What if Kai Parker wasn't the sociopathic monster we, and he, have come to believe? What if all those years of isolation scrabbled his pretty little head with truth and fiction? A fiction he tricked everyone with(including himself) for one reason... because he loved his family.
He watched them come into the world, one after the other and though he wasn't allowed to hold them, play tag with them, he loved them.
His brother Joey became his confidont, his friend, even after years of differences somehow the ugly truth pushed the two brothers together.
They always new the merge was going to be a hard moment, but to discover that not only did they plan on Kai and Jo not merging at all (you know just incase the abomination didn't die) the only reason the rest of them existed was to replace the eldest twins; placeholders, spares.
It kind of broke Kai, he always new his father detested the mere fact he was born a Syphon, but he worked so hard, studied and trained (as much as he could without his own magic), he tried damn it!
Even after he'd smashed up his father's office in a fit of rage, he still huddled and almost begged for some sort of understanding, some sliver that proved his father loved him.
Kid didn't know what hit him; 16 years old and he was nothing, he was a throwaway.
It felt heavy and hard in his chest.
So they came up with a plan, they were going to get the fuck out of this messed up family. One way or another.
Telling the younger ones was too dangerous, kids can be shitty liars, and they knew Jo could never find out.
It was scary, actually it was fucking terrifying and Kai couldn't stop shaking, making the knife in his hand rattle against his rings.
Joey got it all ready, the spells they'd spent nearly two years perfecting. It was time.
Dad was gathering the outer sectors for the merge, to convince the rest of the coven to suspend his children's birthright.
The boy's knew, took to keeping a close eye on the old man's mail, especially coven business.
Kai was almost paranoid in the belief that their father would sent them a letter to sanction his death.
His nerves had been building all week, he knew what he had to do.
Joey was just about to head into the twins room, the worn spells he spilt soda on and the elixir it took more than a year to get right in hand, when he heard the car tires against the dirt road.
She wasn't supposed to be home, those were the rules, the night before was for preparation and acceptance, they couldn't damn well do all that in the same house. She'd been sent to an elder by their father, after all every advantage is always an advantage, he'd told them.
She'd screamed so loud when she saw what she believed with pained horror to be truth.
Her siblings torn open and displayed tauntingly.
Kai rushed the stairs as her keys scratched against the outer door, meeting Joey in the hall just in time for their sisters heart piercing scream.
The spells were proving their worth, that's for damn sure.
Each sibling resting comfortably in a dreamless coma-like-sleep. Unaware of the glamour spell that keeps their would be corpses from the effects of Kai's unsteady hand. He'd been nervous about that, that's why he'd wanted the preservation spell, just incase he slipped, he dropped them, he just wanted them safe.
When Josette raced up the stairs, screeching ceriius names into the dark Kai turned to her.
He couldn't tear his eyes from her face, he just couldn't, the widening eyes they shared staring in nothing less than shock, perhaps a little sadness.
Then he felt her buckle, that's the moment he acknowledged the growing stain on his sisters shirt.
He saw the blood, real blood. Because he'd fucking stabbed her, he screamed and shook her as she fell to floor.
Joey had to drag his temperamental brother back through the hall, perhaps that why Joesette never saw him, or perhaps hit has to do with her 'deranged' brother screaming that it was fault, that she shouldn't have come back...
"WHY DID YOU HAVE TO COME FUCKING HOME?!"
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Hi guys, this was going to be a paragraph, 'I had an idea' thing. Obviously I got a little carried away. Anyway hope you don't hate it, much love.
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