Author note

Thanks for the good support since last time.

Now you may wonder why it took so long for me to write this chapter. The reason is that I'm working on a second story that is similar to this. If you like pokemorphs and this story you are probably liking my second one too. I'm planning to publish it at the same time as the next eevee mansion chapter. (2-4 weeks)

Important to read: I'm going to give the readers(you) a chance to affect some parts of the plot. Your going to get the chance to send in your own truth or dare questions to the characters. See more at the end of the chapter. I explain there.

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Chapter 11

A night to remember

Lavender stood in Zane's room looking at his dying body. His body was covered in dark, red blood. The knife laid on the floor besides him. Everything was so silent as his struggles had stopped, only her own breathing being heard. Lavender tried to move away from the body and suddenly it felt like the blood that covered her arms was dangerous. Her body froze paralyzed as loads of thoughts hit her mind. When she looked at his body she thought: Was it really me that did this? How could this happen?

Tears ran down her cheeks. The wet feeling of the warm blood made her shake in fear. Her body felt heavy like stones as she entered a panic attack like so many times before. She then fell down on the floor and curled herself into ball and let the streams of tears loose.

What is this? Why did I do this? I'm a killer. I don't deserve anything other than death. That's what I shall do. Die.

Steps where heard and Lavenders heartbeat rushed as she jumped up from the floor.

Why don't I do it right here? End my pathethic life? I've already destroyed it well enough. I'm wondering if…

Lavender walked over to Zane's bookshelf and picked up a note book from it. With a pencil she wrote down a few things on it.

I love you Umbria. I love you Flaria. I love you Valerie. I love you Glory. I love you Eriel. I love everyone here.

I killed him in order to save you from suffering like me. I'm suffering every second I see him, more when I hear his voice, and most of all when he touches any of you. I don't want you to live like I do so I did this for you.

Now I've seen that it isn't right to kill anyone. It's to late for regrets in my case so I decided to leave this world and end this suffering.

Your dear sister Lavender.

She let the message fall to the floor and walked over to the window. She undid clasp on the window before throwing it open. Lavender shivered as cold winds brushed across her before entering the room. With hesitations she took a step up and sat down in the window with her legs over the edge.

Good bye world!

"It isn't worth it lavender," Umbria stood in the door opening. The yellow rings in her fur glowed in the dark as she walked over to her younger sister.

"We expected you to do something like this. Still we believed in you and hoped that you would put the past behind you. But you didn't," Umbria said, reaching down and lifting her sister from the window. Back on her feet, she embraced Lavender and began stroking the fur over her head.

Lavender was shocked and didn't answered, just dragging along next to Umbria.

Umbria continued as she began leading her sister away from the window and away from Zane.

"Since we knew the risks with you and him in the same house we decided to keep an extra eye on you two."

They continued to walking downstairs.

"Today I've seen that you've been of in a different mood lately. When you feel something strong your like reading a book."

They continued walking along a corridor where the only light source came from the outside.

"I decided that the best way to see what you were capable of was by testing you."

Umbria suddenly turned around and faced her sister. Lavender in a trance like stated and just walked right into her sisters chest pulling her out of it. She looked up at her older sister as Umbria put her hands on Lavender's shoulders.

"Listen on me. If it's one time I want you to listen to me it's now. When I understood that you were up to something, I decided to do something in order to protect Zane. At first I thought on just letting him sleep somewhere else but then I understood that I could use this to test you. So that's what I did. I tested you."

Lavender looked at Umbria and began realizing what Umbria was saying. Does she mean that I actually didn't kill him?

Umbria hugged her sister and said "Nothing of what has happened the last half hour is real. Zane is still alive. You haven't murdered anyone. Sorry for all the pain we put you in."

Mixed feelings flowed over Lavender, some of them couldn't believe that he still was alive after what she had seen. Others wanted to hate Umbria for all the pain she had put her in. A few was about relief.

Lavender finally began breathing again, letting go of her breath in relief. She then rested her head against Umbria's chest and closed her eyes trying to sort out millions of thoughts.

He is still alive, I haven't killed him but I saw his body. It wasn't an illusion. It was something real. Is Umbria lying to me? Why would she? Why did I even try to kill him?

