Dahlia thought things had been going well for her family. Business was good, Andre was starting to control his temper, but most of all Vincent was actually starting to get better. She was thinking it was a blessing that her brother was getting stronger, that he wasn't going to snap like a twig so much anymore. She had been so elated by it she almost didn't get concerned at the rate his strength was developing.it took her a bit, but soon she was noticing that something wasn't quite right with the normally bubbly brother. She had been barricaded from his room for a bit, Vincent getting angry every time she tried to so much as touch the door to see inside his room. She couldn't help to be curious and concerned as she finally managed to get inside and what she saw horrified her. Glyphs meant for black and demonic magic covered the walls in arrangements of pictures. The ink look well past dry, but a few looked fresh and bloodlike in color. Dahlia was horrified at this, not knowing what to do until Vincent showed back up.

The boy was furious to say the least, lashing out with the dark magic he had been learning. It was then she noticed that it looked like Vincent hadnt been sleeping and the cuts up his arms to more than likely collect the blood to write those glyphs. It didn't even sound like her brother, the boy talking with functional vocal chords in a distorted voice. She saw the madness in the child's eyes and. Could only be one sign: possession. She was quick to subdue Vincent, or rather the demon that was using Vincent as its host, knocking the both of them out. She took him to the back storage room, a large empty space at the moment and sealed him in, feeling guilty for chaining him to the floor and giving a larger dosage of potion to weaken Vincent's magic, but it was needed desperately as she tried to wrap her head around this. In her panic she could help but to think to call Hunter and Jack. They knew Vincent decent enough that this wasn't the child she raised. When they did arrive she was covered in a mess of blood from her few small wounds and running make up from her tears.
"That damned demon wasn't banished! He's taken refuge in my brother! Vivi he's he...how could this happen!"
She couldn't mutter the name of the demon, knowing exactly which one it was. She swore they had rid the child of it, but part of Octavian must have attached itself to Vincent's actual being, working on making the child strong enough to no longer be dependent on his sister and cause a bit of destruction.

Dahlia pointed towards the store room, still a mess of tears and sobs as the door rattled some. She had it sealed off for now, but as of the moment Vincent was entirely unconscious with the demon taking full control of his body, wanting out of its chains to start taking control of what it thought belonged to it.

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Jack and Hunter were just relaxing for once in the cabin, everything seemed to be fine until Hunter couldn't help but to feel then that something wasn't right. He frowned at this revelation, wondering why he was suddenly feeling so uneasy. Before he could voice his concern with Jack, the phone rang. Jack picked up first, concern suddenly crossed his features at what was said on the other line. He told Dahlia that they would be over. He hung up, looking to Hunter."Its Vincent...apparently that demon that possessed him before is back...." He said.

Hunter sat their for a spilt second before getting up, taking off without a word to Jack who had followed behind in close pursue. They came to the shop, already the evilness that was Octavian had stenched the place. Hunters eyes went from golden to now a bright red, signaling that Hunter was beyond furious that this was happening. Jack looked to Dahlia once she poined down to the celler where Vincent was being held. Jack gave Dahlia a somewhat sad expression."We have to call the other council members......they already know about the first time this had happened but now it seems to be worst..."jack said. HUntr felt that Vincent was in danger and glared at Jack, before turning his gaze down to the celler where he could hear the demon.

Dahlia was still sobbing for a moment, unable to cope with such a thing happened to her brother. She was trying to put herself together, knowing they would have to be quick too take action on this. She picked up her head to see Jack give her a sad expression. She could feel the rage just rolling off of Hunter, not even seeing his eyes though as she stared at Jack and his words. To call the council was dangerous work, it meant things were far beyond her set of skills, and quite frankly that terrified her.
"We...We can never vote to kill him understand! I'll get my assistants, we'll all figure out how to get rid of this demon, but just don't let them take Vivi from me!"
It was clear she was in hysterics, but she was trying to regain her nerve some as she stood straight an cleared her tears away.
"Call them then, you all need to see his room first to understand the situation anyhow..."
The cellar door rattled then, laugher followed by sobbing or screaming escaping in a muffled sound. Dahlia didn't even want to think about what that demon was doing to her baby brother's mind, and the more time they wasted the worse it would get.

