-Prison World-
If anyone had been near the Salvatore School, they would have been alarmed to hear the sound of glass shattering over loud music as a bottle of two hundred dollar bourbon was thrown at the walls of the boarding school.
A dark figure of a man stood breathing heavily, as he tried to destroy everything in sight.
The man threw his hand out forcibly and a chair to the right of him splintered into rubble.
The man was pissed off.
He had gotten trapped once again in a prison world.
For the fourth time.
He knew that he had been reckless when he tried to kill the Saltzman's.
But could you blame him?
This man was the one and only, Malachai 'Kai' Parker.
Kai was furious at himself because he knew he messed up badly.
He shouldn't have underestimated the Mikaelson girl.
And now the likelihood of him escaping this prison world was low.
He had already tried to find the Malivore portal.
But it was nowhere to be found.
It seemed the Saltzman's were getting smarter.
Who would have thought?
Kai was annoyed that for all the power he held, he could never seem to beat the hell, which was a prison world.
Now, as Kai reflected, he should have realized that his coven had been trying to do something other than putting him in a prison world.
Had he realized that he would have been able to make sure that his nieces had stayed dead, alongside his dearest twin.
And the guilts back.
Why was he always felt guilty when he thought about his sister?
And why did a part of himself not want to hurt the last of his blood?
Who knows.
Ugh, he really needed to stop picturing himself killing his family.
It doesn't seem healthy.
Although, looking back, Kai had to admit that he had been slightly unhinged after he'd escaped the 1903 prison world.
But they really shouldn't have been surprised by him snapping, especially after being used as a chew toy for Lily Salvatore's lovely heretic family.
Then again, his coven didn't know that happened.
He was sure that if they did, they would be jumping for joy.
Why did he help the Salvatore matriarch again?
Oh right, he wanted revenge.
He supposed, in some twisted way, that he should be grateful to Lily for giving him her blood.
After all it allowed him to become a heretic, which ended up making him far more powerful than anyone in the Gemini Coven.
Which, come on, wasn't that great.
Especially with that nifty ability that vampires have to turn off their emotions.
Which really came in handy with getting rid of those feelings of guilt and compassion, he gained in the merge from Luke.
Seriously he had no idea how people actually got things done with constant emotions distracting them at every turn.
However, his emotions did come back on after he came back to life from actual hell.
He was going to turn it off at the time, but then he was struck by all the guilt from killing his family and found he couldn't.
That honestly made no sense, as typically vampires turn their emotions off because of feelings of guilt or grief but all it takes to bring them back on, is or killing someone and it ends hurting them worse than they felt before, which makes them turn it back on.
But for some reason, they don't turn their emotions back off again to deal with the new 'emotional trauma'.
Which that strange rule shouldn't apply to him, because he hated his family.
Really, the only one he felt he should be feeling guilty about was killing his twin, but definitely not the others.
God, he really needed to stop dwelling on his coven.
He already spent too much wasted time on them in his short but long lifetime.
Alright, moving on.
If he was able to escape again, Kai was going to wait a while till he revealed himself.
That way he would be able to find out the lay of the land.
Once he figured out what he planned to do, and got the Tribrid out of the way.
He would kill Alaric Saltzman, once and for all.
Although this time he would have multiple contingency plans in the event that things go haywire.
Which reminded him that he would have to make sure that the Gemini twins were distracted.
And now his thoughts to take a turn towards his nieces.
Kai wasn't sure if he would be able to kill little Josie.
After all she was too much like his twin for him to kill her easily.
However, maybe if he ripped out her spleen like he did her mother, it would teach her a valuable lesson on not crossing her uncle Kai.
Then there was the other twin, the one he didn't get the chance to meet.
Elizabeth, is her name.
She was too much of an unknown variable for him to predict what would happen if he ever had the chance to meet her.
Depending on what happened, he would decide then if he wanted to kill her.
The more that he thought about his sister's daughters, the more that Kai found it ironic that the Gemini Coven, who saw siphoners as abominations, had given their last breath to save two siphon witch twins in an effort to prevent him from being the coven leader for a long time.
And he found it funny that their efforts were completely wasted as he wasn't coven leader anymore since he became a heretic.
That in and of itself was a fitting punishment in his mind.
Kai sighed, as he looked around at the mess he made with a combination of magic and his bare hands.
Kai was done brooding about his messed-up family and decided to move on for now.
He went over to one of the surviving bottles of bourbon and grabbed it.
He decided that if he was going to be stuck here, then he was going to have a party and hopefully get blackout drunk.
A few hours passed, and Kai was cursing his vampire metabolism as he was no longer drunk, just slightly buzzed.
He sat in the main chair of the headmaster's office and continued to spin around in circles, humming to himself.
Kai was thinking to himself about how he is going to pass time in this godforsaken hell when he heard it.
It is so light that Kai thought it was his imagination playing tricks on him.
But then he heard it again.
Kai stopped spinning abruptly.
He's not sure what to think because this prison world has just been created, so there shouldn't be any other people in it.
Unless they were just put in.
He got to his feet quickly and looked out the window in the office but it was night so he couldn't see if anyone was in front of the school.
He moved away from the window and went to the door, pausing to listen for any footsteps nearby but heard none.
Kai moved out of the room as quiet as he can possibly be.
He was walking around the corner when he saw a flash of blonde hair.
Kai stopped and didn't dare let himself breathe.
Not that he needed to breath as he was a vampire.
Oh well.
He waited a moment until he heard the echo of someone going downstairs.
