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After showing up at the abandoned drive-in, Sam comes out and him and Emma begin talking.

"Do you re...remember me?" He asks her hopeful.

"No." Emma admits. "Sam, I don't remember you." Sam's face drops. "No, but I do believe you. I do." She moves close and he jumps, stepping back. "I mean, you were right. Someone made me forget you." She takes another step and he doesn't move again.

He smiles weakly. "It's not your fault." He tells her, tilting his head. "She made Luke and Iliana forget me, too."

Emma looks at him, brow twitching. She?

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Cate squeezes her gloved-hands together as she walks down the hall, having just left from meeting with Indira.

Cate enters his room and he stops hitting his punching bag and goes to answer the door, thinking maybe Iliana let herself in to tell him about her talk with Jordan. He looks up to find Cate.

"Can we just be us for a minute... and forget everything else?" She asks him.

"For sure. Come here." He nods. "Hey." They embrace each other in a hug before moving to his couch he lights a joint as the tv plays. He takes a hit and hands it to Cate, blowing out the smoke he wraps his arm around her and she takes a turn.

She leans in and he rests his head on hers as they watch their show.

"Show's not the same without Luke's hot takes." Andre comments. "Or Iliana reciting every line." He smiles softly.

Cate chuckles, smiling at the memories. "His commentary was hilarious. And he hated that kid. And she would egg him on."

"He really did." Andre laughs in agreement. "And Goldie would do each character perfectly." He missed her at movie nights when she was away last year to film, and now that she was back Luke's gone... how ironic.

"Where is she?" Cate asks lightly.

"Oh, she was going to talk to Jordan when she left here a couple hours ago." He tells her.

Cate laughs. "About time."

She lets out a sigh after a minute. "Everything is different now."

"Cate, you and Goldie are the only reason I'm still at the goddamn school." He tells her.

After talking about getting the fuck out, Andre puts out the joint as Cate sits up.

"Andre?" She sighs just as his phone buzzes. He leans back, showing Cate he got a text from Jordan saying 'Found Rufus.'

Cate stares at him as he looks off in thought.

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Marie and I enter Dusty's house to find Rufus eating pizza on the couch as Jordan shuts the door behind us.

"Rufus, time for a chat." Jordan says.

He stands. "No, no, no. Stay the fuck away!" He panics as Jordan grabs the remote and turns the tv off.

"Mmm, I wish you'd stay away." I spit out 'sweetly' and he turns to jump over the couch but Jordan quickly blasts him. He jumps back up to his feet and I throw out two sun beams into his calves. He yells in pain as Marie shoots out a thick blood stand, wrapping it around his ankle, and yanks him across the floor.

Ooo, that was fucking cool.

"No, let me go." Rufus says in between breathe.

"We just want to talk." Marie tells him.

"Well, I want to burn you into the fucking floor." I hum. "So I'd listen to her if I were you." Fucking scum.

"God, I swear to fucking Christ I never touched any of you." Rufus snaps. Just the thought makes me want to boil my skin off.

"What are you and Shetty up to?" Jordan asks. Shetty?! I fucking knew I could never trust that bitch! "This is way above your weaselly pay grade, but you're fucking with us for a reason." Jordan snaps back.

"You're all fucking nuts." Rufus fires back. Oh, you don't even fucking know... "Look at the facts."

"The facts your made me and Iliana forget?" Marie speaks up.

"Mmm, yeah, already fucking forgot!" I shout at him, my arms growing hotter by the second.

"Okay, okay, wait." He scoots back on the floor. "Wait, wait, wait. You say I wiped your memory tonight, right?"

"Well, since I can't remember a goddamn thing from today, yeah." I spit out. God, I feel so stupid. So fucking violated. And angry enough to burn this entire fucking Earth down to nothing.

"Except I couldn't have done that, because my powers only work up close, and I've been here for the last five hours." He tells us. "Please tell them!" He yells, turning to Dusty leaning over the table snorting. Hmm, I didn't even notice him there. Is he willing to share...? Just wondering, cause after tonight, I fucking need it.

Dusty snaps his head up. "I'm pretty yipped on 2C-B right now, but that sounds right."

"That doesn't mean you're innocent." Jordan pipes up, reaching into their pocket. "What the fuck is this?" They step closer, holding up what I got out of their neck.

"How the fuck do I know?" Rufus looks confused.

"It was implanted in my fucking neck!" Jordan shouts back.

I step up beside them. "So start fucking talking." My nostrils flare as a phone starts buzzing and we all turn to look at Marie. Marie, really? Now?

Rufus takes the distraction as his chance and jumps up and Jordan blasts them again, switching to their masculine form in the process.

"Marie, what the fuck?" I throw my hands up.

"It's Emma." She holds up a finger and steps off to the side. Uh, so? "Can't talk. We found Rufus."

I sigh, turning back to Rufus, I brush Jordan's arm as I stomp over. "I don't need the fucking the sun to up to blind your fucking ass, so I suggestion you don't fucking run again." I grit through my teeth, sick of all of this.

