Post by Jo Laughlin (Parker) on Dec 14, 2014 9:27:23 GMT -6
The porcelain sink turned pink as Jo poured sterile saline solution over the stab wound in her arm. Once the blood was cleared away she could better evaluate what needed to be done to close the wound; it was deep but clean so she could easily stitch it up herself. Even if it was a jagged mess, she would have performed the suture job herself rather than involve anyone at the hospital and face questions she did not want to answer. Doing it herself with one hand would leave an ugly scar, but what was one more?
She gritted her teeth as she pulled the black nylon through the two halves of her skin and drew them back together. She snipped off the remaining thread and taped gauze into place. It wasn't until she returned the items to her home first-aid kit that she allowed herself to even begin to contemplate how she was going to face Kai. Somewhere in the back of her mind she knew it would come down to this. Kai was not the kind just accept the prison her coven banished him to. The coven thought they had covered themselves by putting him in alternate dimension by himself. No one could have expected The Other Side to shatter and the two cross to leave Kai an escape route.
Liv's words replayed in Jo's mind. And maybe Liv didn't believe a word of them, but Jo had to. She had to defeat Kai; not only for her sake but for Liv, Luke, their coven and the rest of the world. No one was safe with that psychopath once he siphoned Jo's magic and became the leader of the Gemini Coven.
She careful shoved her arm into a gray Army sweatshirt and grabbed her keys from the bowl beside her front door before heading to the storage unit miles out of town where she kept the grimoires hidden amongst boxes of seemingly unimportant stuffed animals, DVDs, books and old clothes.
Her body hummed now that she was reunited with her magic. She hadn't realized how much she had missed it. She was more aware of the earth around her. The elements, the animals, the power within the ground she walked on. For so long she had suppressed the witch part of herself; convinced herself a "normal" human existence was what she wanted that she blocked out any regret or voids. Thanks to those years of suppression, Jo would be lying to herself if there wasn't some trepidation lying just beyond the surface. Not only would she have to practice magic for the first time in 20 years, so much was riding on it. Jo rode in silence as she returned to her house, unlocking memories she locked down for so long.
She had to find a safe place to prepare before the next celestial event but first she had to find Alaric and make sure he was safe. He would have a target on his back for Kai to torture Jo with.
She gritted her teeth as she pulled the black nylon through the two halves of her skin and drew them back together. She snipped off the remaining thread and taped gauze into place. It wasn't until she returned the items to her home first-aid kit that she allowed herself to even begin to contemplate how she was going to face Kai. Somewhere in the back of her mind she knew it would come down to this. Kai was not the kind just accept the prison her coven banished him to. The coven thought they had covered themselves by putting him in alternate dimension by himself. No one could have expected The Other Side to shatter and the two cross to leave Kai an escape route.
Liv's words replayed in Jo's mind. And maybe Liv didn't believe a word of them, but Jo had to. She had to defeat Kai; not only for her sake but for Liv, Luke, their coven and the rest of the world. No one was safe with that psychopath once he siphoned Jo's magic and became the leader of the Gemini Coven.
She careful shoved her arm into a gray Army sweatshirt and grabbed her keys from the bowl beside her front door before heading to the storage unit miles out of town where she kept the grimoires hidden amongst boxes of seemingly unimportant stuffed animals, DVDs, books and old clothes.
Her body hummed now that she was reunited with her magic. She hadn't realized how much she had missed it. She was more aware of the earth around her. The elements, the animals, the power within the ground she walked on. For so long she had suppressed the witch part of herself; convinced herself a "normal" human existence was what she wanted that she blocked out any regret or voids. Thanks to those years of suppression, Jo would be lying to herself if there wasn't some trepidation lying just beyond the surface. Not only would she have to practice magic for the first time in 20 years, so much was riding on it. Jo rode in silence as she returned to her house, unlocking memories she locked down for so long.
She had to find a safe place to prepare before the next celestial event but first she had to find Alaric and make sure he was safe. He would have a target on his back for Kai to torture Jo with.