Please Review! By the way, the guy I like actually held my hand. :)

Has everyone watched old family videos before? You know like how it just skips from date to date? Yeah, remember that here please. :)

Present day-the night after they got home from David's.

"So you know where the President will be?" Anastasia asked, slowly pacing in front of her bed. Pietor nodded. He was sitting on the bed, looking at papers.

"Are you certain he'll be at the building that night?" Anastasia checked.

"Yes. He is meeting David and I for a meeting."

"He will be guarded though, won't he?" Anastasia asked.

"I am assuming." Pietor said "If not, that will make it all the easier. We can attack him quickly and get it over with."

Anastasia shook her head. "I fear it won't be as easy as that."

"Ann." Pietor said, standing up and putting a hand on her arm "It's David and I. Everything will be fine."

The next morning.

"So we're going out to lunch today, right?" Shelby checked, lounging over the couches arm chair.

"Right." Anastasia replied. The student let out a trill of rather mischievous laughter. Nero looked at her, eyes narrowed.

"Why?"

"Why not?" Shelby countermanded, smiling.

"You know, Shelby. There are times when nobody feels like they could ever trust you." Raven said.

"I'm trustworthy." Shelby protested. "I'm just excited to see new things."

"I feel like you've seen plenty of new things for your age." Raven said.

"So why spoil a perfect record?" Shelby asked.

The door to the other main part of the base opened and a guard walked in. Anastasia's eyes narrowed slightly and she got up to walk over to him. He said something quietly and after a second, she nodded.

The guard left and she walked back over.

"Is anything wrong?" Nero asked.

"Oh no. No. Alex, the Convit's defense leader is here to talk with Pietor. Although, he is also Pietor's friend so he could just come in the other door." Anastasia said, scowling slightly at the unseen man.

After a couple of seconds, a tall, broad-chested man came in the door. He had brown hair that was neatly shaved and his face was taut and emotionless.

"Hello, Alex." Anastasia said politely.

The man looked slightly over and gave a slight nod.

"Pietor's just in the kitchen."

He nodded again and went into the kitchen, without a word.

"Eeesh." Laura muttered.

"What's with him?" Raven asked, looking after him.

"He's just so…anti-social." Anastasia explained "And rather…"

"Serious?" Darkdoom said helpfully. She nodded.

There were a few moments of silence, before Alex came back out and said nothing before his departure.

(I needed to introduce him, sorry.)

###

Anastasia opened the door to the Convit building and the others followed her in. Shelby was tingling with excitement. They walked down the hall toward the cafeteria. Raven walked in between both Nero and Darkdoom, her height now seeming even more deduced.

When they turned the corner, they spotted Pietor and David halfway down the hall, walking side by side and talking. Pietor was motioning with his hands and David seemed to be trying to copy, but was having a ridiculous time at it.

"Hey!" Anastasia called and they glanced, then turned, around. David waved and Pietor whacked him playfully across the chest as they walked down.

"Hi." Pietor said, as David held out a hand to high-five Shelby.

"You look excited." he commented, smiling at her.

"I love this place." Shelby replied.

"Yeah, let's nuke it." Pietor replied.

"Where's Iliana?" Anastasia asked.

"Probably waiting at a table." Pietor said, pointing a thumb back.

"You made her get a table?" Darkdoom asked, smiling.

"She volunteered." Pietor said, pointing a finger knowingly.

"Then we should go join her so she's not a lone lonely loner." David suggested.

"That's a lot of aloneness." Pietor replied as they turned to continue down the way they had come.

###

"Oh! Finally!" Iliana growled as the group walked up. She tilted her head back and forth to pop her neck. "I have been waiting forever."

"Well, we're here now." Pietor said.

"He means sorry for taking so long." David said and Iliana nodded.

"I ordered pizza for us." she said "It should be here at any moment."

"Oh great." Pietor said "I am so excited."

"I haven't had pizza for so long!" Shelby exclaimed, hitting her hands on a table.

###

Shelby took another slice of pizza from the four boxes that Iliana had ordered, each with ten slices of in them.

