The Deception

Chapter 10

"Who is the girl on the inside of the locket?" Confused they all turned to Tom who was standing in the door way of the kitchen still in his pajamas.

"What locket?" Katana made a face at Tom signaling him to stop whatever he was about to say.

"Nothing mother, pass the jam please" James made eye contact with Tom and mouthed 'later' hoping he would understand that she hadn't told their parents about the lockets, telling them that meant telling them about the island and she was not ready for that, their where too many experiments her and her siblings had done on that island that her parents couldn't know about.

"I couldn't sleep all night thinking about her, James please, I need to know" Nickolas and Perenelle looked between James and Tom and then at all their children who suddenly seemed on edge in confusion.

"What is going on?" Tom didn't understand why his sister didn't want to tell him, his mind too foggy and delirious from lack of sleep kept him from realizing the mistake he just made.

"Like I said nothing mother, I think the lack of sleep is making Tom say ridiculous things" James stood and walked over to Tom. "He needs rest, ill take him to bed"

Taking Toms arm she flashed them to his room, she was too impatient to just walk. She led him to his bed and dropped his arm. "Are you insane?!"

"I don't understand?" Tom rubbed his tired eyes confused on what his sister was talking about.

"Go to bed Tom we'll talk later" She tucked him into bed and gave him a few drops of dreamless sleep she kept on her incase she needed it, usually she only really slipped a bit into Evie's tea when she became too hyper and began annoying her.

The rest of her siblings had rapidly finished their breakfast before slowly trying to leave the breakfast table and avoid their mother's questions. They left out the conservatory doors and grabbed their brooms, with listening ears everywhere the only place to have a truly private conversation was up in the air since they didn't want to raise suspicion by leaving the castle grounds to go to the island so soon. James met them a few minuets later and together they flew up until they where a few meters away from the top of their wards.

"Is Tom ok?" James gave Evie and unamused stare.

"Of course he is he's resting and hopefully will be more tactful when he wakes up" James rubbed her brow in frustration, it wasn't even a full day and already Tom was slipping.

"Why can't we tell mom and dad about the lockets? I mean besides that you made them on the island" Usually the more reserved and quiet of the bunch Loki at times seemed to be the naturally brightest of them all picking up on things unsaid.

"We can't tell them because I used a few spells I probably shouldn't have"

"What do you mean? Like black magic? Mum uses it all the time we all do, you know what dad says, as long as it doesn't harm anyone and it doesn't have any lasting negative effects its alright" Her siblings nodded in agreement.

"Yeah Katana is right Jamie, and as long as you know how to control it and you don't let it control you" James looked at Billy hoping to have an alley once she knew.

"That's not it exactly" James bit her lip and looked towards Castor who although was there with her when she made the lockets wasn't their when she was in the beginning stages of making what he thought was a simple potion.

Flashback:

Once Castor had left with the vials James pulled put the book of shadows from her pocket and enlarged it. Engorgio! Flipping through the pages she found the ritual potion she needed and after a small mental debate she proceeded with the potion making sure she had enough time to do the spells and put in the more obscure ingredients that would sure make Castor question what in Merlin she was doing. She knew she had to convince death to agree to what she was about to do and hoped what ever or who ever death was would. Once the first step was over she impatiently waited as the potion began to change color, suddenly a thick black curling smoke billowed out of the cauldron and grew almost suffocating her.