Summary: What will happen when Mandy frees Grim? Will he stay, or leave forever, and never come back?
The Day I Fell In Love With Death
Ch.1: Free And A Single Tear
This is when Mandy is now 16 and Billy is 17. Mandy now has her still emotionless, violent personality, and her hair has grown out to her shoulders, and she now wears 'gothic' looking clothing. (Go Goths!) And as for Billy, he is STILL the idiot we know and love (I guess..) But he know has longish orangish hair, but still wears his base ball cap, and he dresses still in his stripped shirt and baggy pants. As fer Grim, he is still the same old evil, Jamaican, back of bones we love and torture... :
We come in when Billy, Mandy, and Grim are on Billy's coach relaxing, and when Mandy says, "Are you done with ALL of my chores yet?" Grim replies, "Yes, your highness" With sarcasm dripping from the last word.
"You better be..." Mandy says, but trailed off.
"What ever 'mon," Grim Replies.
While Mandy just replied with a death glare, Billy started to pick his nose while continuing watching the TV.
Just then Mandy remembers something that happened last week.
Flash Back
They were at Mandy's house, just watching some TV.
After a few hours of being deep on thought, Mandy came to an agreement with herself.
"Hey Grim...?" She asks.
"What do you want 'mon?" Grim asks.
"...What will you do when you are free?" She asks with her normal emotionless mask on.
"Well, I haven't really thought about it...hmm, probably leave, and go back to actual reaping and finally enjoy myself, that is if I'm free, why do u ask?" Grim wonders out loud.
"None of your business, bonehead, but if you MUST know, I was just a lil curious," Mandy replies. Billy on the other hand is just picking his nose with a pencil...
Grim wonders, 'why would she ask something like that? I mean, OF COURSE I'll leave, 'cause I just had ENOUGH of this, and it's not like I ACTUALLY like them, ESPECIALLY, Mandy...right?'
End Flash Back
Mandy ponders this for a little bit, ' I just bet the ONLY reason Grim is staying here, is because he lost that stupid bet. But IF I do set him free I'll never see him again..but why should THAT bother me, I mean, he is JUST a slave after all...right? Ugg, I GUESS I'll kinda miss him, even though I will NEVER admit it. But yea, he will leave and never come back, but I wouldn't blame him, I'm a bitch. (Lol) But I GUESS I KINDA care for him... just enough to make sure he's happy... and he'll be happy if we weren't around, ESPECIALLY me...'
A single tear went down Mandy's cheek, and it didn't go unnoticed by Grim.
"Hey bonehead," She calls while wiping the single tear away, like nothings wrong.
"What do ya want 'mon?" Grim asks.
There was silence for about 2 min.
"Well...?" Grim asks getting kind of impatient.
"I...er...your free," Mandy answers while glaring at the floor.
"I- WHAT NOW?" Grim was TOTALLY caught off guard with that.
When Billy FINALLY came to his senses (God knows where they were all this time) decided to step in.
"Mandy, why would you do that?? I mean, Grim is OUR slave! WWAAHH- oh, pickles!" Billy yells getting partly detracted and running into the kitchen for pickles.
"Ar-...are you serious..?" Grim asks hesitantly.
Mandy mumbles, "Yea."
Making sure it wasn't a trick Grim wonders, "Why are you telling me I'm free now all of a sudden?"
It took a few seconds for Mandy to respond, and she finally replied shrugging, "Well, since you have been with us for nearly 5 years, and I just think that you shouldn't have to put up with us for that long. I mean, I know you have other goals for your life and shit, so I just think that you should probably do them or something. I know you want to be FAR from us, so I'm setting you free, and plus your getting on my nerves." Adding the last as a lie, but hay, u can't be to careful, right?
Grim started pondering this 'I'm free, this is no joke...I'm ,free, I'M FREE!! YESS!!! FINALLY!! I'm done hanging around these brats! But wait... now what will I do? I finally got my freedom, yet...I don't know what to do with it..funny. But this means I don't have to stay around here anymore, it's a GREAT thing...right? Oh 'mon, this is confusing...I guess I'll just go back to my job, with out these brats pestering me, with out Billy. Without...Mandy. Supposed to be THRILLED, right? But why arn't I...why?
Mandy couldn't take it anymore, she just couldn't...all of this tension was getting to her...he was free, but she felt so broken...
Mandy exploded screaming, "WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?! GO! YOUR FREE RIGHT?! SO THEN GO, YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE! LEAVE LIKE YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO!"
Grim winced, 'I guess I'm not needed... she's right though, I should just go'
At that, Grim got his trunk, pulled out his scythe and sliced a portal going into the underworld, and failed to notice the single tear, running down the blonde's cheek. And in mere seconds, he was gone, the hope to her life, the light to her candle, gone, out of her life forever...
Or so she thought.