"Don't you think you ordered a lot of pizza?" Anastasia asked, looking down at all the boxes.

"Umm…you can never have too much pizza." Iliana said. Shelby held up her hand and they high-fived.

"You do remember you're supposed to be off sugar, right?" Pietor asked Iliana, who groaned.

"I know. That's why I ordered pizza because it doesn't have added sugar." she said.

"It does in the dough." Pietor said and Iliana dropped her piece of pizza.

"Shit." she spat, then covered her mouth "I mean…uhh…shoot."

Everyone chuckled.

"What?" Pietor asked her.

"There are children here." Iliana said. "Sorry, guys. Bad influence here."

"They've been living with Pietor, I'm sure they've heard worse." David said, smiling at his friend.

"Hey! I don't swear. Usually." Pietor replied, scowling indignantly.

"Nope. Just the d and h word." Iliana said, taking a bite of her pizza.

"Hell and damn are not swear words." Pietor said and everyone laughed "Hell is a place and damn is something a…a…" he looked up for a second.

"A beaver makes?" Darkdoom said.

"Beaver! I couldn't even think of the English word for that." Pietor replied. "Besides I'm not the one who swears. You should be looking thata way." he pointed at Anastasia.

"What?" Anastasia asked, looking up, eyes wide. "Me?"

"Yes you." Pietor replied and everyone looked at her.

"What are you talking about?" Anastasia asked. He narrowed his eyes slightly at her and after a second she dawned.

"Oh yeah." she smiled sheepishly.

"What what what?" Iliana asked.

"Uhh…she yelled and swore at me with some rather…undesirable words." Pietor replied, flipping her a look.

"What?" Iliana asked as Anastasia put up a hand to cover her face, still grinning "Like how bad?"

"As bad as it gets." Pietor growled, nodding, lips pressed together. Iliana covered her mouth. Darkdoom chuckled while Raven raised her eyebrows. Nero and David both made the "Oh no." amused face.

"Well, he was being a little son of a b for a while." Anastasia said, skimming her hand over his hair, smiling. "He shaped up after it. It was good for him."

"Excuse me?" Pietor asked, turning to look at her. She wrapped and arm around him and pulled him close for a second to show a bit of love.

"I hope you seriously repented." Iliana said, voice shrill with laughter.

"He did." Anastasia nodded and everyone laughed at the table.

"Yeah yeah. Get your hands off me." Pietor said, ducking out from his sister's arm. She took it back, still smiling.

"See and I've never sworn at her." Pietor said, matter of factly.

"But you used to yell a lot." Anastasia said.

"Who yelled at who?" Pietor demanded and they started arguing.

Music suddenly started playing to accompany the lunchroom sounds and the Furans both stopped as the music was too happy of a sound to ruin.

"Why don't we have music at H.I.V.E.?" Shelby muttered to Nero. He leaned next to her slowly, and whispered:

"Because."

Shelby snorted and sat back up straight.

"Dude, have you played that game called Daddy Long Leg?" Iliana asked Pietor. He didn't really appear to be listening as he gazed elsewhere, most likely unable to hear over the music.

"Yo, man." she poked his arm. He turned.

"What? Talking about spiders?"

She started laughing and rolled her eyes. "Yes. Yes of course. I always talk about spiders."

"That's all I heard." Pietor said. She started explaining what she had really said, eyes crossing in amused frustration.

"Oh hey it's Carter." David said suddenly looking across the room "Can I ask him to sit with us?"

"No!" both Iliana and Pietor protested vehemently, immediately breaking up their conversation.

David held up his hands "I'm kidding! I'm kidding!" and they both let out breaths of relief.

"Man, you can't joke about that!" Iliana exclaimed, as everyone looked at each other curiously.

"Who's Carter?" Shelby asked, echoing everyone else's thoughts.

"Ugh! This creeper guy, who follows me around." Iliana said, adding an enhanced shiver.

"What does he look like?" Shelby asked.

"You can see him. Tall, brown hair, weird face, and terrible smile." Iliana said, then covered her mouth "Oh. That was so mean."