Lavender felt how the wall she had built up for years began to crumble and fall. She realized new thoughts and ideas at that moment that made her break down future. She cried as Umbria embraced her and began to walk. Umbria led her further down the corridor and opened a black door.

The room was normal sized, with no furniture but had a few shelves, and a long chest of drawers along the wall. The wooden floor was covered with cushions, covets and beanbags. The only light source came from a big fireplace along one wall.

"You know this room?" Umbria said and put them both down on the floor. Lavender nodded and sat down in her sister's lap.

"During the dark nights with thunder could be heard, you always slept down here with all your sisters around you."

Lavender wasn't listening, instead she tried to find out an explanation on what Umbria said earlier.

How did he survived? Why isn't she telling me that?

"Your wondering why I took you here?" Umbria said already knowing what the answer would be.

"Yes."

"Because I want to make you happy again. I want you to be the old Lavender, the one I knew before Zane came to this house."

Lavender folded in her ears and rested herself against Umbria.

"Here is my offer. I tell you what we did to make you think that you killed Zane if you tell me how we can help you out of this."

"How did you do it?" Lavender asked her sister and tried to hide the impatient part of her.

"Eriel made a special illusion for me. It's different than the dark powered ones, physic ones are made up of false memories instead of actual illusions. When I looked at it I couldn't see it because the illusions is tied to your memory. That's also why it felt so real for you since it was based on your thoughts. Soon it will fade away and the same for the blood on you,"

Lavender felt a bit shocked but not as shocked as she had been earlier. Somewhere inside her she understood that what Umbria had did against her was necessary to make her understand what it was like kill another person.

"I'm so sorry Umbria," Lavender said and gave her a sister a hug.

Umbria stayed silent and hugged Lavender back.

After a few minutes Lavender talked about feelings about herself and about everything that had happened. Told Umbria everything since the day everything started. Every feeling, every idea, every fear until she couldn't say find anything more to say.

After a few hours Lavender and Umbria sat in silence in the room. They had discussed all of Lavender's problems. After talking to Umbria, Lavender felt better even if she knew that she was far away from recovered. Now she waited for Umbria to do something.

"What's the plan now Umbria?" Lavender asked while Umbria put more firewood in the fireplace to keep it alive.

"The plan? It's up to you my little sister. What would help you most?"

Many different thoughts flew thorough her head but all of the went to the same only point. She knew that the best way of recovering had been in front of her all the time. Realize it Lavender, you want to meet Zane.

"I want to talk to Zane."

Umbria rose her eyebrow in surprise.

"Didn't think it would be that fast for you to realize. I shall just go to my room and bring him," Umbria said and disappeared leaving Lavender alone with her thoughts.

Zane laid in Umbria's comfy bed and tried to sleep. He had slept for a few hours but awakened when he felt that something was wrong. He couldn't put the finger on what but something was.

As Zane did another attempt to sleep Umbria knocked on the door and opened it.

"Your awake?" she asked and walked over to his bed.

"I am, what has happened?" Zane said and threw off the black covet to sit up in the bed.

"Calm yourself. Lavender did as I foresaw and tried to kill you. I confronted her and we talked for a few hours. Right now she is regretting it and wants to talk to you."

To say that Zane felt worried would be an understatement. She actually tried to kill me and now Umbria wants me to go and talk to her like nothing happened? How shall I say this? I can't deny that I'm afraid.

He felt how his body was filled with cold fear. How he didn't wanted to take the risk to cross lavender's vision when she had tried to kill him a few minutes earlier.

"Uhm...yes I want to but I'm to afraid," Zane said and lowered his gaze.

"You don't need to ashamed, can you please do this for Lavender? I know that you would appreciate this as mush as she would,"

Lavender felt shame when Zane and Umbria came back. She felt his gaze on her as they sat down on the cushions and the beanbags in small triangle with her on one side.

What does he think about me right now? He must hate me. He must loath every tiny cell in my whole body just as I hated him before. Why did I hated him? He never tried to hurt me. Willing to make contact even if I did horrible things against him, he never fitted the picture my imagination had created after all the failed boyfriends. He showed me that I've been wrong the whole time. He has opened my eyes more than my sisters and I thanked it all by trying to kill him. I've already lost the chance to be his friend. He is always going to hate me.

