Begin Again

His Not-Child (7)

"How the fuck is this possible?" Lizzie asked, staring at Kai with mistrust. Kai cocked his head slightly, and his gaze flickered to the necklace hanging around her neck.

Lizzie followed his gaze.

"How did this necklace allow you access to my mind?" Lizzie asked, every muscle was tense as she watched him carefully.

His words from early pushed themselves to the forefront of her mind. Had he been watching her this entire time?

Did he see her conversation with herself? And her memory? That was a whole nother level of creepy.

"I'm guessing that means you never heard of the Gemini Ritual, Reliquia Vinculum?" Kai asked, then he gasped dramatically and gave her a 'disapproving' look. "Have you never done any of the required rituals that you're supposed to do as a Gemini twin?"

Lizzie raised an eyebrow in disbelief. He was joking, right? Then, she snorted, shaking her head.

"Yeah, no, I'll get right on that. The second I'm awake, I'll ask the other Gemini's what rituals I missed...oh wait, they're dead, guess that's not happening," Lizzie said, sarcastically.

Kai blinked in surprise, not expecting that but he quickly wiped that expression off his face.

Not that Lizzie noticed as she glanced around them trying to figure out what was happening. What even was possible here? Can you go to the bathroom? Eat?

Kai gave a cold chuckle, making Lizzie glance back over at him.

"Yeah, that was my bad. Shame I didn't finish the job, then again, maybe I can amend that mistake," Kai said with a sneer. His eyes were dark as he threatened her, probably trying to intimidate her.

But all Lizzie did was give him a bored look, making Kai stare at her in disbelief.

"Can we eat here? Or can we 'pretend' eat? I mean, we're in our minds, right? Would food even taste like food?" Lizzie wondered, distractedly, as she voiced her thoughts from earlier.

Kai blinked, then he paused to consider it. "I don't know. Maybe..."

Then, he gave her a peculiar look. "You know you're supposed to be running scared. I tried to kill you, multiple times."

"Eh, I'm over it," Lizzie said with a shrug.

And Kai just stared. And stared. Okay, seriously, why did people keep doing that?

"You're over it?" Kai repeated, slowly.

"Yeah, it's not fun to hold grudges when you can't torture the person you have a grudge against," Lizzie explained with an innocent smile on her face. Her whole demeanor was relaxed as she said this.

Something strange flashed through Kai's eyes as he stared at her.

"My family called me an abomination. That hurt my feelings."

Lizzie glanced to the right as those words echoed around, causing the hairs on her arms to rise. There was something in the words that felt eerily familiar to her.

Lizzie looked back at Kai, just in time to see him watching her as if he was seeing something or someone different in his mind.

"Back to the necklace," Lizzie said, crossing her arms. "Reliquia Vinculum means 'relic bond', what does it do?"

Lizzie wasn't actually expecting Kai to answer but surprisingly he did.

"It is a ritual that bonds the very core of a witch to an object. It doesn't do anything except there's a bond created. Typically only the future leaders of a coven have it done when they reach a certain age," Kai said, his eyes looked distant as he remembered something she couldn't see. "There's usually a pendant that represents the coven. It's a way to identify them. In our lovely coven, both twins have to do it and whoever wins, gets both."