Kai crept forward and he lowered himself into a crouch, next to the railing on the top of the stairwell.
When he looked down, he saw a blonde-haired girl looking through some of the grimoires.
The girl turned around, allowing Kai to see her face.
The girl's face seemed to be an echo of his baby sister, Liv.
And he knew instantly who she was.
As she not only looked like his youngest sister but also radiated Gemini magic.
And there was only one other person besides Josie Saltzman that was a part of his coven.
It was his other niece.
The one he hadn't had the honor of meeting yet.
Kai took in her appearance and narrowed his eyes when he noticed the blood on her face, in her hair, and all over her clothes.
Which definitely wasn't strange at all.
And now Kai was having an existential crisis.
He had no idea what he should be thinking because typically, based on all the blood, he would assume that the girl went on a murder spree.
However this was Jo's other daughter, and he'd assumed the girl would either be like her twin, Liv, her dad, or his twin.
And all signs pointed to that she was not at all like any of them.
He stayed still as he tried to figure out how he would approach the situation.
And how he could manipulate this to his advantage.
But he also knew that he needed to tread carefully.
Kai considered treating her like he did her twin but Josie hadn't been covered in blood when he met her like this girl was at the moment.
He wondered if he should wait or reveal himself now.
If he waited, he might be able to gather more information on why she's here but the dangers are that if she was in the prison world by choice, then he would miss his chance to escape.
Then again
He kinda doubted that the girl was here by choice if her bloodied state was anything to go by.
Which if he was right in guessing that she was sent into the prison world by force, then he wasn't a hundred percent sure how to deal with this.
Especially since it felt like he was looking into a mirror at a female version of himself.
Which gave him a weird feeling. -God, he would never understand emotions-
As it meant she was sent into a prison world in an eerily similar fashion as he had been back in 1994.
And Kai knew that it would have taken the ascendant from the outside world to send her into this prison world and the ascendant was more than likely with Alaric Saltzman at the moment.
Which made Kai ponder what could have happened.
It was possible someone got the ascendant from Alaric and sent the girl here but that scenario didn't fit with her appearance.
Or maybe
Something happened that caused him to send her into the prison world.
But would he really trap his daughter in a prison world...with him in it?
However before Kai could continue on that train of thought, the girl spotted him.
Her eyes widened and she went completely still as she registered that she was in extreme danger.
"Well shit…"
She stared up at him, mind going a mile a minute trying to figure out what she should do.
And Kai couldn't help the smirk that appeared onto his face as he took in her fear that she did her best to hide.
"Well..well...well if it isn't little Linda." He commented as he stood from his crouched position.
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-Outside World-
Completely unaware of what was happening with her twin, Josie was being forcibly awoken by a certain tribrid.
Josie groaned not wanting to get up, as she was still exhausted from the party the night before.
However, Hope refused to relent.
So Josie tried to open her eyes to tell her off but a pounding pain shot through her head causing her to squeeze her eyes back shut.
Hope noticed her struggling, and waved her hand, causing the blinds to cover the windows.
She then helped her sit up.
After she pushed 2 Tylenol and a glass of water into her hands.
Which caused Josie to look at her in confusion.
"For the hangover." was all Hope says for clarification.
However, that did not clear anything up for Josie.
And she narrows her eyes in confusion at Hope.
"I can't be hungover, I didn't have anything to drink" Josie whispers, not unable to understand what happened.
And Hope raised an eyebrow, looking very skeptical, "You sure? Cause you look like you got blackout drunk."
"Yes, I'm sure, seriously I didn't drink ANY alcohol yesterday. Besides I can remember everything I did yesterday."
"Wellll, maybe someone spiked your drink," she replied.
Josie nodded her head slowly in an uncertain manner, not sure if that was what happened either.
"Yeah, maybe"
"Where's Lizzie?" Hope asked.
"What?"
Josie turned to look at Lizzie's bed in confusion.
It was empty.
She looked back at Hope.
"I have no idea, I haven't seen her since we all met up at the party"
Josie paused when she re-looked at Lizzie's bed and then she tilted her head to the side, "The bed doesn't look like it's been slept in, does it?"
"No it doesn't, weird…"
Now Hope was looking at the bed contemplatively.
"Maybe she found a guy to hook up with? Or something." Hope said, but her voice was skeptical.
And Josie shook her head as she continued to stare at the bed.
"I..I don't think she would do that...not after she just lost Sebastian…"
"I agree but where else could she be?" Hope asked.
Josie looked at her worried.
"What if something's wrong? What if a monster got to her or something?"
"She's probably okay, she might be trying to hide away from her pain. If you want we can go and find her?" Hope said.
But Josie felt like something was really wrong.
She could feel it in her gut.
"I'm not so sure we're going to be able to find her…" whispered Josie
"We will. Come on, let's go look for her, if we can't find her then, well go ask your dad for help" reassured Hope, trying to help her friend but Hope was getting the same bad feeling Josie was.
Josie nodded in agreement.
She quickly changed and brushed out her hair.
Then they left the room and they went to see if any of their other friends knew where Lizzie was or if they had seen her leave with anyone.
When the girls entered the library, they saw Mg and Kaleb talking at one of the tables, so they went over to them, and sat at the table.
"Girls," the boys said in unison as they looked up.
Mg noticed their hurried faces and asked, "Is something wrong? And where's Lizzie?"
"I'm guessing that means you have seen her either" stated Hope, looking even more concerned now.
"No, we haven't seen her since early on at the party yesterday," explained Kaleb.
Josie and Hope look at each other.
