Luke tried desperately to take in his sisters words and hold onto them; to draw some of her stubborn determination into himself. She was right - two heads were better than one and they were practically two halves of a whole person destined to stand united rather than apart. “What? No. I’d never hurt you, Liv. I’d die first.” He remarked when she questioned him, letting out a small sigh as she compared his guilt and empathy in bounds to what Kai had displayed.
“Maybe.” He uttered softly. “Maybe you’re right, Sis, but I’m just - I’m scared.” He admitted and chewed his lip for a moment before deciding to just lay his cards on the table. She knew half of the situation and it was better she knew the entire truth instead of walking around with only half of the information. “I’ve been.. using magic to sort of calm my thoughts when they get too frazzled and the impulses start piling up.” He explained and frowned. “Dark magic. The surge of adrenaline and chaotic energy from it is the only thing I’ve found that even helps - like the side effects of the magic sort of push aside the impulses for a time before they return…” He sighed
“Without our magic… with whatever this is that’s going on now. I don’t know if I can keep the thoughts at bay.” The witch finally spoke as he adjusted himself in his sister’s embrace.
Liv figured that would be his answer, in fact that was her point. “That’s right, you’re not gonna hurt me so there’s no way in hell I’m gonna ditch you when you need me.” She wasn’t the type to ditch her loved ones and she certainly wasn’t going to let Kai get away with hurting Luke even more than he already had.
Listening to her brother talk Liv nods her head understanding, while if it were anyone else she might have teased them to high heaven for admitting fear simply as her own coping mechanism. However when he went on to mention using dark magic her understanding nods were replaced by a swift smooth smack to the back of his head with a flick of her wrist. “How thick headed are you?” She asks boring her bright blue eyes right into his, “Seriously, on a scale from one to fucking stupid.”
Dark magic was nothing to play with, certainly not with the added dark nature that he was struggling with, it was like throwing gas on a fire trying to put it out. Cause hey at least the gas is a liquid. “We don’t use dark magic to take care of things!” She hisses at him before letting out a sigh, “Magic being gone is gonna be a blessing for you, we can get you off the dark shit and get your head right enough before we get magic back and I can help you the right way. We’re better than using dark magic to get an easy fix.”