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'Maybe I should leave you for someone who can properly educate me on horror movies'
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The walk towards the theatre was awkward to say the least. We all walked in pairs with Toby and Darci at the front, Todd and Claire at the back and me and Jim between both couples.
I didn't know what was wrong with Claire. It was like some demon possessed her (which I know is impossible). Maybe the lack of sleep and the sickness was just getting to her, or maybe it was opening that portal awhile back.
I still don't even know what's wrong with me. Maybe there isn't anything wrong and I'm overreacting, but a small part of me knows that's not true.
"So...dinner was nice" Jim says with a nervous smile, attempting to start conversation between us.
"It was definitely something...at least no changelings tried to poison our food" I joke while nudging Jim with my shoulder as the boy chuckles.
"Yeah...that was not fun" Jim grimaces at the memory.
Silence surrounds us once more as I try to think of something to say but fail. It wasn't until I looked ahead to find Toby and Darci holding hands did a plan form in my head.
I hesitantly look down to Jim's hand and slowly bring my hand closer to his before grabbing it in my own. I catch Jim's gaze as he smiles that dorky smile I love before he conjoins our hands together and squeezes mine softly.
"Wow Claire, why are your hands so cold?" I hear Todd ask as I look behind me to find him and Claire holding hands.
"Naturally cold hands I presume" Claire answers easily as I give the girl a worried look.
"Are you sure your up for a movie Claire? We could always reschedule" I say worriedly as Claire just gives me a creepy looking grin, about to answer before a nearby cat suddenly hisses at her.
I watch with wide eyes as Claire turns towards the cat and hisses back, immediately frightening the cat who quickly ran away.
"Maybe your right..." Claire starts in a weird voice as she looks towards me. "You should take me home"
"Oh..." I say, surprised that Claire actually agreed. "Yeah, sure"
"That's a great idea, walk her home, bye!" Toby yells quickly before dragging Darci with him to the movies.
"Wait what? So we're cancelling the date?" Todd asks Claire confused.
"Leave me peasant, I have more important things to tend to" Claire says with a roll of her eyes before she looks towards Jim and I. "Are you coming...little lambs"
Jim and I share a freaked out look at the nickname before I also happen to notice how Claire starts to walk the wrong way towards her house.
"Little lamb?" Jim mumbles to me as I helplessly shrug my shoulders before looking toward Claire.
"Uh...Claire! Your house is this way" I say as I awkwardly point my thumb the opposite direction.
"I know. We'll have to walk" Claire says as she starts to walk back towards us, grabbing my arm as she goes. "I left my Skathe-Hrün at home"
"Your what?" Jim asks confused as he tries to catch up with Claire and I.
Claire pauses in her steps for a second as I curiously look towards the girl, suspicion written all over my face.
"Oh. Your shadow staff" Jim says in realisation, completely oblivious to my suspicions. "I've never heard you call it that before"
"Yeah. What gave you the inspiration for that name Claire?" I ask making the girl scoff before continuing to tug my arm towards her house.
"Quickly now, no time for conversation" Claire says as I huff but continue to let her drag me along, Jim following behind us.
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Claire opens the door to the house as Jim and I follow behind her, curiously looking around the pitch black house.
"Are your parents away?" Jim asks curiously.
"Gone for the weekend" Claire states as she gestures for Jim and I to come in
Weird, they never mentioned that to me when they drove me to school.
"Oh. Well, if you want we can stay and I can make everyone some hot soup or-" Jim starts to say with a friendly smile before Claire suddenly shuts the door roughly behind us as Jim and I jump.
"Sit" Claire states as she points towards the couch. "I'll be back down in a minute"
I'm taken aback by Claire's command but shrug as I move towards the couch, Jim following behind me.
"She's definitely acting weird" I mumble as I flop down on the couch with my whole body spread out.
"She seems fine to me...I guess" Jim shrugs as he sits on my legs as I grunt and try to kick him off. "Stop kicking me!"
"Don't sit on my feet then"
"Don't take up the whole couch then!"
