A tear streamed down Steven's cheek as the memory of his mother's death played in his mind. For as long as he could remember, every time his father talked about his mother it made him cry, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. Now that he had seen what his mother was like he understood why it always made his father so sad to talk about her. When he woke up he was a mess of sadness and didn't really want to do any missions today. Luckily Solomon and Sister Nora had decided to give them the day off.

Steven stayed in his room and listened to some music on the radio, Dipper went to do research, Manny was just being lazy, and the girls had gone shopping into town. They were getting some groceries, medicines, garlic, and other things they might need. During their shopping trip Frida couldn't help but feel like someone was watching her. She stopped and looked around herself every few minutes to see if anyone was spying on her but she didn't see anyone.

"You okay?" Connie asked noticing her uneasiness.

"I'm fine but I have the weirdest feeling somebody's watching me. Do you see anyone staring at me?"

"No."

"Maybe it's my imagination."

But someone was watching them, someone with purple eyes full of envy and hatred. Zoe Aves, the young witch who Manny had spurned a hundred years ago and out of anger and jealousy she killed his fiance and turned him to stone. Being a witch she could live for a very long time and still look young. When she heard that Manny had been freed from his stone prison she tried to seduce him but as you probably already know he rejected her and she believed it was because of the nun he was supposed to protect. Just looking at her made her feel a hot, seething, burning rage that refused to cease as long as Frida was still alive.

"If that homely little nun thinks she can get in my way. She has another thing coming." Zoe snapped her fingers and three toads appeared in her hands. She brought each of the toads close to her lips and whispered a chant to them. "When you touch that girl make her an old and ugly hag."

When Frida walked by, Zoe let out silent cackle and threw the toads on to her. But as soon as they touched her the nasty toads turned into three lovely roses.

"Roses? Where did they come from?" Frida asked looking around.

"I don't know but they sure are pretty." Connie said.

"Do you want them?"

"Sure but don't you want them?"

"Flowers aren't really my thing."

"That's too bad because red roses would look good in that blue hair of yours."

"Thanks but beauty isn't really me."

Zoe snarled and cursed under her breath, enraged that her plan had failed. She then summoned two of her pet crows. She stroked their black feathers and kissed each of them. "Fly my pets, fly. Fly down to that girl, scratch out her eyes, and tear off her hair."

The crows did as their mistress ordered and swooped down onto Frida and Connie but once their talons made contact with Frida's body the mean black crows changed into two gentle white doves. One perched himself on to her shoulder while the other landed on her finger.

"Oh hello." She greeted. "Where did you two come from?"

"They're so cute." Connie said stroking one of them. "Strange though there aren't many doves in Maine."

"These two must've been made a wrong turn during migration."

"You two hungry?" Connie asked. She pulled some bread from her bag and crushed them into crumbs which she fed to the doves.

"My darlings!" Zoe screeched in an angry whisper. "That wretched girl has turned them into stupid doves! Just what kind of power does she have?! Well you know the saying, if you want something done right you have to do it yourself."

With that said she waited until Connie went into a shop and Frida was alone before she walked over and introduced herself.

"Excuse me." She said. "You're Frida Suarez right?"

"Um yeah who are you?"

"I'm Zoe Aves, has Manny ever mentioned me?"

"Not that I know of, wait how do you know him?"

"I'm an old flame of his. We had something a long time ago anyway I hear you now live with him is that correct?"

"Yes."

"Look I know it's none of my business but isn't that against your religion?"

"I beg your pardon?"

"I mean you know, you being a nun and last I checked nuns were supposed to be virgins."

"Whoa! Whoa now! I may live with the guy but it's not like that!"

"It isn't?"

"No he's just protecting me. He's kind of like my guardian."

"Well if that's the case then worry not I can assign another guardian for you, one who's not some half devil."

"Thanks but I don't want another one. I admit Manny can be hard to live with but he's actually a lot nicer than he lets on and he's pretty much one of the best friends I ever had so there's no need for that."

"I see well then I'm afraid you'll have to die."

"What?"

She grabbed Frida's neck and held it tight with a great strength that Frida couldn't believe belonged to a woman.

"Oh God this hurts! What do I do! Oh crap!" Frida thought.

"Zoe!" A familiar voice shouted angrily.

"Manny right on time." Zoe said. "You're looking very handsome today."

""What do you think you're doing?"

"Well right know I'm deciding on weather to strangle this girl to death or just dig my nails into her skin until she bleeds to death."

"Let her go right now! Can't you see she's scared?"

"You know it pains to see you like this Manny. Reduced to serving a little girl, tell me do you really enjoy this position?"

"It is none of your business!" He hissed. "Now let her go or I'll burn you like the witch you are!"

"Burn me and she dies!"

She began to dig her nails into Frida's neck. She screamed in pain which was torture for Manny to hear.

