Green, White, and Blue ~ A KotLC tale...

˗ˏˋ66: Keefe'ˎ˗

Foster: little do they know...

I smiled, replying to her with one of the laughing emojis, then started typing again.

Me: i think this might just work out okay. my parents approve, we'll get the PR thing sorted, figure out how to get rid of your powers, then be good

After a minute with no response, my message not even being seen, I added more.

at least i hope so

I was hoping the honest would get her to answer, we had just been texting back and forth so I know she didn't go to bed, but I still got no response. She still hadn't read either.

It was probably—no, definitely—toxic of me (though Foster will tell me later that it wasn't), but I was worried. So, I went to snap and checked her location. She only shared it with close friends and family, so it wasn't weird by any means that I had access to it. It still made me feel like a creep for checking.

But she'd been acting weird again. Closed off, like before her kidnapping. And she had been acting like that when we got her back, but now it's gotten worse. It didn't feel like it was just because of trauma. And the way she acted around Alvar... something more was going on.

Alvar. Fitz. The call. I gripped my phone in horror. She'd called Fitz, telling him that her and Alvar were kidnapped. Fitz told us, told us that someone pretending to be Sophie had been making up crazy lies about her and Alvar being kidnapped, being alive, despite the body and the calls between Alvar and his family.

But Sophie told us that one was really her. It was her calling us. And she didn't bring up Alvar again. We didn't question her on it, too busy celebrating her return. But, she wouldn't lie about that, if she was kidnapped with him then she really was. But Alvar hadn't been kidnapped, and she was acting weird around him.

My stomach churned at my next thought. What if Alvar had helped kidnap her? Had been there all along? I hated to even think it after knowing Alvar all my life, looking up to him. But, what other explanation was there? Alvar was supposedly kidnapped with her, yet we still talked to him just fine. We run into him on the street, and Sophie's tense. She avoids talking to him, looking at him, even when he talks to her. Then she's distant the rest of the day, pale after he says...

I'll hopefully be seeing you real soon.

He said it really tauntingly, directed at Sophie. Not me, he was staring directly at her. He said everything directed at her. His eyes kept darting to her, there was some wicked gleam.

If I was right, then the Neverseen had something planned. Alvar said he would be seeing her soon. And she still hadn't responded to my texts.

I turned on my phone again from when the screen had gone black with no use. It was still open to Snapchat, so I just swiped to her location.

Any remaining disgusting feeling quickly washed away as I saw she wasn't at her house. No, she was in the middle of nowhere. My eyebrows pressed together in confusion, until I felt my entire body go numb with realization. She was at the cave. The cave where her scent ended, where she was kidnapped.

This is bad, so much worse than I'd been thinking.

I bolted up out of bed, quickly throwing on a shirt and rushing out of my room. I knocked on Ro's door until it swung open. She had her own bedroom in the palace for nights, so she could be there and ready in the morning.

"What?" She growled until she saw the panic in my eyes. I showed her my screen, stumbling through words that I just barely was able to string together.

"Sophie, she's at the cave where they took her, and Alvar kidnapped her, I think, but she's in trouble. They have something planned, something bad and I need to help her."