We both laugh as I move my feet down as Jim takes a seat before I move my feet onto his lap instead as Jim grabs the remote.
"Ooo, first danger house" Jim smiles as he puts the remote back down and leans back. "This could work"
"I can't believe I was about to watch the second danger house without watching the first one" I mumble as Jim smiles at me.
"Well, we can watch it now at least" Jim says before sighing as he looks at me with a small smirk. "I must be a horrible boyfriend if I haven't forced my girlfriend to watch danger house"
"You must be" I laugh as Jim gasps. "Maybe I should leave you for someone who can properly educate me on horror movies"
"Alright, I know your joking but that hurt" Jim says with a fake look of sadness as I giggle.
"Stop talking, I'm trying to watch the movie" I shush as Jim dramatically sighs before looking back towards the tv.
"Richard? Richard, where'd you go?" The character on the screen yells as Jim and I watch carefully.
"Look behind you!" Jim yells, clearly getting too into the movie but I don't mind.
"Where are you Richard? Where'd you go?" The woman continues to yell as I roll my eyes.
"Can she be more oblivious!" I yell in annoyance at the dumb blonde.
"Don't be stupid! Look behind you!" Jim yells in annoyance as I can't help but smile.
The smile soon fades off my face as I feel the air around the room get darker, more powerful. I slowly look up and scream as I find Claire above us with her staff pointed downwards like she wants to stab us.
I quickly move my legs off of Jim's lap just in time as she stabs her staff where my legs were as Jim and I yell.
"What are you doing?" Jim yells loudly in shock.
"Trying to kill you!" Claire yells as she goes to stab Jim only for him to quickly jump out of the way.
I do the same as Claire makes a swipe at me with her staff making me roll off the couch, swiftly getting to my feet as Claire goes to stab me again only for Jim to block it with a nearby book.
"Not the book Jim!" I yell with wide eyes as Jim gives me a deadpan look.
"I just saved your life and your yelling at me!" Jim yells back before grunting as he gets kicked back by Claire, luckily landing on the couch.
"Oi! What the hell Claire!" I yell with wide eyes as I run to Jim's side and stand in front of him with a book in hand.
"There is no Claire! I. Am. Morgana!" Claire (or not Claire) yells as Jim and I look at her confused.
"Who?" Jim coughs in confusion as I try and wrack my brain for any knowledge of a sorceress called Morgana.
"The eldritch Queen. Baby Yaga. The pale Lady" Morgana continues to list before groaning in annoyance as Jim and I don't make any sign of acknowledgment. "Ugh, I have many names!"
"Sorry, still drawing a blank" Jim says in confusion as he leans back into the couch.
"Wait...are you like Hecate? Are you her sister?" I ask confused as I think back to one of the only sorceresses I know.
"H-Hecate? No!" Morgana yells in annoyance making me raise my hands in surrender. I then watch as Morgana slowly starts to lift into the air with a yellow aura around her. "I am your doom-"
I cut her off by grabbing the closest thing to me (which happens to be a pillow) and chucking it at her face.
"D-did you just hit me with a-" Morgana starts to ask before I cut her off by throwing another pillow at her face. "-pillow?"
"Look, I'm not gonna hurt Claire just because you decided to possess her body with your voodoo magic" I yell as I throw pillow after pillow at her.
Apparently she didn't like that as she roars in anger making me drop my pillow to the ground in shock.
"Drooma Katorth-a myntarth-a klar" Morgana starts to chant as she closes her eyes while holding onto her staff.
"I don't know who you are, but you have to take it down a notch!" Jim yells as he joined in with my idea of holding a pillow.
"Drooma Katorth-a myntarth-a klar" Morgana continues to chant as I feel the whole house start to rumble.
"I don't think she's listening Jim" I say with wide eyes as I grab onto his arm so I don't fall over.
"Way to point out the obvious" Jim says with wide eyes as we watch all the furniture in Claire's house start to shake.
"Drooma Katorth-a myntarth-a klar" Morgana chants as I watch Jim look at me with a sorry expression on his face.