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Her day had been perfect so far. She'd gone to work, actually enjoying it. It had been a good day, so far at least. Until Jack called her out of a meeting and she had to reschedule to finish it up. She hated to leave work to do council stuff, but she had no choice. The most important thing she did in town was to be available for council stuff, so she couldn't really blow it off for work.

Driving across town, she had to blast her music through the speakers to calm down. She hated it when they had to have emergency meetings like this, but that was part of the job. So, she was calming down so that when she parked outside of the store she wouldn't storm in and be all angry with everyone for calling her out of her job like that.

Once her car was parked, she stepped out and entered the store. The sounds coming from the basement made it rather unclear why they had called her though. Wondering what she was doing there, she looked at Dahlia and Jack. "You called me here for witch business?" If it were up to her, she would just end the poor boy's misery, but she didn't dare mentioning it when she noticed how distressed Dahlia was.

Jack didn't know how Hunter would react to them having to actually decide on what to do about Vincent since this has happen before. Hunter was quiet, he just stared down at the cellar. He heard everything that was being dicussed and had half a mind to take Vincent and run away, Their was no way that he was goin to allowed them to kll his mate.

Arya finally arrived and he looked at the blonde."Its more than just that." He said.

Jack looked to Dahlia now, she was clearly upset with everything and didn't blame her."We need to figure out what we can do...the whole town could be in danger, its clear that this possession is stronger than before."jack said.

Dahlia watched the other council members arriving to the shop, trying to ignore the rattling of the cellar door getti louder with each new person. She tried not to glare in rage at Arya's reaction, but calmed herself as Eric joined them as well. The chimera was confused as to why they were even here, but his answer was somewhat given at the dark energy pretty much bleeding from the cellar. Dahlia took a deep breath as she looked at all of them, gesturing for them all to follow her. She was leading everyone up the stairs as she spoke,her voice watery as she fought to stay strong.
"You all know Vincent has been possessed before, hunter, my cousin, and me were able to stop it for the most part. I didn't consider the demon being a demon lord of some kind and attaching himself to my brother. From the looks of things he's been making Vincent stronger physically in order to make his body stand against pain better. Though in the process....he drove my brother insane enough to write out these glyphs, just making the demon stronger in his distress..."
She pushed opened the door of Vincent's room. It was a mess of papers and pens all over, the smell of blood strong as the kid only used his blood mixed with ink to write dark and bizarre glyphs all over the place. Some were old while others looked rather fresh, the sight of it all still getting to dahlia at the core. She looked back to everyone, tears running down her face for a moment before clearing them away on the back of her hand. She started to head back downstairs, nearly running into her office where her assistants now were. She signaled them to being her some kind of book, looking back at hunter and the council members.
"I have a spell that can get rid of the demon, but i need all of you to help. I know some Dont like magic or feel this isn't their problem, but I need your help. This still might kill him, but at least at that point the demon will be gone and he can stop being tortured as he is right now."
She was looking at Hunter with what she last said, knowing the wolf wanted the witch to come out of this alive. One of her assistants handed her the book, her hands quickly moving to open to a page. It had a circle of sorts painted on the ground, the words looking to be in Latin.
"each of you will hold a point, creates a lock of sorts in the circle. Me and the twins will take control of the spell, but Hunter...you cannot, under any circumstance break where you're standing. Anyone stepping out of place will break the spell before its complete. I don't care what you hear or how much pain you see him in, if we want any kind of chance to save him, we must do this right."
She was nearly ready to go into the cellar and have the water witch of sorts paint the particular type of circle needed on the floor around Vincent while still staring at Hunter. He needed to understand this was the only hot they had to save the younger witch.

