Whispers at Witching Hour

Chapter 85

Musical inspiration: Coming Home, Pt. II – Skylar Grey

Another morning at the breakfast table – but without Lilith this time. She had been sick again and could not bear the thought of food. Despite Zelda's lecture about how important balanced nutrition was for a healthy pregnancy, Lilith did not give in and decided to return to hell early. In the light of Sabrina's recent idea of marrying Caliban, she hoped she could still talk her out of it, knowing Zelda would disapprove.

Lilith had done everything she could to avoid talking about it with Zelda, assuming Sabrina's aunt was not even aware of her part-time job in hell. As far as she knew, Sabrina had told her she had given the throne up. And as much as she did not want to, she could not help keeping secrets from her girlfriend if it was for the sake of some peace in their familial life.

Oblivious to all of this, Zelda was entirely focused on Hilda's wedding – The first wedding she would get to carry out as High Priestess of the Order of Hecate. She was so excited about it that she ignored Hilda's wishes for a quiet ceremony completely.

"Oh, now before I forget, Sister, we must exorcise your groom's sex demon once and for all. Damascus steel won't do much good on your wedding night, and the last thing you want is to be torn limb from limb by an incubus", she told Hilda dryly before the ringing phone claimed her sister's attention.

Zelda returned to her newspaper article when – surprisingly – Ambrose had something to say after days of silent treatment.

"I'm sure you know all about that auntie...", he glanced at her grimly before adding, "We could kill two birds with one stone and exorcise your sex demon as well since we could all do with some sleep..."

"Ambrose! That's not nice!", Sabrina snarled before Zelda could react, feeling the need to defend her fairy-godmother.

Zelda did not have the nerve to even comment on her nephew's vile remarks, ignoring them with a passion.

"Am I wrong, though? They're obnoxiously loud and Aunt Hilda's been oversleeping on a regular basis!", Ambrose retorted at his cousin.

"Well, you and Lilith could tune it down a little Auntie Zee...", Sabrina searched her aunt's face for any sign she was listening, but Zelda's eyes were glued to the newspaper, so she turned back to Ambrose, "Still not cool, cousin. You seriously need to get a grip."

Hilda told Ambrose about work coming in and then the doorbell rang – what a busy day! Sabrina took it upon herself to see who was at the door and was stunned to see Lilith. Had her aunt not told her before, the demoness had left for hell? She never returned to the mortuary during the day...

"Sabrina?"

The teenage witch gulped, thinking, Shit, I'm in trouble.

"Lilith? What are you doing here?"

"I came to see if your aunts could possibly talk some sense into you about this preposterous wedding of yours", Lilith explained. It had taken all her courage to come back to have this conversation with her witch and her sister, but now things had changed dramatically – and not for the better.

"Right."

"But since I just left Hell where you were tasting wedding cakes, I suspect we'll be having a different conversation now, won't we?"

Oh, that girl will have it coming! Lilith was already preparing a speech in her head before Sabrina had even closed the door behind them.

Sabrina started confessing everything about her and the other Sabrina and watched Lilith's eyes and mouth opening impossibly wide.