I looked at Nathan, not sure what to say. "What do you mean you ignored Violet for fourteen years?" I finally managed to choke out. Nathan looked at me angrily. "Nothing… just- just shut up…" he said still gripping my wrist. "What are you keeping from me?" I asked.

"Nothing!" he shouted, more anger in his voice, but there was something else there, something like shame, something that you'd hear from a person who let out a very dirty word or told a very dark secrete. I looked at him. His big green eyes seemed to be larger than normal, and full of something like knowledge that he didn't want to have.

"What are you keeping from me?" I asked him, curiosity bubbling up inside of me. He looked at me and sighed. "I should have known some day you'd figure out." I wanted to point out that HE was the one who let it slip, but I figured we were actually getting somewhere.

"It was 14 years ago… I was five and Violet was only one… you weren't born yet… and V.F.D. came… to my- her- OUR house, and they took me… but the car they took me in was hit and exploded… the only ones who survived were The girl you met when you first came here, Lavender, and me… They told me I couldn't tell you… because if I did the fortune…"

"Would go to you, and none of this- me "Dying", Olaf being our guardian and hunting us down for the past year, and all those deaths!" I finished his sentence for him. He bowed his head. "I'm sorry." But the thing was, I wasn't mad; in fact I had never been so happy.
"But this is great!" I shouted, "Now we can fix this all! You can inherit the fortune and YOU can be our guardian…."

"No," he said sadly, "I can't, I'm dead, remember?" He sighed and bowed his head. I didn't look at him the rest of the way back.


When we got back to the large building marked: Victoria Faught, Dentist, Nathan stormed inside and ran into Lavender, who was holding a tray of cups and plates that fell to the floor. "NATHAN!" she shouted angrily as a cup of coffee spilt on her white nurse's dress. "If you HAVE to act like a stuck up… Nathan… what's wrong? Klaus, are you okay?" I didn't reply at first. I was angry that Nathan had lied to me, and not told me he was my brother. "So, Lavender, are you going tell me that you're, like, my sister or my cousin or something?" She looked at me awestruck. "How did you- Nathan, did you- you weren't supposed to!"

"ARE YOU!" I asked shocked. "No, no, no, I'm not your sister or cousin or anything like that." I sighed but then saw a face like Nathan's when I had confronted him. "Actually, I'm more like you're father's dad's sister's niece's uncle's daughter three times removed." She said quickly trying to get it over with. I wanted to ask, "Why didn't you just say second cousin three times removed?" but was too flustered to say a thing. Finally I managed to choke out another question bugging me, "So, all of these people, the people I thought I didn't know, do I know them?" Lavender blushed. "Well, technically you DON'T know them… most of them came here before you were born…"

I flushed, why hadn't they told me this? So much of this pain could have been avoided, and I wouldn't be hiding from Violet like this... "I'm going to bed!" I huffed and stromed up the stairs. Lavender yelled something after me about, this was why they didn't want to tell me, but I ignored her, slamming my bedroom door. I flopped on my bed fully dressed… I don't remember falling asleep, but I remember wakeing up to Nathan standing at the foot of my bed. "Nice going genius!" He shouted at me, "You led her right to us! And SHE led THEM to us!"