TSFS: The Other Side's Sacrifice

The Plan

February 10th, 2018

11:00 am

The next morning the girls woke up at Ashley's house, and Santana was still there sleeping peacely.

"She's been sleeping for a long time. Should we wake her up?" Delilah asked Ashley. The two of them were studying Santana's sleeping position for a long time. Bianca and Jackson came home that night an absolute mess, though with another girl.

Someone that Ashley had recognized with in her class. She was one of her students.

"Are the other three still sleeping?" Delilah then asked her, and Ashley simply nodded her head. "They'll be out for a while."

Everything seemed to be off, as the two girls walked out of the room, walking into a busy family room with Eli and Zen already there.
"How is she?" he asked.

"Sleeping."

As much as the others wanted to wake Santana up, and question her about the Zikotryan, they knew that the girl had probably never had a good night's sleep in ages, so it was just best to leave her be.

"Zen and I are gonna go out today and search for how to break an imprint spell. I'm sure Madeline is still imprinted to Luna, even on the other side."

"How do you know?"

"Hazel and Will texted us before they left. I guess they're at Will's grandma's house because they're trying to find his long lost brother?" Eli said slightly confused himself, though Maya just tilted her head. "I didn't know Will had a brother? Thought it was just him and Dorothy."

Eli shrugs, as if he would know the answer to everything. Maya then marked her own words, an expression of worry appearing on her face. "Speaking about Dorothy, where the hell did she even go? Same with Crystal..." her voice trails off. She stared at everyone in the room, waiting for an answer, but got nothing in return.

"I'm not sure. But wherever they are, they're probably fine." Delilah snaps.

Everyone forgot that Delilah wasn't too fond of Crystal. She wasn't too sure about Dorothy.

"Well anyway. Text us if you find anything about the imprint problem. You can try to communicate to Madeline about it, but I'm not sure you'll find any luck because we don't have access to Hazel and Will's radio we used for the void." Maya explained.

"If anything, it's better to be safe than sorry." Ashley adds with a small smile.

Zen nods and smiles back. "Tell us how things go with Santana. Also keep us updated." and with that, the two boys leave, closing the door behind them.

All of a sudden, a random rattle of the bedroom opens, and out comes a tired Santana with messed up hair.

"Ugh." was all she groaned.

Ashley and the others got up from their seat, walking towards the tired Santana who stood quietly in the doorway. "Good morning Santana. Want some breakfast?"

-

Ashley had ended up making french toast for Santana and the others, as they all sat at the table, eating and drinking and sharing some useful information about the zikotryan.

"So what made you want to break out?" Delilah asked as she took a large bite out of her toast.

Santana was sitting picking at her food, not really having much of an appetite to eat, or to do anything. Her tone was soft, and she wasn't really much of an explainer.

"The place was a hell house. Nothing was even helping me--or anyone that actually went there." she said.

"I didn't realize that what they were giving me was bad until I managed to break into the backroom systems after Bianca left."

Ashley's eyes widened as the name Bianca was brought up. "You knew Bianca? Were you guys friends or something?" she asked, and Santana simply shook her head. "More like the opposite." she laughed, which only left the others more confused.

"We sorta got into a really bad fight--like physical fight over Jackson."

Fight?

Since when?

"Oh." was all Ashley could say.

"Well do you think the pills even work? Or is the whole thing just fraud?" Santana honestly shrugged. "I think more did than the others. Whatever other pills they gave me other than the zikotryan, honestly worked, which is concerning to why they even gave me the damn pill in the first place."

"We found out that the service was used to suck the power out of witches. That is probably why your hands would tingle and had massive headaches." Ashley then explained. "The pill was supposed to cover up as an everyday pill to help with mood swings, when really over time if you kept taking that pill, you'd eventually lose all of your magic."

Santana fidgeted with her hands, completely ignoring the food that was sitting in front of her.

"How long were you in there for?"

Santana takes a deep breath before saying, "around a year. Though I had been taking the pill for over 8 months, a week before Bianca came, I found out about the pill and stopped taking it. Last night wasn't the only time I've tried to escape."

Ashley's eyes widened as she heard that Santana had been able to take the pill for 8 months, she could've lost a load of magic and power that she held in that time. She partly felt back for the girl, but someone would've had to end up in there some way. What was important was that she was no longer taking the pill.

But what would've happened if she didn't find out? If she continued to take the pill, and then eventually her powers were just completely sucked out of her.

"Other times when I tried to escape, I got caught and forced to take loads of drugs where I'd sleep for days. The staff entirely may seem like they were good people, but they weren't. Everyone there just puts on a fake face and attitude, like they weren't just hiding a dead body a minute before." Santana went on.

The others noticed that she seemed to have a way with talking, and the way that her tongue flicked up upon her lips on certain words and phrases.

However, what interested Ashley was the ways that Santana attempted to escape.

"One time I managed to get past security, and ran as fast as I could. The doors were locked, but I had smashed my entire body against the doorway, that it finally opened, and in I went, spotting all the different files with peoples records in them, and I never had enough time to break through those files. They were always one step ahead of me."

"Do you think that we could break in the room a different way? Like a window, or a different door that leads to that exact room? If Hart Point Blake is the place that manufactures it, they have to have some idea of where the pill is entirely sold and produced. A specific address or something." Maya offered, and Santana nodded.

"Back when Jackson and I were still on good terms, he used to give me some type of clues of where the different rooms are, and where they lead us to. If we go through the back entrance, perform an invisibility spell, we should be able to get through without any further notice."

Everyone was alarmed on the plan, nodding their heads up and down as they had finally settled on a plan.

"If we do get into the files, track down the address, we go to that address, and from there we'll get rid of everything. Make sure there is no trace of it." Ashley summaries the plan.

"Sounds good." Santana agrees, and the rest of them hum in agreement.

"Well then ladies." Ashley smirks.

"Looks like this will be the final war of the Zikotryan."