POV Narrator:

Bernadette was enjoying the days of being the leader of the Cavendish family, but there was still something strange about it, in all these days she hadn't seen her grandmother, much less her aunts, around the mansion since she had become the leader of the family, finding it very strange what had happened while she was passed out and unconscious from the tranquilizer dart thrown at her, to the point that she even started running after them, incredibly wanting to know the whereabouts of her mother. Despite everything she didn't want to keep throwing conquest in her face, but rather just find them. Isabella also joined in this endeavor, they started to walk around the whole house including the place where the ritual was performed, where during the day it was just a decorative place that could be accessed easily, noticing only the same three trees that were there, it had already been a week since they disappeared, it was then that the police were called. The normal police didn't find anything too much by the house to the point of having interviewed everyone, so it was something that needed the magical police to come to investigate better about the disappearance of the same, even more that there was no report even of them having fled to another place, so they were possibly still in the Cavendish family mansion.

Tuesday, January 8, 1991

The witch police came to the Cavendish family mansion, the WCI in the case coming to investigate if any magic related crime had occurred around the house, as they clarified that the disappearance occurred exactly on the day the ritual was performed for the Cavendish family headship, which soon led to a whole rummaging through the house, even involving a good check on how the ritual is performed by reading books and researching everything too much. It was an ordinary afternoon that day, the three people from the Cavendish family were all in the living room as well as Laura who was also there after she moved permanently into the Cavendish family mansion and all the servants who were there to report on what had happened.

POV Bernadette:

This is all very strange, my mother can't have disappeared so suddenly... Especially since Mom wanted to become the leader as much as I did... All I know is that I told the police that I was caught by surprise by a tranquilizer dart shot right in the back of my head and that afterwards I fainted... That I just went on my way and performed the ritual normally, but there were three trees around that I strongly suspect to be the ones? Could they have been transformed into trees? Did they really die? Damned if that's the case... I will be blamed for everything that happened... I'm sure... Fuck... What the fuck... Well let's just wait... What I end up doing anyway, while Laura comforted me from that whole moment, she caressed me and stayed hugging me, she knew that I needed a lot of affection and love. Until the police witches arrive.

- Do you really want to know what happened to Clarie Cavendish, Amelia Cavendish and Marie Cavendish? Well, come with me, we found them - said the policewoman who had her clothes a little full of leaves and twigs, but how strange.

We soon followed the policewoman, she took us exactly to the place of the ritual where I could become the leader of the Cavendish family, across the bridge and then walking to the place where the ritual was definitely started in Beatrix's circle, when she arrived... I was horrified... Mom! Aunts! They... They... They... How my suspicion hit! They were in the trees... And they died... Probably yes, they have been there for days now... The body was even smelly, they were very pale too, besides that the body was very hard, so the policewomen continued to take the bodies from the trees and put them in stretchers where they would be taken... But what the hell... They died... All this because I was in the ritual... It's all my fault... I was bursting into tears as was my grandmother who was hugging me and Laura too... Daryl I saw her crying a little. She must have been really sad about them leaving... Damn... Until the policewoman interrupted us.

- Well, as we are going to continue this investigation we have the conclusion that they were killed, they are all suspects until proven otherwise, the four of them had friction with the deceased, so you will be under investigation for the time being inside your house? Do not leave Weddinburgh within a radius of 10 km or you will be arrested, you are free for now, until the investigation proves that one of you is really guilty of this crime, so we will investigate what really happened to their bodies besides a memory investigation using crystal balls ... Well, that's it... Stay at home and my condolences for your family... We will continue from here - said the policewoman which we completely understood.

We wait for the policewoman to put the three bodies in the car and then she just leaves the place with her group and goes to the police station, we just keep mourning for their death... But soon Laura and I heard Daryl starting to get angry, she went towards us pointing her finger.