Arya still didn't understand why they had called the whole council in. How was she supposed to help with a possessed witch when her first instinct was to just take the kid out of the equation to begin with? It didn't matter if the rest of the council was there, she still didn't think it was her place to be there, but it didn't seem like she had much of a choice in the matter if she wanted to still be on the council.

"And what exactly do you need us to do?" she asked when Dahlia was done explaining about the glyphs and showing them the room. She crossed her arms, clearly not happy to be there at all. From her experience with witches, they were never the same again after losing control so completely, even if it wasn't their fault. And who was to say it wouldn't happen again, or that the boy would even be himself if they succeeded?

Past councils had never been this much trouble. Then again, she didn't know this council well enough yet to feel like she had a place among them, James had been with them the past few decades after all so they were all rather new to her still. She couldn't just leave though, so she just kept quiet and nodded slightly when Dahlia told them what they had to do. Standing still sounded easy enough, and it wasn't like she couldn't just block out whatever happened to the kid as she really wasn't invested in him at all. She would do her thing, though the next time Jack or Dahlia called because of witch business she'd send another witch in her place and she would make that perfectly clear to both of them when it was all over.

Hunter was eerily quiet. It somewhat made Jack alittle unnerving with how quiet the beta was being. He did keep a close eye on Hunter, watching the wolf. Hunter was honestly plotting something, but he knew that they would need magic to help with this and wanted Vincent free of control. He hated Octavian, if he could and their was a way that he could kill the demon, he would not only kill but torture the demon for putting his love through hell.

He looked around the room, eyes softening some and filled with sadness at what Vincent was going through. Jack gave Arya a displeasing look, if she didn't want to deal with this then she shouldn't have become a council member. Jack didn't have any magic, but he knew that it was hid duty to come and help because it endangered the whole town if Vincent wasn't exorcised.

They all headed back downstairs, the sounds that were coming from the celler door were rattling loudly and getting louder once al the council members arrived. Hunter looked at Dahlia, it was clear that this was just tearing Hunter apartt. Jack looked at the beta."Don't even think about it Hunter, you stay where you are..." He warned. HUnter just growled and looked away then, staring down at the watch the Vincent had given him, gently touching the glass window that shield the watch.

Hunter stayed still, it was getting harder and harder to stay still as he could hear eveything that was going on. He just wanted Dahlia to do this already and get it over with.

Dahlia was trying not to let what Arya was saying and reacting to the situation get to her, but she didn't let it get to her as she gave a gesture to her assistants. The twins led all of the, towards the cellar door, dahlia focusing on it it lift the lock but not let the demon out from here It was. She look back at all of them, trying to be strong.
"The twins will tell you where to stand once the circle is drawn. Those with weaker stomach or heart, try not to stare at what's become of my brother..."
A tear ran down her face at this before they all went down. The lights were low inside, but it was enough to see someone was chained down by their wrists and ankles to the center of the floor. The smell of blood was in the room, its source also coming from the center. Vincent could could be seen trying to pull and slip free from the chains, snarling and at times laughing at his situation. He was standing as if he wasn't still trying to build the strength Back in his legs, and with how he moved it was like he didn't tire easily. The group's presence was ignored up until the water witch, Kaleb, moved the paint he just spilt on the floor across said floor to make the circle. It was all going around Vincent, the boy's head popping up to look at everyone. His eyes weren't vibrant green but pitch black, blood staining his lips and face as it looked like he had scratched at his face at one point. Union upon looking closer, one could see his whole exposed torso was covered in scratches, more than needed were even bleeding.

