AFTER THE MERGE, WE WERE MEANING TO LEAVE TO NEW ORLEANS BUT KAI HAD GOTTEN SICK. First, we just had to make amends, well Kai wanted to apologize because of the guilt he felt, and then I was going back to my daughters. However, my brother was sick and I couldn't do anything about it.
At first, he just felt unwell and I preferred staying one more day at the hotel watching movies with him. But the next day he got worse, he was throwing up blood and had fewer. I had tried some healing spells but without real results. On the third day, I went to buy him some medicine but he was way worse on the fourth day making me mad with worry. This had to be merge related, so we found no better option than to ask Josette for help. We went to jo's apartment, while I was helping Kai stand up since he was weakened.
We ring the doorbell and Alaric opens the front door and sees Kai, who doesn't look too good. His face was sweaty and he had bags under his eyes.
"Hey." Alaric tries to shut the door, but I stop him "Wait, wait, wait, wait." Begs my brother "Look. I know you hate me, but I really... really need to see my sister."
"I think she'll pass."
"It's family drama go away Ricky," I tell him irritated. This stupid human would not stop me from seeing my sister, whether he liked it or not.
Alaric tries to shut the door again, but when Jo appears at the door, he leaves it open "What are you two doing here?" Josette asks us perplexed.
"I called to tell you I was sick, and you--you hung up on me," said Kai weakly. His face was really pale and I hated it.
"That's so rude JoJo" I complained rudely because I was getting also sick from worrying about Kai. He could die, and I wouldn't be able to handle it.
Josette brushed my comment not wanting to fight again and told us "Because I have food poisoning. Did the sound of me vomiting on the other end of the line not clue you in?"
"Look. There's an issue I've been worried about since the merge because we really didn't do it right. You know, the whole, "You're not my twin" "Hey. That's okay. Close enough" plan? It worked, which is, you know, cool. Hey, I'm even a little bit nice now in case you were wondering. But I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. And, well, I think it's dropped because I'm--" stopped Kai suddenly not feeling well and asked, "Where's the bathroom?"
Kai starts vomiting blood. I grimace and rub Kai back soothingly "it's going to be okay. I promise Kai"
"Oh, God! Ric!"
Alaric gives Kai something to vomit into "Here."
Alaric and Jo look concerned and Kai tells them making them more anxious "I don't think you have food poisoning. I was supposed to merge my magic with you. But I got Luke's instead. Ohh. Now I'm defective, and I think that's why you're sick. I kind of feel like I'm dying, actually. And if I die, so do you, dad, Liv, and the rest of our dumb coven. So could you please fix me, like, now?"
"Even if it looks like he's asking, I'm not you're going to fix my brother and quickly unless you want to me to cur another one of your organs" I treated her seriously. I was in no mood for games, quite the opposite.
Josette crossed her arms "Menacing me? You never knew how to ask nicely you just took things"
"Mad because I stole your favorite skirt and crush? Well get over it it was 18 years ago" I said harshly but then I begged her, not in the mood for a fight while kai's life was on the line "just fix him..Look I can't lose him, I won't so please Jojo you have to help him"
I don't know what I could do without my brother, sure I had my daughters, Klaus and the Mikealson but Kai was my brother. I had already taught I lost him once and I had barely recovered when he appeared in front of me alive. I would burn this city to the ground if something happened to him.
We went to the hospital where Josette worked so that she would give Kai a check-up. I don't know how she could do something in this stupid hospital because I was sure this was magic-related.
"Any joint pain?" asks Josette as she was examining him.
"Mm-hmm."
"Headaches?"
"Yup." my brother nods his head.
"He had a fever this morning and he has been vomiting blood since yesterday. Oh and since the merge, he been nice and it's annoying, this is an unwanted side effect. I want my real brother back" I inform them lightly jocking with the last part.
But it was true he was way too nice, well he had always been a good level of nice to me but never to others. And it was weird to see. I was afraid people would try to take advantage of him. Like when he wanted Elena and Damon to give his letter to Josette, they wanted us to get their backstabbing friend Bonnie back. Weren't they supposed to be the good guys or something? I thought good guys were supposed to do good things without anything in return... this just confirmed to me that they were playing the good guys while they were like everyone else, selfish and did everything to save their own asses. Because they were no good guys in this world.