- It's all your fault! You know that! I really hope the police arrest you and you have to give the job back to them! At least then we won't have a criminal on our side! If you didn't invent becoming the Cavendish leader, if you didn't invent being a lesbian, all this would be just fine, but no! You really wanted all this to happen! Look how wonderful it is for your side, without our intolerant mother who picked on our feet, forcing us to be perfect, without our great aunts who always thought more about money than about family, who always judged us as weak! Now you can have your little lesbian family with Laura. A Cavendish can't have the leader's succession without having sex with the person who is going to get pregnant, the child that comes from you has to be 100% biological and artificial insemination doesn't count! So this is all a facade, soon Bernadette will leave you Laura, she will have sex with some random guy and she won't be able to continue with you unless you want to continue as a meek cuckold... Well... I'm just saying... You are also to blame for all of this Laura McLaren... If it wasn't for your presence making my sister's head spin she wouldn't have raised her head to become imposing! You will pay dearly for what you have done! Damned! You wretches! You even pretend to cry because you know that everything is better now! Well, know that as long as I'm here, your life will be a living hell! - Said my sister all furious and I understood her side, but it was nothing like that until Laura answered her.

- Uh... Daryl Cavendish, not to ruin your hopes of a separation from us, but we can still have daughters, the fertility stone exists, so that's it... And Bern is not to blame at all... Sorry to say this, but they are the ones who have chosen this fate... or someone... Someone killed them... It wasn't Bern, because she wouldn't kill a fly. But it could have been you who are so nervous these last days and who also want to blame us, especially since you cowardly threw a tranquilizer dart at your sister before she did the ritual? Which saves us from not thinking that you may very well have tried to kill them afterwards, but you didn't continue the ritual because it was all a very well thought out plan to leave Bernadette as the leader and frame her for it - Laura said answering Daryl, who was even a little quiet... My little freckle is really smart, she managed to come up with a good idea of what might have gone through my sister's head until my grandmother arrives in the middle of the whole discussion.

- Stop it! Knock it off! Let's all stop arguing about who is guilty of who here! We are suspects until we are proven innocent, Bernadette may very well have turned them into trees to defend herself and didn't know that it kills, Daryl may have done all that Laura just said... But Laura herself could have done it since she was the only one who didn't participate directly in the ritual and was alone in the room, but in an impulse of trying to defend her girlfriend she could have attacked the three of them and even I could be a suspect and have woken up after taking tranquilizer darts in the back of my head, for pure revenge? In the police's view this is what they are thinking right now, so stop arguing and making up a whole version... The police will soon come to a conclusion about what happened based on what went on in the heads of the three deceased... They already have our information from the crystal balls, but they still don't know what happened to them completely - said my grandmother, and my sister just left tapping her feet. Laura and I just shrugged our shoulders and took a deep breath placing our hand on my grandmother's shoulder... Like it or not she is quite right... The police will always think of the most suspicious option possible.

POV Daryl:

Laura McLaren is an idiot and an imbecile! I hate that witch! She has been the ruin of our whole family. I didn't want to set up this whole plan to frame Bernadette. That would be quite ingenious, but why would I make her the leader and allow it? The one who would take over would be my grandmother and she would wait until Bern comes back and then pass the job on to her, or even if she gets many years in jail she would continue to be the leader indirectly, if she has a daughter with this fertility stone which I still think is a tremendous lie... So it's quite possible that her daughter with that redhead is the future leader... Because she is from Bern's lineage... So this plan doesn't make sense... I did everything for my mother to become the leader... I wanted her here kicking Bernadette out of the house or even forcing her to marry that Paul Hanbridge... Who, by the way... I think I'll take advantage of the fact that the idiot is single and alone to make him a mistress... He won't be able to resist my little body... I might even blackmail him... But anyway... I didn't want them to die... I loved Aunts Marie and Amelia, they were the only ones who thought... My plan was not this, I would let my mother be the leader for some years and then pretend for some more time to be all open and pure and good hearted so that the day I turned 18 she would give me this place as leader of the Cavendish family, but not even this happened... I really wanted to use all that power to kick Clarie out of here with gusto, to see her leaving the house feeling betrayed at the time and then I would change everything in this family, I would continue in this castle because I want to reign like a queen, but I would sell everything in the name of money? There are a lot of things that could become good business around here. And if I was going to kill them, why didn't I kill them and take over as leader myself? I followed to the letter all the recommendations of my aunts and grandmothers. I quickly throw myself on the bed and wonder what to do at that moment... All of this came out of nowhere... But it's good that they are dead... At least this way I am free to do whatever I want and soon the one who dies will be my grandmother's traitor who has had cancer for a long time... This way there will only be me and Bern left... I will try to find some way to get rid of these two... Because I can't let them go on having a family together... If this happens, the girl will probably be even more imposing and will be a stepping stone to my plans... I will wait for this brat to be born to launch some ultra genius plan that will psychologically destroy both of them so that their daughter will be in my hands.

