This is a nice relaxing chapter where nothing goes horribly wrong! enjoy!

Over the next few months Jack spent more and more time at the apartment with Devin but his father had doubts about his identity so let them spend as little time alone together as possible, though Dalton couldn't really complain as Jack would cook, clean and help Devin with homework, their apartment had never been so clean and Devin's grades had never been better. So Jack or not he was good to have around, despite the dog that he always brought around that seemed too smart for its own good and looked creepy as fuck. Not once did Dalton see Jack come into the house he would see him leave but the next day he would just…be there. Dalton wasn't sure how he was getting in because he hadn't given him a key and Devin still had his so one he really was Jack and he'd kept his key all these years or…something else.

Jack laid on the couch with smile on top of him petting her she was in her normal form human teeth and all; Jack had done the dishes, laundry, swept, mopped and even dusted. He'd already eaten and so had smile. Devin and Dalton wouldn't be home for hours so there was no point in starting dinner and he already had all the ingredients. The cake for Devin's birthday sat in the fridge, Jack had made it himself even frosted it himself per Devin's request. Jack had gotten very good at cooking and baking because if he was bored he would experiment with new foods but that could get messy and his dad said he couldn't do any food experimenting today because it was Devin's birthday the next day. So he sat flicking through one boring channel after another. "God I'm bored."

"same." Smile said rolling over on to her back. "Did we alphabetize the movies?"

"Yup."

"When is Devin supposed to get here again?" Jack looked at his watch "2 hours." They groaned in unison. "I thought hanging here would give us more to do but we're just as bored here as we are at home!" Jack nodded in agreement.

Moments later the phone rang. Smile and Jack exchanged looks before Jack dashed over to the phone answering it. "Helloooo!" Jack said in a sing song voice. "Good you're home I need a favor."

"Devin? Aren't you supposed to be in class?"

"It's a half day dork I told you that."

"Oh…well what's the favor?"

"I need you to put on some make up you know something to make you look…human or get out of the house till like…tomorrow night."

"Why?"

"Dad said I could have a sleepover for my birthday."

"Really! Cool! Um…I'll see what I can do about the make up!"

"Jack?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you so bored at home that you're excited to spend time with 14 and 15 year olds?"

"…maybe." Jack could almost hear Devin roll his eyes. "Well I'll see what I can do about the looking normal thing and I'll call you to tell you how it works out!"

"K see ya." Jack ended the call and slammed it down on the receiver. "What did he say!?"

"He's having a sleep over tonight! So I gotta go see slender!"

Jack pounded on the door of slender mansion and Korbyn opened the door. "What?"

"I need a favor a big favor but not from you." he said pushing past her. "Is slender in his office?"

"Yeah when is he not?"

"When he's removing souls of intruders in his forest." He said bolting up the stairs and ran up to the door before knocking calmly. "Come in Jack." Jack stepped in doing his best not to bounce in place. "Yes Jack?" slender asked not looking up from what he was doing. "I need to look human till like tomorrow night." Slender lifted his head. "Do I want to know why?"

"Probably not?" slender sighed "what color eyes did you have?"

"Brown I think pretty generic shit." Slender stood and walked over to a door unlocking it before stepping inside soon coming back out with a small brow bag. "one every hour and be careful, you'll still be able to shatter heads at the flick of a wrist but if you get hurt you'll heal at a normal pace don't worry you won't die but it will just be very inconvenient and it won't fix your teeth or you lack of eyes it changes skin that's it."

"Cool do you have any-." Slender held out his other hand holding out glass eye with brow irises. "Yeah I think that will work."

"Those are to be taken as chewables but I'll warn you I've been told they taste awful."

"Great something to look forward to."

"In return I'll ask that you help me on something in the future."

"Sure, what is it?"

"Oh nothing now just call it an 'I owe you.' Wish your brother a happy birthday for me." Jack nodded before slender sent him and smile back to the apartment.

Jack fell face first into the couch. "Fuck you too man." Smile whimpered in annoyance "well at least we didn't have walk home."

"agreed." Jack shot up at the sound of the door unlocking and two voices outside it Devin and someone else. "Smile!" smiled got the point and changed into normal dog form. "Smile use cute dog distraction!" smile ran to the door and jumped and barked happy pretending to be overly excited to see Devin. "Hey SD! What's up!" Jack bolted up and ran to Devin's room. "It's super effective." Jack said chuckling to himself. "E.J.? You home?"

