POV Narrator:
Thursday 26 July 2018, Swindon, England
Diana is having fun spending the day at her mother's house, but little does she know that everything she's been experiencing is nothing but a big fat lie, that Kimberly is just being used as a ploy to distract Cavendish and also with Daryl arriving like a bombshell to leave Diana simply devastated when she finds out about it, being that she has no idea of the risk she's taking.
POV Diana:
I wake up in the morning, I look around, I was lying in bed, while Brooke stayed on the mattress, she insisted fae me tae sleep on the bed, I get up, I walk half sleepy tae the bathroom, I throw some water on my face, I look at myself in the mirror all happy.
Now I have a mother and she is a wonderful person, I can't believe that all this can really be happening, then I do my personal hygiene, I go back tae the bedroom, where I get some clothes that are there, I go back tae the bathroom, changing tae put on a more comfortable outfit, I'm happy that today, I go tae the kitchen, where my mother was already awake making coffee.
"Good morning mum" I say tae her who turns to me, still very sleepy.
"Good morning daughter" she said being affectionate with me, even stroking my hair.
I sit down on the chair, I'm starting tae eat some breakfast, while my mother sat nearby, I feel like the happiest person in the world staying here with her, but it's too strange, even after sleeping here and spending the night, I still don't feel totally comfortable nae familiar, it's a strange feeling, go figure I still have tae get used tae it.
"Brooke always takes a bit longer to wake up, did she stay up late yesterday?" My mother said.
"I dinnae even know, I ended up falling asleep and she was still on the computer, I guess she must have slept a bit late" Until Brooke herself appears a bit sleepy still, sitting beside me yawning.
"Good morning Diana, good morning mum" she said all tired.
We eat as a family, I feel so happy tae see the three of us here together, eating together... I always wanted tae do this, now I have a real family, it's nothing artificial and it's the best thing in the world, I love these two... I hope that I can really get more familiar with them.
POV Daryl:
I woke up in the morning and already went to observe Kimberly's house, from what it looks like the three of them are reunited, but it will be a great shame to arrive there and ruin everything, I have to prepare everything, make the best presentation possible, just to traumatize Diana beautifully, I go to my two daughters, waking them up.
"Hey lazy ones, wake up" I tell them.
"Mum, it's still too early, five more minutes," Merrill said.
"No more five minutes Merrill, they've woken up now, we have to get ready to act" I tell her pulling the blankets off.
The two of them are getting up, still with their eyes firmly fixed, I'm sleepy too, but today is important, we can't delay getting ready for anything, so much so that I'm then starting to go and do my basic hygiene, looking at myself in the mirror, today I have to look fabulous, show Diana that we Cavendish are elegant, even when we step over another and put that girl in her place, she is still losing the elegance of before, she abandoned the false teeth to expose what was that woman's, soon she only has to stop using make-up to expose the freckles on her face, this is outrageous, she will really leave the Cavendish family scrapped.
"Mum, why all this? Do we really need to put on make-up and dress up in an elegant way?" asks my daughter.
"Obvious? Don't you see, a good presentation is everything Merrill, you have to know how to reach out to impose yourself, you have to show that you are superior in all aspects, humiliate your enemy, it's all part of an intimidation, this will be another of the steps to destroy Diana mentally, she will notice how inferior she is and will never reach our feet" I say very clearly to her.
A while later at the Hunter family home...
POV Diana:
I dinnae even know what tae do today, I'm just going tae get into the mood, we watched some television and talked, which was really good, mum was watching Better Call Saul, I'd already seen Breaking Bad before, it was really good, but I was always alone in the bedroom watching Netflix series and now that I'm at home it's something else, a totally different experience, I dinnae know what tae say.
"What's up Diana? Have you seen Breaking Bad?" Brooke asks.
"Yes, I had seen it when I still had the Cavendish family mansion" I tell her.
"Wow I'm really happy that I have my girls here, you have no idea how long I've waited years for all this" said the mother.
"Me too, we put Daryl on the sidelines, she can show up all she wants, but she won't cause us any trouble" I say with a smile on my face.
"We will manage someday together to arrest her, I trust us, I know it will only be a matter of time" said my mother all motivated.
"I want this scum to die, she killed our other mother, burnt down Diana's house, and even tried to murder her, she should pay dearly, being locked up would be nothing, after everything she did, the way this witch is, the prison will embrace this monster" said my sister and soon she gets a scolding from my mother.
