Poor Old Nathaniel

Chapter 01: Meeting Again

Y/n pov

After the whole fiasco with the fan earlier this morning, I begin thinking. I am like the nerd of Spellbound so I should be able to figure things out based on clues given. So far, I've only heard his description, meaning I don't know what he actually looks like. "Kat!" I hear Matt yell out. "Yeah that's the fan alright." I hear her say. Me being a curious idiot, I look over and get flabbergasted. "Y/n! Tell them we were here working just yesterday!" He exclaims.

"Scott?" I whisper with tears in my eyes. After Ben lost his marbles, he warned us that it would be safest if we left him, leaving Scott and I alone just so that we could split up. "Yeah?" He responds. Without a word, I tackle him into a hug. "We saw each other yesterday and Ben and I fixed the cameras in your office." He says.

"Ben fell off the ladder but I caught him." He continued and smiled at the memory. "No, no, no, Scott that happened seven years ago! That happened when I was still working at Syntec." I tell him. "What?" He takes off his glasses and crouches to the ground in frustration. As he crouched down, I catch a glimpse of a string in his sleeve. Without asking, I snatch it from his wrist and scan it.

"You gave that to me. You gave one to Ben and I." Scott clarifies. "You gave him a red one and me a green one and you have a blue one." He continues. "Mine broke." I look down at the man. "That means..." He trails off. "No. It doesn't mean anything. This is a fan." Matt pulls me away and shoos Scott away.

"Oh my god." I whisper under my breath. "Y/n? Everything ok?" Woods asks me. I shake my head and close my eyes to hide my tears. "Y/n?" Sam puts her hand on my shoulder. "Scott. Scott Clarick. He was talking about Ben as in Benjamin Cobalt." I explain. "So that was the real Scott Clarick?" Matt asks in disbelief.

I sigh and nod my head. "I wanna show you something." I admit and pull a CD out of my backpack. "This is a video in which you will see how I know Scott personally." I hand Matt the CD. He reluctantly takes it and leads us to MegaDesk. Once everyone's situated, Matt sets up the CD and plays it.

(3rd person)

The video shows security camera footage of four teens playing basketball together, one of them particularly better then the other three. "Y/n!" A brunette young girl exclaims as another girl makes a shot. "This is rigged!" A black haired boy points out as he sits next to the pole of the basket and takes a sip of water.

Another boy who is blonde just laughs at his friends' whining. "You're good, kid." The blonde ruffles Y/n's hair. "Thanks, Clarick." The girl chuckles. Clarick, or better known as Scott, rolls his eyes and punches her in the arm. He had never really been proud of his last name. "Kids! Get inside! Now!" An unseen female yells to the teens.

"We'll be fine, Deb!" The black haired boy exclaims as he stands up. "You don't know how dangerous this is, Benjamin. Get inside, NOW!" She yells and slams the window shut. Everyones demeanor changes. "Come on. She might've made pasta for dinner. Last one's a rotten egg." The brunette and shortest girl runs out of sight.

"Hey! That's not fair Jordan!" Y/n runs towards the girl and the two boys finally get the hint and run towards them as well. The camera view switches and it shows a living room. "Ben lost!" The girls tease as they walk backwards through the house. They knew the building like the back of their hand. They weren't worried of getting hurt.

"Shut up!" Ben had never liked losing to the girls. Not because they were girls but because Jordan (the brown haired girl) was bad at everything. Except journaling. Everyone had a good laugh before the camera cut and it showed the four children but one was being taken away.

Matt had a fearful and disgusted look on his face. "Shut up or I'll have your organs on the table!" A blonde man screamed at Jordan as he yanked her and shoved her into a room. The three other children were mortified and couldn't do anything. Soon, the youngest ran at the man with an injection gun.

One particularly used for the most dangerous of chemicals at the lab. She injects the chemical into the man, making him scream in pain and run towards the exit.  All four teens run the opposite direction and escape. The next clip, there are only three children. One young male who was Scott and two young females, Jordan Kendall and Y/n l/n.

The three looked sad and worried and Jordan held a notebook and spoke her thoughts with the other two. "We could sneak into unit 4 of location #1 and get Ben." She speaks while examining the blueprints of the building. "It's no use. The only thing we can do is do our best to keep each other safe and pray that Ben stays safe." Scott sighed and grabbed his briefcase, leaving the office they were in.

The girls give each other a saddened look and follow along with Scott. The next clip, Jordan is gone. Next, it's Scott. Then, it shows Y/n sitting on a bench all alone. The video ends.

1st person

"Y/n, you grew up with Scott, Ben and, Jordan?" Sam asks me. I nod and let a tear fall from my eye. "The bracelets are the last thing I have of them. Each of us have 3 and when a bracelet breaks, the corresponding person is in danger. I just wanna see my friends one last time." I bury my face in my hands.

"We'll find them, Y/n. Don't worry." Matt reassures me. A chime is heard at the door signaling someone entered the building. We don't think anything of it but when Scott appears at the door, I jump up. "I stole this off of Nelson's body before his autopsy was done." Scott holds a key fob out.

"We need to find Jordan and Ben!"