December 16th
"hey Sarah did you tamper with the coffin" asks Candace (firefighter) as they pull up to Mitchie's house
"and why would I do that" asks Sarah
"because it's deteriorating and I heard giggling coming from the back seat" says Candace as Sarah's jaw drops
"no way….." exclaims Sarah
"are you mocking me" asks Candace
"no, I'm a paranormal type, let's just say the last time this happened humans drove stakes through a man's palm and hung him on a cross" says Sarah
"wait so Gabriella is alive, did you do something, is this what you predicted would happen" asks Candace
"hey I've predicted many things in the past three years, this wasn't one of them, believe me the odds were one in seven billion that this could happen but Joselyn and Gabriella are much like that cross man all that time ago, they're blessed by God and are part of his family in heaven, their reason for being here on earth is to heal those of us like me and my sister's trauma from that cult in Italy that called itself the holy lands love, it was pure evil" says Sarah
"ok so he was sent to cleanse humans of their sins, doesn't that kinda make Gabriella and Joslyn the exact same, I read up on what that cult did, I'm sure God would consider everything girls were forced to do a sin" asks Candace as the coffin collapses
"more or less Candace however their role is trauma cleansing not sin but they can cleanse sin as well, remind me again how she was when you found her" asks Sarah
"untouched by fire, which I found extremely odd as she was found in the center of the biggest and hottest part of the fire, it was determined that the item she held started the fire but that it wasn't intentional, the police chief wanted to charge her with arson" says Candace
"he wanted to charge a dead girl with arson, how on earth did he expect to get the money exactly" asks Sarah
"let's just say he was charged with discrimination and other stuff and is no longer on the force but in jail, the family later reimbursed me for her beautiful funeral, wait how are we going to get her out of the car if the coffin is dust" says Candace
"you brought the blanket that was supposed to be on the coffin, wrap her up, if she is alive she will play dead" says Sarah as giggles fill the car
With Josie
"why is she wrapped in a blanket, what happened to the coffin" asks Tori
"dust to dust, it disintegrated the moment we pulled in the laneway, also Candace said she heard giggling" says Sarah
"gimme my sister, she alive, couch NOW" says Josie as Sarah complies and Josie unwraps Gabriella
"she's cold Josie" says Cat instinctually as Gabriella smiles
"you love me….." cries Gabriella
"of course I do, you know in a cuddly cuddly way, I thought they'd deny my wish" cries Josie as she hugs her sister
"mom and dad made your case to father, he agreed to let me come back only on the condition that we don't get touchy, he allowed a holy relationship we just can't be touchy, kissy is ok though I guess" says Gabriella
"how often does God allow this" asks Tess
"never, the only reason he allowed me to come back is because Joselyn can't heal people all by herself, he weighed the suffering of all those traumatized by that cult over allowing a relationship, that cult stole children and had them raped to 'purify' them, he can't let that stand, if I stray too far or cross a line he can take me away from her" says Gabriella
"what if she crosses a line" asks Cat
"I only get punished if I start it, cuddles include touchy cuddles, her hands are allowed to wander, Catarina you are the advisor, Tess is holy momma, like what the holy son had" says Gabriella
"I understand why Cat is relationship advisor but what makes me qualify for that status" asks Tess as Josie nuzzles her sister
"your struggles, Josie was supposed to die on Christmas eve because her and I failed to stay together in life, you changed her fate, you left a job that would have seen you run that company in a few years Tesslin, you left for love, mom and dad saw that, then you took Josie in, that kind of selflessness isn't taken lightly and is rewarded accordingly" says Gabriella nuzzling Josie back
"what are the limits or lines I have to enforce" asks Cat
"she absolutely cannot get adulty with me till she turns sixteen at the earliest, technically she is only a few months younger than me now, short kisses only, no long kisses" says Gabriella
"what about sleeping arrangements" asks Tess
"if she sleeps naked like she used to then we have to have a pillow between us and at no point till she's sixteen can she touch me in between my legs and I can't touch her there either, she can touch me anywhere else unless I don't want her to at any point in time" says Gabriella
"ok and we're really having trouble believing that you are actually alive, did you actually die or how did that happen" says Cat
