Chapter 1
Waverly?
Nicole opened the door relieved to know that Waverly cared enough to talk to her again, but when she saw who or rather what stood on the other side of the door her heart stopped and she felt a deathly cold grip pulling her down to the floor. Nicole couldn't remember how long she lay motionless on the ground but when cold lips touched her ear, live came rushing back to her limbs. The black widow kept Nicole pinned to the ground and started whispering into her ear: "You are going to help me bring an end to the Earps and this hellhole of a town."
"No!" was all that Nicole could get out before she felt the widow's icy breath taking hold of her again.
Waverly sat at the bar emptying the bottle she and Rosita started on. She was consumed with regret. I should' not have sent that message to Nicole. "I said leave me alone, but it's been more than 12 hours and Nicole hasn't replied. So much has happened in the last 12 hours.
Rosita came down the stairs and saw Waverly still sitting at the same spot, still drinking from the same bottle. "Waves, what are you still doing here?"
Nicole woke up with a mean headache, worse than the day after Aphrodite took her to her first strip club. Her right arm felt stiff and wet, but she could not muster up enough energy to open her eyes or lift up her head. Her neck was sore and cramped. After what felt like hours, she could finally coach her body into an upright position and take in her surroundings. The room was dark and dank. The floor was ice cold and wet. "Okay so I'm in some kind of basement, that's just fucking neat."
Waverly mumbled something but even with demon ears, Rosita couldn't make out what she was going on about. "Wave, I'm going to call Wynonna you can't drive like this and you are in no state to talk to Nicole."
She made her way up to her room to get her phone, she was not equipped to deal with emotional breakdowns. 'Hi Wynonna, you need to come to Shorty's. Wave needs you" this is going to become such a messed-up family.
"Good day, Deputy Haught" Nicole searched for the voice in the dark but could not see her own hand in front of her eyes. It was as if the dark turned into a thick black goo that suffocated the light out of the room. Suddenly there was a hand around her throat. The witch pulled Nicole to her feet.
"Please have a seat deputy" Nicole felt her being pushed into a chair. The Black widow turned on the lights and for a moment Nicole wished for the dark to return. The hideous women that stood in front of her wore the face of Mercedes Gardiner, but she had a wild devious look in her eyes. Blood streamed down her face and clotted in the black veil that draped around her shoulders. She reeked of death and desperation. Nicole could do nothing but stare at the witch and try to remember how she got here.
"I see I have your undivided attention. Listen carefully while I explain your part in my plan. I've used the last of my resources to find the third seal. My limited powers could only indicate that it is in the Earp homestead. The only logical conclusion I can make is that one of the Earp sisters has the seal. Now you may ask what this has to do with you. Wynonna has one weakness... her baby sister, Waverly. Do you know what Waverly's weakness is? Do you understand where I'm going with this? Nicole, you are the key to breaking their hearts."
Nicole did her best impression of Doc's poker face "We broke up bitch! Your plan won't work! We hate each other! It's over!" she spat out the words.
"Your eyes tell a different story Nicole" she started laughing like a hyper active psychopath.
Adrenalin filled Nicole's veins and she launched herself off the chair into the Witch, slamming her into the wall with all her strength. Never in her life has she experienced so much rage and hatred towards another being. "You leave her the fuck alone!"
She grabbed the witch by the throat with both hands and started choking her. She was filled with so much rage that all of her training left her and just like that the dagger slid into her side.
Nicole staggered back grabbing at her side. She pressed her hand over the wound, but the blood pushed its way through her fingers and dripped on the floor.
The Witch had a satisfying smile plastered over her borrowed face. "So predictable" she said as she licked the blood from her dagger "You taste good dear"
Nicole fell back on to the chair paralyzed with fear. Her hands dropped to her side. Blood flowed freely from the wound, a red fountain leaking out over her clothes down her leg pooling on the ground.
"Tell me, Nicole, would Waverly recognize that shirt?" Nicole's peripheral vision started to blur but she could make out dark hands with flaming hot iron claws unbuttoning her shirt. "We can't let you bleed out, not this early in the game" and with that said a fiery claw cauterized her wound. Nicole passed out from the pain.
When Rosita returned to the bar there was no sign of waves. "Waves sweetie, where are you?"
"Here I am" Waverley called from behind the bar. "I'm looking for something stronger to drown my sorrows in"
Rosita gave up trying to have a meaningful coherent conversation with the little Earp hiding behind the bar. She tried Nicole's phone but got no answer. She called the station, no luck either.
"Hi, Rosita where's my baby girl?"
"Thank god you're here. Your baby sis is behind the counter curled up on the floor with n bottle of whiskey. I think it's safe to say wave finally broke."
What! What the fudge happened while we were gone?
"Tucker happened"
"I thought Tucker was toasted? Have you called Nicole?"
"Yes, but she's not picking up"
"What's up with the Nark"
"Fuck you Wynonna and fuck you to Doc. Fuck you all! ...except you Rosita you're my new best-est best friend. You know nothing Sis!" she said with a dark bitter undertone coating each word. "You're so obsessed with your own shit you're oblivious to the rest of us and the shit we deal with! You're supposed to be the big sister, but you left me!"
A knock on the door brought much-needed relief to the shout fest in Shorty's. Doc thought about firing a warning shot but the stranger in the door with the sinister grin was warning enough for the messed up party to snap into Revenant Alert mode.
"Delivery for Waverley Earp"
"I'm Waverly" Wave slowly made her way to the stranger as Doc and Wynonna whipped out their pistols.
Waverly took the package from the delivery man and with a tip of his hat, he disappeared.
"It's from Nicole" Something didn't feel right. She opened the package and emptied out the content in her hand. A thin stream of blood trickled out followed by Nicole's shirt.
Waverley lost it.
"Wynonna!"