"I thought you would be happy, I'm a full supporter of Klauzabeth now and I won't try to kill your little baby-boo again," told me Kai genuinely confused.
"Ew that a horrible ship name" I complain disgusted.
"Well try to make a ship name with Klaus and Elizabeth. It's freaking hard" he exclaimed exasperated "Like Elizabethus big no, Elizabeaus no no no Oh maybe Klauzabeth?" When he saw my grimace he said "okay no mentioning any ship name anymore"
Seing them like this jocking, it reminded Josette of when they were younger before they had both gone full phsycho and attacked their own family. But she knew they never felt included in their family and rightfully so, they were the odd ones out. They would stay in the house when they were going on vacation or weren't involved in any family tradition. But at least they had each other."Are you pregnant?" asked Josette jokingly when Elizabeth and Kai's conversation was over.
"Stop making jokes. I feel like I'm being scrunched from inside out. This is kinda private. Does your baby-boo need to be here?" asked Kai eying Alaric who was in the room.
"I'm not leaving her alone with you, so deal with it," Alaric answered stubbornly.
"I'm here so technically your not leaving them alone," I say knowing it would not reassure him one bit, more annoy him which I loved to do.
"Considering you cut her spleen it doesn't reassure me, quite the contrary"
"Sooo dramatic, that was like two decades ago. Besides she's fine." I said then I pointed a finger go my sister "You can survive without a spleen"
"I spend a month at the hospital, I am scarred for life and I had nightmares for years," said Josette horrified that I acted like it was nothing. I was always making a joke out of everything so she shouldn't be so surprised. If I took everything normally I would be depressed and would have killed myself before I reached 18. This was how I dealt with things.
I knew what I did to her was bad but I was hurting so much that I don't care, well I do a little but I try to not care. Because caring hurts. Besides we were taught about the merge since we were kids and even if they call it absorption, it was still murder. So we were raised to think it was normal to kill our siblings.
"Well a month is like nothing compared to sixteen years isolation, then I can easily make the scar disappear... And well we both have demons, you have nightmares me cutting your spleen I have of dad punishments because I was born different"
"So it makes it okay to kill our own siblings and torture me, because of how dad treated you?" questioned Josette in disbelief. Kai was rolling his eyes knowing where this discussion was going.
"You hurt me I hurt you back simple"
"I didn't do anything to hurt you," told Josette in near tears.
"Sometimes doing nothing is worse"
Josette looked at her an unreadable expression on her face, she didn't know what to respond. Because maybe she had failed them, especially Elizabeth. Maybe she was a bad sister to them. But now it was too late and they had forged their path. Elizabeth turned her face not wanting to continue the conversation. So Josette turned to Kai who was oddly silent, but he always was during an argument between the two sisters. He had paid heavily once when he tried to interfere.
"Okay. Your vitals are fine, your temperature is normal. I'll wait on pathology, but there is nothing medically wrong with you."
"Yeah, duh, because I'm magically diseased. I haven't puked in at least--" said Kai but stopped himself not feeling well. Jo realizes Kai is about to vomit blood "Oh!"
Jo goes to get a trash can for Kai. As he is vomiting, he grabs Jo's arm and absorbs some of her magic.
"Hey, hey!" declared Alaric as he pulls Kai off of Jo.
"Oh. I feel better," said Kai, and he did look better as well. This was a good sign, maybe he was cured or something. Maybe it was only temporary.
"That's good," I tell him.
"Yeah because you juice-boxed my magic." accuses Josette crossing her arms.
"Yeah, sorry about that." responds Kai truthfully" That was an accident, but I-- wow! " he stands up excited "I legitimately feel better. You need to give me your magic."
"What?" asks Jo stunned.
"This faux merge is clearly failing because I was supposed to get your magic, right?" Kai gets up toward Jo, but Alaric stands in front of him " Just-- I don't know-- put it in a teddy bear or a bedpan and gimmie. " he reaches out his hand.
