"Sir, New Zealand and Madagascar have made a peace treaty! They've stopped fighting! That was your biggest outlet!" One of the minor fiends said, reporting to War.
"WHAT! How did you allow this to happen?" War roared at the cowering fiend. "You told me they weren't going to get one together forever!"
"All of the reports said that they wouldn't be able to have one for another two weeks at the least!" The fiend explained, pulling out charts and graphs that were plotting the progress of the war.
"How on earth did they manage to do this so quickly? Just the legal proceedings alone should take a week and a half! MY lawyers can't even go over a simple law suit in a few days, never mind a peace treaty!" War looked impressed in spite of himself.
"Apparently productivity all over the world has quadrupled, or even more than that in this case. Perhaps Focus (one of Hope's kids) has strengthened."
"Or perhaps Confusion or Boredom is taking a vacation." War got up, and moved to his phone. "This is important. I will deal with it myself. Tell my secretary if she disturbs me I will ask Famine to visit her home country."
"Yes sir." The lesser fiend replied, glad that he wasn't going to be in trouble for this mess.
Back with Boredom, he was still following the woman around as if he was a puppy, as opposed to one of the most terrifying forces in the known world. She was just wonderful. He had learned her name was Meredith (her name matched her personality, it is very boring) and that she lived in an apartment near work. This is good because she barely had the concentration to get her self there. Once she was at home she watched T.V. constantly, occasionally stopping to get something to eat. Boredom didn't see how such a wonderful person was able to exist. He couldn't stand it. He felt his cell phone ring (it was on vibrate) but immediately shut it off, he didn't care about anything but her.
War threw the phone across the room. It landed with on the couch, which is good because he'd already broken two others recently and was going over budget.
"Uh… Something wrong sir?" his assistant fiend asked, who had floated in just in time to see the phone fly.
"Yes. Boredom won't answer. That means I'm going to have to go find him myself. As if I haven't enough to do already, with Madagascar and New Zealand acting like best friends." He sighed, and sat down at his computer. The cell phones that the curses carried all had tracking devices, so that they could find each other in a hurry. Before cell phones were invented they had had to use smoke signals, which were notoriously unreliable. He typed "BOREDOM" into the database and found him in Brooklyn, NY, US. "Of course," he growled, "It has to be on the other side of the world." And he disappeared.
Only to reappear in Brooklyn, right next to Boredom. War took one look at him and figured it out, ill-advised romances are a worldwide running theme, and they often connect with war. He shook Boredom out of his stupor.
"What is it! Leave me alone!" Boredom yelled, trying to look around War to continue staring at Meredith who had fallen asleep in front of the T.V.
"I travel around half the world to see you, and this is my thanks, cousin? I don't think so." War grabbed Boredom and teleported back to his office. "I am bigger and stronger than you so don't tell me to leave you alone!"
"Okay," Boredom said. Being so suddenly dislocated had brought him to his senses, and no sane creature wants War mad at them. "What did I do?"
"Actually it's something you didn't do. What have you been doing with yourself? You haven't affected someone in almost a week!"
"I've been busy."
"That's obvious enough. Why would you fall in love with a woman?"
"She's perfect, that's why! It's amazing!"
"Fine. Forget about her."
"NO!"
War continued to argue, but it didn't work. One of Boredoms strongest and most annoying traits is stubbornness. Finally he stopped trying.
"You know there's a way to be with her - other than stalking her that is. Why don't you possess a human? That way you talk to her, and she'll actually see you."
"You can't possess someone unless you prove that it is for the cause of chaos."
"No, you can't possess someone with out the permission of a senior curse. If War isn't senior what is? Go and possess someone."
"Why are you doing this for me?" Boredom asked.
"I hate to see a fellow curse so depressed. Well except for Sorrow. So go, have a good time." Actually War thought that if Boredom talked to this woman he would get distracted and lose interest pretty fast. He wasn't called Boredom for nothing.
Boredom was still vaguely suspicious, but the thought of being with Meredith in person made him ignore his caution. He vanished.