"I offered to assign her a guard." David said, grinning.

"And I offered to have him hung by his toes in the dungeon." Pietor replied. The others chuckled and Shelby let out a trill of horrific laughter.

"I wish I would have agreed now." Iliana muttered helplessly "He keeps on asking me out and I keep on having to find an excuse to turn him down!"

"Why don't you give him a chance?" Raven suggested "Then-"

"Are you kidding? I have gone on seven, count, seven,dates with him!" Iliana protested "He will never stop asking!"

"Oh gee whiz." Raven muttered.

"Dude, he's going to see me." Iliana groaned, putting her head down.

"No, look he's sitting down." David reassured her. "And Pietor's over here, he won't come near."

"Really?" Darkdoom asked.

"I didn't do anything." Pietor reminded David.

"No, but when you're standing next to someone shorter than you and glaring at him, it makes you seem…unapproachable…" David pointed out kindly.

"Well okay. The first time I was introduced to him, one of the American girls there was all like 'yeah, he hits on girls' and I thought she meant hit, literally." Pietor said, waving a hand as if he were whacking someone "So here I was thinking we have an abusive guy at the Convit that likes to hit girls."

Now at that, everyone exploded with laughter.

"Then I got the jiff that it was an expression and he's just a creepy sicko." Pietor said. "Not that that makes it any better."

Nero and Darkdoom looked at each other, still chuckling.

"Well, he's gone." David said.

"Phew!" Iliana looked up, and carefully peered at the guy. He was now turning away and speaking with other people. She took a bite of her pizza again.

"It's kind of like that one guy at the G.L.O.V.E. meeting a few months ago." Darkdoom said, poking Raven teasingly.

"Oh yeah." Nero said, looking at her. Raven looked puzzled.

"You know, that guy who went and stood next to you behind Max." Darkdoom reminded her. Raven squinted for a second, then winced.

"Awww…don't remind me." she said.

"But it was so funny." Darkdoom drawled. "I've never seen you actually look so…tense."

"So you know how it feels?" Iliana asked, holding out her hand "Power to ya."

Raven leaned forward and high-fived her.

"That offer is still out for Carter." Pietor said, shrugging. "I could hang him upside down."

"That's terrible." Iliana growled.

"In a good way?" Pietor asked, tilting his head.

She blinked "No. In a terrible way." she scowled "You're so bad!"

Pietor 's eyes flicked around "I never said I was good."

Everyone laughed once again, especially Iliana, who squeezed her eyes shut.

Pietor watched them. "Well I didn't!"

Iliana started choking on her food she was laughing so hard. Pietor smacked her back and she bent forward, coughing.

"Ah! OW!" she gasped angrily. "Dude! I could have dealt with it!"

"Just saving your life." Pietor said. "Hey Alex came over this morning and wanted to clearage for the new recruitments." Pietor said to David. "I gave it and now he just needs it from you."

"Do you want me to give it to him?" David asked, tilting his head.

"No." Pietor said with a slight smile and David's face cleared.

"Oh okay. I thought you were going to clear it before the attack." David said, wiping a hand over his forehead sarcastically.

"That's really as stressed as your face ever gets." Anastasia said, copying his calm face from earlier and waving a hand in front of it.

"Right?" Pietor said nodding. David then started making faces. Sticking out his tongue and crossing his eyes.

From somewhere in the lunchroom there was a very loud exclamation of "Who cares!?" A lot of people glanced over at the table that had said it, which apparently the people at it were in a very heated conversation.

"I care." Pietor said, raising his hand. The others at the table chuckled and once again gathered in conversation.

"You don't even know what they were talking about." Iliana said, looking at Pietor with the amused scowling face.

"Well you never know what people are…"

Raven was looking around the lunchroom and someone caught her eye. She blinked and stared for several moments.

Whoa. Was that really him?

###

After about an hour later, Raven was walking down the hall alone. She had excused herself, but really all she wanted to do was find the person she'd seen in the lunchroom.

Valerian.

