Keep friends close, enemies closer

   "I'm telling you Angelique, she has awaken!" Barnabas kept saying over and over again.
Angelique covered her face with her hands and rub her forehead, "Fine, believe that if you want.."
"What other explanation you can give for her disappearing?"
Angelique looked at him and shake her head slightly, "I don't know."
Barnabas smiled a bit, "You do still have hard time admitting you are wrong."
"Maybe it is so." Angelique said and looked out of the window, gentle glowing light catching her attention again.
 Before she was able to react to it though, Barnabas seemed to turn around to look at the door like waiting for someone to come in.
"Barnabas?"
He hold out his hand to order her to keep quiet as he slowly got closer to the door. "Who is there?! Show yourself you mystic creature!"
Angelique hurry to take hold of his arm, "Barnabas, don't be stupid, no one's there!"
Barnabas looked at her confused, "You don't feel that strange presence? It is so... Familiar.. Yet so fresh, like flower dying and growing back again with new life next summer."
Angelique swallowed back her anger and slight desperation that she didn't want Barnabas to meet Josette.
 "Maybe it's just Vicky. Barnabas you can't go to her now, if she's Werewolf, she could kill you!"
 Barnabas shake his head, "There's no sense of danger..."
Angelique tried hard to stay calm and make him stay, but as much as she tried, more he thought she was the one insane.
 "Barnabas.." Hollow, ghostly voice filled the room.
Barnabas froze, looking around the room, obviously prepared to defend himself if situation so requested.
"Show yourself!" He commanded angrily.
Angelique hold his arm tighter, "Barnabas, don't..."
He looked at her and offered her slight smile, "Do not fear." Then he looked around, commanding more powerful voice, "Show yourself! You mysterious whispering creature! I do not fear of your presence!"
 Glowing light ball appeared to other side of the room and they both turned around.
Barnabas narrowed his eyes, "What is this..?"
Slowly the delicate form of Josette DuPres was getting more clear and Barnabas gasped slightly in surprise, watching the ghost with wide eyes. "J-Josette?"
 Josette pointed towards Angelique, "Your curses destroyed this family once, now you must safe what is left of it. You are no longer only Witch in Collinsport."
 Barnabas looked from Josette to Angelique and back to Josette.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
Josette turned to look at him, smiling gently, her ghostly glowing eyes filled with love.
"You are never alone Barnabas... Never."
"J-Josette.. Why you never came to me? I so desperately cried out for you, called you, and you never came to me. Why?"
Josette looked down and shake her head, "I'm sorry."
Angelique narrowed her eyes with her pure hate for that woman. Even she was dead she ruined her life with Barnabas.
Josette looked at her and shake her head, "Save your anger for someone is true threat for you."
After that Josette fall backwards through the floor, leaving Barnabas and Angelique wonder what on earth just happened.
 Barnabas looked at the spot where Josette had disappeared until he turned to look at Angelique.
"You can bring her back to life."
Angelique shot cold look into his eyes, "Never."
Barnabas took hold of her arms "Give her a chance! Give her life back! One you stole away way too early! I will marry you, I will give as many children as you are able to bear, but I want you to bring her back to life so she can live the life she deserved! Get married and have her own family!"
 "There's already Vicky! She is Josette!"
"She is not. They look the same, they has connection, but Josette is a ghost, Victoria is... Human, or Werewolf."
Angelique shake her head, "I will never bring her back to you. Never."
Barnabas let go of her arms, standing straight and swallowed back his own anger, "Then our engagement is broken. I am not going to marry you."
Angelique looked hurt and step back few steps. "You're foolish man Barnabas. Your family will die one after another, and you can only watch and know it's your fault!"
"You do not harm my family Angelique!"
"Watch me" Angelique hissed and left, soon getting Barnabas following her.
"Angelique! Angelique, you come back here and we shall find understatement somehow. Solution at least until we figure out what to do!"
Angelique stopped and smiled sweetly. "You and your family, no longer work for my company."
"Angelique!"
"And.. "She looked around, seeing damaged fireplace and smiled wickedly.
Barnabas took hold of her arm, "Angelique, stop this madness!"
"Sleeping flame, I summon thee. May your form return. Make the night as bright as day, and Burn, Baby, Burn"
Barnabas watched the damaged fireplace with wide eyes as it burst into flames, quickly destroying the manor more.
"Angelique! I beg of you! Stop this!"
"Too little, too late." Angelique said, turning around and walked out of the burning Collinwood.
 Her heart was heavy and felt more and more sore as she got farther away from Barnabas, but she kept her head up and walked away, hearing Barnabas long time yelling after her to get her come back to safe Collinwood.
 She fight back bitter tears and kept walking towards her house.