"Stop! I can't stand it! You're hurting me! Let go!" Frida screamed.

But Zoe ignored her cries. Poor Manny was stuck, if he threw a flame or attacked Frida would get caught in the middle. He couldn't do anything and it scared him.

"Damn you Zoe! Stop it!" He demanded.

"I said let go!" Frida screamed. A bright light flashed and it burned Zoe's hands causing her to release her neck. Zoe quickly tried to grab her neck again but Manny as fast as lighting threw a flame between the two girls.

"Frida!" Manny shouted. He pulled her into his arms and held her protectively. "You're safe now. Thank goodness."

She nuzzled into his neck while he held her tighter and glared at Zoe. She glared back them, her eyes giving off the horrible purple twinge.

"Enjoy this moment together!" She screeched. "Because you don't have many left!"

She disappeared in a mist of black smoke.

"Are you alright?" He asked.

"My neck hurts but I'm okay." She said. "Is she gone?"

"Yeah."

"That was her wasn't it? The witch who cursed you?"

"Yeah that was her."

"But shouldn't she be dead?"

"Ever since I broke out of my stone body I had prayed from the bottom of my heart that she was dead. But she's alive and still as young, powerful, and wicked as she was a hundred years ago."

"Why did she attack me? I don't even know her and she tried to kill me."

"Simple because I refused to love her, she's made it her life goal to destroy everything and everyone I hold dear."

"Manny." She blushing.

"Or at least everyone she thinks I hold dear. Not that I consider you dear to me, I only protect you because i'm forced to and the old man will exorcise me if anything happens to you."

"Oh...Of course." She said upset and slightly angry. "Why would I ever be considered dear to you?"

"My thoughts exactly."

"Since I'm not important she'll leave me alone right?"

"No she won't."

"But you just said-"

"I could tell her that til I'm blue in the face and she still wouldn't believe it. She's jealous of any woman in my life."

"Can she just move on?"

"Frida if she was the kind of woman who did that I wouldn't be here. Where's Connie?"

"In the shop down there."

"Alright go get her, we're going home."

She had never seen Manny in such a rush to get home nor had she ever seen him so afraid not that she blamed him. Now that she had meant Zoe and saw what she was capable of she understood why Manny was so scared.

"Wait a minute so you're saying your crazy ex lover who turned us all to stone is still alive?!" Steven gasped when he told them the news. "How is that possible?"

"Well Steven it is a known fact that witches are immortal." Dipper said. "They practice witchcraft which is another form of devil work and devil work earns you immortality however it doesn't last forever. So is she coming by here?"

"Probably. Knowing Zoe she won't give up easily." Manny said. "But you two have nothing to worry about. It's me she's pissed at."

"But she turned all three of us into rocks."

"The curse she cast was meant for me but she was enraged at my rejection that she let the spell bounce off several places and hit you two."

"So she's only after you?" Steven asked.

Manny knew that Frida was also a target for the witch's wrath but he feared if he told them that they would jump to the conclusion that Manny cared for her.

"Yes she's after me alone."

"She also wants to kill Frida." Dusk said.

"Ahhh! Ghosts!" Steven and Dipper shrieked at the sight of the wisps.

"Oh yeah I forgot about them." Manny said. "Dipper, Steven meet Dusk and Dawn their willow wisps."

"And we're not ghosts!" Dusk said. "There's a huge difference between a wisp and a ghost."

"We watch over Sister Frida and report how she's doing to Father Gardner." Dawn said. "And it appears she's in danger."

"She is not." Manny said. "Perhaps if we were lovers as she constantly suspects in her ridiculous paranoia and envy. But we are not and our relationship is strictly platonic."

"You sure?" Steven said.

"Positive."

"But we saw her try to kill Frida today." Dusk said.

"Quiet you!" Manny hissed. "As for you two, rat and dog, be about your business and leave me to mine."

"I'm not a rat/dog!" They shouted.

"Whatever. Just stay out of my way."

He went upstairs to his room and went on top of the roof. When he was a child he would always sit up there when he wanted to think something through. He remembered how his mother would constantly beg him to come down, afraid that he would fall off every time she saw him up there. As a young boy he knew it was dangerous but being up high places helped him relax and think and he definitely needed to think right now.

"Damn." He thought. "What am I gonna do? Ever since I first laid eyes on Frida I was terrified that the she would suffer the same fate as Analia. I don't why I'm so scared of that, I guess it's because they look so much alike. But I know one thing for sure, if anything were to happen to her it would be like watching Analia die all over again and I couldn't bear to watch that again."

"Hello." He looked up to see a bat perched on his shoulder. Manny quickly flicked him off.

"What are you doing here Steven?"

"I just wanted to see if you were okay."

"Why do you care? What bothers me is none of your business."