She could never remember last names and now was no better. Perhaps she'd been mistaken, but she could have sworn he'd been in the cafeteria…

After all, Pietor had sent all the children still at the Glasshouse to rehab at the Convit. Was it possible that Valerian was still here?

She kept trying to tell herself it didn't matter, but the curiosity would nag at her for days. He had walked down this hall. Perhaps he'd come back this way.

Raven leaned against the hall wall, one foot lifted and pressed flat back against it, and pulled out her phone. She didn't want to be caught actually searching for him. Just if he walked back, she wanted a better look.

"Raven?" a voice suddenly asked, raspy, but thick with surprise.

Raven turned, foot sliding off the wall to face the young man looking at her. It was Valerian. He'd come from the opposite direction she'd been expecting.

"Valerian?" she asked slowly. He looked quite well actually. And…he spoke…

"It is you." he exclaimed in Russian "What are you doing here?"

"I'm here with Pietor and Anastasia." Raven didn't walk to reveal anything, but after the words left her mouth, she realized how he might take them. Especially since he was most likely working for the Convit right now.

Valerian's eyes widened slightly "I thought you worked for G.L.O.V.E. now."

"I do." Raven replied, sounding awkward "It's just-"

"Who are the others you came with?" he asked, glancing behind her as if he expected them to leap out.

Raven realized how many of the Convit members really couldn't recognize Nero, now, even though she'd thought he was worldly known in things like this.

"Just friends." she said.

Valerian looked her up and down "You look well."

"You too." Raven replied, eyes flicking warily. Surely he must be itching to attack her. After what she had inflicted on him, but he seemed as calm as a whistle. Although he still had that hard look to his eyes that was a permanent scar of the Glasshouse. Guilt rushed through her at the thought of it. She'd been lucky enough to find someone like Nero.

"Why are you here with them?" Valerian asked, guardedly. He looked a bit more agitated now that he knew she was with the actual Furans.

"Nothing important." Raven replied. She couldn't tell him about the attack on the Convit. He would probably alert the whole place and ruin everything.

The man's radio bleeped and a static voice came out of it. Valerian glanced down.

"Sorry, I've got to go." he said, slipping past her, slowly as if he still wanted to question her. Raven moved to avoid touching him and stared after him for a second. Why was he being so kind?

Well if actually holding a conversation with her could be classified as kind…

Raven started walking down the hall again, several thoughts rushing through her head. She remembered that night she'd attacked him and squeezed…so…hard.

She grimaced. All he'd done was called her by her real name…which now she mostly preferred…

The other kids had screamed and attracted the guards and Pietor's attention. Raven shuddered, remembering how Pietor had come storming in. He'd ordered Valerian to the medical room by his men and brutally taken her and chained her up.

She remembered how Anastasia hadn't punished her for that, telling her that was another step toward her training completion.

She remembered how the other kids had avoided her after that.

She remembered the way Valerian had looked at her.

Raven stopped and snapped herself out of it. She scratched her neck and looked up.

Surprisingly, Nero was coming from the other direction, looking at her curiously. Raven immediately let the anxiety melt from her face and continued walking.

"Are you alright?" Nero asked, as he came up. "You seemed to leave rather abruptly."

"I'm fine." Raven assured him "Just thinking."

"And who was he?" Nero asked, looking after where Valerian had left.

Raven winced slightly. She had been hoping Nero wouldn't have seen her speaking with him, but it appeared that luck was against her.

"It's no one." Raven replied, hoping he wouldn't pry.

"Natalya." Nero said, tilting his head forward.

She sighed "His name is Valerian. He was trained in the Glasshouse at the time I was there."

Nero face always changed a bit when she mentioned that. She could never tell what emotion it was, but she liked to believe that it softened.

"And?" Nero pressed "What did he say?"

"Nothing really. I just wanted to see…" Raven bit her lip, searching for words.

"It's alright." Nero said with a nod "I understand." he held out his hand "Come back to the others, you'll feel better."

Raven wasn't completely sure what he meant by that, but she went forward anyway and Nero let a hand hover behind her as they walked. Sometimes she felt like he knew her better than she knew herself.

