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Chapter 21
I could feel myself float back to my body, my eyes popping open only to be blinded by the intense light hanging over me. I felt sweaty and gross as I peeled myself from the black leather couch I had been placed on.
Looking around I rubbed my eyes. Where was everyone? Pacing myself against the armrest I pushed myself up, wobbling towards the door. Walking out into the now empty Fangtasia I looked around trying to find someone who could tell me what the hell happened to me.
The bar seemed so quiet and was surely void of any one currently living. I closed my eyes and leaned against the cold bar. My head was spinning and I was having a hard time seeing anything more then what was five feet in front of me.
"Hello? Anyone there?" I called out, hoping someone would hear me. After a minute or two I gave up and opened the doors to outside noticing that day light had come. How long had I been out for? At least six hours.
I texted Tara asking her to come get me while I sat on the curb outside. I hoped Pam and Eric wouldn't freak out but I could really use a shower and some food, right now the only way that was happening was if I went home.
Tara pulled in after about twenty minutes of me waiting in the hot sun. "Hey bitch! Hop in." She called to me as I forced myself into her car. Every part of my body felt like it was on fire. I was getting worried about it because this wasn't something that had ever happened to me before. Not once since I was young had I been unable to control my power. Not once had I become dizzy and unconscious, ever. "Shit sugar, you look awful. I hope those vamps haven't been hurting you." She reached to my knee and shook it. I leaned back and looked at her.
"No it wasn't the vampires. I just had a bad run in with a coven of witches." But this shouldn't be happening. I closed my eyes and called out for Claudine. I knew she wouldn't be able to come for me but I was desperate for her help.
"Well alright then. Witches, vampires. What's next? What else is out there." Tara said to herself as she pulled into my driveway.
"To many things to count." I said as I pulled the door open, "Look thanks for the ride Tara. I really owe you one." She nodded to me as I went up the steps to my house.
Godric flew down the stairs as soon as my back hit the door. "Why are you home? Eric called last night and explained what happened. You shouldn't have left Fangtasia." He said taking my temperature. He was looking out for me but I felt like I just couldn't take it right now.
"Look Godric I am fine, really. I just need some rest is all." I sputtered and I tried to pull away from him.
"No you aren't okay. Your face is really hot. You are burning up Oliver." His arm tightened around my middle as he helped me up the stairs to my room.
"Really I am okay. It's nothing." I tried to tell him as he dropped my ass on the bed.
"How often does this happen to you? Do you usually get like this after using your magics?" He asked pacing in front of me.
"Godric really, just please! You are making my head spin." I told him as I dropped back on the bed.
"Oliver this isn't something to just brush off. You look awful!" He scolded me again. He was right, I looked awful and I felt the same. I sat up as my head started spinning worse then before, my hand flying to my mouth.
"Shit Godric what is happening?" I croaked, it felt like something was trying to get out of me, clawing at my throat. I leaned forwards toward the floor as I started coughing uncontrollably.
"Jesus! Oliver what is it?" He asked, panic covering his face. As I coughed I felt the clawing get stronger. I held my stomach to ease the tension that lay there as I coughed. Then something else happened, as I coughed light started to pour from my throat into the room around me, filling the air. I felt the magics fall from my body as the coughing ended and I fell to the floor gasping.
"Oliver!" I could hear Godric crying my name, unsure of how to help me. After the light left me I felt one hundred percent better.
Still exhausted, I peeled myself off the floor. "Look Godric really I feel much better." I said as I lay back down. I wouldn't be able to explain this to him as I couldn't even to myself.
"Oliver what was that? What just happened?" He asked as he checked my head again. "Why has your fever gone so quickly?" He had to many bloody questions.
"I don't know okay? I have never had this shit happen before." I told him. "I went to the coven and confronted them. I used my magic on two of them." But it had been different. I had never felt the power that I had when I was there. I had never felt the control over my magic that I had then either. "I think I may have taken some of their magic, but I have no way of knowing." I whispered as my eyes fought with me.
"You stole a witches magic? How is that possible?" Godric asked sitting next to me.
"How should I know. Like I said I haven't done this before last night. This is all new to me." I told him as I turned and faced him. "I threatened her, I told her I would take her powers away if she didn't fix Eric." I must have done so without knowing it.
"You can do this?" He asked looking surprised.
"I guess so. In Fairy I heard rumors." That was all I knew about it, no more then rumors.
"That is amazing Oliver. Can all Fae do this?" He asked me. The answer was no, that is why it was a rumor.
"Not that I know of. As far as I know only royalty can do it. Only the ones gifted with a lot of magic." I sighed, my body was shutting itself off. "Look Godric, really I am okay. I need to sleep though. I just can't keep my eyes open much longer." I closed my eyes as I spoke.
