p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"/p
h1 style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-size: 2.5em; font-family: Georgia, serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1; text-align: center; color: #2a2a2a;"Chapter 8: Loss Love/h1
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Lizzie?!" MG says waking up to see Lizzie by his bedside /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""You remember me?" Lizzie asks confused figuring that Malivore would have worked to erase her from people's minds /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Yeah Hope, got Josie to do the Japanese purge spell the minute she realized we had no memories of you. Josie and Hope tried the summoning spell to pull you out of Malivore but it didn't work. We have all been hitting the books trying to figure out if there was a way to bring you back. It's been 2 weeks since you saved the day and Malivore consumed you. How did you escape Malivore?" MG explains and then asks confused at how Lizzie was back /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Malivore has a ton of magic stored in it, me being the leach that I am sucked in quite a bit of the magic and then Malivore opened a portal for me to leave. I could feel Malivore's loneliness and all the poor condemned monster that he had held prisoner in him. I could also feel his magic try to invade me but since I am a siphon witch I just absorbed his magic to become my own. Once Malivore realized that he couldn't punish me and that I was hurting him he opened a portal for me to leave. But enough about being in Malivore I need your help," Lizzie explains /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""How are you alive? Landon said that anything that didn't have Hope's blood in their system would die if they were thrown into Malivore. Also, you know I will help you with anything," MG says /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I don't think that the Hobbit's statement is accurate. There were plenty of monsters in Malivore and they were not dead in cages, yes, but not dead. The only reason I was able to escape being controlled by Malivore is because I used my siphon abilities. For some reason Malivore couldn't get into my head nor lock me up like the rest of the monster he has consumed. Cleo thinks it's more than my siphon abilities, but I told her the only other thing would be helpful to fight off possession would be my messed up mind. Cleo is a witch I met in Malivore I sprained her out of her cage because she said she saw me in a vision and Malivore finally dead. She also said she had a vision of meeting Hope. She said that in the vision it was my connection to Hope that helped to defeat Malivore. I told her she sounded like an oracle with vague riddle-like answers but she said she was a witch who tricked Malivore in order to spare her village. Cleo you can come out of hiding MG isn't going to kill you. He is actually the vampire we need," Lizzie explains /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Hello, MG, my name is Cleo Sowande as Lizzie has kindly stated. She is correct in that I had a vision of the Tribrid and her along with Malivore's demise. I am not sure what my vision means, only that Lizzie plays a role in Malivore's downfall. She did help free me from Malivore but I am skeptical of her plan and wonder if she is suicidal," Cleo says coming out of the invisibility cloaking spell /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Hey I could have let you rot in Malivore but decided to save you. Also I will have you know my plans are kick ass. Just ask my sister Josie I win at games and what is life if not some messed up form of a game? Plus I know that if you are left alone with Hope you will try to kill her in an attempt to have a weapon that can for sure kill Malivore. Another thing is just because I am trying to help you from fleeing Malivore's wrath, I have not forgotten that you still want to know the location of where the third artifact is. So to prevent you from betraying my friends and unleashing literal hell on earth I plan to kill Malivore freeing you from his control." Lizzie responds giving a knowing smug glace to Cleo /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Cleo you might not trust me but I need you to go to my dad tell him you are running from Malivore and are a witch. Tell him your tale of how you got consumed by Malivore and tell him about your visions. I need to talk to MG privately before I enact my plan to destroy Malivore for good. If I fail you can yell at me and do what you want to kill Malivore, but I urge you to not make any rash decisions before you let me try my plan." Lizzie says ignoring Cleo's jab at her mental stability /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Fine, I will wait but what you have described is a suicide mission. I wish you luck and pray that your hair brained scheme works. For the little time that we have been acquainted I can tell you are a good person so it confuses me why you would wish for death. With all that being said hope you win," Cleo responds before leaving MG and Lizzie /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Cleo does as asked but also wants to meet the tribrid in person to see just what type of person she is. Cleo was surprised that Lizzie called her out on being a potential spy for Malivore but even more shocked that Lizzie still allowed her to interact with the tribrid. Cleo did not want to kill the tribrid but also felt it would be justified and warranted if Lizzie's plan didn't work. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I need your blood because I am going to mix it with Hope's witch wolf blood. If I throw that into Malivore at the same time I am praying it will be enough to kill Malivore without Hope having to die and become a fully activated tribrid," Lizzie explains /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Okay but how does that lead to your death? Also if you think you are going to die please reconsider. We just got you back and speaking selfishly I don't want to lose you again so soon." MG says /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I know. I need you to hear me Milton, you're a good guy, one of the best that I deserve the world and I want it to be me, but deep down I know I can't give you what you want or need. I'm not good for you and I need you to move on. I want you to be happy and for you to be happy it can't be with me. I could try to be in a relationship with you, but it would end disastrously because we both now know that Josie is going to win the Merge at age 22. I don't want you to get attached to me and then I break your heart by dying on you. I also don't want you to ever hate my sister for something we can't control. It's not fair to you or her. I kissed you because I didn't think I would win the Merge and I was correct I didn't. I only came back because of Landon and Hope. I want to love you the way you love me, but I'm not there yet and I'm not sure I will be in time for it to matter or ever if we are being honest. I also feel I shouldn't have to change who I am or who I want just to make you or anyone else happy. You shouldn't try to be anything you aren't either. You are an amazing guy, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I will always love you Milton Greasley but I don't think I love you the way you want or need. I'm sorry that you fell