ACT THREE, CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
Wicked Witch

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     SHE QUICKLY SAT UP AND SIGHED WITH RELIEF WHEN SHE LOOKED AROUND AND REALIZED WHERE SHE WAS. She rubbed her eyes and relaxed when she saw Isaac sitting at the end of her bed with his back facing her. She was worried that she would wake up and he would be gone, that it was all a dream and he was still injured and at the hospital.

     "You're still here," she said out loud without thinking but Isaac didn't react. "Isaac?"

     "How long do you think you can keep fooling yourself?" he questioned monotonously and Andi looked at him confused.

     "What are you talking about?" she asked as she stood up.

     When he didn't say anything, she got a sinking feeling in her stomach as she raised her hand towards his shoulder and he grabbed her wrist and glared at her. She inhaled steadily as she focussed but he just smirked at her as he shook his head.

     "My thoughts aren't available to you, Amanda. How long do you think you can keep fooling yourself?" he asked as he stood up while his hand tightened around her wrist.

     "Isaac, let go," she said as felt dread looking into his eyes.

     "No matter what you do, there will always be a darkness just waiting to come out and we've all seen it. On the bus," Isaac said and Andi shook her head.

     "You know that was an accident," she replied as she felt the tips of his claws against her skin, not too far from the scars Scott left on her arm to break her out of her spell when they were on the bus.

     "Was it really? Or did you actually want to hurt her? And what about the night Boyd died? When you actually did almost kill her on purpose?" Isaac asked. Andi swallowed the lump in her throat as she tried to pull her arm away but his claws just dug deeper until the skin broke. "She may have forgiven you and became your friend but do you think she forgot? Do you think any of us forgot what you're capable of?"

     "Why are you saying all this?" Andi asked as it took everything to keep herself from crying in front of him like this.

     "Because you are wicked. We've all seen it. You're not a good person and things would be so much better if you left and never came back," he sneered.

     "You said you didn't think so and that you were happy you met me. You said you loved me," Andi said quietly as Isaac stared right into her eyes.

     "I lied," he replied before letting go of her wrist and leaving her room.

     Andi stood there silently as the tears finally fell and the fresh wounds on her wrist bled. Her worst fear really did come true. The one person who mattered to her most thought she was a monster. The one person whose opinions mattered to her more than anybody else's thought she was wicked. Isaac truly did wake up one day and realized that he wanted nothing to do with her. Everything she hoped that wouldn't happen had happened.

     "Poor Amanda," a deep, raspy voice said and she shook her head as she closed her eyes.

     "Go away," she replied.

     "You've given everything to protect your friends and it still wasn't enough. Remember Boyd? Erica? Heather? Your 'friends' probably blame you because you failed to save them. And Kendall? She probably never actually forgave you for almost killing her twice," the voice said as Andi swallowed the lump in her throat.

     "Get out of my head," her voice cracked as she wiped the tears from her cheeks.

     "You gave up your soul for your friends and they repaid you by throwing you aside. They're so focussed on saving one friend that they forgot about you. They're not so different from Loretta, the girl who was supposed to be your friend but forgot about you the second you left. What's the point of risking everything you have for people who don't even appreciate you and will forget about you? They trust the twins who are murderers more than they trust you and you're supposed to be their friend. How many of them even thanked you for what you did for them?" the dark voice asked and Andi took a second to remember everything and truth be told, she couldn't remember a moment where someone thanked her for her help.

     "What do you want from me?" Andi asked.

     "It's not about what I want. What do you want?" the voice countered and Andi sighed.

     "I want them to know how it feels to see the people you love slip away and knowing you can't do anything to save them and everyone tells you they understand your pain when they don't even have a clue," she said as she heard laughter behind her.

     "You have the power to show them. All you have to do is give in. Let the darkness take over. Do something for yourself for once," it said and Andi swallowed thickly as she closed her eyes. "Now give all of your pain to me."

     Andi sighed as she opened her eyes and heard the bedroom door open. "I just saw Isaac leave. When did he stop by?" her grandmother asked as she stepped inside the room. Andi didn't even acknowledge her as she noticed the blood on her wrist. "What happened?"

     Jasmine walked closer to get a closer look at Andi's wrist but Andi turned around and threw her out of her room and into the wall. As she sat up and leaned against the wall, she looked at Andi who wasn't affected by what she just did and her eyes were bright purple.

     "Ma? What happened?" her father asked as she walked out of the room and looked at him.

     He turned around to go back downstairs to warn Andi's mother but she caught up to him and grabbed him by his hair and slammed his head into the wall. She could hear her mother downstairs and when she went downstairs, she was in the kitchen putting the dishes away. She slowly walked up behind her and her hand hovered right beside her head as her mother's eyes turned purple right before she collapsed onto the floor.

     Andi went back upstairs to change her clothes and put her shoes on as she heard the voice laughing right behind her. "There she is. Let there be chaos, strife and pain," it chuckled as Andi closed her eyes and focussed.

     "Shut up," she said.

     All the sound around her was drowned out as she looked for the twins. It was different from what she was able to do before. Before, she would've needed their blood or something that belonged to them in order to find them but this time, all she needed to do was think about them. When she finally found where they were, she left the house and started heading to the school. She wanted everyone to know how it felt to be helpless while their loved ones suffered and she was going to start with them.

