Poison Ivy

Chapter 61

"Ivy where are we?"

My sobs wreck my throughout my body. "Niklaus, you shouldn't be here. Never should know what happened here."

"What are you talking about."

"Its not to late to go back. Please brother, please."

But its to late. The memory pulling us forward, right to the beginning.

"Where am I?"

"Be quiet child and listen to me closely. You will not tell them you're the witch that cast the spell. You will hide your magic far within yourself." Her stern expression never wavering. "It is the only way you will survive here. Do you understand?" The memory feels like it happened yesterday. It was so very clear and vivid.

"Ivy what is this?"

"What do you think this is, brother?" I wasn't about to spell it out for the idiot.

The witches approached mother and I. "You have released a plague upon the world!" the breath pulled from our lungs even though we didn't need it anymore. "Who did it?"

Mother told me not to confess. "It was I. I wanted to protect my family from the wolves." I heard her say with sorrow in her voice.

"Very well." The spirit who I came to know as Qestsiyah. "You will watch your daughter be punished for your recklessness for all eternity."

There was a scream that filled through the fog of pain that blossomed from my chest, but I was unable to figure out the source. All I felt was the white-hot pain tearing all my cells apart until I was nothing. Then it collapsed back into me and the pain started all over.

Times didn't pass as I was ripped away and put back together, at least I couldn't tell the passage of time.

"No...no!" Nik boomed as the memory ripped itself from me. I couldn't catch my breath as my brother's heart visibly broke before my eyes. "Tell me you weren't tortured all this time. Please." He was on his knees with angry tears flowing from his eyes, but we were only just getting started.

My spine straightened and I tried to remove all emotion from my voice. "I don't know how long this first time lasted but I was...reassembled so to speak, as you buried my body."

"I'm sorry our parents turned their backs on you. I will never do that."

Eli walks up with Kol and Fin following him. "Nor will we."

"We stick together as one. Always and forever." The siblings held hands in a circle over my grave.

"I was allowed to watch for a bit. You and Kol went out on a rampage in your grief for me but also the loss your wolf and his magic." I wiped away the tears that fell down my face. "Do you really want to watch this Nik? Do you really want the burden of knowing what I went through?"

"This shouldn't be your burden to bear alone. You're always trying to take care of us but you never allow us to take care of you."

Then there was nothing. There was so much nothingness I trick myself into thinking I didn't exist, that's until the spirits pulled me out of that abyss and froze me in place to watch my siblings be daggered for the first time.

"They will be disposed of soon." I watched the brotherhood of the five come into existence and their actual purpose be told. "Their main goal is to kill my beloved Silas, but I have gifted them with daggers to put down your precious siblings and you have a front row to watch it all happen." I don't know why she explained her whole life with Silas and Amara. Maybe it was to intimidate me, and truth be told it was working.