"Sorry Y/n, but-" Jim says as he grabs out his amulet. "-For the glory of Merlin, daylight is mine to command!"
"Drooma Katorth-a myntarth-a klar" Morgana chants again as a dark portal opens up in the ground, furniture that had already fallen to the ground now slipping through the portal and falling into the dark abyss.
"Oh boy-" I yell as I hold on tighter to Jim's arm.
"Claire, if your seeing this, I did not mess up your house again!" Jim yells as he seems to get flashbacks from the 'party' incident.
Morgana suddenly lets out a wretched screech before the coffee table Jim and I were standing on starts to slide closer towards the portal as we both yell and jump onto the couch instead.
Morgana then throws out her hand and sends dozens of books flying our way as Jim quickly signals for his shield and holds it infront of us as the books hit against it.
"I am your doom!" Morgana screeched as I grab a random book, throwing it at her roughly but to no prevail as Morgana stops it with her hand and sends it flying back towards us as it hits against Jim's shield again.
Morgana then throws a nearby table at us as I quickly roll out of the way as Jim kicks the table back towards her, then jumping off the couch and tackling her to the ground.
I watch as Morgana presses her staff against Jim's neck as she screeched at him making me quickly grab another book, throwing it at her head as Morgana paused and looks towards me as I nervously laugh.
Now would be a great time for my powers not to be stupid, oh well.
I raise my hand and use my powers to throw Morgana into a wall, already regretting it as I feel my chest tighten like a thousand knives were just stabbed into me.
Morgana quickly recovers as she grabs a nearby bookshelf and throws it at me as I yell and roll out of the way just in time as I pant on the ground.
Morgana uses that time of weakness to quickly charge at Jim again as she uses her staff to attempt to push him in the portal, both of them dodging the furniture in the room that continues to get sucked into the portal.
Jim continues to push against her before Morgana snaps and throws him at a wall near me as Jim groans.
"You think I'm powerful now, just wait until the eternal night frees me from my prison!" Morgana yells as she watches me quickly run over to Jim and help him stand as the wind in the room picks up making it harder to stay on our feet.
Furniture continues to fly into the portal as Jim starts to lose his grip making me quickly grab onto his hand with one arm while holding onto the wall with the other.
"Jim!" I yell as Morgana's creepy laugh continues to get louder.
"Oh god!" Jim yells as his hand starts to slip from mine before it finally slips out as I yell, Jim flying back towards the portal.
Jim tried to run back as he jumps over upcoming furniture but just as he lands, Morgana swings her staff at Jim's face making him fall into the portal, only holding onto this side of the world by his fingers.
"Jim!" I yell as I go to run towards him but Morgana stops me by rising me into the air like a rag doll and pinning me to the wall as I grunt.
"Claire if your in there do something! Anything!" Jim yells desperately.
"Claire is not here!" Morgana yells with an evil chuckle as she raises her staff to swing at Jim once more for the final strike.
"No! But her brother is!" The familiar voice of NotEnrique yells as I watch him jump into the air and swing a frypan to the back of Claire's head.
Claire passes out immediately as I quickly fall to the ground with a grunt. The portal starts to close making me quickly run over, grabbing onto Jim's hand as I pull him out of the portal before it closes as we pant with wide eyes.
"Nobody grabs me scruff!" NotEnrique yells as he goes to hit Claire on the head again but I quickly stop him by grabbing onto the frypan and taking it out of his hands.
"She called herself Morgana. Who is that?" Jim asks confused as NotEnrique seems to recognise the name.
"Not somebody you want to date...that's for sure" NotEnrique mumbles as I think back to Todd.
"I'll have to break the bad news to Todd" I mumble as I stare at the unconscious body of Claire.
I would not count this experience as a proper date, that's for sure.
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Authors note:
This episode has now been split into three chapters holy shit
Maybe I do write too much, I don't know
Jim and Y/n being cute as always
Also sorry this chapter took so long, christmas has been busy and I haven't had much time to write!
Hope u enjoyed this chapter!