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Series 2, Episode 55 ~ House of Oblivion
Nina rushed into their room where Amber was sat in bed, "we can't find Alfie anywhere, have you seen him?" Nina asked, Camilla, smiling and waving to her friend from the doorway.
"I just saw him," Amber told them both with a nod.
"Where?" Camilla asked instantly she was getting worried for the little boy.
"In the wardrobe..." Amber pointed.
"Narnia, of course!" Camilla laughed before pushing past Nina to rush to her wardrobe, opening the doors and letting out a gasp. Nina behind her letting out an equally surprised gasp as she saw the baby that was cuddled up in little Alfie's old clothes. Things were getting serious and fast.
"Come here cutie!" Camilla cooed softly as she reached up and picked up baby Alfie putting him onto her hip and starting to bounce him as she turned to show Amber what they had found. The baby gurgling happily as he grabbed onto the friendship necklace Amber had bought Camilla and was currently around her neck.
"Hi Alfie," Amber waved at him as Nina started to panic a little.
"Right, we need to figure out baby food..." She mumbled starting up the usual pacing one of the Rutter twins did in their room, "do either of you know what babies eat?"
"Milk?" Amber suggested watching Camilla battle the baby for the necklace with an amused smile on her face. "I think they drink it, don't they?"
Nina looked to Camilla who bopped Alfie gently on the nose as she got her necklace back, the girl was clearly way to distracted to answer her question. Thankfully more help came in the forms of Patricia and Fabian, both of whom gasped as they saw the baby in Camilla's arms, before turning to Amber who got more gasps from the pair, "where have you two been?!" Nina demanded of them.
"I know this is bad, but it's not as bad as Alfie," Amber pointed out to them reassuringly.
"But look how cute he is though..." Camilla cooed causing Fabian to smile and wander over to her, Alfie grabbing his finger causing both twins to laugh slightly, the baby lapping up the attention.
"Patricia," Nina turned to the girl desperately, as she seemed to be the only one not distracted, "look at me, I know this looks like it getting worse by the second, but we are going to fix it."
"Ha!" Camilla couldn't help the response as it left her mouth causing the two girls to look her way watching as she put Alfie back in her wardrobe it seemed like a safe spot for the small boy, "I'd have more faith in Hitler right now. At least he kept the promises he made to people." Camilla told Nina crossing her arms causing Patricia's shoulders to shake as she laughed and Nina to send Camilla a glare.
"Anyway, where did you find Fabian? Was he outside? In school?" Nina asked ignoring Camilla's comment altogether, noting the harsh truths were becoming harsher and harsher by the second, as she turned to Patricia.
The girl wrote something down on a notepad but when she turned the notepad around no one could understand the weird writing that was on it. "Patricia's hex is now getting worse too," Camilla pointed out causing Nina to nod her head in agreement.
Patricia looked at them both confused before turning the paper around to see the weird symbols on it and looking shocked to see them.
"Okay for now let's just say he was outside," Nina spoke in a forced calm voice.
"Yes!" Fabian agreed as Camilla nudged him with her elbow causing the boy to look away from baby Alfie in the wardrobe and adding himself to the girl's conversation. "Yes, em, I was outside." He told them with a smile.
"Yeah!" Nina excitedly encouraged.
"Em... I had something to tell someone important..." Fabian added a frown creeping onto his face as he glanced to his twin, who shrugged she wasn't sure because sometimes their 'important's' were very different. She realised this when Fabian packed 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner for them that summer, the girl needed a bottle of each for her hair. She was now under the hands of Amber and nothing but the best could be used. "I know there was a someone, and a something." Fabian trailed off looking apologetic.
"Can someone please tell me the plan," Amber begged them all, fear creeping into her voice as she realised that if her age was increasing there would be a point where there was nothing else left to age... "because if Alfie can turn into a baby what's going to happen to me?"
"I second knowing the plan." Camilla raised her hand aloft slightly looking to Nina expectantly.
"Amber, please don't worry," Nina tried to reassure the girl but from the look on Amber's face, it didn't work.
"Nina," Amber spoke up before Camilla could, it was clear the reassurances meant nothing to the group anymore. They needed to fix this and fix it now. Nina had to get it through her brain that though she wasn't cursed it was her fault they were like this. "Patricia can't communicate at all. Fabian's probably going to forget his own name and who his sister is, and I don't want to think about what will happen to us all when Camilla gets asked the wrong question by someone and she can't help but tell the truth, which will expose Sibuna to everyone."
"I could never forget Camilla," Fabian shook his head arguing with Amber causing Camilla to send him a small smile.
"If you think that's bad," Amber pointed to Alfie, "wait until he needs changing!"
