"Fucking, fucker. Fucking, cock-sucking, bitch, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!"
"Vickii, calm down." Lance sighed, now regretting catching the rest of the group up on what's happened to them and the world.
"Bastard-filled-"
"Bastard-filled?"
"Damned bitch fucker-"
"Are any of these supposed to make sense?"
"Fuck!" Vickii screamed before plopping down on the couch next to Lance, putting her hands over her eyes.
"Are you done?" Lance asked. Vickii responded with a loud grunt. "Okay."
"What do we do then?" Tori asked. "Are we just gonna pop over to Germany and kill Gwen?"
"Germany's on fire right now." Fabian spat. "That bitch apparently decided that my home should be burnt to the ground while letting the other countries stand!"
"I don't like him angry." Hope said.
"Me neither." Tori agreed.
"I'll find a way to fix Germany. No idea how long that'll take, but I will." Lance said. "But if Gwen gets her way and takes over America as well, you can kiss Germany and the rest of the world goodbye."
"So, are we just sitting ducks until Gwen comes to America? I can't just sit here and do nothing." JJ said.
"Do you want to do something right now? It's three in the morning, we're probably the only ones awake in the city and I still don't have Sam's memories nor do I know where Emma's at."
"Where's Max?" Tori asked.
"He's...he's kind of my secretary." Lance answered.
"Oh? So you have a sexy rabbit secretary and a large breasted maid?" Vickii asked as Rose carried a tray of cups into the room.
"Tea?" Rose asked with a smile.
"She makes tea?" Haley asked as she took a cup and sipped on it. "Damn."
"Yeah, Rose makes great tea." Lance said as Rose handed him a cup. Rose handed everyone else a cup before sitting down on the other side of Lance and started sipping on her own cup. "I'm happy to see you're less scared of me now." Lance said.
"You seem less mean than before." Rose said. "And yes, they are real." Rose stated before taking another sip, looking at the boys in the room.
"I wasn't asking!" Rob and Jaxon both yelped while Fabian stared deeply into his cup.
"I was." JJ said. "Surprised you're not in constant pain."
"Oh, the Richard family put a spell on me when I first joined the Black Magic Dealers so I don't have back pains." Rose explained.
"Can I have that for my whole body?" Vickii asked in a mutter.
"What about the others? Sheyla, Seth, Lauren, Paul and Michelle?" Tori asked. "What about their memories?"
"They're...they're gone." Lance admitted and reached into his pocket, pulling out a smaller bag. "Their beads shattered and the memories are gone, I don't know how to get them back."
"I just wanna go to bed." Hope whined, slumping down into the chair she was sitting in.
"Hope's right, let's get some sleep before we make any hasty decisions." Lance said.
"I have extra blankets and pillows, we can all crash in the living room." Haley said.
"Want me to help?" Rob asked.
"No..." Lance noticed that Haley was suddenly sad as she walked deeper into her house.
"Rose, go help Haley, I'll grab out blankets and pillows from the truck." Lance said.
"I'm coming with you." Hope said and followed Lance. Hope watched as Lance jumped into the back of the truck, opening a tote and pulling out several pillows.
"What do you want?" Lance asked, refolding some blankets so they were easier to carry. "Are you gonna tell me to stay away from Sam as well? I already had Fabian and Rob both yell at me and I'm not in the mood to listen to the same damn speech three times in the same day."
"I'm not gonna tell you to stay away from Sammy." Hope stated, grabbing a pillow from the edge of the truck. "I actually want you to be with her." Lance didn't say anything. "Your soul seems so much darker without her and I'm sure it's the same for Sammy right now." Hope hugged the pillow. "If she remembers you."
"She doesn't." Lance said and hopped out of the truck, holding the rest of the pillows and blankets. "I'm Shawn to her right now."
"Shawn? Why Shawn?" Hope asked.
"I don't know, it's the name of some YouTuber Sam watches. I think his screen name was Jack something, green hair, green eye buddy named Sam and Irish."
"I know who you're talking about." Hope giggled. "Sammy refers to him as her 'silly little Irish baby'."
"Really? She showed me an episode and all I remember is him screaming." Lance allowed Hope to take a couple pillows out of his arms and the two started heading back into the house.
"That's why Sam loves him. She loves how crazy he is, how easily amused he is, his silly phrases. She says he reminds her a lot of herself so it's easy for her to watch and laugh with him. Sam watches him whenever she's feeling down or whenever she feels like having a good laugh and he manages to make her smile within the first minute of any episode."
"Oh..." Lance gripped the blankets tighter. "Great."
"Loud people usually love other loud people." Hope stopped for a moment and looked at Lance. "I guess you're an exception."
"Yeah." Lance opened the door and held it so Hope could walk in.
"How do you spell it?" Hope asked.
"Spell what?"
"Shawn? Jack's name is S-E-A-N, I'm assuming you're going with S-H-A-W-N, because you."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You're not as cool as Sammy's little Irish baby."
