As the days went by, Diana's condition slowly worsened, which was very strange for the 39-year-old woman who was suddenly bedridden, even more so because doctors and even witch doctors visited Diana and they couldn't find what it was, even telling Louise and Meredith that the girl had nothing, which was a lie, since Cavendish was very ill. Adeleine became suspicious not of her mother's situation, but of the inefficiency of all the people who came to examine her mother. Because of this she even decided to leave hidden cameras to check everything in a more accurate way, buying some rolls of film and leaving those lenses very well hidden.
Marie and Amelia were somewhat sympathetic to the idea that their mother was only pretending to be in this state to gain attention, since she was still with "bloody Louise," so much so that the two of them kept calling their redheaded mother by name only, This influence even came from Olivia who secretly taught them about these things, but it was only Margaret in disguise, which for the two girls was already another person for whom Ford disguised herself, but nobody noticed that, the two Cavendish knew how to act very well and hide that behavior. Little Isabella was just a baby since she was only 2 years old.
August 4, 1936, it was a night like any other at the Cavendish family mansion, with the big difference that Diana was very ill and she even had to sleep alone in a secluded room of the mansion so that she wouldn't pass on any illness to the other girls in the family, that night someone appeared and it was a silhouette facing the Scottish girl who suddenly woke up sleepily thinking it was still a nightmare to see none other than Margaret Ford.
- What... Do... Here?
Diana says in a weak voice.
- I'm just here to make you think Diana, you only have one week... Leave your family and come with me, I have the antidote for your illness... Please ... Come with me Diana, or you can go from this to another in a week.
Says Margaret, holding out her hand to Diana.
- Which leads me to believe... That I can... Abandon my family for a love... A love that's only beneficial to your... side...
Says Diana coughing.
- Then let Diana die... I'm giving you the chance of a lifetime... The chance to be happy, to make me happy, but it seems you don't want it, so I'm leaving here... But know this... I was here all the time... You didn't realize it, but I was right under your nose, I will continue... We have a family to live with I don't want to be forced to take drastic measures... Goodbye Diana Cavendish... I'll come back to give you this chance again Remember I have the antidote.
Says Margareth going out the window as some of Margareth's tears come out of that room.
- (It looks like we are getting to the last part of this plan... I don't believe it... Diana is still too dumb... She still wants to stay with this completely destroyed family... I destroyed the whole Cavendish family for nothing practically... She still has faith in those two brats... They have become so annoying that I honestly don't know how I could stand being Nancy to them. But now I just need to go visit someone before I come back here disguised as Olivia for the time being).
Margaret with her broom leaves for London, where she spends the night in the house where she leaves her daughter Harley in the care of the maid Pauline, at that moment she had still arrived at night and with that no one noticed that Ford was there, only when the next day dawned, so that morning of August 5, 1936 arrived, the brunette went to the kitchen and soon her daughter comes across that familiar face.
- (Her again here? What is this woman doing at home? What have I done to deserve her visit? What does my mother want with me now? She has left me there all my life I have only seen this woman once in my life and she was terrifying, I am seeing her again and she won't stop looking at me...)
- Harley... It's me your mother... Come give me a hug.
Margaret says, stretching out her arms until Harley goes to her.
- I know who you are.
Harley says coldly until Margaret breaks away from the embrace.
- My child... The time to meet your other mother is soon to come... I have never revealed this, but you are a fruit of the fertility stone, you have become my daughter with the great love of my life... You are the fruit of this love between two women who loved each other very much, but unfortunately this woman... She left me for another for all these years... I had to do you in secret... while your mother was married to another woman... I'm sorry I didn't show up when you were younger. It's just that it's very hard to take care of a child. I had to make sure my plan worked, you see. I did it all for our family Harley. I'm sure we'll get through this and be a happy family with your other mother.
Says Margaret with her hand on Harley's shoulder, who looked confused.
- Oh how nice... Margareth, you are finally giving some trace of caring for the daughter you barely see. I'm already 12 years old, Mom, I've already learned a lot in this world, do you know what it's like to hear everyone around you offending me because I don't have a mother, because I'm the daughter of a maid? At least Pauline is more of a mother than you are, so I don't even bother. At least someone cares about me... Unlike those who put me in this world just to what, use me as a way to force someone who was never yours to stay...
Harley says until Margaret slaps her across the face.
- Don't say that again, girl! I will not waste my time arguing with my daughter! Farewell! And I hope you'll take me in with your mother! I will not allow you to be so shameless with me!
Says Margareth picking up her broom.
Margaret flies back to the Cavendish family mansion, disguising herself as Olivia, so far everything was normal, Louise spent all day practically in her wife's room, just waiting for her to get better and Adeleine was stuck in her room, still very depressed about what happened. But that was just what they thought about the girl, who was in her room watching some of the footage she had gathered that week.
- (No strange behavior these days... Very strange indeed... Just normal days as expected... But I still find it very strange all this... I am sure that what happened to mom was a poisoning and not a simple illness, I am sure it involves someone).
