Grr! I know this is super late, but I been a busy little bee ya know? Gone to Oregon, trying to talk with my artist and get my comic up and moving… dancing…ya and I have this stinky cold. It's awful. I'll try to push out another chapter really soon to make it up to you guys. K? *dies* Okay… here we go…

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Bard and Finny had retreated to the kitchen. Taking me with them.

Bard was now staring at the pastry as though it would simply spell out the answer of whether it could or couldn't be eaten.

"Ches, Hey Ches!" Maylene came stumbling in, a red spot on her forehead where she must have run into something.

"What is it?" I asked, sliding off of the rough wooden counter I had been sitting on.

Maylene glanced behind her. "There is someone at the door who says she knows you."

Know me? She? It was either a friend of Simon's, or one of them.

"What does she look like?" I asked flatly.

Maylene took on a pondering countenance. "Hmm… well lets see…"

Humans. Honestly. If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't live without them, I would have much less patience with them and slow ones like her would find their guts all over the floor.

"Oh! She told me to tell you it was Dinah, she said you were her sister." Maylene smiled happily. "She seems so nice, and I can certainly see resemblances."

Maylene continued to prattle on about Dinah, I shut her out.

Dinah. Were they starting with the weakest? Why? Oh wait. That fool of a leader was still there wasn't he, leading all of them with a carrot stick and a whip. Of course he wouldn't want to take chances with her.

I almost felt like laughing, Those pathetic humans who followed someone who was no more than her puppet.

"Maylene." Maylene stopped short in the middle of a sentence. "I don't have a sister. I'm going to go talk to her and tell her she must have made a mistake."

Maylene looked at me in shock. "But she looks-"

"I am an only child." I told her, and walked briskly out of the room.

I darted down the halls at a near inhuman pace.

I needed to take care of her quickly.

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She came.

Darting down the hall at a pace almost no human could.

She didn't look happy.

Why?

She was in front of me.

"Dinah." She didn't say it; she hissed it, with narrowed eyes. If it weren't for those two things, I would have thought her emotionless. She still let her stupid chain boss her around.

"If you came in their name, to get me for them, forget it." Her voice was emotionless now, but her eyes were still narrowed, on guard, ready to pounce.

The sunshine on my back suddenly felt cold.

She… didn't want to come? But if… if she didn't…

"Ches, but if you don't come Al-"

"Don't say that filthy whores name." Ches's voice hissed again.

I gripped the front of the gingham dress.

How could she hate her. She was the one who played with me. Who loved me, as long as I loved her.

"Sis," I tried again, feeling a sob well up in my chest. "If- if you don't come. They told me I would have to- to kill you." Tears slid out of my eyes, the deep inky black staining my cheeks.

She was unmoved. "I do not recall ever being your sister." She said bluntly, flicking a stray hair out of her left eye.

I was shaking now. Why was she so cold. Just because we were… were different from humans. We could still be happy and… and kind couldn't we?

But… but sis, we share the same gene, the same last name." I voice was sticky sounding and quiet from my tears.

She scoffed at my words, and a small smirk that sent pain ripping through my heart squirmed unto her face for a half of a second before flickering back to the line of calm that I had seen on her face since she had run to the door. "Genes? Honestly, just because they are of the same species it doesn't automatically make us related in any way, and if I remember correctly, we had to choose our own names because they wouldn't give us anything but numbers."

"Just… just please come, I don't want to hurt you and-"

It was back, that smirk, bigger, crueler. "You hurt me? In my absence you seem to have become delusional, Dinah. I am afraid that I must wait for Simon, but it seems as though you won't be leaving me any time soon."

She was walking towards me, a predators gait, confidant, almost lazy. Her heels clicking loudly as she made her way closer to me, to the door, across the hard white marble floor.

Without meaning to, I stepped back. My claws unsheathed, my ears flew up, alert, defensive. Her aura, it was strong, it was suffocating, it was hopeless.

But I had to try, she had told me to do my best. I couldn't disappoint her.

She was almost at the door, the echoes fading as she stepped through the wooden frame, and I continued to step back, watching, waiting, looking for an opening, for her to be distracted, unfocused, to relax slightly.

"Shall I teach you a lesson?" She was gone.

I glanced around, everything seemed like an enemy, where was she, where was she, I needed to see her, I needed to find her, I needed to-

"Tag. You're it." Her voice was in my ear.

Pain. Oh it hurt, oh make it stop, stop, oh stop, please, it hurts, I can't see, where is she? I need to… No stop it hurts, I can't think, it hurts too much, stop, STOP…

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There. Whatcha think? Is it good? Or way too cheesy, like 'dsjfgdsfh what the hell is this junk DIE! *throws keyboard*'

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