friend or foe ?
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Now here they were watching a murder happen right before their eyes but not just any murder, Rowans murder. Now you're probably wondering how they got there so let's rewind it back.

A few hours before...

"So, what's going on between you and Tyler" Meredith curiously asks, looking at Wednesday for a reaction, Enid tilting her head in interest.

"Yeah, you seem to find him interesting!" Enid exclaims, wiggling her eyebrows at Wednesday

"Absolutely nothing, he's just helping us escape because I fixed his machine" Wednesday spoke leading them through the crowd. Meredith hums, crossing her arms over her chest regretting not bringing a jacket as the weather has grown colder. She was only wearing a black long sleeve shirt and jeans which she deeply regretted not bringing her jacket. Meredith looks around, declaring to herself that it was far too busy for her to use her powers around so many people who already think of Nevermore students as outcast. As they approached the carnival, they could see Tyler arguing with his father, the sheriff.

"Are you guys sure you can trust this normie?" Enid worriedly asks the two girls

"I trust that I can handle him myself " Wednesday speaks in her regular monotone voice

"With the snap of my finger and he'll be gone" Meredith hums watching the sheriff warn Tyler about staying away from Wednesday and his curfew

"Well, good luck and safe travels!" Enid smiles going to hug the two girls but Wednesday quickly dodges, letting Meredith take the hit.

"Goodbye guys!" Enid waves, trotting off to who knows where

Meredith smiles feeling Ms. Weems piercing stare at the back of their heads, trying not to be fazed as she leads Wednesday to a booth. Wednesday picks up the dart, successfully hitting every balloon on the wall earning a large stuffed animal. Meredith begins to shiver from the cold breeze, tempted to leave to a closed space to cast a spell for warmth. Suddenly somebody approaches her side, throwing a coat over her shoulders and surround her in heat.

"Jeez, sooner or later you'll be a statue of ice" Xaviers familiar voice fills the space, staring down at Meredith who looks up at the tall boy, Wednesday slipping away from the two to find Tyler.

"Thank you, I owe you big time" Meredith smiles in appreciation, cuddling further into the large jacket looking Xavier up and down to find him without a coat and just a hoodie. Ophelia frowns and begins to take the sweater off, Xavier stopping her from taking it off by grabbing the sides of the jacket and zipping it close.

"Xavier, I'm fine, take your coat back, It's freezing out here and I don't want you to catch a cold" Meredith argues, trying to take the sweater off but he shakes his head, smiling down at her

"It's fine, I'm wearing a sweater besides you look like you need it more than me" He chuckles examining her shaking form, only dressed in jeans and a thin long sleeve shirt. Meredith frowns and looks around before grabbing Xavier's hand, a light tingling sensation feeling his body as warmth surrounds him. Despite the cold breeze and little layers, he had he didn't feel anything but warmth. Meredith let's go of his hand, successfully casting a warming spell on him while Xavier purses his lips at the loss of hand contact.

"How did you do that..?" He asks looking down at Meredith who stuffs her hand in his coat pockets as she shrugs her shoulders

"A perk from being a Carter" Meredith mumbles seeming uncomfortable talking about her powers and family. Xavier picks up on the sudden tension about speaking about her powers, so he quickly changes the subject looking in front of him at the darts, paying the man for a game.

"I bet you I can win you the largest stuffed animal he has" Xavier smirks, grabbing the darts and throwing, missing terribly causing a light blush to spread across his face. Meredith tries her hardest to not laugh and further embarrass Xavier, but she couldn't help it when he missed the second one too. Xavier looks down at Meredith, a small smile spreading across his face at the sight of her laughing freely, albeit a little embarrassed that he missed terribly but proud that he got her to genuinely laugh. Once Meredith quite laughing at the fact that Xavier missed all of his shots, she held up a 20 paying for one more game.

"How about I win you something" She giggles, picking up her darts and focusing on the balloon, throwing the dart and effortlessly hitting each and every one of her targets, successfully winning the largest stuffed animal the man had. She laughs as she struggles to carry the large stuffed animal, handing it over to Xavier who takes the large unicorn.

"Thank you, Ms. Carter" he smirks, holding the unicorn close to his chest

"You're welcome pretty boy " Meredith smirks glancing behind Xavier to see Tyler catching Wednesday as her head shoots up, her body tense and straight.

Meredith's body tenses and her eyebrows scrunch in worry, mumbling a soft sorry to Xavier as she begins to run towards Wednesday. Meredith grabs her hand, feeling her emotions: fear, adrenaline, and excitement was all she could sense. Tyler looks at Meredith in worry "Is she okay?" He asks

"I'm not sure" Meredith answers trying to figure out what was wrong with Wednesday before a light bulb lights up in her head. Meredith analyzes Wednesday body language, her eyes were glazed over, body tense and unaware of surroundings, body cold to the touch, and unresponsive. Wednesday was having a vision, she was gifted with the right to foresee the past/future just like her mother, Morticia. Suddenly Wednesday shoots up from Tyler's arm, her eyes wide as she looks past them towards Rowan who was running away.

"Rowan, wait!" Wednesday shouts taking off after the boy with Meredith not far behind, her gut telling her something was off as Tyler yells at them to come back.

