Chelsea: Well, Um, Marry Christmas to those celebrating! And happy new year to those who aren't. This is a sort of gift to you guys... a nice long chapter... but I have a warning...
Gemini: You are going to hate her guys for this one...
Lucifer: Yep, Angst-o-rama. Which is VERY un-Chelsea-esque if you ask me...
Chelsea: Leave me alone... Um, Gemini/Sirius shippers are sure to like this one... I was going to have a Lily/Gemini reunion... but not now... I just want to see how well this blows over with you guys. This chapter is going to explain a lot... so take some time to let it all sink in. Tell me what you think. Tell me if I go to hard on her, or if I stay to of course. I would really love to know.
Lucifer: Get ready for a nasty past...
Chelsea: and listen to this... for this is important... FORGET ANYTHING FROM GEM'S PAST FROM ITS WRITTEN IN THE STARS BECAUSE IT SUCKS! Pretty much her family life. I hate it. So I made a new, more fitting one up. Ok. Ok...
Love is a Battlefield
Chapter Eight
Even if you feel you've got nothing
to hide
Keep it inside of you
don't give in
don't tell them anything
'Don't tell them anything" Pat Benatar
Gemini was sleeping.
Blissfully so.
Lucifer smiled softly, a hand hovering over his sister cheek, just like his mental hand softly ghosted over her mind.
Her dream cycle had begun again, and now she was peacefully dreaming about her parents, or what she had remembered about her parents.
This was the only way Lucifer could ever experience his parents. Through the disturbed mind of his sister. Lucifer could see some antisocial tendencies in her, but he highly doubted that she was a true psychopath. For a psychopath had more than one mental level. They experience different emotions, yet they didn't know what was wrong or how to change it.
Gemini was different. Even after she had her memory restored, she was not fully Gemini. She was still Sky, regardless of the reversal memory charm. She had the memories, the visual pictures, but she didn't have the physical memories, the tastes, the smells, the sensations.
Fudge knew what he was doing when he took on Gemini. Gemini was an unlimited source of anger towards Voldemort, possessing a raw, unadulterated rage towards the man who stole her family from her.
She didn't know compassion.
She didn't know love.
She didn't remember what it was like to be held.
She was seven again, and she was sitting on the floor at the gym she use to train at when she was younger, before her life changed forever.
She didn't watch the boxers fight, but rather she watched them dance, an impulsively created ballet of punches, blocks and side step, doges and evades, blocking and countering, everything being carefully saved and filed within the young girls mind.
This is what she wanted to grow up to be. This is what is going to become of her.
"Gemini darling," An older man with gentle eyes said, "Come on, get up here, I have something for you to do."
"Coming Tony," The seven year old future assassin said quickly as she stumbled in to the ring, the heavy gloves that encased her small hands throwing her off balance, making her tumbled forward, right in to the man who was going to train her.
Her father.
"Hello father," Gemini said softly, averting her eyes, "Forgive me for missing my step, it wont happen again."
The older brunette kneeled down and kissed the little girl on the head, "You are forgiven, now for today's lesson," He stood up and looked at Tony, who merely nodded before turning his eyes. "Today you are going to fight a new opponent," her father looked over his daughters shoulder, motioning behind her for an unknown person to enter the ring, "Say hello to Giancarlo, Gemini."
Gemini turned around and gasped at the preadolescent boy that loomed over her. He had to be at least 13 year old and he possessed a cold, sadistic look in his dark brown eyes. A twisted smile covered his taut lips as he stared down at the younger, less experienced girl.
"This is Giancarlo; he is here to teach you what boxing is all about. He is here to teach you what every one sees. The blood, the sweat and the tears."
"Is this going to hurt father?" Gemini asked softly, her large eyes looking up at him with a blank stare.
"Only if you allow it."
The younger Gemini took a deep breath and closed her eyes, waiting for the bell to start.
It never came.
All that came was the brutal and surprising sensation of a fist crashing in to her young face, the sickening crunch of bones, the feel of canvas against her cheek, the taste of blood in her mouth and the cold dark oblivion which she welcomed freely.
And yet not a tear was shed.
Lucifer jolted as his sister's mind slammed shut, blocking him from her dream as her body jerked slightly before returning to her light slumber.
Lucifer stayed frozen, eyes wide in the darkness of their shared bedroom, his hand frozen over her cheek, his breath slowly coming back to him as her lingering screams filled his mind as he quickly tried to detach himself from her.
