POV Narrator:
With the conclusion regarding the whole destiny of Lucy Watson the punishment was decided around her never going back to race professionally on a broomstick for the unsportsmanlike conduct committed by her, and also the conclusion that there would be no more interaction between Daryl and her around everything they both did since the Australian never wanted to know what the Scot wanted more, with this the two go their separate ways. Watson decides to take care of her younger sister Madeleine and focuses a lot on training her for the World Broom Racing Championship, the little sister who was only 12 years old by then, could be a future Watson who would be doing well in the future. Daryl just went on with his life, things at the Cavendish mansion ended up taking a slight turn for the worse, since on January 10, 1995 Isabella Cavendish (1934-1995) died due to cancer at the age of 60, with this the whole mansion is only for the younger generation in the case of Bernadette and Daryl, with the leadership of the oldest who was already leader since 1991, With this it ends up being an excellent advantage for the youngest who no longer had so much interference from her grandmother, besides being of age she could have all the freedom in the world while her sister was in medical school and her wife training for the World Broom Racing Championship, everything was getting very well set up for Daryl Cavendish's side.
On Laura McLaren's side, the contract fell as a blessing for her around becoming a Scuderia Carlucci driver after the impressive 42 wins achieved in the LEAF Team in only 64 races, it was a really impressive result that caught a lot of Henrietta Carlucci's attention in 1994 that didn't take long to catch Laura McLaren and pull her into her team, so much so that the announcement of the racer around the world drew a lot of attention, the highest caliber racer on the grid was in the highest caliber team, it was all of the most perfect and desired things for the World Broom Racing Championship, most of the fans around the world wanted to see the Irish girl get her redemption, to see her show that she really might be able to hold her own in a big team. In the winter tests of 95 at the beginning of the year she showed a lot of promise on the track, she even helped a lot in the development of the broom for that season, although she still had the offer to do the chassis design turned down, she didn't think it was so bad because Henrietta herself said that if she won the championship that season the 1996 chassis would be made by the redhead herself. So she made sure to develop the SCU95 as best she could and really in every practice she was showing the superiority by setting records on the team's private circuit, but all these rumors would be proven right in the season, in the race itself.
Sunday, March 12, 1995, Brazil
Laura showed her superiority in a broom, she showed that not even the 4 years of LEAF left her down and much less that she didn't adapt to the new team, on the contrary, she was very familiar with the broom of Scuderia Carlucci and she managed to extract the 55th Pole Position of her career and the first one for the Italian team, what surprised the most was in how she put one second in half over Alanna that was the team mate with the same broom and on top of that she was the second with 8 tenths of second ahead of the third placed. Not only that but she was showing the whole world how she went about racing, and her aggressive style of attacking the corners and taking every limit of the track, achieving extremely fast and agile lap times, but it seemed that the broom was following a rail right next to the wall, so close was she to the wall at many of these times. Alanna was even in shock, she already had the experience of having seen Laura in practice, but not in a race in the same team, she was much more smashing than Lucy Watson ever was and with this McLaren gets the first 10 points of the season and leads the championship. With the Frenchwoman finishing the race in second position.
POV Laura:
Yes, I knew I could do it! This broom is very close to my riding style! Plus I'm finally getting it to the end without breaking it! Perfect! Especially since now is my huge chance to become champion! I will do it for Bern's grandmother! It will be a fitting tribute to that wonderful woman who took care of my wife! She never even got a chance to see our daughter! And not even my career peak that starts now! What the hell! I soon arrived at the hotel and ran into Bern who was all happy and celebrating my victory.
- That's right baby! You're too fucking great! - she said, running towards me and giving me a kiss.
- Oh thanks honey... I will finally win the championship this year for sure, there will be no one to hold me back! I'm going to fuck it up - I tell her with a confident smile on my face.
- It seems that you finally got the ideal racing broom that you wanted so much, now you just have to follow everything with skill and ability, don't throw away your chance to become a champion, show that you really are the best - said my cabbage giving me a lot of affection, encouraging me even more to keep racing... I really did well today and the broom helped me a lot, it was very well built.
- And it will be just in the year that you will graduate my love... What do you know... And when are we going to make it? - I ask Bern, who answers me immediately.
