Disclamer: I'm too poor to afford anything--you guys should know this. In safer terms, I Do Not Own the Sisters Grimm.

14. The Necklace

Arise ~ Flyleaf

Daphne's point of view...

PREVIOUSLY: So in the end, after Tess got Josh to breath, Edwin ran over to the office to tell them what happened and everyone was advised to help search for the missing girl in the lime green sunglasses.

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As I made my way through more trees, calling Jane's name in echoes of everyone else's cries, I realized it's gotten darker, since we've surely been searching for a while now.

Remembering the many FBI shows I've watched with Aunt Goldi--woman sure likes her thrills, cheering on the crime-fighting heroes--I knew a missing person had to be absent for at least 24 whole hours before officially declared missing.

I think.

"Janey! Come out; come out, wherever you are!" I heard Edwin calling. From past experiences I've had with him this week, I knew he was only trying to make light of the situation. If you're wondering what I mean, I'm talking about the time he and Teddy started a food fight in the main cafeteria. As for me, if you're wondering how I got involved with this, well, I kinda had a little too much fun splattering the mean old janitor with a Sloppy Joe.

So in the end, me and two stooges were stuck cleaning the slop off the cafeteria floor with the janitor and threatened with a week of confinement in the lone cabin in the woods, used for "juvenile delinquents". And guess what? Idiot Edwin goes on and on, joking about how we'd hunt for food since we wont be able to eat at the cafeteria like everyone else. Though don't worry, we got off with a warning after I apologized and nearly beat up both boys to follow my example.

Mom would be proud. At least, dear sissy was when I called home a few days ago. Which reminds me, she sounded kind of distant and worried that day. Worse than usual.

"JAAAANE!!!" That must have been Josh--no one else in the whole camp could bellow so deep with the biggest lungs ever, tuba player that he is...

After hours of tripping and nearly loosing my flip flops, getting scratches everywhere imaginable with shorts and a t-shirt on, something shiny caught my eye--something on a small bush up ahead. At first I thought the leaves had magically evolved into sparkling new silver--once you're a Grimm you suspect even the most impossible or even wildest and silliest of ideas.

But after closely inspecting the bush, I nearly jump back.

It brought back too many dark memories.

No. It couldn't be.

But...

Carefully, I picked up the curious little item with a wayward leaf and stared at it silently.

It was a necklace.

A little gray chain with a small, silver spider-web hanging from the end as a pendant. The last and only time I ever saw a necklace like that was around that demented fairy--Moth's--neck. The evil girl who poisoned Sabrina in a twisted plot to take over Faerie.

Though I had to admit, the wacco had good fashion sense; her dress, I mean--not her barefootedness. Definitely not her barefootedness.

Although...didn't Uncle Jake tell us that Queen Titania transferred Moth to the Faerie prison overseas in the Fae Republic? The Fae Republic, by the way, is what's known to regular humans as Verona, the setting of Romeo and Juliet's tragic tale--or so I heard.

But then, why would her necklace be here?

Careful not to touch the necklace in case it was cursed, I placed the broken thing in my pocket and headed back to our cabin--nearly forgetting about the current predicament. Though don't blame me for having Harry Potter superstitious, blame Uncle Jake who thought I must be used to all forms of magic and got me the complete works of J. K. Rowling.

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After searching around in the slowly darkening forest--the painted sky full of magical autumn colors, celebrating the sunset; the end of a day--I heard Melanie passing around, telling kids to head back to the cabins and get a good night's rest while she and some other adults would keep searching.

Maybe something would turn up, she said.

Good or bad, no one specified.

A/N: So whady'all think?

Reviews are highly appreciated and please give me at least one before the next update.

Also, I'm thinking of putting this story on hiatus since interest is obviously fading away. On your part and mine.

As for other news, I think some of you may know that yesterday (April 2nd) was the birthday of famous fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen. So yeah, Happy Belated 205th Birthday, Oh Ghost of Great Andersen! ^^

Also, it was recently brought to my attention that yesterday was also ilovemuffins's birthday as well. So yeah. HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!! xD That also includes anyone else I left out.

~Ly