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CHAPTER 4

My line of vision was blocked as Dabria attacked. All my eyes could see was her vicious grin as she pounced. Images flashed through my head. Mum, Vee, Dad, Dorethea…Patch.

"Nora?"

I shut my eyes, saying silent goodbyes to all the people I'd loved.

"NORA!"

"AHHHH!" Dabria's scream of pain caused my eyes to fly open. What I saw was something I never thought I would see ever again. Patch, coming to my rescue. I didn't know why he was, or how he was even holding Dabria off after what he'd been through. But he was there, blocking her, fighting her off, saving me. My mind raced with thoughts. I didn't know whether to stay put, help him, try to escape or hide.

Patch answered my thoughts. "RUN!" He shouted back over his shoulder before receiving a blow to the jaw, courtesy of Dabria. I rolled myself off the lounge, getting ready to crawl to the door.

"GET UP NORA! RUN!" Patch yelled. He'd managed to throw Dabria into a wall and was now walking over to finish the job.

Weighing my options, I thought I may be able to push through the pain and I pulled myself up. I winced in anticipation of the pain that would soon be shooting through my ankle, but nothing came. I sprinted for the door, and still nothing came. Not bothering to question how this was possible, I continued to sprint out into the night, crashes and cries of pain continuing behind me.

It was still storming and I couldn't see much in the dark fields surrounding the shack. Thunder roared and raindrops hit my already soaking clothing. Lighting illuminated the sky and I saw about 10 metres from me was a silver sedan. I ran to it, praying Dabria had left the keys in it. My bare feet slipped and I slammed into the side of the car, a howl of pain escaping my lips.

I pulled myself back up and wrenched down the door handle. The door didn't budge. "Damn it!" I cried as I continued trying to open the door. I slammed my palm into the window out of frustration, causing my hand to throb furiously.

Hurting all over, I turned away from the car and ran. It was the best I could do. I just flat out sprinted in what I hoped was the direction of the road. Just one foot in front of another, as fast as I could. Hopefully it would be enough.

Tired and panting, I peered back towards the house. All I saw were the headlights of the sedan heading straight at me. I screamed and ran forward. I slipped again and fell face forward into the ground. The car screeched to a holt beside me and I looked up to see the passenger door being flung open.

"Nora! Get in!" Patch shouted from the driver seat. I got up, not knowing whether I could trust him enough to get in the car. For all I knew he could be playing me. But at least he hadn't run me down, which I took as a good sign. "Nora! Now!" His words made me decision for me and I jumped into the car, slamming the door behind me. Patch hit the gas and we were flying towards the now visible road.

"What the hell happened back there, Nora?!" He yelled, his volume causing the small car interior to vibrate.

"You're asking me? I think you should be the one explaining!" I yelled back at him.

"Me! The last time I saw you was at the library! Then I find you tonight, in the middle of nowhere! Dabria was about to kill you, you know!"

"Oh thankyou so much for telling me, I wasn't aware!" I screamed back at him. We both went silent.

"I'm sorry Nora. You just have no idea what seeing you in that cabin did to me. My heart is still racing. If I'd been there a second later, I could've lost you forever." His apology filled my cold body with warmth.

"I know…me too." I said, looking up at him. We went back to silence as we travelled through the night. I couldn't help but think about how he'd said the last time he saw me had been on Tuesday. Four days ago. The same amount of time Patch had been missing before he showed up in my room.

"Hey…you wouldn't, by any chance…remember where you were for the past four days?" I asked in a softer tone than I'd used during the screaming match.

"Of course I remember, I was…" he stopped. He moved his mouth to begin talking again. Then closed it. I raised my eyebrows. "So maybe I don't remember. Care to enlighten me?"

"I don't know where you were. You just disappeared. You didn't call or anything. And then you showed up in my room…" I trailed off, surely he would have to remember what had happened tonight.

"When did I show up?" Apparently not.

"Earlier tonight. You don't remember?"

"No, I don't Nora. Just tell me what happened." He wasn't very pleased about not being able to remember.

I paused, wondering how I could possibly sit here and tell Patch the horrible things that he had done. He turned his head to look at me. His eyes locked into mine and I could see how desperately he wanted to know what he'd done. I opened my mouth and begun to recount the events of the evening. Once I'd begun, it was surprisingly easy to keep going.

I went through it all; him cornering me at my house, the neon crash, the walk to the shack, the spell. He flinched when I told him what he'd done to me; the broken ankle, the punch to the head. His face flared up with rage when I told him what Dabria had been planning to do to me. But he never interrupted. Just listened.

"…And that's when you came back in. Right before she…well, you know."

His face showed a pain expression as he remembered Dabria attacking me. The expression faded and he took a deep breath, "so you're telling me…that I'm...that I've…got a split personality?" Disbelief and shock coloured his voice all at once.

"Yes. Dabria found the spell in The Book of Enoch and used it, except in reverse. But something definitely must have gone wrong."

"What do you mean?"

"Well she told me that your other side, the one that she didn't need, would be destroyed. Yet…you're good-"

"For now." He said, sounding depressed.

"What?"

"Well, knowing Dabria, the magics she worked could have gone very wrong. She's not one for details and anything from that book would have involved a ton of specifics. I mean, the fact that both of my halves are appearing is proof that she messed the spell up." He looked straight at me, ignoring the empty road. "We have no idea how long I'm going to be…good. I could change at any moment."

I shuddered. "But you killed Dabria, so shouldn't this spell thing end?"

"Nora, I didn't kill her. I just managed to slow her down. Then I grabbed her keys and came to find you." At least this time he owned up to not finishing her off.

I had been pretty sure he hadn't killed her. The way he had driven up to me in the field, his yelling at me to get in the car. It had made me suspect she wasn't gone. But hearing him say it out loud was no less of a shock, but I had to roll with the punches. "So, if your 'evil half'," it sounded strange to say that out loud, "does reappear, then it will most likely take me back to Dabria?"

"Probably." He said wearily.

"And we have no idea when your other half will appear?" He didn't seem to be grasping what I was trying to say. There was a minute silence.

"Shit!" And he finally got it.

"Yeah…"

"So I guess we have get you as far away as possible from me." He sounded very reluctant to turn his words to reality, which let me know that at least this side of Patch still loved me. He didn't want to leave me and I didn't want to leave him, but I didn't know if I could survive another run in with Dabria and evil Patch. I let out a sigh. Why did my life have to be so complicated?

"Where should I go? Or shouldn't I tell you? In case your other half finds out. I mean your other half might remember everything. Maybe you should just drop me somewhere and I'll run."

He mercifully stopped my rambling. "Nora, I know that I can't stay with you…but I'm not leaving you without some sort of protection from Dabria…or me," he added quietly. "Plus I don't think it would be too hard to find you at Vee's."

Damn. "Then where do I go? I can't go home, or to Vee's. They're my only emergency options and you've just ruled them out."

"I don't know. Let me think about it."

We sat in silence while Patch went through his list of options. The black road passed beneath the car soundlessly. Mass upon mass of open fields surrounded us down the sides of the road.

"Well, what are we doing Patch?" I looked over to him. His face appeared to be resolved.

"We're gonna visit an old friend's." He said before making a tyre screeching U-turn. "Buckle up, angel…"