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Chapter 1: A Changed Life

I don't know what I was thinking, my mind was facing an overload of emotions and none of them were good. I kept walking knowing exactly where my feet were leading me to. I couldn't bring him back at least I could picture him with me there. He was gone and there was nothing Nate could have done to stop it without me losing them both.

"He's gone…" Nate choked up, it had been the first time he'd stopped since the prison escape and now the scenes were catching up with him. I just looked at him unsure on what I could say or do to make him feel the slightest bit better, we both sat in silence.

Nate's phone with a message from Rafe, just one word – 'Sorry.' That shell of a person had left the second they got back to the hotel after mumbling about needing to stay on track, he was clearly unfazed by what had happened.

"I couldn't save him… he's gone because of me." Nate spoke so softly and yet I could hear every word.

"Nate." I sighed, I hadn't said a word since he said what happened and so the sudden appearance of my voice made him finally look up as I started to shake my head in disbelief "It could never have been your fault, you tried so hard to get out of there safely and none of us could have even imagined this happening. He wouldn't want you to blame yourself." As I finished talking our eyes met, eyes that were usually filled with so much happiness and life were clouded by tears and sorrow. The phone went off again causing us to look away.

"It's Sully, he's said to pack up our things. He'll do Sam's when he gets here." Nate said. We both sighed, due to Rafe running off we had no way home so Sully was coming to the rescue, in more ways than one it seemed. We sat again in silence for a while both still taking in what happened, I hadn't realised Nate had started packing until I heard him close a drawer.

"I guess I should go pack too, are you gonna be alright?" Nate was clearly lost in thought and so didn't reply, I took that as my queue to go and so snuck out the door and into my own room.

I leant against the door looking around my room, traces of Sam lingered everywhere. This was going to be hard I thought as I pushed myself off the door reaching for the suitcase on top of the wardrobe.

Tears stung my eyes as I recalled the memory, it was only yesterday but it felt like such a long time had passed. The second Sully landed his plane I took my belongings and left without a goodbye. Selfish, I know but as much as I wanted to be with them through this I also needed to be alone. I didn't even unpack when I got back to my apartment either, I just dumped my things and went on this walk. The walk leading me to the place where I met my first Drake brother.

I could feel myself getting closer and closer to the library, and as a large dome shaped shadow appeared I moved towards it until I met some stairs. I paused slightly for a moment not knowing what to expect or how to feel but pushed on, I had to do this. I took a deep breath before opening one of the grand doors, this library was our haven. When I reached the centre of the room I finally looked up and sighed, memories danced around in my head of us spending ours upon hours in here. I looked up to the right on the next floor spotting the section we spent the most time in, history.

I headed towards the spiral staircase but on my way something else caught my eye causing me to do a slight detour towards the fiction area. I sighed as I looked up and saw the book that started it all, of course it was the classic Pride and Prejudice. I reached for the book and pulled it down, the familiarity of it giving me a slight comfort and as I turn back around I notice the chair where I sat the first time was available, I smiled as I walked over remembering the way I caught Sam look at me with awe as I headed over.

The way we met was literally something like you would see in a movie or read in a book, that first time I caught him looking at me wasn't the last and as much as I loved the book I couldn't help but notice a handsome face peering over in my direction every now and then. At first, I ignored it thinking he just mistook me for someone else and was trying to work out if he knew me, but after a while I looked up and caught his eye causing us both to smile. From then on, we started pulling faces at each other and our near silent laughter causing us a few other looks from those more serious in the room. As time passed on we both settled back into what we were reading and just catching the odd glance at each other, I thought that was going to be it. Luckily, I thought wrong. As the library audience slowly left as the day went on I looked up and noticed Sam had also left, little did I know he caught the little sigh I did as he snuck up behind me.

"I mean when you came in here I thought you'd be more of a The Notebook sort of girl, but I guess Jane Austen is a slight one up from there." He joked, and the sudden loudness of his voice made me jump, "Oh god sorry I didn't mean to make you jump." I let out a small laugh. "Sam Drake" he said as he gestured to the chair next to me, I smiled and gave a small nod for him to join me.