"Brooke, stop being so cruel!" Said mum Kim and I just kept laughing anyway.
"Oh come on, are you really going to let this bitch get away with this? I want her to go 6 feet underground" she said and I laughed.
"I confess that it wouldn't make much difference, what I suffered all these years at the hands of her and her daughters ye have nae idea" I tell them.
"Oh so tell us more" said my curious sister.
I'm breathing very deeply because I'm managing tae open up a little more tae them, I hope that I can really show my feelings tae them and become more comfortable, who knows, maybe by letting off a little steam about my past I can solve something, I hope that everything can really be solved.
"It was bad before my mum Bernadette died, my aunt and my cousins used tae tease me fae being a Shiny Chariot fan and I was only five years old, they always picked on me all the time, mistreating me and it got worse when my mum died, my cousins invaded my room, burned all my cards and Chariot toys, I remember this scene a week after I came back from the show, I carry the trauma to this day, the two taking everything, my aunt holding me, I was still devastated by the loss of my mother Bernadette... And then the worst went by, I was forced by my aunt tae behave decently, I even had tae hide my teeth, because my aunt said it was something out of class, sae much sae that she paid for a dental implant and I used that until I was 16 practically, when everything happened ... Those years were of very early maturation, I lost my childhood, I went running after all the damage because on top of that I had my magic stolen because of some magic equipment that existed in the Chariot presentations that drained the magic of the children, all this still with the pressure of being a Cavendish tae be perfect... They say that when ye press too hard on a coal it becomes a diamond, in my case I just destroyed myself all over and became a crushed coal" I tell them who were half touched, that was kind of summed up because worse has happened.
"Ohhh Diana, don't say that, you are a perfect diamond, you just didn't give in to the pressure that others put on you, I know well how it is, it's horrible to be pressured to be something that others want you to be, the best thing to do is to be yourself" Said my sister hugging me.
"I'm still amazed at the cruelty Daryl is capable of, this woman really won't stop you until she sees you traumatised and completely devastated, I'm sure, I'm glad you could meet us in time" My mother said also cuddling me.
It is still strange, I have opened up, they are talking tae me quietly, but the comfort, it is nae coming, I still feel like I am with two strangers, I dinnae feel like they are part of the family, it is still very strange... Why am I still feeling something like this? Fae the nine witches, does this have any answers, I have a feeling that something wrong is happening.
POV Daryl:
I'm already looking really good for the big moment, I can't wait to see my niece and her face feeling all inferior in relation to me, she's going to be destroyed, even more that Kimberly is doing right, letting her open up as much as she can, it's really nice to hear what's going on in the house, ohhh how cute she telling about the day we burned Chariot's stuff.
"Gee, are you sure we're not wrong in this story? Gee Mom, I remember that day to this day with a huge burden on my conscience, aren't we going too far" Merrill always being the deluded one and thinking she's good.
"Merrill, Merrill, you have to learn one thing in this world, there are no good guys and bad guys, there are losers and winners, unfortunately neither side is good or evil, always these sides will resort to some controversial resource to achieve their goals, we have ours, they have theirs, so we have to take advantage, because it is not all the time that we will be able to use, we can not be losers, history is told by the winning side always" I tell her being more realistic.
"Mum... Are we really going to gain anything from all this? I wonder if it's really worth it... We had all the luxury before, now we're like fugitives because of you and living a much worse life than before, all this to have what we had before"
"We must not be complacent, we have to act, one way or another, we have to have what we want in our hands, whatever the cost, we could have these things before, but it was being Diana's subordinates... Do you want to be Diana's subordinate? Or do you want to reign? You're being the nail in the hammer, you'll keep on being the nail in the hammer if you keep on thinking like that, you have to be the hammer and always put yourself on top of everything"
I'm going back to packing up, just listening to Diana ranting and venting everything, I want to see her doing this more and more, so the pain and the thud will be bigger when I turn my face, I can't wait for it all to end up getting worse seeing this beautiful family break up, even more so Diana will vehemently believe it, hahahahaha.
Time goes by a little more. Arriving a little after lunchtime...
POV Diana:
I could open up tae them, but I still feel all weird, like it's nae the right thing tae do, but anyway, it's probably just a silly feeling, it's just that I'm nae used tae this new family, on the bright side I'm having a lot of fun, it's really good tae play here on Brooke's Nintendo Switch, she on the computer, she's always there kind of messing around with the letters and everything.
