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Emily/Five POV

I sit alone, staring at the dull grey, painted wall in front of me. I'm at home today; thank Lore Kate allowed me to stay home. I spend my hours staring at the grey wall or looking out the window. I'm not depressed or traumatised from this experience, I'm actually kinda bored and scared. There's a small knock at my door; I know it's Kate, I slowly look up from my fixed position; the door creaks open, each sound from the hinges sending shivers and chills up my spine. Just a day ago that exact door was banging loudly; I still remember the tears running down my face, knowing that I might die, then feeling the flooding relief of when I saw Kate run to me and then feeling the same scared emotions that I felt when I was a little girl, hugging my Cepan close; not letting go, due to the fear of being ripped away from the person that I care for and that I feel most safe with. Now I just sit at the edge of my bed, my feet firmly placed on the ground in front of me, with a small blanket over my back and shoulders. I hate feeling this helpless, I'm not the deep emotional, touchy-feely girl, no. But I guess it'll take some time to get over.

"Five honey?" Kate says softly, emerging from the other side of the door. I wipe the dried tear stains from my cheek and look at her; I try to give a smile, but it's only a faint one. She comes into my room, some sort of box underneath her arm.

"Hey K… whats with the box?" I say, softly, giving a small smile; she sits down next to me and places the box looking thing on her lap and her arm around me.

"It's not a box. It's a chest, a Loric Chest" she says, smiling sadly. There's a long pause exchanged between us,

"I'm sorry for what happened yesterday" she says, we're both looking ahead, not making eye contact. She's been apologising to me non-stop, I feel very guilty that she blames herself. If I had stayed at school for the rest of the day yesterday, this probably wouldn't have happened, I slowly shake my head,

"Kate, it wasn't your fault, please stop apologising" I say, resting my head on her shoulder. She rubs circles on my back and and nods,

"Well I guess because of what… happened yesterday, we should probably get started on your Inheritance" she says, ending with a bit of vibrato. My eyes instantly light up and I turn to her,

"Really?" I say more energetically, I sound like a little kid getting a present. She nods and smiles widely when she sees my expression. She slowly turns to the Loric Chest on her lap, she places it between us on the bed, we both face it.

"OK, put your hand on one of the sides of the lock" Kate says, motioning to the lock holding the Loric Chest shut. I obey. She does the same to the opposite side, there's a small pause, then the lock glows faintly before I hear the muted click that sends the lock falling off the Chest. I look at the Chest with wide eyes, then turn my attention to Kate, who has a slight smirk forming on the edges of her lips,

"Five, this is the start of something incredible"

John/Four POV

I'm in a messy situation right now. So much happened in the last 10 minutes. Marina was about to die, Joe saved Marina using a new Legacy, Joe falls in front of Marina – that one sounds a bit weird; but probably true under another circumstance.

"Joe?!" Marina screams, shaking him, trying to wake him up, Maren runs to his other side, and looks at me with wide eyes and a face still full of shock. Tears fall from Marina's red eyes, she strokes his hair and holds his limp hand,

"John?!" Maren says firmly, snapping me back to the real world. I nod at her, we can't leave Joe here, we're outside the school; there's only one place where we can go.

"The Lecture Hall!" I blurt out, picking up Joe with the help of Marina, whose still sobbing slightly, she caresses Joe's hair and cheek. I place one of Joe's arms around my shoulder and the other is around Marina's. Maren nods and starts to guide us to the hall. We're walking at quite a fast pace, I'm not sure if Marina can keep up; I look to her, she's holding on to Joe tightly, she's not really helping with the weight part, but I'll give the girl a break – almost getting run over and killed by a car, then have the guy you have a crush on, save you then collapse in front of you.

Maren opens the private gym's doors for us then races through the gym to the white wall we saw before. We stop at it,

"Uh, Maren? What do we do now?" I ask, readjusting my grip on Joe, Marina still looks a bit shaken up,

"Uh, I-I don't know! There's a lock but we don't have a key!" she says, looking everywhere frantically. I start to look around to see if there are any keys or keypads to get in. And at that particular moment something comes over me, I walk forward, still half carrying Joe and I place the palm of my hand on the white wall surface. Nothing happens at first but then a small glow comes from the underneath my palm, I lift it up and the glow slowly transforms into some sort of symbol, still imprinted on the white wall. Maren and even Marina gasp at the sight before them. The symbol has different sized crescents on it and a circle outlines it. A second later the white wall slightly implodes, revealing the outline of a door, the door swings open and we are face to face with the same, breath-taking Lecture Hall we saw yesterday.

