Her Gift | Ev && CLAIRE |

He still couldn't find it. Was it an equinox? Or some kind of pink moon? Because somehow, someway everyone was falling in love with each other. It started with the little Xzavier/Lily sexcipades, then with Lana jumping up and down with pom-poms all morning and Axel and Eli getting a bit too close and personal then Ev would have liked to see. It wasn't natural, and now he found out that two people had been murdered; one because someone was a canibal who loved meat, and another because an old man loved a teenager so much he mummified her for his death bed. It was too much, and it definitely had to be stopped. Axel had told him about a cupid that could help in town, but it was no use. He had to find a spell or something before the whole city goes mad, and he knew exactly who would know. Jace! But before he could grab his cell, he heard the familiar loud shrill.

Looking over his shoulder to the door, he wondered why Sarz was making a fuss. Then, as he walked through the door he saw it. Jace -laying their - covered in wounds that pooled blood on the floor. He shot towards her, glancing to Claire and then back down to Jace. Jace was shaking, and traumatised as Ev looked at her in shock down beside her, and then he looked up at Claire. "What the hell happened? Did you see?". Before she answered, Ev looked down at Jace. How could this have happened? She was the Grey Witch, super powerful in her own right. How could something like this have happened. He teared a little bit, and took Jace's hand. He didn't know if he should call 911 or what, but right now he just wanted to be there for her and Claire.

Drop by drop, pint by pint. The life was slowly falling from her as she shook on the ground. She couldn't feel anything now, she couldn't do anything but shake. She hurt all over, and she just wanted to rest now. So much had been torn from her in the last day. Her love was gone, her powers were gone and her life was slowly fading away. When Claire saw her, Jace moved her eyes to look at her as she came by her side. She asked Jace what happened, but she couldn't talk. She was shaking in sobs, tears streaming and mixing with the crimson of the blood. She looked up at her friend and tried to speak again, but chocked on it. Claire yelled for Ev, and Jace tried to recover. She had to tell them what happened, to straighten it all out. To make sure Kyra and Wes were stopped.

Ev arrived, and she felt his hand in hers. Well at least she could kind of feel it. Her fingers felt numb, like she wasn't really feeling Ev but on a level she was, and she wanted to smile up at him; but she couldn't. Coughing again, she looked up at him. She had to tell them everything, and so for she did. "I - I can't feel my legs......... You n-need to know who did this........... It was K-kyra and Wes........ They wanted my power, and-d they got it. But it nearly killed me-e". Tears welled in Jace's eyes more. She loved them. She did, she loved Ev and Claire. Her true friends in this world who have stuck by her no matter what, and now - here, she was happy. She was happy that her last moments would be with the ones she loved, and she could help them. She didn't need a spell to see how much she loved these two. But she felt herself fading again, and had to do what needed to be done.

"B-but they didn't t-take it all. I have d-dark and elemental m-magic in me. And I w-want you to have it. K-Kyra and Wes are too strong now.......... You need this....... But b-before -". She didn't hold back crying and shook vigourously while she did it, thinking of all the people she loved. "T-tell Axel that he was a t-true friend, a-and to never stop ca-aring........ Tell J-Jayla that she is my f-forever, and I-I hope her mom get's better........... Tell Z-Zach, that I love h-him................. And you t-two were everything to me. I - I'm not perfect b-but you stood by me........... Thankyou". She tried to control her crying but she couldn't. It was goodbye. Nothing could reverse this, and laying on the ground she spluttered yet again. She was about to die, and she couldn't stop it. So using all her will, she grabbed both of their hands. "I love you.....". She smiled at them, and then let it go.

Jace drew her last breath then. But with that breath, she channelled the magic. Energy flowed through her arms, splitting at her soul as it slid through Jace's body and into them, providing them with her power. It entered them, and Jace limply laid. Jacinta Landers was dead, and it was all because of two witches. Two witches that had to be stopped.

He couldn't say anything. He just sat their, her hand in his as he looked down at her. Her skin had been ripped, not cut. The dirt in the wounds indicated the woods; the woods where the magic point was. They had tricked her, suckered her into going to the one place she would go to that was isolated, and did this to her. Did they care? Did they think that killing her was worth it? Tears fell off of his face and onto Jace as Ev hung over her, looking down at her with her hand in his. She felt as cold as ice, and shaking so hard. He didn't know what to do. To hold her so she didn't shake, to do a spell. But he couldn't. Jace was ready, but he wasn't. He wasn't ready to lose everything in his life. He didn't want to lose his brothers relationship, his parents. Everything was going to hell and he didn't know what to do anymore. Tears fell down his face, and he just wanted to get up and charge to kill them both, but Jace didn't have long. He knew that much - and he wanted to be there for her.

But she had a plan. It wasn't well thought out, or even if she would surivive the spell to get help, but it is what she wanted to do. He didn't object, he just sobbed and looked down at her. He had never felt so - weak before and helpless. He was supposed to be the circle's leader, and he couldn't feel less then a loser. He just looked into those blue eyes that were dripping with blood, and listened to what she had to say. She had a lot, and she tried her hardest to tell them what she wanted said. To Axel, to Jayla and to Zach. God, Axel will be heart-broken. After all that happened and now his childhood friend is gone. And even Jayla, he best friend. Zach never loved her, and now he never will. Ev didn't know how to feel, but he just nodded to what she wanted. Then it came to them. What she said forced Ev to put a hand to his face as he shook in sobs, looking at Claire and then down to Jace.

What Claire said was true. Tears kept flowing from Ev as he nodded again, when she said 'I love you', Ev couldn't handle it. Holding her hand, he put his other hand to her hair. "I love you! I love you Jace, please - please. Don't go". He whispered to her through sobs, and then felt her release. It was one breath, and it sent through her body. The crackle of energy ensured as power was injected into Ev. He gasped, closing his eyes as he felt himself being filled with it. He could feel the Earth bellow them, feel the wind talking to him, the water in the basement vibrated energy and the fire in Jace's heart then went out. After feeling the power, Ev looked to Claire in amazement. It felt incredible, but then looking down he realized. The shaking had stopped. Jace was dead. Disbelief filled Ev as he sat their, crying and nearly falling to a lay, but kept up. He felt so worthless, but he knew one thing. He would make those two fuckers wish they had never been born, and when the time comes, they would be ready.