Thanks again to my lovely reviews. All credit for the ship name Nice (Nick and Luce) goes to Violinrocker12. Now I have a confession to make... I haven't decided who she ends up with. I thought I had, because she was related to one the first time I wrote this, but now that they're not related... I'm not exactly sure what to do yet. Review with your OTP, and, if I feel it works, the ship with the most people requesting will become fan-fic canon!

Chapter 12

House of Advice

(A/N I know the name is stupid, but so much yet so little happens in this chapter I had no better name)

"So, if we can't get Lily to believe she's in danger, we basically need to do everything possible to make sure Lily just doesn't go down there again." For lunch we were supposed to go on a romantic date with our match. I had no objections to that; after all, what's more romantic than catacomb like tunnels?

"Alice would never do it with the others around," Nick told me. "We were all fighting last night, but the one thing we agreed on was that no one would be sacrificed."

"I just can't believe Ally would do something like that. She's mean, that's why we broke up but, murder? That's a big step from bullying." As he spoke I noticed Anubis fiddling with his dog-head key chain and could only assume Alice had given it to him back when they were together.

"You said so yourself, she has a serious hero-complex," Nick pointed out. "I hate to believe it too, but we have to make sure Lily is safe."

By this point we'd arrived at the museum and from the looks of it only Nina was inside due to it being her lunch break. "Are you sure this is a good idea? I mean I know Aunt Nina's cool and all but... won't she try and stop us."

"No," I told Nick hoping I was right. To be honest I barely knew Nina. "I'm sure she'll be fine with it."

Anubis scoffed at the thought of his mom being cool with any of this, but headed inside.

From the way she sat by the door eating a peanut butter and fluff sandwich, Nina had been expecting us. "Just a tip about going down there during lunch hours... don't. I always thought 'we have plenty of time' and I don't think we once weren't late for class."

"You going to try and stop us?" Anubis asked him mom who, even though it looked weird at her age, just rolled her eyes.

"Stop you? Stop who? I don't see anything honey. Just saying. You start missing classes your father will punish you if just to prove there is no favoritism going on." From the disgusted look on Anubis's face he hated having a dad as the headmaster. I couldn't exactly sympathize considering the fact that my dad was a murdered, not a teacher.

"Come on," Anubis told Nick clearly reading his mom's let-me-talk-with-Luce face. "The tunnel is a pain in the butt but considering Sarah has the only other key we have to go down this way."

Nick looked back on Nina, a women he saw as an aunt, and couldn't help but ask a question that had been nagging at him. "How long did you know? About me replacing you as the Chosen One?"

Nina's face released a soft smile, "You were literally born on the same day as the twins in the room next to mine. When you were born I instantly knew I was no longer the Chosen One... it was like a burden being lifted from my shoulders. I then saw you and you just had this light in your eye. I just knew. Your mom knows too, I told her, but I don't think your father knows any of the Egypt stuff. KT thought it would freak him out too much and I guess if you didn't live it you only see the danger and not the beautiful fun that came with it."

Nick nodded and went to leave us alone. Just before he disappeared down the tunnel he asked another question, "Did you have visions?"

"That's more of an Osirian thing, but yes, I had a few," Nina squinted her eyes in worry. Obviously none of her visions were good. "Just remember, your visions come true, but it's up to you how you interpret what you saw."

Nick didn't say anything before disappearing behind Anubis into the tunnel system. Nina turned to me and spoke. "Should I be worried about what he saw?"

"We're handling it," I told her evasively. "What did you want to say to me?"

"You're lucky you have Nick on your side. As his Osirian it's in Sarah's blood to do whatever possible to protect him." Nina's original statement obviously wasn't what she wanted to say but a precursor for her to build up courage. "Luce. I understand you not wanting to put this in the hands of adults and trust me you can't. This will stay with you and chosen. But you're lucky to have something I didn't- people who can help. The only help I ever had was the original Sarah, the Chosen One before me... and by the time I knew her Sarah's mind was mostly gone. I was working against the school faculty, you're lucky enough to be working with Mr. Rutter and me. We can't give you special treatment, nothing that anyone else knows, but I'm betting on you to get everyone out of this alive. If you ever need help, or advice, or just to talk I'm here. But, until you need me, I'll stay far away from the plans of the gods."

"You keep saying that I'm special, that I can do this. What do you mean? Am I one of the Chosen? Is this my destiny? You say you want to help, but you won't answer my questions!" What was going on? Who was I and why did Nina seem to think this all bubbled down to me?

Nina gave me a maternal, but regretful look. "I'll tell you anything I know, but I can't tell you that. You'll find out eventually and when you do I can guarantee all you will want is to go back to ignorance."

I so desperately wanted answers, but wasn't foolish enough to think I would get them from Nina. Nina seemed to think that whatever the truth was it would hurt me, it would change me, in irrevocable ways. What knowledge could be that great?

"One last question then. I had a vision of 6 teenagers holding up reflectors down in the tunnel to create a bird. Did that actually happen?"

Nina smiled, clearly the memory was a fond one, "Yes. And I'm not surprised that's something you'd remember. After all, you were there."

Nina packed her bag and walked away without explaining anymore. As I crawled behind the rest of the Sibuna members I could only wonder how on earth I'd been someplace ten years before I was even born.