Alyssa steadied herself on her feet as she had been quickly placed on the ground once more, she instantly noticed she was in an abandoned alleyway before looking up to see who took her here. She automatically relaxed when she realised it was just Lily.
"Thank you."
Lily ignored her thanks and crossed her arms. "What were you doing?"
"I was – "
"You know what." Lily cuts her off. "It doesn't matter, what matters is that you went where you were not supposed to."
Alyssa could not help but frown at the older vampire. "How was I supposed to know that market was off-limits? You and Marcel never told me!"
"Well you do now and more importantly you broke Marcel's rule about magic!" Lily snaps at the child.
Alyssa flinches slightly, as she had never the other vampire yell at her before and she did not like it, she looked up at Lily apologetically. "I know… I really am sorry."
"I'm not the one you need to apologise to." Lily sighs and sticks her hand out for Alyssa to take. "Now come on, time to go back."
Alyssa sighs and takes the redhead's hand and allows her to lead her back to Marcel's home. "Do you think that Marcel knows what I have done?"
Lily takes a moment before answering her question. "I honestly don't know and in the case, he doesn't, you cannot breathe a word of what happened this afternoon, got it?"
"Got it."
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"It is good to see you!" Marcel beams as he pours Klaus and himself a drink.
"It's good to be home. Although please tell me the current state of bourbon street is not your doing"
Marcel just laughs at his comment "Somethings got to draw in the out of towners otherwise we'd all go hungry."
"I see your friends are day walkers."
"Yeah, I shared the secret of your daylight ring with a few buddies but don't worry it's just the inner circle. Family" Marcel explains before sipping his drink.
"Tell me… How did you find a witch willing to make daylight rings?"
"I got the witches here wrapped around my finger."
Klaus laughs at his explanation. "Is that so? I'm looking for a witch by the name of Jane-Anne Devero. Has some business with me"
"Looking for Jane-Anne? Then you probably ought to come with me."
They both left the room when Diego walked up to Marcel. "We need to talk privately."
"Okay… Thierry, take my friend here to where we're going… I'll join you soon Klaus." Marcel explains before walking off with Diego to his office.
"Alright, tell me, what do you wish to talk about."
"That girl, Alyssa, she used magic today at the market, blew up every window on bourbon street," Diego explains with confidence.
Marcel let's out a groan of annoyance. "Alyssa hasn't even been here five minutes and is already breaking my rules... Alright, where is she now?"
"She just walked in the front entrance with Lily."
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"Alright Ally, I think it's best that you go to your room and stay there for the rest of the afternoon and until morning," Lily explains as she leads the girl to the bottom of the staircase.
"I could not agree more." Marcel agrees as he walks up to them, causing Alyssa to cower slightly.
For she knew that now she was going to be in trouble. She looked up at Lily and then back Marcel to see an angry look on his face, and she knew right then, there was no point in arguing and ran upstairs and straight into her new room.
Marcel waited to hear the door close before turning his attention towards Lily. "You had one job, just one."
"Marcel I can explain, I was-"
"I don't care," Marcel growls as he cuts her off. "Now give me your ring."
"What?"
"You heard me, you're lucky your punishment is not death, now give me your ring."
Lily hesitates for a second before giving him her ring. "I'm sorry, I know I should have kept a better eye on her."
"I don't care about your apology, you will earn your ring back, until then, get out of my sight." Marcel orders and watches the redhead speed away.
"ALYSSA!" Marcel shouts as he walks up the stairs and starts storming down the hallway to the room, he has allowed her to stay in.
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Alyssa was nervously pacing around her room, afraid of what Marcel was going to do to her, obviously, he was going to punish her, but she did not know how and was more afraid than she would care to admit because of it.
At the sound of him calling her name she could not flinch, for she could tell by the tone of his voice, he was angry at her, this caused her heart race much faster than it already was.
Alyssa could not help but let out a small scream as Marcel swung her door open letting it bang against the brick wall loudly. If his goal was to frighten her, it was working for she found herself to be frozen, like a deer in headlights.
"I want to know, what was going on in your mind when you used your magic." Marcel snaps at her as she stops in front of her, making her feel even smaller than she did now.
Wisely she chose not to answer him and lowered her head down in shame and barely whispers "I'm sorry."
"You're sorry. Well sorry is not going to cut because now the quarter witches know that you are here and will want to use you."
This caused Alyssa to frown slightly, for did not understand what he was talking about, why would they want to use her? Well, she knew why, she was going to be a very powerful witch one day, she was already powerful now, for no child her age has ever had access to their magic this young. What she did not understand is why what they wanted to use her against, and she hated not knowing.
"Now Alyssa-"
"Ally!" Alyssa snapped slightly, wanting him to use her preferred nickname.
"I don't care!" Marcel growls at her.
This causes Alyssa to let out a whimper of fear and had to blink her tears back rapidly for she just wanted to curl up in a ball in cry, for no one had ever been this mean to her before.
"Now for your punishment, I hoped you liked your trip to the quarter because that is the last time you'll ever see it for a while, as you will be confined to this house and you will not be allowed out until I see fit, and also, of course, no magic. Do you understand?"
"But I!"
"No but's! Now you are lucky that you're not yet an adult, cause if you were, then your punishment would have been death!" Marcel shouts at her before storming out of her room and slamming the door behind him.
As soon as she could not hear his footsteps anymore, she felt tears rolling down her cheeks, she quickly ran over to the bed and jumped on top of it, burying her face in the pillows and hugging her stuffed bunny tightly.
She just wanted her mummy to hug her and tell her that everything was going to be okay, but her mother was not here, and she was all alone, in a place she thought she was going to be safe, but something told her that she was going to be anything but.