"You know you're really different from who you used to be." Steven said. "When we first met on the battlefield, during that God forsaken war. You were a different man, you were happy, carefree, and a lot nicer too."

"That's because things were different for me back then. I had something that made me happy."

"It was your fiance right?"

Manny went silent.

"It's okay if you don't wanna talk about her."

"Her name was Analia Montoya. She was a holy woman, meaning she had purity, holy, and healing powers. Zoe was furious that we were getting married, furious that i chose to love another woman so she killed her...Right in front of me."

"I'm sorry you lost her. I know it must be pretty painful."

"We'll everybody's lost someone they loved once. They move on."

"Yeah but not everybody has to spend everyday looking after a person who looks just like that lost loved one."

"What are you talking about?"

"I know Frida looks identical Analia."

"What? How-"

"I saw your picture of her."

"You WHAT?! WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU CLOWNS ABOUT TOUCHING MY STUFF?!"

"It was an accident! I swear! Dipper and I were just helping you after you lost your temper when it fell out of your jacket! I swear I put it back!"

Manny grunted but then calmed down. He then pulled the locket picture frame from his jacket and opened it to show the photo of the woman he loved and lost.

"She's very beautiful." Steven said.

"She gave this to me before I left for war. She believed that if I kept thinking of her I would come back to her and she was right I came back to her but she was taken from me."

"By any chance would Zoe be trying to kill Frida due to her resemblance to Analia?"

"Fine, yes. She is because she stupidly believes that I might fall in love with her due to that but her fears are for nothing because despite their physical similarities, Frida and Analia are complete opposites."

"Really?"

"Yes Analia was quiet, calm, proper, polite, and composed whereas Frida is loud, brash, clumsy, awkward, and annoying. I never seen two women look so alike and act so different."

"Lord works in the mysterious ways."

"Well that's enough sob stories for now." He sighed. "Could you leave me alone now?"

"Alright. I need a nap anyway."

He then flapped away leaving Manny alone with his thoughts. It wasn't long before he found himself falling asleep. As for Frida, when she and Manny had gotten back he insisted that she stay at the manor and not leave but she was a very restless girl and didn't like being kept in one place for a long time. To amuse herself she started exploring her room. She hadn't had much time to do so since they started hunting monsters and demons.

"Hope you don't mind me going through your stuff Analia." She said to the deceased person who previously owned the bedroom she was in. She checked the closet but it was completely empty, Frida decided to fill it with some of her clothes. She didn't have a lot except for her usual outfit, some underwear, a purple nightgown, and a white robe.

Once she was done there she began checking out the vanity and mirror. That one was more full. It had various vanities that most girls from the 1800's would have. Hair brush, comb, a powder puff, rougue, powder, lavender water, and perfume.

"What my sisters would have killed to have this kind of stuff." She thought to herself.

She spotted a trunk by her bed. She opened it to find a drape covering something. She pulled back the drape to find one of the most beautiful and extravagant wedding gown she had ever seen. It was a white colored long-sleeve, silk organza gown with flowers hand painted onto the gown's skirt. The veil was one of tulle the was held in place by a white lily comb and there were strings of pearls for the bride to wear around her neck.

"Wow." She said gazing at it. "I'm not one for dresses but this is...Incredible."

"It was his mother's." Dawn said coming in. "When Manny's mother agreed to marry his father he vowed to make her the most beautiful wedding gown imaginable. He went as far as to add some clothing style that was ahead of it's time. There never was a more beautiful bride, since he never had any sisters she decided to give her wedding gown to the woman Manny would marry."

"Was Analia going to wear it?"

He surprised her with it just a week after he proposed. She said it was the most beautiful dress in the world and that she couldn't wait to wear it. But she never got the chance, poor Manny can't even bring himself to look at that dress anymore."

"How do you know all this?"

"I know from what Father Gardner tells me. Before now Manny didn't really know him but his parents did and so did Analia."

"How did he know Analia?"

"They worked at the same church, a church that she had hoped to get married in. From what I know about Analia Montoya she was the lost bride apart of a wedding that would never be."

"That's so sad. I can't imagine what Manny must've felt when he lost her. It must've been the most horrible thing ever."

"I think he's had worse." A voice said behind her. She turned to see Zoe standing at the balcony of her room. "My it's been a long time since I've been in this room. About a hundred years to be exact. My how this brings back memories, I remember listening to that dreadful Analia going on and on about how excited she was about her wedding day only to have her dreams be shattered."

"You heartless woman!" Frida cried. "How could you do something so horrible to him?"

"Oh please it's not like I wanted to kill her. Wait scratch that I did and I enjoyed every moment of it."

"Why did you kill her? What did she ever do to you?"

"She stole the man I loved from me that's what she did. You know this wedding dress would've been mine had she not interfered."

"I seriously doubt that and I seriously doubt you love Manny at all."

