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Series 2, Episode 71 ~ House of Forgeries
The Sibuna's needed to put their plan into getting Trudy back in motion ASAP, which started with the biggest hurdle – the twins confronting Jasper about the truth.
"So, I had a terrible dream last night," Alfie started as he led Jerome into the Library exhibition before classes that day, neither boy surprised to see the other Sibuna's there already. "where Vera was a double agent, Rufus was a kidnapper and the twins uncle was a mole!"
Jerome wandering over to where Camilla was sat on a table, a silent conversation happening causing an eye roll from the girl but a nod of her head.
Amber's eyebrows furrowed at Alfie's speech as she looked to Patricia for some sort of explanation because as far as she was aware everything the boy just said wasn't a dream, it was reality.
"different kind of mole Amber," Patricia spoke up from her spot on the bench under the window that wasn't an uncommon spot for many people who were forced along to the exhibition/library by their friends.
"I wish I could say it was all a dream," Nina spoke up from next to Fabian, the twins both looking nervously to one another.
"Ohhh, whats with the grim faces?" Jasper's voice caused them to turn around, Jerome holding a hand out to help Camilla jump of the desk she was on. The girl took her place next to Fabian at the front of the little group, arms crossed as she looked at her Uncle. "so, what can I do for you?" he asked cheerfully, causing the twins to look to one another.
"Well," Amber happily started off the interrogation knowing neither Camilla nor Fabian would, "first you can grovel then you can help us get back Trudy and our dollhouse." She simply put it. All of them slightly enjoying the shocked look that crossed Jasper's face as he realised what the blonde girl had said. The man's head-turning to the twins who were both looking at him with hurt expressions.
"you shouldn't have told them, Jerome," the man said to the boy who stood behind Camilla.
"and you should have remembered my warning." Camilla retorted instantly defending her friend in a dangerous tone of voice that even caused Patricia to look at Camilla in shock.
"neither matter because you should have been honest with us in the first place." Fabian's soft upset voice was such a contrast to his sisters that it told Jasper how hurt the pair really were with his actions.
"I didn't want to put you two in danger," Jasper explained to the pair, "Trudy got too involved and look whats happened to her. You two are the most important people in the world to me." Any fight in Camilla went out at this statement of her uncles. "I was trying to keep you safe."
"Safe smafe!" Alfie scoffed, "we have a protector already and she's been doing a better job than you all year." Camilla looked down at her hands with a small smile creeping onto her face at her friend's words. She hadn't felt like she had done a lot of protecting or at least good protecting this year – they were all cursed by a spirit – but it was nice to hear her friends were backing up her job role. "no, we are going to bust out Trudy, arent we?"
"Look Jasper," Nina spoke up crossing her arms next to Fabian, "we know Rufus, we go way back. He's pure evil."
"Which is why we need your help," Fabian added.
"though we do have a secret weapon of our own." Amber flicked her hair behind her shoulder as if it was no big deal, looking to Camilla and giving her a wink.
Jasper looked at Fabian and Nina with a solum expression, causing Fabian to sound alarmed as he added, "you are going to help us aren't you?"
The man looked between Fabian and Camilla, noticing in his silent pause they both reached for each other's hands like they used to do when they were scared as children. A lot had changed since the pair where small children but he still saw them as the young pair who used to hide their broccoli in napkins at grand meals and curled into his side on rainy days at the manor happy to hear stories of Egypt. Well, Fabian was happy to hear the stories Camilla fell asleep almost every time. Even from the way the pair were standing now in front of him nothing much had changed, Camilla still stood ahead of her brother, leading the way into the adventures the pair would have. so, she could deal with the majority of the scraps and bruises but knowing in enduring them her brother would still come along for the ride, Fabian being there to almost always (depending on the adult) talk them out of whatever trouble they go into from dirty clothing to broken vases. He needed to stop acting like the pair weren't the young adults that stood before him, no matter how many seminaries to the past he still could see.
"Everyone has an Achilles heel." Jasper spoke up, giving the students the information, they needed, "and The Collectors is antiquities. The one thing he wants more than anything else... is The Mask of Anubis."
"yeah well you can tell him to get in line," Amber rolled her eyes, not understanding why so many people wanted an 1000-year-old mask that wasn't even pretty – if the fake was anything to go by.
"No!" Fabian spoke up, "but what if Jasper tells him he has the real Mask of Anubis, Rufus will want to meet him – "
"-While he is gone, we can rescue Trudy," Camilla finished for him with a grin on her face.