Adeleine continued to analyze that footage until someone appeared, it was Margaret, but the camera had only caught her from the back, it was a very long brown hair and also a little of the face being seen from the back, it was enough for Du Nord to assimilate some characteristics for a possible portrait, but she still had a huge problem with that footage, besides being in black and white and the room being a little dark, there was still no way to record the voices.
- (Shit! I need to get a tape recorder! I can't leave it like this! I'm sure they said something that was important... And I don't want to invade my mother's head... This is against privacy and against the codes of a WCI agent).
Adeleine began to delicately analyze every minute of that filming on the projector, even using some tools to brighten the scenery and look more closely at the girl's face, getting an idea that it was a wavy brown hair and very similar even to the maid Olivia, but some features were different, it seemed that this woman was younger and that the hair was more flowing, the color was a big mystery too. But she could get the idea of a face from the little she saw of the girl's profile, the shape of the eyes and nose that were very similar to the maid's, coming up with a portrait.
- (This woman can only be Olivia, but I still have my doubts, she is too young to be the maid here at home, besides Olivia has freckles and some spots on her face, this woman has a totally clean face, well I will check with my mother Louise, she must know something).
Adeleine comes out of her room and from there she takes a look at the maid Olivia and then at the drawing she made of the portrait, the appearances matched a little, but the maid's hair was gray and even a camera that didn't film colors could capture well that lack of color in the vivid and very dark hair of the person in the portrait, until she arrived at her mother Diana's room and found the two mothers facing each other, Louise holding her wife's hand but wearing gloves because Diana didn't want to see her sick wife.
- Love... You have no idea how much I miss kissing your lips Every day it seems you get worse
Says Louise as Adeleine held back her crying.
- Mother Louise... Mama Diana... I need to talk to Mama Louise for a while Mama Diana... Do you mind if I borrow Mama?
Adeleine says, trying to be casual.
- Of course not my darling... You can go my love... I won't die if I leave for five mi... minutes.
Says Diana coughing.
Louise gets up, takes off her gloves, washes her hands and sends a kiss from afar to her wife, who sees everything from afar behind those transparent sheets that were around all sides of the bed, from there Adeleine takes her mother into the bedroom and shows her some excerpts, from the filming she did the day before and also shows a face to Du Nord who recognizes it a little and even gets a little scared.
- I'm suspecting it's Nancy disguised as Olivia all these years, she wants to get back at Diana, or something like that.
Adeleine says.
- It wouldn't be Nancy because she was a redhead my child, just look at us or Elisabeth and her daughter Emma when they came here, their hair tone is lighter in the footage... And this girl who appeared has black hair, not only because of the darkness of the night, but even in the dark a light-toned hair like the one Nancy had would appear still a little gray.
Says Louise with her hand on her chin.
- So why this shock, Mom.
Says Adeleine confused.
- Because there is someone who has hair exactly like that and in the portrait it looks very much like someone from my past with Diana... This girl is Margaret... What is she doing here in our house at night? That's what shocks me... This girl was obsessed with her mother Diana... I'm really afraid of what she said.
Says Louise.
- Oh, you've already told me about her... So much so that this Margaret is living alone and away from you... So why would she have a reason to come here? She wasn't getting over the fact that you are happy together. Didn't she even have a daughter? And that her residence has turned into a real indecency.
Adeleine says.
- Because she didn't get over Diana, maybe she heard that she was in bad shape and came to visit, but we don't know what they were arguing about... We can even ask Diana what happened.
Says Louise as Adeleine nodded her head in agreement.
The two from there go down the hallways to Diana's room, but when they get there in the hallways, they run into Olivia walking by, she had stopped by Cavendish's room, but at the same time they thought it was no big deal, just coming into the room and going up to the bedridden Cavendish, while the disguised maid gave a mischievous smile that no one had noticed.
- (I hope they haven't seen her before, because I've erased Diana's memory regarding yesterday's dream, so she won't be able to comment to Louise about what happened... It will be perfect for me... My cover can't fall off yet).
The two girls arrive at Cavendish's room and find her quite groggy due to a medication she had taken and she was looking at Louise and Adeleine who were confused, they waited a bit for the effect to wear off and soon the bedridden Cavendish regains consciousness, looking at the two girls a bit embarrassed.
- Was I groggy again?
Diana says with embarrassment.
- Relax honey, I'm sure it was because you were in a lot of pain and needed to relax, but now I imagine you are much better, but we came to find out what happened last night.
Says Louise.
- I don't remember, I think I was asleep.
Diana says confused.
- Mom, you recognize this face.
Says Adeleine showing the portrait.
- Hmm... That's... Is Margaret... Ford... Why did you make a... Portrait of her?
Says Diana coughing.
