Here is Episode 2 of Season 2. I hope you all enjoy it. I'm so glad the final season has started airing. I cannot wait for them to come out on DVD. Anyways hope you all enjoy Part 1 of Episode 2.
Episode 2 Part 1
"What do you mean you're craving her?!" Thomas argued with Matthew at his house.
"I smelt her jacket. It took almost all that I could master not to attack,"
"Well thank Phillipe you managed to regain control of yourself. Kill her and you would have sparked a war between our race and theirs,"
"Please calm down Tom. I can hear your heart thumping. Regain control of yourself,"
Thomas took in a long deep breath then exhaled out. "Thank you,"
"I have to get away from here," Matthew grabbed his coat and proceeded towards the door.
"Wait just a minute! Where are you going?!"
"To Hamish!"
"In Scotland. But that's too far away! We need you here!"
"I need to get away from her,"
"I'm glad you're taking this seriously but you must get hold of that book,"
"I will. In the meantime, you're in charge while I'm gone,"
"I won't let you down. But promise me this…" Thomas grabbed his arm before he could enter his car. "Promise me…you will not come back until you swear that you can control yourself around Diana,"
Matthew didn't nod. But he expressed an answer of obligation.
Once again Aurora's morning started with waves of pain spinning around her head. She could feel her powers becoming unstable that already ice was sprouting out of her fingers and spread over her bed.
Diana woke up and when she saw the state her sister was in, she rushed to her. "Aurora! Wake up Aurora!"
Aurora woke up gasping. She hyperventilated, Diana's hands resting on her shoulders.
"Deep breath. That's it. Deep breath," Diana inhaled some cold air and Aurora did the same. "That's it,"
Aurora calmed down. As her panting slowed, the ice on her bed flowed back into her hands and the ice marking the walls disappeared. "I can't believe I nearly froze the room. This room could turn into a freezer,"
"Maybe you should go to the Oxford coven," Diana suggested.
"Those witches would never help me. You know I'm not like them. Besides why go to them when I have you? You may lack aptitude Diana…but you don't lack love,"
Diana was touched. "Bad dream,"
"Kind of. I saw awful visions in my head. That's never happened to me before. I feel ever since that book opened, my powers have been acting strangely and now I'm seeing visions in my head. Let's just start this day and get through it," Aurora threw herself out of her bed. The two girls dressed up, tied up their hair and they departed out of the building. In the lost property section just outside the courtyard, Diana found her sports jacket. Aurora knew exactly who had returned it.
"How very sweet of him," Aurora said. "Something tells me you might bump into him again soon,"
"I doubt that. I told him to leave me alone,"
"You never know what might happen. I think the next time you see him you should ask more about the book. Don't offer it to him…but ask him about what it is and why many creatures want it,"
Diana didn't answer back but she seemed to agree. They walked to the library, entering it slowly and quietly. They saw dozens of creatures everywhere. It was becoming very creepy. Aurora felt all eyes staring at her. She felt so scared that she was afraid that she could freak out and turn the entire room into a freezer. Luckily she was wearing gloves just in case. They sat down at their usual spot.
Aurora stared around. "Diana," she whispered. Her sister looked at her and she pointed up. There was a creepy witch with a long green coat and a round face peering down at them.
"Just ignore her," Diana whispered. "Just act natural,"
Aurora opened her laptop and got to work on more of her next book.
Her typing slowed when she heard footsteps approaching them.
"Dr Bishop and…Miss Aurora Bishop?" a man's voice asked, rising at the end.
The twins looked up and they saw a man in his sixties in a grey suit.
"May we help you?" Diana asked.
"My name is Peter Knox,"
"I'm sorry. I'm waiting on a book and my sister is busy with her work,"
"So Aurora Bishop…you're a famous painter right?"
"Yes," Aurora answered, not turning away from her screen. "I'm currently writing another book about art,"
"There's usually not many creatures in the library," Peter Knox shot a glance down at everyone, making sure they wouldn't be eavesdropping. "I suppose word has spread about the Ashmole Manuscript you both took out,"
"We've already been over this drama. We just wanna forget about it," Aurora answered.