for me and I am sorry that I didn't see it or appreciate it more when I should have," Lizzie says as she holds MG's hands and then face before kissing his forehead /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Thank you for being honest with me but why does this sound like a goodbye?" MG asks with a somber tone /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I need you to tell my sister and Hope that the third artifact is in the woods. Hope should know the location. Josie will be able to break the barrier with her blood. Don't trust Cleo especially with Malivore still alive. Protect Hope and I am hoping this isn't goodbye because it would totally suck to die for a 9th time and not take out the big bad with me. Especially if I die and don't come back. The Hobbit could beat me in the dying and coming back contest and that can not happen ever." Lizzie says jumping from topic to topic to lighten mood /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"MG gives his blood to Lizzie and Lizzie kisses him on the forehead before she leaves to enact her plan against Malivore. MG for his part goes to Dr. Saltzman's office to see the whole squad there. Kaleb, Rafael, Josie, Hope, Landon and now Cleo. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Okay so say it we are still trying to figure out how to get Lizzie out of Malivore," Josie says /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"A loud screeching noise fills the air making everyone cover their ears, the bright light making it impossible to see anything in front of them. Hope felt her heart break because she couldn't save Lizzie and knew as soon as the light faded Lizzie would be gone. Josie was devastated because the last interaction she had with her sister was when she killed her in the Merge. Joise also feels a rush of magic run through her. This type of magic was similar to the time her twin bond was broken. Instead of a cold sharp pain of magic she feels a warm glow of magic rush through her. MG was torn because Lizzie said she would come back and the giant bright light didn't bow well with her holding up her statement. Rafael, Kaleb and Alaric were scared that the light was a bad sign. Landon, Ryan, Cleo, and Hope all felt a rush of magic through themselves, a warm kind of magic taking away the coldness that Malivore left in them previously. Landon, Ryan, Cleo, Hope and Josie all passed out due to the magic that coursed through them signaling the end for Malivore and Lizzie. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Come on Lad wake up," Rafael says worry in his voice as he nudges Landon /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Wholly crap she did it. Lizzie did it she killed him," Landon says the next to wake up /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Punching me won't bring back your friend. I didn't want my dad to rule either but his hold on me was too strong to fight against. For what it's worth I am sorry she's dead," Ryan Clarke says pushing MG off himself /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Liar. She's not dead and you're lucky that she spared your pathetic life!" Hope says anger in her tone as she wakes up /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""All of you shut up! Come on Jo wake up please," Alaric shouts getting everyone's attention onto him and Josie /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Good to see you're awake Josie. Can you please tell Ryan that he is a liar and that your sister is still alive?" Hope asks still angry that Ryan would dare say Lizzie was dead /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I can't. She's dead and this time I don't think she is coming back. The magic that I felt before passing out was the same type of magic that I felt when my twin bond to Lizzie was broken but instead of a sharp cold pain it was warm and comforting even. She's dead … and I… oh god my last interaction with her was me killing her in the Merge. Now she's gone and I never got to apologize to her," Josie says with a sob crying tears rolling down her face as she clings to Alaric /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"MG, and Hope rush to envelope Josie in a group hug, tears also in their eyes. Ryan has the decency to look remorseful as does Cleo who barely knew Lizzie. Rafael hugs Landon trying to comfort him knowing that Landon feels responsible for Lizzie's ultimate demise. Kaleb for his part does seem saddened by the loss of Lizzie even though they were not close friends he spotted her on a few different occasions being kind to Pedro. It was bad enough that everyone had to tell Pedro that Lizzie was visiting with her mom and that is why she was not around for the last 2 weeks. But now the little man would be devastated to know that Lizzie wouldn't be coming back. When everyone calmed down enough to move they all went back to the school to climb into their own rooms to cry for the loss of their friend. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The next day everyone woke up to find a gift on their desks and a note from Lizzie attached to each gift. Kaleb got a vinyl disc of a throwback group he was looking out for and had chatted with Lizzie about before Dark Josie appeared. Lizzie's note to Kaleb read as the following./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Kaleb though we are not particularly close I thank you for always fighting for your vampire brethren to have real human blood and your spectacular taste in music. Doesn't hurt that you know how to catch a football. Take care sincerely Lizzie. /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"MG got a brand-new comic book that was a limited edition he had been dying to read but had not gotten the chance to go out and buy before the Merge thing. His note read as the following. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"MG thank you for always trying to be there for me and look out for me. I'm sorry for ever making you think we could be a thing. Thank you for being you and letting me have the privilege to see you smile. You helped me to always find the light. I hope and pray this is not the end but something tells me it is. I'm sorry I couldn't love you the way you needed or wanted. I know you might want to shut things off but don't. You are stronger than that and there will be someone out there who will see all of you and love you. They can't do that with your humanity off so I urge you to wait just a little longer for that one person to come into your life. In the meantime find ways to heal you can get through this. I believe in you. Oh and one more thing I love you Milton Greasley for being one of the best friends I could ask for and being an all around good guy. Take care sincerely Lizzie /span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Rafael, thank you for joining the school. While we had a rough beginning, I don't regret having slept with you. While we both might have been doing it for different reasons doesn't erase that it happened at least not for me. I can't lie you and your brother brought more danger to the school but also made all of us stronger as people. So, I hope you continue the fight to stay strong. Take care sincerely Lizzie /span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Okay listen/span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"here Hobbit, Mophead, Frodo Baggins, Elf on the shelf, Sentient jar of Mayonnaise, Garden