Turquoise was beginning to get nervous. Ravyn had told her friend was strongly considering helping, but she still wouldn't say who the friend was. All Turquoise knew was it might take a few more days to convince her.
A couple hours later Jeshickah came in and told Turquoise to follow her. Jeshickah lead her into a room and told everyone else to get out. "Turquoise, I have called you here to tell you, you no longer need to kill Jaguar, he has been taken care of. Now I would like you to investigate something here for me. It has been brought to my attention that someone in this house is plotting against me. I would like you to find out who it is and take care of them for me."
"Jaguar is gone? Your sure?" Turquoise said sounding unconcerned. Jeshickah couldn't fool her that easily. If he were really dead the others would tell her.
"Yes, I saw the body myself. Now about the traitor, when you find out who it is, dispose of them. Once that person is gone we can go back to the main objective of taking over Midnight. My agents inside Midnight say it is chaotic without Jaguar there."
"Okay Jeshickah. I'll get right on it."
"Do you understand the plan?" Ravyn asked Rebecca. "I'm not sure how long Turquoise has left."
"We should probably find some way to contact her."
"We can't. Nathaniel already. She hasn't been getting any of our messages. If Jeshickah knows our plans we could be in big trouble. She'll be ready for us and we will be unprepared."
"Now we're getting paranoid. Let's think about tomorrow, tomorrow."
"She found a witch. Do we know who?" Jeshickah was asking her informant.
"No milady. Not at this time. The hunter has yet to report her name."
"But it is a her? That doesn't narrow the options much. If we knew who we were dealing with we would know how to take care of her."
"Milady Jeshickah, we have another letter to Turquoise!"
"Well, what does it say?" Jeshickah demanded.
"The witch and the hunter are going to attack in two weeks."
"You would think a witch would be smart enough to know when her messages aren't getting to the person, but there's a witch for you. They never learn." Turquoise would be taken care of by then. Jeshickah would be ready.
A few days later Turquoise was in the library, doing nothing in particular, when a slave came in and told her Jeshickah requested her presence in her rooms. So Turquoise went, wondering what Jeshickah wanted that time.
When she got to Jeshickah's rooms, Jeshickah said, "I found him."
"Who?" Turquoise asked puzzled.
"The traitor, who else would I be talking about?"
"What?" Turquoise exclaimed with a confused look on her face.
Jeshickah snapped her fingers and some guards brought forward a vampire in chains. Turquoise recognized him. His name was Thomas and they had become friends during the months since Turquoise joined Jeshickah.
"Since it was supposed to be your responsibility to catch him, I'll let you dispose of him instead." A few minutes passed and no one moved. "What are you waiting for?" Jeshickah demanded. "He has betrayed us all. We caught him in the act of passing on information."
Now Turquoise knew Thomas, although he despised Jeshickah, he valued his life too much to betray her. And anyway, Turquoise knew the one they were looking for was her. Then why did Jeshickah insist it was Thomas? Then he looked at her with a pleading in his eyes. She knew he had done nothing.
"Kill him!" Jeshickah commanded. Turquoise shook her head. "Why not?" Jeshickah asked seemingly furious.
"He didn't do anything," Turquoise stated simply.
"How do you know? Someone is going to die today. Infuriate me anymore and it will be you."
"Why should I kill him if he didn't do anything?"
"If he didn't do anything then who was it Turquoise?" Turquoise was silent for a few more minutes.
"Me," she said finally. "These past few weeks I have been acting as a double agent. Once I had my memory back it became clear to me that your story of how things were was not the correct one."
"You… you traitor! Kill them both!"
"What did Thomas do?"
"You two are friends. He probably knew about your plans the whole time. You two take care of the boy." Jeshickah told the guards. "I'll get rid of Turquoise myself."
"Thomas, get out of here," Jeshickah yelled.
"I'm going to enjoy killing you, Turquoise." Turquoise was stuck and she gave up, sure that it was all over.
AN: hi! Again I'm sorry it took so long to update there was all that homework that I was supposed to do (but conveniently forgot). I finished this chapter last Saturday, but then came the hard part of actually typing it up. To be honest typing was definitely not my best subject it was second only to spelling:-) the next chapter unfortunately will be the last. I hope you like it!
