IN ANOTHER LIFE , josie saltzman ✔️

↳ 30. Lemináre

[ Selina POV ]

I opened a portal, stepped through it and sighed when I was in New Orleans. "Invisique." I whispered and followed Josette Saltzman into a familiar bar. Amaya did not know that I followed her, and she was better off not to. When I saw Freya, my breathing stopped and she pinched her brows together when she probably felt the revilas magic in the air. It wasn't as strong as Amaya's or even Olivia's, but she seemed to notice still.

"And how old are you supposed to be?" Freya asked the sixteen year old. I chuckled to myself. "21-ish." She answered. "Relax." The Mikaelson witch said and I realized how much I missed them. "It's called the Big Easy for a reason. I'm Freya. I hear you've been asking around the Quarter for me." She added and I sighed, looking down on the floor. I stood by the bar, but not too close to them.

"I'm Josie. I'm a student at the Salvatore School. Mystic Falls?" Freya nodded at the witch. "Yeah, I've heard of it. My wife's got an eye on it for our son." Freya said and I smiled to myself. Son. Amaya and Hope had a cousin. Another Mikaelson baby. I wonder if Hope knew about it. I shook my head, getting back to the main topic infront of my eyes.

"I kind of need your help. There is this spell I'm trying to reverse engineer." Freya got up from her seat at the small, round table. "I'm sure one of your teachers can help you with that." And the witch turned around to leave. But before she could have set another foot infront of the other Josie said, "It's an ancient japanese black magic purge spell." She said and I wondered. Was that why Amaya couldn't sleep? Why she was always on her paws at night? Magic like that surely must have affected Josie and therefore, also Amaya, which worried me.

"Those aren't the kind of spells school kids should be messing with. You should go home." The mortal Mikaelson said and walked away. A wait stopped her yet again. "You have photos in your home of someone you don't recognize. Feels like you should know them but don't?" The siphoner called out. "How do you know that?" The blonde asked and looked back to Josie. "We've all forgotten people. It doesn't matter what I say. The spell I need is the only way you're gonna remember for yourself." She said.

Freya sighed and the spell I used to keep myself hidden is lifted. "Selina?" Josie frowned and her eyes watched me carefully. "How do you know eachother?" Freya asked, connecting the dots. Knowing I wasn't here for Freya or New Orleans itself. "You know her?" Josie asked and I chuckled, trying to come up with sonething. "I'm a Mikaelson. Very, very down the line, though." I said.

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"What are you doing here?" Josie asked and I sighed, muttering a spell under my breath and watched as a foggy ball appeared in my hands. "Hey, um how's it goi- okay, great. You had one job, Selina! Make sure she doesn't recognize you." Amaya said as her face appeared within the ball. It was like a video chat, really. "Yeah, guess where the siphoner went off to?" I turned around and Amaya stuttered words as she saw Freya. "Fr- Fr-Freya. Oh my god." She whispered. "You're the girl from the pictures." Freya said as she looked at Amaya and then the ball was gone. Not because of me, but because of her.

I dropped my arms to the sides of my body. "Tell me, Selina. Who's she?" I sighed and looked down. It wasn't my place to say, but I knew Amaya would never tell the truth. "Your niece. Klaus' first born child." I said and looked back to Josie. "Your other half." I took a breath and exhaled. "Ahh, that's been weighing on me for weeks." I said and exhaled a deep breath.

The two went through the spell once again and I sat down, poured myself a drink. "The lemináre spell... does it still mean death?" Freya asked me. "Only if you mean to... It can be used for other things if you really want it to be something else. Why?" I asked and took a sip of my drink.

"Heard a revilas use it the other day in the Quarter." Freya said and I frowned. "What can I say? Revilas' like New Orleans too." I said and got up from the chair and looked over Josie's shoulder into the book.

When Freya's phone rang, the witch went to answer it. "That's my wife. She's on Nik duty tonight, our kid. Excuse me. Hey." Josie turned to look at the pictures of the deceased at the wall and I stood still. Her kid. Nik. God, I wished Amaya was here herself to see this. I turned to the wall to look at the pictures and sighed deeply.
"Who is she? I knew you were hiding something from me. So tell me, how is it we both forgot the same person? And if you didn't tell me that to begin with, I can only assume it's because you haven't decided what you're going to do with that spell. Have you? Who is that girl?" Freya asked and we turned around.

"Forgive me." I muttered under my breath and put my hand on Josie's arm for the following thing. "Harae-tamai Kioku Yomigaerashi-tamae!" She exclaimed and directed her arm towards Freya. The black magic blasted her, she hit her head on the bar and fell unconscious on the ground.

I closed the book and then turned to the siphoner. "Lemináre!" I exclaimed and held her before she could have hit the ground. I picked her up, opened a portal and grabbed the book before entering the green-ish fog.

As I entered the twins' room, I sighed and put Josie under her blanket on her bed. "I can't let you do this, Josie. Not all by yourself." I whispered before I left the room and close the door behind me.

[ Amaya POV ]

"It feeds on secrets, right? Let me have it. All of it!" I said and took a deep breath. "When I was 17, I destroyed one of Meridial's artifacts and replaced it with an illusion." I said, but the monster kept walking towards Hope, Lizzie and I. "I siphoned you and Hope to cheat on finals." Lizzie said and I gasped. "Unbelievable." I spoke.

"Ah, ah, okay... Before my family and I came to New Orleans, my father almost got killed. Stricken with revenge, I unleashed my magic on Mystic Falls and killed too many people." I exclaimed in hopes it would stop. "What!?" Lizzie asked. "I destroyed a magical emerald stone and asked Olivia Hale to get me a new one." Hope said and I gasped. "I killed your hamster." Lizzie said.

"I had a son when I was 24. And I'm so scared to tell you guys that I'm back." I said and there were gasps and shocked looks. "I'm back too." A voice I missed said and I looked to Josie and Selina, that stood behind the monster. "Harae-tamai Kioku Yomigaerashi-tamae!" "Lemináre!" Josie and Selina said and cast a spell together that killed the monster and let Hope fall unconscious to the ground. Josie fell too. "Jo!" Lizzie yelled. "Hope." I whispered and crouched down to her.