Fay Elizabeth Mikaelson

This Is Cult-y

Lizzie's pov_________________

When Hope's crystal turned blue I felt a rage of anger building up inside of me and I notice my crystal turn red. I coved it up with my hands and waited until after the ceremony.

I knock on her door and a second later Andi opens her door.

"Hi Andi. Sorry to bother you during personal meditation time. Can I come in?" I asked her.

"Oh, I could use the, uh the, the fresh air" Andi closed the door standing next to me.

"Where's your crystal?" Andi asked as she noticed it wasn't around my neck. I did take it off after the ceremony.

"Actually, that's why I am here. I had a bit of a setback" I said with a nervous laugh.

"Oh. How-how big is a bit?" she asked me.

I put it back on and it turned red.

"Oh. Huge, then" she looked at me with sympathy.

"I just got a little jealous when I saw you working with Hope uh, saying all those things about how great she is... I-it's triggering for me, because I've heard those things, like, a million times before" I roll my eyes and she nods understanding where I am coming from "But I know it's silly because you chose me to help you lead the purification ritual next week, so if you could just juice me back up" I said holding my hands out to her but she took a step back.

"Oh, um, I need to save my energy. Given recent events I have moved up the ceremony up" Andi said to me. I knew what she meant.

I close my eyes taking a deep breathe and opened my eyes again "And, by. uh, recent events, you mean..." I prey she doesn't say what I am thinking about.

"Hope is very, very special, like you said. She's so powerful, we don't need to recruit any more witches , so... the ritual will happen later this evening" Andi informed me. Each word she said about Hope was like a stab in the heart.

"Oh, wh-what am I supposed to do?" I asked her.

"You know the path that those in the red must take. I wish you well on it" Andi bowed and I also did back to her, then went back inside her house.

"Son of a bitch" I said feeling really angry.

I went to do my new chore. Laundry.

I scrub and scrub.

"You're doing it wrong" Samantha said to me. 

I fake smiled at her "I'm sorry I am not an expert at scrubbing skivvies like you" I said to her.

"You will be 'cause I'll be back to blue before you with that attituded" she said provoking me.

"Face facts, where both cherry red Samantha, which sucks hard enough, so let's call a truce" I said trying to calm myself down,

"Fine" Samantha agreed and a women dumps a bucket of more loads for us to do.

I then see Andi's gloves. I look at Samantha and she saw them too. I tired to reach for them but she grabbed them first. Shit. 

"Oh my god. Andi's gloves. Theses weren't suppose to be in the wash" she said admiring them. 

"Give them to me and I'll take them to her" I tired to reach for them.

"No. I don't think so" Samantha stepped back "Andi's going to be so happy when I return these to her, she'll help me back to..." She looked down at her crystal and I notice the color changed to blue. 

"What the hell" I yelled "How is that even possible, let me see it" but she wouldn't give it to me.

"There's so many things I wanted to say to you, just a minute ago, but... Now I feel above them all" she said .

I glare at her "Good luck on your journey" Samantha bowed then left.

"Go blue yourself" I yelled to her.

A few minutes and I broke into Andi's house. I went through her stuff and I found some interesting stuff.  Was Hope right all along? Is this a cult? I grabbed Andi's crystal.

I left quickly before she saw me. 

I then found Josie, Hope and Fay. 

"Guys" I ran over to them. 

"Lizzie. Where have you been?" Josie asked me. 

"It's a long story. The haiku version: Hope was right, again. It's definitely a cult, now let's get the hell out of here" I said to them.

"Good idea. These two have been asking weird" Fay said pointing to Hope and Josie. 

"I've been feeling so much better since we got here" Hope whined.

"So was I, ok? But did you miss the part where I admitted you were right?" I asked her "Andi doesn't have special powers. She's a basic witch, a fraud. Her crystal is blue all the time because it's colored glass" I explain to them.

"And that enlightenment you feel is some magical drug from Triad" I said to them. 

"Uh, that's never good. Right?" Josie asked. 

"Right? I don't know what her connection is to them, and frankly I don't care. We can figure that out once we are gone" I said.

"Well the drug only works on witches and I am a vampire. So I am fine with leaving" Fay said.

"You trust me right?" I asked them. 

"Of course we do, let's go" Hope said and just as we were about to leave a bell rang. 

"Oh great. Now what is shed up to" I muttered. 

"Nothing good"  Fay muttered.

"Hope? Jo? Are you ok?" I asked noticing their behavior. 

"Never better" They both smile. 

"Oh, ok. In that case I'm gonna drive back to school and get some help and some earplugs" I said grabbing onto Fay's arm dragging her backwards with me. 

"Ad Somnum" and I felt my eyes close and my body drop to the ground. 

"No stay with us" was the last thing I heard before everything went dark. 

I woke up next to Fay but she was still knocked out. In Andi's house. 

"Vervian. She'll be out for a little while longer" I look up and Andi was right in  front of me. 

"You lying, phony" I glare at her. 

"I can say the same about you" Andi said to me "Sneaking in here and breaking my things" Andi said shaking her head. 

"At least you can't mind-control me" I said to her. 

"Not currently. I must admit, I've been wondering why that is. Because one drop of this on my gloves is normally enough to make witch worship me" Andi held up a bottle and her gloves.

"Well, the gloves are off now, bitch" I said.

"Maybe it's your brain chemistry or just overwhelmingly bad vibes. You should have seen what Triad did to witches that stuff didn't work on. Very un feminist" Andi said.

"Well, it wasn't bad enough to make you stop working for them" I told her. 

"No supernatural ever worked for Triad. We were imprisoned, locked in  cells and focused to do their bidding all the while being drugged to stay compliant" Andi said to me. 

"Maybe your sob story would land a little better if you weren't doing the same thing to every witch here" I said to her. 

"Said the self-indulgent daddy's girl who never had a real problem in her life" Andi said and I scoffed.

"I've overcome a lot. You're clearly not an empath so what's the  ritual really for?"
 I asked her. 

   Then a knock on the door.

"That information for blue crystal witches only" Andi said "Speaking of" Andi opened the door to reveal Josie.