POV Narrator:

The days went by even more, it was complicated to read the mind of a witch that was murdered, even more so because with time the memories are fading, but in this case it was only necessary what happened in the last days, and the investigators were a long time looking everything that happened attentively to each one of the three witches, three investigators were chosen for this service, they stayed practically an entire week doing the mental analysis of the events, until they arrived at the specific day of the ritual, they had to see everything, from the time of waking up until the time of sleeping, it was practically as if they had gone through the routine of the three dead witches.

In these days also the policewomen counted on the good will of Laura, Bernadette, Isabella and some of the maids to use the crystal ball offering their minds to show everything that happened, but some other maids and Daryl didn't want to offer themselves for this thinking that it was too invasive and the police really didn't have the permission to do a mental analysis of everything that happened in a deeper way, since it hurts the witches' code that a mental analysis of the crystal ball can only take place with the witch's consent or when the witch is already detained.

In the Cavendish residence the things continued normal as always, without much movement in that mean time Laura also had completed 19 years old on January 14, she warned days before so that nobody would come because the police was investigating what happened regarding the deaths of Clarie, Marie and Amelia, everything was very meticulous, even more that the suspicions were exclusively on top of the four witches, The biggest suspect was Bernadette because she became the leader after their deaths, but there was also another big suspect that was Daryl who the police even thought that the two worked together to kill the three, until after a good analysis of the dead, they managed to reach a conclusion of everything that happened, then they also provided a warrant for search and seizure to hold the culprit of all this crime.

Tuesday, January 15, 1991

The police arrives at the Cavendish family mansion, it was a group of armed agents, ready to surrender the possible suspect, they just arrived and went towards the room of this person, the girls are a little suspicious, since Laura and Bernadette were in the living room watching television together until they found the police officers entering, the two of them go to the agents, following them through the corridors of the house and they just wanted to go towards Daryl Cavendish's room, when they open the door they point the guns and the girl takes a huge fright. Isabella also went along after hearing all the confusion, staying next to Laura and Bernadette.

POV Daryl:

What the fuck is this? How did you get to me? I didn't even do anything! At most I poisoned Bernadette by putting her to sleep, but I did not actively participate in the murder of the two? Why are they pointing their guns at me? What have I done? Damn it... I'm not even 18 to go to jail... What the fuck! Fuck you! Fuck you! I really hope it's just a mistake.

- Hands up Daryl Cavendish! You have been taken and arrested for being largely responsible for the murder of Clarie Cavendish, Marie Cavendish and Amelia Cavendish! With the evidence collected we find out that it was all just your plan to frame your older sister, with the evidence collected from Marie and Amelia we can come to the conclusion that they planned it all, in other words, Bernadette Cavendish and Isabella Cavendish are innocent, plus Laura McLaren was not seen anywhere in the mansion other than her own room with reports from employees and her willingness to show everything that happened that day by using the crystal ball... So let's take her to the police station and there you will wait for your trial next week and don't think that you are a minor and that you will not pay for what you have done... This type of crime if proven guilty can put you in reformatory and from there you go to jail soon after - said the police officer and then came others who handcuffed ... What the fuck! I did not do anything! These damned who used this as evidence! I didn't want to incriminate Bernadette! I'm sure Laura set all this up for my side.

I was soon being led through the halls of the house handcuffed and all embarrassed, I even looked with disgust and anger to the three, who should be celebrating, they are fakes to show this false expression of concern to my side, until I am put in the vehicle ... I even thought about running away, leaving and becoming a fugitive, so at least with my extremely powerful magic I would be one of the most known thieves in the whole world... It would be fucking awesome... If I'm going to be a criminal, I'd be one of the best... (My other conscience: Leave those Cavendish aside, stop being such an idiot to keep wanting to stay in a family that doesn't even give you money, let's rob some banks, some jewelry stores... You have all the skill and magic power to do it... Create your own empire and fuck the Cavendish) No! I can't! I won't do it... At least not yet... I guess... But now I have to plan my revenge on them so that I come running over like a truck.