- I still have a few months to graduate and even after that I still have to be hired by some hospital and stabilize myself there, then maybe we can think about having a child... Let's not do like Rose who had Phoebe so early, or Eleanora who has four daughters, let's give a little insurance - she said what I agree with the head and for me getting pregnant or not, I would continue running only in this season and stop in the next one just to focus totally on taking care of my daughter, I'm already extremely rich, there is no need to be running and I proved to the whole world how skilled I am.
POV Narrator:
After all this talk, they go to the house, already decided that it will still take a long time to make their daughters, already Daryl wasn't paying much attention to Laura's victory, he even thought it was bad to see her winning and said that it was all because of the broom that she wasn't really skilled, but this didn't intimidate McLaren at all. On the other hand another person in the family ended up looking bad in the meantime. Tracey Hanbridge was another victim of terminal cancer, so that by the time she found out, it was too late.
In the season Laura drove the truck over everybody, there was nobody to hold the Irish girl that conquered the 56th Pole Position and the 44th victory in the British GP on March 26th. Two weeks later, in Portugal, it was the 57th Pole Position and the 45th victory, Laura was showing why 50 Million Pounds were worth with the 35 Million Pounds salary per year given to the Irish girl. 04/23, Italy, a track that had not seen a victory from Laura for a long time due to the constant sabotages that Lucy Watson did for her side in the previous seasons, saw McLaren winning the 58th Pole Position and the 46th victory. 07/05, Belgium, another impressive performance by the Irish driver who got the Pole Position number 59 and the 47th victory. She didn't give a chance to Alanna Russeau, who was always in second position behind McLaren, who didn't take it easy, showing why she was the most skilful driver of the grid. May 14, Sweden, an old track but that Laura showed a lot of service, until then the season was with a certainty, that Laura McLaren would become the great champion of that season without any doubt, that she would not take it so lightly, that the redemption of the Irish girl was coming, it was very possible that she would repeat the feat of 1991 in that season, with a much better broom than the one that she raced in 91, winning 60 Pole Positions and 48 victories. The record of Pole Positions put her in the select group of runners with more pole positions in the history of the event. The great record holder until then was the English woman Irene Benson (1823-1853) with 87 Pole Positions, ahead of Victoria McLaren (1732-1901) who had 68 Pole Positions and Maria Du Nord (1737-1854) with 61 Pole Positions. Laura was one of only four female racers with the most pole positions in history, and that with only one title.
Sunday, May 28, 1995, United States
The 1995 season had without a doubt the total domination of Laura McLaren in the World Broom Racing Championship, she arrived like a steamroller, showing the same performance that she had in 1991 with the LEAF, not even Alanna expected that she would be so dominant, the Irish racer was galaxies ahead of all the racers in the grid and it wouldn't be different to show that in the Salem GP, where she always won every year, because it was a race that was different, It demanded the magic and ability of the witch herself because it was always done with a common broom and that was what Laura could control normally, it wouldn't be so hard for the Irish girl to win there, so she ties with Maria Du Nord in Pole Positions, but it's during the race that the Irish girl shines when she starts to take fast lap after fast lap, she was already the recordist in Salem, they even thought that it would be impossible to lower her lap time, until in lap 22 she set a time of 6:11:741 far ahead of the normal laps given by Alanna who finished in second position and Russeau's best lap was around 7:03:133. Laura was really a very different runner in the grid, so much that she finished the race with style and so she conquered one more victory, going up to 49 and she had everything to be with 50 victories in her career and so to become one of the runners with 50 victories in her career that was a very impressive feat, not even Lucy Watson (43 victories) and not even Alanna Russeau (48 victories) had these numbers with only one title, both conquered these victories along the seasons, they rarely got more than 8 victories per season. The Salem GP also served to determine the championship's progress, since it was followed by a break that would only return in August. Until then the dispute of the championship was with 75 points for Laura against 56 of Alanna, this because the two were responsible for most of the points of the World Broom Racing Championship in all the championship the results were almost always 1-2 to the side of the Scuderia Italiana racers. Showing that they had the best brooms of the whole grid and that they had the ability to dominate an entire season running over all the competition and that was what they wanted to show, because it was still just a broom designed by the team itself with an old chassis, since Laura had more ambitious projects for the next season.
In this time of recess Tracey Hanbridge was taking a slight turn for the worse, she refused to go through chemotherapy, in trust of magic, she trusted a lot that magic could possibly be the solution to her problems, but it wasn't quite like that, she had already lost a lot of weight, and by sheer bastardry Paul was stimulating her mother even more to continue with this thought of believing in magic showing the falseness of it, only wanting her own mother to die so that he could get rid of her.
