"The photo I present to you is Elisha Waters, two hours ago, in bed, with various scars and tattoos upon her legs which aren't only from the injuries she sustained from the car crash that injured Brianne, but also from years of abuse from her so-called twin and father."
"This is just bullshit!" Elisha screamed. "I don't have a twin!"
"So you're stating under oath that you don't have a younger twin who you've been manipulating throughout your entire life with your gift? And that isn’t the reason why your mother 'abandoned' your family? It wasn't because of your sister or your father, but because you instilled the reality that your father cheated and encouraged her to leave."
"I never did such a thing!" she exclaimed as her whole body shook with anger.
I couldn't help but glance at Officer Waters, who looked absolutely shocked, almost as if the spell upon him was broken.
"Alright. I figured this may happen." Lisette sighed. "Your Honor, do you mind inviting my guest in? I'm sure they're tired of waiting outside."
Alexis and the other judges arched an eyebrow, but Alexis nodded and immediately one of her guards rushed to the doors to open them up.
All attention moved down the aisle as the doors opened and revealed Elisha in a wheelchair. Now the whole room was pin-drop silent. Not because of confirmation that Elisha was a twin, but because of the woman who helped stroll her in.
She was tall, slender, and absolutely stunning. She looked like a runway model with her long black hair in the perfect curls. Her icy blue eyes, slightly pale skin, and oval face only complemented her beauty, but the similarities between her and Elisha were more than enough for anyone to put one and two together.
No way. Elisha's mom!
They stopped right before the row of judges. All of them as shocked as the rest of the courtroom as the security guard closed the door to seal off the room with magic.
"Your Honor, judges, and jury, I'd like to introduce to you Elisha Waters's twin. Due to recent changes that have occurred in the medical center, the Elisha sitting before you has changed her name to Eliza Rose, her surname matching her biological mother, Evelyn Rose. I shall refer to her name as announced to ease the confusion."
It wasn't hard to tell the twins apart - Eliza actually was in a wheelchair, but also she also had multiple light blue strands in her hair.
"T-That's a damn fake!" Elisha declared and slammed her hands on the desk. "This is all just some sort of set up! I want a new-" she tried to continue but her voice went out, which left her in bewilderment as she tapped her throat.
I sensed the stream of magic and followed it to where Professor Phoenix, Ms. Electra, and their other council colleagues sat. I expected the silence spell to be conducted by Professor Phoenix, but Ms. Electra rose up, her expression almost deadly in intensity.
"We've had more than enough of these interruptions." Her voice thrummed with command as her darkened eyes landed on Elisha. "Sit."
She was forced to sit back down before she looked to Eliza and Ms. Rose.
"Carry on."
"Thank you," Lisette thanked before turning her attention to the mother-daughter duo. "I bet the most important question and shock of this revelation is Ms. Rose's arrival. Ms. Rose actually works in my universe and has been assisting our agency, Tracker Hive, just recently. I knew she was familiar from a picture I noticed on Officer Waters’s desk after I warned him on my client's behalf for a different issue, but when I was called, she just so happened to be present," Lisette revealed as she walked over to them.
"Not only did Elisha send Ms. Rose away, but she was also encouraged to do so by another adult. How do I know this? Well, I did some digging and realized that Officer Waters’s home has always been equipped with surveillance cameras due to his position in the force. With some extensive snooping, I was able to find the very clip of the twin's bedroom when Elisha and her mom got into an argument and she ‘ordered’ her mother away. She used a special word, one that can only be used by someone from that universe, and, well, the simple spell pushed Ms. Rose into that universe with barely any memories of who she was."
I was gawking at the news as Ms. Rose nodded. "When I arrived in a different universe, I was thankfully found by a good Samaritan. I had no recollection of memories other than my name and a few minor details. It took years of therapy and some trials with new technology in that universe for me to finally remember my past, or at least enough to know the world I was in wasn't mine, and that I had a husband and children elsewhere. However, I already had commitments and didn't know how I'd get back to this world. That's when I met Lisette and her team before recent events led me here. She brought me to meet Eliza and I remembered the exact details of the entire incident."
Lisette nodded. "Adding to that new information, which I'll gladly share for final review during recess, I was able to record and document every detail regarding the incident and how Elisha has been using Eliza as a scapegoat. Obviously, with Mr. Waters in charge of the investigation, some details were purposely left out of the primary report. Some of it includes traces of black and very light blue strands of hair in the car, which was a rented vehicle. If you further look into Eliza's history, she regularly dyes her hair, which is stated on her health examinations. It is explained that she has to do it almost monthly to hide her blue strands that are normally mistaken for grey hairs and associated with stress. A mere review of those records would have proven that there were not one but two individuals in that car. Chances are Elisha teleported out of the car, seconds before it hit Brianne that night, and there's a huge chance Eliza was used once again for Elisha's shenanigans, which resulted in her injury."
Lisette sighed and looked around the room before she paid attention to Elisha, who was silently fuming.
"You've been the ultimate mastermind in separating your family. You wrapped your father around your finger and integrated your hatred for your twin sister into him on a regular basis so that he'd abuse Eliza constantly and to force her to do your bidding for the sake of avoiding multiple variations of punishment. You were the one who had relations with Mr. Morgan back in your early teen years, but once again put the blame on your twin while spreading rumors throughout the school to ruin his reputation. You had every intention of doing the same during Witchling Academy, but it began to be difficult for you to switch in and out with Eliza because Professor Phoenix noticed the differences between you. However, she kept quiet to see how things would unfold, and little by little the discrepancies continued to come to the surface. We wanted to bring all this up to the surface at this trial, which was originally supposed to occur before Semester Five, but you insisted it should be delayed so you could focus on your mental health. However, you screwed up when that fake physician was distributing a drug behind the administration's back."
Lisette's smile grew as she crossed her arms.
"You got addicted to it, while Eliza rejected taking it. Instead, she saved the doses you told her to take and not only proved to be drug-free, but gave us the drug to follow the connection between you, the shadow organization, and surprisingly, the recently murdered Witchling student who was found hanging in the student council office."