Witches and Devils

Fight

Before Marie can turn around Mead takes off her hand, revealing the gun underneath it. The woman begin to chant in Latin and I whisper along from behind Michael. As we chant Mead begins to grunt convulsively as she begins to make a mechanical whirring sound. "Ms. Mead?" Michael turns to her.

I realize what is happening and jump over the banister, just seconds before Mead explodes. When she does, Michael goes flying back. Landing on his back before I crawl over to him, "are you okay?"

Michael and I look over to his left and see Mead's separated head. To add to the scary factor of this sight, it begins to sing, "Daisy, daisy. Give me your answer do." Michael reaches over and picks up the head, "I'm half crazy all for the love of you." Michael begins to shake in anger.

"Madison," Cordelia calls out. When I look over Madison is crawling toward the gun on the ground, since the blast had knocked the girls down as well.

Madison picks up the gun and points it at Michael as he and I stand, "sorry about your little toy... Bitch."

"Rose. Take care of her." Michael gestures toward Madison.

I shake my head, "no." I move from Michael's side to behind Madison. As soon as I step behind her, Madison pulls the trigger and lights Michael up. Him falling back into the wall as the bullets hit his body. I run over to Mallory and Coco, who are being looked over by Cordelia. I hug Coco tightly, "I'm so sorry."

Coco hugs me back, "it's okay. I'm sorry I tried to steal your man. But I think both of us are better off without him." Coco and I laugh.

Myrtle walks over to Michael and takes a piece of his hair so that Mallory can go back to stop Michael. Mallory looks over to Myrtle and shakes her head, "I can't do it. I'm not strong enough."

"You can do it, with Rose's help." Cordelia nods.

I shake my head, "Michael won't stay down long and as soon as he wakes up, he'll come for us."

"She's right." Cordelia looks up to Myrtle, "bullets alone won't kill him. He's become too powerful. We have to find a place to cast the spell before he wakes up. Somewhere he won't find them while they are performing the spell."

Madison turns to Cordelia, "I'll hold him off as long as I can."

"You've got this." Coco takes Mallory and I by the arm.

"Go." Madison raises her voice a bit. As she does we all run up the stairs.

Mallory gets ahead of me as we run around the halls, as she goes to round a corner a strange man comes out and stabs her in the stomach, "I should have been on the plane."

"NO!" I scream, "what have you done?"

"It's pay back bitch, I serve it cold."

"I prefer it hot. Like hell." I throw a hand up and the man goes up in flames before falling over one of the handrails.

At this point I am in front of Mallory and when I turn Cordelia and Myrtle are at her side. "Mallory." Cordelia whispers.

I go to their side, "it won't be long before Michael is up again. We have to move."

Cordelia places a hand over Mallory's stomach, "Balneum infinitum." Mallory falls onto her side, but Cordelia and I make sure that she doesn't go down hard.

"He's coming." Marie rounds the corner, "get them out of here! No matter what happens, it's better than where I was.

Myrtle and Cordelia take Mallory's arms and I take her legs as we move her as quickly as possible. We find a place and quickly fill the bath, the three of us reciting the spell, "Balneum infinitum. Dona salui conductus. Dona salui conductus. Balneum infinitum. Dona salui conductus."

Cordelia begins to cry, "come on, Mallory. Please, Mallory, come on, come on." She turns to me, "come on, you girls can do this." she looks back to Mallory, "you can do this." She looks up to Myrtle, "it's not working. It... it's not working. She's not strong enough."

I sigh and look around, "stay with her."

"Where are you going?"

"I don't know, but, hopefully, I'll be back."

"You can't face Michael alone."

I shake my head, "I won't be alone." I look over to Cordelia, "I will have all of our sisters with me."

Myrtle nods, "it appears as though we're fucked my dear."

I go out into the hall and find Michael, the two of us stopping at the ends of the hall. Michael sighs softly, "Rose." I can see the blood on his face and his normally well kept hair reveals that he's been in a fight. "Tell me, my dear. How did you think this would end? Prophecy is inevitable." Michael shakes his head, "you could have been my Queen."

I shake my head, "I was never going to be your Queen."

"I was always going to win... but you could have been on the winning team and you chose the witches. Miss Supreme."

I chuckle, stepping toward Michael, "you still haven't figured it out have you? I'm not the Supreme, Michael. I never was." As I get closer and closer Michael begins to become more and more uncomfortable, revealing the sad boy I had met. "And you are not going to win because you are just a scared little boy. You've been led by the hand, coddled, the entire way. By your father, the warlocks, me. You don't know who you are without us."

"I am the Son of Satan."

I shake my head, "that's not who you are Michael. That's who he wants you to be. You were a good person. A good man." I look into his eyes, "what happened?"

"I am not a good man. I am the Son of the Devil."

I shake my head, "you couldn't kill the witches with a thousand nuclear bombs."

"But I never expected to. Remember, that's why we were checking the Outposts. Like a cockroach, I knew they'd survive the nuclear fallout. Like you did. Although they did it with a bit more dignity. But I wanted to believe you loved me. And now I'm going to have the satisfaction of killing you and Cordelia, knowing you failed."

Cordelia steps out of the room, "you still don't get it, do you? Even now. You think there's only winning and losing, success and failure. But failure is when you've lost any semblance of hope. You will watch me die and you may watch Rose die, although she'll kick your ass first, but you won't find it satisfying. Satan has one son, but our sisters are legion, motherfucker."

I have gotten close to Michael to take the knife he has in his hand away from him. Once I get it I throw it at Cordelia. I hear Michael shout, "no!" as I turn, throwing the knife as hard as I can. I know the only way for this to work is for Mallory to go back on her own and the only way for her to do that is for Cordelia to die.

"Cordelia!" Myrtle calls out as the knife hits her in the chest. She smiles as she falls back.

"No!" Michael shouts again, running over to the stairwell and I fall against the wall. Michael runs back to me and grabs me by the hair, "where is she? Who is the next supreme?!"

I smirk up to him, "why would I tell you that." I chuckle, "kill me if it will bring you some comfort in your short time left, but this will never have happened."

"What do you mean?"

"Tempus Infinituum."