"Why are you following me! Just quite it already! " He shouts in anger, lifting his inhaler to his mouth looking at the two girls in anger.

"I don't have time to explain but you're in danger " Wednesday huffs after chasing after the boy, Meredith analyzing Rowan with sharp eyes, something was off and she could feel it, she just didn't know what. Meredith fist form into fists as she looks around the woods before landing back on Rowan, his face twisting into a malicious smirk.

"I think you've got it all backward... you see the one in danger is you, Wednesday Addams" He laughs throwing his hand out causing Wednesday to go flying backwards and up against the tree. Meredith's eyes widen as she lifts her hand, casting a spell towards Rowan who snaps his neck towards her, shaking his finger.

"And you had to get poor ol' Meredith involved, how sad Xavier would be if he found out the true nature of the Carter family and their precious Meredith" Rowan fake pouts, throwing his other hand out and flicking Meredith backward, sending her hurling towards a tree stump

Merediths body hits the tree knocking the breath out of her as she gasps for air, pain filling her every sense but that was what she was trained to thrive off of. She could feel her vision going in and out as blood began to drip down the side of her head, a headache beginning to form. She mumbled a pained "Fuck" her teeth grit together as she digs her nails into her fist, drawing blood "pain heals pain" her mother always taught her.

"W-what are you doing?" Wednesday grunts looking down at the boy who shakes his head

"Saving everyone from you! I have to kill you..." Rowan shakes, showing a drawing to Wednesday who looks at the photo that had a girl that looked similar to her surrounded by fire. Her eyes widen in rage "You're trying to kill me because of a stupid drawing!" she bites out, struggling against his telekinesis

"My mother drew this before she died, telling me that it was destiny to kill this girl, you! She made me promise to kill you!" Rowan yells, putting more pressure onto Wednesday causing her to gasp for air. Rowan was too distracted to notice Meredith gripping her hands into the dirt, controlling the dirt and vines beneath Rowan. Though he was trying to kill the two and hurt them, she would not hurt him just yet. They needed answers as to why he wants to kill Wednesday and how he knows things about the Carter family. Rowan begins to struggle, his hand lowering as vines snap up from beneath him, covering his body in vines. Meredith's eyes shoot towards Wednesday, whispering a spell underneath her breath "capiens". Wednesday stops midair, being lowered slower to the ground, nodding her head in thanks to her friend.

Meredith walks up to Rowan who struggles against the restraints, spitting insults towards the two girls. "You don't understand what you're doing! Stopping me from killing her! She'll be the end of all of us! Take a look at the paper " He shouts, nodding towards Meredith who twist her hand, the piece of paper conjuring in her hand. Her eyebrows furrow as she opens the piece of drawing that showed a girl that looked oddly similar to Wednesday, standing in what seemed the Quad surrounded by fire. The drawing was torn in half, missing the other half of the drawing leaving more questions for the two girls.

"Shut up and tell me everything you know about this photo and your so-called information about my family" Meredith snarls, looking down at the struggling boy

Rowan stills for a split second, caught off guard by her sudden malicious behavior. For the short amount of time Rowan has seen the girl, she was always so bright and smiley, but he guesses attempted murder on her best friend and threatening with her family secrets would change her behavior. Rowan nervously looks up at the girl the vines somehow getting tighter and tighter the longer he stayed quiet.

"All I know is what are in the books! And what you are, a blood witch!" Rowan shouts, his glasses beginning to fog up

Meredith's heart begins to race at the fact that Rowan knew what she was, blood witches were supposed to be extinct for over 300 years now but here she was, standing and breathing. Yes, there were witches but there were no more blood witches besides her that granted her more powers and abilities. Few people knew her secret, and those few people were the Addams and her own family. Meredith sighs, looking towards Wednesday who nods her head, both agreeing to let the boy go as he did answer their questions. Meredith waves her hand, letting the vines fall from Rowans figure, rubbing her head as a headache begins to form at all of this new information.

Rowan abruptly shoots up, throwing his hand towards the two girls, sending Meredith backwards and an invisible force towards Wednesday, cutting off her air supply. "I'm sorry, it's my destiny" he shakes

Meredith groans, her eyes going blurry and a burning pain at the side of her head where she hit a rock, reopening the cut on her head. Her vision was going in and out as she looked towards Wednesday, getting a glimpse of her chocking. Before Meredith could do anything, the beast was before them, grabbing Rowan and slashing the boy to death. Wednesday gasps, breathing for air and looking at the scene with wide eyes, quickly running towards Meredith to help the bleeding girl up. Before they could turn back around the beast took off further into the woods, leaving behind Rowans slashed body. Wednesday quickly crawls towards the boy, grabbing the photo and stuffing it in her pocket.

"Can you do something?" She asks Meredith who looks down at the boy, shaking her head.

"No, he's already dead" She mumbles putting pressure on her head to stop the bleeding, red and blue lights flashing near them.

"Finally, the authorities" Meredith whispers, looking towards Wednesday who stands away from the bloody body of Rowan.

What book was Rowan talking about and where was the missing part of the drawing?

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