Melina

We drove back to the Frost clan house and got out. I was helping Lina out of the car seeing as she was still too weak.

When she saw where we we're she started shaking.

"No reason to be scared, no one will hurt you." I say rubbing her back.

"I not afraid, I want to burn this place this to the ground." She said with so much venom I stopped to look at her with a raised eyebrow asking silent questions.

"That's a story for later." She says and we continue inside.

When we got to the door she tried to put up her hood but I told her to leave it down. I wanted people to see her and for news to reach the king.

All eyes turned to us as soon as we got through the doors and the whispers began, it wouldn't be too long before he knew.

Taking the lift up to our room the doors opened on our floor.

"Mizelle floor"  The automated voice said and I froze waiting for it to say more.

Amelia was on my other side shoulders shaking with silent laughter even though she was afraid of how fast the lift went.

I pouted at her and laughed out loud, Lina looking at the both of us as if we we're crazy.

"A story for another time cousin." I tell her and take her to our room only to find Gwendolyn in front of the door waiting. She eyes widened when she say Lina then she looked at me.

I shrugged my shoulders and changed the warding around our room so it would allow Lina and Gwendolyn inside. They stepped through with no problems and I closed the door behind us then led Lina over to the bathroom and sat her on the toilet seat and began filling up the tub with water.

She was quiet through it all, I turned the water off when it reached a certain level then turned to face her.

"Do you need help or can you handle it?" I asked her and she smiled up at me.

"As much as I appreaciate the help cousin, I think I got this, besides that would be just a little too wierd."She says.I laugh and agree with her.

"I'll set some clothes out for you, come out when you're ready." I tell her and head to the door.

Before the door fully closes I hear her whisper 'Thank you'. She sounds so broken. I can't wait to get my hands on that fake King Frost, I think I'm going to torture him for a few days before I kill him.

I set some clothes out for Lina on the bed and wonder into the kitchen still thinking about all the things I'm going to do to him and find Amelia and Gwendolyn glaring at each other.

I stop short and look between the two of them.

"What's going on guys?" I ask and neither answers me.

"I said what's going on?" I ask again and cross my arms over my chest.

"I was just asking Gwendolyn here if she had some advice on the local food, so I could whip up something for Lina." Amelia says and smiles at me.

I just look at her and she blinks first.

"You really expect me to believe that?" I ask her.

She just nods her head and looks down. I look over at Gwendolyn who as always now has a blank look on her face. I sigh and and go over to the fridge and start pulling things to cook for Lina.

Fourty five minutes later there is a buffet of food waiting for her and just in time too as she she comes walking into the kitchen dressed in a pair of blue jeans and a white button up shirt.

I wasn't lying when I said that she could be my twin. We look exactly alike except for the fact that she is smaller than me, but that's probably only because they starved her at that prison. The only other way to tell us apart is our voices, mine is just a little deeper than hers.

"Is this all this for me?" She asks and I nod and watch as she attacks the food.

We're all silent as she eats. I reach a hand out to snag a piece of rib for myself and had to snatch it back as Lina took a swipe at my hand and growled.

Gwendolyn and Amelia backed away from the table a little more and we all continued to watch her in silence keeping our hands away from the food.

Twenty minutes later she's finished and the only thing left is the salad.

"Can I have this?" I ask pointing at the salad, not touching it in case she was saving it and not wanting to get attacked again.

She looks at me and lets out the tiniest burp I have ever heard and covers her mouth embarrased. I laugh and she nods her head yes at the salad. I still pull it to me slowly just in case she changes her mind.

I offer some to Amelia and Gwendolyn who both nod their head no and start to pick at the salad.

"So are you going to tell me why your lovely father had you thrown in jail?" I asked while munching.

She folds her hands in her lap and looks at me with a raised eyebrow

"Shouldn't you introduce me to your 'friend' first." She says indicating Amelia.

"My bad. This is Amelia Summers my girlfriend, Amelia this is my cousin Melina Frost." I say waving a hand between the two.

"You already know my 'mother' and I use that term loosely." Gwendolyn glares at me and I ignore her.

"There, introductions are over, you're turn." I tell her.

She smiles at each of them and nods her head.

"It was a little after you left and father had claimed the throne. Me and mother we're disgusted with what he had done to take the throne from your father. Mother threatened to expose him to the council, things we're so shaky back then that any little thing would have plunged us into war." She said getting lost in her story.

"One night when I was in my room I heard mother and father arguing about what he had done, I was around eleven at the time and frightened of their raised voices and heard mother threaten to take me away form him and tell the council when suddenly she screamed. Even though I was still small and scared I got up and ran out of my room to help mother and froze at what I saw in front of me." She says tears now running down her cheeks.

I got up and went over to her wrapping my arm around her shoulder, but she didn't seem to notice me as she was so caught up in her past.

"He was standing over her with a bloody sword, her head wasn't attached to her body, I gasped and his wild eyes shot up to mine and I could see that he had truly lost himself to darkness, before I could run away from him he was in front of me and had run his sword through my stomach and pinned me to the wall. I started screaming and he just laughed this insane laugh. You now it takes more than than that to kill one of our kind but  the pain was still excruciating. He slapped me so hard that the back of my head slammed through the wall and I saw stars." She says her tears slowing down.

"If you ever breathe a word of this to anyone, I will make your death extemely painful." He told me in a voice that didn't even sound like him. I was so frightened that I just nodded my head yes. He tore the sword out of my stomach and I coughed up blood and he proceeded to beat the shit out of me. When he was done I couldn't even find the strength to open my eyes, he kicked me in my broken ribs one more time and told me to clean this 'mess' up."

" I laid there on the floor for what seemed like hours and when I was finally able to open my eyes I looked into a pair and dull pale blue eyes. I couldn't even scream at seeing my mothers head in front of me because he had crushed my throat. I inched over to her and worked through the pain and wrapped my mothers body and buried it out back, I tried to give her a proper burial. Ever since that day for the past seven thousand years he had kept me under his thumb until one day my power suddenly spiked. I tried to hide it but he felt it almost immediately and had the guards beat and arrest me."

"That isn't a normal prison. The bottom levels where you found me were designed to weaken us, I don't know how you we're unaffected when you were there." She says it as a question and looks at me. I don't answer her so she turns back to finish.

" For over five thousand years I was down in thay prison with my powers sealed by my father so I wouldn't be able to challenge him for the throne, I was beaten everyday until it seemed they had forgotten about me. Now there is only one thing that I want." She says looking at me with an evil smile.

I smile also and I know we look like a pair of demented twins.

"Revenge." We say at the same time.