"Besides I think she left early, as she wasn't at the party, from what I could tell, later on in the night," Mg said.
"Do you know if Landon or Raf have seen her?" asked Josie.
And was starting to panic even more than before.
"No, they didn't mention seeing her when we were with them earlier but we can come with you guys to check," said Mg seeing how worried the two girls were about not being able to find Lizzie.
Kaleb looks at them all and rolled his eyes saying "She's probably fine, I mean you guys do realize she just lost the guy she fell in love with. Besides, have either of you two tried calling or texting her?"
The two girls looked at each other in shock and quickly pulled out their phones.
Josie tried calling 3 times, but each time it went to voicemail.
Josie was starting to freak out.
She should have been with Lizzie last night.
She shouldn't have left her alone.
If something happened to Lizzie it was her fault.
"Why don't we just do a locator spell, that would show us where she is and if it doesn't work, we know something is wrong." Hope was looking at Josie as she said this.
It was obvious that they needed to find Lizzie quickly or who knows what Josie would do.
"Yeah, good idea, Kaleb go grab a map and MG grab a knife," ordered Josie
The boys immediately went to get the requested items.
When they returned, they set the map on the table and gave Josie the knife.
Josie pricks her finger with the knife and allows a drop of blood to go on the map.
Hope and Josie moved to stand side by side on one side of the table with the boys hovering behind them.
Hope offered Josie her left hand and Josie took it.
Josie began to siphon from Hope and the two girls began the spell.
They repeated the spell over and over, waiting for the blood to move.
But nothing happened.
They stopped the spell.
"Why isn't anything happening? Something should be happening right?" asked Kaleb from behind them.
Hope replied "It should have worked… The only reason it wouldn't work is if she's under a cloaking spell or if she's dea…"
but she was cut off by Josie.
"-she's not dead, I would have felt that."
Josie was breathing heavily and Hope grabbed her hands trying to anchor Josie.
But Josie wasn't having it.
She pulled away from Hope and avoided the boys' attempt to grab her as she moved away from them.
She looked away from them.
"It was her. This morning, the migraine I got from nowhere. I knew I wasn't hungover… It was twin pain. I should have known" whispered Josie.
When she looked back, there were tears in her eyes.
"Hey, Hey, It's okay we'll figure this out. We'll find her, I promise." Hope tried to soothe but Josie refused to listen.
"I have to find my dad." She said before rushing out of the room.
Hope immediately followed, and the two vampires looked at each other for a moment before going after them.-Outside World-
Completely unaware of what was happening with her twin, Josie was being forcibly awoken by a certain tribrid. Josie groaned not wanting to get up, as she was still exhausted from the party the night before.
However, Hope refused to relent. So Josie tried to open her eyes to tell her off but a pounding pain shot through her head causing her to squeeze her eyes back shut.
Hope noticed her struggling, and waved her hand, causing the blinds to cover the windows. She then helped her sit up. She then pushed 2 Tylenol and a glass of water into her hands. Which caused Josie to look at her in confusion.
"For the hangover." was all Hope says for clarification.
However, that does not clear anything up for Josie. And she narrows her eyes in confusion at Hope.
"I can't be hungover, I didn't have anything to drink" Josie whispers, not understanding what happened.
And Hope raised an eyebrow, looking very skeptical, "You sure? Cause you look like you got blackout drunk."
"Yes, I'm sure, seriously I didn't drink ANY alcohol yesterday. Besides I can remember everything I did yesterday."
"Wellll, maybe someone spiked your drink," she replied. Josie nodded her head slowly in an uncertain manner, not sure if that was what happened either.
"Yeah, maybe"
"Where's Lizzie?" Hope asked.
"What?"
Josie turned to look at Lizzie's bed in confusion before she looked back at Hope.
"I have no idea, I haven't seen her since we all met up at the party"
Josie paused when she relooked at Lizzie's bed and then she tilted her head to the side, "The bed doesn't look like it's been slept in, does it?"
"No it doesn't, weird…" Hope was looking at the bed through narrowed eyes.
"Maybe she found a guy to hook up with? Or something." Hope said, but her voice was skeptical. And Josie shook her head as she continued to stare at the bed.
"I..I don't think she would do that...not after she just lost Sebastian…"
"I agree but where else could she be?" Hope asked and Josie looked at her worried.
"What if something's wrong? What if a monster got to her or something?"
"She'll be okay, she's probably trying to hide away from her pain" Hope said. But Josie felt like something was really wrong. She could feel it in her gut.
"I'm not so sure we're going to be able to find her…" whispered Josie
"We will. Come on, let's go look for her, if we can't find her then, well go ask your dad for help" reassured Hope, trying to help her friend but Hope was getting the same bad feeling Josie was.
Josie nodded in agreement. She quickly changed and brushed out her hair. Then they left the room and they went to see if any of their other friends knew where Lizzie was or if they had seen her leave with anyone.
When the girls entered the library, they saw Mg and Kaleb talking at one of the tables, so they went over to them, and sat at the table.
"Girls," the boys said in unison as they looked up. Mg noticed their hurried faces and asked, "Is something wrong? And where's Lizzie?"
"I'm guessing that means you have seen her either" stated Hope, looking even more concerned now.
"No, we haven't seen her since early on at the party yesterday," explained Kaleb. Josie and Hope look at each other.
"Besides I think she left early, as she wasn't at the party, from what I could tell, later on in the night," Mg said.
"Do you know if Landon or Raf have seen her?" asked Josie, who was starting to panic even more than before.
