*Maria*

I walk through the woods following behind diablo and I ask him "where is she at diablo? help me out?" he squawks and starts flying past the tree's and I continue to follow behind him. Once I made it to the break in the woods where the white oak tree is at and I see a mysterious guy standing in front of faith and the ankh on the tree bright orange and it looked almost like a sunset which was weird because it was black yesterday he had long brown hair shoulder length and bright blue eyes. I make my way over to them and faith turns to me "oh hey maria Dante this is my sister maria sis this is Dante he found thalia for me" I plaster a fake smile on my face which I know faith knows is fake. There just something about this guy that just rubs me the wrong way he holds out his hand for me and he says "nice to meet you Mariah" I smile at him sweetly and I say "you too Donnie".

Once my hand collides with him I feel myself being transported back again and now I know why he gives me the heebie-jeebies it's because he's the demon from my faith's and Kennedy's vision. I see a demon stepping out of the treeline and of course, I can't see the demon only his bright blue eyes and they change back to blue. I even see a bright red moon hanging above our heads I wonder what the significance of the moon means?. Once I made it back I see faith sending me a worried glance and I turn to dante and I see a smirk on his face and I say "sorry uh we've been chasing horses all day and I'm kinda out of breath".

He smiles at me and he says "it's alright darlin you must be exhausted" we both nodd and I say to faith "so should we load up thalia back at dads?". She nodded eagerly and he says "well it was nice meeting you both we just moved here from Georgia this place was my mother's hometown so I guess she just wanted to come home". Faith smiles at him and she asks "so where did you move to? we might be school mates" he chuckles and he replies "not far from the lake the big house complex's not far from here?". Faith's eyes light up and she says "your not far from maria then she lives in the same complex".

I bite my lower lip and she says "would you like a ride back? this forest is at least five miles long". He smiles at her flirtingly and I roll my eyes as we make the walk back to my dad's house and as we make it faith introduces everyone to dante. I bite my tongue and just plaster a fake smile on my face and he was putting on a show to faith's mom and my mom. I help faith load up thalia and I grab her hand and pull her beside the trailer "I need to talk to you" she sends me a glare "what do you want?" I send her a hurt expression and I ask "why are you mad at me? what did I do?".

She slings my hand off of hers and she says "you know exactly what you did maria calling him Donnie?" I scoff and roll my eyes and I reply "and calling me Mariah wasn't disrespectful on his part?". She rolls her eyes at me and crosses her arms "he was saying it as a joke maria you were saying it to be a bitch" I place my hand on my forehead feeling a headache coming on. I remove my hand and I reply "he's the demon I got a vision of him at the tree when I grabbed his hand". She rolls her eyes and replies "no he isn't don't you think I would know if he was? I didn't get a bad vibe from him".

I roll my eyes and raise my hands above my head and she says "and besides how do you know he's the demon? we didn't see him in that vision in Kennedy's room the only thing we saw was a shadow and blue eyes". I scoff and I say "yes in that vision we saw that but I saw the same color blue eyes at the tree when I grabbed his hand faith it's the same eyes". She doesn't look at me she just looks at the ground and I ask "I mean is my word not good enough for you? I mean don't you believe me?". I try to catch her gaze but she avoids it like the plague "I don't know what to believe anymore".

I scoff and she grabs my hands but I don't want her touching me right now and she says "I mean maria you kinda have a track record for your gut being wrong". I turn my gaze back to hers and I ask "what's that supposed to mean?". She turns her gaze back to the field and then back to me and she says "not knowing abel was a bad guy for you or knowing who your dad was or knowing I was your sister I think your gut is in overdrive". I scoff and feel tears start to roll down my cheek but I keep my face completely neutral.

I feel anger surge through me and I clench my fists and I hear faith make a choking noise. I hear a high pitch scream in my ears and I let out a gut-wrenching scream and I close my eyes and don't look around me and I don't stop until I feel Kennedy's and Abel's arms wrap around me. I sob into Kennedy's shirt and she screams "from your chin to your toes, a mute silence grows" I feel my mouth closing and my screams stop I turn and see faith's ears bleeding but nothing else. I break away from Kennedy and abel and run towards the woods I hear my mom and dad scream my name I try to pull myself together but I keep on running not wanting to be around anybody.

Then I find myself running past the tree and towards jagger's property line and I keep sobbing until finally, my body collides with the ground after I tripped over a rock. My back comes in contact with the ground and I just sob as my head hits the soft ground and I move over to the tree and just sit there. I feel comforting arms wrap around me and I don't jerk away knowing it's jagger and he kisses the top of my head and I continue to sob in his arms. I bury my head into his neck feeling his scent most comforting as he held me in his massive arms I feel true and utmost safety in his arms.

