Wayhaught Love

The Forest

Waverly POV

"It's like the ring, my... My hand, had a mind of it's own." I said worried I would hurt someone.

"Uh, yeah, ya melted Demon Derek's face like Velveeta!" Nicole said.

"What if it face-melts someone human?" I asked looking at Nicole.

"Everything you Earps touch is as cursed as you are. And if that is Bulshar's ring, you're screwed. I was locked in a basement by face ripping demon witches and the only thing that they were terrified of was him. Well, Wynonna ended them. Well, goody for her! My face still looks like a goddam charcuterie board!" Mercedes explained.

"You're still beautiful, Mercedes." I said stroking the side of her cheeks.

"And you ate edibles for breakfast." Mercedes said and stood up.

I grabbed Dereks finger cutter from the fireplace. "There's only one way to get it off." I went to chop off my finger.

"No more cutting off hand bits!" Nicole said grabbing the tool from my hand. "That ring, on you... Something very powerful is at work here."

"Your sex life is either about to either get really great or very, very, very bad. Girl... put a mitt on it." Mercedes grabbed a Virginia Falls oven mitt and handed it to me.

"Not a permanent solution." I said putting it on.

"Well, I tried. And now I've got a face to catch. Good luck, girls." Mercedes said and headed out.

"Look, if demon magic what's keeping the ring on then maybe we need demon magic to get it off." Nicole suggested pulling me on the couch next to her.

"Jeremy and I will put our heads together." I said.

"OK." Nicole said.

My phone rang and I pulled it out of my pocket. "Speak of the veggie devil. Jeremy, uh I... I need to search through the archives to find some BBD ring removal voodoo."

"OK, later. Look, Robin gave me the login for all the Parks and Rec surveillance footage. And I... I noticed something on the Eagle Nest Cam. Something very Bulshar-y." Jeremy explained.

"Bulshar-y? What...? What...? Where are you?" I asked.

"I'll send you my location. I definitely don't want to go in alone." Jeremy said sounding creeped out.

We headed for the car and my phone pinged with Jeremy's location.  It took us about 20 mins to get there and we found his car and parked next to it.  "Hey guys.  I didn't want to go in alone but here is the camera footage."  Jeremy handed his tablet and Nicole came round with her backpack to watch the footage with me.

We headed into the woods and along the path.  To where one of the cameras are.  "The camera is mounted up there."  Jeremy pointed up the tree.

"Which way does it look?"  Nicole asked.

"Yeah, and what did you see?"  I asked.

"Like a weird overgrown mound of tree roots.  Look, Bulshar was looking for the Garden, right?  So what if the staircase...?"  Jeremy explained.

"Was the entrance."  I interrupted figuring it out.

"Yes, high five!"  Jeremy said putting his hand up.

"WAIT NO!  Hand of death."  I warned him as I was about to high five him.

"Oh yes, uh, supportive elbow bump."  He said as we bumped elbows.

"Uh, guys?  Speaking of death hand."  Nicole said getting our attention.  We looked over at what she spotted.  Seeing tree branches in the shape of a cacoon.