Chapter 80: Collateral damage

Charlotte’s pov

“No one can open the tomb, it’s in a cave, but maybe you will be able to do so. Every witch that I have met and asked to open it couldn’t and some wouldn’t” Sebastian said.

“What do you mean some wouldn’t?” I asked him and he just shrugged.

“They said that there was something there that shouldn’t be awaken” he replied.

“If there truly is something there that shouldn’t be awaken, isn’t it better to stay away from that place?” David said.

I see he has grown a lot but still seem to be cautious, even growing up my little brother was always too cautious for his own good.

“We will be fine, maybe it was just a warning to keep us from finding the answers we need” I said, and he just shrugged.

“Maybe but I have a really bad feeling about it, but if we must then we will go” he said.

“For today I want everyone to relax until we get feedback from Logan” Sebastian said and then left the room.

The moment he left the room May looked at me with a big smile on her face.

“Your dream man, he is even more yummy in real life than he was on the painting” she said.

“I am her younger brother, and I am still in the room, can I leave first” David said getting up and leaving the room.

“We also have to unpack” Alexa said but Clara’s cheeks were all red.

“Well happy unpacking then” I said, and they left me with just May.

I am so glad that I don’t have just to wonder about her.

All the questions I had about her life and how she has been living so far will be answered.

I do feel guilty though that she got all tangled up in this situation.

I would have loved for her to live a normal life doing normal things, not betraying the coven for my sake.

“Yes it him, he really is hot” I said which made her smile.

“Who knew? That the person he was looking for all this time was you. The Longing look was meant for you” she said, and I shook my head.

“It wasn’t meant for me; it was meant for Scarlet. I am not her; I get that our names sound familiar and we have the same soul, but I am not her” I said, and she nodded.

“So, you are telling me that you felt nothing the first time you met him?

You are the one that told me that it felt as if he had known him for a thousand years. What about that?” she asked me.

“I was crazy, I was a teenager who didn’t know what was happening” I said, and she nodded.

“So, you are telling that you feel nothing?

That it doesn’t hurt when you see him hurt.

That your heart doesn’t warm up when he comes next to you?” she asked me.

It does all that, but that’s because he is a really hot man showing interest in me.

“Let’s not talk about it, tell me, what have you been busy with for the last few years?” I asked her changing the topic.

She started telling me about how she was lonely without me.

How the entire coven’s main purpose seemed to be catching and when she asked them why they couldn’t say.

They all said that they had to get rid of me or I will destroy the world.

No matter how many times she tried to make them see reason they just didn’t care.

She even tried to reason to my mother which got her banned from our house.

After that she started doing her own research on the blood curse mark.

“And then when David got a little older and wiser he joined me. We have been looking for you for forever” she said holding my hand.

“Did you ever have a boyfriend though? Did you go to college?” I asked her and she nodded.

“I did when I turned 18 I moved from the coven since everything was chaotic. I went to college in the city, I did a lot of exchange programs hoping I would bump into you” she said, and I smiled.

“Dad and I travelled around, I did go to school online though, but we had to be careful” I said, and she nodded.

“I want to hear all the details. Lets tell each other anything and everything” she said, and we just started talking.

Time seemed to stop as we started talking, you know it’s so different when you talk to old friends.

She just seemed to get it; it was amazing how we have both changed but somehow were still the same.

I think the saying is something like ‘the more things change the more they stay the same’.

The next morning, we woke up and had breakfast.

I got a text from Logan sending me a picture of my mother.

“Mother and her followers went back empty handed; they just wanted me and didn’t cause a fight” I informed everyone.

“It’s a good thing we didn’t stay and fight, no one got hurt by it” Clara said.

“I don’t think your mother would have cared about anyone else. They want to kill you even if it’s the last thing they do” May said.

“Yes, she once called an entire village collateral damage” David said shaking his head.

My mother has grown so much.

you can even see it In her face that she isn’t that young anymore.

I think even the stress got to her, probably even a little of guilt that dad died, and she couldn’t say goodbye to him.

I know for certain that my mother had her flaws, but she loved my father more than life.

I saw it that night, the way her eyes quickly changed to love when she looked at him.

She let us get away for his sake and no other reason other than that.

But honestly at times I doubt it, she loved me as well but that day the hate in her eyes.

The same eyes that used to look at me with unconditional loved looked at me with so much hate it felt suffocating.

But I am happy that everyone is still alive, well not everyone but I am glad that some of them are still well.

“Is everyone ready? we should get going shouldn’t we?” Sebastian asked as we finished up eating.

We got into the car, and I noticed something when we arrived about 20 minutes later to the tomb.

“You built your house close to her tomb?” I asked him as we were walking there, and he nodded.

“Yes, I wanted to be able to keep an eye on her. It made me feel closer to her” he replied as we went in.

When we got there the entrance was open.

“What the hell? Didn’t you say that the tomb was sealed?” I asked him.

“It has always been sealed; I have never seen this place open like this before” Sebastian answered.

“Maybe someone went in” Clara said, “or someone went out” Alexa said.

“Well considering that its been closed for centuries then whatever that someone that went out, Is no longer a someone but a something” David said shaking his head.

Sebastian didn’t wait for anyone and went inside, and I followed after him.

The place has a mountain pool, the water was so clear, and the place was so serene.

“How is this even possible?” Sebastian asked looking around.

“What?” I asked him and I saw tears in his eyes as he looked around.

“She always wanted to be buried near a water source, just in case she got thirsty while she is dead” he said with a painful chuckle.

“What? You always said so sister” Alexa said, and I saw May nodded.

“Honestly, that’s what you would always say as well” May supported Alexa.

I mean I have mentioned it a couple of times, but I bet its nothing but just a coincidence.

“OMG, guys come here fast” Clara suddenly said, and we went to her side.

They were two cement coffins next to one another.

The other one was empty.

when my eyes landed on the second one I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Its me, or should I say that its Scarlet, “she died centuries ago, why does she still look the same? She isn’t bones and worms” David said.

I looked at Sebastian, he was looking at her, the love in his eyes was clearly visible.

He touched her, this time a tear fell from his eyes as he was looking at her.

He was touching her cheeks.

“this is what she was wearing the day she died” he said and then held her hand.

Her hair had a hair pin in it, “How does she look so much like me? even I don’t look like me the way she does” I said.

“Isn’t anyone scared that she might just wake up and kill all of us?” Clara asked.

“I agree, lets take the hair pin and go” David said.

As I touched the hair pin time stopped, everything went dark, and I came face to face with Scarlet.

“It’s you isn’t? its you Scarlet?” I asked her and she laughed.

“Why are you talking as if we are two different people? You are me and I am you” she said.

Where am I? how Is it that I am talking with the soul of dead me?