Trouble | Theo

[Theo Dean]

Theo was in shock more than anything else and he still couldn’t really believe what he was hearing even though Hailey was asking him to. He had slept with Hailey's sister. Granted he hadn't known Hailey even had a twin sister but he should have known. He should have seen that there was something going on and he should have stopped it. If that really was true then how could she forgive him for something like that? Would he even be able to forgive himself? It was a pretty messed up situation and, oh gods, was she apologizing to him? He didn't know of many ways this situation could get worse but Hailey apologizing to him for everything was one of them.

"Alright Hailey,the last thing you need to be doing is apologizing to me..." Theo said while he rubbed his face as if trying to wake up from being asleep. "Let's say this is true. You've got a crazy sister or there and she...well she's trying to ruin your life." He made an effort to steer the conversation away from what he had done, he didn't want to think about that right now if he could avoid it and he planned to try at all costs. Shaking his head to clear it Theo continued. "What are we going to do about it?" He wasn't even sure if Hailey would want him along for what was next but he did feel involved now in one way are the other. Still, he would let her decide how to go forward and hope the conversation didn't turn back to exactly what he and her sister had done.

[Hailey Nichols]

Hannah was back. Oh gods Hannah was back... That was the only thing that made sense despite how much Hailey didn't want it to be real. She was back from the dead. More tears streaked down her face as she looked at Theo. He probably didn't believe her. Who else would make up an evil twin who's back from the dead. But she felt her heart race as her chest tightened up. At this rate, she didn't know if her own legs would be able to support her. She managed to stumble over to a bed before she sat down and put her head between her knees. She took deep breaths to calm herself down from the impending anxiety attack.

But Hannah was back. And she slept with Theo under false pretenses. Hailey should've felt betrayed over what Theo did, but that's not what she felt. Once her anxiety calmed down, she felt anger. She a rage inside of her. She wanted to find Hannah and put her back into the ground where she belonged.

Hailey finally lifted her head up after a couple of moments as she looked sternly at Theo. "I don't know," she replied back calmly, almost too eerily. "But I need to find her and I need to deal with her. She's not going to terrorize the camp again. She did that once before, but she's not going to do it again."

[Theo Dean]

Hailey was upset. He didn't have to see her crashing down on his bed in a panic attack to know just how bad this was. The problem, well one of them anyways, was that he had no idea what he should be doing right now. Things had gotten awfully real awfully quick and the simple fact was that Theo just wasn't usually a guy who stuck around when things started getting real. Besides, would she even want him to do anything? On a scale of one to terrible even Theo could see that he messed up big and he hated that he had done this to her.

"Hailey I'm..." He began but was quickly cut off as she looked back at him with that cold, unemotional look in her eyes. Theo didn't like that look at all. It wasn't one he had seen on Hailey before and frankly it was a little scary. He didn't know what Hailey had planned for her sister but he could guarantee that it wasn't going to be good. "Hailey, let's think about this. You don't want to do anything too hastily and then spend the rest of your life regretting it." He was sure she probably didn't want to hear this but there were a lot of things that you could do for revenge that you couldn't come back from and he didn't want to see the girl starting down a dark road she couldn't come back from.

[Hailey Nichols]

Hailey sharply turned her head at Theo as she glared at him. Was he asking her to rethink this? Was he really that clueless what her sister had done to him and was capable of doing? If she could trick one person into thinking that it was her, there was no telling what other things she could do besides sleep with the guy she may or may not like.

"You don't understand," she said slowly as she took deep, steady breaths so she didn't barge out of the room going on a manhunt after her sister. "She's evil. The gods are scared of her. Artemis sent me back to camp just to keep an eye on her. She's... she's..." She took a deep breath as she closed her eyes. "She's evil and manipulative and I have no doubt she probably faked her death now that I think about it. I should've investigated it more." She opened her eyes and bit her lower lip as she glanced off to the side. "She's probably with the Usurpers or something trying to reek havoc on camp. She needs to be stopped and I'm the only one who can stop her."

[Theo Dean]

When Hailey turned her anger on him Theo wasn't really expecting it. Up until this point she hadn't really shown any sort of resentment towards him even though he was sure she was feeling it. As far as mess ups with a girl went this did rank pretty highly even for him. Still, he could tell that Hailey, with whatever she was planning, really did mean business and that was very different from the friendly, awkwardly cute bunny girl he had come to know. This new attitude of hers was a little scary to say the least.