POV Narrator:

Daryl was arrested, she remained practically silent for all those days, being visited from time to time by her grandmother Isabella, but she always answered her rudely and blamed her for raising Bernadette that way and had given her all the support when she met Laura, even though this had no logic at all, the days continued to pass, the atmosphere at the Cavendish family mansion improved a lot in that time, there wasn't so much that thing of always someone trying to stab each other in the back and to make it even better they were sunny winter days that were very much desired to escape from the very exaggerated cold that was happening in those days. Besides that Cavendish had more information gathered during those days and even Bernadette made sure to hire one of the best lawyers to improve her situation.

Tuesday, January 22, 1991

The day of the long awaited trial arrives, being held at the Weddinburgh forum, attended by the entire Cavendish family, Laura and also some maids from the house who came to witness everything that happened at that moment, the session was soon getting underway, with the judge banging her gavel to announce that order was to be kept in the court.

POV Daryl:

The lawyer just asked me to be calm and honest, after all the evidence they have is only from the tranquilizer darts, that's not enough for me to be convicted... I just want to see their faces when I walk out the same door... Hahaha... They can't arrest me if I'm innocent, I didn't do anything wrong, I just did what they told me to do... That's what I will say and no one will be able to refute me, after all I am innocent... I hope that everything goes well and I will also use the method that I am a minor... I am sure that the lawyer will help me with this.

- Order! Order! Order in the court! We are here to try the defendant Daryl Cavendish for the crime of triple murder of Clarie Cavendish, Marie Cavendish and Amelia Cavendish, the victims were killed on New Year's Eve on December 31, 1990 during the night. The accused has as evidence some tranquilizer darts that she threw in the necks of Isabella and Bernadette Cavendish, with the strong intention of incriminating Bernadette who got the leadership position at that time, according to what we have information, they were killed by magical causes, divinely murdered by performing the ritual. Which leads us to believe that possibly the defendant was aware that this would probably happen since she didn't appear at the scene of the crime and just waited for the moment when it would all go as planned, very well, what does the defendant have to say? Remember that whatever you say now will determine your fate - said the judge until I went on stage and swore to tell the truth, then I took a deep breath.

- I am innocent, I had no idea that my mother and my aunts were going to die... As you have seen in my thoughts, I just wanted to help make the leader... Yes, I used dirty methods, but who hasn't? Who there never tried to sabotage their own sister to make it easier for their mother? I really wanted my mother to become the leader of the family, there was no way I could have known that interfering in the family succession ritual would cause her death... Believe me... I am not a person who cares much about family traditions... I really just don't want to be accused of killing the only people I loved in the family... Believe me - I say at the altar and then soon I am released to go back and who goes up is my lawyer.

- Ladies and gentlemen, she is just a 15 year old girl, let's not accuse them as a monster, people make mistakes and all that has been proven is just that she knocked her older sister unconscious, this was just a sisters intrigue, they both have this intrigue, or are you going to tell me that Bernadette is a saint too? I just ask that you tone it down for my client, she is fit to pay for her mistakes and everything that happened to the victims was a consequence of their actions, not my client who just waited for her mother to come back? She didn't have the slightest dimension of the mistakes she committed - said my lawyer until she was interrupted by the prosecutor.

- Objection! - Said the prosecutor until the judge just agreed letting her move on, but what the fuck - The defendant didn't have a good relationship history with anyone in the family, by getting rid of the three she would have a clear path to get rid of the older sister, since it would be a near perfect crime, why would she just come back to stand by? If she didn't know then why didn't she go along to complete the ritual? - Said the prosecutor until my lawyer answered her.

- Because she had no way of knowing, if you want, I can show how my client was totally unaware of the consequences of the interference in the Cavendish family succession ritual, so yes my client is innocent of having expected the death of the three - Said my lawyer who was soon showing my thoughts of everything that happened and even surprising them.

- Any more objections, prosecutor? - asked the judge until the prosecutor only nodded in denial. - Very well then, that being the case, do you have anything else to add? Any accusation for the defendant, or even want to testify, I will warn only once and then the jury will decide the fate of the defendant - said the judge until they all remain in a huge silence, no one came to testify against my person and the lawyer was very good in this speech, I hope I can be innocent.

Then all the witches on the jury came out to talk discussing my fate... Oh fuck... They were determining everything that was going to happen... I just wonder what they are thinking about me... Especially with the evidence they have and what my lawyer told me. Well soon they return and give the paper to the judge who begins to read, I also noticed that during this entire conversation were all the family looking at me, especially Bern and my grandmother, they showed concern, I do not understand why ... They were supposed to be celebrating, if I am convicted I have no doubt they will jump out of the chair. After the judge reads everything, she hits the hammer... Now it's all or nothing.