Gemini's in there. She was in there, waiting. Gemini may be back, but Sky had always been there, and if something didn't happen to her soon that would prove being Gemini was better than being Sky, then Gemini would once again be killed under the merciless hands of Sky.
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Sirius sat at the folding table in the kitchen, looking at Gemini, who sat across from him as she read the muggle newspaper in search for a new source of income.
"I don't think you are going to find 'In need of a profession killer. Will not leave any evidence behind. Requesting an assassin who is thought dead by the world.'" Sirius commented lightly as he brought his strong coffee to his lips.
It was Lucifer's turn in the kitchen, thank god. For the love of all things on this earth, Gemini could not cook for her life.
Gemini looked up, her dark brown eyes narrowed, brimmed with ice, "I don't see you trying to pick up a second job to help pay for the bills. The Ministry isn't paying me anymore Sirius, and if what Remus said was true then we will have to be moving soon," A strange look flashed across her face as she suddenly stood, her eyes sliding out of focus before she turned rigidly, stalking out of the room.
"Time of the month?" Sirius asked Lucifer lazily, looking up at the love of his life's male counterpart.
Lucifer shook his head while reaching for the pepper and said casually over his shoulder, "She just realized that Fudges assassins could be here any day, so she is going to go and get her weapons of death together so she can move to another location as soon as possible."
"And when does she plan to do this?"
"When you are done packing."
At this Sirius rose an eyebrow, "She wants me to come?"
Lucifer turned around, his eyes bloodshot from the lack of sleep, and said softly in his mind, 'there is something terribly wrong with my sister, and you are the only one who can help her.'
'Why me, you're her bloody brother for crying out loud, and you're a telepath, don't you have the advantage?'
'I was just reunited with Gemini earlier this month alright, there was a 14 year gap when we were separated that I know nothing about. All I know is something terrible happened and it's her fuel.'
'You're talking about her parents deaths, aren't you?'
'You need to connect with her Sirius, because regardless of anything, you are the only person who can break her out of this… identity crisis or whatever she is in right now alright. She has no idea who she is anymore. She use to be Diana Sky, but then all of a sudden an entire life that was hidden from her is exposed and she learns that everything she ever believed in, everything she ever fought for was a lie. To us, Diana Sky is dead, Gemini had her memory returned to her and now everything is going to end up ok. But what you have to understand is that everything wont be. Fudge didn't create Diana Sky, she was alive all of this time...'
Sirius put his coffee down and narrowed his eyes in confusion, 'what are you talking about?'
Lucifer sighed, lowering the flame on the stove before having a seat next to Sirius, 'My sister is a very good liar, alright. Now that she knows she use to be someone else and she, subconsciously, will use that to exploit information and emotions from anyone. Consciously, she is Gemini Cielo, subconsciously... or consciously... Gods I don't know all I know it that she is still Diana Sky. You can't expect someone who can murder an entire group of people in a matter of seconds and leave without a trace of her existence behind, other than the name 'white huntress', return to a life where the most dangerously horrific thing she did was box. Something had to happen in her life that created a base for Diana Sky to grow upon.'
Sirius sighed, then looked down at the ground, 'when we were younger, I had always thought Gemini as weird. She was really aggressive and really compassionate about boxing and she was very defensive about her self. That all changed on Easter, 1973. When she found out that her parents… your parents were murdered… she didn't even cry… she had this blank look in her eyes and that aggression, that passion… it was replaced with something else.'
'Vengeance.' The Demigod suggested.
'Exactly' Sirius agreed.
'Diana Sky was born the day our parents died. She sprang from their fallen blood, growing slowly in Gemini, creating that mask that has been permanently placed upon my sister. Now that Sky has taken over and the Gemini that you have come to love has become the subconscious.'
'What are you talking about?'
Lucifer sighed as he continued, 'Gemini is Sky. Sky is Gemini. Sky is the result of years and years of training, and emotional trauma and not being given the help that she needed… you have no idea how terrifying her mind must be.'
'Wait... must? You're a telepath haven't you...'
'Her shields are too strong to break with out her noticing. I... I think that she's using her shields to protect her... protect her from herself... Sirius, I need her to trust me. You on the other hand. Never let a telepath near you, you broadcast WAY too much there sweet heart.'
"What are you two talking about?"