"And it was just me that took it out. So don't trouble Aurora about it," Diana came to her defence.
"I assure you both that I am a friend,"
"Then why are you being so persistent about it?" Aurora challenged.
"How about we discuss this over coffee?" Peter offered.
"We have work to do," Diana refused politely, not looking up at him.
"Or are you two tea drinkers like your mother?" Knox's question made the two look up with wide eyes.
"You knew our mother?" Diana asked.
"I did indeed. Let's discuss this outside,"
Diana and Aurora shared a glance. Aurora remained less uncertain. Could they trust this witch who knew their mother?
They made their choice and walked outside with Peter Knox.
"Did you know our father too?" Aurora asked curiously.
"Only slightly. Your mother and I met when we were teenagers. We were great friends, and I was very fond of her She was passionate, clever, stubborn as a mule when she wanted to me,"
Diana couldn't help but giggle. "Really,"
Peter Knox nodded. "It was terrible what happened to her. I've always wanted to introduce myself, but your aunts were very protective,"
"That's Sarah and Em for you," Diana answered.
"Strangest thing was…I never you even existed Aurora," Peter said next.
Aurora stopped in her tracks and frowned. "Really?"
"I only just learnt about you when I saw the covers of your latest book. I never knew before she died that Rebecca and Stephen had a second daughter. Now let's go inside and have some tea," Peter Knox led the girls inside a nearby café. "Could we get tea for two please?" he asked a waitress. They walked over to a private room. As they entered, Aurora noticed that someone was staring at them from far away from the far end of the café. She caught sight of the same witch whom she had spotted on the higher level of the library. She turned her head and ignored that growing feeling which was beginning to rattle her head.
The tea arrived and Peter poured some hot beverages into their mugs. "So, Diana, did you just call it up?"
"Yes,"
"How?"
"The…the normal way,"
"That's odd because I requested Ashmole 782 this morning and it isn't there,"
Aurora nearly spat out her tea. "What? How could it?"
"It's missing. According to the Bodleian catalogue, it's been missing for centuries,"
"But that makes no sense. I took it out," Diana explained.
"You did return it,"
"Of course, she did!" Aurora spat. "I saw it myself. She returned it. She would never steal a book from the Bodleian,"
"It could be the date. Perhaps it shows itself around the time of the Equinox. Perhaps there was a spell on it and somehow for some reason you broke it,"
"I'm not my mother. Mr Knox, I didn't inherit her powers," Diana clarified.
"What happened when you opened it?"
"I only looked at one page,"
"What was on it?" Peter Knox was asking these questions too quickly that Aurora was becoming suspicious of his motives.
"A picture?"
"Of what?"
"The alchemical child,"
"There must have been more. You must have seen more,"
Aurora was now annoyed by his persistency. "Why is this so important to you Mr Knox?" she questioned.
"Because if this book is what I think it is, it contains the witches first spells. It could tell us how we created vampires,"
His words sounded like madness to the sisters.
"That's ridiculous," Aurora scoffed.
"That's just a myth," Diana argued.
"Vampires have used their brute power and longevity to gain far too much control. But if we created them, then we can uncreate them,"
The sisters were so stunned by Peter Knox's plans of killing a vampire with that book.
"That's just foul," Aurora spat in disgust. "And cruel,"
"We won't have any part in that," Diana declared. "Come on Aurora,"
She tried to move but Peter Knox grabbed her arm. "You have to try and take it out again. You two are the only people who have seen it in years,"
"Let go of my arm," Diana ordered.
"That book belongs to us witches," Peter wouldn't let go. Aurora grabbed his wrist and ice started spreading from her hands. He tilted his gaze to her, appalled by what she was doing.
"Touch my sister…and the only thing you're gonna get…is a frozen wrist,"
Peter was appalled by her power but didn't speak back. Closing his lips, he let go of Diana's wrist. Seeing Aurora's threatening gaze, he pulled it away.
