Robyn looked at Cain with annoyance. He'd not revealed his secret and seemed perfectly content to prattle about Lily. Every time she tried to direct him back to when he said he wanted to talk to her privately he would tell her to let him finish. Eventually Cain did finish and as far as Robyn could tell he'd been talking for hours.
"I wanted to talk to you about you. Mother is extremely disappointed in you. She thought you had such potential. You were to be the key to her revenge; you were supposed to be like her. There is evil in you though. It's deep down inside and suffocated by all that love and kindness you swear by. I want you to release your evil, let it take over. Join me and together we can do great things." Cain urged.
Robyn shook her head. "I'm not like you or her."
"Yes you are. When you look at yourself in the mirror who is it you see? She is inside you. Her heart beats with yours. You and mother are one and the same. Her evil rests in you and one day no matter how hard you fight it the evil will win. When that day comes I'll be there to aid you in our quest. Our names will be written in the stars along with our mother's."
Cain's words swam in Robyn's mind. He'd hit a major nerve. Robyn feared the part of herself that was attributed to Lily. It threatened to overpower her with every passing year. As much as it was buried there was something of her mother within her. A black thread that ran through her personality. A poison that ran through her blood. When she looked at herself in the mirror there was something of Lily in her face, in her hands. The very hands that had killed her father.
Looking at Cain Robyn spoke with unequivocal calmness, "you don't have to be like her, neither do I. Fight it. Fight the evil. It is so much easier to be evil, only the strong can be good and you can do it. There is good in you, it's buried like the evil in me but it's there."
"There is no good in me. Only evil."
"On high mountains where it's freezing cold and too high up for anything to live a plant grows against the odds. It hangs on despite snow and storms. Even in the cold temperatures of the night it lives. It survives. It fights the darkness and continues to grow. When the snow is gone and the sun shines upon it the plant blooms. That's when people notice it. Other times they'd not know it was there. The good in you and how to find it is just the same. No matter how much darkness there is inside it stays alive. It clings on to life and hope that it will see the sun. You can-"
"ENOUGH!" Cain screamed back handing Robyn fully across the face with all the strength he could gather. "I'll not hear anymore."
Robyn shook her head, "you only say that because you know it's true. That's why you hit me. You can feel it inside you. Let it go. Let it fill you and banish the evil. You can do it-"
Robyn's words were stopped by Cain charging up to her, grabbing her and shoving her against a wall, hard. He held his scalpel to her neck and pressed it against it. His hand shook as he pressed it even harder wanting to silence the words of his sister.
Heavy rain had started to fall over the town. It was so heavy it extinguished any remaining vestiges of the fire. With his job done Fire Chief Bell made his way over to the house he knew Sportacus and his friend to be at. The news he had to break wasn't good but there was a hope that if this girl was as good at looking after gardens as her reputation said she was it might be saved.
There was no need for Fire Chief Bell to knock on the front door as he'd been spotted walking over to the house and he entered. The four men inside looked at him expectantly.
"The fire is out and it didn't get a chance to spread. Now that all the smoke has died down we know what caused the fire. The whole garden reeks of fuel and we found a fuel can and matches. Some kind of pyromaniac thought he'd light the garden up. Unfortunately all of the beds were soaked in the fuel and it seeped in. The soil is useless." Fire Chief Bell explained.
Doctor Cole thanked the fire chief for his help and let the man out. Whilst he closed the door Doctor Cole's cell phone went off and he answered it. The other three men listened attentively to the doctor's end of the conversation but got confused so they waited for the call to end. It did so in two minutes.
Noticing he had an audience Doctor Cole filled in his three companions, "that was the head of the search effort. They've found something in the cemetery. It wasn't Robyn but something extremely interesting. From the looks of it Lily's grave has been exhumed and the body is missing. They can't tell how recently it was done and unfortunately it doesn't give us any clues. Instead of heading over to Crazytown the teams are going to sweep in the opposite direction beyond here."
"Why?" Kit asked a little confused.
Doctor Cole smiled, "someone driving their car spotted a man carrying a young woman over his shoulder in that direction. It was called in just as I was told about the cemetery."
Cain couldn't do it. As much as he forced himself to draw the scalpel across Robyn's pale throat his hand wouldn't comply.
Punching the wall in front of him in fury Cain hissed, "What stops me from killing you?"
Not able to speak Robyn cautiously placed a hand on Cain's cheek and drew his face closer towards hers. Never taking her eyes away from Cain's for a second Robyn kissed him. Cain responded to the light kiss and deepened it. Pulling away Cain then let Robyn go.
"Leave me." He ordered, "You'll find the door quite easily. Never come back here."
Robyn made to say something but Cain repeated his order with a terrific ferocity. While she still had the opportunity to go she left. It was cold and still raining outside, the air was fresh however and she breathed it in deeply. Choosing a direction to go in Robyn headed for what she hoped would be home.
"Robyn! It is Robyn isn't it?" A voice called through the darkness.
Robyn turned around to see where the voice was coming from and a familiar feeling filled her. "I'm Robyn. I also know what you are. Who you are I'm not sure about."
The spectre smiled, "I'm Detective Christopher Miller. We've met before."
"I heard. What brings you here?"
"I'm here to guide you home and it would best if I did so quickly. You'll catch your death out here in that flimsy thing." Detective Miller indicated the bath robe.
Robyn smiled sheepishly, "It's not my usual attire."
The Detective chuckled and started walking indicating that Robyn should follow. He knew of the fate of the girl's garden and wondered if he should tell her. The route they were taking back to Lazytown would take them very close to the garden if not dangerously so. Making decision Detective Miller turned around to look at Robyn while walking backwards.
"I have something to tell you. Before you were taken away by our friend creepy Cain he did something to your garden." Detective Miller said.
Robyn frowned, "like what?"
"He burnt it. There's nothing left Robyn. It's all gone."
Robyn stopped walking and tears sprung to her eyes. The garden she had worked on for nearly eleven years had been destroyed. It had helped her through some of her darkest times including the death of her father and now it was gone. The pain she was feeling at its loss would have easily have been triple what it was if her father hadn't returned.