Two heads snapped up to find the deadly assassin with dark eyes, looking as if she was trying to read their faces.
"Nothing Gem Gem," Lucifer quipped, cocking his head to the side as he sprang to his feet, lightening the mood, "So, where's that Orb Demon of yours?"
A slight smile graced her face, and Sirius watched in amazement as the Gemini he remembered was smiling back at him, "You act as if you fancy him."
"You know I do sweetheart," Lucifer winked, turning back to his breakfast, "I was just telling Sirius that he should pack."
"And so should you."
"Hmm?"
"You are coming with me."
"Yes mistress."
Sirius sighed, 'why to we bend to her every whim?'
'For one, some people find her irresistible. That and she can kill you with out anyone knowing... I'm not that stupid to not listen.'
"Lucifer," Gemini said, walking behind her brother, whipping out her field knife, "I need to borrow some of your hair, if you may."
Lucifer's eyes widened as tried to dodge his knife wielding sister, but with no avail.
Gemini stood behind him, a wide grin on her face, a lock of her brothers equally dark brown hair clenched in her fist.
"Thank you Lucifer Dear," Gemini said, patting him on the head, "You," Gemini snapped, turning towards Sirius, "You need to pack. We're leaving tonight."
A knock at the door snapped her head up, her eyes set in a dark hollow that she usually processed when she came back from a mission.
"I'll get it," Sirius muttered as he stood, wary of the intense look on the assassins face.
As Sirius moved towards the door, Gemini kicked her back foot up, quickly removing her knife from it confinements, slowly moving backwards out of the doors line of vision.
Lucifer, noticing the look of determination on his sisters face, he followed her into the back of the apartment in to her bedroom.
'You have a plan Gem Gem?'
'Don't I always?'
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Sirius just rolled his eyes as the Italian twins rushed silently out of the room.
It freaked them out that they could just disappear so quietly like that. But then again he did live with two demigods and a sadistic orb demon... so he was starting to get use to it.
Sirius pulled open the door and his gray eyes widened with surprise as a brunette forcefully entered the shabby apartment.
Lana Tully.
"Good Day Sirius, I hope you slept well?" Lana asked, her voice clipped.
Sirius yawned and scratched his head; casually trying to block the long bow that lay by the door from the detail oriented Lana.
"Yes, I did actually. How did you get to this address?"
She held up a Manila folder which read the words 'Black, Sirius'
"You... you looked at my files!" Sirius snapped, his gray eyes narrowed.
"Oh, please don't be upset with me Sirius," Lana sighed, her eyes looking up at him pathetically, "I needed to look at them to find out where you lived. I do hope you're not angry with me."
"What did you-"
Lana stepped up, placing an hand on his arm, "I wanted to see you."
Sirius sighed deeply, rolling his eyes and he put his back towards the door, looking down on the smaller brunette, "You... you can't just show up on my door step and expect to be greeted with open arms."
At this Lana stomped her foot, "And why not! Am I not good enough for you! Am I-"
She was cut off by the icy touch of a knife on her throat.
"Hello Lana, we weren't expecting you," Gemini whispered coldly in to the woman's ear.
"s-s-sky," Lana managed the stammer before Gemini crossed her arm over the taller woman's chest, grasping her shoulder and spinning her around so that he stood face to face with the former assassin. "what... what are you doing here?"
"I should be asking that question myself, Lana," Gemini sneered, her eyes narrow slits of hate.
"I... i... i-"
"Say goodbye Ms. Tully," Gemini said darkly as and shoved a hypodermic needle in to the woman's leg, watching with a silent pleasure as the painful transformation took place.
"Dear god... Gem... isn't that... well, you know... really bad to inject Polyjuice potion directly in to the blood stream?" Sirius asked hoarsely, watching the ministry member writhe in pain.
"Yes," Gemini replied bluntly.
"But isn't she going to tell them what happened?"
"She can't speak with a broken jaw," Gemini snapped darkly, drawing his fist back and letting it swing freely, colliding in to the woman's jaw none with a sickening crunch.
"How..." Sirius stammer, "how can... can you do that... and..."
"I have murdered people in cold blood with my bare hands Sirius," Gemini said thickly, standing up next to her brother, "breaking someone's jaw is nothing."
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By nightfall Sirius had gotten use to the muffled cries in the back room of their apartment, but what he hasn't gotten over was the nonchalant look on Gemini's face when she broke her jaw.