My eyes fluttered open to darkness. Rubbing my eyes I sat up, taking in my surroundings. My room was dark and Godric had gone. As I stood the light came on. Had I done that? How the hell was this happening? Shrugging it off I grabbed some clothes and headed for my bathroom to shower the two days off of myself.
Once I had climbed out I dried off and pulled on my short black casual type dress. It was cold out so I pulled on some long knee high wool socks, leaving my hair down to keep my neck warm. Climbing down the stairs I wondered around looking for Godric, finding him sitting in the kitchen talking to Eric and Pam.
"Oliver! Your awake. How are you feeling?" Godric asked coming close to me to feel my head, his hands cold.
"I'm fine. I think I just needed some sleep. Hey guys." I added the 'hey' trying not to draw attention to me leaving Fangtasia earlier. Maybe they wouldn't mention it. Eric's wore a look of confusion and anger where as Pam just looked bored.
"I told them what happened." Godric said trying to brake the uncomfortable silence between us. I shook my head, opening the fridge for some juice. Taking a large gulp of it I put it back. I was pretty hungry to...
"Why did you leave? You shouldn't have gone off like that!" Eric said angrily to me. What did he expect me to hang around waiting for him all day? Yeah, so not happening! Besides nothing that bad even happened, I am fine.
"Look no offense but I don't remember agreeing to answer to you twenty fours hours a day. I am my own person Eric." I snapped, growing angry. "Besides I was fine, nothing to worry about." I added. His face stilled as he stepped towards me.
"Pam, Godric leave us!" He bellowed, getting close to my face with his. "I may not remember myself but even so, I know how important you are. I will not have you running around sick like that again." He told me.
He knew how important I was. He had not just said that! Eric thought I was important? "Yes. Okay." I whispered, watching his lips move.
"Yes okay? Thats it. After scaring me like that, that is all you want to say!" Raising his voice to me he grabbed my arm, pulling me closer. Our noses were practically touching.
"Eric..." I whispered as his lips crashed into mine, sending my back towards the counter. It had been so long since we had done this. He lips fought with mine trying to gain control as his tongue found it's way into my mouth. He let my arms go moving his hands to my face, pulling me as close as we could get.
I let it happen without thinking about it. Before I knew what was happening Eric's hands were sliding up my dress and over my outer thighs.
"Eric! Is it really the time for this?" Pam cooed from the doorway, "I like a treat as much as the rest but Godric and I are sitting here waiting to discuss the coven." She said, pissed off. I pushed Eric back a foot as I straitened myself out, pulling my dress back to a respectable level. Not saying anything more I walked past him into the living room, ready to talk witches. Although in reality all I had wanted was to let my brother keep going. Brother.. I couldn't help wonder if it was appropriate to keep thinking of him like that.
"Marnie isn't going to just give in easily. I think we need a plan in case she plans to change the deal." Godric looked at me. It really hadn't been much of a deal, I left her no choice.
"Look Godric I get it I really do. To be honest I thought I hadn't given her much of a choice, fix Eric or loose her magic." I shrugged my shoulders. There wasn't really a way around it.
"Loose her magic? How can we even enforce that?" Pam asked, crossing her arms over her chest, "We need a solid plan not some bullshit threat." Pam had no idea...
"I can take them." I said kicking my foot against the table. Telling them this stuff always felt so personal and honestly maybe even a little embarrassing.
"You can take her power? In what world is that actually possible?" Pam asked rolling her eyes. She didn't believe me.
"Look I really don't feel like I should have to explain every single little power that happens to show itself alright? Just let me handle it!" I growled at her. "I am so sick of vampires acting like they are above me for shits sake! I am not just some damn human Pamela!" Fury bubbled through me, filling every expression my body felt was necessary. She stiffened, looking to Eric for help, momentarily forgetting his memory loss. "Even if I was I wouldn't allow you to treat me this way."
"Alright! That is enough, both of you!" Godric said stepping between us. "Fight after we fix this. Not before...Please." He looked me in the eyes. Eric hadn't said anything, just standing there watching me with hollow eyes.
"Eric? Eric what is it?" Pam asked him seeming concerned. Eric said nothing, only staring off towards me curiously.
"Eric?" I joined in, looking into his eyes.
"Eric what is it?" Pam asked again. "Why the hell isn't he answering! ERIC!" She yelled this time. Eric didn't move, his eyes moving around the room in rapid succession. I put my hand out to Pam, pushing her back. "Get your hands off me human!" Pam yelled.
"PAM!" I hollered, "JUST trust me." I pleaded taking her hand off me calmly as I tried to reassure her with my eyes. Grunting bitterly she stepped back, whispering to herself. Stepping back towards Eric I put on a brave face.
