Today was the day. Clarissa's funeral. Patricia stood in front of her mirror examining her dress. She wore a black knee length flowing dress, with her black high heel short boots.
"Patricia you look gorgeous, don't worry. I'll be there for you the whole time it's gonna be okay." Joy joined her looking her self in the mirror as she put her last earring in.
"I know, I'm just nervous. It's just not gonna be a good day."
"Everything will be fine, I'll be there and Eddie will be there and so will everyone else."
"Knock knock!" They turned around and saw Eddie in the doorway leaning against the wall in a black tuxedo.
"Wow Eddie you look great! I think I'm gonna go downstairs and see how Jerome's doing with his outfit!" Joy chimed scooting by Eddie and down the hall. Patricia turned back around to the mirror again and kept examining herself. Eddie came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist, resting his head on her shoulder.
"You look beautiful!" She smiled and placed her hands on his that rested on her waist.
"Thank you... Are you nervous?"
"No, not really. Why?"
"Well my parents are gonna be there and you've never met my parents..." She turned around to look him in the eyes but saw no sign of fear.
"Don't worry, everything will be fine! I will be on my best behavior." He took her hand and led her out the door. They all got in separate limos his father had ordered and drove to the funeral.

They stepped into the church to see a lot of people all around the main room. The casket was set at the front of the church and was closed of course. They knew if they were to open the casket it would be empty.
"Patricia" they turned around to see a crying Piper running up to Patricia. She engulfed her in a big hug and they both started crying whispering apologies to each other. They pulled apart and Piper was the first to speak.
"Mom and Dad are over there, they want to speak with you!" Patricia gave her twin one last hug and grabbed Eddie's wrist leading him over to her parents.
"Patricia honey hello, and who do we have here?" Her mother asked as they came up to her.
"This is Eddie, my boyfriend."
"Oh! Well hello Eddie it's great to meet you!" Mr. Williamson said holding out his hand for Eddie to shake.
"It's great to meet you too Mr. and Mrs. Williamson."
"Patricia honey, have you prepared your speech?"
"Ya it's done... I spent a lot of time on it." Patricia replied pulling a folded up piece of paper from her clutch.
"Well we need to go get our seats, we'll see you after! Good luck on your speech, were proud of you!"
They all walked to there seats and the ceremony began. It was all about Clarissa as it should be.
"And now one of her nieces, Patricia, is going to speak. Patricia?" Eddie squeezed her hand as she got up and made her way to the podium.
"Clarissa was a great aunt. She was always there for me when I needed her and I could always count on her for anything. She never forgot about me, even when some people did. Everyone she knew always had a positive thing to say about her. She was full of life and always brought light everywhere she went." Patricia paused and took a deep breath. Tears were pricking at the corner of her eyes. She looked out into the crowd of people. They all looked at her with hopeful eyes. She looked over at her parents who were crying and at her housemates who were nodding there heads as a sign to go on. She looked around the room again, but this time landing on the back row. Only one person sat there, clothed in all black. The figure looked up and right into her eyes. His piercing blue eyes staring at her green ones. He took his hood down and revealed himself as Rufus. Fear began rushing through her. She wanted to tell Eddie but Rufus held his finger up to his lips telling her to not say anything. She looked at Eddie, he looked confused and she looked from him to Rufus until he got the hint and looked backward slightly. He turned around and mouthed 'keep going' to her, and she did as she was told. He looked at Nina and then Fabian.

"Rufus is here, back row. Don't look but he's here." Eddie whispered.

"What do we do?"

"I don't think he'll do anything, just wait it out."

"Um, Clarissa was also very caring, she cared about everyone whether you were her close family or someone she just met, she-" Patricia paused as Rufus stood up in the middle of the isle. She was still the only one who saw him because he was still behind everyone. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a gun, aiming it at Patricia's head. Fear could be shown in her eyes and Eddie knew something was wrong. He turned around to see Rufus with a gun pointed at his girlfriends head. He got up and charged at him. Rufus became visible to everyone after that. Screams could be heard, Patricia ducked behind the podium as Rufus' finger pulled the trigger letting the bullet crash into the flower vase behind Patricia. Eddie fell to the ground on top of Rufus, both fighting for the gun that was still stuck in Rufus' hand. The room fell silent as one more gun shot was heard. Everyone was still, Eddie started moving and then was rolled off Rufus, his side was all bloody. Eddie was the one shot. Everything went in slow motion after that. Rufus took off, but was stopped by the cops rushing through the door and was arrested.