The screams where terrible, when the Polyjuice potion was first shot in to her veins, but the sickening crunch of bone as she could not longer open her mouth was horrendous.
And the same, stoic look swept over her face and he knew what Lucifer had said was right.
Diana Sky was not gone, only living in existence with Gemini, the both as one.
He was just beginning to realize how seriously stained Gemini was, how putrid her mind could be and that she truly deserved the title of a Psychopath.
But right now, as she sat across from him at the table, he could not find a trace of the Malice that had overtaken her face like this morning.
She looked as if nothing had happened.
He sighed, still keeping his eyes of the female Italian, ignoring the repartee between Lucifer and Xander over who had the closer relationship with the assassin.
As he continued to stare into those eyes brimmed with ice, he vaguely remembered something he learned when he was a child, the nasal, monotone voice of one of his primary school teachers. The teacher he had directly before he left for Hogwarts.
They were learning about evolution, and the Darwin theory and all of the other things that would be lost in Sirius's young, inattentive mind.
He was the ripe old age of ten, with scuffs of his shoes and tears in his pants that he knew was going to get him killed when his mother saw, sitting right behind James Potter, who hair was as out of control as it was now.
Their teacher stood in front the class room, next to a diagram of the evolution of man, going from this monkey like creature to a modern man.
Of course, Sirius was trying to fall asleep. He and James had been up late last night painting the girl who lived next door to Sirius's bike this horrid brownish color and quite frankly he wasn't in the right frame of mind to be listening to mindless banter about monkeys.
He did fall asleep that day, but his mind picked up a few things that his teacher said, something that he had picked up during the years.
'The theory of evolution children, is the survival of the fittest. That means only the strong survive. If, say, a species of animals couldn't make it through the winter, then they would die. But if they could, they would flourish and multiply, and they would survive.'
'But what makes them change?'
'Ah, a very good question James, you always keep me on my toes there. You see, animals change, or adapt to their surroundings. It helps them survive. If it's cold out, then you put a coat on right? Well, if the temperature suddenly got cold, over time, animals would mutate, or change to help them survive. It happens in every day life to right? Let's say that... you fell on your bum and scraped your knees. Would you just sit there at let the blood all pour out all over your knickers, or would you have someone put a bandage on it? A bandage right? Because if you don't put a bandage on it, then it will keep bleeding you'll get all bloodied up and you might get an infection, which would be most displeasing, I don't recommend it. So you see James, its what's around them that would make them change, for if they don't, they wont survive and then they will die out and they will become extinct.'
'Like the dinosaurs?'
'Like the dinosaurs.'
Gemini has bled emotional blood, and rather than putting a bandage on until the bleed stopped she kept them on, leaving them as either a constant reminder of who she was, of keeping them as a way to not let the past inflict upon her.
She was forcing herself to forget.
Forcing herself to keep everything inside, not allowing the wound to have some air and to heal correctly. The blood remains there, dry and crusted on to her mind.
The bandages were reinforcing the shields that Lucifer had talked about. The Shields on her mind. The shields on her memory.
Under those bandages where the memories, the stories of her life.
The life she had forgotten.
Sirius needed to get those bandages off.
'You're exactly right Sirius. Exactly right.'
Sirius blinked, his intent concentration broken as he looked to Lucifer, who was sitting on the kitchen counter, his lips tightly drawn in thought.
'We need to break her barrier'
"Gem Gem darling?" Lucifer called out to his sisters trying to sound as nonchalant as possible, "I want to do something tonight."
Gemini looked up, her dark eyes hold an annoyed air, "What do I look like Lucifer? A bloody tourist toting a camera? Please, don't be daft. I trust in your intelligence a bit more than that thank you."
"Damn," Lucifer commented, "You sound more British every damn day sorella. Where is your Italian pride hm? I bet you forgot what the rolling hills look like."
At this Gemini's features darkened, "Actually, you are correct on that statement fratello" the assassin spat in her native tongue, watching as her brother grinned widely, "In case you have forgotten I have just been reintroduced to a life in which I know nothing about. I don't know how to live this new life, the life I once had and quite frankly, I don't wish to. So yes, I don't remember what the hills of Italy look like, I don't remember what Mamma sounds like, I don't remember what color eyes Papa had and I don't EVER remember anything about this being ANY concern of you," Gemini seethed, objects in the room vibrating softly in the telekinetics wrath.