Gnome, Thrift store Hobbit, Muppet Baby, Bird boy, Human size Muppet, or Josie's or Hope's Hipster boyfriend I have no clue what either Hope or Josie saw in you. But in all seriousness, you might have felt like an outsider when we first met but I hope that you can see you are anything but. This world needs more people like you Landon Kirby because you are a good guy despite the circumstances that led you to the Salvator School. You shouldn't have to worry about fitting in because none of us know what we are doing, some of us are just better at hiding it. Like the Ewoks in Star Wars you are a vital support in keeping our super squad going. Like I told your brother Raf both of you brought a lot of trouble but you both also make many of us become better people. Oh, you tell anyone this and I don't actually stay dead I will deny any and all of it. Take care sincerely Lizzie. /span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Alyssa I am sorry I got you killed no matter how brief your death was. It was never my intention to get you or anyone else at the school hurt. I saw this picture on your wall and thought it deserved a nice frame. I am sure wherever your family is they are proud to call you, their daughter. Take care sincerely Lizzie /span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Jed thanks for helping keep the other students safe from my sister in her Dark Josie phase. I see you changing and working to be a better person and I think that deserves a cheers. So do me a favor and pour one out for me at your next party since I don't think I will make it. Take care sincerely Lizzie./span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Cleo while we didn't know each other long I could tell you were trying to get a handle on your vision power. I thought of getting you a sketch pad in hopes it could help you. You also seemed like the artsy type. If what you said about your village is true then I am sure they were grateful for the sacrifice you made. I think you will fit in with the super squad with ease. Take care sincerely Lizzie./span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Dad I'm sorry for making you worry, and I am sorry that I couldn't see for a long time just how great you were. You and mom built this school for Josie and I and I should have been more grateful for that but with you spreading yourself so thin to help others I couldn't help but feel neglected. You just wanted Josie and I to be safe and you also wanted to help those that needed helping. While there are some things you couldn't protect us from, you gave it your all. You were a great dad, and I am asking you for a few more things. Celebrate for me when the super squad finally kills that mud puddle Malivore. Celebrate when everyone graduates. I know that Hope, Rafael, Landon, and Alyssa are the grade above Josie and I but they deserved to have a good celebration. I also hope you don't forget to celebrate Josie's graduating class. Don't worry about me. I will find bio mom hopefully in Peace and tell her you did your best. I love you, Dad. Sincerely your Elizabeth Jenna Saltzman aka Lizzie. /span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"My beautiful sister, my sweet Josie. I'm sorry for leaving you alone in the 2018 Prison World. I am sorry for making you ever doubt my mental stability. I'm sorry for making you terrified of me. I'm sorry for making you feel that you couldn't come to me about the dark magic. I'm sorry for making you believe the only way for you to have friends and a significant other was to lie to me. I'm sorry for ever making you feel invisible or your feelings unheard. I'm sorry for all the times I said I would change and didn't. I'm sorry that you felt responsible for my well being because Dad and Mom were busy. I'm sorry that you felt the need to kill Alyssa infront of me to prove a point. I never wanted you to have blood on your hands. I'm sorry I made you become Dark Josie. I'm sorry that you felt the need to repress the hurt you felt with me just existing. Guess you don't have to worry anymore about me screwing something up. Most of all I am sorry that I didn't tell or show you enough how much I love you. Because despite all the harsh words exchanged I love you Josette Isobel Saltzman. You are my sister, my twin. I couldn't imagine a world without you in it and I am just happy I don't have to. The Merge curse was an advanced linking spell. I was looking at different spell books on breaking linking spells when we were sucked into the 2018 Prison World. I think I left some of my notes on a spell I was developing at Jen's shop. So should the next twins ever need it I think I got most of the spell written there. I think congratulations are an order so cheers to you, the new head of the Gemini Coven. I know part of you never wanted to kill me and I am grateful for that. Another part of me knows you had every right to kill me when you did in the Merge for our 17th birthday. I just feared that if we did Merge I would end up giving you some of my mental health issues. I knew you valued your normalness so I am happy I could help you and Hope. I just pray that this final sacrifice is enough to put an end to Malivore and to make you the head of the coven without us having to Merge. I know you see Hope as more of a sister than me at times. While I am and will always be jealous about that I am happy she will be there for you when I am not. Take care of yourself and know you are always loved. Love Lizzie. /span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Mom, thank you for staying when you didn't have to. For helping in raising Josie and I when we aren't your biological kids. Thank you for trying to find a solution to the Merge even if at times all I wanted was for you to come home. I know you were trying your best and I can only hope you will be around more for Josie now that you no longer need to find a solution. I told Josie in her letter and I will tell you in this one my friend Jen she and I were working on a spell to break the Merge curse. I think I figured it out but I didn't have the time to grab my notes from Jen's workshop before I was transported to the 2018 Prison World. There wasn't much time to go back for it when Josie became Dark Josie. Then I was eaten by Malivore and stuck in him for 2 weeks. When I got out of Malivore I knew I had to act fast so I again didn't have time to tell Jen or grab the notes. To help future twins I think I got most of the spell written out but maybe Aunt Bonnie could look it over. Please tell my friend Jen I am sorry we couldn't have gotten tacos one last time. I also want to make it clear to you that you didn't fail as a parent. You always encouraged me that I wasn't broken and that things would be better. It would just take time. I hoped I lived up to my name sake, your mother. While I joke the name is too formal I am proud that you gave me the name. I also know that you might be tempted to shut it off and I urge you to not. You told me that things take time and I believe that you are strong enough to continue on. I understand wanting to shut off all emotions. God knows how many times I wish I were a vampire so I could shut it all off. What I learned though was even though I was feeling such overwhelming pain and hurt in my life I also got to feel love. I wouldn't have been able to feel the warmth that love leaves if I had turned off my emotions. I know that me being gone will hurt but Josie