"Alright, alright." He said in a placating tone. "I believe you Hailey. This is all kind of new to me and obviously I don't know the history." He paused for a moment hoping to give Hailey some time to think about what she was doing. No matter how evil her sister was Theo was sure that killing her wasn't the answer but if not that then what did Hailey have in mind? "So what are we talking about here Hailey? What are you thinking about doing?"

[Hailey Nichols]

What are you thinking about doing? That's when it really hit Hailey. She had every intention of finding Hannah, but what was she going to do once she found her? Despite how much Hannah was evil and terrorized the camp, there was no way that Hailey could kill her own sister, let alone harm her. She let that sink in as it felt like a weight plummeted into her stomach. "I... I..." she said as she looked away from Theo and down into her lap as she toyed with her hands a bit. "I don't know..." she said quietly.

And in that moment, all Hailey could feel in her stomach was dread and the sense of impending doom. She took a couple of deep breaths before she glanced back up at Theo. "I'm sorry for what she did to you. Just know she was never like this. I don't know why she's out to get me."

[Theo Dean]

Theo felt for Hailey, he really did. He wanted to go to her but was still unsure if she even wanted him there. He thought that the fact she was still here was a good sign but even that didn’t tell him much. That uncertainty might always be between them now, he wasn’t sure. Even if she could forgive him could he really forgive himself? There really was no way to tell but he did take a cautious step towards her hoping to continue forward if she didn't refuse to let him.

"Hailey, you don't have to apologize for her. What she did was wrong to me but even more so to you." It was good to hear that Hailey hadn't decided on a course of action yet. That helped Theo breathe a slight sigh of relief but he could tell she was still struggling with what had happened. Theo wasn't really sure if he could help with that or not but he did have a suggestion. "There are things that we can do to her." He said testing the grounds of this conversation cautiously. "Magic things. Maybe not exactly what she deserves but I do know a few spells that might help put a stop to her or at least bring her out in the open."

[Hailey Nichols]

Hailey pressed her lips together as Theo said she didn't have to apologize, again, but Hailey really didn't know what she could do. Her sister had already done enough damage and Hailey didn't know what she could do to fix it. If it really could be fixed. Because things between her and Theo... they were super messy and she didn't know if he would make the effort to sort them out with her. Maybe her love life was just rotten and cursed...

But she was quickly pulled out of her head as he offered to use his magic on Hannah. Something to stop her or at least pull her out into the open? Hailey did want to find her, but since her twin was apparently hiding around camp... everything sounded tempting and a little too good to be true. She took a deep breath as she slowly nodded her head. "Okay... what kind of magic were you thinking about?"

[Theo Dean]

Theo had never really tried any of the spells he was thinking of now. On a whole he tried to avoid curses, hexes and things he saw as magic that was primarily designed to hurt or harm. That didn't mean that he didn't know them of course, he liked collecting spells of all kinds an improving his knowledge and skill with his craft but there was something that had just kept him from those dark spells. He knew it was silly, knew that a spell was just a spell but for what he had in mind...well he thought Hailey's twin would be in for surprise.

"Well I mean we have options so I think we can decide what we think is fitting but I do know some curses and hexes. Anything from making all her hair fall out to making her so sick we'll be sure to put her out of commission for a while. I just want to make sure no one mistakes you two again." Theo took a few more steps closer until he was over bedside her. "There is a reason that no one messes with the Hecate cabin lightly."

[Hailey Nichols]

Put her out of commission? That’s what Hailey really wanted until she could gather enough courage and enough of a game plan to eventually confront her sister. Because whatever Hannah had up her sleeves, the entire camp was in trouble until something happened to her. So putting her out of commission seemed like the safest option. Both for her and the camp. She pressed her lips together for a moment before she looked up at Theo before a sad smile crept up onto her lips.

“And that would explain why I’m not a jackalope again,” she said in a sad attempt at humor before she shook her head. “She needs to be out of commission. I don’t know or care how, but it’s going to be the best for the camp. What she did to you is only a fraction of what she’s capable of.” She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. “Knowing her, she’ll be out for blood soon.”

