Marlene's PovI scowl as Adrian walks in, probably to scold Angelina for being too loud. "Good morning little one." He says to Eden making her wave and push hair out of her face. "Hi." She says with a smile. "Eden this is the nice man who saved the doctor who then saved your life. Pulled him out of the water while he was drowning. And now he's helping you again. Helping us." Angelina says giving Eden a puzzle. "I'm sorry about the door I didn't-you need to be quiet." He cuts her off. "All day my people are in and out right below." He quietly says. "I know I just thought we could-they can't know your here. They won't understand and I won't ask them to." He says making her look down. "How about I wash that for you?" He asks Eden spotting something, probably ash on the blanket from the calling. "Oh that's ok I just-" Angelina shuts up when Eden bundles up the blanket and gives it to Adrian. "All dirty." She says in a cute voice. "Remember your not here." He reminds her before leaving. He comes back in a little while later with the blanket. "Mmm still warm what do we say?" I ask giving the blanket to Eden. "Thank you." She says taking the blanket from me while he talks with Angelina. I hear her go on about how she thinks that they're connected while he says we have to leave in the morning to protect the people here. Well what about me and Eden? "Let's play a little game." Angelina says giving her a fresh piece of paper. "Okay." Eden says. "Ok honey this is the game, mommy's gonna draw a picture and I want you to think really hard and try and draw the same picture." I mock Angelina behind her back making Eden giggle a little bit. "Okay let me see." She says looking at the piece of paper. Wow she really is desperate to prove that she's connected to Eden. "Alright that was a really good try." She says putting the paper by me behind her. "We're gonna try again ok?" She says a little annoyed. "I'm hungry." Eden says. "Eden come on, you've done this before so I know you can do it with me. We're connected I just need you to find it." She says making me scoff. "Okay now this time think about what mommy's drawing and draw that. Can you do that?" Angelina asks. "Why aren't you listening just draw what mommy draws." Angelina says throwing away another piece of paper. "No." Eden says making me smile and try not to laugh, I love this kid. "If your not going to do it right we're not going to draw." Angelina sighs talking away Eden's art stuff as Adrian comes back on with food for me and Eden, what a bitch. "You can't just draw what you want." She tells her off. Yes she can you delulu moron. "Everything ok here?" He asks picking up one of her drawings. "Oh I didn't know you were here." She says feigning innocence. "Thanks so much. Eden's a bit hungry and cranky. You know how kids can get." She says giving Eden the food as he gives me some eggs on toast. "Finally food that isn't drugged." I muttered under my breath making him look at me with wide eyes. Oh yeah, did I forget to mention she likes to drug my food? Too bad for her she's running out. Ugh my body is on fire, damn withdrawals.FlashbackOlives Pov
"Oh thanks Ol." Dad says as I bring him up some food. "Your welcome." I say. "So dad I've been looking into myths about lost children-Please Olive I don't have time for this." He cuts me off. "Well it might actually be helpful. You know Eden was near a river." I say trying to turn the book to show accidentally spilling the soup over the missing persons posters. "Jesus Olive." He yells trying to clean it up. "I'm sorry I, I was just trying to- what? Trying to show me pictures in a book? Just take this all away from me." He says throwing it on the ground. I turn back to him shocked. "Well I'll help." I try to say. "No I just need to be alone." He cuts me off once again. Flashback over
Olives PovI find my dad drawing on the walls with chalk. "Dad? Dad what are you doing?" I ask. "I need to preserve the drawings before they're gone again." He mutters like a crazy person. "Dad please... "I'm connecting to Eden. Don't you see that?" "No. No I don't see what's going... I say trailing off as I see the drawings. "X marks the spot, Circle with a dot, Spiders crawling up your back. We were singing that this morning. Dad I can feel her. I can feel her." I gasp
"Ok so when Eden gets a calling she draws them?" I say trying to understand what's happening. "Just like Cal did." He says trying to find something. "Here's the windmill she shared with me in a calling. I'm not sure what this one is." He says showing me some paper. "Aunt Micks cherry blossom calling." I say. "Right so this must be the cloud of ash I saw. She must have been terrified I wish I could have been there with her. Wherever she is." He says. "What would you want her to draw?" I ask him. "Seriously. Put it up there." I say handing him the chalk.Marlene's PovEden giggles before drawing something in her food. "What are you giggling at silly goose?" The bitch asks as Eden shows us the bowl. Which says DAD. "No it's- is he talking to you? Eden you don't have a dad. I told you that. Why are you connecting with that man? Your connected to ME!" She screams smashing the bowl, which scares Eden making her run over to me and hide her face on my neck. Once Angelina leaves to use bathroom, I comfort Eden and feed her some of my food. Damn that ginger bitch needs therapy and a fucking exorcism asap.