Lavender sighed and dropped her gaze to her lap, avoiding looking at Zane and Umbria. She could feel Zane's gaze on her.

What does she think of me, right now? Is she trying to find new ways of killing me? How could she hate me like that? I've never had anything against her. I just came through the door and she started hating me like that. Why did she do that? Why couldn't we just be friends like normal people? We could have been good friends if she just gave me a single chance. Instead you tried to kill me and now I'm feeling uncomfortable by even sitting in the same room as you because I'm afraid.

Zane put took his crossed arms and put them in the lap in an attempt to ease his tense a bit. Even if he tried he could feel that his whole body was ready to jump up and run towards the door in a heartbeat.

Umbria put a blanket around herself and spoke: "You wanted me to bring him Lavender so here he is. Don't be afraid of talking, we won't be mad."

With a thin low voice Lavender began speaking.

"I want to admit that I tried to kill you Zane. I'm sorry for what I've done against you."

Chills went down Zane's back.

Everyone went silent. She is changing faster than I expected. Umbria thought and put her arms around her sister. "We will always be there for you Lavender."

Zane tried to grasp the fact that Lavender freely talked to him and apologized for her actions.

I suppose this night has changed her as much as the one when all this started.

He pushed down his fear and spoke to Lavender. "Thanks Lavender, I hope that we can be friends in the future," Zane said and gave Lavender strained smile.

"So can you promise me to give Zane a chance if he promises you to leave you alone if you want to," Umbria said and motioned Zane to come closer.

Lavender nodded but kept her eyes on Zane as he slipped closer to them.

"I'm all in," Zane said as Umbria sat down Lavender on the opposite side off herself compared to Zane.

"Give it a handshake so we can put all off this out of the world."

Lavender and Zane exchanged a stiff handshake and instantly pulled back their hands like the other one was a snake, Zane of fear and Lavender in shame.

Umbria suddenly brought both of them in tight hug. Both Zane and Lavender hugged Umbria back not thinking on that they were pressed against each other.

When Umbria released them she suddenly fell back on the piles of cushions and laughed.

"Finally after all this time I can be a bit relieved. One problem is out of the world," She equipped a bit more serious face as she sat up and talked to them again. "I don't expect you to be best friends tomorrow but at least give it a try. Take your time Lavender and do it in your pace. As for you Zane, prove that she has been wrong all this time and pick out the best side of your personality."

"So, do you want the covet Lavender?" Zane asked her and put one around her shoulders, carful with not touching her in order to avoid triggering emotions.

"Thanks," She said even if she still hadn't the courage to look him in the eyes after her murder attempt.

Umbria stood up and smiled at them. "A lot of things have happened this night and even if I spend hours with Lavender there is still a lots of things to discuss between you two but right now after all this suffering in this family we shall for one time focus on the good things. The war axe is dug out and buried, bringing us one step closer to leaving the past behind you, Lavender. Right now I'm planning to cheer this family up by doing what I know everyone like."

While Zane was lost in what Umbria said a smile grew one Lavender's face.

"We're going to do as we always to do when we celebrate?"

A quarter later the whole eevee family was gathered in the room. Everyone was spread out on cushions, beanbags, and mattresses in a random mess. The fire lit up the room with the help of many lit candles on shelves and on the chest of drawers. In the empty area in front if the fireplace stood a bowl of candy.

In corner of the room sat Zane without a clue on what was happening.

Glory saw how confused he was sat down besides and explained.

"When we want to we gather like this in this room and have some fun together. We bring candy, games, and light candles to get the atmosphere before we decide what to do. Sometimes we play tabletop games, others we watch some classic movie, and sometimes we tell each other scary stories. It's all depending on what we feel like doing. Then we end everything by sleeping together here," Glory said and made herself comfortable on the cushions.

"So that's why the floor is covered with soft things? And what are we supposed to do today?" Zane said and observed Flaria while she teased Valerie.

"Don't have a clue, let's wait and see what the others have in mind."

Not many moments later everyone gathered in the middle and Flaria started speaking.

