"Do you think it would work?" Mary asked Sulley and Mike.
"It's worth a shot kid." Mike told her. Mary looked at Sulley.
"Do you think it would work?" she asked again, directly only at him. The big blue monster said nothing, only... stared at her. Mary glared at him. His lack of response was beginning to scare her. Leslie sensed this and inched closer to Mary in case the girl would attack the monster. Mary was on edge because her sister was at the mercy of a villain. Mess with a Gibbs, die by a Gibbs.
"Well?" Mary asked, starting to grow very angry. "Do you have anything to say Sullivan?"
That make him respond a little.
"What if Randall catches you?" the monster finally said.
"And what? Kills me?" Mary retorted. "He's not going to do that. Even if he does, I would be honored to go out that way as long as Emma was safe. She's my sister, my little sister, it's my blood duty to protect her with my life. If I can't save her, who will? You protected me once, but you can't protect Emma like I can. If you can't get that, then I guess you don't need to come through that closet door anymore."
For a moment, the only thing anyone could do was looked at Mary. Leslie started to pull Mary away.
"Come on, we have to go now or Randall might find us." she told her friend. Mary stood where she was.
"What is it Sulley?" Mary asked, finally letting Leslie pull her away.
"Come on Sull," Mikey said, pushing Sulley away too, "We have work to do..."
. . . . . . . . . .
"I'm gonna leave for a few minutes, alright kid?" Nathaniel asked Black-bangs's sister. The little girl smiled.
"You'll bring Mary too, right?" she asked, sounding serious.
"And be back before..."
"Your daddy comes?"
"Yeah, before Dad comes back."
"Good, he scares me..."
Nathaniel gave a side-smile.
"It's nothing personal kid, it's just part of his job."
The kid gave a small smile back before Nathaniel slithered away to roam the halls of Monsters Inc. He wandered at first, but when he began to hear voices, he decided to follow them. To his luck, it was Black-bangs and Strawberry-glasses.
"It's amazing how much you remember although you haven't been here in ages." Strawberry-glasses remarked as the two walked along the hallways.
"I know right?" Black-bangs (Mary, as Nathaniel remembered her sister calling her). "It's like listening to a song I've only heard once five years ago."
"And yet," Nathaniel said, leaning on a wall behind the human girls, "You still have a fabulous sense of getting lost in a world unlike yours."
Mary and her friend turned around. At first, Mary looked angry at him, but then confused.
"You're..." she started to say, not sure how to finish.
"I'm his son." Nathaniel informed her. "Estranged in a sense, since he's supposed to be banished anyway, but blood."
"Where's my sister?" Mary almost instantly demanded. "If I find out she's hurt or in danger, you're gonna..."
"Calm yourself kid." Nathaniel told her. "Your sister and I are friends, she said so herself. The only monster she's afraid of is my dad. Not that I can blame her or anything."
Mary stared hard at Nathaniel. She saw him as his dad, he could tell that much. Her friend put a hand on her shoulder, possibly silently warning it may be a trap. Nathaniel didn't plan it that way, not after the conversation he and Mary had next.