Fabian followed the dark shapes to the clearing. Exactly where he thought they were going!

He stood behind a tree and waited. When he got tired of standing, he got down on his stomach in an 'army crawl' position, never taking his eyes off the shapes. As his eyes adjusted to the dark, he decided that the faces of those he was spying on were very unusual. He decided that they must be wearing some sort of masks.

Another dark shape appeared, but he could clearly make out the human features. He appeared to be towing a slightly smaller shape behind him. When they got a little closer he recognized the smaller shape to be Patricia and the bigger shape was Rufus.

His mind was racing as he watched. He heard both of the groups arguing. He couldn't make out anything until they began to yell.

"I DON'T CARE IF YOU ARE THE BETRAYER! You HAVE to give back our PUPIL- this is COMPLETELY OFF LIMITS!" Yelled a woman's voice from underneath one the masks. Upon hearing the voice, Fabian had enough sense to realize that the masked woman was his teacher.

Fabian saw more negotiating and nodding of heads. He secretly rooted for the masked side since he saw that they were trying to help Patricia. He watched the masked side take out a vile of some liquid.

Rufus shook his head and reached for his pocket. Fabian stifled a gasp as he saw that Rufus had a gun and was now holding it to Patricia's head.

There were more negotiations and Rufus lowered the gun- momentarily. The masked side was now pleading. But suddenly, Fabian saw another dark shape jump out of the shadows and expertly knock the gun out of Rufus's hands. It was VICTOR! Fabian was breathing quickly, wide-eyed as he watched this all unfold as if it were a high action film.

Victor yanked Patricia over with the masked teachers and began talking loudly so that Fabian could hear again,

"You have failed! Again! Why even try?" Victor mocked.

Rufus only chuckled as he reached into his boot and pulled out a smaller gun. The teachers and Victor in response all stood in front of Patricia. Surprisingly, Rufus lowered his gun.

"Failed have I? You think you have gotten all of your pupils back? THINK AGAIN! I have two more girls from the House of Anubis! How long do you think you can keep your pathetic little school running with TWO missing students? You wouldn't want anything… happening to them… Would we? Then you would lose the House forever!" Rufus shot back as the group, cutting every word sharply.

Fabian's heart sunk at this news.

"Don't you DARE think of following me," he said finally twirling his gun as he backed into the forest and out of sight.

In the silence that followed, Fabian realized that Victor would soon be making his way back to the House; Fabian had to beat Victor back. Or else, he would be locked out again. As thoughts rushed through his head- he couldn't decide on what course of action he would take once back in the House. He still feared for Nina. Oh. And Amber.

Lost in thought, he bumped into someone. They both yelled until Fabian realized it was Amber herself! But she wasn't Amber-ish. Her hair was a mess, and her pink coat was ripped and dirty. Moreover, she continued screaming long after he stopped.

"Amber! Shut up!" he said loudly, scared that their yelling would carry far enough to reach Victor and the Teachers.

"Fabian- oh, I love Mick. WWVBD? Because I hate biology. I can NOT room with Mara anymore. Victor killed a cat, I'm so scared. Sibuna…." Amber strung random phrases together as she hazily stumbled back to where she came from.

Fabian was unable to reason with her, so instead led her back to the House. Once inside, he sat her down in a common room chair and Victor came in only five minutes after them. Patricia was nowhere in sight.

"What are you doing up? It is well past 10:00!" He said narrowing his eyes at Fabian. Then he caught sight of Amber.

"What is this?" he said demanding an explanation.

Fabian made up a half-truth, so as not to let Victor know what he had been doing earlier, "She came to the door of the House looking like this! I can't reason with her. I think something is wrong with her head."

"Go to your room and I will deal with this," replied Victor.

As Fabian walked (very slowly) up the stairs, he heard Victor calling for Trudy.

"Yes?" replied Trudy, probably still cleaning dishes in the kitchen.

"Please take Miss. Amber to the hospital- it would seem that something is terribly wrong with her." he commanded.

After this exchange, Fabian walked to his room and was brushing his teeth and TRYING to calm down when he heard a knock at his door.

Mick groaned and Fabian quickly rushed to open it.

"You two," he barked, "Common Room. Now."

They obeyed. Soon everyone in the House was sleepily assembled in their PJs.

"What is this about?" asked Jerome grumpily.

"House rules calls for a nighttime head count at some point so that we can be sure that everyone is where they should be," he explained dismissively.

Fabian knew two things: (1) Victor would have only answered that question for Jerome. Victor liked him best. (2) Victor MUST be trying to figure out who was missing from the Anubis House.

Fabian looked around, desperately hoping Nina would walk down the stairs with her signature smile.

He wished this whole night was just a big joke.

But when he turned to talk to someone, he realized the only one he wanted to discuss this freaky night with was Nina. But she wasn't there.

If Fabian knew that Nina was actually in the trunk of Rufus's car, he probably would have jumped into action. But Fabian didn't know.

As he sat with his friends in the common room, he tried to convince himself that Victor would try to help her- just as he did Patricia. But little did he know that Victor adamantly protested against giving into Rufus' demands. Victor and the teachers would just have to settle with giving the police (their allies) the job of finding her.

Nina's POV**

After the Amber incident, Nina knew something was wrong. She knew Amber would NEVER leave without her on purpose. So she yelled and yelled until she fell asleep.

Nina was rudely awakened with the slamming of a door outside. She scrambled in the pitch black warehouse for the pipe she had used to try to break down the door and crawled quietly to a corner in an attempt at hiding.

She heard the door open and watched long shadows fell across the room. She hoped desprately that he would not spot her in the dark and maybe he'd just assume that she had escaped. But all hope for this was lost when he flipped on the lights.

Nina's eyes burned and she instinctively shielded her eyes.

She saw Rufus' shape coming towards her- and she tried to weld the pipe. But his larger body easily pinned her to the ground.

She found herself being gagged and bound as he muttered to himself,

"Only one girl? The other escaped? Fine then, I'm not taking any chances this time."

She tried to resist but he was able to pull her out to his truck and throw her in the trunk.

Before he slammed the trunk, she heard him repeat again, "I'm not taking any chances this time."