needs you and so does dad so I will ask this one last time please come home mom. Love Elizabeth Jenna Saltzman aka Lizzie. /span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Well,/span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"I pray my sacrifice went off without a hitch. Turns out you're not the only one with a martyr complex. I was strapped for time when it comes to getting gifts, but I hope you don't mind that your dad drew you in the dress. He originally drew it to tell me thank you for showing him you. Since I am not going to be around, I figured you deserved the drawing. I knew from Josie that it was the anniversary of your late friend Henry Benoit, and you were trying to feel normal. To not dwell on the past, I aimed to distract you from the worries outside of dancing that night. I am sorry it ended in you crying on the dance floor. It was not my intention. I know things were not great between us when Josie, my dad and I got sucked into the 2018 Prison World. I am grateful that you saved me from Dark Josie in the simulation. I am also happy I made it in time to save you from being impaled. I already felt guilty for Alyssa dying. I went to face Dark Josie knowing that me siphoning from MG would do nothing and I would still die. I figured my death would finally snap some sense into Dark Josie. She would return our Josie yet it didn't work and not only did I die I got your Muppet killed in the process. So while you were in Josie's head I came up with various plans to bring both Josie and the Hobbit back. When I was in Malivore I couldn't help but feel a sense of peace. Now I could be punished for having a hand in making Josie become Dark Josie and allowing for the deaths of Alyssa and Landon no matter how brief they were. Yet I also knew staying in Malivore would not solve the issue that Josie or I were going to have to die. I also knew that you might get it in your head to activate your vampire side to finally put an end to Malivore. I believe you should have that choice and for it not to be forced on you by some big bad. If I actually succeeded in killing Malivore and it ended in my death then I would have accomplished giving you the freedom to choose and freeing my sister from potentially dying in the Merge. Truth of the matter, I am happy to have called you my friend no matter how fleeting it was. Take care sincerely Lizzie, your annoying uninvited party crasher. /span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Rick, please tell me it isn't true. That we lost one of them," Caroline says as she enters into Alaric's office /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I don't want to believe it either but one minute she was standing in front of us and the next. There was a bright flash of light and a screaming noise that must have been Malivore dying. It sounded so inhuman and unnatural even. When the light finally faded and the noise subsided Lizzie and Malivore were gone. Josie, Hope, Landon, Ryan Landon's half brother, Cleo, a witch that Lizzie rescued from Malivore all were passed out. Ryan woke up first saying that Lizzie killed Malivore, Landon and Cleo also backed up his statement. Josie was the last to wake up and she confirmed that Lizzie… God she's dead. Josie said she felt magic flow through her like the time her twin bond was broken except it was warm instead of cold." Alaric answer his eyes red from crying /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""We will hold off one week to see if we can't find her. If Bonnie can't find her, we hold a proper funeral for her. People come back all the time you did." Caroline says with a sigh and an optimistic viewpoint /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I had an enchanted ring for many of my deaths. Speaking of, I think you should know this past death was Lizzie's 9th. Apparently she was more than tortured by Aurora and Ryan. She died 7 times wearing an enchanted ring." Alaric says in a somber tone /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""That would explain why she insisted that Bonnie take the ring and keep it. God I should have known to ask and press her to tell me! I was just so caught up in the fact that she was alive and in one piece. Do I want to know how she died the 8th time around?" Caroline asks /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Not really, but I didn't know about the 7 previous deaths until after her 8th death. The Necromancer, a witch zombie guy who was working for Malivore, got Josie, myself and Lizzie trapped in the 2018 Prison World with Kai. Kai managed to escape and tricked Josie into breaking the sand clock, the Mora Miserium, a dark object that contained dark magic. Josie got drunk off the Dark Magic but none of us knew until after we took care of Kai Parker and after we escaped the crumbling 2018 Prison World. Josie or Dark Josie showed her colors when she took over the group simulation therapy. Once everyone escaped the simulation and Dark Josie woke up she took over the school putting me to sleep. I didn't wake up until after Lizzie and Dark Josie performed the Merge ritual. Hope had created a potion to ensure that Lizzie and Josie's minds did not Merge. The potion was a success but Lizzie lost and died. She came back because Hope linked her life to Landon's. Hope's plan B was to do a head dive into Dark Josie's mind; the only way to do that was for Lizzie and Dark Josie to do the Merge ritual. What Hope didn't account for is that Rafael was possessed by the Necromancer to kill Landon with the golden arrow meaning he would stay dead and not come back. She also was thrown out of Josie's mind back to her mind because of Dark Josie." Alaric starts to explain /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Okay so how did you fix Josie and that was two 2 weeks ago. When I called to ask how the twins were doing you said good!" Caroline says getting aggravated /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Lizzie killed the Necromancer, took all the dark magic out of Josie and put it into a knife, and she dropped Landon's body into Malivore to revive him. Problem was when Landon came out of Malivore he threw Lizzie into Malivore because he was temporarily possessed by his dad. Hope woke up and got all of us to remember Lizzie and then we tried to figure out how to get Lizzie out of Malivore. Lizzie was in Malivore for the last 2 weeks and she escaped on her own. Lizzie then went to do a suicide mission plan to kill Malivore. MG and Cleo told us, and we ran to stop Lizzie, but it was too late. Also, I didn't want to worry you when you called so I said they were good." Alaric explains /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"strongAuthor's Note:/strong I wasn't sure if I wanted to group this chapter with Chapter 9 but then I figured Lizzie's sacrifice deserved to stay one chapter separate from what Chapter 9 holds in it. I like MG and want the world for him but I honestly didn't think Lizzie and MG should have ended up together. Lizzie in season 2 I think tells MG straight out that she knows she is a bad friend and feels guilty for always running to MG when she is in a rough spot only to ignore him when she is not in trouble. In season 3 MG really starts focusing on Kaleb and Ethan. This character development I thought was great but kind of goes out the window when Lizzie comes back home in season 4 after becoming a Heretic. This chapter focuses a lot on