And he was right. When she got back to the table with the others, with Darkdoom and the students, the anxious feeling left. She caught David looking at her curiously and she smiled slightly.

###

"But the needle is like zip big." Raven said, holding her fingers about an inch apart. "It doesn't hurt."

"It is just as sharp as a ten foot long needle, woman!" Iliana exclaimed. Raven leaned back against the couch, scowling. They had returned home after a little while more of the amusing lunch. Iliana had just come to the Furan's with Pietor, who was now in his room.

"Natalya, I have tried multiple times to explain the logic to her." Anastasia said, looking resigned "Just give up."

"This is really going to bug me." Raven said "It doesn't make any sense. It's just a needle."

Iliana craned her neck to the side again, wincing. "Shhhh!"

Shelby and the other two were sitting in a circle on the floor, where Shelby was repeatedly picking a lock and then locking it again.

"Have you ever gotten your blood drawn?" Raven asked after a moment of silence. Nero looked at Iliana curiously.

"Are you kidding?" Iliana demanded, leaning forward "My step-father Gabdin used to test things on me!"

"Ooooo…" Raven replied, sinking into understanding more or less. Anastasia nodded.

"I was already terrified of needles and what he did didn't help." Iliana growled.

"What kind of things?" Darkdoom asked, carefully.

"Umm…the crap stuff they use to get info out of prisoners." Iliana replied, looking at him intensely "Yeah. Not fun. As I said, Pietor did me a favor."

"If Gabdin was so horrible, why did your mother marry him?" Nero asked.

"Because he wasn't mean to her." Iliana said. "Unbelievable right?"

Pietor shut the door to his room and walked out, looking down at his phone, which he held sideways. He went over to Anastasia and leaned over the couch. She turned her head to look at the screen he had put in front of her.

"Look what I found." Pietor said, clicking play.

Music started playing and after a second Anastasia slowly started smiling.

"What is that?" Iliana asked, leaning over.

"Where did you get that?" Anastasia asked, taking the phone.

"What is it?" Iliana asked.

"Online. Isn't that weird?" Pietor asked.

"What is it?" Iliana asked.

"That's really weird." Anastasia said, still smiling at something unknown.

"What is it?" Raven asked.

"This song that we used to dance with in a gymnastic class." Anastasia said.

"Now what was I doing wrong?" Iliana muttered.

"A gymnastics class?" Raven asked.

"When Pietor was around six." Anastasia replied, smiling at the song "Oh my word."

"You took a gymnastics class?" Iliana asked Pietor, scrunching her nose in amusement.

"Don't judge me." Pietor said "Believe me. It wasn't my idea."

"But you loved it." Anastasia said.

"I am not going to agree nor deny." Pietor replied.

"You know, I think we have video of it." Anastasia said, standing up and giving his phone back.

Pietor went to lie down on his couch, still watching his phone.

"Is that when you decided to become an assassin?" Iliana asked teasingly.

"You know, I never even really thought about it." Pietor said. "Anastasia was just like 'uh! You're taking a gymnastics class! Whadada!'"

"Whadada!" Darkdoom said with a smile.

"Don't judge." Pietor repeated, turning himself away from everyone, toward the back couch cushion

"Do you want a blanket, baby-boo?" Iliana asked, looking pitiful.

"Yes actually that would be glorious." Pietor said.

"Here it is." Anastasia said, holding up a disk as she came back down the stairs. Iliana clapped excitedly.

"Oh boy." Pietor said.

Anastasia went to put it in the DVD player and sat back down. After a few minutes a blue screen appeared on the projector, then it blinked and on came a video. The person videoing was standing in the middle of an audience and the camera was aimed toward a stage. You could hear multiple people chatting in the background, then the same song Pietor had been listening to earlier came on.

"Oh are we going to see you when you were little?" Shelby asked, putting her lock down in her lap. Laura looked up as well.

"Actually we have a video of me in heaven before I was born." Pietor said "That's what we're watching now."

