25: Relatives
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Hatred leans against the door frame, just watching Love silently calming herself down from a fit. She turns around, a bit surprised on how well Hatred managed to keep himself quiet
"You were there the whole time?" he nods, he makes his way over to her
"Yeah, so I'm going to assume that it didn't go well." she nods, throws her weight behind her to the bed.
"They didn't even want to see me, Dad's still bitter about me married to you," she twirls a strand of her blonde hair that's a few shades darker than platinum blonde between her fingers.
"Did your sister at least see you?" she nods sighing,
"You know I hate involving her," she glances up at him, gives an apologetic look. He shrugs
"You're married to me, so I don't hold it against you." she mumbles something, "Care to tell me?" she rolls her eyes
"I slept with you, and had your 7 kids too." he huffs
"I didn't want any, you kept insisting, besides, at least now I know when you want something, you'll try seducing me." he jumps off the bed before she can pinch him. He chuckles, "Feisty," he goes over to his closet, pulling out his jacket, he's about to speak, but there's a loud "CRASH!" that echoes from downstairs.
"You going to check that?" Love questions, Hatred mutters under his breath, he goes downstairs to investigate.
Envy's yelling at the top of his lungs, he tries throwing Gluttony off his back, who's pinning him down against the floor. "Can you get off me?!" Envy snarls, Wrath crosses his arms over his chest,
"Hand it over to me," Wrath demands, Envy shakes his head, Pride just watches them from the couch.
"As if I'd let someone like you take care of it!" Envy smart asses his older brother. Sloth enters the room, offering food to Pride
"They still at it?" Pride nods, Greed along with Lust run into the room
"Dad's coming!" They warn, everyone jumps onto their feet, start throwing books out of the shelf "Over here!" Greed calls out to Envy, he throws two trinkets into the box in the book shelf, toss the books back in. The door opens, Hatred studies all 7 of his children, who sit on the furniture all normally. Hatred closes the door behind him, running his eyes over each one's faces
"Something's up..." Hatred starts pacing around the room, he holds his hands behind his back. "Someone would like to tell me? Or will I have to get you all to talk?" Hatred leans against the fireplace in the room, Gluttony fidgets, "Something the matter Gluttony?" Hatred's eyes start flashing a low light. Gluttony shakes his head. "I'm giving you all the option on telling me, you all know I'm a very patient man, with your grandparents hybrids of snakes and spiders, I can wait... A lot longer than you all combined." Lust starts playing with a lock of her hair, she wiggles her way out from the nook between Wrath and Pride, starts making her way to the door; Hatred's eyes slit over to the door, the door's handle disappears, "No one's leaving until someone confesses. I know that Pride, Wrath, Envy, or you aren't going to; so honey, please sit down." Lust sits back down, "Greed, I got something for you." Hatred holds up a gold bar in his hand, Greed's eyes watches the gold that's swaying back and forth, "You want it? Tell me what's going on, and it's all yours." Greed opens his mouth
"The bookshelf-" Greed chokes by the punch in the throat Wrath gives to him. Hatred tosses the gold over to Greed, going over to the bookshelf,
"Last chance, tell me now, or it won't go easy." Silence answers him back, Hatred sets the books down, finding a small red box. He picks at the latch, it doesn't budge, "Who's box is this?" no one answers, he flips the box upside down, and his heart skips a beat. His hands start shaking, the 7 siblings start rising with question marks hanging around them. Hatred stares at them, "Who gave you this box?" Envy swallows
"I found it, when Wrath, Sloth, Fionna, and I went to go find my grandparents trinkets; since Sloth and Fionna left early, Wrath and I went back to find it," Wrath bites on his lip, he coughs going to fess up his part.
"We found their trinkets along with that box, we kept it in there ever since. Envy and I started arguing on who got to keep it, until you came in." Wrath swings his foot, Hatred glares at them.
"What lead you two to keep this from me? Do you realize on how important these trinkets are?" he stands in front of them. "Everyone else, leave." the other 5 hastily make their way over to the door, once when it closes, Hatred directs his attention back to his two sons. "Anything else you two hiding?" they shake their head. Hatred sets the box down, he rubs his temple looking at them. "It's about time I explain what the big deal about these have; Before your uncle was born, there was another child."
"Dad you don't have to tell us," Envy tries, judging the way how his shoulders got all tense, it's better if he doesn't. Hatred shakes his head
"I have to, it explains other things. My sister, Revenge, looked exactly like your grandmother, and that box," he points over to it, "was hers. If you ever wondered why your uncle has blue hair, unlike your other uncle and I, it's because he's our half brother. Revenge, Pain, Misery, and I all lived together, it wasn't until all the mess of the dispute between your mother's and I's families happened. Your uncle from your mother's family, my sister's counterpart, Forgiveness, came to confront me when he found out about my relationship with your mother, unfortunately, he ran into my sister. With them two in a bloodshed, my sister was murdered, that's why revenge is a short lived victory. Your grandfather went to go seek revenge against your mother's family, and we all know what happened to your grandmother Serenity." Wrath and Envy stay quiet,
"We didn't know." they mumble, Hatred clenches his jaw.
"I'm keeping this." he leaves before they can object.
Madness passes Ashley in the hallway, she doesn't say anything to her, until Ashley speaks to her. "Madness," she turns around, her eyes paint with disinterest, "What's our next move?" Madness shrugs
"I don't know, you're better off asking Chaos, at the end of the day, he does everything his way." she turns to leave when
"Why don't you like me? Chaos, Pain, and Misery do except you," Madness' eyes grew dark
"I never liked you and never will. Every time you're in the same room as me, it brings the most intolerable pain to me," she growls in Ashley's face "That's why I despise you with a passion. Now get out of my face," Ashley nods shaking, she slowly walks away. Madness rolls her eyes, Chaos out of no where coils himself around her shoulders as a python.
"That wasn't fair either Madness," he hisses, she throws him off her, he grows back into a man. She just glares at him,
"That wasn't fair? Do you think that it's fair that she got reincarnated as my dead daughter?! My daughter who's life was cut short?! No it's not fair Chaos, and how dare you come pestering me about that. Now you get out of my face, I'm not in the mood to deal with you either." She pushes him away, then stomps over to her room. Chaos hisses, he glances down at his watch, "We're running out of time. If Madness doesn't do anything, then I will."
Madness pushes down on Marshall's head, she studies Marshall's face. "There, using my domain as a means of travel should help, with the Nightmare Venom that I left in your body allows you to use a small portion of my powers; that way you and Fionna can see each other." Marshall nods with a grin plastered across his face, he catches Madness off guard by hugging her. She tenses,
"Thank you," he smiles, she gives a weak smile
"Just try not to rely on it too much, if not it'll take over your sanity too. Just don't push it, please, I know exactly how you feel, on the desperation of news regarding to your family/children." Marshall doesn't reply, sensing that it's a touchy subject, and honestly doesn't want to feel her wrath. Marshall follows Madness' instructions, and whines up at his home. He floats his way over to his room, he closes the door behind him, the shower shuts off from their bathroom, so he sits down on his bed, waiting.