"I'll stab that little Irish baby in the neck." Lance muttered.
"Pretty sure Sammy would hate you forever if you did that." Hope said. "And the millions of other people who watch him."
"Whatever." Lance dropped the blankets in the living room, having them join the pile that had already been made.
"You should calm down, jealousy is not a pretty color on your soul." Hope waged one of her fingers.
"I'm not jealous of some loud-ass Irish bastard!" Lance snapped.
"Are we talking about Sam's Irish bae?" Vickii asked.
"Don't call him that!" Lance threw a pillow at Vickii's.
"Someone's jealous!" JJ sang.
"Go to bed!" Lance threw a pillow at JJ this time.
"Pillow fight!" Jaxon yelled, grabbed a pillow and smack Lance across the face with it.
"Jesus Christ!" Lance grabbed Jaxon and tacked him on top of the pile of blankets.
"Dog pile!" Vickii shouted and leaped on top of Lance. Lance yelped as everyone jumped on top of him and pillows were being thrown everywhere.
x~x~x
Sammy lazily ran her hand through Lisa's hair, the young woman had fallen asleep hours ago and Sammy couldn't seem to sleep herself. She stared at the TV, it playing some random show she knew nothing about. The sun would be coming up any minute now and Sammy doubted that she would get any proper sleep tonight so she gave up. Sammy gently moved Lisa's head and stood up, letting out a soft squeak as she stretched and her shoulders popped.
"No internet, no phone...great." Sammy sighed. "There goes watching all of my YouTubers." She added and walked over to the front door. Sammy thought about what Free had told her earlier. How she wasn't allowed to leave the house until they came to get her, they couldn't risk her getting into trouble without them. Sammy grabbed the doorknob and pulled it open.
Since when was she the one to listen, anyways?
Sammy gently closed the door behind her, not wanting to wake up Lisa and walked down the sidewalk, walking past the strangers that paid no attention to her. She finally looked up and ahead of her and stopped when she saw it. The DWMA building. Sammy wasn't really sure what it was, but she knew she needed to be there for some reason.
"Yahoo!" Sammy jumped back and yelp when a blue-haired boy suddenly landed in front of her. ""You must be Sam!" The boy announced and pointed a finger in Sammy's face.
"Yeah..." Sammy pushed the boy's hand away.
"Black-Star, wait!" A girl landed next to the boy. "You can't just take off like that without us."
"Don't worry, Tsubaki. There's no way a small girl like her could cause any problem for the amazing Black-Star."
"I'm bigger than you, bitch." Sammy scoffed. "Now, it you'd excuse me, I have somewhere to go." Sammy yelped again when another boy and girl was standing in front of her. "Mother dicks!" Sammy yelled, patting her heart to calm it down.
"Is this her, Soul?" The girl asked.
"Fits the description, Maka." Soul said. "Kind of, don't remember half of her head being shaved being a part of it."
"Um...bye." Sammy waved and walked past the two. "Maybe I should have gotten some sleep." Sammy sighed. "I don't have the energy to deal with people-are you kidding me!" Sammy snapped when her arm was grabbed. "What!?" She shouted, facing the person who grabbed her. "Oh...Kiddo." Sammy chuckled. "What's up?"
"Do you have to call me that?" Kid released Sammy's arm. "Figure you'd actually forget my name."
"Kind of hard to forget the guy who pointed a gun at one of my friends." Sammy smirked.
"Guess you've got a point." Kid chuckled weakly. "So what are you doing here?"
"I...I don't know." Sammy answered, going with what Free had told her to say if someone were to question her here.
"Where are you headed?"
"I don't know." Sammy repeated.
"Have you met a Lance yet?"
"No and I don't want to." Sammy admitted, breaking another rule of Free's.
"So you know about him now?" Sammy nodded her head.
"Sammy!" Sammy looked up and saw Lisa running towards the group. "There you are, you can't just leave like that without at least having a note or something to tell me you're okay." Lisa said, brushing Sammy's bangs back out of her eyes.
"Who's this?" Kid asked.
"Lisa."
"Her girlfriend." Lisa added. Sammy let out a squeak of shock while Kid's eyes opened up a little.
"Oh? Sam, I didn't know you were a...uh..."
"Pansexual." Sammy finished.
"A what?" Black-Star asked. "Are you attracted to like kitchenware or something?"
"I'm gonna hit it!" Sammy shouted, Lisa's arm being the only thing preventing her from doing what she had said.
"Let's get back to the house, Sam. I know you haven't slept much and I don't like it when you're grouchy." Lisa said and wrapped her arm around Sammy's. "Have a great day, all of you." Lisa led Sammy away from the group. Sammy glanced over her shoulder and looked at Kid and his friends, something seemed so familiar about them, but she just couldn't put her finger on it. Lisa squeezed Sammy's arm tighter.
"Don't run off like that again, you actually scared me." Lisa said.
"I'm sorry." Sammy smiled at Lisa, completely forgetting about the others and going to the DWMA building.