a hug.

"I am so so so so sorry Ethie I don't know what came over me, I don't know what I would have done if you fell" Esmerelda told her sister before she started kissing her all over, hugging her close not caring if her cut hurt because of her sister's clothes rubbing against it. She cried gently wondering how she could even of thought to hurt Ethel.

"It is okay Esmie honest" Ethel moaned as her sister squeezed her and kept kissing her like she was not thirteen but five. She knew Esmerelda had not meant to act like she had done she was just desperate and hurting. Ethel was just glad she had managed to admit she loved her sister finally.

Suddenly there was a funny noise and the sisters pulled away from each other slowly to look at what was happening. That was when they saw the founding stone turn to ice and the two sisters looked at each other as they realised the stone was dead and the school was in danger.