And I'm back! Another chapter for those who waited for it.

SibunaMockingjay I look forward to you creating your own FanFiction account. I do want to PM you as soon as you get one.

Back to the story.

Nina

Once Trudy brought all of us back to Anubis house, I head straight towards the girls' shower room and start washing away all the paint from my hair. I make sure that every bit of paint is removed, and I scrub my hair with a lot more shampoo than what I normally use to make sure that was the case. I'm humming a tune of a song I heard on the radio numerous times while showering, but I don't really know the title of the song.

Just as I was humming the song, in my own little world, I hear Patricia yell from outside the shower room, "Nina! Are you done yet?" As I was nearly done, I reply. "Yeah, I'll be there in a minute. Sorry, Patricia." A few minutes later, I step out of the shower room, to find Patricia glaring at me. She does not say anything as she heads into the shower, but I knew she was not too happy.

I walk up to mine and Amber's room to change. I walk in the room to see Amber sitting on her bed, seemingly thinking of something dreamy.

"Hey, Ambs." I call out to her. It takes a moment for her to answer back. "Oh, Nina. Finished your shower then?" "Um, yeah, actually.", I reply as I start changing clothes. I hear Amber ask in a somewhat dreamy voice, "You think Eddie likes me?" I mentally shake my head at that. Everyone can see that they have a mutual attraction. It was clear as day. "Of course he does, Ambs. But don't you think it's a little bit soon for you to ask the question. I mean, it's just a week, you know." "Yeah, I know it's just a week, but he seems to be…, boyfriend material." I resist the urge to roll my eyes, as I am not Patricia and I don't want to be rude to Amber. But now that I think about it, Amber may be right. There did seem to be a fit about them. "Maybe…", I reply as I finish wearing my clothes. "Thanks, Neens." I hear her reply. "For what?", I ask her. "For giving me the license to pursue Eddie…" "Um, what?" "Oh, nothing", she replies in a singsong voice. I shake my head as I sit on my bed and start on my assignment for one of my classes. Every once in a while I look to Amber, and see her trying to do the assignment as well. She looked distracted.

After a time, she finally gives up. "I can't do this. Not if I'm thinking of something else." Amber complained. "Don't think of something else then." I said matter-of-factly. "Thanks, Patricia." She rolls her eyes at me.

I finish my assignment a little while later, so I tell Amber, who is really distracted, "I'm heading downstairs. Take a look at mine if you need to.", pointing to my assignment. "Yeah, thanks Nina." I knew she was going to check out my assignment the moment I left the room.

I head down to the couch downstairs, but only Alfie was there. He seemed to be deep in thought, clearly stressed out. "What's the problem, Alfie? Can I help?" I ask, but he does not respond. I sit slowly beside him, checking him to see if he was still alive, or conscious. He snapped out of his thoughts and gave a very late reaction, "Um, what was that, Nina?" "Are you okay, Alfie? You seem to be a bit stressed out." "Um, yeah. Just, um, thinking… of some-something" he stutters. "Are you sure it's nothing? Nothing I can help you with?" I narrow my eyes at him, knowing he was lying. "I can't tell you about it, Nina. I don't think you can help." I stare at him, my body language telling him that I was open to listen to anything, and that I wanted him to tell me about it.

"You're not leaving until I tell you something, are you?" he asks me after minutes of sitting on the couch. "Nope, not leaving." I simply reply. He sighs. "Okay… You asked for it." He takes a deep breath, and starts telling me about the full extent of his dream.

"You see, Nina, I never told you guys the full extent of my second dream, and I would not want any of you to know. But since you persist, I will tell you. But you must promise not to tell anyone else, not Sibuna, or the others." "I promise."

"Remember when I told you all about my dream?" He looked at me, and I knew what he meant. "I didn't tell you all of it. I told you about you guys dying…" "Yes, you did. What about it, Alfie?" "Um… You were actually all dead because of me." He admitted weakly. "Yeah, we know."

"No, that's not what I meant. You were dead… BECAUSE OF ME." When he put emphasis on that, it sank in. No wonder he was asking us for his forgiveness then.

We stay silent for a while before I respond, "I'll make sure that won't happen, Alfie. I will do anything to help you find Fabian, so that this dream of yours will not happen. Okay?" "Yeah… Thank you, Nina. And um, one more thing I have not told anyone yet, is about the whispers… in my head. Telling me about finding Fabian." "You have told us that, Alfie." "Yeah, but now the voice is telling me about some kind of protectors. I'm not so sure, but I think I know who it is, judging from my dream, the one you guys were in." "What about the dream?" "There were only 8 of you there around me who were dead. There is supposed to be 9." "And you think the one missing might be the protector?" "Yeah." "So who is missing?" "Um, it's …"

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I'm sorry for being so mean, and keep that hanging, but I wanted you guys to guess who the protector is.

Who is Alfie's Protector/s? It's clearly not Nina, that's a clue for you to ponder.

The chapter ends here. I'll update soon.