Sheyla, Lance and Kid stood in the living room, the body now gone and a man was kneeling on the floor, scrubbing the blood away. Professor Stein whispered something into the man's ear and the two left the house. Fabian was asleep in his bed and Tori sat in the room with him while everyone else was outside, playing with a clueless Emma. Lance and Sheyla had told Kid, mostly, what happened.
"The man who attacked you was named Alec Eliseberg, he actually used to be a member of the DWMA, but he ran off and we haven't seen him since. Nice to know you guys can find people as well as kill them." Lance and Sheyla both just looked at Kid. "I try to make a joke and it goes flat." Kid sighed.
"What about Fabian, I overheard Stein say something about poison?" Sheyla asked.
"Fabian will be fine, but he did lose a lot of blood and there was a strange kind of poison on the man's knives. It shuts down certain nerves so whoever to attacked with them would be weaker. But if he takes the pills Stein provided for you, three pills every other hour until they're gone, he'll be back to normal. Tori will need to take one pill ever other hour as well and she'll be good too." Kid looked over his shoulder to make sure Stein was gone. "Now tell me, who did it?"
"Who did what?" Lance asked.
"Who ate Alec's throat? The wound on his neck was not from a blade, those were teeth marks." Kid crossed his arms when Sheyla and Lance shared a look. "Who did it?"
"I did." Lance lied. "He was going to kill Fabian and Tori so I grabbed him from behind, he held my arms so I bit out his throat."
"I don't believe you." Kid stated. "You don't care about the others enough to dirty your mouth with blood."
"You've seen me fight and you saw what I did to the last man who impersonated one of my friends." Lance protested.
"You're not one to actually ripe out a chunk of someone's flesh with your mouth, you use your blades, your words." Kid said. "But I know someone who has used their teeth in fights before."
"What are you saying?" Sheyla asked.
"Her room is still ready, Lance and if she ends up killing someone who isn't on the DWMA list..." Kid walked up to Lance and talked in a soft voice. "She'll be taken away to that place and be put through countless of painful and merciless experiments. They will either find a cure for her or kill her trying." Kid stepped back. "Keep her in line. Be shocked that I actually care about you nut-jobs and don't want any of you to get hurt. Whether it's physically, mentally or emotionally."
"You care about them, not me." Lance corrected. Kid let out a small chuckled and, put a hand on Lance's face and patted his cheek.
"Smart boy." Kid removed his hand and looked over at Sheyla, not seeing the snarl Lance gave him. "Your group is excused from class today." Kid let out a hum. "I have said that to you way too many times, can you guys manage to not get in trouble for one day?"
"We had a good two months before all of this happened." Sheyla stated.
"Can we have those back?" Kid sighed.
"We'll try our best." Sheyla gave Kid a weak smile.
"Then I'll see you tomorrow in class, hopefully." Kid turned around and walked out of the house.
"Fucking prick." Lance muttered under his breath.
"How long have you known?" Sheyla asked, staring at the front door as it was closed.
"Known what?"
"You know what I'm talking about." Sheyla snapped and flicked her head towards Lance. "Right before Sammy ate that guys throat out, you knew what was going on. You covered Emma's eyes and told everyone to get back. How long has she been like this?"
"Since my mother injected her with all of that crazy shit." Lance answered, figuring it wouldn't do him any good to come up with another lie. "She was able to keep those urges down easily, but it's been harder for her ever since we brought Kevin back to life." Lance crossed his arms and sighed. "Apparently, Tori's soul wasn't the only one to be messed with during the casting of the spell."
"I knew we shouldn't have done it. It's illegal for a reason." Sheyla scoffed.
"Kevin deserved to have a life like the rest of us. I'm the reason why his was cut off so short. I didn't know that Sam had to be close to the person in order for her sweet soul to do it's job."
"Can we fix her?"
"I don't know." Lance admitted. "Right now I just try to keep her sane whenever it kicks in."
"How often does that happen?" Sheyla asked. Lance looked down and rubbed the back of his neck. "Lance. How often does it happen?" Sheyla repeated.
"Way more often than it should." Lance said.
"That doesn't answer my question."
"Almost every other night." Lance answered softly. "Usually she'll just start shaking and staring at nothing with wide eyes. It's easy to snap her out of that, but some nights it gets scary." Sheyla and Lance didn't notice Tori standing at the edge of the room, having gotten up for some water for her and Fabian. "She'll mutter things under her breath, about blood and voices in her head telling her horrible things. She refuses to cry or show any actual emotion and I hate seeing her like that."
"We'll help you with her Lance, we've known her longer than you and we know what to do when she's upset." Sheyla stated. "You can wake me at anytime if she starts to break again. Stein said that her soul is only remaining sane because of all of us. She needs more than just you, Lance. She needs all of us." Tori cleared her throat and walked into the room.
"What are you guys talking about?" She asked casually.
"Nothing important." Lance quickly answered.
"Oh...okay." Tori nodded her head. "I'm just getting some water for me and Fabian. We have to take those pills." She explained and went into the kitchen.
"We should tell the others they can come in now, I can feel Lauren complaining about food." Sheyla chuckled.
"Yeah..." Lance agreed. Sheyla went over to the door and opened it, yelling at the others to come in.
"I'm starving!" Lauren whined and went straight to the kitchen.
"How does that little thing eat so much?" Vickii asked. Sammy walked into the house last with Emma holding her hand, she smiled at Lance and Sheyla and walked over to them.
"Is everything okay?" Sammy asked.
"Yep." Lance answered before Sheyla could.
"Papa, I'm hungry." Emma said with a pout.
"Them let's feed you then." Lance chuckled and scooped the girl into his arms. "Wanna help Sam?"
"Of course, you're worse at cooking than I am." Sammy laughed and followed Lance to the kitchen.
"I want those two months of peace back." Sheyla sighed to herself.