"believe me I'm having trouble with it too, no I didn't technically die, I almost did, father froze my body so it didn't decompose, I literally haven't aged biologically, mom and dad were not supposed to follow me, I'd killed six kids my age and over a dozen pets because I couldn't see straight and wired the power in backwards, I'd also seen the anger in Josie's eyes and knew I had to face trial in heaven, had I not been buried it would have been a week then I'd have returned, but I was buried and once that happens you can't just return to your body like that because you'd run out of air, I either had to destroy my body and my tether to this place and be born again or tell my story and be brought to Josie where I could live again, our first healing is of a cult survivor named Maria Hanson" says Gabriella
"oh to get rid of her tremors right" asks Andrea
"no, the trauma made them worse but they didn't cause it, it's genetic and killed both her parents, the tremors are as bad as they are because she's self-conscious and feels she doesn't have the right to have kids because she will give them her 'disease', our job is to manipulate her genes to stop it from being transferred to any kids she may have, seven generations sabotaged because the American government treated her seven times Japanese great grandmother as a terrorist, they treated her diabetes foot and yeast infection with poison who then died four years later giving birth to her daughter, each generation had worse and worse tremors, god can't let that evil stand, not after surviving daily rape by her 'master' for four years and getting a dream job" says Gabriella as Josie plays with her hair
"ya she's had it pretty rough, my mom is her aunt she's now a model and making a ton of money modelling dresses, Andrea said she's never seen her happier, best of all she gets to keep the dresses" says Tori
"can Josie and I spend some time alone" asks Gabriella
"yes your guy's room is up the stairs to the right, if you can't do stairs yet the elevator is next to the kitchen, Josie knows the room" says Caitlyn
"oh guys just an FYI that room has camera's so no funny business" says Cat as Jade brings over with a wheelchair and sets Gabriella in it
"now go be sibly" says Jade as Josie wheels Gabriella to the elevator
"Cat every room has cameras for security reasons" says Mitchie
"shoot….. uhhh don't look at the bathroom footage from last night then" says Cat embarrassed
"why do I feel like I have to go sanitize the bathroom twice now" questions Mitchie
"don't worry we already did after, anyway I don't know how they are going to be together morally, especially at their age" asks Cat changing the subject
"right because someone is totally going to tell the press Josie is dating her dead sister, Cat, as far as legality is concerned Gabriella is still legally dead, her survival is on a need to know basis, as for morality how do you handle being in a relationship that clearly involves your twin sister to a serious degree, explain how their situation is any different" says Tori annoyed
"I'm jumping to conclusions again aren't I" asks Cat
"I mean had Gabriella not been legally declared dead and buried for two and a half years yes your concerns would be valid, however that's not the situation we're in, besides I did some snooping about how she was declared dead, I told the hospital I could not find a pulse, I never told them I believed she'd died, I'm not trained in that kind of medical detection, my first priority is to get anyone I find out of the flaming building and leave the official life saving to the paramedics, the hospital didn't even attempt to bring her back guys, if what Gabriella says is true about being put in what most would call stasis then she could have been brought back so easily, they declared her dead the moment I was out of the room, they didn't even check her temperature" says Candace
With Josie and Gabriella
"this doesn't feel wrong to you does it" asks Gabriella
"what that you fit my pj's or us cuddling, look sis, I've learned from Cat that it's possible to love your sister, I mean she is in a relationship with Tori, Jade and her own twin sister, the line is what needs to be established, what do you think of the pj's" says Josie
"I love them, they're so soft, they're not at all tight in the wrong places" says Gabriella
"yeah Cat is an amazing seamstress, she made these with room to grow for me, she doesn't yet have enough money to buy everyone gifts this Christmas so she's making us pajamas and stuff, because I'm still growing she made my clothes easy to alter so she can make the chest area bigger and stuff, wait so can we like kiss, is that not crossing a line and he could take you away again" says Josie
"you know mom hated people kissing her on the cheek, we grew up with normalized lip kissing so for us it would just be a normal family kiss, father made it very clear to follow how we were raised, we can kiss but making out is a no no for now, in a few years we will have new rules given to us by Sarah, based on age, right now we can't be sexy together as it's not age appropriate" says Gabriella
"I can still look right… wait can the world even know you survived" asks Josie
"sis we could cuddle and sleep naked for all he cares, as long as anything relationship wise comes from you not me, he can't do anything as he made the deal with me not you, on that last part I don't actually know, I never asked, I was too excited to be granted love with you to think about that" says Gabriella