"How did you do that?" Maren mutters, I shrug still staring at the Lecture Hall insides before making my way in with Joe, Marina and Maren. Marina helps me place Joe on a seat, about the size of a park bench. She sits down next to him, putting his head in her lap and gently stroking his hair. I turn to Maren who breathes a sigh of relief,

"So what now?" she asks, looking to me,

"Um, I dunno. Marina said he's unconscious, so he'll be fine; but we should probably call Reynolds" I say back, walking over to Joe. Maren goes to his pocket and pulls out his phone and a piece of paper with it, she gives me the phone and I turn it on.

Sh*t. Passcode.

"Uh, we gotta problem" I say, stepping into the small circle we've made crowding around Joe in Marina's lap.

"What is it? Passcode?" Maren says; how does this girl know everything? I nod and hand her the phone,

"Do you know his passcode?" Marina asks, looking up from Joe, I shake my head and look at Maren typing in something to the phone. A second later it makes a small buzz, sighs angrily,

"What? What did you type in?" I ask, she looks up and grins sheepishly,

"I typed in 'Marina'… but it didn't work" she says, sadly but still smiling, Marina frowns a bit then looks back to Maren. She gives the phone to me,

"Maybe… 123?" I ask, Maren shrugs, I type it in. Wrong. I'm about to type in '1234' but Marina cuts off my train of thought,

"Wait! Joe's real name is Eight, right? So put Eight in" she says, smiling a bit, Maren nods,

"OK, sounds good" I respond, putting the numeral for Eight in… Wrong. I look up and see Marina and Maren looking hopeful, I shake my head, Maren sighs and Marina looks back down at Joe. Maren turns to me,

"Try Eight-"

"But we already-"

"No not the number, the word" she says, Marina looks up again and I nod. I type in 'Eight'… a small ding follows and I'm brought to Joe's home screen. Relief floods through me and I look at the girls,

"It works" I say, Marina sighs a laugh and Maren rolls her eyes, but I see a smirk forming. Why would that be Joe's passcode? I shake my head to myself, slightly grinning,

"OK call Reynolds" she says, handing me the piece of paper. I read it,

Reynolds new phone number:

73-966-537

Don't forget it!

I dial the number, there are a few rings before a voice answers the phone,

"Hey Joe what's u-"

"Reynolds?!" I cut him off, there's a pause,

"Who is this?" Reynolds says, his voice full of caution,

"It's John" I reply, there's another pause,

"John who?" he says, you've got to be kidding me, Maren looks at me, I mouth 'one second'.

"John Smith?" I say, there's another pause,

"John Smith who?" he says, I roll my eyes, Maren comes up to me. I sigh quietly,

"Number Four?" I say,

"Ah Number Four! Hey John, I was just messin' with ya. What's up?" Reynolds says, I can hear him smiling at the other end, I can't help but smirk a bit,

"Um, uh, we think Joe developed a new Legacy and now he's passed out" I say,

"WHAT?!"

"Don't worry we're in the Lecture Hall, can you please come over qu-"

"Yes, yes, I'll be there soon!" Reynolds says, ending the call.

I put the phone back into Joe's pocket with the piece of paper and turn to Maren and Marina,

"Reynolds is coming" I say, I can see the relief in Marina's eyes as she looks back at Joe, she's still stroking his head. Maren leans on me slightly, resting her head on my shoulder, I feel a certain warmth return in my chest, and I instinctively wrap my arm around her waist – hoping she won't bat it away.

She doesn't and I mentally fist bump myself. But the strangest feeling comes across me after; my palms start to sweat a lot, I quickly wipe them on my jeans, but it comes back and I start to feel warmer than usual. What's happening?

I'm probably just nervous...

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