Spooksville season 2
Episode 1 The New Plan part 1.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters or anything involving Spooksville.
Ann P.O.V.
Well I don't think I thought this through. At the time the plan seemed like the best plan.
Step one: Gain Madeline's trust by pretending to side with her and help her trick Adam into giving her the Raven's Eye. (Check)
Step two: Pull the old switcheroo with the Raven's Eye. (Check)
Step three: Make sure that Madeline doesn't find the Raven's Eye. (Still in progress)
Unfortunately step three is were it gets complicated. Sooner or later Madeline will figure out that Adam didn't destroy the real Raven's Eye. And she will figure out there are only two possible scenarios. The first being that Adam tricked her and destroyed a fake Raven's Eye on purpose. The second being that I switched the Raven's Eye while I was part of the fantasy.
So that is why right now I am walking down the streets of Spooksville in the dead of night.
I have come to the conclusion that I can not keep the Raven's Eye and spy on Madeline. So looking at my options, which are limited, I have three people I can give the Raven's Eye to.
Option one: Adam. Unfortunately he doesn't trust me after lying about Madeline pretending to be his mother. Which I don't blame him for.
Option two: Watch. At first this seemed like the best option until I realized he would most likely run experiments on the Raven's Eye alerting Madeline to its location.
Option three: Sally. Even though we are sort of enemies, even she can agree that Madeline cannot get her hands on the Raven's Eye.
That is why I am outside Sally's house throwing rocks at Sally's bedroom window.
"What the hell!?" Sally whisper yells out her window.
"I need to talk to you without your parents knowing I am here. Can I come up?" Even as dark as it is I can see Sally biting her lip trying to decide whether or not to let me in.
"OK. I will be at the back door in a second."
I hurry over to her back door and wait for her to unlock the door. A few seconds later I hear the door click. And Sally opens the door pulling me inside. She checks to make sure there is no one else outside before she closes the door.
"What are you doing here? I thought you were staying at Shadowmere to spy on Madeline?"
"I am I just… Can we go up to your room we need to talk in private without worrying about your parents walking in?"
"OK follow me."
We walk up the stairs to Sally's room making sure not to wake up her parents. When we get to Sally's room I start to feel like this is a bad idea. I could be putting Sally in a lot of danger. We might not be friends but I still don't want to see her dead.
"So what is it that is so important you had to come to my house in the dead of night!?"
"Sorry Sally this was a bad idea." Turning quickly to trying to exit the room. Before Sally grabs my wrist pulling me away from the door. For such a small girl she can be surprisingly strong.
"Considering Ann Templeton is in my room it probably is a bad idea, but you wouldn't be here if you didn't think this was important or necessary!"
"Your right, but my plan is going to put you in a lot of danger."
"If you haven't noticed my life is already in danger with Madeline in our world."
"OK you have a point there." Now comes the difficult part explaining my plan and why I have the Raven's Eye. "Look what I am about to tell is going to look bad, but it seemed like a good plan at the time."
"What did you do?"
"Well…" I don't know how to tell her so I just pull the Raven's Eye out of my pocket.
"Why do you have the Raven's Eye! I thought Adam destroyed it!"
"Shush! Do you want to wake your parents?"
"OK I will be quite if you can explain why you have the Raven's Eye."
"So when I was in the fantasy world that Madeline created I decided to switch the Raven's Eye with a fake." Sally has one eyebrow raised I can see the question she is about to ask written on her face. "I couldn't risk Adam giving it to Madeline before you two were able to rescue him."
"I see your logic there, but why didn't you tell us?"
"I was at first, but then after Adam destroyed the fake I decided it would be safer for y'all if y'all didn't know the Raven's Eye still existed."
"Safer is a relative term right now. And doesn't having the Raven's Eye put you in more danger while you are spying on Madeline?"
"Yes it does which is why I am here. If I give you the Raven's Eye I can continue spy on Madeline."
"Why me? Why not Adam or Watch?"
"Because Adam doesn't trust me and he would try to use it to get his mother back. Which would alert Madeline to the stone's presence. And Watch would…"
"He would run experiments on it. Also alerting Madeline to it presence." Sally says finishing my sentence.
"Yeah so the only person I can trust not to do something stupid with it is you."
"OK but when I tell Adam and Watch…"
"NO you can't tell them! This has to stay between us!"
"They are my best friends how am I going to keep this from them?"
"I know this isn't going to be easy for you, but if they know they will try to use the stone and put us all in danger."
"You are damn right this isn't going to be easy!"
"I know and I am sorry, but this is the best option. Either you take the Raven's Eye or I stop spying on Madeline. I can't do both and you know it."
"Damn it, I hate when you are right."
"Sally all you have to do is take the Raven's Eye and hide it where no one would ever think to look. Not even Watch."
"OK so how does this works is there some kind of spell to transfer ownership of the Raven's Eye or something?"
"Hahaha. No all I have to do is give it to you willingly. That is it and then the Raven's Eye is yours. And no one will be able to take it from you."
"Then how did you get it from Adam?"
"Technicality. Adam didn't stop me from taking it and didn't ask for it back after I took it."
"Really?"
"Yeah magic is really specific like that. There is always a loophole if you know where to look."
"Ok lets do this then." She extends her hand out with her palm up indicating she is ready to take the Raven's Eye.
I carefully place the Raven's Eye in her hand and let go of it.
"OK now you are the owner of the Raven's Eye. Hide it and tell no one where it is not even me." I decide now is the best time to make my exit as I head to the door. Before Sally stops me once again.
"Ann are you sure you want to stay at Shadowmere and spy on Madeline? You are putting yourself in a lot of danger."
"I don't want to, but it is the best option if we are ever going to stop her."
"OK, but please Ann be careful."
"I will be careful Sally. I didn't know you cared."
"Even I don't hate you enough to want you to die. Besides it is kind of nice to have another girl in the group. Even if that girl is a witch." She says with smirk.
"I am touched. You are not so bad yourself Sally for a non-witch that is." Giving her the same smirk back before I exit through the door leave her house.
On my way back to Shadowmere I can't help, but think about all the time Sally and I have been wasting being enemies. Being friends with Sally is definitely better. Hopefully we will all make it out of this alive and we can be friends without the threat of Madeline looming over us. That is something to hope for at the very least.