"No, they didn't mention seeing her when we were with them earlier but we can come with you guys to check," said Mg seeing how concerned the two girls were about not being able to find Lizzie.
Kaleb looks at them all and rolls his eyes saying "She's probably fine, I mean you guys do realize she just lost the guy she fell in love with. Besides, have either of you two tried calling or texting her?"
The two girls looked at each other in shock and quickly pulled out their phones. Josie tried calling 3 times, but each time it went to voicemail. Josie was starting to freak out.
She should have been with Lizzie last night, she shouldn't have left her alone. If something happened to Lizzie it was her fault.
"Why don't we just do a locator spell, that would show us where she is and if it doesn't work, we know something is wrong." Hope was looking at Josie as she said this. It was obvious that they needed to find Lizzie quickly or who knew how Josie would feel.
"Yeah, good idea, Kaleb go grab a map and MG grab a knife," ordered Josie
The boys immediately went to get the needed items, and when they returned, they set the map on the table and gave Josie the knife. Josie pricks her finger with the knife and allows a drop of blood to go on the map.
Hope and Josie moved to stand side by side on one side of the table with the boys hovering behind them. Hope offered Josie her left hand and Josie took it. Josie began to siphon from Hope and the two girls began the spell. They repeated the spell over and over, waiting for the blood to move but nothing happened. They stopped the spell.
"Why isn't anything happening? Something should be happening right?" asked Kaleb from behind them.
Hope replied "It should have worked… The only reason it wouldn't work is if she's under a cloaking spell or if she's dea…" but she was cut off by Josie.
"-she's not dead, I would have felt that."
Josie was breathing heavily and Hope grabbed her hands trying to anchor Josie. But Josie wasn't having it. She pulled away from Hope and avoided the boys' attempt to grab her as she moved away from them. She looks away from them.
"It was her. This morning, the migraine I got from nowhere. I knew I wasn't hungover… It was twin pain. I should have known" whispered Josie and when she looked back, there were tears in her eyes.
"Hey, Hey, It's okay we'll figure this out. We'll find her, I promise." Hope tried to soothe but Josie refused to listen.
"I have to find my dad." She said before rushing out of the room. Hope immediately followed, and the two vampires looked at each other for a moment before going after them.
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-Prison World-
Back in the prison world, uncle and niece stared at each.
And Lizzie started going over everything she was told by Josie, and her officially renamed bio dad.
She wasn't as stupid a lot of people thought she was, and she knew that her uncle was incredibly dangerous.
Right now, her only hope was that since she was banished here, she couldn't be killed.
So she decides to start off.
"Ok, first of all, my name is Lizzie, not Linda. Second of all, I'm going to assume you are my infamous Uncle Kai." Lizzie snarked, not moving her eyes once from her uncle.
She couldn't give him the chance to catch her off guard.
Kai raised an eyebrow and began to walk down the stairs like a predator stalking towards his prey.
"You would be correct Lizzie…"
His voice was mocking as he said her name.
"I must say, I wasn't expecting to see you here. First I had assumed you were here to have a talk with your dear uncle but all that blood is really making me question that idea. Mmm, I wonder… who did you kill?" asked Kai cruelly as he neared the end of the staircase.
He wasn't sure if Lizzie actually killed someone but right now he was fishing for as much information as he could get.
However, Lizzie went rigid at the question and shifted self consciously.
Kai's eyes, which had been watching her intently, caught the movement.
And he was on the right track.
So, she definitely hurt someone.
Possibly killed them.
"Shut up," spat out Lizzie.
She did not want to even think about the girls she had killed.
And she definitely didn't want to have that conversation, with her psychotic uncle, of all people.
"Huh, looks like I hit it right on the nail… Now I have to know, who'd you kill? A friend perhaps? Or someone you hate?" asked Kai, very amused and slightly surprised by Lizzie's deer in headlights look.
Looking at all the signs, it pointed to her having killed whoever blood is on her.
Well, this wasn't what he expected to happen when he had his first conversation with his niece.
Honestly, though, Kai found it hard to believe that a daughter of Josette Parker, the perfect Gemini witch, could possibly have killed someone.
Then again, she was related to him.
Lizzie shook her head retorting, "I don't have to tell you anything, all you are is my crazy ass uncle that slaughtered my bio mom and tried to kill Josie and I. Multiple times, might I add"
"Really we're still on that, yes, I tried to kill you and your sister but you both survived. Let bygones be bygones. Seriously you two are so over dramatic" sneered Kai rolling his eyes.
And he continued, "Besides you may as well tell me why you're here because at the moment, we are literally the only two people in the world. And if you don't, I'll just torture you until you do"
Lizzie stared in disbelief, "First of all, why would that make me want to tell you anything? All that would do is make me angry and then I wouldn't tell you anything, which wouldn't be very productive"
Kai's mouth dropped in surprise at the eerily familiar words.
How?
He shook his head and schooled his face giving her an appraising glance, "Fair point, ok how about I won't torture you and you just tell me or I'll just constantly annoy you. And I'll have you know, I am very verrrry annoying."