"so what kind of things can we do that won't make me lose you" asks Josie
"we could have pillow fights and anything we used to do, the rule was no touchy, we can look but can't touch, between our legs is off limits but the rest of our bodies are free game for being handsy" says Gabriella
"what about the kid law things, can we get away with this, I really don't want to lose you" asks Josie
"Josie girl, first off I legally died two and a half years ago, do you really think anyone would actually believe I survived underground in a coffin for that time with no oxygen Josie, the only people who know the truth are in that living room, also another thing my DNA was altered by the fire so if anyone tried to identify me as your sister the DNA test would say no" says Gabriella
"wait that can happen" asks Josie
"considering mom and dad's bodies couldn't be found in the aftermath of the building ya it could, please tell me Shane took you in" says Gabriella
"couldn't you see what happened to me after, I was kidnapped and raped then left for dead when I fought back" says Josie
"no I couldn't see that, I was too busy being yelled at for supposedly knowingly killing father's creatures" says Gabriella
"it wasn't your fault though, didn't he know that" asks Josie
"no, he only sees the bigger picture, as he sees it he and brother are family to me, he didn't care that he didn't stop mom and dad from running after me and passing away, leaving you without parents, in fact he blamed you for being stupid and not following me, I yelled at him to look down here and see the carnage and tell me to my face that I WANTED that to happen, I yelled at him for what felt like months, it ended with 'if we are actually family DAD, explain to me how I could possibly have wanted that to happen', I spent the next earth year down under with uncle, who to be honest was a lot more understanding, you know he's only down there because he called dad out on his crap, spending his entire ethereal existence creating the most beautiful creatures only to let humans kill his creatures off and won't do anything about it" says Gabriella as lightning strikes the road
"wait Lucif is our uncle" asks Josie
"yeah…. Anyway can we just cuddle, I'm tired" says Gabriella as she starts to fall asleep
"please" says Josie cuddling Gabriella
30 minutes later as Tess walks in
"do I need to check the cameras Josie" asks Tess
"we just talked mom, when she said she had to face trial in heaven she was serious, father wasn't happy with her" says Josie
"ok just so I know I understand father is what we'd refer to as God, do I have that right" asks Tess
"yes" says Josie
"you're clearly not the son, does that make you guys the holy spirit" asks Tess
"no, Gabriella and I are the phantom sister, we aren't worshipped, nobody knows who we are till they pass away, it is our job to console the spirits and bring them to heaven where they watch their life record, a life record is like a movie of a persons life except they get to see where their exit points were, cancer can be an exit point, asthma can be an exit point if its bad enough" says Josie
"but if you and Gabriella are here who's taking care of those who have passed" asks Tess
"there are seven phantom sisters, Gabriella and I are but one" says Josie
"ok but like how can two people be born of one angel" asks Tess
"phantom sisters are two faced, an aggressive or evil side and a calm happy side, the aggressive side plays on the fears of the recently departed and the calm happy side quells those fears, it's part of the healing process, Gabriella and I have never been on the receiving end before, it's actually quite scary" says Josie
"you seem to know a lot more than you normally seem to, your speech is better, who was who in heaven" says Tess
"I was the evil, Gabriella was the calm, when an incarnated Phantom sister is separated from her other half the mind isn't as efficient, it wanders drastically, it inhibits speech" says Josie giving Gabriella a kiss on the nose
"you're saying all phantom sisters incarnate together" asks Tess
"normally as inseparable friends, never as sisters, our task required that we incarnate as sisters though, we needed the sibling bond to complete our task, all phantom sisters fall in love, it's a necessity for healing to be possible, it's as close as we can get to our true self" says Josie
"so this was always going to happen, the two of you" asks Tess
"it wasn't suppose to happen till I hit fifteen years old at the earliest mom, our parents knew, that's why they went after Gabriella even though they knew they wouldn't make it, they had a plan to allow us to legally be together, Gabriella and I don't look alike, even less so now, I think the plan was that Gabriella would be labeled as the adopted sister, I'm going to spend tomorrow alone with her, doing age appropriate stuff, I don't want any interruptions, please mommy" says Josie
"ok but you haven't eaten in two days, how about this, we adults leave you guys alone and only interrupt you when it's meal time" says Tess as Josie nods and slowly falls asleep