Okay here it is guys Chapter 2! Sorry if it's a little short but I swear I'll make it up to you guys!

Kitty sat in the window of her apartment. It had been 10 years since the demon Nouda tried to take over the world. The images of the demon-inhabiteed bodies of the magicians still burned brightly in her mind.

Images of the Glass Palace imploding also inhabited her memory. She stared blankly out of the window, her eyes not taking in the Egyptian sunset that burned brightly on the horizon. She didn't even look around when Jakob walked into the room. In her mind she replayed her last conversation with Nathaniel and Bartimaeus.

"So I'll see you both outside? Promise?" She had said

"Yes."

"Yes. Now – go." That had probably been Nathaniel

She faintly recalled a feeling of disbelief but she had run anyway!

"You promised." She whispered

"Thinking about that magician again?" Jakob Hynrek asked as he sat down next to her

"Yeah. Every day…" She said and continued to stare out of the window.

"Even after all that stuff he did to you when you were in the Resistance?" he said "Kitty he practically forced you out of your house and made you get a new life!"

"I know, but it was different! When I was in the Resistance I was a threat, then…that night… I was just…me, and we were…friends, I think" she said "Well if anything we were on the same side." Jakob put his arm around her

"Well he's dead now, there's nothing you can do but hope that his death was quick and painless." Kitty leaned into him

"Yea, I guess you're right" Jakob smiled and kissed the top of her head

"That's my girl"

They sat there like that for awhile. Kitty let her mind slip into thoughts of the future instead of the past. There was so much to do before- what was that?

Kitty looked to the windowsill where a strange bird had landed. It stared at her with deep black eyes that looked as clear as the night sky.

"Bartimaeus?" she said and stood up. She took careful steps towards the bird, les it was just that, a bird, and flew away.

"I thought I might find you in Egypt"

"But-how? Didn't you perish with Nath-"she couldn't bring herself to say his name out loud "with him…"

"The poor bloke dismissed me right before it was time to let the spirits in the Staff go." He sighed "It was quite, tragic…"

"Oh shut up! Don't go telling me anything about how he died. I suffered enough trying to run away from it all." She said and turned her back on the djinni

"But he's not dead." At that Kitty turned around

"What? He's not, but how?"

"You can ask him that yourself"

"He's here!" she said excitedly and turned towards the door expecting him to walk in

"No, he's not… I don't know where he is quite frankly, but I have orders to find out where you are and tell him."

"Well go tell him then!" she said too excited to even comment on the fact that he was enslaved by Nathaniel. "That's right shoo!"

"Alright, alright I'm going!" he said and ruffled his feathers. He then flew away from the windowsill.

Kitty watched him fly away into the Egyptian night sky.