Olives PovMe and Dad go down stairs to find Jared at the door. "Just say it." I sigh. "We did find something. A note from Marlene and a sketch of who we believe is Eden. Apparently Angelina has been making Eden think she is her mom. We will check the cameras, here's the sketch and note. We checked every search on the computer, okay? It was all dead ends." He says making dad nod. "What about he cell phone towers?" He asks. "We tracked everything. Look we'll keep looking for, okay but for now..." He trails off as my dad just nods. "Thanks." He says walking upstairs as I shut the door. We go back upstairs and go through there drawings. "We're gonna find them dad." I say. "I know. Mind putting this back up?" He asks handing me a drawing. "Not there." He stops me. "It is a calling." I say. "So it belongs with the rest of them." I say putting it up. "It took me a while to start having faith again. Callings just might save your sister and your soulmate after all." He says making me smile. I walk forward and hug him. "I miss them." I whisper as he sighs. "I know Oli, me too." He reassures me kissing my forehead.
Marlene Pov"Here comes the tickle monster." I say tickling Eden making her laugh. Adrian walks in with a new doll for Eden. "Aww what do we say?" I ask as she stands up. "Thank you." She says coming to sit back down with me. "You can stay for now." He says making me sigh in relief, I might be able to get help. "You made the right decision." Angelina says. "Eden's our guardian angel." She says making me scoff. "This is our new home baby girl. Our forever home." Angelina says sitting next to Eden on the bed. "But on one condition." Adrian says making me pause. "No more drugging Marlene. What if something happened like a fire and she was the only one who could save Eden? She's gonna need her strength." He says looking at me. Angelina looks back at me for a second then nods. "Okay." He nods before walking out. Maybe he's redeemable after all.
Olives Pov"You already have the answer?" Cal mutters to himself pacing around. "You're gonna burn a hole in the floor." I reprimand him. "Well Fiona said I already had the answer to something." He says. "Like what the airplane?" I ask. "No I was wrong about that this whole time. She said there was more to do. What does she mean?" He says. "I still don't know. But how about we take five? You know I think I finally mastered Mom and Marls pancakes and whipped cream with fudge sauce." I suggest. "Yeah maybe later." He says walking out making me sigh. "Reminds me of his dad and his aunt. Tenacious to a fault." Zeke says. "Well he's overwhelmed. And he still had that scar. No one know maybe what it is. Dad should be helping him." I say taking the plate of food he hands me. "Hard to see a loved one suffer. Especially on an empty stomach. Eat." He tells me. "Have some OJ. Freshly squeezed this morning." He lies about the last part. "Mm I think I saw you pour the bottle." I muse. "I squeezed the bottle." He jokes. "You know I really... I can't imagine what life would be like without you here." I say. "Hey team effort. You've done just as much. You grew up faster than anyone should." He says raising his glass. "You should really say that to Cal, I-I'm really worried about him." I admit. "He may look your age but he's still a kid at heart, who needs someone by his side. If that can't be Ben, maybe that someone should be you." He says making me rethink a little bit.I sigh making my way upstairs. "You busy?" I ask Cal who's throwing a ball against the wall. "I thought you had work?" He asks. "I took the day off." I shrug. "Why?" He asks "Uh I thought you could use an extra set of ears. Maybe bounce some ideas around instead of that ball." I say making him chuckle. "Thanks." He says sincerely. "Okay walk me through it. Where are we?" I question. "It's what Fiona said, you already have the answer? I feel like it made sense at the time but I've racking my brain and I can't solve it. I just suck at this." He explains. " well lucky for you, your sister tends to kick ass at this sort of thing. You know maybe you've got it all wrong, maybe the answer is it up there." I say pointing to his head. "But over there." I say gesturing to the opposite side of the room. "Let's break it down, this is how I figured out the death date." I say pulling off a few pieces of paper. "I don't think Dad would want us messing with- Dad doesn't even look at these boards anymore. Okay? And he's not even here. So we're gonna do this our way, twin power." I say throwing a box at him. "Hey, thank you Ol. You know you're right. You do kick ass." He smirks."Okay so the first thing that so was the peacock which is the symbol of resurrection. He saw it in a calling. The peacock is also the mythological messenger For the Roman goddess Juno. That is how we got June." I explain to Cal laying out the tarot cards. "And then Zeke and Mick saw the petroglyph with the Gemini twins on it which gave us the number two." He says catching on. " And then you had a calling to build a wooden dragon." I finish. "The year of the dragon is 2024 June 2, 2024. The death date." He sighs. "And speaking of chapter 2 in our story, Logan Strickland. Okay he gave aunt Mick this compass." I say putting it on the table. "He thought it was going to help save the passengers. But on the back of the compass a peacock." I explain. "Which then led