how Lizzie's actions influence the others. This chapter gives a little inside on what Lizzie thought of each of the people she left a note for before she died for a 9th time. Caroline finally comes home back to Mystic Falls unfortunately not for a happy reason./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Lizzie?!" MG says waking up to see Lizzie by his bedside /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""You remember me?" Lizzie asks confused figuring that Malivore would have worked to erase her from people's minds /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Yeah Hope, got Josie to do the Japanese purge spell the minute she realized we had no memories of you. Josie and Hope tried the summoning spell to pull you out of Malivore but it didn't work. We have all been hitting the books trying to figure out if there was a way to bring you back. It's been 2 weeks since you saved the day and Malivore consumed you. How did you escape Malivore?" MG explains and then asks confused at how Lizzie was back /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Malivore has a ton of magic stored in it, me being the leach that I am sucked in quite a bit of the magic and then Malivore opened a portal for me to leave. I could feel Malivore's loneliness and all the poor condemned monster that he had held prisoner in him. I could also feel his magic try to invade me but since I am a siphon witch I just absorbed his magic to become my own. Once Malivore realized that he couldn't punish me and that I was hurting him he opened a portal for me to leave. But enough about being in Malivore I need your help," Lizzie explains /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""How are you alive? Landon said that anything that didn't have Hope's blood in their system would die if they were thrown into Malivore. Also, you know I will help you with anything," MG says /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I don't think that the Hobbit's statement is accurate. There were plenty of monsters in Malivore and they were not dead in cages, yes, but not dead. The only reason I was able to escape being controlled by Malivore is because I used my siphon abilities. For some reason Malivore couldn't get into my head nor lock me up like the rest of the monster he has consumed. Cleo thinks it's more than my siphon abilities, but I told her the only other thing would be helpful to fight off possession would be my messed up mind. Cleo is a witch I met in Malivore I sprained her out of her cage because she said she saw me in a vision and Malivore finally dead. She also said she had a vision of meeting Hope. She said that in the vision it was my connection to Hope that helped to defeat Malivore. I told her she sounded like an oracle with vague riddle-like answers but she said she was a witch who tricked Malivore in order to spare her village. Cleo you can come out of hiding MG isn't going to kill you. He is actually the vampire we need," Lizzie explains /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Hello, MG, my name is Cleo Sowande as Lizzie has kindly stated. She is correct in that I had a vision of the Tribrid and her along with Malivore's demise. I am not sure what my vision means, only that Lizzie plays a role in Malivore's downfall. She did help free me from Malivore but I am skeptical of her plan and wonder if she is suicidal," Cleo says coming out of the invisibility cloaking spell /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Hey I could have let you rot in Malivore but decided to save you. Also I will have you know my plans are kick ass. Just ask my sister Josie I win at games and what is life if not some messed up form of a game? Plus I know that if you are left alone with Hope you will try to kill her in an attempt to have a weapon that can for sure kill Malivore. Another thing is just because I am trying to help you from fleeing Malivore's wrath, I have not forgotten that you still want to know the location of where the third artifact is. So to prevent you from betraying my friends and unleashing literal hell on earth I plan to kill Malivore freeing you from his control." Lizzie responds giving a knowing smug glace to Cleo /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Cleo you might not trust me but I need you to go to my dad tell him you are running from Malivore and are a witch. Tell him your tale of how you got consumed by Malivore and tell him about your visions. I need to talk to MG privately before I enact my plan to destroy Malivore for good. If I fail you can yell at me and do what you want to kill Malivore, but I urge you to not make any rash decisions before you let me try my plan." Lizzie says ignoring Cleo's jab at her mental stability /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Cleo does as asked but also wants to meet the tribrid in person to see just what type of person she is. Cleo was surprised that Lizzie called her out on being a potential spy for Malivore but even more shocked that Lizzie still allowed her to interact with the tribrid. Cleo did not want to kill the tribrid but also felt it would be justified and warranted if Lizzie's plan didn't work. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I need your blood because I am going to mix it with Hope's witch wolf blood. If I throw that into Malivore at the same time I am praying it will be enough to kill Malivore without Hope having to die and become a fully activated tribrid," Lizzie explains /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Okay but how does that lead to your death? Also if you think you are going to die please reconsider. We just got you back and speaking selfishly I don't want to lose you again so soon." MG says /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I know. I need you to hear me Milton, you're a good guy, one of the best that I deserve the world and I want it to be me, but deep down I know I can't give you what you want or need. I'm not good for you and I need you to move on. I want you to be happy and for you to be happy it can't be with me. I could try to be in a relationship with you, but it would end disastrously because we both now know that Josie is going to win the Merge at age 22. I don't want you to get attached to me and then I break your heart by dying on you. I also don't want you to ever hate my sister for something we can't control. It's not fair to you or her. I kissed you because I didn't think I would win the Merge and I was correct I didn't. I only came back because of Landon and Hope. I want to love you the way you love me, but I'm not there yet and I'm not sure I will be in time for it to matter or ever if we are being honest. I also feel I shouldn't have to change who I am or who I want just to make you or anyone else happy. You shouldn't try to be anything you aren't either. You are an amazing guy, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I will always love you Milton Greasley but I don't think I love you the way you want or need. I'm sorry that you fell for me and I am sorry that I didn't see it or appreciate it more when I should have," Lizzie says as she holds MG's hands and then face before kissing his forehead /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I need you to tell my sister and Hope that the third artifact is in the woods. Hope should know the location. Josie will be able to break the barrier with her blood. Don't trust Cleo especially with Malivore still alive. Protect Hope and I am hoping this isn't goodbye because it would totally suck to die for a 9th time and not take out the big bad with me. Especially if I die and don't come back. The Hobbit could beat me in the dying and coming back contest and that can not happen ever." Lizzie says jumping from topic to topic to lighten mood /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"MG gives his blood to Lizzie and Lizzie kisses him on the forehead before she leaves to enact her plan against Malivore. MG for his part goes to Dr. Saltzman's office to see the whole squad there. Kaleb, Rafael, Josie, Hope, Landon and now Cleo. