Awkward would not even begin to fully explain the atmosphere of this car ride.

Or the plane landing.

Or my never ending hyena giggles that only Rhett and Carson seemed to understand.

And only one of those two found my thoughts amusing.

"Can you stop with the laughing" Carson gritted out for the third time in our car ride.

I smirked, trying not to watch this shit show before me.

Usually, I am the one who is put in shitty situations, like being in love with a complete sociopath and then having some completely unwarranted love confession be thrown my way, while trying to cock block a bitch all at the same time.

So to say I was enjoying this would be a huge understatement.

Huge.

"I'm sorry, its just I keep thinking of this hilarious joke that someone told me and I just can't seem to stop laughing" I chuckled as Carson glared at me.

"What was the joke?" Riley asked completely innocent.

I opened my mouth, "it was about how this little rodent drowned in a sink" Carson hissed staring directly at me.

My smile dropped.

God he ruins everything.

"Now that I think about, it really wasn't even that funny" I glare over at him as he sneers at me.

"Now, now you two, lets play nice and all be friends" Rhett chimes in cutting between Carson and I's hard glares.

I slowly looked away from the little mermaid and turned to look out the window. Egypt was absolutely beautiful, the architecture of the city was amazing, unlike anything I had ever seen before.

The people so beautiful, dressed in the most beautiful clothing, but as we continued through the city, eventually we hit desert and desert and more desert, before it seemed to simmer into existence before my eyes.

At first there was just the sand, the rolling mounds of it all you could see, but then it glimmered before my eyes.

A huge ass pyramid that literally appeared out of no where.

And as we got closer, I realized Daniel was speeding up and not slowing down.

"Don't mean to complain, but shouldn't we be slowing down?" I asked him as his large foot pressed harder to the gas.

These suicidal bitches just seemed to lean back in relax as we came speeding towards a pyramid I'm pretty sure the rented car we were in, would be shit up against.

Rhett's hand pressed to my shoulder bringing my attention back to him, "we have to go into the pyramid in order to get to Raymond's home" he said, his hand having warm and calming effect on me as we go speeding towards the base of the pyramid, no brakes in sight.

"So what story are we spinning again?" I asked looking over at Rhett.

"Raymond wants to meet you, have you be his guest of honor, in which he will then give us the weapon that we need in order to defeat Doom" Daniel chimed in like I was speaking to his irrelevant ass.

"I'm sorry Daniel, I don't speak petty bitch. Now Rhett, whats the plan again?" I turned back to Rhett who had the highly amused smile on his face his silver eyes alight with mirth as he stared back at me.

"Well, dear fiancé, Raymond will believe that you and I are here to celebrate our engagement, just like your family and friends back home. Which is why I needed to be announced as your fiancé in the first place back home. He will think he is fooling you and I, I'm not quite sure why he wants to meet you or what he wants from you, just yet, but while he is entertaining us as his guest and giving these three their weapon for bringing you, you and I will be searching for clues" Rhett whispered lowly to me.

I nodded.

"What exactly is it that we are looking for?" I questioned him.

"Cirron's whereabouts. Anything about experiments or plans, we need to figure out this information during our time here. But don't think Raymond stupid, he's a very clever man and if he's working with Cirron that then makes him dangerous" Rhett muttered to me.

Great, I thought I was done with the James Bond shit after Blue, but it looks like I'll be slipping on my super spy suit again.

I barely noticed in time to watch us go flying through the base of the pyramid, my scream of death dying in my throat as we slip through the wall and inside the pyramid like it was nothing but air.

If this isn't some Harry Potter shit.

My heart slowly stops screeching in my chest as we slow, pulling into a long drive way, up to the most magnificent castle I had ever seen.

The wall of the huge home seemed to made from bright flowers, ivy vines, and the brightest colors of silk, hanging from the tops.

Absolutely beautiful.



The nerves truly kicked in once we slowly pulled to a stop in front of the monster sized castle.

I mean if this guy was as close with Cirron as Rhett suspected then shouldn't we be trying to get as far away from his as possible.

Cirron for all extensive purposes, scared the living hell out of me. Someone who had been able to gain and hold control as long as that psycho killer of a man had been able to, is someone that I oddly respect with enough terror to stay twenty thousand steps away from his psycho ass.

There was something so broken in Cirron that would never be put back together again, specifically because he broke it himself.

The way his creepy eyes had scraped across my skin, the way his eyes had lit up when he thought I was Katya was unstable to say the least.

Blue was a sadistic son of a bitch, but Cirron, Cirron was ever part of the word crazy.

And he had been living in his little crazy-ville for much longer than anyone should stay. Blue dipped over onto that side of town from time to time, but he always came back.

Even that crazy asshole knew you should only stay on that truly dark side of your soul for so long, before it was time to bring his ass home to his regular home in demented-ville.

Not a large difference, but one big enough that you did not kill the woman that you loved and her whole family and force her to watch before you tried to murder her too.

Although Blue had said he would kill someone if I ever left him, I knew he would never hurt me, never try to kill me.