"Ye love programming, dinnae ye?" I ask her.
"I fell in love with programming, I want to be a game dev one day, just like Saoirse Games" said my sister, all cute.
"I imagine, I never got tae learn programming in depth, mostly because there's nothing about it at Cavendish Manor, it's always the traditional magic books" I tell her.
"A pity that all the knowledge there must have caught fire, there must be a lot of knowledge unknown to this day, but it was lost in the fire" Brooke said and actually nae so much.
"Most are in Luna Nova, they were mostly copies, already spells exclusive tae the Cavendish family I have tae admit there won't be any more of those coming back, a huge loss fae the witches, but I hope someday we can rediscover them, the worst would be tae lose the minds behind that knowledge and those minds have already spread around the world about it, which is very good" I tell her.
She gets up from the chair and comes tae me, getting a little shaky and anxious, I'm even afraid of why she's like that, sae much that I'm taking her hand, hugging her, she stops shaking a little and pushes me.
"What going on Brooke?" I ask my sister.
"Diana, come with me to the living room, I can't hide this from you anymore, but my mother is not the most trustworthy person in the world, look at this" she said coming to the door and I was leaning in there, observing a shocking thing.
My aunt Daryl, my cousins and my mother, they were shaking hands, what does that mean, I went into a huge shock, is this all just a set up? I'm almost breaking down here, by the nine lesbian witches, it's nae enough what I've been through, now I'm being tricked, my expression totally changed even.
"Diana, don't go" Hold Brooke.
"Let me go, ye are nae my sister" I say furiously.
I leave the room and see the four, Daryl was dressing all sophisticated, she was wearing a dress all fancy and expensive, showing a little on the side of the leg, really wanting tae show that she has power and money, besides wearing a hat all fancy, she turns looking at me as if she was above me, in the same way the two are staring at me in the same way, my fake mother is staring with a devastated look.
"Can ye explain tae me what this is? Did ye trick me Kimberly Hunter? Ye were playing with my feelings the whole time and trying tae manipulate me?" I say furiously, with closed fists, full of rage, fae the nine witches, I can't believe I was such an idiot nae tae notice.
"It's not that Diana... It's not that..." Said the fake trying to justify herself.
"Oh Kim, don't play dumb, I'll explain to Diana, you can sit down my little darling, your mother here is no flower to smell, she didn't tell you how she set up your grandmother's murder? Nor how she made a deal with me to curse herself and stay away from you, we were going to earn a lot of money for that, we were going to divide the Cavendish family inheritance after... Yeah, you didn't know that, my niece" said my aunt trying to manipulate me.
"Nae! Ye're just lying and putting words in my mouth, stop being a fake! Just say that Kimberly is nae my mother, ye tried tae destabilize me, but nae..." I say until I see my fake mother's expression half-headed, as if confirming my aunt's lies.
"Diana..." She said as if she was trying tae prove my aunt right.
"Oh how cute, it seems that Diana has no notion of things... Do you really think Kimberly, a poor girl like that, would be drooling over all the things the Cavendish girls have? Think Diana... Think about it, the greed has gone to her head, I managed to build an alliance with Kim, she's been making this deal for a long time, now that you've found out things I think you'd better notice that the Cavendish family is not far from controversies" She said and I started tae think more and more.
My head is floating the thoughts, I kept thinking of everything that was coming ahead, now everything was lighting up, but in a bad way, my past... I'm just a pawn in this whole chess game, sae I didn't feel sae familiar... My mother is a scoundrel really.
"How can ye? Kimberly! Ye know that all this culminated in the death of your wife and you even abandoned your daughter, all in the name of this greed" I say tae her as I see her getting a bit crestfallen.
"Unfortunately my past has doomed me Diana, I ended up having these controversial decisions, but I did it all in the name of protecting my side, I was forced to do this, Bernadette's life and yours were at risk" She said and I dinnae believe it.
"Stop being a lying coward Kim, you did it with the biggest smile on your face, you wanted to actively participate in the coup with me, so much so that you got off scot-free after Bernadette's death because you didn't have to lie to her about the feelings you had... Even more so... Heh..." My aunt even looks at her with a look that shows them tae be closer than it seems.
"Diana... I..." I get the biggest look of contempt, but inside I was about tae explode and cry, I couldn't believe I was at the point of being emotionally destroyed like that.