As if it back up Amber's point baby Alfie decided then to let out a large excited squeal.
Fabian looked at the baby and back around at the group, "so what's going on here?" he asked in a confused but polite way.
"you are right," Nina told Amber with a sigh before looking at the team, "this is really bad."
"now she clocks on," Camilla muttered slightly.
"Okay, maybe I should just check the dollhouse-"
"No, no, no..." Fabian spoke up slightly as he glanced to Nina from beside Camilla, "I mean what's going on in here..." he glanced to his sister, "Cam, who are these people?"
Camilla opened her mouth shocked; she didn't actually think they'd get to the point where Fabian would forget their friends. Maybe she had slightly more trust in Nina's 'we can sort this' mantra than she had originally thought.
"Fabby..." Camilla whispered slightly in shock, but her tone had more worry laced into, "they are our friends...our family."
"Fabian..." Nina's voice caused Fabian to glance away from his sister and to Nina, looking at the girl blankly.
"Is this some huge prank of yours Cam?" Fabian asked with a slight laugh before looking to his sister and seeing the serious look on her face, instantly knowing it wasn't. "Cam, who are these people? Any of them?!" he demanded in a more serious tone.
"How does he remember you, Cam?" Nina hissed slightly causing the pair to look her way. Camilla still seemed slightly shellshocked by the whole thing.
"I'm really sorry," Fabian told them all with a tight smile, "I don't know what Cam told you but... I shouldn't be here, eh... I'll just go." With that, he left the room.
"FABIAN!" Nina shouted running after him.
"Why does he remember me? The bond of old..." Camilla whispered slightly as the door slammed shut once again.
"What did you say, Camilla?" Amber asked, watching Camilla's eyes light up and excitement flood her face.
"The loophole... The bond of old!" Camilla excitedly told her friends.
"I don't know what that means." Amber dismissed it, but Camilla didn't care she was already out of the door running after her brother and Nina.
Nina looked close to tears as Camilla, gasping slightly (she still wasn't good at this sprinting thing, she defiantly was a distance runner than a sprinter) ran up to her and Fabian.
"Why did I come in here?" Fabian asked.
"Guys!" Camilla gasped slightly as she rushed into Fabian's room, causing both of them to look her way. Nina using that as her opportunity to wipe at her eyes. "I –" She took a deep breath, "I found a loophole for the curse... at least for me and Fabian."
"What?" Nina asked slightly.
"The Bond of old," Camilla laughed, "the one our spirit bitch mentioned."
"What about it?" Nina asked slightly annoyed by Camilla's outburst.
"Fabian remembers me, memories of us, because of that... I think," Camilla explained slowly, "so maybe he'll remember things if we are holding hands or something..."
Fabian looked at his sister oddly, and spoke with her as she went to explain, "Magic always has a loophole," the twins spoke together a smile on Camilla's face and Fabian looking curious.
"it's better than nothing..." Camilla added, looking at Nina.
"But why you two?"
"He is my home, my constant, my twin, my blood, and I am his." Camilla looked apologetically at Nina who was taking the news hard that Fabian remembered Camilla over her, even though Camilla was his twin.
"Guys, where am I?" Fabian asked looking around the room, everything felt familiar but there was something he just couldn't quite remember where he had got them.
"This is your room Fabian," Nina explained for the boy softly, "don't you remember? You share with Eddie."
"Look around Fabby, recognise anything?" Camilla added.
The boy glanced to the bed and smiled slightly at the picture on the bedside table.
It was a recent one, in Camilla was laughing at him off-screen, a red neckerchief around her neck, a white spaghetti strap top on and one of his blue and white flannel shirts handing off her shoulders, her sable fedora hat falling off her head, eyes squinting as a goat (whom he remembered to be called Gary) licked her cheek, the goat wearing a matching neckerchief. The picture brought slight blurry memories to his mind, of pyramids and the laughter and swearing that came with a dig.
His gaze moved from the top of the bed to the bottom of it where an Ox Bell sat snuggly in the mess his duvet was in. "Is that mine?" he asked looking to the two girls.
"no," Camilla instantly spoke up sounding suspicious as she looked around the room. "and it shouldn't be here."
Nina, however, raced forward and grabbed the bell, "come on, let's finish this task." She turned to Camilla raising the bell and the girl nodded.
Camilla grabbed Fabian's hand and gave it a squeeze before they followed Nina from the room and back to the girl's bedroom.
Camilla let out a laugh as Nina lead them back into their room, clearly, Patricia had been playing with baby Alfie and had managed to get sick all over her.
"The cow bell you found it!" Amber spoke up excitedly as she noticed what Nina had in her hands. "where was it?"
"Fabian's room." Nina grimaced slightly.
