A Magical Journey of True Love: Jan and Caro's Story

"I'm sorry, Jan. I love you, but I can't do this."

Jan's head spun. He pushed himself away from the table and stood up with all his strength. He wanted to say something, but he couldn't find the words. Caro was still watching him with those blue eyes of hers.

"You're a good man, Jan," she said, her voice cracking. "But I have to go home now. My father needs me."

Jan shook his head and sat back down in silence. A thousand thoughts raced through his mind, but none of them could overpower the pain that was starting to take over his entire body. He looked at Caro as if he'd never seen her before in his life. Everything they'd been through together seemed like a distant memory now. It all felt like it had happened years ago. How could she just leave him? How could she leave their child?

Jan wanted to fight for her, wanted to tell Caro that he would go with her, but how could he? Caro was a witch; her mother was a witch, and so was her grandmother and all the way back through the ages until no one really knew where it started anymore (or at least that's what she told him). She'd hidden it well for months, but eventually it was too much for Jan to ignore and he confronted her about it. At first she laughed it off as silly superstitions, but when he wouldn't let up on it she finally broke down and told him everything that she'd been keeping secret from him in fear of losing him forever.

When he first found out that Caro was a witch there were so many things he didn't understand about her world, things that terrified him and made him think of witches in the same way they were thought of during the Inquisition: The hunt was on, witches were being burned left and right because people believed they were evil creatures working with the devil himself to torture people during their most vulnerable time in their lives - death itself.

Things got worse when Caro's father found out about them dating and started threatening them both with violence if they didn't end things between them before it got any further. All of Caro's fears about having a relationship with someone outside of her own kind came true when she showed up one day at Jan's house only to find three men waiting for her under orders from her father; instructions for her to break up with Jan or else face the consequences (and supposedly those consequences were very severe).

Caro didn't want to leave Jan then; she loved him more than anything else in the world, but she knew that she had no choice and so did Jan (being a non-witch himself) who had already accepted the fact that they could never be together. But then magic happened: when an angry young man wants revenge on someone who wronged you very badly then you usually get your wish eventually and suddenly a mysterious package arrives at Jan's house containing information on where Caro's father lived. It wasn't long after that that Jan went into town late one night and attacked the place where Caro's father lived with an axe while screaming out names he'd been hearing most of his life: "Lucifer!", "The Devil!" , "Satan!" - anyone watching would've assumed that this man was insane from spending too much time alone instead of understanding how far some people would go for love (even if it meant going completely crazy).

After killing three men who tried to stop him from entering the building where Caro's father lived (and nearly killing two more men who proved not as lucky) Jan came face-to-face with Caro's father (who was also a witch) underneath an old garden shed which smelled strongly of dead flowers and dirt before meeting his fate seconds later by way of an axe wound delivered by Jan's hands (and feet) himself: It wasn't long after killing 'The Devil' (as the papers called him afterwards) that Jan found himself locked up inside a cell facing charges for murder while trying desperately to prove his innocence - saying things like "She's my fiancé! We're getting married! She doesn't need any help from me!" when trying to explain why he killed her father (which sounded absurd to everyone who heard it).