Lizzie raised an eyebrow at him, looking very unamused, "Why would I trust you to keep your word? I've heard all about how you-"
"-Killed four of my younger siblings when I was 22, then ripped the spleen out of my twin sister, then tried to kill my younger twin siblings but your biological mom protected them. Oh, also I stabbed and shot an arrow into Bonnie Bennett. And merged with my younger brother, Luke. Then killed my twin by stabbing her, although I was mainly trying to kill baby you and Josie. And the time I killed myself to become a heretic, which killed the whole Gemini Coven as they were linked to me. Then I tossed Bonnie around a bit, all the while casting a sleeping spell on Elena Gilbert that I had said would only break if Bonnie died, but I lied as the spell was actually linked to Stefan Salvatore. Then I was in hell for a few years and was let out to cause havoc. I once again went after you and your sister. You two barely escaped me by the way-"
Lizzie interrupted him this time as she said, "-Ok, I get it. You're a psycho. I was actually about to say how you manipulated my sister and almost prevented us from escaping the collapsing prison world, which would have killed us but sure let us add all of that onto my reason not to trust you."
Lizzie was trying to figure out how the hell she could deal with her uncle before he started to try and kill her -and/or torture her-.
She can't kill him because he was sent here the same way she was and would just wake up again.
But maybe, she can trap him.
May as well try.
She moved back towards a table behind her, until she bumps into it.
Lizzie then rested her right hand on the table and began to siphon the school's magic, all while keeping what she was doing, out of sight of her deranged uncle.
God, she was running out of descriptive words to call her uncle.
"You know, you look nothing like my twin or like your sister, although you do look a lot like my baby sister, Liv." Kai rolled his eyes.
"Liv was so annoying, always whining and going on and on about me 'killing' her brother, I mean come on, he was going to die anyway if he had merged with her." said Kai eyeing his niece.
As he studied her, he realized that she had his blue eyes, huh, interesting.
For some reason, he didn't mind.
Maybe it was because when he met her twin, he saw zero similarities in both appearance and personality.
While with Lizzie, he could see that she resembled him so much, that it's kind of unsettling.
If a younger him had met the girl, he would probably assume she was his future daughter.
That thought sent a strange feeling through him, as he stared at his niece.
"Let me guess, you took immense pleasure in killing her," remarked Lizzie in an effort to keep him distracted.
"You understand me so much better than your sister or anyone in our coven ever did." declared a smirking Kai, nodding at her words.
He walked closer when he caught sight of the red glow behind her and sped forward in a blur.
He grabbed her and slammed her against the wall to the right, with his hand gripping her throat.
Lizzie gasped for air, as her brain tried to catch up with what happened.
"Can't have that, now can we? I mean that's just rude to siphon magic while you're having a conversation with me." growled Kai and he loosens his grip slightly so she's no longer choking to death.
Lizzie rested her right hand loosely on his wrist and put her other on his chest trying to push him off.
Lizzie narrowed her eyes, tightened her right hand, and started to siphon as painfully as she could from Kai.
Instantly he released her throat, and Lizzie pushed the magic she just gained through her hand still on his chest
Which sent him flying across the room into the other tables.
He got back to his feet quickly and tried to speed at her again but ran into a barrier.
He stopped and surveyed his niece who's left hand was still outstretched towards him, keeping up the barrier.
As he continued to look over the situation, he noticed a red glow and saw that her right hand was pressing against the wall behind her.
Siphoning as much magic as possible, in order to maintain the power for the barrier.
Kai studied her, feeling impressed, and even a little proud of his niece.
While Josie had been smart enough to keep up with him, her sister seemed to actually be smarter.
And Josie had been afraid to hurt people, whereas Lizzie doesn't hesitate at the slightest chance, and is just as ferocious as him.
And her siphoning was yet another reminder that she was so much like him.
God he really needed to get a grip, but he couldn't as he just kept seeing more and more of him in her.
His twin sister would be horrified.
And Kai realized that he needed to try a different approach.
He knew what he had to do.
After all, he kept thinking she was like him then maybe trying an approach that he knew would work against himself would get the outcome he wanted.
Kai cleared his throat, "Well I can now see why I wasn't allowed to touch my siblings growing up. Siphoning can hurt like a bitch."
He tilted his head and examined her. "Alright, I have to say I'm impressed, not many can hold up against me. And I'm sorry for attacking you but I think you can understand why I did it, I mean you were siphoning with intent to attack me."
Lizzie narrowed her eyes, "Like you weren't planning on attacking me. I was doing what was necessary to protect myself."
"Ok, I'll admit I considered it but I had decided not to go that route. And I get that you don't trust me-"
"-No duh"
Kai proceeded, ignoring her interruption, "-And since I'm the one who wants to hear what happened and why you're here, let's make a deal...a deal that will be bound by magic so neither of us can break it"
That catches Lizzie's attention.
"How would that work?"
"What? Have you never swore on magic before?" He teased, almost warmly.
And Lizzie was highly suspicious of the 180 in personality.
"No, I have not, and I've never heard of it either. How do I know you're not lying to get my guard down?" She asked.
"Ok, fine, how about I get you the grimoire that has it in it for you to look at." He answered.
Moving away when he saw her nod.
He went over to the table, looking for a Gemini grimoire.
As he knew for sure that they wrote about Magic oaths in all their grimoires.
He spotted one out of the corner of his eye on the floor, next to the table he had been thrown into.
Huh, must have been knocked off when he'd crashed into it.
He walked over to it and picked it up.
As he strode back over to Lizzie, he flipped through the book searching for the page he knew was there.
When he found it, he put the book on the floor and pushed it with his foot over to his niece.
Lizzie doesn't move, knowing that if she went to pick up the book, she would be forced to drop the spell.
Kai raised his eyebrows before he realized why she wasn't moving and rolled his eyes.
"I swear I won't attack you if you drop the spell, now can you just look at the book, pretty please,"
Lizzie released the barrier, as she stopped siphoning.