"So, you guys did steal it..." Amber whispered horrified until Camilla shot her a look. "or not then..."
"No, they didn't! I'm sure of it!" Nina defended the twins, "but now that we do have it, we might as well take it down to the tunnels, use it and get it back to the library as quick as we can." Amber and Patricia nodded their heads at Nina's words.
"Sorry, come again?" Fabian asked, looking to his sister. He remembered their trip up the stairs but he didn't understand the context of what was going on, or who any of the people in the room were apart from his sister.
"you're just going to have to trust us..." Nina told Fabian softly.
"I don't even know you," Fabian told Nina apologetically.
"I'm Nina..." Nina's voice broke and before she could say anything else Camilla stepped in.
"Trust me," Camilla told her brother softly.
Fabian looked to Camilla and nodded squeezing her hand, "I always do. I trust you with my life."
"And I trust you with mine," Camilla added softly, causing the twins to smile to one another.
Nina looked to Camilla, "I really hope your loophole works..."
"I do remember coming up the stairs..." Fabian spoke up causing Camilla to smile smugly at Nina, as her loophole did work.
"We have to do this now," Nina told the group, "we're going to finish that task and put you all back to normal," Nina glanced at Amber in her bed, "Amber, we need you to stay and take care of baby Alfie,"
"No –" the girl started to protest.
"Ambs," Camilla smiled at her, "we can't take the little monkey down to the tunnels,"
"We still have enough of us to play the tune," Nina added with a smile, "and you can just look after him while we're gone. Okay?"
Begrudgingly Amber nodded her head in agreement.
"If you're with me say Sibuna," Nina said looking around the room.
"Sibuna," Fabian instantly said.
Camilla rolled her eyes but spoke, "Sibuna."
"Sibuna," Amber added with a smile, the hope of their curses being gone back in her eyes.
Patricia due to not being able to speak put her hand to her eye with a smile.
Sibuna were back in action and all of them felt the same hope as Amber, they could be normal soon.
Surprisingly the coast was clear as they snuck down to the tunnels, which was just weird. Normally someone was around in Anubis house, but for some reason today nobody was.
The tunnels would never get appealing, Camilla was sure of that as she and Fabian walked behind Patricia and Nina arm in arm – keeping some kind of contact so Fabian could remember what was going on.
Nina looked at them all as they reached the task chamber and Patricia, Camilla and Fabian stood themselves in front of a horn each, watching as Nina placed the bell onto a hook near the bottom of the horn's pole. "Okay," Nina spoke up nervously as she, Patricia and Camilla glanced up at the ceiling. This was probably their last attempt before it fell down on them. "it looks like we've only got one more chance before those cracks join up, and the roof comes down."
"No pressure then," Camilla added causing a snort of a laugh from Patricia.
"Fabian blow when Camilla squeezes your hand okay," Nina told him causing the boy to nod his head at her instructions. Camilla said they could trust her, so he was trusting her. "let's do this guy." Nina grinned looking at her friends before taking a deep breath and blowing into the first horn.
Rhythmically the four played the song of Hathor, ending with Nina ringing the Ox Bell. The four took a step back and looked around the room, all of them waiting for the worst to happen.
But it didn't.
In fact, the very thing they wanted to happen, happened. The door to the next task room opened. "Guys we did it!" Nina exclaimed pointing to the door, "well done it worked! Patricia speak to me!"
Patricia opened her mouth and gurgled a little, causing the three with her to look at her confused.
"it didn't work?" Nina asked looking confused, "you're still cursed."
"no, no, Nina..." Fabian rushed forward to comfort the girl, "Nina don't worry..."
"I know but..." Nina turned to the boy who had let go of his sister and now had a comforting hand on her arm, eyes widening as she realised, he had called her by her name. "wait... you remembered my name."
"of course, I did," Fabian laughed looking at her, "I would never forget you."
"Oh sure," Camilla spoke up crossing her arms, "and I am the Virgin Mother Mary, you bloody forgot them all,"
Nina let out a laugh and pointed to Camilla, "Cam, you lied..."
Patricia let out a cough before she spoke up, "and Fabian has his memory back."
"You have your voice back...RIP peace and quiet," Camilla laughed causing Patricia to punch her shoulder but the girl happily laughed along with the rest of them.
"Let's take a look in the next room!" Fabian excited spoke up.
"Wait, we should come back later," Nina told them all, "we need to check on Amber and Alfie."
"And get that bell back to the museum," Patricia added.
Nina grabbed the bell and linked her arm with Patricia as they walked out of the room, Fabian hanging back looking to his sister.
"What?" Camilla asked looking at him defensively.
"I don't remember much of my forgetful time," he told her honestly, "but I do remember you, standing up for me with Trudy and everything else. you didn't have to worry about me."
