Witch Hunt || Stucky ✔

XIX - The Escape

While James is locked away in a cell set to be executed, Steve gets to work on figuring out exactly how he's going to get him out of there. He doesn't want to see another person that he loves die, and once they've killed Nadia, he's going to fight for James's right to live in this town in peace. Steve will do anything to make sure that James gets that.

But how he's going to be able to do that? He's not entirely sure. He hasn't quite planned that far ahead yet, and to begin with, he still needs to get him out of the jail cell, which shouldn't be too hard. Maybe....

Steve can break James out of his cell easy enough, considering he did make the bars of each cell. Well, more or less anyway, he had helped make them. Though surely since James is a witch, he'd be able to break himself out easy enough? He doesn't think the Sheriff has anything that weakens witches at least.

"Father, how are we going to save Bucky?" Grace asks.

Steve sighs, shaking his head. He knows Grace has grown quite fond of James, Elizabeth, not so much. But he thinks that both of them don't want to see anything bad happen to James, especially Grace.

"I don't know, sweetheart." Steve sighs. "I'm still trying to figure that out." He says, before looking over at Elizabeth, who seems to be looking through that spellbook of James's. "Elizabeth, is there anything that you can find that is of use in James's spellbook?"

Surely there's something in there that could be of use to them? Then again, it may not be very useful to them, as they don't know the correct way to conjure the spells. If only James was with them right now, and not locked away in a cell.

Elizabeth sighs, shaking her head. "Not in a language that I can read or understand." She says. "Father, we do not have the skills to read and use anything in this book. If we need to use anything from in this book to kill this witch, Nadia. Then it would be best to leave that to James. He's the witch here, not us." She closes the book, and walks over to her father. "What we should be trying to figure out, is how we're supposed to get him out of that cell."

Steve sighs, nodding his head. He knows that Elizabeth is right. They need to worry about how they're going to get James out of that cell more than finding anything in the book that could help, especially now that Elizabeth has told him that none of it is in a language that they understand or can speak. Honestly though, he may have had a slight feeling that the spells and most or everything in James's spellbook wouldn't be in English.

"You're right." Steve sighs. "We should be trying to get him out if that cell. We're not going to be able to kill Nadia without him." He says, getting up off his seat. "I can easily break him out of there, as I helped make the cell bars. But I feel as though he can no doubt get himself out of there easy enough."

Elizabeth nods, going to say something, but is interrupted by someone or something breaking into the house.

Steve pushes both Elizabeth and Grace behind him, protecting them from who or whatever is breaking in. Though, as Nadia walks into the room, Steve knows that there really isn't much he can do to protect both Elizabeth and Grace, from what James has told him at least anyway.

"What are you doing here?" Steve asks. "James isn't here."

"Oh, I know he's not here." She says. "I've got some unfinished business to do here, and then I'll go back and finish off my dear nephew."

She casts what Steve can assume is a spell of sorts at them, and he pushes both Elizabeth and Grace out of the way so they don't get hit. Though, the blast of whatever she had cast at him, sends him knocking into the table that Elizabeth and Grace have now taken cover under.