Chapter 13

                                    

                                          
Kai woke up to breakfast ready for him.
                          
"You cooked for me," he observed when Vivianna came up to him with a large tray of waffles, french toast, pork links, and eggs.
                          
"For both of us," she corrected. "We have a one-and-a-half hour trip to Sacramento today, then we have to go to Davis... which is where my family was actually living on May 10th, 1994."
                          
Kai just nodded, and started to eat, being extra dramatic with the moans of pleasure he let out. "Fuck, this Maria chick really taught you some good recipes. 'Cause I can't make eggs taste like that."
                          
Vivianna half-smiled. "Yeah, she did know some pretty good recipes." She pursed her lips. "Why do you want to go to Portland?"
                          
"When Bonnie put her magic away in that bear, it hit me that I missed something crucial, years ago. Jo tricked me, back in 1994. She said she'd Merge with me, but when we started the spell, I couldn't feel her magic. It was a trap. My dad shoved me in here. I didn't understand how her magic was just... not there. 'Til I realized she put it away. Your dark objects will hurt me if I siphon directly. But if I find the object she put her magic inside of and absorb that, I can do the spell to get us back. All Bonnie would need to do is give her blood."
                          
"Maybe next time we see her, you shouldn't be all rough with her and making death threats? Just a suggestion."
                          
He shrugged. "I can try. No guarantee it'll work. She annoys me."
                          
"She's the key to getting us all out so maybe value her a little bit more."
                          
"All we need is her blood. She's literally nothing but a blood bag to me."
                          
Vivianna pursed her lips. "Malachai, there's something I need to ask you about. Something I once heard... that I'm not sure is true. But I need to know if you're aware of it or not."
                          
Kai looked surprised to hear this. "Alright. Shoot."
                          
"Do you know what would happen if you drank vampire blood and died?"
                          
"Is this a trick question?" he asked. "Everyone knows what happens to witches when they turn. They lose their magic and basically go off the deep end 'cause they feel miserable without it."
                          
"That's the thing, Malachai," she said quietly. "That wouldn't happen, in your case. Did you ever hear the story about the 1903 prison world?"
                          
"Not really. I don't even know who the Gemini leader was at the time. My dad's dad wasn't in power. It was a whole other family until my dad and his twin were born, the first of their generation, and the only set of twins for like, two and a half decades. As soon as my dad won the position of leader, he married my mom, and popped Jo and I out within the year. I heard it was a whole group of siphoners, though. Must have been nice for them."
                          
"It wasn't a group of siphoners. It was a group of heretics."
                          
"What, those people who stray from religion?"
                          
"No. Heretics are hybrids. Witch-vampire hybrids."
                          
Kai's jaw went slack. "What are you talking about? That's impossible, Vivi."
                          
"Not when it comes to someone born a siphoner," she said. "You have to siphon magic from other sources to obtain it. Normally, you wouldn't have magic. But if given vampire blood... if killed and set to complete the transition... you'd be able to siphon from your own vampirism. You'd have constant magic. They're not exactly the strongest hybrids, but they are hybrids. Still more powerful than regular witches, with heightened speed and agility and an insane bloodlust, from what I've heard. The Gemini Coven caught a group of them in 1903. There was one regular vampire among them, not even a Gemini, but they got locked up, too, for being an accomplice."