Prompted By: Neddie24Surviver

This is set during Jerome and Patricia's fake date, the only difference is I made Jerome do it to make Joy jealous because Jeroy is pretty adorable:p

Patricia's POV

"So just to make this clear, this is a fake date. I'm trying to make Eddie jealous and you're trying to make Joy jealous." I say.

"Obviously! As if I would ever date you." Jerome shivers, "You're the icy queen of ice."

"Gee thanks." I roll my eyes.

I bend over to get the sandwiches out of our picnic basket when Jerome starts talking again.

"Patricia, someone is watching us." He whispers.

"What do you mean? Who is it?" I whisper back as I continue looking for our sandwiches, trying to look inconspicuous.

"I don't know, they're wearing a black cloak."

I casually glance up and see the hooded figure hiding in the bushes. Whoever it was seemed to notice my stare and ran off towards the woods.

"C'mon!" I jump off the bench we were sitting on.

"What?" Jerome says.

"Let's follow them!" I point in the direction the figure ran off in.

"Are you mental?" He asks as he slowly gets off the bench.

"We can discuss that later, now come on! They're getting away!" I begin sprinting into the woods.

"Wait! Trixie! What if it's a murderer or something? I don't want to die!" He calls after me.

I ignore him and continue running. No wonder he isn't an official Sibuna member, he's not even used to life threatening situations.

I'm about to give up when I run right into a body. I'm about to scream when a hand covers my mouth.

"Don't scream, they'll know we're following them." Jerome whispers harshly.

I smack him on the arm, "You idiot! You scared me half to death!"

His eyes widen as he sees something behind me.

I give him a confused look and slowly turn around.

Rufus. He was the one watching us.

How come we can never get a break from him?

"They saw me. No, they didn't realize it was me. Relax, I lost them. They have no idea it was me." He says reassuringly into his phone.

I feel a tug on my hand and turn to see Jerome waving me back in the direction we came from. I take one last glance at Rufus before following him back to the school.


"Oh my gosh. That was awful! He's actually alive! How is that even possible?" I exasperate as we walk through the door into Anubis house.

"I don't know and frankly I don't care! All I want to know is why he was watching us! And who he was on the phone with!" Jerome responds.

"Who was watching you? Who's alive? What's going on?" I hear an all too familiar American voice question.

"Nothing! Nothing's going on." I turn to face Eddie.

"Yacker, I heard you say it! You can't just deny you said it." The American retorts.

"Said what?" I play innocent.

"Jerry, tell me what's going on." He turns to Jerome for information.

"Nothing, you must have heard wrong." Jerome shrugs.

"No I didn't! You just said someone was watching you! If you're in danger I want to know about it! Yacker, please." He says desperately.

Jerome turns and looks at me, I don't have to look at him to know that he wants me to tell Eddie. Well guess what, it's not gonna happen.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." I look him in the eye.

"Alright enough of this. I was going to play along but Patricia, this regards your safety." Jerome gives in.

"Okay what is going on?" Eddie asks again.

"Rufus was watching Patricia and I while we were on our date." Jerome confesses.

"What? You and Patricia had a date? Are you guys like together now?" He clenches his jaw. Is he jealous? Score!

"Did you not just hear what I said? Rufus was watching Patricia and I!" Jerome emphasises.

"On your date. How could you not tell me something like that? Why-wait a second. Did you just say Rufus was watching you guys? Like Rufus Zeno? The one who kidnapped you before?" His eyes widen.

"No the other Rufus in our lives." I roll my eyes sarcastically.

"Are you okay?" He looks at me with concern.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I say softly.

"I'll leave you two to talk." Jerome heads toward the kitchen while Eddie follows me up to my room.

"Now are you okay?" He asks as he shuts the door.

"No." I whisper.

He sits on the bed with me and places a hand on my back.

"Why is he following us? What does he want?" I ask teary eyed.

"I don't know, but don't worry about it. I'll protect you, he won't get anywhere near you." He reassures me.

"Thanks." I give a small smile.

"So are you and Jerome like, a thing now?" He asks.

"No, the truth is I was trying to make you jealous." I blush.

"Oh thank god!" He sighs out of relief.

Kinda sucky but I typed this super super quick! Sorry for the super late updates, I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to keep up with this story:/ I might end it soon, I suck at one-shots haha