Alaric grabs Kai's hand "Listen. I could just as easily break seven little bones with one good squeeze, okay?"
"Yeah and I could break your neck with a flick of my hand," I tell him showing off my hand.
Kai smiled proudly that I defend him."I can see you're skeptical, Ric. Can I call you Ric?"
"I call him Ricky, I'm sure he didn't mind Ric," I say smirking when I see his irritated expression.
"Hey, buddy, but here's the thing you need to know is that Jo only survives if I do, okay? And if that's not enough for you, the power that binds the prison worlds comes from the leader of the Gemini coven. If I die, the worlds collapse, alright? I see a vacancy. Would you like me to start over with single syllables?"
"Did you say prison worlds, as in more than one?" Alaric asks.
"Has no one ever mentioned that?" asks my brother knowing well, it was never mentioned. Besides this little group knew nothing about nothing, it was surprising they survived so long.
"Did you really thought we were the only one punished by our lovely coven?"
When Josette comes back into the examination room, she looks mad as hell.
"Oh finally about to use that bed hands more practical reason," says my brother. Before I could say anything Josette mutters "Motus" making us fall against the wall.
"Crap what got your panties in a twist" I mumble irritated as she inflicts an aneurysm spell on us. We both grab our temples in pain from the spell.
"I called dad, guess who's not sick him, Liv and I'm feeling pretty good right now - which leads me to believe I'm not gonna die anytime soon so what's your game tell me! Both of you tell me right now!" she orders.
Kai inflicts her an aneurysm spell as well, freeing us from her spell "I don't have this much is my suffering might bring you pleasure" he stops and continues talking "or whatever this is not the way to handle this situation"
"It's all just a ploy for you to get more magic" accuses Josette furiously.
"If he wants magic he can get it from me, your accusations are preposterous...Crap I'm talking like Nik" I finish with wide eyes.
Kai shakes his head "It's the ploy for us all to stay alive actually friend sorry if that seems selfish"
Josette points an accusing finger and screams franticly "I don't believe you because you're a liar and you are the worst kind of liar because your life sounds so much like the truth isn't possible for me to tell the difference" she finishes near tears.
"You're right, we are liars" I admit "We lie, we deceive, we play games, we hurt and we kill..."
"We are the black sheep you know." continues Kai furious as well. I knew his temper, he was holding himself back but all he wanted to do was to kill Josette "I'm the defective twin that nobody wanted, and" he points a finger to me "Elizabeth is a failure to replace us with a perfect set of twins. It must feel real nice for you to stand in here judging us surrounded by all the things that you got out of life while we spend years in isolation as the family rejects" he approaches Josette very close, his fingers almost touching her face "let me tell you... EVERY inch of me wants to kill you for that... EVERY part." then he calms down a little and admits defeated "the only way that I can survive is if you help I'd like to live frankly" he laughs dryly "because I didn't get to do a whole lot of that before everyone decided that I wasn't worth it. That we both weren't worth it"
After a moment of silence Josette says "I'll give it to you but under one condition you take it to get out of my life I never want you anywhere near me ever again"
"Great we planning on going back to New Orleans anyway," I say enthusiastic about this plan, I had enough of this awful city. It was fun to torture a little of people here, but I was missing Klaus's body next to me and my daughters. It's been almost a month since we were here, and it was way too long away from them.
"I'm not finished" warns Josette.
"Shocker" breathes out Kai.
"If you break your promise I'll kill you I'll take myself and our entire coven down with you because I don't want to live another minute afraid of my own brother and little sister"
"got it, got it"
"Damn that's some spirit Josette, always knew you have some sort of fire in you," I tell, and surprisingly Josette smiles proud of herself after my compliment.
"Let's do this," said Josette convinced. She would truly be free of our crazy coven, honestly, it was a win-win for her.
Kai smiled "Ahh. I, our coven and the prison worlds thank you."
"Thanks, Jojo"
"What exactly is this other prison world?" asks Alaric curiously, frowning his eyebrows.