"I dinnae want tae know! Ye are a curse, ye killed my mother too, it makes me sick tae know that ye are my mother" I say clenching my fists and starting tae cry.
"Oh don't forget one little detail, she is Merrill and Maril's mum too, you must remember when Paul was cheated by me right? I've told you this story before and so has he, it was our plan, me and Kim had the twins first, it was a way to get money from the old man and we even split it between us, hahahahahaha, all while your mother was married, oh yeah, I was her lover all those years, I'll never forget how good it was and still is" I'm breaking down more and more I can't stand tae hear this stuff anymore, every time I say it I get worse.
"Diana... I am so sorry for all of this... I couldn't not escape these things, it was either that or the worst, I had to think of your and Brooke's well being, you were at risk if I confronted you, you have no idea how powerful Daryl is" Said the fake.
"You're even worse than me Kim, you still try to pretend to redeem yourself and hide the lies you committed all these years, but the nine witches know what you did, there's no point in running away, ohhh Diana, you have no idea of everything that went on, poor thing, so innocent" said my aunt and I'm about to have a mental breakdown here.
"Enough! Nae more! I dinnae care about any of ye daft cunts anymore!" I scream furiously, I run to Brooke's room, even pushing her.
"Diana, no! Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!" Said my mother, if I can call that bastard a mother.
I'm packing my bags, this time I'll never step in this place again, I start tae leave each thing ready, I dinnae care about facing Daryl or anything, I just want tae go away from here, they all stare at me, I finish packing everything, I get my broom and stare at them crying, I can't even hold my emotions.
"What's the matter Diana? How hard is the truth? Are you going to try to run away from it? That's what your family is, that's what your mother is" said my aunt.
"Diana, don't go away I can explain myself" She said and I just push her hard, just like my aunt.
I leave the house, I'm taking broomstick flight, I look back crying, but I try nae to look again, I can't believe that damn bitch is the one who has the same blood as me, fae the nine lesbian witches, I really hope they suffer, I dinnae want tae even get close tae her or anyone else... Damned, stay between ye, I'm disgusted of having the blood that Kimberly has, damned mother, I'm glad that my mother Bernadette must be now in heaven far away from this disgraced.
POV Daryl:
And perfect! That was splendid, everything went according to plan, now Diana believes this lie and she's going to have a good depressing time, I just need to make her a little more fragile and the Cavendish family place will be mine, I keep celebrating watching her flying and getting further and further away, I hope she never shows her face again, she really believed Kimberly is her mother, the good thing is that she'll stay away from going after the real one.
"Come on, you're horrible people" said the stinker bloke as I burst out laughing.
"That's what's wonderful, I never said you were a good person, but you did it right even, a pity I don't know your real name, only your fake one, but you were useful even boy, you too Kimberly, here's the fat reward you'll need" I say handing over a bag containing 50 thousand pounds.
"At what cost we did that... Diana didn't deserve to go through these things because of us" Said the moralist who did everything for money.
"But you did, now I thank you for your help, enjoy this money and don't try anything different, I'll keep my eyes open for you"
"Are you going to stay with us even after we've done everything you asked? What a bitch, why don't you leave us alone, we've already done what you asked" said the bloke.
"Because I can't trust you, open your beaks to Diana and I will make mincemeat of each one of you, this is a very clear threat and I'm not afraid to fulfill it, you won't be the first and you won't be my last victims"
"I hate you" said the TIM.
"Who are you? I'm not afraid of a stench pretending to be a woman or of his cowardly mother" I tell him, even giving him a push on the head.
"Hey! Aren't you satisfied enough already?" Said the mother who came to protect her son who fell fainted to the ground with a spell of mine.
"I hope my message is given, walk the line or else I will kill you" I tell them as I was leaving.
I leave the house, when I went to see almost a shot hits my face, shit... WCI is also on my tail, I forget that damn agent Morris wants to arrest me, I quickly use a spell to create smoke, then another of metamorphosis, which I go on hearing shots coming and run away to a burrow I had dug, especially for the escape point I wanted to pass transformed as a snake.
"Ye can't run away all the time Daryl Cavendish" Said Officer Morris thinking she was intimidating something.
My daughters and I keep crawling until we reach an underground mine, there we go back to normal, I had already calculated the way, Rosemary can catch the trail of magic, but not like this, me and the girls go up the tunnel by the way we had programmed, passing in each part of the tunnel without opening suspicion, until we arrive, where there was a car waiting for us, we get in it relieved.
