A million thanks to my wonderful beta Violinrocker12. Sorry for the last ending but here you go. The final story.


Chapter 1

House of Returns

Some kids get mothers who dote on them and cry when they go off to school.

Some kids get mothers who send a nanny to bring you to the airport before you leave the country for boarding school.

I've always been the latter.

But if one good thing comes from your mom rarely being around and your dad being dead, it's that you don't feel nostalgia when you arrive at that new school in the new country. Instead, you feel exhilarated, and most of all excited.

"Excuse me," I asked coming upon a young blonde boy. "Do you know where Anubis house is?"

"Thank God there's another American here," he told me with a brilliant grin. "Sorry, hon, I can't help you because I've been looking for it myself. Colton Et, and no I didn't just make up the name."

"Eve Ra," I replied with an outstretched hand as my mom always reminded me. "I'm from DC, you?"

"Baltimore," he told me meeting my hand. "What a small world."

I'd say. "So you care to wander with me and try to find this mysterious house?"

"It would be my pleasure," Colton responded placing his arm out like your traditional 19th century gentleman. Surprised by his manners that most teens lacked, I took his arm laughing.

"Something tells me that's it," I announced staring at the ancient building that had at some point been overwhelmed by vines.

"What told you that, the brilliant sign?" he sarcastically responded. (There go the manners.)

"Shut up," I told him with a slap. "You ready to meet our British housemates?"

"Not at all," he honestly responded. "But let's go."

"Oww newbies!" a perky blonde announced the moment the (apparently automatic) door swung open. "HIIII I'm Sage!"

"Eve."

"Colton"

"I. Love. Your. Names!" she squealed before hugging us. (Yes, she did just hug two complete strangers.) "Come on, I want to introduce you to everyone else."

Everyone else consisted of three boys named Sam, Dean, and Jason and three girls whose brief introductions defined them as Nellie, Claudia and Mariah. "Well Mollie's not here, but, well, you'll meet her."

I considered asking who Mollie was, but from the small grin on everyone's face when her name was mentioned I'd like her. It appeared she was impossible not to like. "Well nice to meet you," I told them with an uncomfortable smile. "I'm sure I'll like it here."

"Claudia," a woman's voice called from the kitchen. "Have you seen your…" The woman who'd appeared stopped instantly when her eyes settled on Colton and my faces. "Oh. Mr. Rutter forgot to mention we were getting new students, but I guess it makes sense Angelina and Lewis leaving and all."

"Eve, Colton, Nina, our house mom and English teacher," Mariah announced with a wave of the hand but not a look of the eyes.

"Wait," Claudia, whose eyes hadn't come up from the computer screen since our arrival, interrupted. "What did you say your names were again?"

"Sorry, I've got to," Nina told us after dropping the book she'd been holding on the floor. "Nice to meet you guys I just have to go and find my daughter…"

"Mom, wait," Claudia called after the startled woman leaving the rest of us in sheer bewilderment.

"Does this happen often?" Colton inquired of the other junior residents of Anubis house.

"Nina getting flustered?" Nellie clarified with a shrug. "That's not anything new. I think you just upset her."

"How could we possibly have upset her?" an indignant Colton responded with a sigh and I could only agree. Nina seemed nice enough, but if just one little surprise (Or two medium sized ones I guess) caused her to freak out, this wasn't going to be a good relationship.

"Mollie and Claudia," Dean took over with his voice far too deep for any teenager. "They're not her only daughters."

Sam, who happened to be Dean's fraternal twin, finished where his brother left off. "From what I hear she had another one a bit older than Claudia who was kidnapped from the hospital the day she was born."

"That daughter's name, was Eve," Jason completed dramatically. Pity engulfed me for Nina. Obviously, I wasn't a mother, but there was nothing I could imagine that could be worse than having your newborn daughter stolen from your arms. My mom had decided not to spend time with me, but Nina lost her daughter, her Eve; no wonder she got flustered meeting me, with the same name, which she'd have to see every day for the next two years.

"Do you always do this?" Colton asked looking between the Anubis house residents with awe. "I mean do you always finish each other's sentences?"

"Nope," Dean responded kicking his heels up on the coffee table. "Sometimes we finish each other's satanic rituals instead."

"He's joking," Jason quickly informed us as if he thought we could possibly have believed Dean. "What?" he countered to the intense glares. "Who knows what they think being American and all."

"Jason doesn't understand the concept of sarcasm," Sam informed us with a slap on his ginger friend's back. "And that's why it's always hilarious to use around him."

"Good to know," a grinning Colton decided. "Well I'm going to go unpack. Eve, do you want me to grab your bags for you?"

"I'm good thanks." Actually, the bags were pretty heavy, (who knows what you're going to need in a new country), but I didn't want anyone to think I'm the type of girl who leaches off a guy. I could already see our housemates making bets on how long it would take for Colton and I to get together and I barely knew the guy! For all I know he could be gay. Or a serial killer. Or even a gay serial killer! (Yes I'm talking to you Moriarty).

"Oh! And if you get done quickly the Sherlock season 4 premier is tonight! After 39 years it's finally here," Nellie decided rubbing her hands together. Excitement filled me as I realized the best thing about now living in Liverpool- I didn't have to illegally live stream BBC shows.

"Wouldn't miss it for the world," I told her with a smile. "We all need to know how Moriarty survived after all."

"I like her," Nellie decided with a single raised finger. "I bet she watched Doctor Who too."

"900 years of time and space and I've never met someone insane enough not to," I countered causing the girl to grin.

"It's official! I just made myself a new best friend!"

"And I just found myself amid another fan girl, great," Mariah sarcastically decided. "What about you Colton, are you insane?"

"That depends on what you mean by insane," the boy countered. "If you mean do I go on murdering rampages then yes, I'm insane. If you mean do I fangirl, than no, I'm perfectly normal."

"Come on, Eve," Nellie told me after rolling her eyes at Colton's blatant disregard for social norms when meeting new people. "We need to discuss what plot twist Hope Lions is going to send us next. I swear since that girl became show runner the show has gone back to Moffat days!"

Smiling, I agreed and made my way upstairs to the room Nellie and I would be sharing chatting about airtight plots all the way.