"Is this all, ma'am?" The store manager asks from behind the counter. I smile and take the heavy bag, wobbling to the side before I equal it out with another heavier bag. Ah~ maybe I should have taken Boris along with me. This stuff is heavier than I thought.

"Would you like help carrying those?" He offers, looking like he's about to come out from behind the counter.

"No, I'm fine thank you." I smile before heading out the door. Gowland better appreciate these new parts I'm getting. I thought it would be neat to add a new department on the side of his desk to store the extra paperwork he gets, such as his dues and other financial aid.

Ugh ... it's amazing how disorganized that man is. When I asked him for the last check up report on the Spinning World ride he opens a giant closet filled to the brim with unorganized paperwork. I'm not looking forward to organizing it and I'm also petrified of what I'll find in the man's closet-

BANG BANG BANG

"UWAHHH!" I shout as a gun goes off hardly a few feet away. My body immediately dives towards the nearest alley before spinning around, spying a faceless with a pissed off expression on his face. W-Who's he shooting at?!

"Try that again, maggot-!" Elliot's fierce growl roars as he leaps at the man with the raised gun. My heart performs a death defying stunt as the man pulls the trigger.

"ELLIOT-!" I scream before hastily zipping my mouth shut, spying the man's head flicker in my direction. My eyes widen as Elliot bounds in front of him, sticking the nozzle of his gun right to the man's temple. My eyes shut as I turn away, frightened to see Elliot's blood thirsty face. Love the man as I do but I don't want to see him when he's like that, thirsty for blood.

"Gotcha." Elliot snickers with a grin.

BANG

I jolt as I hear the man's end, refusing to look back as I stare wide eyed at the ground. N-No way ... geh ... Elliot can be terrifying at times.

"Feh. Trash," I hear Elliot spit before a hand touches my shoulder, "you alright Jackie?"

"Y-Yeah, just fine." I say, turning around and pointedly look at his face only. He leans forward and takes my hand, helping me to my feet.

"Awe~ no fair chicken rabbit!"

"Yeah! We wanted to help Jackie!" The twins openly pout before wrapping their arms around my waist on either side.

"You ok, Jackie?" Dee innocently asks before nuzzling his head into my shoulder.

"Yeah. Did chicken rabbit take advantage of you?" Dum says with an almost serious face.

"Oh to hell with you two! Hurry up and return to your posts." Elliot huffs before stomping off deeper into town. Huh. I wonder what job he has to do?

"Good! Stupid chicken rabbit." Dee and Dum say at the same time, sticking their tongues out at him. Heh. Such children. I happily rub the tops of their heads. Hm~ I never paid much attention to it but they are almost up to my nose in height. They're getting bigger.

"Yay~ big sister~," they hum before leaning back. "Hey, come visit the Mansion."

"Yeah! Boss will be happy to see ya!" Dee continues.

"Yeah. Especially since Alice left."

"She left?" I ask, looking to Dum.

"Yeah. She moved back with the Clock Maker. Yuck!" Dum huffs, sticking out his tongue in disgust.

"And now Blood's in a bad mood." Dee heavily sighs. Well, that makes sense I guess. Blood basically views her as a 'toy' and no one would be very happy to be called that. I don't think that Alice and Blood were in a relationship. Dee happily sighs and snuggles closer, glancing at the ground as his foot knocks into something. "What's this?"

"Parts for a ride. I dropped them." I say, kneeling down as I start to collect the pieces. Thank goodness these are at least decently sturdy.

"You heading back for the Amusement Park?" Dum asks with a strange note to his voice.

"Yeah." I say, collecting the items and putting them into their proper bags.

"Hey, let's play a game!" Dee suddenly says.

"Hm~ not now." I say, reaching for the other bag before Dum's hand quickly snags it and yanks it away.

"Hey-!" I start before Dee snatches up the other one and dances out of my reach. "Hey give those back! I need those!"

"Then you gotta catch us first!" They shout before running in opposite direction.

"No fair-!" I shout, hesitating before taking after Dum. He glances over his shoulder before widely grinning, darting down another street. "Come on, Dum I need those parts!"

"Ha ha~ gotta catch me~!" He shouts before taking out his axe and swinging at a small crowd of faceless. "Outta the way!"

"Gah!" They shout, startled as they barely get out of the blade's path.

"DUM! Don't swipe at random people, stupid!" I harshly scold before darting past the frightened crowd. A sudden jerk yanks my foot back as I smack into the ground, feeling my head jar as my chin hit the sidewalk hard.

"Watch your step, Miss Foreigner." They chuckle before I leap to my feet, wiping the blood from the newly attained scraps before dashing after Dum. Now I really am going to kill Dum once I catch up. Dum glanced over his shoulder before he widely grinned.

"Too slow!" He shouts before taking off towards the Mansion. UGH!

