Ok then. Ch 2. It's been done or some time now, but I've been waiting for more reviews. I figured that if I was gonna post it, it'd be nice if someone wouild read it. I guess someone will eventually.

! If you havent read the story by Rune TheElf, YOU MUST READ THAT 1ST!

Oh and heres the reviews I've gotten so far. I saw someone else do this and thought it'd be a cool idea.

RavenandBB4life "r u going 2 keep going with this?" See for yourself.

FanofDa'EdBoyz "Yes I read the fan fic you suggested before I read yours and both are very good in sucsession. I'm sorry if I don't have much to review about either of your fics though because my sister had the TV on really loud and I couldn't consentrate, but it was really good writing and the beginings of a plot. Write more! ;)"

See! he listens, read the pre-requisit story! I didn't wqrite it though. Yeah, I can't concentrate in my room unless my Room Mate is out or out cold. Many thanks for the praise. I will and I have!

ON TO THE ORGY... I MEAN STORY

As Edd penciled in the letter C on the last question, he stood up and grabbed the packet. He approached the teacher's desk and looked at the clock. Only twenty minutes of the 65 minute class had elapsed and, like usual, he was the first to finish the test. After setting the test on Mr. Arbezzi's desk he walked back to his seat and sat there, looking about the room but paying special attention to the front left corner of the room where his girlfriend sat, worrying over the test answer sheet. Mr. Arbezzi had all his students sit at a desk that was at least two seats away from their normal seat on test days, thus Edd and Marie were not together as they would have been on a normal day.

'C'mon Marie, I know you can do this,' he thought to himself, cheering her on silently. Almost as though she could hear him root for her, Marie shot him a quick glance and smile. All without Mr. Arbezzi noticing, a trick her and her sisters had mastered long ago in order to effectively cheat on tests in the past. Edd smiled to himself as the thought crossed his mind that she could probably play a game of Tic Tac Toe with him from 4 seats away and Mr. Arbezzi would never know. He hoped that she was doing well on the test, which she should be because they had been studying for it every lunch hour that week. But he wasn't too sure, she always complained that Mr. Arbezzi hated her. This was a common excuse employed by a few of his fellow students who did poorly in their classes, but one he entertained for her nonetheless. He sighed and thought about all she'd done to stay with him in the last few years. After the incident, the two of them stayed together for a while, mostly due to the fact that the less either of them spent around their cohorts, the better.

She claimed to hate her sisters because of how Lee continued to beat her after she smacked Eddy around. How, even though Marie had screamed as she was blacking out, Lee did not allocate any mercy to her sister. Of all people, she thought that Lee would understand the violence that she had directed towards Eddy, but she was wrong. May had simply sat back and watched as Marie began to lose consciousness. And then there was Eddy's revenge, the thought of which made a feeling of rage sweep up through Edd's torso. Eddy had no right to do what he did. Ed, the loveable oaf, had told Edd what had happened in his basement, and Marie told him what she could, although she was too scared at the time to notice any details.

Ed was a true friend to the end, and Edd knew it. He counted Ed innocent because a) he never actually DID anything and b) he'd seen that Big Ed would usually fallow the dominant force in any given situation. Which was why Eddy no longer held any such authority in the small group, Edd had seen to that personally.

Although he had professed to his "friends" that he had no feelings for the blue-haired Kanker, he still felt that he should do the chivalrous thing and make Eddy pay for his terrible actions. At the time Edd did not know the full extent of Eddy's crimes, but by the state Marie was in when she was found, they must have been bad. And so, shortly after returning his father's file to its rightful place on the wall he went to look for the two remaining Eds. Ironically enough, they were still in Ed's basement, Ed on his bed laughing hysterically over a copy of Chix Galore and Eddy sitting in Ed's chair, inspecting another worthless trinket left over as proof of his older brother's legacy in the Cul-de-sac. Edd opened the window and slid down onto the wooden table under it, and finally to the concrete foundation that made up the floor of the room.

"Where ya been Sock-head?" Eddy asked, not bothering to look up. He sat there so innocently as though nothing had transpired that morning. Ed chimed in with one of his nonsensical "Edisms"

"Double D, you missed it, I spun around on my head for 5 minutes and then I threw up!"

