"See!" Amber brings me into her room she shares with Mara to show me the message Mick left in candy. But I don't smell Mick's scent on the candy, no I smell Alfie's. Maybe Mick sent him up here since Mick was busy? "I told you! My plan worked! Mick wants to meet up to apologize for the whole Mara and his bad behavior, kiss and makeup!"

"Okay" nodding my head "so why are you throwing all your clothes onto the bed?"

"I need the perfect outfit" she says "duh!"

"Meow!" We look over to the twin cats who are here before dragging a green dress with gold towards her.

"I think" I say "the kittens want you to wear that one"

~Midnight~

"Aren't you cold?" Fabian asks me as I walk out wearing a spaghetti strap blue pajama short set and bear slippers with my Velaris backpack. I'm a huge ACOTAR like my mom, I'm actually named after Morrigan from ACOTAR because my mom loved her so much. Yeah, for school I have a backpack with the design of a mountain with three stars while for this I have my Velaris backpack.

Shaking my head no "Sorry, had to drug Patricia"

He is taken aback "Drug?"

"She wasn't going to sleep" I whisper "so I mixed some herbs together and blew the powder in her face" Myrtle taught me long ago about herbs and the different properties they have along with different potions to mix together. There are different types of herbs anyone can use to knock someone out "the herbs don't hurt her, they just help her relax enough to go into a deep sleep"

"The more I spend with you" he let's our a laugh "the more curious I am about you and how terrifying you can be"

We hear a door open and Amber comes over this way "Are you two on a date as well?"

Nodding our heads lying "Yeah" waving my hand when she's gone, I grab the hairpins before unlocking the door.

"Where did you learn" Fabian asks "how to do that?"

"My mom" before she died she made these home videos of everything she wanted to teach me before she died. I just wish I could have learned from her in person, I miss her every day.

Once inside, I relock the door from the inside "Why" Fabian asks "are you locking the door?"

"In case Victor comes up here" I tell him "he'll think a rat was up here or something since the door will he locked"

He nods his head "Sneaky"

We hear spooky sounds and jump, I listen carefully "It's just the wind"

"Hopefully" he agrees. We walk upstairs, once upstairs we look around at all the dust "So...where to begin?"

"First let me show you the cup and my drawings of the attic" I tell him, taking off my backpack setting it down. I pull out the two pictures handing it to him "I forgot a flashlight"

"Don't worry" he pulls out his flashlight "I brought one" he turns it on and looks at the cup "the cup has hieroglyphics on them"

"Yeah" nodding my head "so I did some research about this place before coming here" I pull out the file and trade papers "see Robert and Louise Frobisher-Smythe, they were accused of stealing a bunch of artifacts from King Tutankhamen's tomb but the chargers were dropped because they couldn't prove it. Some on the jury suspected that they hid the artifacts and one of them" I hand him the cup "is this cup"

He looks at me shocked and very excited like me "Your saying, the treasure we're looking for is from Tutankhamen's tomb?"

"That's exactly what I'm saying" I confirm

"Oh my god" he shakes his head "I...lost for words"

"Well let's start looking" I suggest

"Could I see your drawing again?" He asks, I hand him the drawing as I put away the other papers "okay, so there is hidden room over here" he points his flashlight to a corner of the room. Going over to the corner we see that it's this space. Fabian knocks and we hear hollowness.

"There's something behind it" I smile before asking "how do we open it? We can't break it or else Victor will hear it"

"Your necklace" Fabian points, I look down to see it glowing "it might be the key"

"Let's see what it unlocks" I hold it up and find this one spot that matches the size, shape and design. Once I place it, the door slides open but we see this woman and both scream jumping back.

"A portrait" I place a hand over my heart "it's just a portrait"

"That" Fabian breathes out "was seriously scary!" We see that we're holding each other, we awkwardly pull apart. I go into the space while to grab the flashlight "the eyes were glowing and looking at me and...urgh!"

"We will never speak about the creepiness of a painting" I swear

"Agreed" he points the flashlight at it "why would this painting be hidden in a secret room?"

I look inside "there are more things in here" Fabian takes it while I pull out an old jewelry box that is locked "I wonder where the key is?" I then notice something "the bottom left of the painting" Fabian and I set the painting down laying it on the ground to see something written in the back "more hieroglyphics?" Fabian takes a few photos with his phone while my phone buzzes off. I see it's my dad "it's my dad, I have to take it"

"Right now?" He asks

Nodding my head "He gets extremely worried about me" especially since I got shot. When I answer I yawn pretending "hi daddy"

"Did I wake you up?" He asks

"No, just about to head to bed"  I say "how's it going? Where are you?"

"I'm on my way to Washington" he tells me

"Why?" I ask

"To meet someone" he says

I gasp "Are you finally dating because I've always wanted a little sibling? And dad your not getting any younger. I mean you need someone in your old ages"

Fabian covers his mouth in shock, I shrug my shoulders "That is mean" he mouths

"Where will you be when I'm in my old ages!" Dad yells "you better not be dead!"

"What I mean dad" I restate my words "is I want you to find love" yawning "can I call you later? I'm really tired"

"Of course my little gladiatrix" he says hanging up.

I put my phone away after taking a few photos of the hieroglyphics "under the eighth stair"

"What?" Fabian asks "also that was mean"

"My dad has been alone for a long time" I tell him "since my mom passed it has been just me and work and he deserves to find love. Also this" I point "this means staircase or terraced hill, the waves symbolizes for eight, and this one means buried or under. What if our next clue is under the eighth stair"

"How did you know?" He asks

"My mom loved Egypt and Greece, specifically Ancient Egypt" I explain as we put the painting back up and I close the hidden passage "so one do the things she taught me before she died were how to read hieroglyphics"

"That's cool" he says as we leave, but not before putting the box in my bag and we go down to the eighth stair. First we check if Victor is up and he isn't. We go down to the eighth stair and I use my strength to open the floorboard "your really strong"

"Thank you" smiling, carefully placing it up we look around "I don't see anything"

"No" Fabian shines his light on a key "here's a key" he pulls it out as I place the floorboard back. We quickly open the box to find a piece from the cup and these photographic cylinders "what's this?" He pulls out a cylinder.

"These are photographic cylinders" I explain as I see their in good condition "their a prehistoric way of recording something"

"So your saying" he asks "these have recordings on them?"

Nodding my head "our next clue must be on one of these" grabbing a piece of the cup "look, a piece of the cup" I go into a vision.

I see Amber being held by some man covered in spores "give me the cup or I'll put the queen in this one's pretty little head ending head"

I get out of the vision and am in shock "Mor?" I jump when Fabian shakes my shoulder "what happened?"