[Theo Dean]

Theo wasn't sure what had happened between the siblings to leave such animosity but when Hailey came back saying that it would be good to put her out of commission for a while he guessed it must have been pretty serious. Serious enough that Theo was willing to believe her. Now wasn't really the time to go into it but he thought he would have to question Hailey about it later if there was a later for them.

It might have been a bad decision for them. There were possible ramifications for delving into the darker curses and magics but at the moment those things didn't seem that important. Theo wanted to do this because he had hurt Hailey. Even if she didn't admit it he had and there was a part of him that wanted to do this for himself as well. Hailey's sister needed to be stopped and he was just the person to do it.

"Alright, if what you're saying is true then something needs to be done. I believe you that she has come back with some kind of vendetta against you, maybe against everyone but this is going to take some pretty serious dark magic if we're doing what I think we're doing. What do you suggest?"

[Hailey Nichols]

Hailey opened her eyes again as she looked down at her hands. The last few weeks had been really messed up for her from adjusting back to human life to finding out that her supposedly dead twin wasn't really all that dead. And that really bothered her. She took a few deep breaths as she tried to calm her mind down. It was all too overwhelming and it was all too soon too. She glanced up at Theo as he started talking again and her blood ran cold. Dark magic? That was always something that was forbidden in all those fantasy books she read, but here she was. This wasn't a book. This was real life and Hailey couldn't help but gulp a bit as her mind ran through all the different possibilities.

"Maybe..." she said as her voice cracked a bit before she took a deep breath to compose herself. "Maybe give her like... I don't know... food poisoning or something? Not enough to kill her, but something that's bad enough to keep her away from the rest of the camp for a little bit?" She pressed her lips together as she glanced off to the side as she started second-guessing herself.

[Theo Dean]

Now that the rubber was about to meet the road as it were it seemed like Hailey was a little more hesitant to explore some of the paths Theo was suggesting. That wasn't too surprising, Theo wasn't exactly sure how far he wanted to take things either. This was after all a pretty serious decision considering some of the curses he could level against Hannah. Hecate wasn't exactly a forgiving goddess and if they wanted they could make Hailey's sister pay for what she did but what would be the cost? On the flip side though would a case of food poisoning do the trick? Theo wasn't so sure.

"If you're certain that will be enough." He said hesitantly. He felt like he should be doing more, a part of him even wanted to do more but he would let Hailey decide. "I can certainly do that. It wouldn't even take that much." His mind was already running over possible spells, spells that were quite a bit less drastic than he had been contemplating a moment before and he knew of one that he thought might do the trick. "I just want you to be sure. She deserves to be stopped one way or another. I think we both agree on that now."

[Hailey Nichols]

Food poisoning wasn't that bad, wasn't it? It wasn't like she was wishing death upon her twin, even if she thought her twin was dead in the first place. But it was only cramps and not being able to stray from the porcelain goddess for long. It wasn't the worst thing she could wish upon her and that's what she had to repeat to herself as she looked back up at Theo as she bit the corner of her lip. Was it enough? She didn't know.

"It'll be enough to put her out of commission for a day or two," Hailey said as she tried to keep her voice even. "That'll be enough to formulate a better plan... I don't know how much better it'll be... but it's a start... I guess?" She played with her hands a bit as she looked over at Theo. "I... I just don't know what to do to her besides stop her or at least slow her as much as possible."

[Theo Dean]

Theo nodded after Hailey had finished talking. A case of food poisoning would be enough to keep her sister off her feet and out of trouble for a while. Whatever the reason that Hailey's twin had decided to pop back up around camp was it was obvious that it wasn't good. Hannah might not stay put even if she was sick but at least it would make her stand out more if she was. Theo just hoped that it would give them some time to sort things out, if, that was, things could be sorted out.

"I'll take care of her that much I can promise. As for what we do after that..." Theo trailed off not really sure where he wanted that conversation to go but knowing that they would have to figure it out eventually. "...well I guess we'll have a little time to think of something." Theo sighed and rubbed his hands through his hair. He wanted to say something more, wanted to make things "alright" in a way that making her sister sick couldn't but did he really want to approach what he had done with her sister? Not really. Still, that bridge would have to be crossed eventually. "Listen Hailey." He began still not feeling entirely comfortable with this new dynamic. "You don't have to stay around for the magic part...you know if you don't want to. I could come find you afterwards. Tell you how it went. We could...you know, talk."