The past has way of coming back

What's at stake

Kara paced Claire small loft anxiously, the voices, the screams, she wasn't able to escape it, so much so that she escaped in the middle of the night , hoping to keep Hayley unawares to her latest trouble.

Claire walks onto the room with a cup of tea "Drink this."

Kara stares at the cup suspiciously "What is it?"

Claire rolls her eyes "It's chamomile tea, relax I'm not trying to poison you." She mocked

Kara grits her teeth in annoyance and in a fit of anger she grabs the cup and throws it against the wall "Do not order me around witch!"

Claire blinked stepping back "Kara.."

Kara no longer coherent blurred across the room and grabbed Claire in a choke hold, she no longer saw Claire her friend but a enemy of her past, mocking her .. she squeezed the girls throat. "I will kill you , stand against me and mine again and you'll know true pain" she threatens lost in her hallucinations..

Claire desperately calls out for her friend but she's losing oxygen fast, as a last resort she cast a silent pain infliction spell , the hand around the her throat disappears and Kara's on her knees clutching her head in pain.

Claire tries to catch her breath, staring at her friend in fear and concern. She doesn't move an inch.

The spell continues to cause Kara pain, finally she's able to see where she is and looks up and looks horrified by what she did.. "Claire.." she managed through the debilitating migraine..

Claire stops her spell but doesn't take a step closer "Kara?"

Kara staggers to her feet, wiping the blood from her nose, her eyes stops on Claire's throat "I'm.. I'm sorry .." she muttered stepping back "I didn't.."

Claire covered her throat "I know.. it.. you didn't know it was me."

Kara fell helplessly on the sofa, tears burning her eyes "It's speeding up, I'm hungry.. so damn hungry. Every heartbeat calls me to me.. Claire.. I'm losing my mind."

"It's progressing faster than anticipated, it means the casters aware that you've been inflicted." Claire said hoarsely, sipping on her tea hoping to soothe her throat, she doesn't look Kara in the eyes, afraid , she's never truly seen the hybrid so scared.

"What can I do? Do I lock myself away? But Hope, .. I can't leave my daughter and wife to fend for themselves.." Kara asked desperately "I don't.. I don't want to hurt them but I'm afraid this .. whatever this curse is will make me hurt them.. even worse than I hurt you."

Claire wants to speak about her vision she had but decided to keep it to herself, it'll only cause Kara even more distress. She thinks quickly "there is one thing we can do."

Kara looks up expectantly "What?"

Claire stands up and goes to find a map along with the grimoire Kara gifted her on her 21st birthday. She brings it to the small table and lays it out "I can use the curse to find the caster." She says slowly, watching Kara's expression carefully "This means if our assumptions are right, it'll lead you right to Dahlia."

Kara furrowed her brow "But she's cloaked, Freya hasn't been able to get a location and she's been trying for days."

Claire shakes her head "Dahlia is powerful, that's for sure but she also knows how to guard herself against your sister, they spent years together after all and Dahlia taught Freya what she knows."

Kara thinks it over , the logic was sound. Knowing the strained relationship or rather non existent relationship between Freya and Dahlia it made sense. Dahlia would sage guard herself against Freya especially now that she returned to her family "and what makes you think you can find her?"