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Both Josie and Lizzie were sitting at the table, mouths slightly open after watching my interaction with Faye.

"So do you always cheat on our mom with Hope's mom…mom's doppelganger?" Lizzie snapped out of her little stunned moment and asked her voice carrying a bit of jealous bite to it.

I found myself thrown for a loop, for a second.

"Kinda hard to cheat when she's a part of my harem and it's more like selfcest, being twins and all." I replied to the twins with a little smirk.

"Harem." Josie said in a small voice.

"Well more like family…a large happy family where I have a few female loves and they only have me." I joked to them with a little smirk.

"Well…that's interesting." Hope replied to me.

"Mmmhmm, give me your hand, Hope. I want to see if I can sense where you came from and devise a way to get you lot home." I hummed and affirmative, to Hope before holding out my hand for her to take.

"Okay." Hope replied to me with a little dusting of pink to her neck, as she took my hand.

Closing my eyes, absorbing a bit of her energy finding that it didn't quite work with the energy around us…which was probably why Hope felt off since coming here, it was almost like nature itself was denying her existence.

At the same time though my spiritual body was pulled by the residual energy from her through what almost seemed like a wormhole into what I assume is her door room at the Salvatore School.

"L-let m-me go, you're hurting me!" Hope snapped and I found myself getting hit in the chest by Hope who'd fallen to her knees desiccating.

"Shit! I'm sorry Hope." I whispered softly while biting my wrist and holding it up her mouth Hope looked at me strangely for a second before biting into my wrist and drinking from.

"I think I can open the wormhole backup to return you three home, but just astral projecting myself along the dimensional tether connecting you to it nearly killed you." I told Hope gently as she drank from me heavily holding my arm to her lips with both hands…making wet slurping sounds bordering on erotic combined with the sensation of her curvy body pressed against my own as I kneeled down and supported her.

"Am I the only one not buying this nice guy act?" Lizzie finally said while pushing the table away from her, staring at me with a hateful look.

"Lizzie, stop…Kai isn't evil he saved me…he siphoned the dark magic from me to save my life, and then sent himself back to the prison world." Josie said, making both Hope and Lizzie look at her in surprise.

"Isn't evil? He killed our mom and almost killed Dad." Lizzie spat at her twin who just looked at her and seemed to make the blonde sit down in her chair looking put in her place.

"Look…I'm not a good guy, I killed my siblings and tormented Jojo…but she and I have moved past it as you've seen, and I'm not evil." I finally said as I pulled my arm from Hope's grasp who had fully recovered by this point and was only drinking my blood because of it's addictive effect thanks to my magic.

"Honestly, other than Hope here you probably don't know what it's like to be shunned and hated for being born, I'm not saying this to get your sympathy…but I grew up in a hostile and abusive environment watching my siblings being loved, cared for and protected…I hated them for that, but I never thought I'd hurt them…then the coven had to constantly push me one day I finally snapped went on a family killing spree and spent years in prison for it as attornment. You judging me for crimes I haven't even personally committed is kinda fucked." I said to Lizzie while using telekinesis to lift Hope back onto her feet.

"Sorry Hope…for making an assumption towards your life I just figured you and I were similar, both probably treated worse than outcasts." I said to Hope who looked at me with a whole new light in her eyes.

Hope nodded to me but didn't speak as she looked at Faye longingly still only seeing her mother's face.

"Faye, how long are you going to pretend to be asleep?" I asked Faye who developed a little smirk as she fluttered open her eyes.

"I was hoping I'd wait long enough so I could say, this whole day was just a bad dream." Faye replied to me sassily but looked at Hope cautiously though I could see that there was a part of her that was disappointed Hope wasn't our daughter experiencing a back to the future adventure.

"This whole day? Why what else happened?" I asked Faye as I went over and sat down on the bed next to her and Faye immediately moved to hug me.

"Melissa and Cassie are dead…they got into a car accident on the way to school, some sort of malfunction with Melissa's accelerator control chip in the car." Faye told me and it took every ounce of my strength not to flinch or give away that I was involved as Faye's tears started to soak into my chest.

"I'm sorry babe, I didn't feel their deaths…I didn't know." I whispered softly to Faye in apology as Diana popped into my inner world and hugged me from behind, also crying slightly but sending me a mental message.

'I helped Katherine…I understand why, I just wish you would have talked to both Faye and I about it before setting it in motion.' Diana's mental communication carried a bit of her anger at not being consulted first but also told me she wasn't break up with me dagger me angry either.

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