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Series 2, Episode 30 ~ House of Phobias

Fabian turned as he saw his sister walking the chasm in a hurry, "Alfie, there was a landslide... Amber is inside..." was all he said causing Camilla's eyes to widen.

Her friends were in trouble.

Camilla didn't bother to pretend to be polite as she shoved Patricia to the side, the fear of her two best friends being in trouble took over her. Without even asking what the hell the hole this was Camilla crawled into it.

The overwhelming smell of dirt and earth filled her nostrils and she tried not to react as she saw bugs crawling around her. Her eyes stayed focused on the trembling body of Amber.

"Shh, Shh," Camilla whispered to her friend as she pushed herself up against the wall so she gave Amber as much room as possible, "head back, Fabian and Nina will get you..."

"A-Alfie..." Amber mumbled to Camilla.

"I'll get him," Camilla reassured her, "go back okay."

Amber nodded numbly as still shaking she backed up down the tunnel, Camilla waiting until she saw Nina wrap her arms around the blonde before Camilla looked ahead seeing the tunnel narrow and Alfie's figure covered in dirt. In the dim light of the tunnel, Camilla realised Alfie wasn't actually stuck but he was frozen in fear, which was unsurprising considering everything that happened last year causing him to have serious claustrophobia issues.

The tunnel did get narrower as Camilla approached Alfie causing the girl to have to army crawl to reach him. "Camilla?!" Alfie screamed as she approached.

"I'm here Alfie, I've got you." Camilla told him, "your okay you need to relax so I can get you out, Alfie." Alfie whimpered in fear and Camilla softened her voice, "trust me okay Alfie, you're going to be okay."

"I trust you and I'll stop screaming, but I won't relax!" Alfie shouted back at her causing Camilla to shrug it was the best she was going to get. With her hands, she started to push away the dirt around Alfie until there was enough room for him to move.

She tapped the back of his legs to indicate to him to start moving backwards, "Okay Alf, crawl back to us," Camilla kept pushing dirt away as she backed up down the tunnel her eyes on Alfie making sure he didn't freeze up.

The moment the two reached the end of the tunnel Amber flung herself at Alfie muttering sorry over and over again, Alfie clung onto the girl for dear life as Camilla leant against the wall of the tunnel panting. She looked up at her brother, "what the hell did I just crawl into?"

Fabian let out a shaky laugh and slide down the wall next to her in relief pulling his sister into a side hug before flicking a bug from her hair.

The Sibuna's agreed then and there not to go back down the tunnel again. They all were sat on Nina's bed looking shocked, Camilla having showered the dirt off her and her hair was up in a turban as she pulled on a jumper and sat down between Patricia and Nina on the bed. They all were shocked.

"So..." Alfie broke the silence, "I'm claustrophobic."

"And I'm defiantly bug-phobic..." Amber added.

"Eh, I really don't want to say, but," Fabian's voice cracked a little as he spoke up, "I'm really bad with worms., I really hate them," Camilla couldn't help but snigger as Fabian said this, causing the boy to turn and hit her leg, "it's your fault. Worm Spaghetti has hunted me for years."

"We were 6!"

"yet, I'm still traumatised."

"It's like the tunnel knows..." Amber spoke up bringing the conversation back to the situation they where having to deal with.

"That would mean there are skulls there," Nina softly said.

"And feet..." Patricia's voice cracked, and everyone turned to look at her in confusion. Camilla thought Patricia was scared of touch not feet. That's why she only really hugged Joy... of course, the female twin wasn't going to out her friend.

"Cam what about you?" Patricia asked the girl next to her.

Camilla shrugged, "I doubt the tunnel could manifest my fears... What is it going to do? Manifest our parents into a tunnel to finally disown me? Make me explode the tunnel with my powers? Bring Suetekh to the world?" the last one caused confused looks from everyone bar Fabian who turned to his sister with exasperation.

"The god of chaos really Cam?"

"What he always looked scary in the books," Camilla explained with a shrug.

