24 Dreams Of You And Me

86) Brotherly Bonds

"Your siblings are the only people in the world who know what it's like to have been brought up the way you were."
-Betsy Cohen

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Meanwhile, in the moonrise cemetery, Robb and Rachel were present with a few other Angels. Crystal was nowhere to be seen.

Julia had just appeared and together, the Angels had brought the spell down.

They were free to head in.

Robb impatiently grabbed Rachel's hand and she ran inside along with him.

There was a half destroyed, ancient looking cement wall at the back. They were around it to find steep stairs going underground into deep darkness.

"Is this it?" Rachel whispered.

"Yes." Robb replied.

"How are we supposed to-"

"I think Aradia will know we have the spell lifted off so we really need to hurry this up."

He brought out a flashlight and a gun from his jacket. "Hold it." He gave the flashlight to her and cocked the gun. "Stay close."

He slowly started descending upon the stairs and Rachel flashed the light the around the room they were going into.

There was absolutely nothing in there. The walls had water droplets dripping from them, resulting an formation of algae and moss. The place stunk like a dead rat. It was wet, dark and freezing cold. The deafening silence was broken by the sounds of water hitting the tiles, making Rachel jump a little.

It had an eerie and spooky feel to it.

"Over there." Robb pointed towards the opposite wall and Rachel flashed light on it.

There was a door. A very small one. Just about three feet in height.

They walked over and Robb placed his ear on it. When he heard nothing from the other side, he gestured Rachel to move aside from the door's path and take shelter from the wall.

He got down on his knees and peeped through a small hole. He placed his bag which carried all his weapons and things he'd need to help Ian to safety, on the ground beside him and told Rachel to stay here, no matter what she heard from inside.

He told her he was going to go in and she should stay alert for he may come out any second with a seriously wounded man and he'll need her to run like hellhounds were after her.

He kissed her gently and placed a gun in her hand.

She was worried and scared. She feared that her fear will make her mess something up. But she didn't voice any of her thoughts. She realised, that lately she had been doing this a lot. The not saying what you're thinking part. Ever since she died, she's been keeping a lot of things to herself because she thought everyone would find them insignificant as they all have a bigger fish to fry.

Robb opened the door and it creaked open. He squeezed himself in and shut it behind him. Rachel rubbed her arms as an attempt to warm herself. Spirits don't feel cold and hot in such extremities but now that she was, she knew it wasn't an ordinary cold atmosphere like on Earth.

This was cold as in 'evil residence cold'.

She was just trying to calm herself and her thoughts when she heard gunshots go off on the other side followed by the screams of men.

She gasped and placed a hand on her mouth to stop herself from screaming. So far, she hadn't heard Robb's voice and she used it as an assurance that he was well.