She didn't move for a moment as she waited for him to break his word.
But he didn't.
Instead, he moved backwards several feet and made a motion for her to pick up the grimoire.
Lizzie bent down to pick up the book, and pressed her right hand against the page, in order to keep the page Kai had flipped to open.
She straightened looking at the words on the page on the left.
It was titled Old Magic, and Lizzie began to read.
Old Magic
This is sacred magic that many witches believed lost long ago…
Lizzie decided to read the part about old magic later and instead, trailed her eyes down the page until they focused on the words Magical Oaths.
Magical Oaths
This is when a party of two or more swear to follow a set of guidelines, that must be agreed to by all sides. When the oath is sworn and enacted by sharing blood, neither party can break the deal or there would be extreme consequences.
The consequence for breaking oath :
-Possible death of the person who broke it (depends on the severity of breached the agreement).
- Extreme pain if broken
-Slight pain if the individual thinks about breaking the pact (reminds them of agreement)
-Cursed by magic itself (Violating the terms of the agreement is seen as an insult to magic itself)
Necessary Items:
-a circle of salt (In a star pentagon shape)
-Ten candles, that need to be lit for the spell to work (placed on at each point around star pentagon)
-a knife
How to do the Oath:
-First, these words must be spoken
*Naturalis magiae hæc juramenta iuramus quod non possit nisi utraque concordant in transgredientibus inficted dolor sit sacramentum*
-Then each person must cut both of their hands (If they have supernatural healing, the spell previously spoken will prevent healing)
-They must then interlock hands (one of them does their left to other's right and right to the other's left, allowing the blood to connect the caster's in mind, body, and magic
-Then each will take a turn swearing their oath in their native language.
-To know it is complete, a blue aura will appear around the party verifying the pact.
Lizzie was in shock after reading the passage.
It sounded almost too good to be true.
But it might also be her best chance to get out of here.
Safely
She was going to do it.
"If we do this, what would we swear?" She asked.
He thought for a moment before making a suggestion, "How about this…I will promise that... I won't try to harm you in any way, shape or form and you promise you won't try to attack or hurt me; and won't prevent me from escaping. And we can add more to the deal as we write it. That way we can discuss how you came to be here like adults and then figure what happens next...sound good kiddo?"
Lizzie was quiet for a moment as she looked for any loopholes before she agreed to go along with it because it meant he would literally not be able to harm her.
The only downside was that if she found a way to escape, she would have to bring him with her.
But right now, she could care less about the danger it would put her bio dad in.
Kai moved over to a table, so he could grab a paper and pen to write the oaths.
He waited for Lizzie to walk towards him before he started to write the oaths.
Lizzie was approaching slowly and when she reached him, he handed over the paper and she read it.
Malachai Parker
*I swear an oath on the old magic that I shall not attack, or hurt Elizabeth Saltzman with the intent to cause pain and I shall not leave her behind in the event that I find a way to escape the prison world.*
Elizabeth Saltzman
*I swear an oath on the old magic that I shall not attack, or harm Malachai Parker and I shall not leave the prison world without him if I find a way to escape.*
Once she was sure it was correct, she turned to him, nodding.
Ready to get it over with.
Kai left to grab the candles, knife, and salt.
And as Lizzie waited, she tried to memorize the spell and her oath.
Kai returned with items and handed her the salt.
Kai waved his hand and all the rubble, tables, and chairs moved away from the center of the room.
Lizzie opened the salt and began to pour it out while walking around to make the star pentagon.
When she came to a stop, Kai placed each of the ten candles on the five points and on the five corner vertices.
Kai looked at the candles and uttered a quick, "Incendia" and they all lit.
Kai grabbed the knife and moved to the middle of the salt and motions for Lizzie to do the same.
He waved he had to call over a chair to put the knife on before turning back to Lizzie, who had finally joined him.
Kai held out his hands to her and Lizzie took them, siphoning gently this time, and they began the spell.
"Naturalis magiae hæc juramenta iuramus quod non possit nisi utraque concordant in transgredientibus inficted dolor sit sacramentum." They started to chant, and the wind began to pick up.
And after they finished chanting, powerful energy filled the room, which caused both of them to have chills go down their spines.
They knew the spell was in place.
Kai released Lizzie's hands and turned to grab the knife.
Lizzie watched as he ran the knife along his right and then his left hand, before handing the knife over to her.
She took it from him and looked at the wounds on his palm, which typically would have closed by now.
She took a breath and pressed the blade deep into her right palm, wincing slightly at the stinging pain.
Then she did the same to her left.
After she put the knife back on the chair and turned back to her uncle.
Lizzie moved her left hand to meet Kai's right and crossed her right hand over their already interlocked hands to meet his left.
When her last hand met his, she gasped as a bizarre feeling shot through her body causing the hairs on her arms and neck to rise.
It was clear that her Uncle Kai felt it too if the intake of breath was anything to go by.
The fire on the candles shot up high and the feeling got stranger.
It was like a combination of warmth and freezing cold vibrated through her very blood, and Kai tightened his grip, so neither of them let go.
And then, when the feeling finally settled, a pulse went through her temple, causing her white spots to appear in her vision and a bunch of images flashed in her third eye, too fast to be made out.
Lizzie's knees buckled as she stumbled into her uncle.
It was clear that her uncle was going through the same thing as he didn't even react as she ended up leaning heavily on him.
And just when she thought it was over, a burst of so many different emotions swept through her, guilt, pain, rage, longing, passion, and remorse to name a few, and it brought tears to her eyes as it struck her all at once.