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     She couldn't ignore the sinking feeling in her gut. No matter how hard she tried, it just wouldn't go away. She looked at Scott who was still trying to figure out how to save Stiles from the Nogitsune's clutch on him.

     "Scott, something's not right. I have this terrible feeling and it just won't go away," she said.

     "What is this feeling about?" Scott asked.

     "Your friend. Andi," the Nogitsune said as he smirked at the two of them. "She hasn't really been at the forefront of your minds lately has she?"

     "You stay quiet," Kendall said as she glared at him.

     "Do you even have any idea what she's been feeling? All the stress she bears on her shoulders while you all continue to depend on her to have the answers to all your problems. And yet, you trust the twins to help save Stiles more than you trust her and she's supposed to be your friend," the Nogitsune chuckled and Kendall was seething as she lifted her hand with pink vapour dancing around her fingers.

     "You don't know anything," she said through her teeth and the Nogitsune raised his eyebrows.

     "Oh, but I do. I know that while you were starting to worry about her being corrupted by the Book of the Damned, she hadn't even fully given in yet," he said.

     "What do you mean by 'yet?' What do you know?" Lydia asked and the Nogitsune just laughed.

     "She only had one hand on the wheel since she found the book so she was still in control this whole time. But then Stiles got possessed, Isaac got hurt and you all kicked her to the curb. I'm not even gonna tell what was the straw that broke the camel's back. What I will tell you is that you should've considered yourselves lucky while she still had restraint. And now, both hands are off the wheel and you better pray for anyone she sets her sight on," he said with a wide grin and Kendall punched him right across the face but he was still laughing. "Have any of you heard from Jasmine lately?"

     Kendall's breath got caught in her throat as she looked at Scott who nodded his head and Kendall recited the incantation for a spell that would bring her right to Jasmine's house. When she appeared inside, she went to the kitchen and found Andi's mother passed out on the floor. She knelt down next to her and shook her shoulders until she jolted awake and sat up.

     "What happened?" Kendall asked as Andi's mother looked around.

     "I have no idea. I was putting the dishes away and next thing I knew, I was having this awful nightmare and I couldn't wake up," she said as Kendall helped her up to her feet.

     "Where are Jasmine and Mr. Nicks?" she asked.

     "Dan, heard something upstairs and went to check but I don't know what happened," Andi's mother said and the both of them headed to the stairs.

     The older woman gasped with horror when she saw her husband unconscious on the floor with blood on his forehead. There was also some blood on the wall and a small dent where they assumed his head collided with. Jasmine was passed out against the wall a few feet away from him and right in front of Andi's room. Kendall hurried over to Jasmine while Andi's mother tended to her husband. Jasmine groaned as she opened her eyes and noticed Kendall right in front of her.

     "Jasmine, tell me what happened," Kendall said as she watched Jasmine's eyes well up with tears.

     "Andi. She just attacked us and—and..." Jasmine trailed off as she choked back a sob while Kendall's throat closed up. "Andi's gone."

     "No. I don't believe that," Kendall said as she shook her head.

     "You didn't see the look in her eyes. It was like someone else took over. The person who attacked us, that wasn't my granddaughter," Jasmine said and Kendall's own eyes watered.

     She didn't want to believe that Andi was gone. She refused to believe that she was gone.

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     They didn't really have a plan. In the moment, their only plan was to not get killed by the three werewolves and to try not to kill them either. They had switched weapons at this point as Isaac and the twins stalked closer to them, ready to attack at any moment.

     The girls gasped in shock when Ethan was dragged backwards and Isaac and Aiden turned around to see Andi with purple eyes and a vice grip on Ethan's hair. He growled as he tried to use his claws on her but he stopped him with her magic and his arm snapped. The sound of his bones breaking echoed off the lockers and walls as he howled in pain as Aiden stepped closer but Andi used her other hand to stop him right where he was as his legs gave out from underneath him. Isaac growled at her but she threw him into the locker and his head left a dent in the metal as she looked at Aiden.

     "Do you feel it? Do you feel helpless knowing your brother is in danger and you can't save him?" Andi questioned as she glared at Aiden who just growled through his teeth. "Maybe if I kill him right now, you'll feel the same guilt I felt the night you helped kill Boyd and I couldn't save him."

     "Andi, let him go," Allison said and Andi looked at her.

     Allison swallowed as she looked into her eyes that were still bright purple, a clear indicator that this wasn't the Andi she knew and became friends with.

     "Why should I? They caused us so much pain and it's time they know what it feels like. I want them to know how it feels to watch someone they love have their life on the line while they're helpless," Andi said as another one of Ethan's bones snapped and Aiden howled at her since he still couldn't move.

     "Andi, you're under the influence of an ancient book of dark magic but I know you. You're not evil," Allison said and Andi tilted her head.

     "No," she replied. "I'm wicked."

     Before anyone could blink, Andi grabbed Ethan's head and twisted it until there was a loud snap and everyone watched in horror as his body fell to the floor with a black substance coming out of his mouth. Andi heard the deep laughter again as Aiden roared but Andi just smiled as she left the locker room. That smile went away as she felt like part of her just died.

     "Well done, wicked witch. Keep bringing chaos, strife and pain and I will help you make everyone pay for how they treated you," the voice whispered in her ear and she sighed.

     Everyone was going to pay.