With Robin.

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Stepping out the room I see a painting hanging on the wall, one that I have never seen before. I walk over to it and admire the picture of the grinning lady, a grin I had only ever seen on Loveday but something tells me this isn't Loveday.

Uncle Benjamin comes storming up the stairs with ape-like fury, stomping every with step. He looks at me and seer anger courses though his eyes,

"what did you think you were doing?!" he shouts,

"I-I have-"

"you killed a De'noir!-" he cuts off angrily, I stare at him in shock how did he know? "-do you have ANY idea what you've started!!?" 

"He was going to kill me!" I  defend,

"if he had wanted to kill you, trust me you'd be dead" he spits,

"you would have proffered I died, wouldn't you?!-" I snap, "-all you've been is grumpy and angry at me, and I have no idea what I did to deserve it!" I add letting out my anger on him,

"I deserve to be treated with more respect, I took you in when no one else would" he snaps,

"what would you like? a medal!-" I shout, "by the end of the night, non of this will matter! We'll all be dead" I hiss making his eyes darken,

"oh, you don't believe in the damned curse do you?" he ask frustratedly,

 "yes I do" I state shamelessly,

"then you're dumber then I thought" he growls, "Just like your father" he adds sourly, making blind rage swallow me, if he gets to insult the ones I've lost so do I,

"Loveday was right to leave you, your a monster!" I snap, his nostrils flair and his face scrunch into a ugly mass of rage,

I watch as he shouts at me but I cant hear anything. It's just his face moving in slow motion, spit flying every where really ugly if you ask me. A soft humming starts next to me, I look over to the painting to see the lady staring directly at me. Like so Mona Lisa shit. I moves to the side showing me a huge tree with roots curling around it, the unicorn stands by the entrance it then gallops into the mouth of the tree into the darkness. I take a step closer to the painting and watch the something start up again,

"ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME GIRL?!" Uncle Benjamin shouts, pulling me out of a daze,

"don't you see?" I ask, I turn back to the picture to see it has stopped moving,

"why is this back up?" he growls under his breath, "DIGWEED!" he shouts, in a second Digweed and Miss Heliotrope appear in the hallway looking flustered,

"yes sir?" Digweed asks, looking dopey as ever,

"put this picture back where it belongs" he orders,

"yes sir" Digweed nods as he goes to take the painting off the wall,

"Wait!" I stop him, he does so freezing on the spot, "do you not get it?" I grin,

"what are you on about, darling?" Miss Heliotrope asks,

"either I've had to much of the devil chefs cooking or I know where the pearls are" I grin, without another word I run down the stairs.

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I set up a trap for Robin. A cage and a noose, this should be fun. I wait until the animal call finally caches his attention and he comes to check it out. A clearly confused Robin makes his way towards the cage and up he goes. He shouts in protest as he sways from left to right, when he spots me a look of clear rage fills his eyes.

"Blake! let me down, right now!" he demands,

"only if you listen" I state plainly,  

"fine, just let me down" he growls, "please I can feel my head swelling" he adds sounding more whiny then ever. I cut the rope holding him up, making him fall down with a thump. He gets up and tries to make a run for it but is stopped by a barking Wrolf,

"I just want to talk" I sigh as he sits on a log, putting his hat back on,

"then talk" he prods like I'm wasting his time,

"First, I want you to know I never used you and I'm sorry if that's how it came off-" I apologues, he glances at me quickly as if thinking weather or not to say something, "-secondly I still really need your help-" I add making him scoff "- and lastly I know where the pearls are" I add, his head whips up to me and his eyes widen,

"are you sure?!" he asks, standing up from the log,

"pretty sure, I just need some help with direction" I grin,

"where too?" he ask with a grin, I feel my insides warm up with the idea of our friendship being rekindled. God I love this boy.

A/N- So close to finishing, sadly I have to go beck to school tomorrow and I have no idea when I'll get the chance to finish it. Sorry it's a short one today, have to do a heap of homework before I go back. Thank you for reading, please leave comments and suggestions I would really appreciate it.