Rochelle's POV

I opened my eyes to find that I was in a different position then a second ago—horizontal on Ethan's bed rather than vertical. Ethan was also in a different place. When I had closed my eyes—it had just been a second, I could have sworn—he was sitting next to me talking. Now he was sitting at his desk. "I fell asleep again, didn't I?"

"Yeah." I sighed. It had been three weeks since I woke up under the cliff and I had been sleeping for a major part of those three weeks. It seemed like I slept more than half the day away and I always seemed to drop off into unconsciousness during mid-sentence. Most of the time while talking to Ethan, poor guy. I have been falling asleep—I refused to think of it about as passing out, even though technically I guess that was what was happening—less and less recently, though.

"Sorry." He shrugged. He had gotten use to it. "What are you working on?" I asked as I stood. The plan had been to go look over his shoulder, but as soon as I moved, I became so dizzy and sick to my stomach that I had to lay back down.

"Rochelle?" Ethan was instantly by my side, concern thick in both his voice and his gaze. We had been living with the knowledge that I could drop dead any second and it had taken a big toll on both of us, especially Ethan.

"I'm fine," I assured him as I sat up slowly, "just a bit dizzy is all." I held my head and waited for the dizziness to fade. Ethan sat next to me still concerned. When the room stopped spinning enough that I could lift my head without throwing up, I gave Ethan a small smile. He still looked freaked out though. "I'm fine, Ethan, honestly."

His hand rested on my forehead. "Are you sure?"

"Yes." I took his hand and held it in both of mine. "I slept through breakfast and lunch. I'm sure once I eat something, I'll be fine." I wasn't lying to him...technically. I had slept through breakfast and lunch—which I told him—but I grabbed something before heading to his house—which I neglected to tell him—so I was just giving him a half-truth...technically. Besides, it was for his own good.

"Do you want me to go get something?"

I shook my head. "I think I should go home...just in case." We always thought that if I did die, that it would just be quick. I would just drop dead, but what if that wasn't the case? What if it would be slow in painful? There was no way that she could allow Ethan to watch her go through that.

He watched me for a second before finally nodding. "I'll walk you." Slowly I stood and checked to make sure that the world would stay still enough for me to walk. When I was sure the world would hold, we left.

Ethan told Laura that he was going while I fought to keep vertical. A migraine was starting to form in between my eyes and the pounding became more intense with each heart beat. The trek up the mountain was pure agony. A burning started in my chest and was slowly working its way down to my toes. I had to lean on Ethan half way there because my knees were about to give out. We barely got through the opening when I collapsed because of the pain. "Rochelle!"I tried to scream but my voice was lost in all the pain and fire.

I felt each pounding step like a hammer to my temple as someone—probably Arkarian—ran down the hall. "What happened?"Yes, it was Arkarian.

"I don't know."Someone touched my shoulder and it felt like they were trying to horse-drawn-and-quarter me. This time my scream made it out. Whoever it was pulled back immediately, but the pain remained.

Tremors racked my body as violent as a 10.5 earthquake. The fire continued to spread throughout my veins until it finally boiled over and erupted. It was like the Acropolis was happening inside my body. And it did not stop even when I passed out from the pain. I felt every single assault as it happened.

When I regained consciousness, I was laying in a bed instead of the floor of the entrance so someone had obviously moved me at some point. I carefully turned my head to see if I was indeed in my room—it was—and saw that Ethan was sitting in a chair at the foot of my bed. "You're awake,"he said relieved.

I went to nod, but regretted the tiniest movement when the wicked stilettos decided to attack my brain again. "Unfortunately," I mumbled while holding her head. The bright side was that my headache had turned to mere tapping on my skull instead of jack-hammering, my muscles were still twitching, but no longer seizing, and the fire in my body had been put out. Overall I felt a hell of a lot better then... "How long was out?"

"Two days."

"Two days!" I bolted upright and was immediately betrayed by my body. All the sudden the spasms came back and I fell to the floor. My ears roared, my stomach churned, and my throat constricted. I thought she heard Ethan call my name, but I couldn't tell.

And then as soon as it came on...it stopped. All the pain was gone. my muscles calmed, my stomach settled, and the pounding ceased. I laid there on the floor a moment to make sure that it was really over and then looked confused at Ethan, who was equally confused. Gingerly I sat up and waited something else to happen, because surely that couldn't be it...right?

