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Chapter 11

Patricia's POV-

When everyone read the note, we shared worried glances.

Amber: Maybe he means something else?

Fabian was still by Nina's side, but he looked horrified and worried.

Fabian: Amber, she's under his control! She'll never be the same Nina we love! We can't protect her!

Amber: That might mean- that might mean-ya, I've got nothing.

Patricia: That might mean that we can't trust her. Everyone, get away from her.

Everyone but Fabian got away from Nina.

Fabian: What?! No, there has to be another way!

Alfie: Fabian, this is the right thing to do.

Fabian: No! We need to stand by her! Not abandon her!

Patricia: She's not the same Nina we love!

Fabian: How can you be so sure?

Eddie: Because as her Osirian, I can't feel the connection.

Patricia: What connection?

Eddie: The Paragon and the Osirian connection. Normally I feel this very annoying, perky aura. I can't feel it anymore.

Nina: Hey!

Everyone jumped as Nina stood up. Did she hear all of that?

Amber: How much did you hear?

Nina: Everything.

Everyone shared glances.

Jerome: Sorry Nina, but after what Rufus just pulled off-

Nina: What?

Fabian: What was the last thing you remember?

Nina: I said Rufus. Patricia started saying something, but it was too fuzzy to remember. Then, I find myself on the floor and everyone but Fabian's talking about me like I'm some monster or a disease or something. What's going on?

I saw Fabian grab the note from behind Nina and tear it up. He took the pieces and put them in his pocket, holding his finger to his mouth to tell us to keep quiet.

Fabian: Nothing. Let's go.

All of us followed Fabian's instructions, except for him and Nina. I forgot my shoes back in the room because two cheap pranksters stole them. I crept up to the door and heard a conversation. Fabian and Nina. I listened to their soft whispers.

Nina: Fabian, what's going on?

Fabian: Nina, it's nothing.

Nina: Does this have to do with the mystery, because if it does, it's important.

Fabian: Just forget it, ok?

Nina: Why?

Fabian: Calm down, Nina. Just forget it.

Nina: No! What's going on?!

Fabian: Nina, what are you doing?

Nina: What are you talking about?

Fabian: Nina, put that down.

I had enough of this. I opened the door to a high heel missing my head by only an inch. It stuck itself on to the bathroom door. Amber opened the bathroom door and stared at the heel as I did the same. We turned to see Fabian, scared to death, on one side of the room and Nina, holding the other heel of the pair in her shaky hand, on the other. Nina dropped the heel and fell to the floor crying. None of us moved an inch. Fabian hesitantly went to her side and tried to relax her but she wouldn't stop crying.

*Harp noises coming back from Flashback*-End of Flashback-

If only we know at that time that things would have gotten worse. We were too afraid of getting hurt that we started playing in to Rufus's game, we started blaming our Nina. We drove her away.

Patricia: Nina, it was all Rufus. He was a spirit and he took you over. I'm so sorry we blamed you. We just played in to his game.

Nina: His game?

Patricia: He got us to tear the club apart on our own. But this reunion's our chance to change that. We won't let him win.

I took my hand and put it over my eye.

Patricia: Sibuna?

She smiled and copied my action.

Nina: Sibuna.

We spent the rest of the flight talking about ideas to reunite Sibuna. This is going to be fun.

*Later*

Fabian POV:

I started packing my bags. After all, I'm heading to England tonight. The reunion starts tomorrow afternoon. For some odd reason, I looked at all of my pictures of Nina. Most of them were from before Rufus came in to the picture. Rufus. I thought for a moment. We hadn't truly seen him in the flesh since that day. We started thinking Nina was just playing for attention. Of course, I couldn't whole heartedly believe that. I refused to, so I pretended. A thought came in to my head as I rushed to the graduation picture of Nina and I. Holding the picture to the light, I saw two startling things. One was that Nina had no shadow in the picture and the other was that Nina's eyes were an icy cold blue, nothing like her sweet blue-green eyes. They looked like Rufus. Rufus. I dropped the picture on the floor out of shock. I, of course, regretted it. The glass picture frame that held the picture shattered and two papers laid there. Wait, two? I picked one up and it was the creepy picture. The other paper was a tattered piece of black paper. I picked it up and read it. It said:

i You can't protect her anymore. You try to hurt me from now on, you hurt her. She'll never be the same chosen one you once loved. She's under my control. She is MINE. /i

I told you once that she was mine. I'm not going to tell you again. Leave the Chosen One alone. She will die. Her power will die with her. Don't try to stop me. Unless you'd care to join her.

-RZ

I dropped the note. Rufus. My nightmares had been confirmed. Those dreams about Anubis House weren't nothing. Rufus kidnapping Nina, me following him in an attempt to save her, his mysterious shatter in to glass, the kiss. All of it. Even the mysterious key. It means something. But what? Suddenly, my phone began to vibrate. Nina! She's calling me! She has to be! Please be alright! Please! I blindly answered the call.

Fabian: Nina?! Are you alright?!

?: She's fine. Relax. She's with me.

Fabian: Where?!

?: Well, at the moment, my couch. In my living room. At my house. In England.

Fabian: What?!

?: Calm down, Fabian. She's safe.

Fabian: Who do you- wait. Patricia?

Patricia's POV-

Finally the genius realizes it's me. He's really lost a lot of brain cells over the years. Probably from mourning over Nina.

Patricia: Of course it's me, genius.

Fabian: But, how did you get my-

Patricia: Nina told me to call you.

Fabian: She- she did?

I felt him getting his hopes up. I looked across my living room to see Nina fast asleep. The girl was tired, who am I to deny her sleep? Even if it's on my couch.

Patricia: Yes, Fabian, she did, but-

Fabian: I want to talk to her.

Patricia: Well, you can't.

Fabian: Patricia, let me talk to Nina.

Patricia: Fabian, you can't talk to Nina. She's sleeping.

Nina: No, I'm not.

I looked over at her and shook my head, sighing.

Patricia: You got totally lucky. She just woke up.

I directed my gaze at Nina.

Patricia: Nina, catch!

I threw the phone. She caught it perfectly fine. Ok, I lied. She did catch it- eventually. You know, after she flew off the couch and fell on my carpet. No biggy.

Nina's POV-

Nina: Who is it?

Patricia: Fabian.

Nina: Oh- hello?

Fabian: Nina?!

Nina: Hey Fabian.

Fabian: Nina, thank goodness you're alright.

Nina: Of course I'm alright. For now.

Fabian: For now?

I looked at Patricia and she nodded towards me. It's now or never.

Nina: Rufus. He's back.

Fabian: I- I know.

Nina: What? How?

Fabian: I saw him walking down the street yesterday or the day before. In Miami.

Nina: You were in Miami?

Fabian: Nina, I live in Miami.

Nina: I never knew. But, there's something else.

Fabian: I don't care. I'm just glad you're safe and happy and-

Nina: I have seven months to live.

I heard a loud crash and a soft gasp. It broke my heart to tell him, but it had to be done. Better me than anyone else, I suppose.

Nina: Look, we need to get Sibuna together soon.

Fabian: How soon, exactly?

Nina: Tomorrow soon.