"Sister, please," Lucifer laughed as Sirius looked at him like he was just as insane as his sister, "We're twins, your concerns are my concerns and I want to help you."
"What?" Gemini asked, an eye brow cocked in question.
"You heard me, I want to help you."
"I know that, I'm not deaf. What do you want to help me with?"
"I want to help you remember."
"No," Gemini hissed fervently, "I don't want to remember."
"Gemini," Lucifer said softly, "You can't continue living like this."
"I was doing quite fine thank you."
'Please, let me help you.'
"Get out of my head Lucifer," Gemini growled, her eyes narrowed.
"Please," he begged, "Let me help you remember."
"Lucifer i... GET OUT OF MY HEAD!"
But Lucifer was already gone. His mental self prodding gently around her shields. Her walls.
Lucifer had seen his fare share of mental walls in his life time, whether he had wanted to or not. An entire year in the Delos Academy had been dedicated to building and destroying mental walls, but the wall that stood in front of him was different that those he had seen in the past.
When most people visualized their walls, reinforcing them with a mental image, the where usually gray, solid, and perfect, like the wall of a steel fortress.
That's why when his sister's walls materialized in front of his eyes; he took an astonished step back, letting it sink in.
They looked just like his.
The wall of the bedroom that they shared for the first five years of his life. The cream colored walls, with crayon marks about a foot off the ground, he knew those marks, he helped make them. His dark eyes traveled over the nostalgic wall, taking in every crack, every blemish, every malformation he could find. On the left side of the wall there was a rusty orange stain at about his elbows height.
Blood.
There was blood on their wall.
Her walls.
Her mental walls. The walls she remembered from her childhood. She had bled on those walls just as she had bled in her soul.
In several places plaster was used to reinforce weaknesses in her shields.
Her bandages.
It was exactly what that idiot said. Sirius was right.
She was holding everything in.
Attentively, he slowly brought his mental hands up to touch the wall, and found that it was terribly cold, yet terribly hot all the same. It shook beneath his fingers, a sign that her telekinesis was beginning to unfold.
'WHAT ARE YOU DOING?' Gemini uncharacteristically shrieked, the panic in her voice plainly evident, 'Gods Lucifer, in the name of Diana STOP'
Lucifer was ignoring his sister, looking intently at the one part of the wall which he found to be her weakness.
It seemed to the oldest plastered hole, which looked like it has held up well over the years, but it has recently been eroding.
Her mind was trying to make her remember.
But she was fighting it.
Slowly, Lucifer reached out, placing a hand on it, recoiling as he felt it crumbled slightly under the light pressure of his hands.
This was it, the one memory that would bring it all. The one event in her life she had blocked out, the one thing that started it all. The forgotten. The process of taking her past, everything that was ever linked with that one event and locking it away.
'Gods Lucifer, please, don't. You don't have to know... I DON'T WANT TO REMEMBER!'
Lucifer, ergo, persisted, placing his hand back on to the weak spot and started applying pressure.
'Forgive me Gem Gem,' Lucifer whispered in her mind, 'But I want to help you. I need to help you. I love you. Forgive me.'
That's when his hand plunged through the wall.
And the memories of a forgotten life flooded in to both of their minds.
He was vaguely aware that Gemini was mentally screaming, but all he could do is stare the pictures, the sensations, the sounds, the voices everything Gemini had forced herself to forget as flying past him and her tried to stop the leak with no avail.
He stood in the abyss as the one incident took form.
And he almost screamed as his knees buckled underneath him.
He knew this memory, for it was logged deep in his mental memory bank as well.
'Pollux!' Gemini screamed as she watched her twin brother being pulled away by Delos Academy officials.
Two strong arms wrapped around the five year old girl as she continued to scream, her cries matched by an identical plea from the boy being pulled away by two uniform clad representatives.
"Gemini," the owner of the arms scolded as they pulled her in to the house, "You know better than to behave like this."
"I HATE YOU!" Gemini screamed, ripping her arms from her father strong grip and tearing through the house, pushing her mother to the side as she fled up the stairs.
"Gemini!" Her father hollered as he gave chase to the distressed five year old, "Get back here right NOW"
Gemini found her way up stairs, slamming the door to what use to be her and her twins room.
She quickly closed the door, running towards her closed window in hopes of being able to escape before her father found her.
She was too late.