"NO!" Patricia took off and collapsed next to Eddie clinging to his hand as tears streamed down her face.

"Yacker" His voice was barely a whisper. Patricia shook her head shutting her eyes tightly, trying to stay calm. She kept crying, it didn't work. The ambulance came in shortly after and Patricia clung to Fabian, tears still streaming down her face. They met Eddie at the hospital. Patricia walked in the room to see him seated on the edge of his bed with a bandage wrapped around his side. He looked up to see her standing there and she rushed over to give him a hug.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes, Yacker I'm fine!"

"Good." He winced when you slapped him on the shoulder.

"What was that for?"

"For scaring me weasel! Don't ever do something like that again!"

"You cant just except the fact that I was being a good boyfriend and saved your life?"

"No actua-" They turned around when a knock sounded at the door. The doctor stood in the doorway with a smile on his face.

"Good news Eddie! You will be able to go home today, we were able to stop the bleeding In time." The doctor left and Patricia turned around and planted a kiss on Eddie's lips. They left shortly after and got home just in time for dinner. Dinner was loud as everyone hugged Eddie and told them how much they were scared for him. Victor's voice ripped through the halls quieting everyone at the table. They all scrambled to their separate rooms and got ready for bed.

She woke up in the living room, someone was calling her name. The voice was getting louder and louder as she walked into the hallway. She toward the staircase and saw Clarissa looking down at her with a small smile on her face.

"Patricia, dry your eyes honey I'm here." Patricia reached up to her eyes and wiped at the tears she didn't know were there.

"Clarissa? H-How are you here? I thought you died..."

"I did sweetie, I came to say goodbye. I'm going to miss you and I'm really sorry you have to go through this, but just make sure you get Zulus what he wants because bad things will happen if you don't, I'm so proud of you! And remember 'The one who advises can easily be the pen behind your answers.'"

She woke up in her bed. It was dream. Now she knew, Clarissa was really gone. What did she mean by 'The one who advises can easily be the pen behind your answers.' She threw the covers off of her and was hit with the cold from the fan circling above. She made her way to her dresser grabbing the box and then walked out the door. She snuck down the stairs passed Victor's office and into the kitchen. She made a cup of tea and then went to the table laying the box carefully on it. She examined the box for a good 20 minutes trying to find an opening. Eddie came in shortly after to see his girlfriend in this state.

"What are you doing? It's 2:00 in the morning." Eddie yawned walking over to her. She jumped at the sound of his voice and whipped around.

"I'm trying to find an opening to the box!" She said continuing to examine box. He moved to sit next to her, he took her hands off the box and turned her toward him, looking her in the eyes.

"What's wrong?" Tears started pricking at her eyes and she shut her eyes taking a deep breath.

"Clarissa came to me in my dream, to say goodbye. She said that we need to get what Zulus wants or bad things will happen!"

"Oh my gosh!"

"Eddie there's more...She said 'The one who advises can easily be the pen behind your answers.' I don't know what that means but it could help us!"

"We need to tell Fabian tomorrow!"

"The one who advises can easily be the pen behind your answers." Fabian repeated for the fifth time.

"Yes! Fabian that's what she said! What does it mean?" Patricia questioned sitting on her bed next to Eddie.

"Wait isn't advisor like another name for a teacher?"

"Alfie you're a genius! So maybe Mr. Winkler? 'Pen behind your answers' Well the person behind a pen is a writer... The Letter! Nina the letter your gran got did she send in the note yet?"

"Yes! I just got it this morning! I'll go get it!" Nina replied racing out the door. She back a couple seconds later and laid the note on the bed.

"Now we need to get some of Mr. Winkler's handwriting, but how?"

"I have some! He wrote a note on the top of one of my assignments, hang on!" Patricia ran over to her dresser drawer and pulled out the assignment.

"Why did he write you a note?" Eddie asked walking over to her. "And why did you keep it?"

"Eddie this is no time to be a jealous boyfriend!" Nina yelled pushing the note into Patricia so she could look at the handwriting,

"Perfect match."