Stockholm Syndrome |||Solby

CHAPTER 20 [PT 1]

July 25th 1724

"Alison wait for me!" Oliver ran as fast as he could trying to catch up with his younger sister. "Hurry up old man!" She yelled back and continued running. Once she took a corner she stopped in her tracks. "Wow." Oliver rounded the corner and hunched over to catch his breath, after accomplishing his goal he looked up. "It's beautiful." The two of them stood in silence and took in their mystical surroundings. A huge mountain rested in front of them, a waterfall fell down it and went right over an opening to some type of cave. "I wanna climb it." Oliver grabbed Alison's arm before she could run away. "No, lets get home before it gets dark." Alison let out a sigh of frustration but complied and followed Oliver home.

"Olli Alison come into the kitchen!" Their mom, Maria, yelled for the other side of the house. "Someone came home for a visit." When they both turned the corner they were face to face with their older brother, Jeremiah. He had a shit eating smile on his face, he leaned in and gave his younger sister a hug, then turned over to Oliver and hugged him. "I know what you've done, all the innocent people. Dead." He whispered in Olivers ear. He pulled out of the hug and loomed over Oliver. "Well i'm off to bed, i have a big day tomorrow." Jeremiah walked out of the room and upstairs to the spare room. "What a lovely surprise." Oliver's mom said before turning back to the dishes.

Oliver had an off feeling about everything. Why was Jeremiah back out of the blue? And how did he know what Oliver did? Someone obviously had to haven told him. Jeremiah's a good witch, but he's not God.

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Knock knock knock

"Answer the door." Oliver whispered to himself. It was early morning and he was standing outside of Cole's home. Finally after knocking about a hundred times the door opened. "Oliver, what are you doing?" Cole asked. Oliver grabbed Cole's hand and dragged him away from the house. "We need to talk, now." Oliver led Cole to a secluded area. "I'm not in the mood right now Oliver, my moms friend is back in town and her daughter is being really weird, she kept saying she has something big tomorrow and-" "Wait. Did she mysteriously appear last night and then start talking about tomorrow?" Cole nodded, "Why?"
"Because my brother, who hates my entire family, came back last night and was being all buddy buddy with everyone, then started talking about his plans for tomorrow, which i guess is today." Cole nodded, Oliver brought his hand up and motioned for Cole to come closer. "He also said he knows what i did." Cole looked into Oliver's blue eyes, "You mean.." He motioned his hand up and down pointing at himself. "I think so, but i think he meant more along the lines of the subjects."
"But that was only five people, right?" Oliver sighed, "About that."
"How many people did you kill?!" Cole whisper-yelled, Oliver closed his eyes and spoke, "Promise you won't be mad." Cole stepped closer. "How many people are dead because of us?" Cole said quietly, he didn't let his quietness stop him from portraying and inquisitive anger. "I didn't want to kill you, i needed practice." Oliver's word slurred together and he frantically spat out an explanation. "Oliver!" Cole yelled, "How many?" Oliver took a deep breath, "Don't be mad." Cole shook his head in disapproval. "Three-hundred and twenty-four." Cole's face dropped, that was more than he would've ever guessed. "How the hell do you even find that many people?!" Cole yelled, he had given up on being secretive, over taken by guilt and anger. "We travel, a lot. All over the colonies, into Canada, and over the main land." Cole began to walk away and Oliver went after him. "I didn't want to hurt you, you saw what happened when i turned you! You almost died! Immagine if I only had five, they didn't start coming back to life until i was almost a hundred in. I had to perfect it! I lied to protect you, i want to be with you forever." Oliver grabbed Cole shoulder and Cole harshly pulled away. "Did you have to kill the survivors?"
"A witch cant compel a vampire, they would've told someone. They had to die." Cole turned to face Oliver. "It's like I don't even know you, the Oliver i love wouldn't kill hundreds of innocent people." Cole turned back around and walked into his house leaving Oliver alone in the cold morning.