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Series 2, Episode 69 ~ House of Sabotage


"God's help us..." the familiar phrase of Camilla's slipped from Jerome's mouth as he looked on in horror as the man of his nightmares stood before him and Jasper. "Rufus Zeno... but that's impossible." the utter horror that came with those words was something that Jerome had not missed.

Time had not been a friend to Rufus apparently. The scars at the top of his forehead where he had been attacked by the Egyptian killer wasps the year before were visible even against his sickly yellowing pale complextion, his eyes were hollow with large dark circles under them. Though all this just seemed to add to the unnatural chaotic energy of the man that caused fear to drill into Jerome to his very bones.

Suddenly The Collector's want for Camilla – most probably dead - made a little more sense. She had been the one who had given the Sibuna's the advantage the year before with her powers, perhaps he wanted to nip that in the bud before she did something similar again.

Jasper seemed to freeze in place allowing Rufus to turn on his heel and stalk back to his car. Jerome not daring to move until he knew the vehicle was out of sight but the moment it was, he raced straight to Jasper. He needed to know if Jasper knew how deadly Rufus was, and how the man got himself caught up in the mess they now found themselves in.

"Jerome..." Jasper turned as the boy approached him.

"I thought he was dead..." Jerome whispered to himself in shock.

"He's not going to get away with it this time!" Jasper had worked himself into a rage as he raced to his car opening the door. Jerome racing to the passenger's side knowing when a Rutter – even if Jasper was an adopted on – got into the state the man was in now, sometimes it was safer they had someone watching over them.


"the worm is in the hole." Alfie came bumbling up to Camilla, Fabian and Nina with Amber and Patricia on his heels. Fabian had been keeping Camilla close in worry and Camilla wasn't going to complain about it – bar the fact she had to deal with geek talk all day - "I repeat the worm is in the hole. Eddie's laptop is virused to the max!"

"Excellent work guys..." Fabian congratulated them half-heartedly as it felt wrong for him to put a virus onto someone's computer.

"Now all we have to worry about is tracking down the dollhouse," Nina told them all with a sigh.

"Oh yeah..." Camilla groaned as she lifted her blazer just as Fabian closed his locker and the group started their walk down the hall.

"someone might have seen something..." Patricia told them all trying to remain positive. "I mean it is a big dollhouse."

Fabian let out a sigh, "yeah but it was in the middle of the night and no one will have seen anything..."

"shame Anubis walls don't have eyes," Alfie commented causing Camilla to stop dead, thus the Sibuna's did too.

"What was that Alfie?" she asked the boy turning to look at him.

"Shame Anubis walls don't have eyes?" Alfie repeated as Camilla turned to Fabian and Nina with an excited look hoping one of the geeks could put two and two together as fast as she had.

"Lounge Camera!" Fabian's eyes widened as he and Camilla spoke together with excitement. Eddie and Mara in their backwords way to find the ghost might have helped them find their dollhouse thief.

"Maybe we're starting to get somewhere." Patricia laughed as the smiles crept onto all the Sibuna's faces as they finally started walking again into the student lounge.

Camilla honestly was hating the world as they overheard Eddie's speech to Joy. It was starting to feel like they took one step forward to take 12 steps back when it came to Eddie and Mara.

"You see the crown is the same as the one on the woman in the footage."

"Now hear us out now," Mara spoke up as the Sibuna clan all walked behind the group of three to see and hear more, "we think it's the spirit brought by the artefact in the exhibition."

"You two think," Joy spoke up missing the very unsubtle walk by the rest of her housemates were doing behind her, "the lady in the video is the unknown ruler?"

"it doesn't matter what we think," Eddie spoke as Camilla watched Nina grab Fabian and rush him away. So much for the twins 'they haven't put a name to the ghost' thesis they had been happy to rant at her at any given time. "imagine how many hits we'd get on this baby!"

Camilla tried not to groan loudly as she sat herself down next to her brother, Nina on his other side and trio on the stage as Sibuna settled themselves on the chairs around them.

"you wanted eyeballs..." Eddie trailed off as Joy paused to think over his comment.

"Okay, so what do we know about her?" she asked the investigating duo.

"Well... not much, seeing as she's the unknown ruler..." Eddie was quick to respond looking to Mara who bit her lip trying not to laugh.

"let me see the picture of her in the cellar again." Joy demanded.

Eddie nodded and typed onto his laptop only to continually hit the buttons in increasing frustration.

"What's the matter?" Mara asked.

Sibuna however were trying not to smile at one another. Patricia's virus software was working.

"I don't know..." Eddie told the geek through gritted teeth, "file looks like its corrupted... but don't worry," he told the two girls he was on the website with digging around in his bag, "got back up files on my stick." He told them pulling out a data stick much to the dismay of Sibuna.

"you know what?" Joy told the pair who were leaning down on either side of her, "you type it up and we go live tomorrow." She handed Eddie back the laptop and got to her feet as the pair celebrated. "I do believe you're getting the hang of this journalism game Mara." Joy couldn't help but add before leaving the room causing the smile on Mara's face to turn a little forced – she knew the dig was to keep her grounded. Joy was very good at that, but it didn't mean it didn't hurt.

"This is a disaster!" Patricia groaned as Eddie and Mara wandered out of the room. Camilla plucking the physic's textbook from Fabian's hand and turning it the right way up – the boy had been trying to appear as if he was working not listening in. "we've lost the dollhouse and now that Article is going to get every armature ghost hunter in the school down there."

