Chapter Fourteen
Kat walked to the door when she heard knocking. "Ethan, Ivy, I'm so glad you could come!" She went to close the door after Luis and Sher walked in behind Ethan and Ivy, but someone pushed the door. "Oh, I'm sorry, Miguel." She smiled happily.
"Oh, that's okay. Me, Simone and Reese all came together." Miguel went in, with the other teens following close behind.
"Good, everyone is here. Sheridan, will you please help Theresa in the kitchen?" She asked and ushered all the people into the living room. Sher left the room and Kay began an introduction. "I want to thank everyone for coming here without a reason. I know you all have work to go to, but our little town has had a lot of problems lately. People are hiding secrets..." She looked at Ivy. "People are denying their heart's intentions... " She looked at Ethan, Miguel and Sam. "But I just want you to know that today, everything is going to change. Sher? Tree?" She called for her friends who were in the kitchen. Sher walked throught the door shoving Charity, whose hands tied behind her back Tree came out behind her, pushing forward Grace in her chair with wheels that was wrapped in ivy and hemlock.
"Hi, Luis. Ethan." Tree timidly said as she came out.
"Hi, Luis!" Sher said happily.
"Kay, what are you doing?" Sam got up and went to go to Grace.
"Dad, please don't do that... Don't go over there!" Kat was too late because when Sam went near Grace, her eyes turned red and she snapped at him.
"What the-" Sam jumped back, startled.
"I warned you, Dad... She's not little Miss Suzy Homemaker anymore." Kat rolled her eyes and started again. "Okay, everyone, just calm down. I want you to meet Charity and Grace Standish, two members of the evil trio called the Witches Stand. We need to explain to you that me, Sheridan and Theresa are not who you think we are." Kat looked to her friends for support and they stood next to her.
Sher cleared her throat. "Okay, I'm really sorry about this but my name isn't Sheridan Crane, at least not anymore. I'm Sheridan Lopez~Fitzgerald." She took her wedding ring out of her purse. She had been keeping it in a secret pocket of her bag since she was chased down at the park so no one could find it and take it. "This is my natural hair. Think about it. How can someone's hair grow this fast?" She tugged on it.
"My name still is Theresa Lopez~Fitzgerald but..." She bent over and took out her contact lenses. Ethan gasped and sat up.
"You have green eyes!" He flashed back to when he sang her the song 'Brown-eyed Beauty'.
"They look brown with my contacts in. I'm near-sighted and blind as a bat without something to help my vision." Tree put her contacts back in and looked up.
"I'm Kay Bennett, my hair has been this short since 7th grade and I never changed it. Well, this is gonna seem far-fetched but these witches..." She looked at the two with disgust and began again "They took us from our home and put us in a place where they thought that we would figure as another world, parallel to ours. These witches thought that we would figure it's like Ground Hog's day and live here until everything is right. We did, but sadly, well, that's not true. We do want everything to be right, like it is where we come from, but the truth is... we have our physical appearance, girls, but..." Kat turned to Tree and Sher. "When we thought we were just taking over our doubles lives, what we didn't know is that we ARE our doubles. We have our minds, of course, but, Tree, you having to be without a father. Sher, you not being married. We are not just playing the roles, we are them. We have their souls, their families, their lives, their blood."
"I'm not pregnant anymore!" Sher looked to Kat for an explanation.
"It's not that you aren't pregnant anymore, it's that you, Sheridan Crane, were never pregnant. We left our physical bodies back somewhere. Yesterday, I went and donated blood with Simone. They told me I was type AB+, but where we come from, I'm O-. That means that on this world, I am my Mother's daughter. My mother's, Grace Standish's, daughter and with being a Standish comes certain perks, Mommy. You are going to take the spells off all of these people right now!" She went over to Grace and looked her in the eye.
"What makes you think that? I mean, you have had your powers for a day at most. You really think you can take me?" Grace looked at the floor the whole time as her eyes burned with rage. "I gave you your powers, I can take them away."
"Funny, I was just going to say the same thing. You see, I've done my homework." Kat took Grace's right hand in hers. "Mother, you take off your spells right now or I will take your powers away before you can say bedknobs and broomsticks."
"Aw, come on, Kay. Why don't you join us?" Charity coaxed. "I had Miguel, Aunt Grace had your Dad, you can have a guy, too. We can live happily ever after, playing this town for all it's worth."
"Shut up, Goldilocks. Don't think I'm not going to deal with you. You're next, Sabrina." She turned to Tree. "Hand me the staff."
"Here, Kat." Tree threw it to her and Kat held it up to Grace's throat.
"Talk, Mommy. If you won't take off your spells, I will. Tell me what you did to these people."
Grace hissed as the oak stick, wrapped with her hair, poison ivy, and hemlock, was held dangerously close to her jugular. "Okay, okay. I did something to Ivy.. " She pointed her head towards the blond who was holding her head in her hands, trying to grasp all this.
"Ivy, look at me. It's me, Kay." Kat turned Ivy's attention to her. "Ivy, you need to drink some of this tea." She nodded to Reese and he brought over the tea that Kat had already prepared.
"Thanks, Kay. It's just hard to grasp what's happening."
"Yeah, I know." She pushed the cup up higher so that she drank the whole thing.
"Ethan is Sam's child." Ivy said quickly, the words po and then smacked a hand over her mouth in surprise.
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