24 Dreams Of You And Me

40) Ally

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
-Nelson Mandela

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"You're heartless or something? Don't you have a conscience?" Alyssa asked Robb.

"My brother, Alyssa. My flesh and blood brother. His life is on the line and this was the only way I was given, so I took it."

"Without thinking whether they'd even hold up their end of the deal? Why the hell would they let you and Ian go back home? What were you thinking, Robb?!"

Robb glared her.

"I'm dealing. You should worry more about yourself. I'm not the one who's on Aradia's direct hot list."

Alyssa held her head and exhaled.

"Where are the ingredients?"

"They took them." Robb replied.

"Knowing you, I know you won't even help me get them back."

"Levi would, wouldn't he?"

"No, I don't want his help."

Robb half smirked. "You want mine?"

"I want recuperation from you."

"Busy. Later."

"I need your help." Crystal's voice made Robb and Alyssa look at the door.

She was standing there with a cell phone in her hand.

"This is Levi's. I can track him last a hundred miles from here, at Salina. But now he's gone. All I found was this phone and there's a message typed in on it."

"What does it say?" Alyssa asked.

"Um, that he is in Arizona.. Phoenix.. and Alyssa has to go there alone."

"Otherwise?" Robb asked.

"They kill him, obviously." Alyssa filled in.

"No, they turn him and Levi can easily find Alyssa."

"Damn it!" Alyssa yelled. "He knows all our hideouts and tracking information."

"I cannot let another human spirit, that too an alive one, be turned. A spirit that is alive on Earth will be much powerful than other soldiers. Levi.. would be much more than other soldiers, he'd be hard to beat." Crystal informed.

"I am not going alone anywhere near them. It's a trap, Crystal!"

"I know this is too much to ask-"

"Why would I help him?" Alyssa interrupted. "He didn't help me when I was about to be murdered. He left me."

"He did?" Robb arched an eyebrow. His hand resting on the table as he amusingly watched her.

"There's another similarity between you two. Both of you divide and both of betray."

"I didn't divide the tribe!"

"Same thing he can say, there you go. Another similarity." Alyssa sarcastically smiled.

"Don't make me shut you both down." Crystal spoke, causing Alyssa and Robb to look away in frustration.

"Now," Crystal started, "I can't teleport you because of all the memory spell I am trying to restrain. You'll have to make the drive."

"You realise she'll kill us regardless, right?" Alyssa voiced out.

"I am aware. We have to plan something."