Chapter 8
Amity woke up with a jolt, the alarm blaring from her sisters phone waking only her of course. She groaned and tried to pull herself for her siblings grip, but they just mumbled something incoherent and held her tighter.
The alarm seemed to grow more and more annoying by the second. "Guys," She said, voice rough from sleep, "wake up. The alarm--"
Emira slapped her hand around the couch, finally getting to her phone and turning it off.
Amity exhaled when Emira didn't move afterwards. And Edric was still dead asleep, not having moved once.
She decided to close her eyes, going back to sleep. 'They're lucky it's a Saturday...'
Amity kept a hand firmly clasped over her mouth to keep out the smoke, to keep in her screams. It burned, the ashes, the air, everything burned. But she can't come out of the hiding place, she can't make a sound. They'll hear her.
"Hand over the Blights, Clawthorne, don't make me have to fight a fellow Coven member."
The young witch let out a choked whimper, muffled by the splintering, burning wood surrounding her. Ed and Em, they had gotten out already. But she just had to come back. Just had to get her stupid, stupid books--
"If you think you stood a chance before, you've just lost it." Lilith's voice was as powerful and commanding as ever, cutting through the noise of the slowly crumbling building and the buzzing in her brain.
"We have you far outnumbered."
"While that is true..." Her mentors voice grew sharp. Chilling. "...you threatened my children."
She felt hope despite herself. Her mentor was strong. She could win this, and they could both escape--
--a crushing grip over the hand that covered her mouth cut off her thoughts. Before Amity knew what was happening she was dragged from her hiding place, held up in the air. "Looks like one of em' didn't get away just yet!"
Lilith whirled around, staff raised only to be lowered in shock to see one of her apprentices kicking and struggling in the grip of a Coven member. "Amity, you were supposed to leave--"
Amity's muffled, panicked screech wasn't enough to alert her mentor.
Lilith couldn't dodge the fire spell sent her way.
"Mittens, Mittens wake up!" Edric's voice sounded far away, distant. She breathed in, almost surprised at the lack of smoke in the air.
"Oh thank Titan, she's waking up," She heard Emira said, voice heavy with relief.
Her eyes fluttered open, she winced at the brightness. Right. Human world, daytime, not...that night. "Ed, Em--" Amity felt her voice give, she coughed.
Edric came over, glass of water in hand. "Take it easy. You were screaming a lot."
The younger witch took the water, taking a drink before trying to talk again. It was a little easier. "It was that night."
The twins nodded, not needing anymore. All of them had nightmares of that night still. Of the terror they had together, what happened when they ended up separated, when they reunited...
Amity jolted a bit when Edric put a hand on her shoulder, and again when Emira did the same.
"Don't get in your head about that night."
She nodded, reciting, "Because today shows they didn't win."
They offered small smiles, Amity the same. It was a little mantra they made when the nightmares first started for them. They did it whenever it looked like one of them needed to be kept grounded.
"We should...contact Lilith." Amity suggested shyly.
Neither Edric nor Emira disagreed. They knew their little sister just wanted some reassurance, and hearing Lilith's voice did that for all of them after a nightmare.
Emira got up from the couch, "I'll get the scroll ready. We have to tell her about Luz anyway."
"Oh shit. She doesn't know we revealed ourselves to a human!" Edric looked mildly panicked, "Uh, I vote Mittens tells her."
"Seconded."
"That's so unfair! You guys were the ones who--"
"Well Luz was suspicious of you first so--!"
And like that, the earlier heavy and grim atmosphere quickly dissolved into bickering. They didn't have it easy. But, they had each other.
And now?
Maybe, just maybe, they would have Luz too.
Luz woke up that morning cursing the existence of sunlight. She may have stayed out later than originally planned with Willow and Gus, but to be fair, she was on a roll!
Pff. Roll.
Ahem, anyway--
"It's Saturday!" Luz cheered, jumping off her bed to a stand, "I get to play games, read fan fiction all day, talk to Amity--" Her eyes widened, "--Amity! Oh cramity!" She had to talk to Amity about yesterday. Apologize. But how when she didn't have her number?
Luz paused. "Do they know what phones are...?" A valid question considering none of them really knew what a sandwich was.
"Mija, breakfast!" She heard her mom call from downstairs.
'Food first, problems later!'
And really, who was she to disagree with her stomach?