Friday, June 2, 1995, Scotland, Cavendish Residence
It was another day of Tracey and Paul's visit, the two soon arrive there and it was remarkable how thin and weak she was, to the point that she even had to walk in a wheelchair, Bernadette was in the penultimate semester of college and it was just a matter of time to graduate as a doctor, Laura was training and preparing for the return to the track, it was a normal afternoon like any other, Daryl was with his two daughters walking through the yard when he noticed the Hanbridge's limo approaching the house, with this she looks from afar and reflects.
POV Daryl:
That damn stubborn Tracey... She can't die now, my money is in her hands... If she dies he will try to do a DNA test, I am sure and it will come back negative with every possible way... These two girls are a little bit like Lucy... They have nothing of Paul... With him gone I have no one else to get money from, my grandmother died and with that my allowance went with it... Bem doesn't give me any allowance, instead she tells me to go to work, even though I have to take care of my girls... But what a cruel and wretched woman this sister of mine is... If I continue like this I will never be able to get rid of her... But how can I do this? I still have to wait for her to have the child... The child is my hope, with her having a child I will be free to manipulate her and thus turn against her mother, or even get rid of Bern and with that she will be alone with me? But I have to find a way... Besides I have to get Laura out of the way, if I go back to the clues to sabotage her they may suspect again and with that the blame doesn't stay with Lucy and that four eyes may get to me... If she got to Watson easily... She may get to me and finding out that Laura is the one attacked this may result in a suspicion turned on me after a while looking closely at Lucy, she may get to me simply because I am the other person who does not get along with Laura.
- Mommy! Mommy! Daddy! Grandma! - Said the two girls, which I immediately looked at them in the stroller and they were all bouncy and happy.
- Let's go see what they want, since they are so clingy with them - I tell them both and start to go with the cart towards the house, arriving there I saw Paul and Tracey there... Geez... Tracey looks like a raisin so thin and finished, this cancer is really finishing with her, I wave to the two and soon the two children get out of the stroller and go running to hug Paul who only stays with the greatest indifference in the world ... If you have to pretend to be a father, at least pretend to be a present father, you imbecile.
- Daryl... So good to see you here... I can imagine how hard it has been to take care of Maryl and Merrill all by yourself without Bella's help around here... Well, at least Paul is making himself present. He is making me proud, he has graduated as a lawyer and now he is being a very present father to the girls, he is always coming here and bringing these two princesses to the house... For me he can bring them more often, that way I'll be calmer when my time comes... - She said what I get all down... She can't die now, my money that I get from Paul and from her can't end.
- No! Don't say that Tracey, we can still save you... Look at the treatment that can save your life... Don't let yourself get beaten so easily," I tell her, trying to be all sentimental. Ewww... Disgusting, if it wasn't for your money I would want you to die.
- That's right Mom, magic will save you, I'm sure it will, trust in magic, you've always been a powerful witch, it's not possible that now it won't save you - said the fake Paul until I turned my face and walked out of there a little annoyed, but not showing it, walking towards the library of the mansion.
When I get there I start to get angry, I was deeply disgusted that his mother who knows the bastard so well was falling for it, what a son of a bitch, I hate this man... If she dies... My money is gone... If my money disappears I have nothing to do for fun... I have to accept Bern's conditions, I have to work... I'll have to put up with these two together and all happy and happy! Ahhhhhh! I angrily kick the library book shelf with all my might and this causes some books to fall forward right on top of me and since there was no one around I am swallowed by all those books... Fuck, I'm not having any luck today, fuck you... I hate this fucking life.
"…At 1 km distance the two people start to feel strong headaches, dizziness, nausea and nausea, the symptoms intensify as the witches get closer to each other, The symptoms intensify as the witches get closer to each other, which can cause the person to feel a greater loss of movement and as they get closer to each other, the stronger the blows to the stomach are felt, which are constant perforations from the reaction of the curse of the metal spheres, the closer they get, the more the stomach is perforated, to the point of passing through the stomach and reaching vital organs and thus causing the death of both witches..."