"great plan, tiny flaw." Patricia pipped up turning to the twins.
"What?" the two said as one.
"We don't have the mask..."
Nina had moved across the room to the display case which held the replica mask, "But Rufus doesn't know that." She said softly.
"We use the replica." Fabian nodded getting excited as he raced over to Nina, "you are brilliant!" he told her giving her a hug.
"what about this secret weapon?" Jasper asked looking between them all.
Camilla looked around before letting out a sigh, "I am our secret weapon; Rufus wants me dead that badly he won't expect me to come running to the guillotine... so to speak." Jasper looked at his niece and his eyes soften as he realised, she knew the full story. It was her Rufus was after. Jasper got the distinct feeling that the small girl, and her friends, knew why the man wanted her so badly.
Even with their huge heist mission after school the Sibuna's still had to go through 6 hours of classes. Thankfully their last class of the day was a double drama which was being held in the student lounge area so they could use the stage if they wanted – Sibuna racing to the raised stage to dump their bags and to sit there so they were a little away from everyone else. Camilla took a seat on the stairs and Jerome sat behind her seeing her leg bouncing up and down as she tapped her black heels with studded straps (which didn't look appropriate for school but for sure an Amber choice) against the ground. She had been like that all day, school being the last place she wanted to be but knowing she needed to show face.
"Relax Mills," He whispered in her ear as he placed his hands on her shoulders, Mara giving the pair a dirty look as she took the play, they were working on from Ms Valentine and started to hand them out. The pair missed the dirty look from the girl as Camilla looked up at him, her body relaxing slightly at his touch.
Mara wasn't the only one giving the group a dirty look as when Camilla looked away from Jerome, she noticed Joy shoot Fabian and Nina a look from across the room – making sure to keep a mental note of it as something told her she needed to.
"Okay Alfie," Nina spoke up causing the pair on the steps to look to the Sibuna's, "you're going to give the replica a spray job...please make it look convincing."
Alfie nodded, "Artroom here I come." He mumbled lifting the rucksack bag of Camilla's she used in school and on digs which currently held the fake mask of Anubis in it before slipping from the room.
"What if Rufus knows its only a replica?" Jerome asked the group as Camilla put her arm on his leg and used him as a lean, causing the smallest of smiles to fall onto Amber's face as she watched Jerome's face light up slightly at the girls casual use of him as a lean – she knew right now wasn't the time to be in Shipper mode but the two were so cute even when they didn't mean to be, god help her when they actually got together.
"Well if Alfie does a half-decent job," Fabian spoke up with a frown as he too watched the interaction with the pair on the stairs, "he won't be able to tell."
"No one has seen the original, not even Dickwad Zeno," Camilla added reassuring Jerome.
"So, let's just make this clear," Nina spoke up, "Jerome, you're going to take Fabian, Camilla, me, Amber and Alfie to the barn once Alfie gets done with the mask. Then we wait while Jasper lours Rufus too the mask."
"Okay," Jerome nodded his head.
"Patricia, you don't mind staying here to cover for us?" Nina asked the girl.
"Yeah, I'll just attract attention if I can take a leaf from those two's handbook." Patricia nodded to Camilla and Jerome and this caused the troublemakers on the steps to smile slightly at her words. "I've noticed Sweetie's been taking even more of an interest in me, now I'm dating Jr."
With that the Sibuna's dispersed around the room, waiting for Alfie to get back so they could make exits to find Trudy.
"Alfie!" Nina hissed from the door to the corridor, it was the latter half of their double period and they all had managed to sneak away during the break, "Alfie?!" after no response Camilla watched as the girl pushed open the door to go collect him, causing Fabian to take up her place by the door to see what as going on.
"Arent you two going the wrong way for the Shakespeare test?" Mr Sweet's voice came causing Amber to look defeated as she turned away from the door. "come on Alfie, readiness is all."
"And then there where four..." Jerome mumbled.
"Okay, two less to protect..." Camilla couldn't help but mumble as Fabian shut the door. They were having to do this rescue mission without the pair. Time was already of the essence and they could waste any more of it.
Had Camilla known this barn Trudy was being kept in was so far away she would not have chosen such a good outfit for school that day – or at least not worn the heels she had on. Thankfully she had a Jerome who she could sweet-talk into giving her a piggyback.