And then it was over, and they were both breathing heavily as they tried to get their bearings.
Kai let go of Lizzie's hands and moved them to support her as she continued to lean against him.
He lowered himself to his knees, pulling Lizzie down with him, as they were both too exhausted to stand.
Kai shook his head, an effort to get back on track.
They still had to finish.
The powerful magic from the spell, still oozing around them, not yet sated.
"We're not done yet...we have to finish the oath…You okay to finish?" muttered Kai
"Yeah…I just need a minute." breathed Lizzie sounding completely drained, and Kai didn't blame her, he felt the same.
Lizzie rested her head on Uncle Kai's chest as she took a breath, then turned her focus to the pain coming from the deep cuts on her palms, hoping that the pain would give her the strength to finish.
And it did, so she lifted her head away from her uncle and leaned her shoulders away from him, giving him a silent signal that she was ready to continue.
"I go first, then you'll go after." He said and shifted his grip and began his oath, "I swear an oath on the old magic that I shall not attack,or hurt Elizabeth Saltzman with the intent to cause pain and I shall not leave her behind in the event that I find a way to escape the prison world."
Overhead, a flash of light filled the space and the old magic accepted the oath, before dimming as it waited for the second participant to say her piece.
Kai nudged lizzie lightly, and she straightened up the best that she could from her position.
"I swear an oath on the old magic that I shall not attack, or harm Malachai Parker and I shall not leave the prison world without him if I find a way to escape." She swore and another light blazed through the room above them.
And then something peculiar happened.
Instead of the light disappearing, it turned bluish color and seemed to move down towards them.
And when it landed, it encompassed them, sending a feeling of old and powerful magic rushing through them, as if settling the oath into their very magical essence.
Which, to be honest, it probably was.
"Did you know all of that would happen?" asked Lizzie, softly as she came to the realization that she now trusted her uncle.
And Lizzie knew it was because of whatever the magic did when they shared blood.
"No, I've never done it before or seen it done. I just heard about it when I was growing up." He said
"Do you know what happened before? When we shared blood, I saw a bunch of images and felt feelings that aren't mine." Lizzie asked, searching for answers she wasn't sure he had.
"I think you saw my entire life and everything I have ever felt, and vice versa." He suggested, not completely certain.
"But it went too fast for me to even see anything. So what was the point?" Lizzie questioned.
Kai shook his head, "I don't know, we may have not caught everything we saw and felt but it's still all up there.."He pointed to his head, then to her's
"...meaning that we both know everything about each other, but since the human species can't process all that information all at once, it locks it away in your mind, to prevent any damage."
Lizzie's eyes widened in understanding.
And Kai continued, "More than likely one of four things will happen. Either one, we will start having dreams of each other's lives, this would allow us to slowly process the information safely."
Lizzie nodded, taking the info in, "and the second?"
"The second is our minds might keep the memories locked away unless we try to get to them, by doing a remembering spelling or something. The thing about that is if we 'unlock' the memories, it would either end up being option 1 or it could cause damage to our minds from an overload of information."
"How about we don't try to get the memories unlocked if it is option 2, I'm already crazy enough," stated Lizzie, not liking the risk of option 2.
Kai nodded, "Yea...wait what...go back, what did you just say?"
as the last part of Lizzie's sentence caught up to him.
Lizzie froze, as she realized that she had said the last part aloud.
Oops.
Well shit, now she needed to get him to let what she said go.
'Um, nothing...What was option 3?" Lizzie diverted, and her uncle stared her down but Lizzie glared straight back, stubbornly.
Kai's eyes lingered on hers for a bit before he decided to let it go...for now.
And continued on with his explanation.
"Option three is it will 'merge' with our minds and we will gain random bits of information about one another as time goes on. And option 4 is essentially just 1 and 3 together." He finished.
"How until we know which it is?" inquired Lizzie.
"More than likely it's going to take some time for the memories to settle in our minds but more than likely in the next few days." He replied with a shrug, not really sure.
After all this was all just speculation on his part.
"Now that that is finished...What do you say to us moving over to the couches to talk about how you ended up here?" Kai suggested
Lizzie, immediately tensed, which Kai promptly saw.
And he realized that her refusing to tell him earlier wasn't just because it was him.
Instead it was probably because she wasn't ready to talk about it.
So Kai hastily backtracked.
"You don't have to say it now...we can do it later if you want?" He negotiated
But Lizzie shook her head.
"No…you need to know...I was gonna have to talk about it eventually...besides it's better to get it over with." Lizzie said, although the way she dug her fingernails into her cuts on her palms.
Which was probably excruciating, and that in and of itself was enough for him to realize, she really wasn't ready.
"Hey kiddo, stop that…" he reprimanded as peeled her fingers away from the cuts
"I get that it's hard but hurting yourself isn't going to get rid of what happened"
"But it does block it out-" She started
But Kai interrupted
"-but not for that long"
She went silent.
Kai studied her drawn in posture and reached out to grab her biceps and pulled her up to her feet.
"You want to know the truth?" Kai asked softly which caused Lizzie to glance up
She met his piercing, yet sincere gaze, and nodded slightly.
"Whatever happened..whatever you did...will never leave you...I know that better than anyone. Sometimes..you will feel the weight of your guilt crushing you."
Lizzie flinched but Kai didn't let up
"And know, it will be hard...but eventually...you will learn how to handle it. It will be a long and hard road to get to that point...where you no longer see what you did... every time you close your eyes."
Lizzie's eyes were closed now, as a tear slowly slid down her cheek.
