Leo Blue POV
Early June was the moment of truth. The moment where I free Sugar Plum from the trapped life that she lived in for so long. She's finally going to take all the plums, consume them and get lifted into the alternative universe where she's back to her teenhood in Tennessee, except she's wiser now and knows how to properly fix her problems, instead of running off to rely on a Water Witch.
My wounded spine had mostly healed, and my limbs can move like normal once again. I've even gotten skinnier because I stopped drinking the two liter bottles of pop.
I came to the cabin this month with the sack of plums over my shoulder. "Today's the day, isn't it?" I tell Water Witch enthusiastically.
I toss the bag to Water Witch. She bearly catches it, then tightens the bag and harshly says, "Out to the woods. Go." Urging me to leave the cabin and to go out in the woods, which I guess it's because there needs to be a lot of space to cause things to happen.
Water Witch was kind enough to actually walk rather than appearing.
After this, I won't even need to use my cult anymore because no plums will appear under my bed at night. I wouldn't need to drug anyone, or kill off anyone who had even a sliver of photo evidence. I could return to the man I was before. A designated driver.
Sugar Plum waited like a stranger in the woods. I watched an interaction between Sugar Plum and Water Witch for the first time. It was creepy.
"Well, well, well, look who's already arrived?" Water Witch whispers viciously.
Sugar Plum stomps her foot stiffly. "I'm not putting up with your Bullsh*t anymore, you old Witch, just reset the clocks. I've waited fifty- four years for this!" She stammered.
"Do calm yourself. It's not going to be easy." Water Witch says as she laughs a little and sits down on a fallen tree branch. "Now, Leo Blue, are you ready to sacrifice your life to save my hostage?" She looks up at me with her piercing demonic eyes.
"Of course! But.... I didn't think I had to make sacrifices. What would happen to me? I don't become a Witch or anything, do I?"
"Oh, there's so much that you don't know." She grinned. Sugar Plum sat in silence as Water Witch tells me these weird things about the alternative universe situation.
"There's a way, Leo Blue for the world to be different." She calmly says.
I look at the sunset creeping into the trees. "Oh, I know. But what are you saying exactly?"
"The clocks will actually reset. You will go poof. Your parents will even go poof. Most people would go poof, you see." She forces me to sit down. "Once there was a way for my hostage to survive the curse she was under. If these plums reset the clocks, she'll be happy, free, and growing old like any regular human. She would have no magic, and she would not have met me, so she would not have met you."
"Cool."
Sugar Plum impatiently sways while saying, "Can you just do it?"
But Water Witch ignores her and keeps talking directly to me. "So the plums wouldn't exist, you know. What killed Kopelyn?"
"Scott killed Kopelyn."
"No." She patiently says in a soft voice, "Kopelyn overdosed on magical sugar plums while being pregnant."
"Oh sh*t."
"Right. When my hostage turns back to the way she was and grows old like a normal person, you'd still have Tennessee, your family, you'd have.... Kopelyn... and Scott."