"You say that like Victor will let them," Camilla told the girl who shrugged taking in the point.

"not to mention guys the information that article is going to give Vera and whoever she's working with..." Fabian sighed causing a frustrated groan from them all.

"This is hopeless!" was the cry from Patricia. "there is nothing we can do."

"There is one thing..." Nina spoke up in a quiet voice, the look on her face telling them all that she was hating the words that were going to leave her mouth. "Fabian could try and persuade Joy not too?"

Fabian looked at Nina absolutely baffled. The American girl was wanting him to lead Joy on when in reality he didn't feel that way about her anymore. Fabian turned to look to Camilla who was looking at Nina with sympathy in her eyes. They were desperate, which meant things they would never normally do had to be at least considered.

"you know," Nina spoke up, "sweet-talk her." Camilla finally looking away from her and to her brother, taking his hand as she watched the emotions flash across his face. Guilt. Confusion. Pain until it settled on begrudging understanding.

"are you serious?" Fabian asked Nina. To the Sibuna's he seemed confused but that was it, the death grip on Camilla's hand told the girl the mental turmoil he was going through.

"I think I am."

Alfie finally let out the laugh he had been holding in, "congratulations buddy, you're bait!"

"Trish that means you need to apologise to Eddie." Nina also added causing the smile on the girls face to fade, and the smiles on the twins to grow. Patricia had never apologised to anyone at least to their knowledge anyway.

"Excuse me, what?" Patricia demanded.

"it's a two-pronged attack," Nina tried to justify it to her, "you work on Eddie, and Fabian works on Joy..."

Fabian groaned taking a leaf out of Camilla's book and leaning his head on her shoulder causing the girl to sympathetically rubbing his arm.

"Are you going to ask me to get close to Alfie or Camilla to get close to Jerome, because I think we should..." Amber asked the American girl causing Alfie and Camilla to look at her confused, "if that's what's needed for, you know, Sibuna."

"Yes actually..." Nina turned to the three this time Fabian enjoying the moment of looking on amused, "I need Alfie and Amber to watch the lounge cam and find the dollhouse theif." Nina told them causing the two to nod their heads.

"And me and Jerome?" Camilla couldn't help but ask.

"he's Jerome... it never hurts to have someone keeping an eye on him." was Nina's reply.

"Are you sure about any of this?" Fabian asked Nina.

"No." the girl honestly told them all, "but right now it's the only plan we've got."


Camilla had done what she was told and gone looking for Jerome, however, the boy was nowhere to be found. She had even checked the library because Jasper and him seemed so buddy buddy these days and nothing.

As she got back into Anubis house, she saw Alfie running from the living room, the boy saw his friend and instantly grabbed her wrist before racing back to his room camera and Camilla in tow.

"Did they see you?" Amber asked as Alfie came racing back in, waving at Camilla who waved back as she shut the door to the boy's bedroom.

"no," Alfie reassured the girl as he ran over to his bed, plugging in the camera. "but knowing them they had a camera watching the camera."

"no luck finding Jerome?" Amber asked Camilla as she settled herself on the end of Alfie's bed with her the two girls watching Alfie getting to the right clip.

"its like he has vanished which is very unlike Jerome... unless he's up to something." Camilla told the pair with a worried look, "I really hope he isn't in trouble."

"it's Jerome, Cam..." Alfie teased his friend good-naturedly knowing the worry mainly stemmed from the girl's crush

"that's why I am worried Alfie."

"boring Alfie... go further forward," Amber instructed causing the friends to look share a smile before focusing on the laptop screen as Alfie fast-forwarded. The three all sat up as they saw a very familiar figure rushing down the stairs with the dollhouse. All of them hoping it was a trick of the light. "Rewind," Amber ordered and Alfie did as she asked before pausing. Jerome being seen clearly with the dollhouse in his hands.

"What?"

"No..."

"Jerome," Amber spoke up in shock.

"You've got to be kidding me..." Camilla groaned.


Jasper drove like a mad man.

Jerome had never been so happy to get out of a car in his life as the man pulled up in a little lay way away from the abandoned flour mill.

"Come on Jerome!" the man hissed at the teenager who was doubled over unsure whether or not he was going to be sick but knowing he needed to keep up with the man who was rushing away for his own and Jasper's safety.

The two reached the abandoned building just in time to hear Rufus's car's engine switch off, the two deciding the peek around a corner to watch the man as he lifted the dollhouse out of the car and take it into one of the sections of the building that could still be used. There was maybe 3 or 4 at guess Jerome assumed glancing around and the man seemed to have taken the dollhouse to the most maintained area. Defiantly where he was keeping Trudy.

"Gotcha!" Jasper whispered though Jerome didn't share the same enthusiasm. This was Rufus they where talking about the man was always 6 steps ahead of everyone. There was one person alive – to his knowledge – that had outsmarted him and she was currently on his 'to kill' list. "who is he? I have never seen him on the Egyptian circuit," Jasper asked looking to Jerome having seen the knowing look in the boy's eye earlier.

"you might know him as Renee Zelman," Jerome spoke softly, not keeping his eye off Rufus.

"Renee Zelman?" Jasper repeated in shock, "no!" Jasper went to go move but Jerome pulled him back to their hiding spot.

"Just stay there Jasper!" Jerome hissed through his teeth, "please. You don't know what that man is capable of. He is pure evil..." Jerome looked back at the area Rufus had just left through. He was pure evil and he was on the hunt for power and revenge which made him even more unpredictable than the last time they had dealt with him.


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