Kai was watching her carefully as he finished, "And honestly, one of the best ways to come to terms with what happened is to tell someone or write it down...it won't fix it, I learned that the hard way…but it does start you on a path, where it no longer consumes you"
He stared at his niece with an unreadable expression on his face, Lizzie wasn't looking at him, as she said two simple words that held so much meaning.
"Thank you"
She took a breath and turned back to her uncle with a determined but pained expression, "I'll tell you...everything"
They moved over to the couches.
Lizzie sat on the left side of the sofa.
She pulled her legs up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them.
She knew that this needed to happen, for her and for her uncle, so he knew how she ended up here.
Kai took a seat in the armchair facing the couch and turned toward his niece, taking in the uncertain way she held herself.
Lizzie hesitated for a moment before deciding to get it over with, "I don't know if you know this or not but I'm bipolar"
Kai's eyebrows shot up with surprise.
Because what?
Why was he not aware of this?
It seemed there was another similarity between them, although in a different way.
Kai was about to say something when Lizzie put up her hand to stop him.
"I need to explain this now or I won't ever do it as I don't like explaining my mental illness, so please just try to wait till I'm done explaining...please."
"Go ahead," said Kai as he nodded his head, understanding it was a sensitive topic.
He waved a hand for her to continue.
"I'm bipolar and that makes me unstable" She started again. "And because I'm a witch, it causes some problems. Every so often, I have these episodes where I lose control of any magic I had siphoned, and sometimes I end up hurting people around me"
"So the reason you are here is that you hurt someone during an episode?" asks Kai.
He had a serious look on his face for once, as he went over what he heard in his head.
So it turned out Lizzie might be as unstable as he was.
Minus the sociopathic part, obviously.
Kai really wasn't sure how to respond to this, as he has always been the lone black sheep of his family.
And now it appeared that he may not be as alone as he once thought.
Lizzie shook her head.
she knew that he was thinking that she just lost control and accidentally hurt someone.
But what she did was far worse.
So Lizzie clarifies, "It isn't that simple, typically when I have an episode, I just lose control of any magic I have causing me to destroy everything around me but sometimes if I see someone as a threat to me, I change."
"Change? What do you mean by change? How can you change?" asked Kai tilting his head to the side.
What the hell did she mean by change?
Lizzie took a minute to reply "Typically I start paranoid, and if the person is still a danger, I turn dark...And then I deal with the threat."
She was looking at her knees, tracing a pattern into her jeans with her finger.
"What did you do?" Kai asked gently this time as he realized they were getting to the hard part.
Lizzie looked back up at him and quietly said "I killed the girl you manipulated into destroying the last prison world because I saw her as a threat to my sister and me...But it wasn't just her...Not long after I killed, 4 of her friends came looking for her and they found me…"
Lizzie trailed off, lost in the painful memory.
Slowly, tears fell from her eyes as she remembered the fear that had been written on their faces.
She felt sick as she remembered how she felt pleasure when she killed them.
Kai was watching her silently,
Before he got up to take a seat to the right of his niece, who was so much like him.
Well, except the fact that she had emotions -he did too but his, he'd gained from Luke- and felt actual guilt for hurting or killing others.
Kai rested his right hand between her shoulder blades in silent support.
And Lizzie continued with great difficulty.
"One of the girls.. I…I threw into a tree. It...snap-"
She cut off and took a breath.
"It snapped her neck on impact…I tore the heart out of one of the girls... and stabbed the third girl with a knife...but the 4th girl managed to get away to go find my dad ...and when he arrived... He had a dozen witches with him and he sent me here...with zero hesitation…He didn't even give me a chance..."
Lizzie's voice trailed off and she choked back a sob.
And what she said next causes him to freeze, "He didn't even look surprised...It was like he had always been expecting me to kill someone...I hate him, I hate him so much, I wish he wasn't my dad."
Kai had a blank expression as he took in her words.
He was starting to realize that, maybe the oath did more to him than he had originally thought, as something in him had changed without him even realizing it.
Well fuck.
Next, Kai did something he'd never done before in his life and tried to comfort his niece.
He slowly moved his right arm to wrap around her and followed with his left.
Lizzie was startled but she quickly relaxed and leaned into him.
And the effect was instant, as Lizzie started to sob, letting all her guilt and grief out.
Lizzie turns into him and wraps her arms around his middle, all while pressing her face into her uncle's chest.
Kai rested his chin on her head, and just held her.
Part of him was wondering, what the hell just happened, and the other part started to savor the moment, after being touch starved for so long.
As he sat there, he realized with alarm, that he was becoming attached to his niece.
But found, he really didn't care all that much.
They sat like that for a while, before Lizzie's breathing began to even out and she fell asleep.
Emotionally and physically exhausted.
Kai moved away from her slightly and put his right arm under Lizzie's back and armpits.
Then he put his left arm under her legs and lifted her up as he got to his feet.
Kai, then, shifted her into a more comfortable position, which caused Lizzie's head to fall into the crook of his neck.
He carried her upstairs to her bedroom, used his magic to pull back the covers of the bed and put her in.
He pulled the blankets up over her and stepped back.
Kai watched her sleep for a little bit, finding her breathing pattern relaxing.
As he stood there, he came to the realization that he really couldn't see JoJo in Lizzie, at all.
Looking at Lizzie now, was like looking at a future daughter that would never be possible because of him being a heretic.
And at that moment, in the dim-lit room, Kai made a promise to himself, that he wouldn't let her struggle on her own like he once did.