Save your tears • Jasper Hale

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"She's changed" Amethyst says as she sits across from the older man.

Lucifer sighs and crosses his legs in the chair, "of course she has. Puberty is a crazy thing." Amethyst shakes her head, "No no no. This isn't puberty. This is something else, I can feel it... see it even." Lucifer raises a brow at his daughter in laws words.

"What do you mean?"

"You know what I mean-" she glares at the older man. "- I'm sensing the same darkness that Nicklaus had.... Except hers is looming over her like some type of guardian. Like it's waiting for her to be put in a situation so it can take over."

Lucifer sighs out at this knowledge. How did he miss it? He should have seen the signs when she ripped a vampires arms off. Hell, he should have noticed the looming presence!

"She has, how do you say, tapped in to the darkness."

"So what does that exactly mean?"

"Think of it as a second puberty except, she becomes more agile, stronger, faster, more evil as some would like to say. However it's her other making her that way."

"Other?"

"Yes... that's what I said."

"What do you mean other?"

"Willow has been hurt in more ways than one. She feels weak. She feels like she is a disappointment to herself and her family name. To handle that, she called out to a distant relative of mine baphomet. She must have wished for something to make her stronger and thus, her other half was created.

This other half is still her, but it's the Willow that will do what she wants, without a second guess. The "others" are actually very vindictive and scary if I do say so myself. One of yours has it already."

Amythyst tenses at this information.

One of her own? Who could it be? When? Why?

"He's talking about me mom." Karmen says as she walks into the dimly lit kitchen. "You couldn't have you don't act like Wi-I was younger...." Karmen stays leaning against the wall.

"Do you remember in third grade when I suddenly stopped speaking for a week and would lash out? I would start throwing things, yelling at you, fighting? And then you sent me to Chicago to stay with uncle Will and aunt Harmony because you didn't know what to do?" Amethyst nods as this memory resurfaces.

"I uh.. I- something happened at a birthday party in forks... Lauren's dad and older brother...they touched me... uncle William knew, and when I arrived we talked about it. I told him how I felt and he helped me." Karmen's eyes gloss over as the memory resurfaces.

"Helped how Karmen?" Amethyst asks nervously.

"He helped me kill them."

Silence.

"You... you were the cause of the car accident? Not a bear?"

"I stood in the road as their car came. They crashed and got out the car... I killed them as uncle Will watched."

Lucifer looks back at his daughter. "Her darkness is different than Willows. She does have her tendencies but, she doesn't act on them...as much. Willow however has experienced so much hurt, she feels as if the world is against her. The other will do anything to protect them, even if that means killing."

"I don't blame her, if she decides to take that whole family out I would help." Karmen says grabbing juice from the fridge.

"Karmen!"

Karmen slams the jug down and turns towards the table, "no! He hurt her! What he did was basically rape! She was hurt mentally and physically! So if she decides she wants to kill him, or the whole Cullen clan, I'm going to be right by her side! She has always been there for me, even when she didn't know it. So I'm going to do the same." The ginger whisper shouts.

Amythyst puts her head in her hands, "i- I don't know what to do." She begins to cry.

"I promised my sister and her husband I would watch over their little girl if anything happens to them, and I'm doing a horrible job. I'm letting them down, I'm letting Willow down."

Karmen walks over to her mother and holds her as she cries.

Meanwhile upstairs,

Willow is sitting cris cross in front of her body mirror, listening to the conversation downstairs with her other.

"I like Karmen. She isn't against us."

"She would never be against me. She's my sister... " Willow stands causing the other to do the same.

"Promise me something?"

"Depends..."

"We don't hurt our family."

"Deal... what about friends?"

"Angela and Tyler and the pack are off limits."

"Fine. But if anyone crosses a line I'm taking them out."

"I'm not stopping you."