  ... "Oh I love him so much! Angelique, come here! I want to hear your opinion!" Josette's voice called from one of the quest rooms where Barnabas had made place for Josette where she could stay whenever she wanted.
 Angelique came into the room, keeping her hands behind her back and looking down, "Yes Miss DuPres?"
Josette giggled, "Don't call me so, I feel like we are already friends, you can call me Josette."
"Friends?" Angelique repeated truly confused. She had hardly ever spent more than few minutes in same room with Josette.
"Yes, Barnabas has told me so much about you! I was thrilled to hear that here is another young woman such as myself to keep me company, and Barnabas told me you're really kind and helpful."
"I see.. That's way too kind of him to say."
"Don't underestimate yourself Angelique, you are very pretty and once I am married with Barnabas and our children needs governess, we will give that place for you. Then you can join the Balls and get married with some nice gentleman. You will be very happy then."
Angelique was sick of hearing her overly joyful voice and sweetness, so she simply nodded, "If you say so"
 Josette smiled, "Come here with me Angelique, I was trying on my new dresses and I have trouble to decide which one I would wear tonight on dinner with Barnabas. I wished you to help me decide."
 "Of course.."
Angelique stand next to the mirror and watched as Josette changed into another dress and turned few times around in front of her. "What you think?"
"Very beautiful." Angelique nodded.
"I thought so too. I love these flower prints here.."
"If I may say so, the neckline of this dress seems little lame, you will be needing a handsome necklace to fulfill the look" Angelique said.
Josette looked at herself from mirror, "Yes, you are very right Angelique. It does look boring without necklace.. Well, I will try another one."
 Angelique waited as Josette changed into another dress and turned around few times again. "How about this one?"
 "Personally I like that one much more." Angelique said and noticed that even she hated the very reason Josette was there, she started to like Josette somewhat. For an aristocratic woman, Josette was really delightful and kind for everyone, making Angelique almost feel like her equal.
 "I think it's little too dark." Josette thought aloud while studying herself from the mirror.
"But it looks really elegant." Angelique pointed out the fact.
"Yes, it does indeed." Josette nodded, "You have excellent taste Angelique."
"Thank you."
Josette changed into another dress and came to turn around few times in front of her again.
"How about this last one?"
Angelique looked at the dress carefully, it fit to Josette perfectly. It was sky-blue and really supported her delicate figure. "It is pretty. But I like previous one better."
Josette looked at herself from mirror and then the darker dress. "It is too dark for me... But," She looked up to Angelique and took the dress into her hands, holding it against Angelique, "It is perfect for you."
Angelique looked at her with wide eyes, "Me?"
Josette nodded and smiled, "You have beautiful dark hair, this looks perfect for you, so I give it to you."
"Where would I wear such gorgeous dress?" Angelique asked truthfully. She was just a maid, and all fine celebrations were denied from her.
"I want to see it on you in my wedding. You will be my personal assistant and help me through the day, so you must look very pretty. And of course there is a chance some fine gentleman notice you there. I'm sure Barnabas will make sure your future husband is able to give you good and happy life."
 "You want me to weak this on your wedding day?"
Josette nodded again. "Yes. You will look perfect, just as my friend should be looking."
"Well... Thank you.. This really is too much to-"
"Stop it! I want to give it and then it's not too much." Josette said and smiled then, "Go on, try it. I want to see how it looks on you."
 "Now?"
"Yes, now!"
"But I should be going to clean the -"
"None of that! I will tell them that I needed your help and released you for rest of the day from your other duties."
"For whole day?"
"Yes. I need help with wedding plans, and I like to have female company."
"I see.."
 Josette looked excited, "Try it."
 Angelique looked at the dress and nodded then, "Fine. I try it."
 Josette waited as she changed into dark dress and came in front of her.
"Oh Angelique! It's so beautiful!" Josette said. She turned Angelique to look at herself from mirror
"Look, you look like Queen of the Night!"
Angelique blinked few times, she did look quite perfect.
 They heard knock from the door and Josette hurry to open it, "Yes?"
"I only came to make sure you have all you need." Barnabas's voice answered.
Josette opened the door wide open and hugged him, "Oh I am so happy here. And come to see Angelique, you cannot believe how terribly beautiful she is."
Angelique looked around the room to find place to hide but Josette pulled Barnabas into the room and turned him to see Angelique. "Look at her! I gave her that dress to wear in our wedding. I want her to be my assistant and help me with whatever I need help with, so she must be pretty. And she is! She is beautiful!"
 Barnabas seemed to lose his voice for while as he nodded slightly, "Yes.. Very.. Very beautiful."
Angelique looked away, hoping that Josette will let her leave. It was humiliating that Josette brought Barnabas to see her now, and seeing them together made Angeliques blood boil.
"Josette.. Could I possibly go take this dress to my room so it won't get ruined when I work.. "
Josette turned to look at her, "Sure, come back here when you're done. No hurry though! We have all day!"
Angelique swallowed back her hateful anger and walked quickly to her own room.
  Even she hated Josette more than she ever could imagine she was able to hate, somehow she liked the way Josette treated her. As a friend. Friend Angelique never had before....

    As Angelique came to her own house, she started thinking Josette's words tonight.
She wasn't only Witch in town anymore...
Was it possible that Josette came to warn her to save her from the threat of another Witch?