"Anyone else like to go back to hitting a dead end?" Patricia asked them all.

"No!" Fabian and Alfie turned around on the floor to look at the four girls on the bed, "there's nothing else for it. If we want to continue, we're going to have to get over our fears."

Nina nodded in agreement with Fabian, "it can be done, okay. There are all sorts of behavioural therapy's that tackle this stuff. They mostly use exposure..."

"I'm not taking anything off." Amber instantly said.

"No," Nina couldn't help but laugh, "exposure to the thing you fear. Its genital exposure. Just a little bit at a time, till your cured..." Nina explained as if it was that easy.

"Cured sounds good..." Amber quietly said.

"We have bugs in the science lab," Fabian said to Amber with a smile.

"Yeah, and there are plenty of places in the house I can build up a tolerance to small spaces..." Alfie added.

"Okay, nobody's coming near me with feet." Patricia interjected, "I'm telling you right now.

Alfie took her threat as a challenge lifting his foot towards her face, laughing as she pushed it away with a pillow. "Actual question? How are we meant to expose Camilla to an evil god?" Alfie asked as he stuck his hand in the air. "I would say hang around Victor for the evil part but she does that already." Camilla grabbed one of Nina's pillows and threw it at the boy with a smile.

Training started first thing the next day. The Sibuna's where all in the biology lab where Camilla and Alfie placed the boxes of insects they used (and Alfie brought in a box of worms and placed them down too – Fabian and Amber agreed to complete this task together.) Amber was clutching onto her amulet as the two backed away from the tanks across the room to where the rest of them were.

"Amber put it away!" Fabian hissed as he noticed the girl clutching her amulet, "we have to keep them out of sight."

Amber shot them all an apology before she tucked the Amulet under her shirt, "Sorry, it's like my lucky charm that's all." Amber then turned to look back at the boxes of bugs, "you want me to put my hand in there?" she asked Nina as it was her idea to go with exposure therapy.

"Not at first," Nina reassured the girl, "at first all you have to do is take one step forward."

"A step."

"That doesn't sound so bad," Nina tried to encourage her. "does it?" the girl looked to the rest of the Sibuna's all of whom, bar Fabian and Amber who were staring at the bugs and worms shook their heads. "Just one step towards the tank. Everyone."

Alfie, Camilla, Nina and Patricia step forward easily. Amber and Fabian stepping forward to just a little after them.

"Great," Nina smiled at Fabian and Amber, "now all you have to do is take another step when you're comfortable."

This again caused Alfie, Camilla and Patricia to step forward. Bugs didn't faze them at all. Nina smiled at the three as she joined them, Fabian took a deep breath and stepped forward too. Camilla felt him grab her hand tightly as he reached her side and Camilla smiled at him encouragingly not mentioning the death grip he had, she'd step with him.

Alfie and Patricia almost lazily strolled up to the boxes of bugs, Nina being a little more slowly but still making it to the table. Fabian took a few more steps (Camilla by his side the whole time) but didn't reach the table before he stopped. Amber however never made it past the first step. None of them said anything to her, in fact Camilla pulled the girl into a hug as Patricia and Alfie put the bugs away whispering encouragement to the girl. The hug seemed to work as she cheered up a little but they Sibuna's could all tell the blonde was glad to be out of the classroom.

Camilla had been given mail that day, mail she recognised instantly as it had the Blood Red and blue Symbol of Rutter Archaeology and Discovery embossed on the corner of it. Fabian recognised it too but Camilla took the letter and stuffed it into her bag before he could. The twins never reached out to their parents, and Camilla had in order to ask about John Clarke so she knew it was a response to that. Of course, she wasn't expecting much, but she felt Jerome wasn't ready to tell anyone about his dad just yet it was better she didn't accidentally tell Fabian. Camilla looked at the letter in her hands as she sat in the student lounge, her feet tucked under her. She was surprised the letter was slightly thicker than normal which she hadn't expected but like every letter, she got from her family she was too scared to open it. She couldn't help but scold herself at her fear of a little letter, Sibuna where all facing their fears and here, she was not doing that.