It was clear Vincent wasn't himself a a rather wide smirk split his face. One would think he would use magic to talk, but the boy started actually talking in what his voice would be had his vocal chords not been damaged. The only difference was that once he started talking, the demon was in full control of Vincent's body.
"planing an exorcism? How fucking cute. You know not doing this right could just let me rip this boy's very soul apart, right? I've already fucked his mind up pretty well, wouldn't take much for me to ruin that too."
The circle was finished and as the demon finished saying what it did, dahlia walked over and gave Vincent's face a harsh smack, the sound loud and rather painful, but it knocking him out. The fact that she could do that to her own brother's body could be seen as alarming, but she didn't care. The twins started to point every one to a place on the Circle to stand, all eight points now covered by someone.dahlia held the the book still as she walked to her point to stand.
"Hunter, ignore everything you hear coming from Vincent, this won't be pretty."
She took a deep breath, shutting her eyes for a moment before she started to talk, her voice low and the words in some form of Latin. The black painted circle glowed red for a moment before turning white, the energy of the room starting to change already. Her words slowly grew louder, Vincent not seeming to react too much other than a twitch of an arm or expression change. suddnely it could be seen and felt that the demon in Vincent was fighting back, magic trying to push at the circle while a crude sounding scream left Vincent. His movements were becoming frantic, the demon clearly feeling it, but not giving up its newly claimed body just yet.

Arya knew what was expected of her as a council member, and she would do so on her terms. They could say what they wanted, they could even try to get rid of her, but she wasn't going to let go of her seat just because she disagreed with their current course of action. Maybe she should just do her best to stay quiet and not say anything else for a while.

Once they were down in the basement and directed to their places, Arya had to say she was fascinated by what was going on. She wasn't one for magic really, but she enjoyed watching others in pain, so she suddenly found the whole situation rather amusing. There was nothing she could do about the situation really, other than watching.

It would be hard to ignore Vincent, but at the same time it wouldn't because he knew whatever came out of the witchs mouth wouldn't be Vincents, it be Octavian who would try to use Vincents voice to trick him. He followed Dahlia downstairs, the stentch of blood and demonic energy hit him and it made his blood curl. Jack looked at the center of the now formed circle, standing in his place with Hunter in his.

Everyone now took position, Hunter only nodding to acknowledge that he understood Dahlia. Everything went quiet for a moment before the red headed witch started to chant a spell. The scream that emitted from Vincent did make Hunter winched, but he ignored it. The wolf in him wanted to go over and protective his love, but the more rational part of Hunter screamed at him and told him to stay put and try not to listen to anything but to follow instructions.

"Vincent......if you can hear me, I love you I want to be with you forever, please try to remember me." He begged softly, hopig that the message could get through and maybe help wtih getting the demon out from Vincent's body.

Dahlias growing louder with her words, not so much as batting an eyelash at what Octavian or hunter were saying. Said demon was reaching a point of trying to concentrate magic and attack dahlia with it. He screeched as he attempted to lash out with a wave of dark energy, but he was unaware that the assistants had been building a barrier to keep him and whatever magic he used towards the inner part of the circle.
"You think your so clever doing this, don't you! I'll show you I can't die, not at the hands at misfits and some bitch!"
The screeching and snarling noises started again, the chains actually starting to come out of the ground some. It seemed that not much else was being done until the light of the circle became brighter. Vincent's body stopped with pulling at the chains as he curled up in pain. The old burn scars that were from the first time this demon posessed him became full marks again, looking to pulse in pain and power. His body was twisting and trying to curl up to make the pain stop, the screams and expression terrified as Octavian was letting Vincent show everyone the pain he was in.
"stop!!! Dahlia it hurts!!! Hunter make it stop!!!"
Pitch black eyes in the most terrified and pain filled expression looked at hunter then, tears of blood sliding down his face as his body was contorted in pain. Dahlia was trying not to let this get to her as she spoke louder. Vincent was creaming at the top of his lungs, clawing at the ground and at himself at times just to get it to stop. It didn't seem that Vincent stayed in control long though before laughter of the darkest kind left his lips and his expression looked a mixture of amused and angry. Octavian was taking control again but he was losing the fight big time.the demon wasn't even sure how ugh longer it could hang onto t his host without destroying himself with how powerful this spell was.