"Would you come here!?"

"Coming!" Devin walked into his room and was tackled to the ground by Jack. "Jesus Christ!"

"He's not available at this time but guess what I got!"

"No life!"

"Shut up! I got these!" Jack said holding out the small brown bag."

"Oh! A small brow bag amazing." Devin said his words dripping with sarcasm. "Nope these will make me look mostly human and these will help even more." Jack said pulling out glass eyes. "Oh that actually is super cool!"

"Right, one problem though."

"What?"

"They won't fix my teeth."

"Well if the rest of you looks human and no one asks then it won't be a problem." Jack pulled out the pill and tossed it into his mouth. "I was told these taste bad but it's actually not at all bad."

"Wont the glass eyes block your sight?"

"Let's see." Jack pushed the glass eyes and blinked "I can see fine." He looked at Devin who was looking at him strangely. "What?"

"I've gotten used to the other face, this one is…weird."

"Right? Like when Masky started taking his mask off around me I wasn't used to it, for me the mask was his face."

"Dude look in a mirror." Jack stepped over to Devin's full length mirror and leaned close examining his face. "Freaky."

"Hey Devin wanna play some video games?"

"One second Cole!"

"You should start dinner I boasted about your cooking all the way here." Devin said heading for the door "um who am I to you?"

"Oh right I told him you're my cousin but we're close like brothers and that you go by E.J." Jack nodded setting an alarm on his watch for one hour "Cool cool."

"So what are you making for dinner?"

"What do you want?"

"Well we'll need something filling and that's self serve."

"I'm thinking pulled pork sandwiches."

"Sound good, I'm gonna go entertain Cole before he starts looking through the medicine cabinet." Jack nodded following him out. Jack headed straight for the fridge and looked inside. "Well shit. You guys can handle yourself for a little while, while I go to the store."

"Gasp! Is E.J. not prepared for dinner!?"

"Shut up. I'll be back don't kill each other don't burn the house down and dev? Can I borrow your phone?"

"When is your new one getting here?"

"When I get a job that pays." Jack said taking Devin's phone. "So never."

"Hey I baked you a cake."

"Love you!" Jack shook his head at his brother before heading for the door. "Lock the door behind me!" Jack walked out and up the stairs but stopped half way. "I can go down the stairs now." He grinned evilly and headed down the stairs and soon found himself at the front door of the building. "Ok Jack, you can do this." He took a deep breath before stepping outside and he felt the warm sun on his face. "amazing." He pulled out Devin's phone and dialed Masky's number. "Who are you and how did you get this number?"

"Why so harsh it's only me."

"Jack? Whose phone is this?"

"Devin's."

"Oh well what's up."

"Devin's is having friends over and wants me to cook dinner but I don't have enough food so odd question would you take me to the store." Masky snorted "yeah slender told me he gave you some of those 'normal' pills I guess I could but what's in it for me?"

"What do you want?"

"Ok did expect such an open answer, where should we meet?"

"I'm outside the apartment how soon can you be here?"

"Well as it happens I was headed over, heard its Devin's birthday tomorrow." Just as he said the he pulled up. "Get in loser we're going shopping!" Jack snorted climbing in the car. "So what's for dinner?"

"Pulled pork sandwiches."

"Good party food. How many kids?" Jack hung his head in shame. "I have no idea."

Jack and Masky soon arrived at the store after finding that there would be four teens at the party including Devin and headed inside. "Wow it's just like I remember!" Jack said looking around basically spinning as he walked. "The grocery store?"

"Yeah! I though after like 8 years it would be different but it's the same!" Jack gasped and dashed over to the fruits and vegetables "oh my god! Look at em' all!"

"You do realize you can't actually eat all this stuff right?"

"Yeah but the people I serve it to can people like you." Masky rolled his eyes and pulled Jack away. "Come on we came here for a reason."

They walked up to the deli Masky ordered while Jack just looked over everything. Once they had the food Masky pulled Jack over to the chip isle. "Oh good idea! Chips!" Jack grabbed four different bags of chips and Masky grabbed two different kinds of soda. "My dad is going to kill me for getting four teens on a sugar high."

"Should we put some of it back?" Jack snorted "hell no!" they checked out and headed to the car "so you were actually coming for my brothers birthday?"

"Well I figured you would be bored hanging around a bunch of teens."

"Hell no! The past week was what I call boredom. I completely cleaned the house! Twice!"

