Star crossed | Agatha all along

32| The Witch's dead

"Here we go, down the rabbit hole."

Valentina said, Alice very much wanted to stop this from happening but there was nothing she could do about it especially not now. Billy starting to breath heavier and heavier as Agatha continued to hold his head, tapping into the boy's clairvoyance.

"You can't keep him. So where does he go?"

Agatha asked the panting boy,

"I don't know!"

Billy screamed back, but that wasn't an answer Agatha was willing to take.

"Find him a place."

Agatha tells Billy, this was the part of what they were doing Alice couldn't watch on, she couldn't read minds, never could.

"It's black. There's nothing."

The boy tells Agatha, Valentina knew that was a lie, because at any given moment multiple people were dying there would always be a spot for him.

"He floats. He looks down. What does he see?"

Agatha continued to ask the boy questions, in order to get him to do what he needed to do.

"He's afraid."

Billy panted, he too was afraid, for his brother, that he couldn't do this for him, that he couldn't bring him back.

"But he has you with him now."

Agatha said with a slight chuckle, it should have been a comfort to Tommy that his brother was with him now.

"I can't find him a place."

Everyone knew that was a lie, they all knew the rate at which people die, there was bound to be multiple bodies that Billy could put Tommy in.

"Don't give me that. 120 bodies empty out every minute. Find one."

Agatha told the boy, giving an average number, because sometimes it was more than that, sometimes it was less. Alice and Valentina knew they were now at the point of no return, they knew Tommy was going to be out there in a couple of seconds or minutes.

"It's underwater! There's a boy. It's a prank. They tricked him."

Billy suddenly yelled, Valentina didn't think it was a prank because otherwise the boy wouldn't die, it was a cruel, cruel joke.

"He's going to drown."

Billy said, Alice could sense the pain and tears in her brother's eyes, she wanted to take his pain away but it wasn't something she was capable of.

"It's a bad place."

Billy said, it was usually a bad place where boys died, Agatha and Valentina knew that too well.

"It usually is."

Both the Harkness's told the boy at the same time, Valentina hated seeing kids die it reminded her too much of her twin brother's death.

"And the people, the family, there's no one to love him! He's got no one!"

Billy yelled, Valentina deciding to speak up, because this boy had at least two people to love him.

"No. He has you and Alice, Billy."

Valentina told the boy Alice smiling at her before Billy spoke up again.

"Agatha, am I killing this boy so my brother can live?"

Billy asked, both Valentina and Agatha knew the boy was doing no such thing, they knew the cruel truth. Suddenly Billy screamed and then he was gone, leaving nothing but a crack in the floor.