Maybe lock me up in some cellar and demand I love him.

Which was demented.

But I knew he would never kill me, he couldn't.

I hope that maybe he loved me enough to see that if I did ever chose someone over him, then he would love me and my happiness and respect it.

But he was selfish.

And I knew that type of matured love was something that Blue could probably never possess.

He was too fucking crazy for that.

But there was a dark, twisted kind of love in him saying he'd kill his competition. As awful as it sounds, whenever he said that, I knew that he really did love me. It was his only way of truly showing that he couldn't live without me.

He just sucked ass at expressing it in a way that didn't involve someone else being brutally murdered.

And I was thinking about him again.

As fucking sad and horrible as it was, I was thinking about him again, because he took up everything that surrounded my life.

He was in everything, including the love that I had left to throw out into the world.

Depressing I know.

Rhett's hand suddenly was on my arm, bringing me back to the present.

"Hey, are you okay?" he asked, his long black hair slightly in his face as he leans over to stare back at me.

Shit, my wards, "are you reading my mind again?" I asked tensely.

He sent me one of his little playful smirks, "no, but I can read faces, and yours has this .. sad constipated look on it" he chuckled, as I rolled my eyes at him.

It was like just him talking was able to lift the sad, emptiness off my soul. "I'm just worried is all" I shrugged at him as I sent him a small smile.

"No reason to worry, I know you can handle yourself" he said as he then slid out of the car.

I didn't want to think about the similarities and differences between the man who left me and the one who was pretending to be my fiancé for some weird re-con mission, but I'm a chick and I compare shit.

Rhett seemed so ... sure of me in a laid back way. Like he just knew everything would work out.

Unlike Blue, who somehow always knew everything would go to shit, but was 100% willing to bend those shitty situations to his will to make it work.

Rhett complimented me, telling me he believed in me.

If I had told Blue I was nervous I could already see him slowly slinking into my personal space, looking me dead in the eye and saying 'don't be a bitch'.

My lips unconsciously tilted up as I thought about him doing just that, demanding that I do what needed to be done.

Almost like he knew I could just do it, and he was not going to baby me with smooth words.

In simple, Blue was demanding and Rhett was calm like the sea.

I finally pushed myself out the car and stood where the others were, as they looked up at the large home in front of them, waiting.

Not a second later, the large doors that stood as the entrance to the castle swung open, revealing a stand alone man.

He was ... interesting to look out. His hair was the darkest color of silver, and it was pulled tightly back into a pony tail that was dead straight all the way down to the middle of his back. He was dressed in the brightest red and gold silk. His outfit looked like a pajama set, but who am I to judge?

His very thin, yet handsome shaped face pulled back into a sickly sweet smile that I had seen one other time in my life.

When Sasha had taken a pair of scissors and cut the crotch out of Snake's suit, right before we had ditched the guys and left.

A smile of evil glee, is the only way to perfectly explain it.

His smooth brown skin shined like diamonds as he stepped out into the bright sun and opened his arms wide as a welcome, "my friends! You have finally made the journey! I am so excited, come in, come in, dear amigos!" he screeched as he stood there staring back at us.

Daniel took a step forward, his face hard and his mouth open. His super hero pants on, but before he could even speak I was stalking past him and towards the eccentric looking man who was our host and probably my future murderer.

I stopped right in front of his, looking him dead in the eye as he stood a few inches above me.

His dark grey eyes nearly matching his dark silver hair, as we just looked at one another.

"I heard you were looking for me" I stated as we continued to stare at one another.

"He said you were brazen" he snorted.

"I doubt those are the words he used".

"You could be right, I do remember the words cocky little shit being said" he smirked down at me, as I smirked up at him.

"Who are we talking about again?" I asked playing stupid.

"I don't know, you tell me" he shrugged.

Playing games, I see.

"Well, how about you show me around your gorgeous home, before the puppy patrol starts up with their bullshit" I sigh as Raymond throws his head back and laughs hard.

"Raymond, but you may call me Ray" he says with his hand out.

I slowly grab his hand shaking it, "Katrina, but you can call me Katrina" I deadpan.

He laughs yet again, his freakishly white and straight teeth nearly blinding me, "you'll be a handful, won't you".

"I've been told that once or twice, now, where will I be staying?" I asked him a bright smile on my face.

"She means we, where will we be staying. We are so thankful you allowed us to celebrate our engagement here in your beautiful home" Rhett slides in as he wraps his arm around my waist, a small smile slipping on his face.

Raymond's eyes looked at Rhett before settling back onto my face, his eyebrow raised in question, "yes, the fiancé. I suppose a congratulations are in order ... follow me" he says before turning around and strutting back into the large home.

"Next time, wait for me, at least" Rhett muttered lowly in my ear.

"What's your problem with authority?" Carson hissed from behind me as he and Daniel and Riley trailed behind.

I rolled my eyes, "cry me a river, Ariel".

All I got was a scoff in return, "now my friends, be prepared to experience the greatest wonder of the world. Me" he smirked.

I didn't think someone could be more self centered than Blue.

And, I'm thinking of him again.