The Vixen & the Fox II

Chapter 344

Kaleb made a few spell modifications on the RV, mostly old travel spells he knew about from his gran, and when everything was set and ready to go. The weather was miserable, which had him jogging back into the Big House. Getting in the house he shook out his curls.

"Kaleb?" he paused when he saw Josie there.

"Hey dearie," he smiled to his niece. Kaleb did love all the Mikaelson children and Skulk children like they were his own flesh and blood, being in the center of a massive, crazy family reminded him so much of his own Coven he never really wanted to leave the chaos. Josie though always shied away from the family, the insanity, and the love of the family and Skulk. She put herself on the fringes; especially after all the shit Alaric pulled on Jo and his girls about witches. It wouldn't surprise Kaleb if it had fucked up Josie's self-perception. But he left head shrink work to Cami, because Cami was the shrink.

"Did my dad put us here?" Josie whispered as she looked up at him finally, biting her lip and trying to hide behind the archway.

"No," he answered honestly.

"Then why'd we get thrown in jail?" she asked.

"Because the Gemini want to play games, and it's not going to go in their favor," Kaleb said softly.

"Who are the Gemini?"

"Well... before the Skulk your mum, and your Uncle Kai, were part of a different Coven, much older, the Gemini, and the Gemini Coven is very old, and very powerful, and they fancy their word as law, they have for many centuries. The Skulk's mere existence challenges that, and they're lashing out. More than likely, they were trying to prove they still hold power and we ended up here."

"But why us?"

"The Gemini hate Siphoners," Kaleb admitted with a wince. Josie flinched as she looked at her feet.

"Oh."

"Look, dearie, Siphoners aren't bad," he caught her chin and made her look at him. "There's nothing bad about you or Lizzie. Being a Siphoner just makes it a different way to manage your magic, it also makes your ability to feel connections, and sense power more impressive than a normal witch, and your power, unlike many witches is unfathomable and varies depending on your source. The Gemini don't like Siphoners because Siphoners win Merges, with little to know effort because they absorb magic, which makes the ritual a nonstarter for the Gemini and the Gemini need the Merge."

"What's the Merge?"

"The Gemini has twins, it's why you and Lizzie are twins and why we have Rameses and Radzim, but the twins in the Gemini Coven, they must merge, and merging means two become one, and in the process, the weaker twin dies."

"Will I have to Merge with Lizzie!?" Josie strangled out.

"No. You're not a Gemini," he soothed.

"Daddy wanted us to be a Gemini," Josie whispered. "He says the Mikaelsons are evil, the Skulk is bad, and Uncle Kai is a sociopath."

"Kai is a sociopath," Kaleb stated bluntly. Kai was always and forever a sociopath and though there were ways for him to manage his behaviors, and Kai could be taught to mimic and behave in different ways than when he had had no support system. But Kai was forever impulsive, had few attachments, he had difficulty with long term, and he was quick to rage, and he was a little erratic in his general disposition, but Kaleb and Bonnie helped keep him level, and the Skulk grounded Kai. Kai would never be able to be normal, even before he had been turned into a Heretic, he just couldn't do it. "And the Mikaelsons... they aren't evil, Josie, but they're very dangerous, and the Skulk is not bad, again, they're dangerous."