"So my idea is that we begin with some tabletop games and then move on to tell ghost stories. Anyone disagree or got more ideas?" Affirmative sounds came from everyone but Valerie. She had a mischievous smile as she said," We can play truth or dare."

When she made eye contact with Zane, she licked herself around her lips and her smile grew bigger.

What trap have I gotten in now? He thought and waited for an explanation from anyone. Glory bent a little closer to him and whispered in his ear as the others talked about Valerie's idea.

"Don't worry, she is just teasing you. As long as Valerie and Flaria are kept in check we play this game clean. We won't go hard on you."

She leaned back and gave him a supporting smile.

"There, we have the schedule for this night, everyone, go and get what we need. Flaria get the games," Umbria said and opened the door.

Zane was in his room and waited for everyone else to be ready with their things.

As he sat down on his bed, he tried to gathered his thoughts before someone called his phone that laid on the dresser. A bit surprised over the fact that someone called him in the middle of the night made him hesitate before answering. When Zane recognized the number he knew that something was wrong.

"Hello it's Za..."

"I fucking hate you," Andromeda told him from the other side of the phone.

Her being angry at me is expected but when she calls like this in the middle of the night it is not a good sign at all. I hope that she isn't doing anything bad.

Zane used the well-tried method to let her spill out the rage instead of trying to talk since it often gave him a clue about what was wrong and made her calmer.

"I've lived my whole damn life with more or less no close friends but you. Then you suddenly leave me fucking alone without anything and don't even bother to call me and ask if I'm okay, you little bitch!" Andromeda screamed and filled her lungs to keep on scolding him.

Zane wasn't bother by her cursing at him because time had conditioned him with her angry out lashes and cursing. Instead he tried to figure out what made her angry and what he could do about it.

So she feels is lonely. What am I supposed to do? This is so hard when I'm so far away. I miss her too.

"So here I am sitting lonely in a hellhole where everyone is more or less sick just because you moved away your goddamn ass,"

Zane sat down on his bed and let her throw out her rage on him. Soon she won't have enough energy to continue. As soon as she goes quiet I ask what's wrong.

"...And you just do what your idiot parents say and leave me here, you son of a bitch," Andromeda said in pure rage against everything and everyone that had ever crossed her vision.

That hit Zane in the heart. If it was something that he didn't want to talk about was it his parents and how they left him. He missed them and loved more that anything but still he hated them for leaving them. Hearing Andromeda blame them for her problems made Zane angry. Angry enough to interrupt her.

"Quit talking about my parents Andromeda," Zane said managing to keep the anger out of his voice.

A bit surprised over that Zane rose his voice against her made Andromeda trail off. Soon silence was the only thing that could be heard. Zane waited and gave Andromeda a few seconds to calm herself before talking.

"You miss me don't you? Is that what all this is about?" Zane said and hoped that she was calm enough to talk to him instead of screaming at him.

"I'm disappointed over you leaving me, bitch," Andromeda without screaming for the first time but Zane could still hear the undertone of anger in her voice.

"I miss you too Andromeda," Zane said. He could hear how she sighed.

"If you were here wouldn't you've hugged me now?" Andromeda said a bit off-topic.

"And you would burry you nose in my mane without hesitation, am I right?," Zane answered her, thinking on all of the times they had been together. Andromeda stayed silent for a few secs until she began crying. As he heard her sobs he understood how much she missed him and how much he wanted be there at her side to comfort her. I can't do anything over here. I don't have a chance to stop her if she decides to do anything dumb.

"Why did you called me? Has something special happened today?"

Andromeda hesitated.

"I've been in my room the whole day refusing to do anything. The only things I've been thinking on is how much I hate all these white clean things and how much I miss you. While thinking I've cried more than I can remember. Then later on in the evening thoughts came to me. First it was just screaming in anger, then hurting myself, then killing myself. Before I came anywhere I thought on you and that I promised to call you if I got these thoughts, so that's what I did," Andromeda said and trailed of at the end.

Zane felt how the situation got ten times worser. This is literally the scenario I thought on seconds ago, what am I supposed to do? I can just talk with her and if she decides to throw the phone away and kill herself I can't do anything.