Aurora released her frozen fingers from his hand and the ice disappeared. "Don't you ever touch my sister again or it won't just be your wrist that breaks like ice,"
They turned and departed.
"Quite sure I'll see you again Diana," Peter called off. "And Aurora…you'd better learn the consequences of threatening a Congregation member,"
Aurora wanted to speak back and tell him she wasn't afraid, but Diana pulled her away.
Once they were out in the open, Diana lashed out softly at her sister. "Aurora. The way you spoke to Peter Knox, he could have attacked you with a spell or worse. And he's a Congregation member!"
"You needed my help, Diana,"
"I appreciate your help but it's my job to protect you. I promised mum and dad that I would take care of you,"
"We protect each other Diana. That's what sisters do. And I don't care if Peter Knox is a Congregation Member. He shouldn't even be one with the way he thinks he can just eradicate an entire species. Or knows what he might do to daemons as well if he got his hands on it,"
"I just hope we don't see him again,"
"I think this is exactly what Matthew meant by us needing to be careful,"
"Then let's follow his words of advice,"
"Diana, promise me that if this gets worse, we'll go and see him,"
"I promise. We should go and see Gillian. She'll know what to do," They walked into a nearby neighbourhood and very kindly Gillian let them inside. Diana told her what had happened over tea and ginger biscuits.
"To be honest, I still don't get what you're both anxious about. Diana how could taking a book out for a senior witch doing any harm?" she argued.
"Come on. You were in the library. This book…it's…it's powerful. And I don't trust what Peter Knox might do with it. He hates other species. He'll use it against them,"
"It's no concern of ours,"
"Well, it should be," Aurora argued. "Just because our species were bitter enemies in the past doesn't mean we have to be so antagonising to each other now. This is the 21st century,"
"We don't even know how he knew I took it out in the first place," Diana said. "What's stranger is that he never knew Aurora existed even if he knew our parents,"
"These things get out," Gillian said.
"We don't want anything to do with this," Aurora spoke back. "That book was hidden for a reason. Maybe it should stay that way,"
"We just want to be normal," Diana said.
"Diana, I've known you for ten years. You couldn't be normal if you tried. It's so typical something like this would happen,"
"What should we do?"
"Diana, just get it out for him and forget all about it. Continue with your paper and get that professorship,"
"She can't just take it out and give it to him without a second thought," Aurora debated, shocked that Gillian thinks they should just give in to his demands. "It's not right,"
"It feels nearly impossible to even do our papers with all those creatures in the library," Diana said. Every second of sitting inside the library with everyone's eyes glued to them felt like deep-sea diving.
"What about the vampire that was following you two before?" Gillian asked.
"He seems to have given up," Diana said.
"That's a relief at least,"
"There's something about him. He seemed to know more about the book more than anyone else. I should have asked him about it. Instead, I told him to leave me alone,"
"Quite right too,"
"Haven't you ever talked to them before?" Aurora questioned.
Gillian scoffed. "No,"
"So you don't even know what they're like?"
"And you do after one conversation?"
"I don't think he means us any threat at all,"
"You're right Aurora. He didn't seem to be as prejudiced against us as we are against them,"
"See. That's another sign we don't have to be so against each other for no reason," Aurora argued. "Well…I've gotta get back to the shop. Wonder if that vampire from yesterday might come back for another painting,"
Her answer brought quite a surprise to Gillian. "You allowed a vampire to buy your painting?"
Aurora frowned. "Well yes. You can't judge someone by their species before you get to know them. Now…I'd better get going. Bye! Good luck at the party tonight Diana!" she departed through the door.
That's Part 1 done. What do you all think of that? Peter Knox never knew of Aurora's existence till now. Wonder why? We'll have to wait and find out. Please tell me what you all think of my OC characters and feel free to send over any ideas too if you'd like. Get ready for Part 2 later.