While it was obvious the others involved pitied the boy and really wanted him back to his normal self, Arya was just silently watching the whole process. So they really were going to expel the demon just like that. It was actually rather pathetic how hard they were all fighting just to keep their spot in the stupid circle so Dahlia would be able to exorcise the Demon.

While the others were clearly struggling when the boy was screaming for them to stop, even clawing at the floor in his pain, Arya couldn't help the smirk that crossed her face. Maybe it had been worth rescheduling her meeting for this after all. It was highly amusing actually. It had been too long since she'd seen someone in such agony, it reminded her of a time long before she'd settled down in town.

The vampiress knew she was in no position to say anything at this point, it wasn't her place. She would, however, still tell Dahlia to get her brother under control to prevent this from happening again. In fact, if it did, she would just kill the boy to stop this from becoming a regular thing. The others could say what they wanted about the matter, but all things considered this was still more her town than theirs and there was no way she would let a little blood on her hands stop her from keeping it the safe haven for supernaturals that it was intended to be.

It was honestly hard to ignore Vincent, especially when the other started screaming for him to make it stop. He had to close his eyes, feeling a tear run down his face. Jack remained very emotionless considering what was going on. He looked to Arya for a moment, knowing that the vampiress didn't want to be there, but he didn't say anything more on it. He looked to Vincent, hearing the demonic voice now return.

Hunter didn't look at Vincent, but he started to send image messages and voice messages to the witchs mind, hoping that maybe doing this would help.

The demon possessing Vincent in that moment was fighting back with the spell Dahlia was inflicting on it. Screams and laughter couldn't help to leave it, the magic strong and clearly trying to tear it apart from its host. Black eyes looked to dahlia while bloodied lips snarled. Said witch glared back for a moment and intensified the spell, Vincent's body curling up in pain. The way the boy was curled up just looked painful and unnatural, the demon currently in control only able to laugh harder.
"I'm not going anywhere pinky!!! Once I get out of-"
The demon stopped talking for a moment as Vincent started to vomit, a mixture of some black sludge substance and blood spilling from his lips. He looked extremely angry then, screeching at Dahlia for enducing such an action. The demon was weakened by the action though, its ability to use Vincent's body to fight and struggle clearly weakening. When memories were pushed into Vincent's head, the witch seemed to fight again, but the demon whipped his head around to look at hunter. A smile split his face, moving to claw and hit at the bit of the barrier keeping him from reaching hunter.
"You think some memories will get him back? You don't know what I've done to his soul! He belongs to me! He'll-NO!"
He was screaming again, no laughter, no demon, only agony as Vincent started to puke again. He was curled over, more black sludge than blood leaving him until he started to choke. His hands clutched at his throat and chest for a moment, clearly trying to spit up whatever was fighting to stay in his throat before he spit out a jagged, black stone with more blood and sludge. The action was rather violent, but once the stone was spit up and on the ground, Vincent fell over limp. He had passed out from everything as the circle glowed blue. Dahlia knew it was over with considering the demon was now trapped in that stone while the marks all over Vincent vanished. She stopped chanting, letting the circle stop glowing. The twins didn't lift their barrier around Vincent just yet as Dahlia walked over to her brother. She gave the boys a signal to stop with the spell, letting her step in the blood and sludge and pick up the stone. She could feel it pulse in her hand, but it was harmless in this form.
"Thank you everyone...I'll feed this to Casey, it'll dispose of the demon's soul for good. You can all leave now..."
She sounded distant, trying not to look at her brother and his wheezing breaths. She had no idea how much damage was done, and if the boy would ever smile again, but he was alive. The twins were moving in to grab Vincent but dahlia stilled them.
"don't, his fiancé has the right to take him far away from here and from me...Vincent can't stay in a place full of magic like this until he's better. Hunter I just ask you to let me help even after all this hell..."
The twins looked confused but just followed dahlia to her office, knowing they'd need to clean this mess up once she disposed of the demon soul and could control her tears as she was now crying hysterically in her office.