What? Was this a divine call? Did the nine witches give me the sign I needed? I quickly grab that book that was in my face and get out of the middle of that pile that was burying me, then as I close I notice the cover, it was quite simple "The curse of the metal spheres" Is this a novel? I was so biologically accurate I think it must really be... "By Margaret Benson Ford"... That name... That name is very familiar... I remember hearing it somewhere. Ah... The witch who ruined the whole Cavendish family, so they say... Who used a spell to drive Louise Du Nord and Adeleine Du Nord away from the Cavendish family mansion in 1936... Now I remember... That really happened... I wonder if that is the thing she used. I don't know, but I will keep this book with me, it could be very useful to me.
I put that book very well hidden in my bag and start to tidy up those shelves, I couldn't just leave it like that, so I put everything in the respective place, besides I didn't want to cause a mess, I put all the books in place and went after some loose book where I put it in the place where the book I took was... Well at least here nobody tidies up anything but the servants who don't have a whole sense of organization, so I run out of that library and go towards my room, in the middle of the way I run into Anna, one of the house maids, she soon starts meddling where she shouldn't be.
- Ah Mrs. Daryl, where are you going? - Anna asked. I wanted to answer rudely, but I knew it could go badly, so I just answered with a little clarity.
- I'm going to my room, nothing big, I'm just going to relax a bit... I want some privacy... - I tell her who just nods her head and leaves.
- Okay Mrs. Daryl, Miss Bernadette just wanted to know why you left so suddenly, so I'll tell her you're just trying to have your moment of privacy, I won't disturb my ladies, be my guest. She is practically another eye for Bernadette, I have to be careful with this woman.
I went into the room and from there I started to give it a brief read, in the summary of it, it had everything very well detailed... "What is the metal balls curse, how to do it, the care you have to take, the victims, tests, progress, final version, don't use this on yourself, this curse should only be used with people you wish to see keep away from each other" Perfect... Everything I wanted most, I now have for good Margareth Ford's great people-removal curse... I then put that book away along with my money stored under the false bottom near my bed, I lost a good amount of money from those robberies just paying Lucy Watson to sabotage other runners, well at least I still keep on the million, that will serve to carry out this experiment... I might even lose my funding at the hands of Paul Hanbridge... Now I have the most perfect plan of all! Everything is falling into place in my hands! I Daryl Cavendish will succeed in being the great leader of this family! They will all be in my hands and there is nothing they can do about it!
POV Narrator:
Daryl found something that would be worth a lot of gold for her, that was a book of very precise instructions about the polemic metal balls that stay inside the person's stomach, that was enough for her that was short of time, in relation to what could happen in the future, she knew that she couldn't appeal to kill Bernadette and Laura without raising suspicions, after all the second was a witch super known in the whole world and with that her death would be even worse to accomplish, but to move them away would be perfect, after all she wouldn't have Laura's influence in the creation of Diana or Bernadette, one of the two would have to stay with the daughter and the chances were very high that probably it would be the Cavendish, but only in case of being born first the daughter that came from Bernadette, since she also had this variable. But it was still the perfect plan for Daryl to continue with the family in her hands.
Back to the World Broom Racing Championship, the weeks were going by, the competition was back soon, with McLaren very well trained during this break, she was with everything to show her records and so to win more victories. 08/06, Canada, 62 Pole positions and Laura McLaren became the third driver in the history with more pole positions, besides the victory of number 50 that put her in the club of the drivers with more than 50 victories. With a spectacular victory, she would continue like that for the rest of the year. 08/20, Hungary, another victory and Pole Position of Laura 63/51, a race that was marked by the incredible speed in a so hard circuit, what showed a little that the brooms of that season were getting too fast, even more because Laura showed that well and even said that they were very dangerous, that could even kill a runner. 03/09 Germany, a race that Laura didn't see the pole position for a long time for the lack of speed, this time she shows it with a lap that put 2 seconds on top of Alanna, making that everybody was amazed with the way she was extremely fast with the same equipment, they were already many consecutive victories and it wasn't different in Germany. Laura conquered the 64ª Pole Position and also the 52ª victory being the tenth consecutive of the season and the twelfth consecutive of the Irish woman that was surpassing the record that she made in 1991 of 11 consecutive victories and she was very close to the record of Maria Du Nord of 14 consecutive victories.