Just then Dartemis appeared, his timing impeccable as ever. "The magic has solidified."

"Yeah, I kinda figured that out when the Acropolis started happening inside of me." The slight twitch of the corner of Dartemis's lips made my temper, which had grown immensely short by the two days of all-consuming agony, flare into live. "You knew!"

"Not about the so-called Acropolis, but I figured that there would be some pain."

"You never thought to mention that?"

"There would have been not need if you would have come to Athens as you were told. Perhaps this will teach you to listen to your betters."A scream escaped my as I lunged at the Immortal, tackling him to the ground. Rage consumed my as I punched, scratched, and elbowed every vulnerable opening that was given to me as I altered between screaming bloody murder and cursing Dartemis.

Hands pulled me off of him. "Let me go! I swear when I get free Dartemis...!" The threat was left hanging as Ethan and Arkarian managed to drag me out into the hall while Neriah and Matt helped Dartemis to his feet and Isabel shut the door. "Just let me talk to him!" Neither deemed me with an answer. They just continued to drag me down the many corridors to Arkarian's bedroom and deposited me on the bed. "All I want to do it talk to him." The boys just looked at her. "Ok, fine. I want to kill him."

"You can't kill him. He's Immortal."Arkarian stated in his matter-of-fact way.

"Well then I want to at least beat the snot out of him. I'm not picky."It looked like Ethan was biting the inside of his mouth and Arkarian wasn't doing much better. I didn't see what was so funny. "Don't even think about laughing." Both of the them sobered up.

Isabel peeked her head in, probably trying to decide if it was safe to come in, and smiled. "Dartemis left. He'll be back though."

"Good, I can beat him to a pulp then." They all rolled their eyes while I collapsed unto the bed. I was sore all over, but thankful that the agony was over with. I was so exhausted that it took several minutes for me to realize where exactly I was resting. I jackknifed off the bed. "Eww, eww, eww..." Everybody looked at me but I just shuddered. "I'm going to bed."

Ethan's POV

I watched as Rochelle shut the door to Arkarian's room. There was nothing more that I wanted to do than follow her, but there were other things that needed to be discussed. Just this morning Arkarian had said that he was calling a meeting.

"Should we tell Rochelle about the meeting?" Isabel asked while we all took our seats in the where we normally met for theses meetings.

Arkarian looked to me and I shook my head. "No, we'll let her rest. Ethan will fill her in." Isabel nodded to herself. It was a few more minutes before Matt and Neriah came in and another few minutes before Jimmy showed.

"Shaun called and said he couldn't get away," he said as he took a seat.

Matt nodded and then took his place at the head of the table. It was still slightly weird to have Matt leading instead of Arkarian. Maybe because there was not any real need after the battle and it will just take time, but I have a feeling that it's more because Arkarian has been the leader ever since I joined the Guard. "We'll get started then. I'll get right to the point. Lathenia has made her move."

Everyone started talking at once. It was utter chaos until a very loud "Shut up!" We all turned to look to the source of the shout, which was Rochelle standing in the doorway. "Nothing is going to get done if you are all shouting at each other. Now if you are all done voicing your unneeded opinions, Arkarian can tell us when we are going so we can start planning what we are going to go about this."Everyone just stared at her while she sat down next to me.

"I thought you were going to bed?"

"I tried, but I felt disgusting and went to go take a shower when I heard you all making a fuss. But that's not important."

"She's right," Matt agreed and motioned for Arkarian to take the stage. Rochelle yawned before laying her head down on the table.

"A portal has opened up in 1988. Matt and I have discussed it and we think that Rochelle and Ethan should take care of this one."

"Why?" It was Neriah who asked the question. I'm sure she wasn't the only one who was wondering the same thing.

Both of Matt and Arkarian looked at Rochelle instead of Neriah. "Because involves Mr. Thallimar."

AN: Sorry, sorry, sorry. I'm so late with this update and I know that it's really short. School has started and life got really busy, Anywho, I've now come to the point where the group will start going on missions again, so if there is any certain event in history you would like me to visit please speak up. Thanks bunches for reading! I'll try to update as soon as I can. Review, review, review.