"Oh but I did love him, still do. I never stopped and I know he still loves me."

"My God you're insane. You'd have to be if you really think he loves you after what you did."

"Well he won't love me, not as long as you're alive."

"Me? I've got nothing do with how he feels about you. If he hates you it's your own fault for being a jealous, demented, psychopath!"

"Shut up!" She raised her hand and sent Frida flying backwards into the other room.

"Frida!" Dawn gasped. "Leave her alone you-"

"Beat it you pest!" She swatted the wisp out the window with just a twitch of her finger. "I've got bigger fish to fry!"

Frida quickly picked herself up off the floor and ran downstairs outside.

"Oh so you're going to try and out run me are you?" Zoe said. "Well that will only make your demise more interesting."

She levitated herself out the mansion and chased after Frida. Manny sensing her fear, woke up from his sleep in a flash.

"Oh no!"

He quickly jumped off the roof landing on his feet and followed the trail left. Frida ran for her life while desperately thinking about how she was going to escape. Suddenly she tripped and got her foot caught in some thorns.

"Well, well, no where to run." Zoe snickered. "Time's up nun girl."

"Look can't we just talk about this?" Frida asked trying to get her foot out. "I mean killing me does seem a bit too harsh right?"

"Bye-bye little nun girl, say hi to God for me."

"Oh no you don't!" Manny pounced on top of Zoe and the two began to tackle each other. They made strange animal like noises, they sounded like a wild cat and a bird of prey fighting. Frida continued to try and get her foot out of the thorns. When all else failed she grabbed a nearby rock, sharpened it, and tried to use it to cut the vines.

"Come on, come on, cut! Cut!" She pleaded.

Zoe had Manny pinned to the ground by his throat.

"Move and I snap the little wench's neck." She hissed in his ear.

"Why do you persist in tormenting me?" Manny asked.

"You brought this on yourself when you rejected me. I don't want to torture you Manny I just want to love you, all this will stop if you just love me."

"What you speak of is not love! It's insanity!"

"I'm going to give you a choice. Love me, love me like you did a hundred years ago and all this will finally end."

"Get this through your head! I will never love you! I never have and I never will!"

"Then this is goodbye!"

She raised her hand and dagger like talons grew from them. She was just about to slice his throat when...

"No!" Frida cried. "Don't hurt him!"

She lifted her hands up and a bright light shot from them and hit her, knocking her off of him. Zoe screeched in sheer agony as the light began burning her skin.

"You bitch!" She screamed. "You'll pay for this!"

She then fled off and changed into a crow that fell away. Frida rushed to Manny's side and helped him up.

"Are you alright?" She asked him.

"I'm fine but you...Frida what was that? What did you do?"

"I...I don't Manny...I just don't know." She said. "All I know is I just kept thinking that I couldn't let her hurt you. That I had to do something and then it just happened."

"It happened earlier today too. What's happening to you?"

"I don't know, I really don't know."

...

Zoe returned to her lair, her body half way burnt by the light Frida shot at her. She would have to recover for days before going back.

"How?" She said to herself. "How did that common girl defeat me? How?"

"It is because she is a holy woman."

Standing across from her looking very smug and proud was Father Gardner.

"You!" She snarled. She wiped her talons at him on for her hand to go right through him.

"Oh please there's no need for that. This is just a mere illusion."

"Damn minister! Why are you here?"

"Just come to deliver a message. My ward is no ordinary human girl, she's a holy woman the polar opposite of a witch that is why your toads and crows had no effect on her, her soul was too holy, pure, and loving and that's why she was able to defeat you."

"This cannot be! Analia was a holy woman and she didn't fight me."

"She didn't know you were a threat until it was too late but Frida does and I have ensured that Manny will protect her from anything and anyone no matter what, so if you intend to kill her well...I think you should find another goal because no witch stands a chance against a holy woman as you probably now realize."

"If you think I'm going to let some loud mouth nun get the best of me you've got another thing coming Father!"

"Temper, temper."

"You planned this!"

"excuse me?"

"Pairing up Manny and that nun. You did it on purpose didn't you?"

"You're acting like it's a great big secret, of course I did it on purpose."

"Oh no, do you really think I'm that stupid. You just coincidentally chose Manny to protect a girl who happens to look like the wench I slaughtered a hundred years ago! You expect me to believe that?!"

"Maybe it was a coincidence and then again maybe it wasn't. I've been around for quite some time and I've seen things. Such a pity, you still haven't figured it out."

"Figured what out?"

"You want Manny's love and you thought curses and murder would help you get it and yet well he's pursuing you is he? Shouldn't that tell you something?"

"I am not going to sit here and be lectured by the illusion of a self-righteous, wise ass minister! Get out!"

"Very well but a word of advice. Give up on your obsession and repent before it's too late. Ta-ta!"

The illusion faded.