"That's it. Over there!"  Iyla shouted over the wind that was hitting them.

"Will you come with me?" She turned her head towards Iyla, her white hair blowing in her face.

"I know you said you had something to-"

"I'm going." He cut her off and a small smile appeared on her face.

"I'll come with you. I can do it another time." He said the turned back, pointing towards a pond in the distance.

"Now. All we have to do is wait for it to open. We only have a certain amount of time to get to it before it closes.

She nodded her head as they made their way towards it and Iyla started to look around before pushing Esme behind him, just in a time as a woman jumped down from a tree, her fiery red hair brushing her face.

Three more jumped down from the trees, stalling towards them just as the portal opened.

"Soul Eaters." Iyla growled.

"You'll live then." Esme told her friend, relief in her voice.

"They're after you, but they'll kill me if it means getting to you." He held his arm protectively around her as he slowly moved backwards.

"Give us the girl." The red heads voice ordered, it wasn't angelic, it was almost dried as if she hadn't had water in days.

"Over my dead body." Iyla glared to them.

"That can be arranged." After she said that all four of the soul eaters opened their mouths widely, almost taking over their whole face, their eyes turning black as their skinned turned grey.

"Get to the portal!" Iyla yelled at Esme as she quickly started to run to the open portal that was in the pond.

The soul eaters started to attack, but Iyla quickly fought them off.

Another one got away and jumped on Esme, but she was quick to defend herself and used one of her blades to stab it in the neck.

The creature let out a horrific cry as it stumbled back a bit.

"Esme Go! You don't have much time!" Iyla shouted.

"I can't leave you here!" She shouted as she quickly ripped the head off of the soul eater.

"Yes you can! I'll be-AHHH!" Iyla let out a scream as one of the soul eaters wrapped their arms around his head and another one pulling his arms back.

"Esme Go!" He cried out as he struggled to get free, the one who had him by the head made him fall to his knees.

The red head soul eater stepped in front of Iyla, letting her face turn back to normal, a smirk on her face.

Iyla looked up at her with a glare then turned to Esme once again.

"Now Esme!" He shouted as the soul eater blocked his view and all he could see now was the smirk on its face and the long claws extending from its fingers.

Esmes eyes teared up a bit and she turned towards the portal and jumped in, the water swallowing her. The last thing she heard was Iyla screaming and then the water covering her completely.

Academy

"The bastard that nearly killed our sister is still out there, with Vanya. We need to go after her." Diego spoke as him, Klaus and Five were in the main room.

"Vanya. Is not important." Five let out a deep breath.

"Hey, that's your sister. A little heartless even for you. Not to mention none of us knows where Esme went." Diego looked to Five then to Klaus who was sitting on the couch, biting his nails.

"Maybe She did a time jump." Klaus said.

"Impossible. She didn't have a brief case. She's either dead or she's dead." Five let another deep breath, accepting the fact that Esme is dead.

"She's not dead!" Diego almost shouted at Five, jabbing his finger at the boy.

"I'm not saying that I don't care about her, Vanya too. I'm just saying the possibilities. Right now-" Five cut himself off as he saw water began to flow its way towards them.

"Did someone leave a sink on?" Klaus asked as he looked towards the closed doors. Water flooding the wooden floor.

No one said anything as the doors bursted open. There stood a traumatized Esme. She was wet from head to toe, water dripping from her hair and clothing. She looked around the room till her eyes settled on her siblings.

"Esme." Diego breathed out, shocked.

Her white hair stuck to her dirty face, there was blood stains all over her ripped clothes.

"Where were you?" Diego asked as he walked over to her, the small girl trembling as her mouth opened but no words came out.

"I-I-I..." She tried to gather the words but her head was swarming with everything that she dealt with from the two years of being stuck in Purgatory.

"Hey. Hey. It's okay." Diego quickly wrapped his arms around her, shushing her.

"You don't need to talk about it. Not now."  He told her softly as he rested his head on top of hers. She gripped Diego tightly, afraid if she let go she would be back in Purgatory.

"Iyla he's-he's"  she gasped as she started to cry.

Five and Klaus looked over at the situation then to each other.  Only one thing was on everyone's mind.

What the hell happened?

~~~

The three siblings were all in Esmes room as she was sitting on her bed, knees pulled to her chest.

Diego helped her get cleaned up and into new clothes since she wasn't in the right frame of mind.  She wasn't before, but guess she's worse.

"What happened?"  Five questioned as he was standing across from her bed while Diego was sitting next to her and Klaus was sitting in the chair, Ben next to him.

"I haven't seen her this bad before."  Ben told Klaus.

"I know.  Last time she was like this was..."  Klaus trailed off, looking at Ben.

"Since I died?"  Ben asked and Klaus nodded, turning back to his sister.

"Esme?"  Five asked a bit louder and she flinched a bit.

"Hey. Hey. Easy Alright."  Diego gave Five a look.

"We need to speed this up. The world is about to end."  Five said.

"Look. None of us knows where she's been what she's been through.  You need to calm down."  Diego told him.

"I was in Purgatory."  Esme finally spoke up.

"Wait. Like that place where all the bad creatures go to?"  Klaus questioned.

"Yeah. Between Heaven and Hell, but not quite earth."  She nodded.

"Why were you there?"  Diego asked.

"I think Lucifer did it. Thought I would be safe because of the world ending." She explained, her blue eyes looking around the room.

"I was there for two years." Her voice held no emotion.

"And Iyla..." her eyes teared up and Diego rubbed her shoulder softly, hoping to sooth her.

"My friend is dead." She placed her head on her knees as she began to cry.

Diego's face held sorrow.  All he could see was when Esme was fourteen and she was screaming her lungs out, thrashing around. Their father made her go into a world where she had no control over. It scarred her.

He looks at her and now and all he sees is that frightened fourteen year old girl.

"Get some rest Esme." Diego said softly as he gently moved off of her bed and tucked her in the covers.

"Promise I won't go back there?"  She looked up at Diego and he nodded.

"I promise."