Shelby stuck out her tongue and Anastasia nudged him.

As they looked back up at the video, a single little six to seven year old boy at a time was sprinting halfway across the stage and at the end doing either a messed up front-hand spring or a cartwheel.

"There's Pietor!" Anastasia said, pointing up at the screen. A little boy with dark hair and cute sweat-shorts sprinted across the stage and attempted a front flip, like his other comrades. And like the others he unsuccessfully landed on his behind before standing up and running off the stage like he had just won the Olympics.

Everyone was laughing and Pietor had his lips pressed together while shaking his head.

"Don't worry." Iliana said, patting him while smiling "I'm sure none of the other kids grew up to be world-feared assassins."

"Ah-hahaha." Pietor said.

The children on the stage repeatedly traveled across the matted stage, trying new tricks and jumps. Then they all came to the middle and got in a football huddle, still to the sound of the music.

"Why are they all looking left?" Darkdoom asked, eyes flicking over all the movements on the video.

"Because the teacher is over there, showing them what to do." Anastasia said, in amusement.

Then the little boys all did a back-hand spring back out of the circle they had formed.

"Ooo…" Iliana cooed.

Then it seemed like the routine the boys had been following was forgotten because they all seemed to go crazy. Pietor for one, was running in a circle and waving his arms through the air.

"Was that planned or did you all literally stop listening to the teacher?" Iliana asked in amusement.

"No. We were supposed to be running around in a circle like I was, but I was the only one who remembered that part." Pietor said and there was a rush of laughter from the others.

After a few more minutes of that, it blinked to one of the little Pietor sitting on the couch. He did not look very happy had one of his wrists in a firm grip. Anastasia, who was videoing, sat next to him.

"Did you hurt your wrist?" she said in the video, voice trembling with amusement. Current Anastasia shook her head at herself.

The little Pietor looked at the camera and nodded with the cutest "yeah" a kid could ever say.

"Awww…" Iliana said, putting a hand over her heart. Pietor looked at her, lips scrunched in bemusement.

The little Pietor kept talking "I-I was running outside and I went into the fence and then I fell." he held up his wrist with a very modern-Pietor look of annoyance.

"Yeah?" Anastasia asked in the video. He nodded again, looking very serious.

"You should see what he did when I told him bad guys were coming." Anastasia said with a smile and everyone glanced at her expectantly

"What?" Pietor echoed "What did I do?"

"You don't remember that?" Anastasia asked "Aww…it was the best. I would run up to you and cry 'Pietor! The bad guys are coming!' and you would jump up form whatever you were doing and say 'I'ze gett'um!' Then you would run around the house pretending to fight people and tell me to run oh! It was hilarious!"

"Really?" Pietor asked, squinting slightly. He was still in his laid down position on the couch, hand and phone resting on his stomach. She nodded.

"Did you ever try that with Elena?" Iliana asked.

"Oh my word, yes." Pietor said.

"Yes." Anastasia said "'I would do the exact same thing with her and when I ran up 'Elena, bad guys are coming? What are you going to do?' she would stare at me and then wrap two hands around her throat and pretend to choke herself."

Iliana scrunched up her nose and laughed and so did the others. Nero smiled in surprised amusement, tilting his head, as if thinking about something. Anastasia met his gaze for just a second, eyes still warm, before she turned and looked back at the screen.

Iliana smiled as the little Pietor continued to make faces. "No really. When did you ever think about being in the army and then and assassin?"

"I have no idea. Ya ne govoryu po-angliyski." he replied, putting a pillow over his head.

"You speak plenty of angkiyski." Iliana replied, throwing her own pillow at him.

"Wait wait! I got this." Shelby said, looking at the ceiling "That is how you say English in Russian."

"Good job." Iliana said, giving her a thumbs up as everyone rolled their eyes.

"Do you have ice cream?" Iliana asked, standing up "I want ice cream."

###

"Ahhh…" Iliana said, licking the rest of the ice cream stick "That's better."

Nero and Raven both looked at her as she set it next to the four others on the side table. Darkdoom was smiling.

