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It's Not Fair
Patricia threw open the door to Fabian's room and sat down on Eddie's bed with a huff.
Fabian, who had been nose-deep in his history textbook, looked up at the teenage girl in shock. Eddie wasn't in here, so why was she? Couldn't Patricia just leave him alone for one measly afternoon?
"It's not fair," Patricia grumbled, flopping onto her back and staring at the ceiling. "It's just not fair!"
Fabian set his book aside and looked at his housemate. "Um, what's not fair, Patricia?"
She raised her head up just enough to glare at Fabian and looked at him like the answer had been obvious, making him sorry he asked. "It's not fair that all the Americans have special Egyptian ties to the house and we Brits have nothing!"
Fabian thought about it for a second. Patricia was right; every American student who had walked through that door had some sort of connection to Anubis House, whether it was they were the Chosen One, the Osirian, or the great-granddaughter of the man who built the place. But then Fabian found a hole in Patricia's logic: her great-grandmother had been in Frobisher's expedition party, therefore giving her a tie most others didn't have.
"Patricia, you've got a connection," Fabian stated. "Your great-grandmother was in Frobisher's expedition party, letting you wake him up with Alfie, Joy, and Jerome."
"But that's not the same," Patricia insisted. "That's not a good connection! Nina helped save everyone in the house –twice! Eddie gets visions that help us out on the mystery –not to mention he can use that stupid locket as well. And KT has that special key that we still don't know the significance of –which really sucks, by the way. So excuse me if being able to help awaken a 'great evil' isn't what I would call a good connection to the house!"
Fabian sighed. He'd dealt with Patricia in her ranting moods far more than anyone else in the house. It was probably because he was the only one who wouldn't bolt when she started, but stayed and talked to her about it.
"Patricia, I don't think–" Fabian began, but she cut him off.
"And what's worse is that Eddie keeps saying 'oh, the Osirian's got this' or 'let an Osirian handle this.' Not to mention KT's always like 'we've got to stop my great-grandpa' and 'here, let's try my special key.' It's getting annoying, and it's not fair!"
Fabian sighed again. This was one of the worse rants Patricia had ever had while he'd known her. He didn't think that this would go away with just one conversation. Fabian felt like a freakin therapist, but he let Patricia complain about how all the American students seemed to be 'oh so special' and 'why do they have to come over to our country; we don't go over to theirs!'
"Patricia," Fabian tried when his housemate had to stop to take a breath "I think you've made your point: it's not fair that the Americans are connected to the house. I get it."
Patricia sat up and fixed Fabian with a steely glare. "Do you? Psh, I bet you still think that the mystery is the best thing that ever happened and you don't care that it isn't fair. News flash Rutter: just because you're a massive nerd, that doesn't mean that mysteries are fabulous."
Fabian bristled at the insult. So he liked to learn about Ancient Egypt? That didn't make him a massive nerd, nor did spending a lot of time in the library. Patricia didn't seem to notice that Fabian had felt insulted; she just kept on ranting.
"And I swear if I ever have to hear the words 'great-grandpa' ever again I am going to scream!" Patricia declared. "It's getting annoying. Like, just say great-grandfather every once and a while. It won't kill you!"
Fabian had to stifle the urge to sigh. Yeah, so maybe he got annoyed sometimes when KT said great-grandpa, but who was he to judge what people called their elder relatives? He himself had been raised to call his grandmother 'Granny' and his grandfather 'Pappy.' It was completely embarrassing, and Fabian made sure never to mention them to anyone, but he found he couldn't break the habit and call them anything different.
But the more Patricia ranted, the more Fabian found himself agreeing. Maybe it was a little unfair that only the Americans seemed to have an Egyptian tie to the house. Then again, none of them were completely American, were they? Eddie's father was the headmaster –born and raised British. KT's great-grandfather was Robert Frobisher-Smythe –British all his life. Nina was in some form or another related to Sarah Frobisher-Smythe –did that make her distantly related to KT?
But that didn't matter, did it? What mattered was that the three were raised American and had all come over to England for school, and all were connected to the house and to the Egyptian gods in some way. Why couldn't one of the other students, who had been here for years before they had even known the name Nina Martin or Eddie Miller or KT Rush, be tied to the house? Patricia was right. It wasn't fair.
"You're right Patricia," Fabian interrupted, stopping Patricia's tirade of how no more American students should be allowed at the school because they'd probably be the descendant of Hathor or Thoth or something. "It's not fair."
Patricia grinned, standing up and crossing the room to pull Fabian to his feet.
"Where are we going?" Fabian demanded as Patricia tugged him out of his room. This was absurd!
"We're going to tell the Americans what we think: It's not fair."
Okay, so that was a little short but I wanted to write a Fabian/Patricia friendship, so there you go! I could so see Patricia doing this; ranting to Fabian and managing to convince him she's right. And there was one part that I kinda inserted 'cause that's how I felt for the last half of season three: the part where Patricia says "I swear if I ever have to hear the words 'great-grandpa' ever again I am going to scream." I mean, seriously, what is wrong with saying your grandfather (or your great-grandfather if you want to get technical)?! Sorry if my tiny rant annoyed you guys. Thanks for reading!
~C