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*Stark*
Zoey wanted to head back to the House of Night ASAP and you don't tell your priestess no. So now we were on a plane heading back to Tulsa where the House of Night will be a mess because that scumbag of a friend Stevie Rae decided to go work for Neferet, ultimately leaving the school alone right after Zoey had un-shattered her soul. Personally I completely agreed with what Zoey told Stevie Rae, we were going to face Kalona and Neferet, we can't trust the oldest son of an immortal enemy. We got on the plane and Zoey was turning her cell phone off while I pulled out a nice book to read.
Unfortunately I fell asleep before I could read anything.
*Zoey*
As much as I love Stark, he had to be asleep while I talked to Stevie Rae. "Spirit, make him go to sleep." I whispered while he picked up a book. I then called earth to go into the earth room. When I got there was surprised to see Stevie Rae rubbing one of the many plant's' leaves. She held the leaf in her hand and rubbed it with her thumb. There was a watering can next to her and the plants all seemed to have a little bit of water still glistening on them. She seemed to not have noticed me appear on my normal side of the room. I turned to inspect the room and noticed it had more of a greenhouse quality. The plants were all different in their own way. The harder I tried to measure the room's size, the larger it seemed to be. "How does anyone have time to water all these plants?" I mumbled to no one in particular. "That's what I thought to, actually." Stevie Rae said making me jump. I completely forgot she was there. I turned towards her and she was still stroking the plant's leaf with her thumb, admiring it with each stroke.
"Stevie Rae? Are you ok?" I asked her since she seemed so… weird. She finally looked up with a distant look on her face. "Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out what Neferet is trying to do, she wants me to find someone who is pure of heart, but for what? Rephaim thought it was a sacrifice for darkness, but it seemed like it was more than that to me. The only person I could find who I would even consider was blind, but if she is trying to sacrifice them to darkness, I still wouldn't want her to get hurt, even if she is a human, but I have to play along with it. I just need a little help with this.
"Well, ask her why she wants this girl, I mean since she put you on the job. At least find out what you can." She looked at me with determination in her gaze before nodding and picking up the watering can and walking down the row of plants, presumably to water the plants while she thinks about what she will do. I picked up one of the watering cans and followed her down the row of plants.
She was sitting under a giant tree with her knees against her chest curling her hair around her finger, a sure sign that she was stressing herself to the limit. "What's wrong Stevie Rae? If it's Rephaim you know I could always send Dragon to come get you." She looked up at my joke in horror and complete fear. "No you don't need to send Dragon! He'd kill Rephaim! No that's fine, it's just… I don't know what I would do if I had to be the person to end Shaylin's life, I barely know the girl and I already don't want to do this, I don't want to befriend her before leading her to her doom." Stevie Rae said, already beginning to cry. I smiled sheepishly at her, "honey, you do notice that since we know what's going on, Stark and I will do all in our power to stop this before it happens, right?" She sniffled and wiped her eyes before standing up and hugging me and running to her door not uttering anything before she left the earth room.
I walked out my door and woke up with my head on Starks shoulder. He was leaning forward and a bit of drool was escaping; I grabbed a napkin and caught it before it landed on whatever book he was reading. This was going to be a long ride home.
*Rephaim*
Stevie Rae had decided that she needed to tell Zoey about what was going on and went to sleep on my arm. She just stopped everything and fell asleep. So now Stevie Rae was lying on my arm, snoring softly and gripping my wrist like it was a lifeline. We had been lying like that for exactly three and a half hours; at which point my entire right arm fell asleep.
Then she woke up with a start and jumped up, leaving me a mixture of confused and drowsy. She walked out to the balcony and I followed knowing that the sun had gone down by now. She looked out to the parking lot and picked up her hand holding a little remote then pressed a button. One of the cars started beeping and honking at us from the ground and Stevie Rae quickly pressed the button again. Then she walked inside the room and walked to the door, spun around, then said "stay," sternly before walking out the door.
With nothing better to do I sat back down on the bed and started the show again, she would be back eventually.
(A/N): Ok, I have been hit with writers block here and tens of thousands of other ideas for another section in fan-fiction (if anyone has played Portal 2 you can check it out! If not I highly recommend the game, that is, if you are a gamer.) I will update this story still though. I know the chapter is really, really, really tiny but I hope it will suffice. Think that's just about it, reviews please!