Adeleine soon begins to explain in detail piece by piece, of what had even happened, but Diana could not remember anything, which led to the belief between Louise and Adeleine that Margaret ended up erasing Cavendish's memory a little after they had talked, so much so that they become hopeless, that is until Louise remembers a conversation she had with Diana earlier.
- Yes, I just remembered! I talked to Diana earlier about dreams, she told me one that was very real.
Says Louise.
- And how was she a mother?
Adeleine says.
- She told me she couldn't remember very well, but it was with Margaret showing up here... That can only be what they talked about... So my feeling is real... She is really not over Diana and wants her at all costs.
Says Louise who was excited, but then changes to a worried expression.
- What's wrong, Mom?
Says Adeleine worriedly.
- Well this Margaret is something serious, Diana told me that in the "dream" she was going to die within a week, that she was supposed to run away with Diana or she would die, abandon her family, because she would have a family by Diana's side... We have to be careful, Diana my love... I am going out with Adeleine for the time being we have to settle a few things regarding her integrity.
Says Louise.
Adeleine even gets a little shocked, so she quickly goes with Louise where she was just focusing on going to only one place, which was the WCI agency and from there they arrived and were already approached by one of the people at the door wanting to bar their passage, others who only recognized the French woman's face.
- Adeleine Du Nord? What are you doing here? We are still on summer vacation.
Says one of the attendants.
- We have a serious problem, a crime that may happen involving a witch, and we need your help.
Says Louise.
- From the concern I imagine it is something serious, but what would it be? Something involving your fortune as a runner Louise? Or something involving a divorce, sort of we're only here for a serious case, a case of murder or fraud?
Says the attendant.
- It is an assassination attempt!
Says Louise in despair.
The attendant gets a little quiet, but soon decides to call one of the detectives who are responsible for investigating cases like this, it was Adeleine's teacher, Helga Morris, Diana's distant cousin. The girls are even a little surprised at the woman's appearance because she is someone who resembles the former maid, so they go to the interrogation room. Where they both explain the whole situation to the detective who starts to write down every single thing they said, even more reports from Louise Du Nord about Margaret's past. After they report everything, the detective looks at the two of them seriously and notices a look of suspicion on their faces.
- What is it that you are staring at my person so intently?
Helga says.
- We are just having doubts about a relative of a person who worked for us... Her name was Nancy. Do you happen to have a Nancy in your family?
Says Louise.
- Nancy Morris died 40 years ago, so yes we are related to her because she was my great-grandmother, but why this question?
Helga says.
- I knew it! I knew it was Margaret in disguise back then, she was Nancy, but why would she want to influence my daughters to turn against me?
Says Louise.
- To destroy her family and just like you said, she wanted to run away with her wife. Right? And he also wanted to start a family with her. So I come to the conclusion that it was all an elaborate plan of this Margaret, but you need to collect more evidence, if you want I can help, I can collect evidence secretly during this time, involving the suspect, without raising anything, but it will have its price.
Says Helga holding out her hand.
- How many pounds?
Says Louise.
- Assuming that I am taking a risk here, plus the fact that this Margaret Ford is possibly a witch who is under suspicion of murdering her own father and having set it up to look like a suicide, and that the case was closed years ago, plus the case of sexual abuse against schoolgirls in Luna Nova, leads me to believe that this witch is extremely dangerous and I can take my life in this, I charge 100 pounds for this case, I don't want to end up dying for such a dangerous case. This name Margaret Ford is very familiar to us, this witch has been a danger since she was very young.
Says Helga writing in her pen until Louise squeezes her hand.
- Do whatever it takes! Don't let my Diana die!
Says Louise.
After that handshake they go back to the Cavendish family residence, where from there they find the detective in the office just waiting for the payment and already starting to investigate there, the whole case so that she can find some way to catch Margaret Ford and arrest the girl.
See you, dangerous witches...
Full name: Adeleine Du Nord Cavendish
Date of birth: 05/03/1918
Place of Birth: Vancouver, Canada, United Kingdom (French, Scottish)
Height: 1,68m
Weight: 61 kg
Measurements (bust/waist/hip): 87/58/90
Hair color and appearance: Reddish red, long, reaching the hip line, wavy.
Eye color and appearance: aqua blue, western
Physical appearance: pale Caucasian skin, slim build, rectangular nose, medium breasts
Adeleine is the eldest daughter of Diana and Louise, made during the times of the first world war, the girl was conceived outside of Europe for fear of her mothers in case things got worse. Adeleine was a child prodigy, extremely intelligent, she always had an interest in reading books and would stay all the time in the home library, so much so that she would finish each book in a very short time, because of this thirst for knowledge, she also had a very good memory which also helped very well. This even made her isolate herself a little since she always had the focus and priority on becoming a more and more intelligent person, since Diana and Louise always felt very proud of their wife for being a more intelligent person. Having a very high IQ of 172 which became a very big mark with the girl who was known for being the smartest in the family, besides her intelligence she was also very humble and kind, always treated the family very well and was very obedient, unlike her younger sisters who were very complicated girls.