"Yeah," Eddy added, "you shoulda seen it, he… Hey what's up with YOU, Sock-head?" It was at that time that Eddy caught sight of Edd's expression. Edd was angry. Angrier than he'd ever been, and what's more was he wasn't quite sure why he was so upset. Wasn't this the same girl who made his life miserable on so many occasions before? Maybe it was because of what he had seen engraved on the tree, or how smug and innocent Eddy was acting but, something about what they'd done to her had enraged him and he wasn't about to take any crap from anyone right now. Without taking his eyes off of Eddy, who continued to regard him with growing befuddlement, Edd asked, "Ed, what happened?"

"Oh, is this about…" Eddy was cut short by Edd with a quick yet effective "Shut up! I was ASKING Edd!" By this time Ed had replaced his magazine under his pillow and sat up on his bed, looking at Edd.

Ed replayed the events of the morning vocally, although not without losing track of his point uncontrollably. Edd was patient enough though, and goaded Ed to continue until the point when Edd had come in to, as Ed put it "Rescue her from the clutches of Dr. Scam."

Now Edd felt an even greater hatred flowing through his veins, burning as though his blood had been replaced with gasoline.

"Eddy! What in god's name were you thinking! Do you realize what you did to her? You almost KILLED HER," he shouted. Eddy just looked at Edd with a smirk that invited Edd to try and do something about it. Truth be told, all Eddy had to do was have Big Ed jump into action and Edd's every effort would be for not. Ed was a nearly unstoppable juggernaut and Edd knew it.

Just then, almost as though an answer to his prayers, an idea popped into his mind. He slowly raised a finger and pointed menacingly at Eddy. "You will PAY for what you have done Eddy! I swear to GOD you will!" And then he began to walk toward the door. As he opened the door, emblazoned with a poster for Gore Fest, he noticed that Eddy did not appear to be worried. He continued to sit in the chair, a calm look about him.

"Ed?" asked Edd, "Would you please come with me?" Ed quickly ran over to the door with a token answer of "Buttered toast!" Edd felt that it wasn't fair to implicate Ed in the horrors that awaited Eddy. With Ed in tow, Edd climbed the stairs to ground level, and then the stairs leading up to the second story. Ed followed unaware, while Edd rehearsed his lines silently and erased all signs of his previous emotions from his face. As he topped the staircase, he turned left and then stopped at the first door on the right. "Ed, I want you to be very quiet," Edd instructed, "no matter what happens just please be quiet and let me do the talking. Can you do that for me?" Big Ed nodded and then continued to stare off into space, as he did so often. Edd took a deep breath and then knocked.

"Go away!" Sarah's voice answered. Edd listened for a second, straining to confirm his suspicion that Jimmy was not within Sarah's room with her. He evidently was not and so he knocked again. This time a series of stampings ensued and then the door was flung open. Sarah stood in the doorway, her hand on the inside doorknob, ready to slam the door shut in the event that she did not like what awaited her on the other side. Edd did not intend to disappoint her. "What do YOU want Double D?" she asked harshly.

Portraying as serious a demeanor as he could Edd said, "Oh, uh, Sarah. I do apologize for my frightfully rude intrusion on your person, but I thought you might like to know that Eddy has sold Jimmy's retainer," Edd lied. It was all he could do not to smile as he sealed Eddy's fate. He knew that what Sarah was capable of, would be sufficient to make Eddy's punishment adequate.

Sarah was fuming, "WHAT! He did WHAT!"

Edd realized that he would need to utilize this time to spare Ed her wrath. "Ed and I just found out about it, Ed had been assisting me with an experiment and after we had finished we decided to stop in and see our dear friend Eddy." 'Excellent, Ed's safe' he thought.

"Ooohh, WHERE IS HE?" Sarah demanded.

"I think he's in Ed's room, but…" he couldn't finish because she was already pushing the two out of her way. There was a mild pain as his body collided with a small inn table, but he knew that what Eddy was going to be going through would be far worse. He smiled, and chuckled to himself as he thought of the beautiful retribution.

Since that day, Eddy had taken the lowest position on the totem pole, due in no small part to the many threats of further violence Edd had made. After that encounter, Edd decided that it would be best to stay off the radar for a few days, mostly so that Eddy could let what had happened sink in and so that HE could help Marie recuperate further. It was during this time that they had grown closer, he had stayed by her bed for the following three days, assisting her in any way he could. In actuality it was HIS bed, but he did not want to move her for a while and she showed no interest in going back to her place. After recovering her lost blood and regaining her strength they went back to her place together. Since she wasn't bed ridden any longer, she was in need of some of her belongings. It was 2:00 in the morning when he took the still rather weak girl to the Park n' Flush trailer park. She requested that he stay outside of the trailer in the event that her sisters woke, but by the sounds of the snoring emitting from within, it was not likely. She was in an out in under minute holding both a garbage bag full of clothes and other belongings and a small metal box with a lock on the side. He wondered to himself if that was the box she had referred to in her testament.

