– 🤎 ⌗ 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲.

˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡˚ ❀ "WHERE ARE WE GOING?" ania-grace asks her brother as he drags her along past the sheep, the girl waving at them with her free hand.

"you'll see." atticus mutters, too concentrated on not getting lost to actually answer his little sister's questions right this second.

soon enough, they get to the same hill where the creepy boys took them the previous day.

"atticus." ania looked at her brother. "i told you i don't want to see it again-"

"come on," the older boy cuts her off, "we don't have much time."

-

once again, they made it through the trees and to the deteriorated children's home.

the siblings stare at the house for a few moments, before atticus takes hold of his sister's hand again.

he pulls her through the over-grown garden, guiding her through the "window" of the conservatory.

now ania was curious. she pulled her hand from atticus' grip, walking through the "walkway" to the next room.

it looked like a dining room. a long table took up the majority of the space, 14 chairs surround it. it was covered in dirt and bits of the ceiling that must've come off during the nazi air raid.

the two search the rooms, and the boy finds something laying among the dust in the conservatory.

he picks it up, blowing the soot off in order to see it clearly.

it was a framed photo. a photo of all the children along with miss cerise.

"ania, come here." atticus calls. "you might wanna see this."

the girl rushes back to the conservatory, leaning over to see what her brother is holding.

she then takes the frame, allowing herself to get a closer look.

"after a few seconds, she looks up at the boy, smugly. "i told you so."

"you told me so? what?"

"i told you so." she simply repeats, passing back the frame, then venturing back off into the area where she previously was.

-

they are now walking up the stairs, atticus insisting on leading the way.

it looked even worse than the floor below. there was no ceiling, more soot and pieces of the rooftop covered the ground, windows were smashed or not even there, doors were either destroyed or completely off of their hinges.

ania, once again, walks off while atticus looks through the bedrooms.

she notices the lab, more specifically, elizabeth's lab.

somehow, it was the most put together room in the whole house. there were still jars containing hearts on the shelves, tools still in their respective drawers, even a homunculi doll still prepped on the desk.

atticus was roaming the hallway, trying to find anything like the photograph they found before.

he found a black glove on the ground, and as he went to pick it up, he heard a voice.

a voice that most definitely did not belong to his sister.

"eddie?"

the boy looked up and met eyes with a girl. she had long fiery hair, was wearing a short-sleeved mid-length dress containing a pattern that atticus could not see from the distance that was between them.

after a few seconds of shell-shock, atticus was running back down the stairs.

he manages not to trip, and as he starts for the main door, two heads pop out from either side, but they leave as quick as they come.

thudding of footsteps is heard from upstairs, distracting atticus of the two other people that were in the house.

as he looks back down and around his surroundings for the last time, another head pops out from behind a door.

"nope, not today." and then he ran for it.

-

ania-grace was still in the lab, incredibly fascinated by it. however she was interrupted by quick footsteps.

she walks out into the hallway, seeing a dash of red hair and someone quickly making their way down the stairs.

she heard her brother yelling, so then ania quickly made her own way out of the house the way that they came in.

as she got to the conservatory, she noticed 4 people surrounding atticus, who was face first in the mud.

as the figures turned to face her, all ania could say was "oh my god."

it can't be.

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