Sunday, September 10, 1995, Ireland
The race that would define the championship Laura was about to achieve a feat that she was until then a very unique racer in accomplishing, of winning a championship at home, it was in the circuit that had no mistake, perfect for Laura, who got the 65th Pole Position of her career and with that she just stayed all concentrated for the race, she said that she didn't care much for the championship at that moment, since it was practically guaranteed, with a smashing record of 3 seconds in the dry in relation to the second placed, it was where Laura could shine with a lap that she said that was the perfect lap of her career. Until the long awaited race moment arrives. 50 laps in, Laura and the track at Four Leaf Clover Broom Raceway, hunting for her fifth consecutive home victory, a record among practically the most high-level racers for most home victories. In the race Laura makes what was for her one of the biggest demonstrations of dominant performances, when she finished with 2 laps in relation to the leader, taking faster lap after faster lap, it was so fast and precise that the broom of Scuderia Carlucci couldn't hold up to the point of crossing the finish line and stop smoking from the magical orb of it and with that Laura wins the second title of her career, becoming two times champion of the World Broom Racing Championship. In the podium ceremony she was very happy with that conquest, cheering up all the public, still missing 5 races for the end of the season, she repeats what she did in the season that she started with 11 victories in a row in that year.
After the impressive win that gave her the championship in Ireland, Laura may have the redemption she so deserved, but she still wanted more, so for the rest of the season she made sure to emphasize that she was going to get more and more wins. Said and done, 09/24, France, 66ª Pole Position in career, 54ª Victory right in the local race of Alanna Russeau where everybody thought that the public would hate, on the contrary, the French people got up to clap Laura McLaren, that impressed even the local public. 10/01, Spain, another pole position and another victory for Laura McLaren's account, staying with 67 and 55, another race that had a round of applause to Laura McLaren, who passed the record of most consecutive victories, that until then was Maria Du Nord with 14 victories, staying this way with an impressive 15 consecutive victories. 10/08, Scotland, Laura stuck in the record of the ancestor of Pole Positions with both having 68 and it was another track that she had never lost, so she keeps the same record and she wins for 56th time, near also the record of the ancestor with 60 victories, showing that she had everything to become the greatest McLaren in the history of broomstick racing. 10/22, Japan, penultimate race of the year, Laura wins again and nobody can hold her, the record of 15 races won in a season became something unbeatable, and also the 17 victories in a row in one season, Laura was creating new records in the category and so in the race she wins the 69th pole position together with the 57th victory in her career.
Sunday, November 5, 1995, Australia
The last race of the year, had everything to be special, so much that it was the time when Alanna Russeau announced her retirement from broom racing after racing since 1984, the champion of the 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1994 seasons got tired of trying to win titles for the competition since it had too much politicking and showed the world how incredibly talented she was, planning then her farewell to the 1995 Australian GP, the last race of the year, She also made a statement to Laura: "I've raced with many world champions, many of them with many titles in their curriculum, but none has passed the truck over me as well as Laura McLaren, this girl is in another league and you can be sure that you are witnessing history here with the greatest broomstick racer of all time. In the race was when things got interesting, Laura purposely started badly and made her broom fail, so she left in the last position and started the whole race by sewing the racers one by one, she wanted to see if she was able to make a recovery race like that, since she had the championship won, she was very unpretentious, she proved that in every way, She passed everyone in a few laps, but when she was in second position she held on and didn't pass Alanna Russeau, she even let her win to show a gesture of kindness to the French racer so that she would have a proper farewell, since she was being crushed a whole season by McLaren and with that the record of most consecutive wins stagnates at 17, and in one season she has 15.
Championship standings:
1st: Laura McLaren (72) (IRE) (Carlucci) 163 Points (Champion)
2nd: Alanna Russeau (28) (FRA) (Carlucci) 108 points
3rd: Melanie Van Der Strauss (99) (NED) (Victoria) 72 points
The 1995 season was marked by the great redemption of Laura who won a championship where she set new records as the highest score ever reached in the history of a 16 race season with 163 points, as well as she showed how she was a very sporty runner giving the last victory of the season and of the career to her teammate Alanna Russeau. The Irish finally could show how she was a high caliber racer, so soon she also proved that she was very fast, which made the Broom Racing Association to take measures to reduce the speed of the brooms and make them safer, it would be with this that Laura for the broom chassis of the following season where she had all motivation to win all the races of the season, since she also wanted to show the world why she has everything to be the greatest racer of the history.
See you redeemed witches...