"Well... I did," Camilla responded sounding like a five-year-old.
Fabian smiled and pulled his sister into a hug, knowing he could pass on his thanks to her easier that way.
"I love you," Camilla whispered into his blazer, being glad she could hide her face a little.
"I love you too," Fabian told her honestly, as they pulled away both smiling, before running to catch up with their friends.
Camilla had not felt so much joy as she did when she ran into her bedroom to see Amber looking as beautiful and young as ever, a mirror in hand as she tripled checked she wasn't old anymore.
"Young, Blonde and Beautiful again!" she exclaimed happily to them all.
"oh, it's not like she is too modest to admit it," Patricia teased as they all laughed at the blonde's comments.
"I see you've got your voice back!" Amber happily squealed to Patricia.
"yep."
"Fabian, Camilla? Memory and Truth?" Amber enquired.
Fabian smiled before speaking, "I think I remember you having an old wrinkly face?"
"Oh, I can't remember anything of the sort." Camilla countered causing Amber to gasp and throw pillows at the twins teasing, causing Nina to burst out laughing as she had all her friends back to normal again.
There was a loud banging noise from inside Camilla's wardrobe and Patricia wandered over, "little help!" Alfie's voice came from inside. Patricia opened the door and he popped his head out from inside, "Can, eh, someone pass me a uniform?"
"Fabian your spare one is under my bed," Camilla told the boy as all the girls looked away to give Alfie some chance of modesty. Fabian running to his sister's bed and handing Alfie the spare uniform which he gratefully took.
So Alfie could change they all waited in the hallway for him, the boy emerging with a grin as he looked around at them all, "Camilla I can officially say you are the best babysitter a boy could ever ask for. Guys, our kids are in for a treat one day with this one as an aunty." He told his best friend throwing an arm around her shoulder's causing them all to laugh.
Patricia took the Ox Bell of Nina, "you guys should go back to class," she told them in a knowing voice, "so they don't suspect you, twins you especially, tell them I'm not feeling well or something." She brushed off the excuse with a shrug she knew they'd come up with something decent, "and I will take this back to the library after I de-puke."
"Sorry about that," Alfie laughed from beside Camilla, "my mum always said I was a little bit eh... gassy..." this caused them all to pull a face but, they all headed off to school anyway. Chatting and care free riding the high of beating the task and having themselves uncursed.
"WOW," Alfie let out an exclaim as they walked through the corridors, "I forgot how the world looked at normal hight." He then crouched and stood up straight again with the comments of 'before and after' causing a giggle from Amber.
"I will never take my incredibly good looks for granted ever again." The blonde told her best friends, "I hope none of you do either." This caused Camilla to burst out laughing as she looped her arm into Alfie's and the three walked down the corridor ahead of Nina and Fabian as they wandered into the study hall and settled themselves down on the chairs.
"May I ask what it is that I have done," the voice of Patricia caused them all to look up to see Vera and someone who looked like Patricia to wander in. The twins looking to one another as they could spot a twin a mile off – the joy of twin powers -, whoever this was, this wasn't Patricia.
"Your attention please," Mr Sweet timidly spoke up as he looked around the class, "a very serious matter has been brought to my attention. There is a very high likely hood that the Ox Bell, that was stolen from the exhibition, is in the position of someone in this very class."
Instantly they all got to their feet and grabbed their bags to leave, but was stopped as Victor appeared on the stage blocking that exit path.
Camilla frowned as she looked at the man, crossing her arms, hearing Amber from beside her mumble, "oh no, we are trapped."
"Eh, Mr Sweet?" Camilla turned to face the headteacher smiling sweetly at him, "who told you this little fact?"
Mr Sweet looking uncomfortable and glanced at Vera before smiling back at Camilla, "it was an anonymous tip," he told them, but his glance to Vera was enough for the Sibuna's to know who had called in the tip and Camilla glanced to her with a venomous look. "now I have no choice but to instigate a bag search." Mr Sweet spoke up as Nina tried to subtly ask if 'Patricia' had managed to pull the bell away or not. "everyone..." the students knew how bag searches worked too well and all of them bar 'Patricia' opened their bags for Victor and Vera to look through them, Victor rushing to Camilla's first knowing the probability of something magical from their lab being in her bag was high – the man wasn't disappointed as he saw the grimoire she was reading, crystals, and a few potions rattling around in her bag.
"Miss Williamson," Victor turned to 'Patricia' as Vera finished the bag search for the other Sibuna's, noting the way she was clutching her bag to her, "open your bag please."
The Sibuna's waited with bated breath as they expected they were going to be caught any second now with the Ox Bell...
Just after they had completed the task too.
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