Thankfully a distraction came in the form of Mara and Jerome, Jerome had walked into the room and Mara rushed in after him – neither of them having noticed Camilla yet as she subtly listened in to their conversation. Her eyes stayed focus on the cream envelope as the two spoke.

"What do you mean Camilla was there with Poppy?" Mara said sounding almost angry, it didn't take Camilla much to work out they were talking about Jerome's visit to his dad the day before.

"You do think Camilla would really let Poppy go alone?" Jerome countered with a sigh, "my dad did mention the thing, but he couldn't tell me what it was because the girls were there." Camilla's interest peeked at this. What was it his dad wanted to tell Jerome?

"That's weird."

"I know, I defiantly need to go alone next time," Jerome said.

"Pity," Mara said in a quiet voice, which Camilla assumed was meant to be flirty, but by this point, Camilla couldn't help but look up to see Jerome looking her way with a confused look in his eye. Camilla lifted the letter and sent him a forced smile before she looked back down at it again.

Jerome then seemed to lick onto what Mara had said, "why? You miss me?"

Mara shook her head, as she too glanced at Camilla then back at Jerome, "No, I mean your family now you should all be together."

"Right..." Jerome trailed off not clearly believing her. Camilla couldn't help but feel weird hearing the two, something Poppy had said to her dad had been running through her mind since the girl said it, and watching his interaction with Mara knowing his crush on her had shocked her into a realisation. She didn't know when it had happened but it did. She liked Jerome, of all people in the school to crush on her heart, had chosen the one guy who was already too engrossed in another girl to even think to look her way. Well done Camilla.

"Well, I just want to know what the big secret is." With that, Jerome walked over to Camilla and sat down opposite her on the table with a sigh. It was clear he wanted to talk to her but it was a fleeting visit. Jerome plucked the letter from Camilla's hands and twirled it to see she hadn't opened it yet as Camilla watched Mara send her a dirty look before leaving the room.

"When this is all over and the Queen of the geeks breaks your heart again, promise me you will let whatever you have with Mara go," Camilla said without thinking, turning to look at Jerome with a sad smile. "I know you like her; we all know you like her. I'm not saying don't give it a shot now Mick's gone, but just make sure you're not her backup option okay."

Jerome looked at Camilla ready to retort until he saw the look in her eye, she wasn't saying it to be mean to Mara she was saying it as a friend to him. She was just looking out for him and saying everything as she saw it. Jerome smiled at her and handed her back her letter, "I wanted to thank you," he said almost laughing as Camilla gave him a confused look, "Thank you for going to see Dad with Poppy, somehow the two of you see something in my dad that no one else can," Jerome explained as he ran his hands through his hair, "he really liked meeting you, he was so happy during the visit, he wasn't like that with me and Mara,"

Camilla leaned forward, "want to know how I know your dads a good person?"

Jerome laughed. "sure, what's your magical method."

"that I know you and Poppy are good people, some of the best really, so your dad must be a good person too." Camilla said as if it was that simple, "that is a fact. That's all that matters, everything else is just noise."

Jerome's smile widened as Camilla talked, "Thanks Milly, I honestly needed to hear that," he told her as he got to his feet. The girl watching him leave the room with a small smile.

"You know what I like about you?" Eddie's voice came from behind her causing Camilla to jump and one of the windows in the doors to study hall cracked as a wave of magic was flung across the room at it in surprise from Camilla. Thankfully she seemed to be the only who noticed before she turned to Eddie who had thrown himself down onto the couch next to her with some weird Spaghetti Bagel thing in his hands, "You never assume the worst about anybody,"

Camilla gave the boy a disgusted look as she put the letter back into her bag instantly, knowing that the rest of her free period was going to be her and Eddie just chatting and doing nothing which she was happy to deal with, "Do I want to know what you are eating?" she asked in a disgusted voice. Causing the boy to sit up and start explaining what he was eating.