"Another mission accomplished girls" I say cheerfully.
"I still feel bad, we did all this just to leave Diana destroyed, what will we gain from this?" Said the weak mind.
"You'll see one day, you'll see, the best thing you do is be with me girl, you have to have a hammer mentality and not a nail, you have to stop being taken by the idea of settling for Diana" I tell her who still kind of rolls her eyes.
"You're stupid, sis, the mission is important, just stop being spoiled, we'll get far in the goal, we have to focus on getting instead of thinking about serving Diana... Seriously, better going through all this than being a servant of Diana, living in the same roof and taking orders from her, now we'll be freer"
Diana arrives in Luna Nova, all emotionally destroyed...
POV Diana:
I put the broom down, I walk crying through the corridors, until I see Chariot, I wipe the tears, half depressed, walking down the corridor, I disguise what I can, but it dinnae work, she identified me, she noticed by my expression that I'm very down, but even sae, I kept walking ignoring her.
"Diana? Diana? Is everything okay?" I dinnae answer and just keep walking.
I get to my room, it's empty at least, nae Hannah and nae Barbara, one is with Amanda and Akko in the US and the other is in Wales with her family, I'm all alone, nae bad, I close the bedroom door and even lock it, I end up leaning against the door and sit there on the floor.
"Diana? I know something happened, can you tell me?" Chariot said and I just continued tae ignore it.
I just want tae be alone, I remained quiet, I just want tae nae think about all that, the things that went on were terrible, how could my mother be someone like that, I could feel that Chariot was on the other side still leaning on the door, but I prefer nae tae say anything.
"If you don't want to talk that's fine too, I know you must have been through something really tough, but know that I'll be here to cheer you up," she said, still standing there.
I go sort of seeing then a glow appearing on my side, it was a pot of ice cream, I was a bit hesitant at first, but then I ended up taking it and started eating some, I ended up having some good memories and tried tae think about them, but mostly I was sinking into the ice cream as well.
"Look I'll be right back, I know you're eating the ice cream I transported with magic, I just want to be able to really help you Diana..." Said the teacher being nice tae me.
I continued kind of sitting leaning on the door eating the ice cream and at least feeling something besides a twinge in my heart, I went looking back, the whole thing from just now going through my head, each scoop of the ice cream made me at least nae remember, I think that's what I'm going tae do, at least fae now.
I just wish life wasn't like this, fae once I should have been more of an idiot and believed that I was Laura McLaren's daughter and stayed in that lie instead of finding out that I'm actually Kimberly Hunter's daughter... Tae think that after all I am the fruit of a relationship of interests, in the end it would be nae different than if I had a father.
"It was Daryl again, wasn't it? She must have done you a lot of damage, but hey, don't let yourself get knocked down or sink into her lies, try to stand up for yourself, I know you can do it Diana, you've always been the strongest and most unshakable among us, I came back here to bring you this... I imagine that ice cream can help you as it helped me all these years with my depression" said the teacher bringing another jar already noticing that I finished the first one and this time it was a chocolate Hagen Dazs, very big.
I remain quiet and go tae open the other pot, I feel to the door kind of Chariot moving and it seems that she also sat down staying on the other side, she really will stay here, but unfortunately there's nae much she can do, now I know the truth and she at the most can only stay here tae advise me, even more that now Croix is in danger, why things have tae be sae cruel like that? I have a shitty past.
"Life is hard anyway Diana, I know well how this feeling is, I was like you when I had to force myself to be Ursula, I resisted a lot to let my hair grow, having to look like someone else, now I don't know what happened to you, but know that your mother loves you and a lot" She said and I know, my mother Bernadette must love me a lot, but nae my mother Kim.
She really is going tae stay here with me till the evening, what a persistent woman, I just want tae be alone really, sink a bit, more than I already am now, rock bottom caught me and trapped me in here, Daryl pulled me in never to take it out, I who was deluded into thinking I would have a loving mother who really cared about me and my other mother, I am an idiot.
POV Narrator:
Diana ends up discovering the "truth", kind of still in a way well manipulated by Daryl, which ends up making her have a huge emotional breakdown, so much so that she didn't disassociate herself from the door for hours and Chariot so little, always going to see Cavendish and give a word or two, but the damage was already done in the emotional of the Scot, who will have an irreparable damage in her heart.
See you, false mom witch...