"Marnie?" I asked hollow Eric. His face turned to the side as his eyes trailed me from top to bottom, "Yes dear...So many emotions in here. My my my." Her words sounded muffled by something but we could make her out well. Pam rushed forward.
"WITCH!" She cried, "Let my maker go!" He grabbed his arms and shook him violently back and forth, "You will comply or I will rip you to pieces!"
"You will not! I fear no vampire!" He spat eying Pam evilly. "I wish to speak only with the one called Oliver." Marnie told Pam.
"What do we have to discuss witch? I don't remember giving you a choice?" I smiled right back at her. "Yes yes I know. I wish for you to come back to the store tomorrow. I will release the vampire's memories only after." The woman tried to negotiate.
"Yes that would be acceptable. I was planning to fulfill my promise to you tomorrow by nightfall anyhow." Shrugging I crossed my arms over my chest.
"In the meantime I will show you what powers I have." Marnie said as Eric's body started to move for the door.
"ERIC! YOU LET HIM GO!" Pam yelled as she flew after her maker. I watched them leave into the night, no where to be seen.
Sighing I took a seat on the couch and looked at Godric, "Still no damn two headed dogs breathing fire, right? At least this isn't that." Eric was gone, Pam ran off, Godric was human and couldn't help without fear of death. I was basically alone at this point. "Do I go after them?" I asked Godric.
"No child, Marnie and you have a deal. Pam can handle the witch until morning I am sure of it." I nodded to him. I could use just one day of relaxation after everything we had been through lately. I hadn't used my powers this much since I had been in Fairy.
"You know that tomorrow Eric will be back to his usual Eric self?" Godric asked sitting with me and taking me into his arms.
"He is so different without memories." I exhaled deeply. "I miss it sometimes...When we were younger." I lay my head on him and took his offered comfort. It had been so long since I had a friend live with me, I had forgotten how much I needed a shoulder to lean on once and while. Sookie had been that but living with Godric had made it a very different kind of friendship. He knew me.
"He is still Eric. He has just lost his way." He thought a moment, "I believe all he needed was the woman he loved to come back into his life. Maybe after all this time this will truly fix him." Godric said as he stroked my hair.
"Claudine told me he is bonding with me. I think it's some sort of Fae thing." I had only sort of understood what she had tried to explain to me that night.
"Vampires have this as well. Maybe a little different though. We would also call this a bond."
"She said it probably happened after our first meeting. I don't remember feeling it. Nothing magical happened to my knowledge. Maybe she was wrong." I shrugged. Maybe nothing was set in stone?
"Either way you cannot deny he still feels something for you Oliver. He may hide his feelings but there has been a change I assure you." Godric said, a sad smile spread across his face. I knew all he wanted was for his family to be happy. I just didn't know anymore.
"All I know is that he wants sex from me. I am not that girl Godric. I won't ever be that girl." I sighed. If that was all my brother would offer then I certainly wasn't going to take it. "All this time I have abstained from those things, thinking I would find him again and that we could be together. I just don't see him changing any time soon." Not the Eric that had his memories.
Godric and I talked for a while until I fell asleep next to him. When morning finally came I got up and dressed to head to my meeting with Marnie.
Godric and I spent the day in the garden trying to relax before we headed off. After we had supper together on the porch, we headed out. I got into my car next to Godric who had chosen to join my side for this so called meeting. I had been debating whether to punish Marnie regardless of my promise to her. She had the potential to hurt a lot of vampires. While I definitely was aware a bunch of them maybe deserved it, I didn't see how it was her place to punish them.
The Fae who had left Fairy to become earth bound were made to judge many supernatural beings. We acted as a sort of law governed only by what we felt was right or wrong. It was the catch you could say to being left here. As long as I did my piece every once and a while then I would be left alone by my people. Until now that is. The doors to Fairy had been shut from the inside. I still felt a pull to do it regardless. In some cases Fae turned bad and caused a lot of mischief, judging unfairly. I was neither bad nor was I good but I like to think of myself as fair.
Arriving at the Wicca shop Godric and I exit the car and enter slowly, taking in all the witches sitting around on the floor.
"There are more then before." I whispered to him, "They must think that will help them." I laughed, it wouldn't help them. Marnie came out from behind her office doors frowning. Where was Eric?
"You took my brother Witch. I think maybe it is time you gave him back don't you?" I asked her as I let my hands take over, filling with Fae magic.
"Your brother? He cannot be your brother!" She cried, "The spell I performed didn't only take his memory girl. I sent him to his hearts desire. You cannot be his sister if he went to you." She said crossly and she came to Godric and I.
"The details of our relationship are none of your concern witch. Where is Eric?" I demanded.