Rufus coughs. "Look, I just work in the dean's office, okay?" He grabs his chest from Jordan's blast as he struggles to stand again. "I don't know shit about implants, and I didn't do shit to you at the party."

Ah, right, apparently there was a party this weekend that we all attended, THAT I CAN'T FUCKING REMEMBER, but apparently no one else can either... except now I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THERE WAS A PARTY ANYMORE.

"Stop fucking lying!" Jordan screams at him.

"Please don't kill me." Rufus begs.

I smirk. "Oh, I'm hoping they do." I glance up at Jordan.

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"It's Cate!" Emma tells Marie over the phone.

"Why would you say that?" Marie questions her.

"Sam is Golden Boy and Golden Girl's brother. Cate made them forget they even had a brother over and over and over. And, look, I know Rufus is a monster, but so is Cate." Emma tells her.

Marie looks over at Jordan and Iliana cornering Rufus.

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"Pease. Pl-please don't kill me." Rufus cries, bringing his hands together. Oh, give me a break.

"I've been waiting all night for this." Jordan breathes excitedly, sending a shiver down my spine. Fuck me.

"Jordan, Iliana, it's not him." Marie yells, hurrying over to us. "It's Cate." Cate? Please.

"What? That's fucking crazy." Jordan looks her up and down in disgust of that suggestion.

I look at her in disbelief. "What? Where the fuck did you come up with that?"

"I know, but it's true?" Marie shouts back at us.

"To hell it is! That's bullshit!" I argue back, crossing my arms as suddenly a metal barrel flies past all our heads, sending Rufus sailing into a different room, breaking cement blocks and closet doors.

Jordan, Marie, and I snap our heads over to Andre standing in the doorway, doors wide open.

"Fuckkk." Jordan groans. "Woah, woah, woah, woah, Andre, hold on, hold on. Andre, Andre."

"Move. This scumbag's mine." He rages.

"Let him go." I shrug.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait." Marie tries as he storms past us.

"Fucking let him go." I say. "It's not Cate." I defend my best friend as we follow Andre through the hole in the wall.

"Nowhere to run, motherfucker." He cups his hand, raising garden sheers in the air into Rufus's sleeve.

Jordan grabs my arm. "Stop him."

"Why should I?" I look at them. "You don't think it's Cate, do you?" I scoff.

"Do you?" Their eyes bore into mine.

"Why would it be her, Jordan?" I ask breathlessly.

Jordan's face drops. "I don't want it to be." I huff hurrying into the room as my feet crunch on all the broken pieces of everything, Jordan right behind me.

"It wasn't him. It was Cate!" Marie jumps in front of Rufus.

"Bullshit. Cate would never do something like that." Andre retorts, rearing his hand back and a shovel shoots forward past Marie's head.

"Andre, don't!" Cate's voice yells out and the shovel freezes in front of Rufus's throat.

"Cate, good." I exhale, stepping forward but Jordan steps in front of me just enough. "Please, tell Marie."

"Cate, tell them it isn't true." Andre says.

"I'm so sorry." Cate croaks.

I swear my heart stops beating for a second as my blood runs cold.

Andre drops his hand and the shovel clanks to the ground. He turns around to Cate as I shove past Jordan.

I let out a chuckle. "Cate— tell them."

"I've only ever wanted to help and protect you." She shudders. What... What, what, fuckicty, fuck, what? "I just wanted to make things better, and..." She cries.

I shake my head, this is a dream. This is a fucking dream, nightmare. "Stop. Stop. What the fuck are you talking about?"

She looks between Andre and I before stepping up to him and places her hands on both sides of his head. Oh, my God...

After a few seconds a tear rolls down his cheek. She opens her eyes and they're now rimmed with blood.

No. No, no, no, no.

"An-Andre, pl-please understand, I didn't..." She tries.

"You're a fucking monster." He whispers, spinning on his heel he walks out.

"Illie—" She swallows, stepping over in front of me. Please wake up, Iliana. Please, wake up.

"Don't—" I hold my hand up, eyes blurring with tears. "Don't—" I grit my teeth as I feel her hands softly land on my temples....

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𝟶ʙᴜᴛᴛᴇʀʙɪsᴄᴜɪᴛ𝟽 sᴘᴇᴀᴋs!

Tears. Tears may or may not have been shed writing this chapter... Ugh, the way both Illie AND Andre defended Cate, ughhhh

And the little bits of crumbs of Ilordan during this chapterrr>>>>

I cannot believe episode 5 chapters are now all done... & I only have 3 more to write... ugh can't think about that, can't think about that...

Well, I hope y'all enjoyed this chapter & all the ep. 5 chapters!! This one was a bit tough ngl bc of all the memory wiping/forgetting BUT WE MADE IT!

Thank y'all so much for 9k+ reads on this book & HAPPY 7 MONTHS TO GOLDEN FACADEEEE!! <3 

Until episode 6, & yes I left y'all on a cliffhanger bc who would I be if I didn't? Hehehe, bye!!