"Andromeda, stay calm and listen to me now. You don't want to kill yourself. It's just emotions in this moment. You would hurt me if you killed yourself," Zane said feeling how his heartbeat got faster and faster.

"That's why I called you from the beginning, to say goodbye."

Zane began panicking but he pushed himself to hold his voice calm and steady.

"Andromeda listen to me, I've talked about this many times. This isn't regrettable like all the other things you do. You can't go back…."

Andromeda interrupted him. "That's the whole reason with this thing, I can't go back. I don't need to suffer anymore. I don't need to lay restless and cry for a few hours before I sleep every night. I don't need to be lonely. I don't need to miss you. You can't stop this Zane. I know what's best for myself. My life is already wrecked. All the other times you've been there for me but this time you aren't. The only thing you do when you convince me to live is to let the me suffer for longer time. This is planned. I got a few shards from a glass I smashed earlier. I cut myself until I bleed to death," Andromeda said.

Zane then heard how she was crying more and more. This won't work I need a different tactic, think Zane think.

"Andromeda do you remember all this time we have spent together? All the times we have laughed, cried, and screamed together. The hours I've forced you to sit and study with my help so you could catch up after all truanting. The day when I met you for the first time. The month after you came from the hospital after cutting yourself when I slept in your room every day. We've spent so much time together since we met each other and now you want to waste it all away by killing yourself?" Zane said and hoped that she would listen to him. He heard a thud and guessed that she had thrown herself on the bed.

"I understand Zane but this world is so complicated. For every step forwards I take it feels like the world pushes me back two steps. I see how I go further and further away form the girl you met before my brothers death. His death ripped my family and life into pieces. Now I'm standing here many years later and when I look back I only see a girl that is lost in her life. She tries to repair it but again and agains she repeats the same mistakes and destroys what she has built. Today I can't even hope to fulfill any of the dreams I had before my brothers death. I've been given so many chances to fix things but I've failed. By doing this I get a way out of it that's easy. I don't know what comes but I hope that it's better than this world," Andromeda said and not many seconds later Zane could hear a groan from her.

Did she cut herself? I need someone that can help her.

"Andromeda? Don't hurt yourself. The world isn't making it harder for you than for anyone else. It's about how you take it, look at what's good in your life, look at what you have achieved. The year after your brothers death you had more or less lowest grade in all classes. Then and there when I decided to start tutoring you it felt like miles away for you to have good grades but look at it now! You've approved in all classes. It's the same with everything else. We fought. We lost. We tried again. We won. We can get through this together. I know it," Zane said and hoped that he would convince her to stop hurting herself.

Andromeda was silent aside from sobs and grunts of pain. "It was good to know you Zane, thanks for everything."

Zane felt how he couldn't keep the panic from his voice as he tried a new tactic.

"Andromeda think on me then. How would you feel if I one day I abandoned you? This is what you do to me if you kill yourself. Think on how you felt when your brother died. That's what I would feel."

Andromeda didn't answer. He just heard how she grunted more.

"If I die, see you in the next reality Zane. If not don't scald me to much tomorrow," Andromeda said before the call ended. Zane couldn't do anything more than drop his phone in shock. He felt how himself crying more than he had done before. I can't live without her.

Author note

That's the end of chapter 11. I hope that you liked it. I did at least.

Questions are answered by pm.

I also want to thank my beta readers for helping me with fixing all the grammar problems.

Affecting the plot

I've read a lot's of things here on and I've seen that many readers appreciate to have a chance to affect the story. The problem is that most things in the story is important and changing them is hard to do without affecting the plot. Then we authors found our solution. Truth or dare. Funny to read and good for the character development but is still easy to adjust for the questions you send to me. Of course I'm going to make some plot out of it that pushes the story forward but I will still let you decide some questions.

To the questions:

1 This is the first time they play truth or dare so let's keep it quite clean. I don't got any clear border so if you are unsure send me the question and I look it over.

2 Come up with one or more questions. Tell it optional if you want any specific person to be asked or just against a random one.

3 Put it in a pm and send to me.

How many I accept is unclear but the next chapter isn't going to be a 5,000 words long text with questions. It all depends on how many people sends me and how much I can do out from them.

See ya readers!