Amfie had officially broken up, but Camilla wasn't sure how to react about it because neither Amber nor Alfie really seemed bothered about it and were still acting the same as ever which just made Camilla pretend it didn't actually happen. After a week of exposure therapy, the Sibuna's wanted to test their progress.

Camilla and Patricia had helped each other in a way no one else knew about – though Camilla suspected Fabian knew. Patricia had come across Camilla playing with the letter from her folks one night, still unopened, and the two girls had had a very long in-depth chat. About Camilla's feelings of being unwanted and Patricia's fear of touch and not letting anyone in. they didn't think it help as much as the physical test they where now about to do with Fabian and Amber in the biology lab but through tears, it had helped the two girls a lot in general.

"Okay, I'm ready," Amber told Camilla, who put her hand into the tank with bugs and picked one out.

"Remember the training," Patricia told her, "think of it as a little Alfie."

With that Camilla put the bug into Amber's hand. Amber squealed as she touched it, "Hey Alfie!" she squealed, "you're not soo bad," she didn't seem happy but she kept a hold of it for a full minute until she dropped it back into the box.

"Okay! I think you're ready!" Nina told her encouragingly, before turning to Fabian with the worm Alfie had dug up from the garden that morning in a plastic cup. Fabian lifted his hand to her and closed his eyes.

Nina poured the worm into his hand and the boy flinched as it touched his palm but opened his eyes to see the slimy little thing wriggling around, "I think I'm ready too..." he told them as he too then dropped the worm back into its tub quickly. The two may be able to tolerate the beasties but that didn't mean they liked them.

"Alfie?" Nina asked turning to look at him.

"I think so," he told them all as they looked his way, "I spent the whole night under my bed, and no stones fell on me!"

"Okay then!" Nina said excitedly, "let's get this thing done!"

Before they could even tidy up the classroom Mr Sweet and Victor came bursting into the room. "Ah, students." Mr Sweet said with his normal spring in his step as he saw them all. "you'll remember we have a zero-tolerance on jewellery at the school."

This caused all of them to give the teacher a confused look as they had never heard of that rule before.

"No." Patricia spoke up in confusion, "I don't remember that."

"Well, eh, never the less we do." Mr Sweet pushed on as Camilla glanced to Victor in suspicion, something that was heightened as the man refused to look in her direction. "we are doing a spot check today to make sure that all students uniform is consistent."

"All jewellery please," Victor said stepping forward to the 6 of them, holding his hand out to them.

"No," Patricia told him.

"Patricia, please." Mr Sweet tried to argue only to get her to shake her head at him and cross her arms.

"If you do not wish to comply," Victor threatened, "Your punishment will be a new house curfew. Straight to your bedrooms after dinner, and you will be monitored."

The Sibuna's looked to Nina to lead on what to do, the girl let out a defeated sigh and pulled her amulet from around her neck and gave it to Victor, the rest following. Mr Sweet saw the only one not to do so was Camilla, "You too Miss Rutter."

"Victor..." Camilla hissed, her hand going to the golden chain around her neck.

Victor raised his hand at Mr Sweet and shook his head, "No... no... Camilla may keep that," he said getting a small smile from Camilla who heard Nina scoff from down the line and knew the American girl was getting sick of Camilla's special treatment though Fabian and Amber looked as relieved as Camilla that she got to keep her amulet. To the three students understanding it was one of the few things keeping her magic at bay, goodness knows what would happen to the school if it was taken.

"How did you get to keep your necklace, Camilla! I am sick and tired of your preferential treatment!" Nina angrily said as they sat in the student lounge after Victor's Jewellery kidnaping.

"wait for you like it when it comes to things like sneaking into Victor's office but the moment it inconveniences you then your pissed at me?!" Camilla snapped simply crossed her arms and looked to Fabian as he started to talk,

"GUYS! We had to do it. There is no way we can risk having Victor guarding us around the clock." Fabian spoke up, "we can get the amulets back."

Nina was pissed off and it was understandable, "we don't just have to get them back we need to get them back soon or it's over..."

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