At the age of five a young girls mother was accused of witchcraft. The town went against the young girls family. They burned her mother, father, and young brother. She burned them. Months later she was found wandering in the woods and taken in by a...
I awaken. Everything around me is a little fuzzy. My head pounds as I realize that I am upside down.
I look at the passenger seat. "Fran?" I reach my arm over. "Fran?" I realize she isn't in the car. "Fran!" I look around some more. I finally get the courage to unbuckle myself. "Ok. Ok, Rose. You got this." I place my hand on the roof of the car and unbuckle. I fall off my seat onto the roof. I crawl out my already smashed window. I look around. "Fran!"
"Rose!" I look down the road. I see Fran with someone else.
I blink trying to clear up my vision. "Fran who..." My vision steadies and I realize who she's with.
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"Shit."
"Rose what's happening?! Please, Gail!"
"Shut up Fran. You were always weak." He smiles. "You can't compel a warlock or another witch Rose! Didn't your boyfriend teach you that?!" He smiles big.
"Let her go, Gail. This is between me and you!"
"Call him."
"What?" I frown at his request.
"Call him! I want him to be here when I kill you." My heartbeats. I kneel back down to the flipped over car. I grab my phone. Thankfully it's unbroken.
I dial his number.
"Rose?"
"Hope. I really need you to come out to where I'm at."
"Why? Are you ok?"
"He's here."
"Who?"
"Gail."
He sighs. "Send me your location and don't move."
I end the call. "Ok, Gail. He's on his way now let's..." My airway gets cut off. He walks to me with Fran in front of him. I hold my hands to my throat as I fall to my knees.
Fran cries. "Gail please stop! You're killing her!"
"Your right Rose I want your power. In fact, I have found just the perfect spell to siphon your power."
"Gail please!"
"Shut up!" He throws Fran against the bolder he pushed in front of my car. She falls unconscious.
I gasp for air. "Fran!" Before I know it Gail is blasted away. I start to cough as air fills my lungs.
A hand is placed on my back. "Rose."
I cough. "I'm ok." He looks up and stares at Gail. "Go." He gets up to fight Gail as I go over to Fran. "Franny? Fran? You with me?" She mumbles. I place my hand on the gash across her forehead. "Sana eam." (1) The gash heals as her eyes flutter open.
She smiles. "Hey."
A tear falls from my eye. "Hi." I look up as Rocky gets out of her car. "Take her to the hotel."
"Hell no. I'm staying and fighting!"
"Rocky, please! I'm stronger than all of you combined. I got this." She hesitates but scoops up Fran and takes her back to the hotel. I turn around back to Gail and Hoseok. "Hey..." before I can finish my sentence Hoseok is blasted into me. I fall hard on my back on the pavement. "Ow mother eff."
Hoseok and I lay on the pavement. "You ok?"
I nod slowly. "Ya. I..." A hand wraps around my throat lifting me off the pavement. "Gail..." I scratch at his face but he is too far out of my reach. "Please."
"I've been waiting so long for this." He smiles.
"Please." Tears stream down my face. His eyes stay cold. "Remember that night... I called you crying... because the girls at the orphanage... were being mean to me..." He stops. "You came over and sat with me..."
"Enough."
"You hugged me... you told me you would... never let anyone... hurt me."
"Things change." He brings me closer to his face. "I hope he treats you well." I grab his face placing my thumbs on his eyes and pushing. He yells out in pain. He drops me.
I raise my hand up. "Gaius somno excitare, donec te. Goodbye."(2) The bright light of my magic shoots out from my hand hitting Gail. He soon starts to fall. Hoseok runs and catches him before he hit the ground. I fall to the ground exhausted.
"Rose!" Hoseok runs to me.
"I'm fine. Just tired. Can you call..." Rockey's car pulls up. Hoseok helps me up and to the car. He sits in the backseat with my head on his lap.
As soon as we reach the hotel Hoseok wakes me up.
I sit up. "Are the boys going to go get Gail?"
He nods. "Ya, as soon as we get you out of here and to the room they will go."
"Actually I don't want to go to our room yet." I turn to Rocky. "Take me to Fran." I get out of the car and head to Fran's room. I open up the door. "Franny."
"I want to forget."
"What?" I close the door and walk to the bed. She has her knees to her chest and her face in her hands. "Fran I..."
"Please! Please. I want to forget Gail! I want to forget all of this. I... I want to go home."
I sit down. "Fran I will take you home in the morning I promise." She nods slowly. "Fran I want you to know that if I erase Gail from your memory it will erase every memory that has anything to do with Gail."
She laughs. "That's the whole point Rose."
"No Fran your not getting it."
"What don't I get huh?!"
"If I erase Gail, Fran I will also be erasing me!" Her face twists into confusion. "Fran think about it. When I met you I met him at the same time. Poof gone. Every time we hung out from the time I got to that school till pretty much now. Poof gone." She puts her head down. "Fran Ill do it if you really want me to but just know you'll forget about me too. I would get it if you want that I mean I hurt you. This is all because of me. I'll do anything you want because I love you. Your all I have. Your all I can truly trust. Please... let me stay."
She shakes her head. "You know what this is all your fault." I put my head down and cry. "But... I wouldn't trade you for anything. If keeping my memories of Gail means keeping you in my life then I will deal. You're my sister basically. I couldn't give you up." She grabs me and hugs me. We cry with each other until we can't cry anymore.
I wipe my tears and then hers. "I will get you home tomorrow. We will both go home tomorrow. We will go back to school and I will protect you. I promise." She nods. I walk out the door and to my room.
For flipping a car I and Fran are both pretty lucky. I healed her little wounds but didn't care to tend to mine.
I open my door. Hoseok is asleep on the bed. I wipe my tears and go to the bathroom. I look up into the mirror. My lip was split and bruised. I had cuts and abrasions from the airbags and glass all over my body. I lift my shirt up. My ribs are bruised. The door opens.
"That looks painful." I look up into the mirror at him. "Want me to fix it?" I nod. He places his hands on my ribs and whispers the spell. My ribs realign. As for everything else I leave it. I don't want magic to be something that I start to depend on. The rest of the day we rest. Tomorrow is a new day. A new beginning. Something is coming. I can feel it. Something dark. Until that day I will go through life like any other teenage girl. Loving hard and when the time comes I'll fight harder.