The door was thrown open; a pair of enraged eyes met her frightened ones as she tried in vain to pull open the window but failed.
She failed.
Failures were punished in her household.
She closed her eyes and braced for impact.
And it came.
Forcefully, he father threw his weight in to the punch that sent his five year old daughter flying towards the window. As she fell to the ground her head collided with the window sill.
Blood poured from the open wound as the little girl collapsed in a heap of tears.
She was suddenly picked up by her shoulders and held against the wall, tears and blood flowing down her face.
"WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT CRYING?"
"C...c...cry...crying.... i... is for... failures...'
"AND THAT IS JUST WHAT YOU ARE! A stupid. Insignificant. Horrible piece of trash. No body loved you. Not even your own brother loved you."
That's when the five year old felt something grow in her, "YES HE DID!" she screamed as she through her head back.
That's when every thing went horribly wrong.
The door slammed shut by an unseen force as her father was thrown into the wall by the same power. Suddenly the room began to shake. Everything in the room started to move, the bed, the blankets, the chair, pillows clothes toys everything levitating in the air.
"Lucifer LOVED me!" Gemini screamed, her small hands balled in fists "YOU took him away from me! I am not a failure! NOT A FAILURE!"
The girl screamed once again before collapsing in exhaustion, all large pieces of furniture falling to the ground with her, but the smaller bits still lingered in the air as the girl tried to catch her breath.
"You're just like him..." Her father muttered, "Just like that freak of a brother, I should have known I would have never had normal children! I should have known!"
And as her father sat in a stunned shock Gemini dried her tears with a piece of her shirt that was covered with blood.
That was the last time a tear was ever shed from her pools of umber glass.
And it was all his fault.
Lucifer stood in shock, feeling his stomach churn at the sight her had just witnessed. His leaving was the day her power manifested. It was his fault her power exposed its self.
His fault that she was destroying herself.
His fault that she could no longer feel.
He was about to leave her mind when suddenly a roar issued from the gap in the wall.
And from that roar came more distinct voices. Voice he had never heard before.
"It's because I love you."
"... In Scotland. Far from here..."
"... Lily, Lily Evans, You are?"
"...hatred burns in your veins, yet you are noble and brave..."
"...far too powerful..."
"... My name is Tom Riddle..."
"Gemini... it's... oh god it was Voldemort..."
"... I wish to train you Miss Cielo..."
"Welcome to the Order of Phoenix Gemini..."
"The Killing Curse, you'll need it..."
"Assassination is what you are needed for..."
"I hear Sirius fancies you Gemini..."
"You're sharing dreams Gem; I don't think that should be taken lightly..."
"Maybe I do love him... maybe... maybe I don't want this anymore..."
"You will be the perfect weapon Gemini..."
"You're his now! Don't you see! He beat you! He owns you now! He is inside of you! You are his! You weak bitch!"
"Don't be afraid to admit it. You love him. You don't want this life you are programmed for. Tell them off. You're wonderful at that. Refuse! Just refuse... if not for him than for me... I'm your best friend Gem..."
"Are you comfortable Gemini? This wont hurt at all..."
"Who am I?"
Lucifer jolted in his seat as his sister's mind slammed shut.
He opened his eyes to find his sister on the floor, shaking slightly in Sirius's arms, her eyes closed as she tried to catch her breath.
"What the FUCK did you do to her?" Sirius snapped, narrowing his eyes at the telepath, "I have never heard her scream like that before."
Lucifer glanced over at Xander, who was fighting the urge to run to his mistress. Lucifer smiled weakly before leaving the table and falling to the ground next to his sister.
"Gem Gem," Lucifer whispered taking his sister in to his arms, "Gods, it was me wasn't it. It was my fault that you're powers manifested. I had no idea. I-"
'No,' Gemini broadcasted in to her brother's mind, 'No, it was our fathers fault. It was all him. That stain on the wall was my blood. I failed him... I'
"No," Lucifer declared out loud, "No. You didn't fail him. You did exactly what he thought you. It was his fault you attacked. His fault that your mind unleashed its telekinesis on him. But it was my fault he got angry I-"
"What the hell is going on?" Sirius hollered, his eyes narrowed at the two, "Who hurt you, what happened?"