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""MG have you met Cleo?" Alaric asks /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Yeah, um I need to tell Hope and Josie something about Lizzie," MG says /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Where is she then?!" Hope asks annoyed that the new girl didn't say anything about Lizzie until MG said something/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""The third artifact she told you where she hid it," Cleo concludes /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I'm sorry but this is the end. Take care of each other like I know you will," Lizzie says with a sad smile just as a bright white light blinds everyone /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"A loud screeching noise fills the air making everyone cover their ears, the bright light making it impossible to see anything in front of them. Hope felt her heart break because she couldn't save Lizzie and knew as soon as the light faded Lizzie would be gone. Josie was devastated because the last interaction she had with her sister was when she killed her in the Merge. Joise also feels a rush of magic run through her. This type of magic was similar to the time her twin bond was broken. Instead of a cold sharp pain of magic she feels a warm glow of magic rush through her. MG was torn because Lizzie said she would come back and the giant bright light didn't bow well with her holding up her statement. Rafael, Kaleb and Alaric were scared that the light was a bad sign. Landon, Ryan, Cleo, and Hope all felt a rush of magic through themselves, a warm kind of magic taking away the coldness that Malivore left in them previously. Landon, Ryan, Cleo, Hope and Josie all passed out due to the magic that coursed through them signaling the end for Malivore and Lizzie. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Um Dr. S I think we have a problem," Kaleb says getting Alaric to see everyone except himself, MG, and Rafael were still conscious to talk to/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Come on Lad wake up," Rafael says worry in his voice as he nudges Landon /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Punching me won't bring back your friend. I didn't want my dad to rule either but his hold on me was too strong to fight against. For what it's worth I am sorry she's dead," Ryan Clarke says pushing MG off himself /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Liar. She's not dead and you're lucky that she spared your pathetic life!" Hope says anger in her tone as she wakes up /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""All of you shut up! Come on Jo wake up please," Alaric shouts getting everyone's attention onto him and Josie /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Good to see you're awake Josie. Can you please tell Ryan that he is a liar and that your sister is still alive?" Hope asks still angry that Ryan would dare say Lizzie was dead /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The next day everyone woke up to find a gift on their desks and a note from Lizzie attached to each gift. Kaleb got a vinyl disc of a throwback group he was looking out for and had chatted with Lizzie about before Dark Josie appeared. Lizzie's note to Kaleb read as the following./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Kaleb though we are not particularly close I thank you for always fighting for your vampire brethren to have real human blood and your spectacular taste in music. Doesn't hurt that you know how to catch a football. Take care sincerely Lizzie. /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"MG got a brand-new comic book that was a limited edition he had been dying to read but had not gotten the chance to go out and buy before the Merge thing. His note read as the following. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"MG thank you for always trying to be there for me and look out for me. I'm sorry for ever making you think we could be a thing. Thank you for being you and letting me have the privilege to see you smile. You helped me to always find the light. I hope and pray this is not the end but something tells me it is. I'm sorry I couldn't love you the way you needed or wanted. I know you might want to shut things off but don't. You are stronger than that and there will be someone out there who will see all of you and love you. They can't do that with your humanity off so I urge you to wait just a little longer for that one person to come into your life. In the meantime find ways to heal you can get through this. I believe in you. Oh and one more thing I love you Milton Greasley for being one of the best friends I could ask for and being an all around good guy. Take care sincerely Lizzie /span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Rafael, thank you for joining the school. While we had a rough beginning, I don't regret having slept with you. While we both might have been doing it for different reasons doesn't erase that it happened at least not for me. I can't lie you and your brother brought more danger to the school but also made all of us stronger as people. So, I hope you continue the fight to stay strong. Take care sincerely Lizzie /span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Okay listen/span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"here Hobbit, Mophead, Frodo Baggins, Elf on the shelf, Sentient jar of Mayonnaise, Garden Gnome, Thrift store Hobbit, Muppet Baby, Bird boy, Human size Muppet, or Josie's or Hope's Hipster boyfriend I have no clue what either Hope or Josie saw in you. But in all seriousness, you might have felt like an outsider when we first met but I hope that you can see you are anything but. This world needs more people like you Landon Kirby because you are a good guy despite the circumstances that led you to the Salvator School. You shouldn't have to worry about fitting in because none of us know what we are doing, some of us are just better at hiding it. Like the Ewoks in Star Wars you are a vital support in keeping our super squad going. Like I told your brother Raf both of you brought a lot of trouble but you both also make many of us become better people. Oh, you tell anyone this and I don't actually stay dead I will deny any and all of it. Take care sincerely Lizzie. /span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Alyssa I am sorry I got you killed no matter how brief your death was. It was never my intention to get you or anyone else at the school hurt. I saw this picture on your wall and thought it deserved a nice frame. I am sure wherever your family is they are proud to call you, their daughter. Take care sincerely Lizzie /span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Jed thanks for helping