me and Marls to the Al Zura's journal." "Which then led us to the silver dragon." Cal concludes. "Aka the airplane." I finish. "And we're right back where we started." Cal fumes shutting he journal. "Not exactly, we learned that Marls has wayyy better patience than you." I chuckle. "How is any of this going to give me the answer?" He asks ignoring my remark. "Wait, this isn't everything." I scoff going back upstairs with Cal close behind me. I rummage through the box on my desk until I find the tarot card. "See if we didn't lay everything out on the table I would have never remembered that the card was in here. Now we have everything." I state smugly putting it done. "Ok so we were missing a card?" He asks skeptically. "It's not just a card. It's the Star card, okay it's not just like any regular 5 pointed star, The compass, the journal, this card. They all have the same unique star on them." I explain. "You kept this in here instead of on the board because it was special to you, because of mom." He realizes. "Yeah. But I remembered it for a reason. We just got to figure out what the reason is." I mutter.Flashback Olive PovI look up to see Zeke knocking on my door frame. "It's not a good time Zeke." I say with a hoarse voice. "I know." He says. "So what do you want?" I ask looking at a picture of me and Mom. "I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to have a parent ripped away from you at your age." He begins. "Then why are you talking?" I question not caring if I'm rude. "Because I know what it's like to lose a sibling. And I know how easy it is to lose yourself after such a profound tragedy." He says pissing me off. " my entire life has been torn apart. you know I'm supposed to be some college kid running late to whatever 101s and going to a bunch of parties with lots my friends. Instead I'm here. i'm here playing parent to the brother that has completely destroyed my life, because I have no idea when my dad is gonna get his back on track!" I scream at him. " you really know all that?" I question him, breaking down in tears. " I know this." He says sitting down beside me. " do you still have people that love you. People who remember the real you. Loving warm compassionate. Maybe we just need to introduce ourselves." He explains holding out his hand. " come on I'm Zeke Landon." He introducer as I turn to face him taking his hand. " did you did you feel that?" He asks as I suddenly feel a lot more calm. "Yeah I feel different. What did you do?" I ask confused. " I don't know. That's the first time I've ever felt something like that." He says, weirded out. " well whatever just happened, thank you." I say shaking his hand. He nods before leaving. End of flashback.Olives Pov"Anything?" I question Cal as he shakes his head. "I know. I know stressing out it's gonna help, but this isn't working." He exclaims pacing. "Hey look at me. The answer is gonna come. But it won't if you're worked up. Now repeat after me. We are going to figure this out." I say grabbing his hands to stop him from pacing. "We are going to figure this out." He says annoyed. " I have the best sister in the entire world." I say smirking. " I have the best sister in the entire world." He repeats smirking as well. "You know sometimes it's hard to see things for what they are. Maybe we should change perspective." I say standing up on a chair making him follow suit. "Somebody see a mouse?" Zeke asks as him and aunt Mick come in. "Well at least that be a discovery. You go shopping?" He asks them as he sees the blanket Aunty Mick is holding. "Oh no it's a gift from someone I helped solve a calling. How's it going here? Any closer to some answers?" She asks hopefully. We'll figure it out just might take a little while." He reassures. "Well that sounds like an adventure for another day I'm gonna go to bed." She says walking off leaving Zeke to smile at us. "What?" I question. "Just good to see you two working together." He says walking after Aunt Mick. We smirk at each other, when I step off the chair something in the blanket catches my eye. "Is that..." Cal questions when I open it up. "A star!" I breath out a bit of a laugh putting it on the table. "With four major points and four minor ones. Like a directional star on a compass." I say looking closer as he picks up the compass. "What is that on top of it? It kind of seems like a... a button." He cuts me off pushing the button on the compass making the back pop off. "Divina conciencia"? He questions reading the inscription. "My Latin is a little rusty." He says. "Divine consciousness." I breath out and scoff in realization. "According to tarot, Star card, it represents enlightenment. Which means that if you have this card. You are directly connected to divine consciousness." I blurt out. "You already have the answer." Cal realizes. I nod. He looks at the table in disbelief. "What? Cal what are you seeing?" I ask trying to snap him out of his calling. "The glow." He states. "The glow from outside of the plane. The glow right in front of me. It's all one. It's all connected. That's where we were inside the glow." He says hurriedly. "Like what? Like you daily and Fiona?" I ask. "No it's more than that all of us. I know where the plane was for 5 1/2 years. We were in the divine consciousness." He says making me internally freak out. My god this just gets more and more complicated.