"Get back here!" I bark, feeling my jaw and head ache with each jarring step. Wow now I have a headache ... oh whatever I need to get those parts back first! My chest heaves as I dart after the annoying boy, spying the Mansion's gates just up ahead. I can't believe he ran all the way back here just to mess with me!

... actually I can believe that.

"Ha ha! Can't catch me~ I'm too fast." He teased, hardly looking back as he dashed inside. A nearby servant looks up from his work, spying me before his mouth parts in shock.

"M-Miss Jackie?!" He shouts before I dash inside, ignoring him. Gosh dang it Dum just give me my parts back! I need those for the new ride Mary's constructing! Dum dashed through the hallways, passing a few maids and servants who held the same shocked expression as I sprint past them. Why are they all freaking out? All I did was get a few scratches from falling.

"You here, brother?" Dee's voice comes from inside a wide opened door as Dum jumps inside with the bag in hand. Well it's about time he's done enough running. As fit as I am I'm starting to get really tired. I whip around to the door, heavily breathing as I tightly grip the door frame for support. Dee and Dum look up with excited eyes, also breathing a little harder but not as much as me. Geh ... stupid toned kids ...

"Wasn't that fun, brother? Hey, Jackie-ah?" Dum starts with a grin before it drops to a frown. Their eyes grow steadily wider as I shakily approach, breathing hard as I pressed a hand to my jaw. Uh oh is it dripping? I glance down spying a decent sized spot of blood soaking into my shirt. Oh well isn't that just dandy my freaking boobs caught the dripping blood.

"Jackie are you alright?!" Dee harshly demands with fright deeply embedded in his voice.

"Hm? Yeah, I'm fine. I just tripped while I was running." I say. Although I'm pretty sure one of those faceless tripped me. I wonder why? It might have been because Dum was swinging his axe around.

"Jackie, you're covered in blood-!" Dum nearly shouts as they both leap the couch between us and hurriedly come to my side.

"Who did this to ya?!" Dee asks with a hint of anger in his voice. I bluntly stare at the twins, biting my tongue. You both did this to me ... I let out a heavy sigh, staring at the both of them before smiling slightly.

"I tripped, that's all." I think it's best not to mention the faceless. It could have been an accident ... at least I would think that until one made a snarky remark.

"No, this is not good!" Dee says before tugging on me arm.

"Yeah! Not good at all!" Dum huffs before they drag me over to the couch. I roll my eyes as they wrap their arms around me on either side.

"Ah! Your knees are bleeding! Dee cries. I heavily sigh and slouch back against the couch, closing my eyes. They're just scratches and they're overreacting like this? Ridiculous. But ... it's nice when someone overreacts a little. It makes me feel cared for. My eyebrows slightly raise as a pair of hands pinch the middle of my thigh, unzipping the pants to make them shorts. Hm. Whatever. I really don't care. The process repeats with the other leg, making me jolt as a small tongue laps up my knee.

"What the heck?!" I shout, shooting my head up to see Dee kneeling on the ground with his lips pressing against the scratches. "What are you doing?!"

"Disinfecting them." Dum says, gently tilting my head before gently pressing his lips against the still bleeding wound. I flinch as he gently sucks up the blood and gives the area a small lick before retreating with sorrowful eyes. "Sorry ... ,"

"Yeah. We only wanted to play with big sister." Dee says before working on the other knee. His arm wraps around my leg as his hand grips my calf, keeping me from kicking his head off as he kisses the wound.

"We hardly get to see you so we wanted to play."

"Sorry ... ," they mutter together, looking up at me with such sore puppy dog eyes it made my heart skip a beat. So cute ... yeah, they are murdering kids but they are cute!

"It's fine. I just need some band aids." I smile, gently ruffling Dum's hair.

"I got it!" Dum shouts before jumping up and dashing off towards the bathroom. I heavily sigh out a smile, watching Dum frantically look for some band aids as Dee sits beside me and wraps his arms around my shoulders.

"Big sis ... can you stay here tonight?" Dee asks. My eyes immediately look outside, spying Night. Ah~ that really snuck up on me.

" ... fine." I say, not even bothering to try and fight it. They would find a way to convince me so saying yes is better than fighting them on it.

"Yay! Hey, brother, big sis is going to sleep with us tonight!"

"Really!?" Dum shouts from within the bathroom, stumbling out with a large armful of bandages. "We don't have band aids but these will work right? Right?"

"Yeah, it's fine." I smile, taking one and wrapped both my knees with it. I'm not going to worry too much about the one on my shin. I can already feel scabs forming and what I'm sure is going to be a monstrous bruise tomorrow.

"I didn't say I would-," I start before I spy their pouting faces.

...

Gosh dang it no wonder these kids get away with murder.

"Fine." I growl, watching as they excitedly bounce around the room, chatting about all the fun things we could do to avoid sleep. I watch as they move around the room, getting their bed all set up and making sure everything is just right.

They're such cute boys~

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