After seeing Apollo get his evil butt handed to him..... I had to suppress my own maniacal laughter.

I was supposed to be the good guy here, after all, I had to be mature and accept victory with grace and dignity.

I couldn't start laughing evilly... no matter how much I really, really wanted to.

I did let a small snicker of glee escape as I jumped out of my prison, careful to avoid the broken glass.

Now that Apollo had lost horribly, we could get out of here and go help Nigel and the Ace.

A happy ending for everyone...

"Have you told her?" Apollo asked casually, nodding in my direction.

Oh darn. Another beautiful moment ruined by Apollo opening his freaking mouth.

"Hmm?" Alan raised an eyebrow, holding onto Alex's arm to keep him calm. "That sounds rather ominous, but I'll bite. Have we told her...What?"

Apollo rolled his eyes. "You really want me to spill the beans for you?"

"I'm interested to hear what you seem to think you know about my brother and me. " Alan smiled.

Admittedly, I didn't know Alan as well as I did his brother... But even I wasn't fooled by the polite expression

Apollo watched the twins with calculating eyes.

"The name Cassandra Ring any bells?" Alan and Alex... Went very... still.

"Quite a few. Mind explaining how you know that name?" Alan asked lightly.

Apollo grimaced. "An old friend of the family."

"Oh." Alan tilted his head curiously. "Did he mention us?"

Apollo smiled.

"Only to warn me to stay away from you."

"...You probably should have listened to his advice." Alan observed.

"I was curious, and there was only one way to see if the rumours were true."

Alan chuckled half-heartedly. "You seem to think you already know the answer..."

"Do you realise how odd it is, for brothers to so desperately avoid each other."

Apollo... Kinda had a point there... Alan and Alex were rarely ever in the same place at once...

Alan's smile froze in place. "... Ah, we don't really get along... As you may have noticed..."

Apollo scoffed. "Definitely... But I think the real reason why you don't like to stand together, is so that people don't notice your eyes."

Huh?

I didn't understand, but Alan visibly winced, and even Alex tensed.

Apollo smirked. "After all, it's quite unusual for Identical twins to have reversed eye colours?"

Alan waved him off. "Unusual, not impossible. As twins, we both inherited a gene that causes a loss of pigmentation in eye colour. The change in colour happened after birth, the mutation developing differently in each of us."

.... When did these guys stop talking in English?

"Wow, what a convincing story." Apollo gave him a small clap. "Too bad for you, I already know that you got your eyes from your mother."

"So that was the rumour you wanted to prove?"

"Yes."

"Really. You should learn not to pry into things that don't concern you. " Alan said darkly, but Apollo wasn't phased.

"I'm surprised more people haven't figured it out. Dr Floid is quite notorious, her work world famous. Ten years ago, then it seemed like the only thing anyone could talk about was how she was arrested for unethical experiments involving..."

Alan had the smaller boy pinned against the wall in the next

"She doesn't know," Alan said, his voice cheerful as always. "And Alex would prefer to keep it that way.

He leant forward, bringing himself to the same eye level as Apollo.

"So be quiet before I stop asking nicely."

I stared at him in shock.

Alan was supposed to be the friendly brother, and Alex the one with the temper.

Then again... When it came to each other... The twins were pretty unpredictable... What Alan had said suddenly sunk in.

They want me to know... What?

Apollo chuckled to himself quietly, sliding down the wall back into a sitting position.

"Fine, fine. Looks like I won't be able to take your cards right now anyway." He gave a dismissive sigh, closing his eyes and leaning his head back.

"It would have been so much easier if you had just surrendered. On all of us."

"Talking about surrendering... Don't you think it's about time you gave up?" Alan took a step back so that he was no longer looming over the smaller student.

"Your attempts to take our cards have all been complete failures so far."

Apollo chuckled.

"Harsh." He didn't bother to open is eyes. Not until a small beep came from his pocket.

Apollo reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone with a groan. "About time."

He looked at the screen.

And smirked

"Unfortunately for you guys, my plans seem to be turning out just fine."

No. We couldn't be too late...

"What do you mean?" I asked, desperately hoping it wasn't what I thought it was

Apollo grinned, turning his phone to face me.

A picture of a boy, One I recognised as one of Apollo's, holding a piece sign up for the camera.

And a card in the other.

"The Joker and the Ace have both been successfully captured."