- Order! Order! Given my power in this court I find the defendant 15 year old Daryl Cavendish guilty of the crime of manslaughter of Marie Cavendish, Amelia Cavendish and Clarie Cavendish on the night of December 31, 1990. By the goodwill said by her lawyer her conviction will be lowered... You will get nine months in the reformatory for underage witches, feel relieved, because it was supposed to be a year in the reformatory and also feel even more relieved because the charge has been changed from manslaughter to manslaughter, if you got it the other way you would only get out of prison when you are 30 years old? So take away the... I was about to forget, but your magic will also be dispersed so that you don't use all your magic power during the time in reform school, afterwards you can even run after it, but during reform school it is strictly forbidden to use magic - Said the judge banging her gavel... What? Guilty! What the hell! I was supposed to get out of here free! But I'll still be in jail for nine months! But fuck you! Fuck you! Everything but being locked up! In prison there are none of the luxuries I could enjoy at home.

I was soon taken by the security guards in the corridor and walked through, I noticed how some people were celebrating, while others like my family and including that redhead were just pretending to be sad about my arrest, they will all see that I will come back with everything and I will get revenge on those bastards! I will at least use this time to plan something... Since I became a criminal myself, then I'll show that I'm not stupid at all, soon I arrived at the bus of the reformatory and I found the others who were sitting there, I passed by the door of the same and walked to find a place, they even let out some comments to my person.

- Who would have thought that a Cavendish would be on the same bus as us! So this is a good sign! What's up, spoiled Cavendish? Let's make it clear here that it is good to respect the rules of our enclosure, we will not tolerate your presence if you don't obey us - said one of the girls who was being all threatening towards me.

- You better not pick a fight with me if you don't want to get beaten up - I tell her quite clearly, which makes her laugh and then sit down next to me.

- Ah hahahaha! Oh leave it out girl, because I'll be wasting my time with stupid fights! But tell me, what did you do to get on the same bus as us? I stabbed my brother with garden shears because he wanted to abuse me, and here I am... I'm Jennifer Jones, nice to meet you... And you little princess? - Said the one Jennifer, who wasn't that ugly.

- I am Daryl Cavendish... I was arrested because my mother and my great aunts were murdered by a magical spirit and here I am paying the price because of the damned family traditions.

- Really? Is that all, little princess? But relax, I'm not going to hurt you or anything, but watch out because in jail no one respects anyone who kills their mother, unless she was a fucking asshole, then I would lend you the scissors I used to kill my brother - she said to me in the most natural way until someone also appears in our midst.

- An innocent among us? What do you know, I was caught just because I robbed a liquor store and used my magic to keep him locked up, I even tried to escape, but there were witch cops in the middle, the damned ones caught me and I'm here, I'll stay 6 months in the five star hotel - Said another... Stealing is... A burglar... This will be interesting... This place might give me some opportunities... Since I'm a petty criminal, then fuck it, let the offers come for more robberies.

POV Bernadette:

I was leaving the forum with my grandmother and Laura... Who knew that my sister really got to that point… She was convicted for the death of my mother and aunts... One would imagine... But at least I feel a little relief, we will no longer be able to have to deal with the tension that is having someone who still shares my mother's thoughts and constantly wants to take me out of the leadership of the family, I don't doubt it at all, well now it's gone, as soon as we reached the stairs I felt Laura hugging me from behind before we went down them.

- Don't be discouraged, love... Maybe this time will help your sister get well and we'll take advantage of it and also make the Cavendish mansion better... What do you think? - Said Laura trying to cheer me up and I just give a little smile.

From there we got into Laura's car and just drove home, there was nothing else to talk about but my sister's arrest, but it's really relieving, she will pay for what she did, even if she didn't kill them... But she was still the big responsible... If you let me fight... I would be with them now... Or I wouldn't even be the leader for wasting my time fighting in case Daryl got in the middle of the fight.

POV Narrator:

The Cavendish sisters went their separate ways, while one went towards the juvenile reformatory the other went home. Once they arrive each just thinks ahead. The younger sister ended up having all her magical power drained and was soon released in the evening that made the sky of Scotland look like it was having an aurora borealis from all the magical power she had going for her.

See you, jailed witches...