Bound to you. (a Peddie story)

Haunting photos

Patricia's POV

"So where are these pictures now?" Fabian asked as i slid closer into Eddie's arms. I had stopped crying now but still, i was scared. I handed fabian the photos still in the frames and he studied them closely. I was sat on Eddie's bed, the two of us resting against the headboard, i was curled up in a ball in Eddie's arm, gripping his tear stained t-shirt in my hands, scared to let him go. Fabian sat on the end of the bed and Joy, Nina and Amber were sat on Fabian's bed, now that Joy was involved with Sibuna, there was no getting her out, she loved the mystery, leaving Alfie sat on the floor in front of Amber, now studying the picture of Rufus' dead body.

"and these just appeared?" fabian asked "out of nowhere?" i nodded in reply and Eddie gripped me tighter. "Any ideas guys?" fabian said turning to face the others.

"Maybe it was Jerome, just some stupid prank." Nina suggested.

"no, Jerome is like a brother to me and the only person who truly knows how Rufus affects me, he wouldn't do this to me, it was put there on purpose." i told them holding my hand out for the photo in the black frame.

"okay, so maybe it was a message?" Amber suggested

"Off who?" Joy asked her, thinking she was crazy, Joy didnt yet understand that crazy was a good quality for a member of sibuna. Fabian handed me both of the photo frames.

"Rufus maybe" Alfie suggested.

"I thought he was dead?" Eddie asked.

"Yeah, but this is the supposed second time he died." fabian explained, we should have filled Eddie in.

"okay so lets just say for arguments sake that its a message from Zeno from the grave," Nina started. "whats he trying to say?"

"its a bit of a cryptic message dont you think?" Eddie asked.

"Rufus may have been a fruit loop but he was never cryptic with messages to me, he was always direct, yet smart and secrective." i told them, i knew someone was trying to tell us something, but what?

Eddie's POV

"Let me see that." i said reaching for the black frame out of Patricia's hands, then everything went hazy and i entered a vision...

Everything was blurry, the colours were too bright to be real, i was in my body still and i could feel patricia in my arms, she opened the back of the frame as if to remove the photo, where she found something and it all went black.

I came back to reality with a jump and startled faces around me. "the house is talking to me." i told them, just like Fabian said it would, a side effect of being the osirian. "open the frames." i told patricia, letting go off the one in my hands. She opened the frame on the group photo first, since it was the first to appear, there was a note stuck to the back of the photo.

'The good old days.'

Although the message was innocent, something didn't seem right, i took the note from her while she opened the red frame to once again find a note, a slightly longer one.

'My dearest Patricia,

I look forward to seeing you soon, very soon.

Yours forever,

Rufus Zeno.'

That one was a little more disturbing.

Then a purple photo frame fell off of the shelf next to my bed and landed face down on the floor. "i didnt notice you had a picture up there Eddie." fabian said as he passed a pacing Nina the notes.

"i dont." I replied. "i have never seen that before in my life."