I recently started watching this show (last week), but so far I have already watched every single episode twice (or more).
I wrote this in half an hour, hence the lack of detail and no real intro.
I do plan on making this into a multi-chapter fic, but I lose motivation easily so please feel free to give me any tips or tell me if you want me to add something special into the next chapter. If you choose to do so, I will write your request and dedicate it to you.
Anyways, hope you enjoy, and hopefully my next chapter I can go into more depth and detail.
"Well, well, well…what have we got here? Two children all alone?" Two heads snapped up to face the door.
"Rufus!" Came Nina's strangled outcry.
"What are you doing here?" Fabian rose quickly to step in between Nina and Rufus.
"Ah, I see. You have protective boyfriend written all over your face boy…Fabian, was it?"
Nina, recovering from her shock at seeing the nightmarish man which haunted her last year back in the flesh, stood to join Fabian, though she remained slightly behind him, enjoying the comfort being around him gave her. She reveled in how hot he was as he defiantly faced off with Rufus to shield her. She had seen this side of him many times before, however, only in small glimpses.
Nobody spoke as Fabian continued to glare at Rufus. "What is it you want, Rufus? You already drank the elixir of life; we have nothing else you need."
Nina cringed when Rufus threw his head back to laugh. "Don't play games with me little girl. I am well aware that what I drank from the Cup of Ankh almost a year ago was not the elixir. I am no fool."
The room temperature dropped as the two teens tensed. Sibuna club had considered the possibility that Rufus may discover the trick they played on him, but thoughts of 'what if' were quickly banished to the back recesses of their minds.
Rufus calmly pulled his hand from his pocket, revealing a dark, bulky object. Nina inhaled a quick intake of breath as she realized it was a gun. "Now…if you were smart Miss Martin, I would open up that mouth of yours and tell me exactly where you have hidden the Cup of Ankh."
Nina, never being the greatest liar, though she far outranked Mara, began to stutter as her mind reeled for a possible answer which Rufus could believe.
"We disposed of it. No sense in keeping the thing; not if it kills an innocent kid so that an old man can live forever." Nina gaped at Fabian, but Rufus didn't give a moment's hesitation.
Within seconds, a loud bang filled the House, making Nina's ears ring.
"I wasn't talking to you boy, and I certainly do not want to hear your lies."
It was impossible to grasp what Nina was now witnessing. Fabian, shifted awkwardly for a moment, before tipping forward. Nina grasped onto his shoulders, falling silently to the floor with him clasped tightly in her grip. From her angle, Nina was unable to view where Fabian had received the shot, but the red staining her hands was all she needed.
Nothing registered. Not the clomping of feet on the stairs. Not the tears streaming down her cheeks. Not the looming figure standing over her. Nothing. Only the warm red liquid which was spreading across Fabian's chest. His face, his skin, was pale and cold as ice. Nina quickly shed off her sweater then pressed it against the seeping wound.
Fabian and her faces were mirror images of each other as they both cringed out of pain. A look of terror washed over Fabian's face, and Nina's soon matched his as she felt herself being jerked upwards by her hair.
She fought back wildly, screaming Fabian's name over and over. Her screams only grew louder as his eyes drifted shut. She barely registered the cool barrel of a gun being pressed to her neck. Her eyes saw only a lifeless body, Fabian's body. Her nose smelt only blood, Fabian's blood. Her hands felt only warm liquid life, Fabian's life. Her mouth tasted only of sweet lips, Fabian's lips. Her ears heard only whimpers of pain, Fabian's pain.
Hysteria continued to bubble within Nina, even as her other friends crowded into the doorway: Amber, Patricia, Alfie, Jerome, even Mick and Mara. No words were spoken, though fury, resentment, confusion, and pure, undaunted revulsion shone on all their faces. The gun still silently pressed against Nina's skin was enough to keep everybody at bay, even as they watched Fabian slowly dying in a heap on the floor.
Everything happened in slow motion from there as she was forced to look away from the boy she loved bleeding to death on the floor. Her screams stopped as she gave into vile man who had her entrapped in his unyielding grip.
Rufus dragged Nina's limp form to the crowded doorway. He laughed shamelessly as the group of friends unwillingly parted to let him through.
On the landing of the stairs, Rufus turned back to the three people still glaring with hate filled eyes in his direction. "As much as I would love to stay and catch up, I really do have some important things to attend to. So sorry Patricia, Amber, Victor." He nodded a farewell at each person as he spoke their names.
Without waiting for a reply, or an ill-suited rescue attempt, Rufus clamored down the stairs, pulling Nina along behind him as a deterrent for anybody to try anything. With a final wave with his hand which held the gun, Rufus disappeared out of the House of Anubis, taking Nina with him.