After they got back to Edd's room, they talked for a while, about trivialities, and then about more serious matters. They began to speak of how long she planned on staying with him. It had been only mildly difficult to keep her a secret from his parents, but he began to doubt his own abilities. On top of that, his sleeping on the floor, where even now he lay comforted only be a pillow and a pair of jackets, was putting a significant dent in his sleep cycle. The previous morning he nearly missed his paper route, and after the episode with the other Eds, he was on thin ice as it was. They decided that she would give her sisters a few more days to go without her presence, and then she would return. Lee, by then, would have forgotten the incident as she hadn't the best memory, and of course May couldn't remember what she had for breakfast, which seemed to further constitute a perfect match for Ed she mused. They both laughed at this, trying to be quiet so as not to wake Edd's parents. Finally, Edd worked up the courage to enquire about the small metal box, and immediately, Marie became silent and her eyes began to look as though she was staring down an oncoming train.

Realizing his fault, Edd began to stumble through a change of subject. "Umm," he started, waving his hands wildly in front of him as if to negate what was said. "if you don't want to talk about it we…" He was cut off by Marie who said in a tone, the very definition of somber.

"Edd…, did you read what I wrote on that tree? Th-the one you found me under?"

Edd didn't know how to respond. Of course he did, but should he tell her?

"I…ummm well the thing is…that well…" Then he tried for the stupidest thing he could, "What tree?" Even as he said it, he mentally smacked himself for being so stupid. Apparently though, she didn't realize, either that or she didn't want to try and drag out an argument with him. The expression on her face, as she sat on his bed with her arms around her huddled legs, looking downward at nothing in particular told Edd that the latter was the case.

"Edd… I just want you to tell me the truth. Did you see the tree? Did you read it?" At that last sentence, she looked up again to face him, tears beginning to well up in her eyes. Instead of answering, Edd let out a sigh and looked down towards the floor. He rose from his jacket sleeping bag and headed towards his desk. He could feel her pleading eyes on him, even without looking back her way, as he crossed the room and probed his desk for his camera. After finding it he slowly moved toward his bed, simultaneously turning the power on and changing it to the view function. He chose the best picture and handed the camera to the distraught girl. It took no more than a second of her scrutiny before she set it down on the bed, obviously not wanting to see any more.

Edd was sure she was going to bust into tears, but instead only a single tear escaped her eye. Then she reached under the covers and fished out a small key. She then disengaged the lock on the small box and opened it.

They spent the remainder of the night looking through its contents. At first, it seemed almost painful for Marie, and Edd felt awkward and wanted to stop, but then after the praise she received for how well her third poem had come out things began to take on a much more cheerful air. She happily showed off the things within as a proud artist shows off a new painting at a gala. By the time they had finished it was 4:58 in the morning, and Edd needed to begin his paper route in a few minutes. But before that he decided that a good closer to the special night was in order. After she had replaced everything in her box and tucked it away Edd leaned close to her and hugged her tight. She was visibly taken off guard by this, and as he remembered, he had been a little surprised at his actions too, but then she relaxed and returned the embrace. They sat there for a few minutes, simply basking in the warmth that each other's body emanated. Finally, Edd whispered that he had to do his paper route so he'd have to go. She responded by letting go for a second and then applying a firm yet soft kiss to his lips. This surprised him terribly and his eyes shot open wide. While this happened, he noticed how calm and natural looking Marie was with this turn of events, and how beautiful. He relaxed more and returned the feeling that the kiss had brought.

The first bell of the day rung loudly, shaking Edd out of his day-dreaming. He nearly smacked his head on the desk as the arm that was supporting it, leapt up in surprise. Once he regained his composure, he looked toward the front of the room in time to see a rather pleased Marie, handing in her test along with a few of the other remaining students. He got up from his seat and slung his bag over his shoulder and joined her up at Mr. Arbezzi's desk. As he approached, he saw a repeat of the smile she had shot him earlier and knew that she had done well. He returned the smile and they both left the room together.