keep the other students safe from my sister in her Dark Josie phase. I see you changing and working to be a better person and I think that deserves a cheers. So do me a favor and pour one out for me at your next party since I don't think I will make it. Take care sincerely Lizzie./span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Cleo while we didn't know each other long I could tell you were trying to get a handle on your vision power. I thought of getting you a sketch pad in hopes it could help you. You also seemed like the artsy type. If what you said about your village is true then I am sure they were grateful for the sacrifice you made. I think you will fit in with the super squad with ease. Take care sincerely Lizzie./span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Dad I'm sorry for making you worry, and I am sorry that I couldn't see for a long time just how great you were. You and mom built this school for Josie and I and I should have been more grateful for that but with you spreading yourself so thin to help others I couldn't help but feel neglected. You just wanted Josie and I to be safe and you also wanted to help those that needed helping. While there are some things you couldn't protect us from, you gave it your all. You were a great dad, and I am asking you for a few more things. Celebrate for me when the super squad finally kills that mud puddle Malivore. Celebrate when everyone graduates. I know that Hope, Rafael, Landon, and Alyssa are the grade above Josie and I but they deserved to have a good celebration. I also hope you don't forget to celebrate Josie's graduating class. Don't worry about me. I will find bio mom hopefully in Peace and tell her you did your best. I love you, Dad. Sincerely your Elizabeth Jenna Saltzman aka Lizzie. /span/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"My beautiful sister, my sweet Josie. I'm sorry for leaving you alone in the 2018 Prison World. I am sorry for making you ever doubt my mental stability. I'm sorry for making you terrified of me. I'm sorry for making you feel that you couldn't come to me about the dark magic. I'm sorry for making you believe the only way for you to have friends and a significant other was to lie to me. I'm sorry for ever making you feel invisible or your feelings unheard. I'm sorry for all the times I said I would change and didn't. I'm sorry that you felt responsible for my well being because Dad and Mom were busy. I'm sorry that you felt the need to kill Alyssa infront of me to prove a point. I never wanted you to have blood on your hands. I'm sorry I made you become Dark Josie. I'm sorry that you felt the need to repress the hurt you felt with me just existing. Guess you don't have to worry anymore about me screwing something up. Most of all I am sorry that I didn't tell or show you enough how much I love you. Because despite all the harsh words exchanged I love you Josette Isobel Saltzman. You are my sister, my twin. I couldn't imagine a world without you in it and I am just happy I don't have to. The Merge curse was an advanced linking spell. I was looking at different spell books on breaking linking spells when we were sucked into the 2018 Prison World. I think I left some of my notes on a spell I was developing at Jen's shop. So should the next twins ever need it I think I got most of the spell written there. I think congratulations are an order so cheers to you, the new head of the Gemini Coven. I know part of you never wanted to kill me and I am grateful for that. Another part of me knows you had every right to kill me when you did in the Merge for our 17th birthday. I just feared that if we did Merge I would end up giving you some of my mental health issues. I knew you valued your normalness so I am happy I could help you and Hope. I just pray that this final sacrifice is enough to put an end to Malivore and to make you the head of the coven without us having to Merge. I know you see Hope as more of a sister than me at times. While I am and will always be jealous about that I am happy she will be there for you when I am not. Take care of yourself and know you are always loved. Love Lizzie. /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Caroline was left a heartfelt thank you note since Lizzie was unsure what to get her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Mom, thank you for staying when you didn't have to. For helping in raising Josie and I when we aren't your biological kids. Thank you for trying to find a solution to the Merge even if at times all I wanted was for you to come home. I know you were trying your best and I can only hope you will be around more for Josie now that you no longer need to find a solution. I told Josie in her letter and I will tell you in this one my friend Jen she and I were working on a spell to break the Merge curse. I think I figured it out but I didn't have the time to grab my notes from Jen's workshop before I was transported to the 2018 Prison World. There wasn't much time to go back for it when Josie became Dark Josie. Then I was eaten by Malivore and stuck in him for 2 weeks. When I got out of Malivore I knew I had to act fast so I again didn't have time to tell Jen or grab the notes. To help future twins I think I got most of the spell written out but maybe Aunt Bonnie could look it over. Please tell my friend Jen I am sorry we couldn't have gotten tacos one last time. I also want to make it clear to you that you didn't fail as a parent. You always encouraged me that I wasn't broken and that things would be better. It would just take time. I hoped I lived up to my name sake, your mother. While I joke the name is too formal I am proud that you gave me the name. I also know that you might be tempted to shut it off and I urge you to not. You told me that things take time and I believe that you are strong enough to continue on. I understand wanting to shut off all emotions. God knows how many times I wish I were a vampire so I could shut it all off. What I learned though was even though I was feeling such overwhelming pain and hurt in my life I also got to feel love. I wouldn't have been able to feel the warmth that love leaves if I had turned off my emotions. I know that me being gone will hurt but Josie needs you and so does dad so I will ask this one last time please come home mom. Love Elizabeth Jenna Saltzman aka Lizzie. /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;" Hope was given two things: a couple of new paint brushes and a drawing that her father made as a thank you to Lizzie. Lizzie's note to Hope went as follows. /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Well,/span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"I pray my sacrifice went off without a hitch. Turns out you're not the only one with a martyr complex. I was strapped for time when it comes to getting gifts, but I hope you don't mind that your dad drew you in the dress. He originally drew it to tell me thank you for showing him you. Since I am not going to be around, I figured you deserved the drawing. I knew from Josie that it was the anniversary of your late friend Henry Benoit, and you were trying to feel normal. To not dwell on the past, I aimed to distract you from the worries outside of dancing that night. I am sorry it ended in you crying on the dance floor. It was not my intention. I know things were not great between us when Josie, my dad and I got sucked into the 2018 Prison