'Till The End (Agatha x Rio)

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"I'm sorry, sweetheart. I really am."

FLASHBACK

Salem Massachuttes
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"No, no, no." Agatha says shuddering."Please no. No, no please!" Agatha screams as she is being dragged down to the shrine. Her hands bound by a magical spell.

"Agatha Harkness, are you a witch?"

"Yes." She shouts, words barely coming out of her mouth. "I am a witch."

"Yet you have betrayed your coven" her mother says blankly.

Every witch takes their hood off and gets ready for the go ahead.

"I have not!" Agatha shouts desperatly.

"You stole knowledge above your age and station." Her mother says. "You practised the darkest of magic."

"I know... I know nothing of these crimes! I... I swear it!"

"Enough deception!"

"I did not break your rules, they simply bent to my power" Agatha says with a smile.

A silence takes hold, like a silence before a storm. Agatha looks around her, seeing her coven. Her face says a lot more than words ever could. She's scared, suprised and speechless. Everything came down to this. The witches started chanting in Latin.

"Wait," she says deperatly. "No. I cannot control it! I..." her voice has more pain in it, it starts to tremble. "If only you would teach me! Help me, please! Mother please!"

Her mom, with one last hateful look, joins in the chant.

"No!" Agatha screams right before the coven blasts her magic at her.

Agatha's screams were painful, but not for long. The blue magic that was supposed to make her dissapear, turned purple. Agatha felt amazing, like a drug has been injected. Everything in her body changed, the power made her more ruthless, stronger. She broke through the magic strain and took power of every witch involved, making them drop dead in an instant. She smiled to herself, as holds the power in her hands, she turns to her mother.

"Please, I can be good." She says.

"No you cannot" her mother replies, shooting every bit of power she has at her.

The fight last longer, seeing as the magic is way stronger but Agatha's curse turns the way around and her mother drops dead. Agatha, looks around, breathless and afraid. She has no idea what is happening. The coven lays dead before her and no one else is to be seen. She escaped death but at what cost? No one is in her life, no one cares and everyone dispises her. She hears someone walk into the shrine. Her head spins around quickly and she sees Rio.

"What are you doing here?" She questions.

"I heard what happened. I wanted to help you." Rio says blankly

"Help me? You outed me for the Darkhold. I hate you." Agatha says with pure hate in her voice.

"What else was I supposed to do? You don't even believe a word I say so why am I even trying." Rio says, her last sentence is more like a statement.

"You ruined everything!" Agatha said.

End of flashback

"I am so sorry" Rio repeats.

"It's been a few centuries, I think everyone can forgive someone in that time" Agatha says with a smile.

They look at each other for a few second before leaning in for a hug. Even though it lasts for a few minutes, for them it feels like forever. Everything is good now or at least that's how it seemed to be. As they started hearing the rest of their coven walking closer, they let each other go, longing to be this close again.

"We should create a space for us to sleep, I'm feeling really tired." Lillia enounces, "Teen has fallen asleep so let's set up camp there."

They all go set up a camp and slowly drift so sleep. Agatha just sits there, enjoying the peace and quiet. Out of nowhere, she hears echoes.

"Mama... mama!" Whispers of that continue a few more times before stopping.

Agatha stands up, trying to find the origin of the echoes. She walks around what it seems for forever, not finding anything. She then settles back and feels a rush of fear go through her. It was Nicholas. He called out for her. Her mind rushes fast: is he alive? Did Rio lie? How is he here? Were the questions in her mind, nothing made sense. She never thought that she'd hear his voice ever again. Of course, she was quite young when she him but that made it even more painful to lose him. Especially when everyone thought she sacrifised him for the darkhold. It was Rio who did. She took the book of the damned to have some connection to her beloved son. He meant everything to her and ever since he dissapeared she went to search for ways to bring him back. Finding Wanda was her biggest success until it went sideways and she lost even more. 3 years of her life, her powers if she was precise. Being the nosy neighbour was more or less the worst experience ever. Everything in her life led her to this moment and the road down here was excruciating.

"Agath, sweetheart, why aren't you sleeping?" Rio asks, her voice sleepy, seeing as she just woke up.

"I can't do this anymore. Come on, wake up, it's time to go! NOW." Agatha wakes everyone up and starts walking the road, not waiting up.

Everyone looks at her confused but still walks after her. They all walk weakly, seeing as they just woke up. After a while a house appears.

"God! Finally, something to get us out of here faster. Well, come on kids, let's go towards it." She says, not realising whose trial that is.

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Whose trial will it be?:)