"I remembered..." Gemini whispered, looking over to Sirius, "The day Lucifer was sent away... I... freaked out. I screamed, I fought, and I blamed everything on my father... Well, if there was one thing he tried to instill into our young hearts was the fact that we were failures to him. He didn't want us. We were a mistake. But... seeing them take Lucifer away... seeing the copasetic look on my fathers face... I spoke ill against him, and I was stuck... I don't know what happened... I ... I just let everything out and the next thing I knew... everything was floating and... And... And that's when my powers manifested... from that day forth was trained in a boxing ring for hours each day... that was my punishment."
"That not I saw Gemini," Lucifer said softly, putting a hand on his twin sister's shoulder, "Tell him Gemini. It's the only way to be at peace with your self."
"I... I... I can't Lucifer... I can't."
"Then I will."
Lucifer closed his eyes and threw the two lines in that roar of voices he had heard that would affect Sirius the most.
Maybe I do love him.
Don't be afraid to admit it. You love him. You don't want this life you are programmed for. Tell them off. You're wonderful at that. Refuse! Just refuse... if not for him than for me... I'm your best friend Gem...
Sirius looked down in amazement to find Gemini sitting in front of him, her hand hovering dangerously near his.
She loved him. Gemini Cielo had actually returned feeling to him. But she had forgotten. Fudge had made her forget. Anger burned in his heart, but it quickly melted when he felt fingers intertwine with his own.
"Forgive me Sirius... I... I had forgotten... i..." She could no longer speak, her head falling on to his shoulder.
"Shh," Sirius whispered in to her hair, "Rest. You need your rest."
'Don't get to over board Sirius, her letting you touch her is a biggie. Take Baby steps and-"
Lucifer inhaled sharply as he stood, trying to brace himself as she was pummeled by a mental broadcasting.
Gemini looked up to see her brother quivering slightly in fear.
"Lucifer, what's wrong," Gemini whispered loud enough for the two men to hear it as she reached for her field knife which was constantly well hidden on her body.
A lone finger was brought up to her twins lips as his eyes slid in and out of focus.
Lucifer shut his eyes, then opened them, stumbling back wards and hitting the stove where his pepper and egg omelet was currently burning.
It was the picture, the image, the thought, the fantasy, of Gemini. Or rather the thirteen year old memory of Gemini. Swirling around the reflection of Gemini as an innocent where other images. Gemini hurt, broken, bloody…screaming for help, for mercy…Gemini being tortured, hurt…Gemini screaming, bleeding. Memories of her past which she has locked away from him. Wide eyed fear and amazement. A faceless master. A sense of longing. A sense of want. A sense of Revenge.
All of these flooded around the flickering images, the person who was picturing them wanted to see them come true. The whole reason for this raid. The reason for the attack. It was all planned on Gemini.
But the attacker knew her as Gemini... not as Diana Sky.
Another jolt surged through his body as the images where joined by a hissing voice, 'You didn't listen Gemini. You could have had everything but you veered from me. Cielo…I've been waiting for this for so long, planning it, dreaming about it…You won't escape this time, you bitch...you could have anything you wanted…You'll be mine…and I'll play with you until you scream…and then I'll play some more…we'll see how much you can take before you die… see how well that Ministry of yours trained you...
"We need to get out of here."
"What?" Gemini asked, facing the door, frowning at it slightly until her cross bow flew into her hands, which was aimed at the door in a matter of nanoseconds.
"Someone... a group... I don't know if they're death eaters or Aurors... from your past..." Lucifer stammered, a hand holding his head, "But they're here to kill you."
Gemini eyes widened slightly when they heard a scream from a lower level followed by a small explosion.
"Xander!" Gemini called as she turned from the door, rushing in to the back area of her small apartment, grabbing Sirius and pulling him out of the chair he was sitting on in the process.
Gemini threw Sirius in to the back hallway before turning around, her empty hand shooting out, guiding the old moth eaten red sofa with her telekinesis to barricade the door.
"Gemini, I don't think that-"
"Lucifer, I don't want to hear your know-it-all idiom right now. I'm the killer of the family, not you. You just go and grab anything of importance, my things are already packed. I'll take care of everything else."
Lucifer nodded and fled in to the back of the apartment, beginning to pull everything he saw in to a spare bag that Gemini had brought with her, his mind still picking up that same, sadistic gleam.
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Chelsea: How much of a bitch am i? Hmm? Hands?
Gemini: Go to hell.
Sirius: Yeah.
Lucifer: My head hurts now...