World. I am grateful that you saved me from Dark Josie in the simulation. I am also happy I made it in time to save you from being impaled. I already felt guilty for Alyssa dying. I went to face Dark Josie knowing that me siphoning from MG would do nothing and I would still die. I figured my death would finally snap some sense into Dark Josie. She would return our Josie yet it didn't work and not only did I die I got your Muppet killed in the process. So while you were in Josie's head I came up with various plans to bring both Josie and the Hobbit back. When I was in Malivore I couldn't help but feel a sense of peace. Now I could be punished for having a hand in making Josie become Dark Josie and allowing for the deaths of Alyssa and Landon no matter how brief they were. Yet I also knew staying in Malivore would not solve the issue that Josie or I were going to have to die. I also knew that you might get it in your head to activate your vampire side to finally put an end to Malivore. I believe you should have that choice and for it not to be forced on you by some big bad. If I actually succeeded in killing Malivore and it ended in my death then I would have accomplished giving you the freedom to choose and freeing my sister from potentially dying in the Merge. Truth of the matter, I am happy to have called you my friend no matter how fleeting it was. Take care sincerely Lizzie, your annoying uninvited party crasher. /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Safe to say all those who got a gift from Lizzie felt horrible about her ultimate death and also moved by her final act of selflessness. Caroline booked her flight to go back to Mystic Falls after she was done bawling her eyes out./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Rick, please tell me it isn't true. That we lost one of them," Caroline says as she enters into Alaric's office /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I don't want to believe it either but one minute she was standing in front of us and the next. There was a bright flash of light and a screaming noise that must have been Malivore dying. It sounded so inhuman and unnatural even. When the light finally faded and the noise subsided Lizzie and Malivore were gone. Josie, Hope, Landon, Ryan Landon's half brother, Cleo, a witch that Lizzie rescued from Malivore all were passed out. Ryan woke up first saying that Lizzie killed Malivore, Landon and Cleo also backed up his statement. Josie was the last to wake up and she confirmed that Lizzie… God she's dead. Josie said she felt magic flow through her like the time her twin bond was broken except it was warm instead of cold." Alaric answer his eyes red from crying /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""We will hold off one week to see if we can't find her. If Bonnie can't find her, we hold a proper funeral for her. People come back all the time you did." Caroline says with a sigh and an optimistic viewpoint /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""I had an enchanted ring for many of my deaths. Speaking of, I think you should know this past death was Lizzie's 9th. Apparently she was more than tortured by Aurora and Ryan. She died 7 times wearing an enchanted ring." Alaric says in a somber tone /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""That would explain why she insisted that Bonnie take the ring and keep it. God I should have known to ask and press her to tell me! I was just so caught up in the fact that she was alive and in one piece. Do I want to know how she died the 8th time around?" Caroline asks /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Not really, but I didn't know about the 7 previous deaths until after her 8th death. The Necromancer, a witch zombie guy who was working for Malivore, got Josie, myself and Lizzie trapped in the 2018 Prison World with Kai. Kai managed to escape and tricked Josie into breaking the sand clock, the Mora Miserium, a dark object that contained dark magic. Josie got drunk off the Dark Magic but none of us knew until after we took care of Kai Parker and after we escaped the crumbling 2018 Prison World. Josie or Dark Josie showed her colors when she took over the group simulation therapy. Once everyone escaped the simulation and Dark Josie woke up she took over the school putting me to sleep. I didn't wake up until after Lizzie and Dark Josie performed the Merge ritual. Hope had created a potion to ensure that Lizzie and Josie's minds did not Merge. The potion was a success but Lizzie lost and died. She came back because Hope linked her life to Landon's. Hope's plan B was to do a head dive into Dark Josie's mind; the only way to do that was for Lizzie and Dark Josie to do the Merge ritual. What Hope didn't account for is that Rafael was possessed by the Necromancer to kill Landon with the golden arrow meaning he would stay dead and not come back. She also was thrown out of Josie's mind back to her mind because of Dark Josie." Alaric starts to explain /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Okay so how did you fix Josie and that was two 2 weeks ago. When I called to ask how the twins were doing you said good!" Caroline says getting aggravated /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Lizzie killed the Necromancer, took all the dark magic out of Josie and put it into a knife, and she dropped Landon's body into Malivore to revive him. Problem was when Landon came out of Malivore he threw Lizzie into Malivore because he was temporarily possessed by his dad. Hope woke up and got all of us to remember Lizzie and then we tried to figure out how to get Lizzie out of Malivore. Lizzie was in Malivore for the last 2 weeks and she escaped on her own. Lizzie then went to do a suicide mission plan to kill Malivore. MG and Cleo told us, and we ran to stop Lizzie, but it was too late. Also, I didn't want to worry you when you called so I said they were good." Alaric explains /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Okay well you and I are going to have to come to an agreement about what good means. When I think of good I think alive, not stuck in a magical prison portal that you have no way to get her out of. I am happy I am home because next time a big bad shows up you can bet your ass that our surviving daughter Josie stays alive!" Caroline angrily says before storming out of the office to call Bonnie /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"strongAuthor's Note:/strong I wasn't sure if I wanted to group this chapter with Chapter 9 but then I figured Lizzie's sacrifice deserved to stay one chapter separate from what Chapter 9 holds in it. I like MG and want the world for him but I honestly didn't think Lizzie and MG should have ended up together. Lizzie in season 2 I think tells MG straight out that she knows she is a bad friend and feels guilty for always running to MG when she is in a rough spot only to ignore him when she is not in trouble. In season 3 MG really starts focusing on Kaleb and Ethan. This character development I thought was great but kind of goes out the window when Lizzie comes back home in season 4 after becoming a Heretic. This chapter focuses a lot on how Lizzie's actions influence the others. This chapter gives a little inside on what Lizzie thought of each of the people she left a note for before she died for a 9th time. Caroline finally comes home back to Mystic Falls unfortunately not for a happy reason./p