~~~

After Esme had a long cat nap which was most needed.  She felt better, of course she wouldn't be completely fine but she was doing better then she was a couple hours ago.  Diego filled her in on everything that she missed while Klaus just listened to the two talk.

"I need you three to come with me."  Luther entered the room where her, Diego, and Klaus were at.

"What?  Why?"  Diego questioned and Luther gave them a look, letting them know it was important. 

They all got up following Luther to a room that they didn't even know existed before.

"What is this?"  Esme asked as they entered a room and saw some type of panic room or something.  But Vanya was inside banging on the glass door.

All of them looked shocked at this situation.  Esme looked at Vanya as her sister looked beyond frightened, banging on the door and screaming but they couldn't hear anything she was saying.

That's when Diego spoke.

"You locked up our sister because you think she has powers?"

"No. I know she does, Pogo told me."  Luther said from behind them and Esme turned to him.

"Powers or not. It doesn't give you the right to lock her up in there!"  She raised her voice at him while pointing to Vanya.

Luther blinked a bit, not used to Esme having a tone.  She was always the quiet one.

"Why would they hide this from us?" Diego questioned and Esme stepped closer to the door.

"I'm letting her out."  Esme put her hands on the door and tried to open it while Vanya was pleading her to open it.

"Esme. No."  Luther grabbed her arm and pulled her back.

"Hey!  Take it easy."  Diego gave him a look, grabbing a Esme gently from him.

"This isn't right and you know it."  Esme looked at Luther.

"He hid this, because he was afraid of her."  Luther looked to Esme then to the others.

"Well if you're right maybe she's the one who killed Peabody."  Diego shrugged and Esme shook her head not believing what she was hearing.  There was no way Vanya could do any of that.

"And cut Allison's throat."  Luther said.

"Whoa!  No, let's-"  Klaus shook his head a bit as he placed the back of his hands over his eyes then put them down.

"I'm sorry let's go back.  This is Vanya we're talking about. Our sister. The one who always cried when we stepped on ants as kids."  Klaus gestures to Vanya with his hands. 

"Yeah. I know. I know it's difficult."  Luther looked to Klaus and Esme stepped back away from where they were all at.

Vanya screamed more from the inside of the cage wanting Esme to come back, thinking she was leaving.

"It's not difficult to accept. It's impossible to accept!"  Klaus shouted.

"He's right. We can't keep her locked up here without proof."  She heard Diego almost yell from behind her.

"What more proof do you need?!" Luther yelled and Esme squeezed her eyes shut, placing her hands over her ears wanting them to stop fighting.

"Why don't we open up the door and ask her!" Klaus yelled and went to open the door, but Luther stopped him.

"No, she's not going anywhere." Luther told him and Klaus just shook his head, walking over to where Esme was, seeing she was not happy with the situation.

"No, even if you're right! She needs our help, and we can't do that if she's locked in a cage." Diego said.

"Yeah." Klaus agreed as he wrapped his arms around Esme, holding her tightly against his chest, trying to calm her down.

"And all we know she might be struggling with this new power. It must be scary, terrifying, really, to discover you can do something that you never thought you could do." Klaus explained softly, pain in his voice.  He slowly let go of Esme as he made his way back over to his brothers.

Esme took in his words.  She felt every bit of it.  That's how she felt and she knew that's how Klaus felt.  She even wondered if he was meaning it to be to Vanya, but something tells her it was about himself. 

Esme turned her head as she heard another set of footsteps approaching and saw it was Allison.  She wrote on a notepad and showed it to Luther.

Let her go

Esme looked at the words then to Luther.  She knew he made his decision.

"I can't do that.  She hurt you."  He told her and Allison looked at him angrily.

My Fault

Luther shook his head again and when Allison moved forward, trying to get through, Luther stopped her. She started to punch him, but of course he didn't budge.

"Esme lets go." Diego placed his hand on the back of her shoulder gently.

"We aren't letting her out?" She asked and he didn't say anything.

"This isn't right." She looked into his eyes and his gaze dropped to the floor.

"She's our sister. We have to help her." Her voice quivered a bit as he began to push her out of the room gently with Luther and Allison following behind.

"She's a monster with those powers." Luther spoke up and Esme turned around to face him.

She gave him a hard look, her gaze never leaving his.

"We're all monsters."

**One More chapter and season 1 is over. Ahhhhhh!  Have to wait till season 2**