"A place filled with crappy people like me, I'm sure." says Kai then he turns to Josette " Congrats. You're saving their miserable lives from Oblivion." he pinched Jo's cheeks "Oh, don't look so stressed." but Jo shakes him off" You never liked being a witch anyway."
"Shut up." Jo places her hands on Kai's cheeks" Oribos turai mana situs. Orbiem. Oribos turai" Josette chants making the wind blow around us, some papers are floating and I manage to grab a knife which was floating towards Alaric direction before it could kill him. Or maybe just give him a badass scar on the cheek but who cares right? He watches the action with wide eyes.
"It's done," says Josette, and everything that was floating falls on the ground.
"Ahh. Thank you. And congratulations."Jo looks confused so Kai whispers into her ear. I smile knowing already what he was talking about, since I was the one to inform him "Have a good life, Sissie"
Kai starts to leave but I stop him and say "Wait before we leave I wanted to talk to JoJo" then I sand a look towards Alaric "alone".
He shakes his head "No way"
I roll my eyes and put my hands up in surrender " Calm down I already ate someone today, I'm not angry and I have literally no real reason to attack her. Chill dude"
"Just like you had no reason to cut her spleen"
"Oh my God, is he always so dramatic?" I aks Josette.
"Your the one to talk" begins Kai surprising Alaric and Josette " your boy toy is so dramatic he still not over the time I pretended I wanted to kill him."
I nod at Kai "Yeah he is hella dramatic.. like a drama queen. One time I siphoned him and I think I stabbed him... No, the stabbing was another time. Anyway he was like oh I'm going to kill her she is bloody insane but he couldn't since I was preggers he gave me the evil eye for like a week... But I like that about him... it's never boring" I finish with a dreamish smile.
"You are so whipped" taunted, Kai like a child " my sissie is in love..."
"Oh shut up," I said after I punched his chest. I then turn to look at Josette "So?"
Josette turns to Alaric and nods at him telling him she was going to be okay with me. Alaric leaves the room not before sending me a warning look, and kai follows him as well.
Josette crosses her arms " So what do you want? Because we're not the same size anymore so they not point in stealing my clothes"
"I... Wanted to apologize I guess" I said unsure not knowing where to start.
Josette laughs "Apologize? You repeated many times that you did not feel guilty for gutting me and taking my spleen or destroying our family"
"Our family was always broken in the beginning. Look...I felt a little guilty but I try not to anymore because all that guilt is freaking annoying... I just wanted to admit that I might have overreacted when I hurt you." I laugh humorlessly "I guess it's true the abused becomes the abuser... Besides I was kinda jealous..." I admit.
"I never cared that you were siphoners, I even gave you my magic sometimes... I tried everything so you wouldn't feel jealous. I covered for you multiple times, I took care of you when mom didn't care even when you were horrible to me" answered Josette.
"Yeah, but in the end, you were still dad's favorite, his perfect daughter. Besides, it was either loving you or Kai because I knew one day I would lose one of you, and if I had to choose it would be Kai... And dad stopped paying for my college because yours was too expensive..."
"No, you dropped out"
"Well, dad was always a liar...Anyway I know there is no forgiveness or anything and I don't want it anyway, I just wanted to tell you what I feel. I never want to go back to this awful city or see any members or our crazy coven, so don't worry JoJo we are never seeing each other again.."
I go to her and hug her and surprisingly she hugs me back "Just protect them from dad okay" I tell her.
"What do you mean?" she asks me with wide eyes, a hand instinctively on her stomach.
"Who do you think told Kai you were pregnant?... Another set of twins, I guess we're both unlucky with all the curse with twins in our family. Two little siphoners" I tell her making her test widen in shock.
"How... How do you know?"
I smile at her "I just do...I guess you've been luckier than me." I laugh "kinda ironic daddy's perfect daughter is having two abominations... Oh, he's going to hate this, better hide them from him or kill him your choice...Anyways you can send the kiddos to New Orleans on the weekend when they need to learn about siphoning...I'm an awesome teacher!"
And with that, we finally left for New Orleans, and I was never playing on coming back in this annoying city.