"I fixed him last night. He left with some blonde woman in leather." She waved me off. "You have no reason to be angry anymore. I did as you wished." For some reason her face said otherwise. Pam must have been convincing.
"You fixed him? Last night?" I looked at her then to Godric. How come they had not tried to contact us?
"Yes I did. Now if you wouldn't mind leaving. My coven and I have much to do tonight." I had expected a fight. "I am not leaving. I know what you are going to do and I won't allow it. Who asked you to judge the vampires?" I asked her. She was only a person stealing magics from something she didn't fully understand.
"You don't know what you are talking about child! I have strong magic and I will judge those who have hurt me." So this was vengeance? I definitely understood that.
"Look I may not know what happened to you in the past but this is not okay. I will take everything from you if you proceed. As it stands I still have the right to take from you witch." My eyes flashed white as I went forward taking her arm in mine.
This time instead of seeing her future I gave her my past in Fairy. The witch went silent as she fell to her knees before me. "You cannot be! No no please, please it isn't fair. You don't know how I have suffered!" She cried, her whole body bowing to me now.
"If you know me witch then you know what I am telling you is law. You will not harm any one from here on out. The magics you all steal from the earth do not belong to you. Have some respect for the things you do not truly understand." I spat kicking my foot out from her grasp. "I wish to speak with the actual Marnie now, spirit." I said kneeling in front of her. I searched her eyes until I found Marnie under the woman possessing her body, "Marnie? Do you wish this spirit to stay within you?" I asked her waiting to judge the woman within this frail middle aged woman. Her head shook back and forth as tears fled her fragile eyes. I thought not.
"Okay then. I will ask that you leave spirit." I stood and backed off watching the body on the floor fight itself.
"I will not leave! I will have vengeance!" The spirit cried through Marnie's body. I smiled to her.
"Then I have judged you guilty. You took this lady and her coven for fools." I said looking around at the people staring at us. "Leave now or I will make you leave." I threatened her.
"Oliver! Oliver I think the sun is going down." Godric said watching me from the door way. Turning to him I nod as Marnie's body rushes mine, throwing me out the doors and into the street outside the shop.
"I have put a spell on this place Faerie! You aren't going anywhere. I will kill you before I allow you to dispel me from this witch!" She screamed, taking a defensive stance.
Godric followed us outside just as Eric and Pam showed up on the other side of the barrier. Pam had a missile launcher?
"OLIVER!" Eric yelled trying to get closer.
"No! No don't come closer." I threw a can from the ground towards the force field, hitting it. It lit up shining brightly in the night. I looked around noticing Bill and Sookie came to. She found Bill! Shit I hoped tonight would turn out okay!
"Let me deal with her!" I said looking back to Marnie.
"Deal with me will you?" She laughed. Did she not just figure out I had control over her? What the hell!
"Vampires with automatic weapons. What idiots!" She laughed stepping closer to me now.
"Listen to me witch, my patience is growing thin. I will give you one more minute before I force you out." I knew my eyes were still white, I could feel the cold light shining from them. My hands were also lit up as I forced them up towards her. "Any last words?" I taunted her.
"You have fucked with your last vampire!" Bill said stepping a bit closer to the barrier separating us.
"How optimistic we are." She said turning to face the vampire rescue team.
"Let the girl go, and Godric. Maybe we will let you live." He said baring his fangs. "Bill! Keep quiet alright? I said I got this!" I was getting annoyed, all they were doing was distracting me. I turned to the vampires and looked at them. Pam's eyes grew wide, when she saw me, "What the hell is up with your eyes?" She asked nudging Eric.
Ignoring her I turned back to the witch, "I do believe your time is up." Lifting my hand I let my light flow from my body as the spirit was ripped from Marnie's body. It was slow and I had to pull hard but I did succeed, dragging the white cloud from her chest.
I spoke to it, "I must have forgotten to tell you that the choice came with true death. This is your last moment to exist anywhere spirit." I held her in my palm and blew on her, light flowing from my mouth to the cloud before me. My light lit her spirit as it turned to dust in the wind.
I fell to my knees coughing up light as Godric rushed to me, "Oliver you did well. You are safe now." He cooed as the real Marnie recovered.
"Where? Where am I?" She asked looking around at the shop and the vampires. My coughing eventually subsided as I braced myself against the pavement. "The spell...You have to stop it." I croaked looking at the force field around us. Eric had rushed towards it unable to touch it as he watched me writhe on the ground. "Please..." I asked her again.
The woman shook her head as if clearing a fog and waved her hands toward the barrier. As it fell away Eric rushed forward picking me up into his arms, cradling me close to him. "I am taking you home. Godric you ride with them." He said before jumping up into the night sky with me in tow.