"Damn."

"Yeah I've been bored as hell!"

They went back to the apartment and Masky had left his mask in the car per Jack's request. "Oh hey I didn't realize you were coming Masky."

"Not only did I come but…" Masky set the groceries on the table and something out of his pocket soon pulling out Assassins Creed IV: black flag. "Awesome! Dude you're the best thanks so much!" Masky turned back to Jack who was smirking at him. "What?" Jack shrugged "oh nothing." He said putting food in the fridge. "So you wanna help make dinner right?"

"sure." As they began to cook Masky turned to Jack. "So…would you ever go back to this?"

"This life you mean? Go back to the normal life of paying taxes and raising kids?"

"Yeah would you." Jack looked over at Devin and smiled. "Nah, being normal for a little while is fun and all but I couldn't stay like this even if I got to keep my supper strength and didn't have to worry about my diet. Would you?" Masky shrugged "I doubt it, settling is not really my thing, I'm about as settled as I'm gonna get." Jack nodded in agreement. "As soon as Devin moves out I probably won't come back here unless Devin asks."

"Not even for your dad?"

"My dad doesn't believe I'm his son I mean he might when he sees me now but…I don't know Devin had no doubts when he saw me."

"Yes but you saved his life like he expected you to your dad gave up on you being alive a long time ago Devin never gave up hope." Jack nodded I agreement. "Can you get the BBQ sauce out of the fridge?" Masky nodded "whose hungry?" there was a general cheer from the four teens on the couch as they ran over, Masky handing them each plates with burger buns on them. "Step right up boys!" Jack began loading up their plates, once all they boys had food he turned off the stove and leaned against the counter before pulling Masky in front of him.

They began whispering to each other at a level no human could hear but for anyone one watching it would be hard to guess what they were talking about as their cheeks turned redder and redder as they spoke. Occasionally sharing kisses when they knew they weren't being watched, which with the boys all playing a four player game was all the time. "So…Masky?"

"Hm?"

"I have a bedroom ya know and the masses are distracted."

"But for how long?"

"Masky, they have no reason to go into my room its boxes of clothes and an empty full size bed in a room with a locking door." Jack's watch beeped telling him he had about 10 seconds before he started changing back into eyeless Jack. "10 seconds Masky."

"What?"

"9."

"10 second for-?"

"8." Jack pulled out the bag of pills and shook it front of Masky's face and continued counting. "7."

"Yeah ok." Jack chuckled and walked to his bedroom. Jack waited around the corner and the second Masky enter the room he grabbed him by the shirt collar and threw him across the room onto the bed before shutting the door and locking it. Masky looked at Jack as he slowly turned back into the demon he was meant to be his fake eyes falling to the floor with two light thuds on the carpet. "I've either done something incredibly stupid or…increasingly smart." Jack grinned at him showing his sharp teeth and Masky gave a nervous smile. "Or you know…both." Jack lunged for Masky pinning him to the bed before biting his neck roughly. Masky gave a quiet yelp before locking his fingers with Jack's on one hand and the other gripping Jack's hair like his life depended on it.

The next morning Jack woke to the sound of someone knocking on the door. Jack shoved Masky awake. "Hm? What?"

"Go answer the door."

"You do it."

"I'm not looking human at the moment and I have no idea who's on the other side so go answer it." Masky groaned but stood grabbing his pants from the floor and pulling them on. The person at the door knocked again. "One second!" Masky tried to say as nicely as possible though it still came out slightly bitter. Masky trudged over to the door and opened it finding Jack's father on the other side needless to say they were rather surprised to see each other. "Uh…hello sir."

"You are?"

"Uh Masky minus the mask."

"right." Masky could hear Jack giggling his ass off at the awkward state he was in. "can I talk to E.J. or not?"

"Uh I uh…-."

"Let him in Masky, Jesus fucking Christ you're awkward." Masky let Dalton step past him before crossing his arms trying to cover as much of his chest as possible. "sup." Jack said nonchalantly wearing only his mask and a blanket. Jack's gray skin was nothing new to his dad, but his relationship? That apparently was new to him. "Devin said you promised him homemade breakfast." Jack hung his head he had promised that. "Riiight, um tell him to give me 15 minutes and I'll be out." Dalton nodded and left closing the door behind him. "How can it possibly take you 15 minutes to get dressed?"

"It only takes about one which means we have about 14 minutes to do whatever we want." Masky wasn't about to argue