"Why am I carrying you?" the boy asked as they trudged up a farmland path. Fabian arm in arm with Amber ahead as the girl talked to him about the new dress she had designed.
"because these," Camilla stuck her foot out so they both could see the heels, "are £170 shoes. I am not getting them dirty."
"You own £170 shoes, why?"
"I was with Amber in London on a day trip. Long story short. Amber said they made my legs look, and I quote her here "sexy as hell""
This explanation caused a laugh from Jerome before he whistled ahead causing the pair in front of them to turn around, with a jerk of his head toward the wall they all knew it was time for stealth on this mission... even if it meant going into a disgusting dirty field in cute heels.
The four Sibuna's all hid behind the wall as they got to the barn, a car was seen in its court yard area so they knew Rufus had yet to leave to meet Jasper yet.
"So, I have two questions," Amber spoke up as she and Camilla huddled together for warmth as Jerome kept watch on the car from over the wall with a pair of binoculars, he had brought in his school bag. "One why are Nina and Alfie not here yet? And B, why do you own binoculars?" this caused a laugh from the twins as they looked up at Jerome, "you know what? Don't answer that."
"what do you see Jerome?" Fabian asked the boy.
"Well it doesn't look very good – Get down!" he quickly said as he ducked down. All of them hearing the creaking of a door, before a phone started to ring. After a while, the start of a car engine could be heard before a car drove off.
Rufus had taken their mask bait.
"We're all clear," Jerome said as he and Camilla popped their heads up to check the coast was clear. "so we've got four padlocks on a huge barn door, and eh... no. no key." Jerome groaned as Camilla and Fabian looked to one another bemused at his moaning. Camilla taking the curby from her hair as Fabian took one from Amber.
"This won't be an issue..." he told the boy before running from his hiding spot, putting an arm around Camilla and lifting her until she reached concrete. Amber and Jerome on the twin's heels.
"What are you doing?"
"one useful thing my rebel roomy and sister have taught me." Fabian explained to the pair. "we do this for Camilla, Nina, Trudy and the mask."
"not to mention my dads' gem... whilst your making lists," Jerome added.
Causing the pair of girls to roll their eyes at the two boys they found themselves with on this heist as Fabian got to work on the padlocks. Camilla knew he wanted to prove a point so allowed him to go ahead.
"I supposed I shouldn't be surprised Rutter," Jerome spoke as he stood next to Fabian watching the boy work on the last lock – Amber and Camilla on lookout huddled together – "I guess you'd want to break into a library or something."
There was a click as Fabian opened the last lock and the girls hurried to him with excited expressions. "let's do this." Fabian said before he opened the heavy creaking door with Jerome's help.
The first thing the four saw was the dollhouse in the dark light of the barn, but that was all they really could see.
"Trudy?" Fabian called out as he carefully walked into the room, Camilla right behind him ready to pull him away if needed. As their eyes adjusted to the darkness they saw their old house mother curled in a corner, chains on her wrists, eyes shut. "Trudy!"
"TRUDY!" they all called as they saw her.
"unlock her!" Amber demanded as she pulled the last curby from Camilla's hair and handed it to Fabian who started to work on the woman's restrains as Amber sat next to Trudy to comfort her.
"What are you doing here?" Trudy asked the two who where next to her, watching as Jerome and Camilla looked to one another before looking around – the gem was somewhere here. "its dangerous."
"that's why we brought Camilla." Amber explained simply, "don't worry Trudy we are busting you out!" with that the familiar click of the lock was heard and Fabian let out a triumphant noise as Trudy slipped free of her restraints.
"what you've been through," Amber comforted the house mother as Fabian rushed to the dollhouse to examine it, ignoring the pair searching for the gem. "I mean look at this place, someone really needs too fire housekeeping."
"I'm just sorry I ever let that harpy Vera Devenish through the front door!" Trudy exclaimed.
"Trudy," Fabian called out, "did Rufus do anything with the dollhouse?"
"oh, he was fascinated by that. Bit odd though, a grown man playing with a dollhouse?"
"Find anything?" Jerome asked Camilla who shook her head at him causing him to groan telling the girl his search was useless too.
"what about a gem?" Camilla asked turning to the woman in the slight hopes she had seen it.
"what?"
"look, guys, we've got Trudy," Amber interrupted before either Camilla or Jerome could go on, "let's just go."
"she's right, guys come on," Fabian ordered.
It was too little too late. As Fabian pushed on the door, they found it was locked. They were trapped inside and Rufus knew it.
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