"You know you're still supposed to be off sugar?" Pietor said, apparently not that worried because he hadn't warned her in the first place. He was still on the couch, though not quite as turned away.

"I know, but I already ruined it once today, so I guess I can restart next week." Iliana said with a sigh.

"Off sugar? What does that even mean?" Shelby asked "Like everything has sugar in it."

"Artificial sugar." Iliana said "It sucks, because everything good has that in it."

"So are you legitimately going into the Olympics?" Raven asked.

"Hell yeah." Iliana said, then slapped her mouth "Sorry, heck. Have you ever considered it?"

"Me?" Raven asked, shaking her head "No ma'am."

"Shame." Iliana said "Pietor hasn't either, unfortunately."

"What do you mean unfortunately?" Pietor asked. "I don't want too. That's not a bad thing."

"Why are assassins so unsocial…" Iliana muttered.

"Umm…I think that speaks for itself." Raven replied, overhearing.

"Hey, Shelby. Ask Pietor to give you a random assassin fact." Iliana said, gesturing at the kid with her hands.

"Wait really? Give me random assassin fact." Shelby said, turning toward Pietor, lock still in hand.

"Okay. Did you know that ninety percent more Americans will scream for help if they see a gun, but if they see a blade, they'll comply?" Pietor replied.

Shelby stopped fidgeting and looked up, face rather sickened "Really?"

"Mmhhm."

"That's creepy."

"But true." Pietor said, sitting up.

"Why?" Laura asked "I mean, either way they'll kill you."

"But one way is usually more painful." Raven said helpfully from the side. "Creepy joke? I put the fun in funeral."

"You can't have slaughter without laughter." Pietor said after her and Shelby covered her mouth.

"Wow. Is that what you two do all day?" Darkdoom asked "Think up weird sayings?"

"Oh do the baby jokes." Iliana said, voice trembling with amusement.

"No!" Pietor exclaimed "Those are so demented."

"It's okay. We're all pretty demented." Raven said.

"Fine. What's worse than ten babies stapled to a tree?"

Everyone winced.

"Nothing!" Laura exclaimed.

"One baby stapled to ten trees." Pietor finished, slowly smiling and covering his mouth with a knuckle.

Anastasia shook her head. Iliana burst out laughing and the others all gasped.

"That's horrid!" Laura cried, staring at both of the laughing Pietor and Iliana.

"But true!" Pietor replied vehemently, eyes big.

"How many babies does it take to paint a barn?" Iliana asked.

"No, no more!" Laura said, covering her ears.

"It depends on how hard you throw them." Pietor finished and there was another chorus of "Ahhhwwwhhhs"

"Wooooow." Darkdoom said.

"I didn't come up with them!" Pietor said, holding up his hands, while still chuckling.

###

It was a little later that night, when there was a knock on the door.

Iliana had gone home and it was dark outside. Anastasia glanced up from her book as did the others who were still down there, excluding Pietor, who had gone upstairs to do who knows what.

"Who the heck could that be?" she muttered, setting her book face down and walking over to the door. Without a word, she opened it and there were several hushed whispers.

David was there with a whole chuck-load of girls, most of which who look extremely excited.

"Hi, Anastasia." David said, smiling "Is Pietor available?"

"Upstairs." Anastasia said, shaking her head and smiling as she pulled the whole door open.

All the girls, wearing basketball uniforms all filed in and Anastasia pointed at the stairs "Go ahead."

They all suppressed giggles as they hurried to go up the stairs and turned left to where Pietor was.

David walked up, still chuckling at himself for coming up with this one.

"Is this your fabulous idea for getting Pietor to coach?" Anastasia said as he came to stand by her.

"Oh yes. It is quite a dilly." David replied, grinning.

And it didn't take long. The girls came hurrying back down the stairs after a few minutes, looking proud and excited.

"What did he say?" David asked as they came up.

"What do you think?" one girl asked. "How could he say no?"

GUYS. I am sorry this is so long. I promise. We will have the first Convit attack soon. I will try and make these quicker and I may have to edit this some more later.

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