He removes his jacket and pushes it over my shoulders and he picks me up bridal style and carries me back to his house I'm pretty sure I was heavy but he did it without any complaints. He carries me up to his room and he asks "wanna talk about it?" I wipe the tears away and I say "you heard about the horses getting loose right?". He nodded at me and I say "I went looking for faith because we had already got the other horses loaded up and the only one we couldn't find was thalia and I found faith at the tree with some guy jagger you know that feeling you get when you know this person is up to no good?". He nods at me as he sits beside me and he pulls me into his lap and he continues to rub my back and I continue "but when I grabbed his hand to shake it I got a vision he's the demon we saw in my vision the one at Kennedy's?".

His eyes widened and he asks "are you sure it's him?" I nodd eagerly and I say "his eyes in my vision were the same and when I told faith about it she didn't believe my vision but I know he's the demon jagger". He nodded and pulls me closer and he says "it's okay baby I believe you" I bury my head further into his neck and I continue to sob and I say "and it's like she's under his spell". He rubs my back comfortingly and he says "hey why don't you just relax love why don't you go grab one of my shirts and I'll cook us something for dinner and then we will watch a movie?". I raise my gaze to his and his lips collide with mine and I return the kiss and I run my hand through his hair and when he breaks the kiss I see a smile on his face.

He gives one quick peck on the lips and I find myself smiling back and he stands up and walks out of his bedroom and I raid his closet for some sweatpants and one of his shirts. I slide them on and walk to jagger's office which was across from his room and I search his books trying to find out what demon 'Dante' was but I come up empty. I run my hand through my brown hair and start fiddling with my necklace and I keep hitting a roadblock. I hear talking down the stairs in the kitchen and I ease down the stairs and hide behind the wall and I hear ben say to jagger "she attacked faith when she called her out on her gut feelings".

I hear jagger scoff and he says "well next time put a leash on your girl and maybe we won't have that problem anymore maria is never wrong about her gut feelings and you know it she just doesn't jump the gun as easily". I smile after hearing what he said and ben says "how does she know he's the demon? I mean what did she see in the vision?". I stand to my feet and ease down the stairs and I say "all I saw was blue eyes and they changed to red his blue eyes ben". He sends me a soft expression and he says "you've been wrong before maria how do you know? anything more concrete than just a gut feeling?".

I shake my head and roll my eyes and I say "no nothing concrete ben" he walks away and then jagger grabs my hands and he says "I believe you". I shake my head and wrap my arms around him and I say "it's nice to know someone does" after we eat dinner and go up to his room and halfway through the movie I fell asleep in jagger's arms. After my nap I stirred awake and ease out of jagger's bed and I yawn and go out into the hall and I see blood on the floor and the wall right by jagger's door. I feel my heart start to plummet and beat faster and faster I follow the blood down the stairs when I see the footprints on the stairs were in blood but the feet were tiny.

I walk out of the front door and I grab a flashlight and I call out "jagger? Val? ben? where are you?" I look on the ground and still see blood on the grass, someone, walked away from this alive at least. I follow the footprints and they lead me to the white oak tree but once I turn the corner around the pine tree I feel my stomach drop and I see 'faith, jagger, ben, abel, mom, dad, Elizabeth, Elijah, and Evie all hanging from the white oak tree. I let out another scream in agony that is my ultimate fear I even see blood coming out of their ears and eyes then I focus on the ankh on the tree again then I feel arms wrap around me that's when I wake up from my dream. I open my eyes and see it's jagger and ben and Valerie and my dad he casts me a worried expression and he says "baby it's okay".

He pulls me into a hug and he rubs my back and then I sob "daddy it was so horrible all of you were hanging from the white oak tree all of you were dead I killed you using my scream you had blood coming down your ears and eyes". He continues to rub my back and he says "here let me try something" I feel his hands touch my forehead and he says "play the nightmare again I know you don't want to just trust me". I nodd and replay the nightmare again in my head and it was like he was seeing it through his own eyes and once it was done he says "someone sent you the dream I don't know who but it's someone very powerful". I sob in his arms and jagger grabs my hand and Valerie stands behind dad and he says "listen I don't want you going to school tomorrow just skip a day just stay here".

I shake my head at him "I gotta go dad I gotta face my fears don't I?" he smiles at me and kisses me on the forehead like he always does. After that big ordeal, my dad put a spell on my head so no one can send me another nightmare which left me confused who would send me a nightmare?.