As pointed out by EmeralEyes1994 at the end I say its only been 1 year it is supposed to be three years. I'd been switching back an forth while writing the chapter and decided that three fit better, but I didn't finish correcting that. My apologies I hope you all enjoy.
"So you're telling me that the girl who closed the door on vampires, werewolves and all the other creepy crawlers of the night is back on this side of the door." Eve said driving us home from the shocking day work had turned into.
"Looks like it. Seems like Grant might be with her. I don't know who else would be so protective." Michael said.
"Should we tell them?" Eve asked. We hadn't spoken to the other sins since they left our house the night the door closed. For all we knew they'd left Morganville. All they'd left us was an email address to send them word if something went wrong.
"No, not yet. We should at least figure out what they want first. Maybe we can get it to them without a problem and then no one has to know." Michael said as Eve killed the engine. We climbed out of the car and Shane took my hand. We walked up the steps and I fiddled with the keys on my key ring.
"I just wish we knew what they were here for." I said pushing the door open. Shane pushed past me and flipped on the lights. Eve followed us in and went into the living room to throw her purse down. I heard the thump of the purse and ten Eve's girly scream.
We all rushed in and saw what Eve screamed at. Sitting in Michael's chair was an older looking Grant. His face was thinner and under his eyes were dark purple circles. Laying on the couch was the small body of Nikki.
Her hood had fallen back to show her beautiful chocolate hair had faded grey, but on her it looked white, much like Amelie's had.
She had her hand over her eyes, but I could see how pale she'd become. Not only was the color missing on her skin, but she had little if any meat on her bones.
"You could always ask us what we want. No speculations needed." Grant said opening his eyes slowly. "Sorry about surprising you. But you weren't home yet and we just needed a place to rest."
"What happened to you guys?" I couldn't help myself but ask.
A hollow laughed came from Nikki's throat. "Three years and we're already killing ourselves." Her voice was just an echo of how I remembered it.
"Once the door closed we had to keep it safe. We went about a normal life, but making sure to go back everyday and make sure it stayed locked. Two months ago we noticed a crack. We made sure to check everyday, but we noticed it growing larger. We thought someone must have been trying to break out and we tried to manage the members of our world, it took a week to check everyone. But when we hadn't discovered anyone using anything to break the door we went again. That was when we finally noticed that it wasn't cracking out, but in." Grant said yawning.
"Which means…" Shane said.
"Means someone from this world is trying to get into ours." Nikki said sitting up. She looked so frail.
"How? You said that all magic people would be taken back into your world." Michael said holding Eve close.
"Only if this was enough to be truly a threat. Several witches had children that didn't have active powers but if they knew how to read a spell book they could easily perform a spell to break the door." Saying that one sentence seemed to wipe the energy out of her.
"What happened to you Nikki, you're so different." I said ignoring Shane's arm around my waist and went over to her.
"She used herself as the key to open the door. It takes a magical sacrifice to open it. Usually someone would have to die to release all heir magic, but Nikki had enough to open the door and keep herself alive. Just barely though." Grant said. He was answering most of the questions because clearly Nikki didn't have the strength.
"So what you want to find who's opening the door and stop them?" Shane asked from the wall.
"Of course we want to find them." Grant said angered.
"And how are you going to stop them. I don't think a threat will—" Eve started but Grant cut her off.
"Who said we wanted to stop them. We want them to pry that door wide open."
Sorry for the short chapter but it's been a busy week. Hopefully I'll have more up by the end of this never-ending week. Please review even if you didn't like it.~ Mollie