"Ophelia Barnes." I smile as I set my book down.

"And there is pansies, that's for thoughts." Sam paused, "I bet you get Hamlet quotes all the time with that name." He chuckled, "so much for an original line." With that he looked away, clearly embarrassed at what he just said.

"Surprisingly you're one of a few." I reassured him, he seemed so confident and yet at the same time there was a layer of sheepishness I didn't expect. Our eyes met and we both slowly smiled and laughed. We talked for hours from then, exploring the library inch by inch whilst getting to know each other, I don't think I'd walked around the whole building since that day. When we reached the table and chairs where our exchange first began we both collectively sighed, it was the first time neither of us had said anything for a while. We were both unsure on how to end this meeting, that was until my stomach let out a huge rumble causing us both to burst out laughing at the loudness of it.

"I take it you're hungry?" Sam joked.

"How could you tell? It's not obvious at all." I laughed.

"Sarcastic. I like it. I know a good little restaurant around the corner, we could go there now." He paused and quickly added "If you're up for it of course, no pressure or anything."

God I am so glad I said yes. We didn't leave each other's company for the next two days after that and when we inevitably had to leave one another it was the worst feeling, but life gets in the way like that and so I flew back home for a week. That week was awfully slow, although I adored seeing my family I felt like a part of me was missing because he wasn't there. When I came back he met me at the airport and from that moment I knew we would be spending the rest of our lives together. I thought we would grow old and have our own family, but now that was just a dream and two years of my life will now only be a memory of a person I once knew.

I was brought back to reality when I looked down at the book in my hands realising a couple of tears had fallen onto it whilst I was entranced by old memories, I rubbed these off before they set a mark on the cover. I half smiled as I opened the book to the first page, we felt terrible for doing but we had written our initials and date in tiny handwriting, we said it was us beginning our own story. I ran my finger over the writing as a few more tears crept out.

Death was always a risk with the work the brothers did, they told me that from the start. Treasure hunting isn't the safest job out there and if you get on the wrong side of someone, they have ways of letting you know. Sam was so determined to keep me away from it, but I got drawn in. He always was there to keep me safe. The two brothers taught me everything I know from climbing to how to handle a gun and when they were both finally satisfied with my skills they let me join them.

"Excuse me miss, the library is about to close up for today. We are open again tomorrow if you need anything." The calm voice of the librarian took me out of my thoughts, I smiled and nodded. "Do you want to check the book out?" she added.

"Is there any possible way I could buy it at all?" I asked desperate to keep a hold of anything to do with Sam.

She looked at the desperation and tears on my face, "Well." She started "I suppose I could pretend to have not seen you with this book and you could just accidentally put it in your bag and just forget to ever bring it back. We could do with a new edition anyway." She smiled reassuringly and before I could even protest about not paying she turned away.

I stood up and put the book into my bag, as I headed out of the library I noticed how dark it had gotten. I must have been in here for hours and never even noticed, no wonder the place was closing for the day. One the short walk back to my apartment I stopped off at a fast food place to grab a bite to eat, there was no way I was in the mood to even attempt to cook tonight or even do any cleaning up after. I just wanted to eat and at least try to get a little bit of sleep. I came into my apartment almost forgetting about the suitcase and backpack I just left in my hallway causing me to nearly fall but more importantly almost dropping my food.

"Ah crap." I mumbled as I stumbled around the mess in the hallway. Then began the rut I put myself in for the next 12 months of sleeping, eating, and working at the same time each day. I guess you could say I was trying to avoid thinking about Sam and even Drake at this point who I'm pretty sure was back working with Rafe. I needed a normal life for a while, I needed a life where I didn't have to worry about being shot at every five minutes, I needed to get used to a life without Sam and that was the hardest part.

From then I let the years pass, I never really cared for anyone else, there was the odd date and one or two couple of month relationships but nothing serious. I was still close with Nate and Sully and after that year of being in a rut they got me to start joining them again on the odd adventure when I could. I worked for a travel magazine in between so I still got my exploring fix when I needed to but this wasn't the life I planned./