Wahhh! I am a horrible person who deserves to be beaten by a rodeo clown. BAD BAD Jak! How dare you take so long updating! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! It was a joint attack from graduation project, back homework, and writer's block. All of which I am past… or at least ignoring. GET AWAY FROM ME YOU DAMN PROJECT! AWAY! ahem Sorry again.

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And now for the story…

The wagon hummed with an odd… humming sound. Kind of similar to when you go underwater and then pop back up with water in your ears and then when you get it out you have that annoying hum in your ears that won't go away. Yeah. Similar to that.

"Hey Raz."

"Raz…"

"RAZ!"

Rasputin sat bolt upright in his bed that was not his bed. "What is it?" Rasputin asked irritated, not in the mood to talk.
"Well I just happened to be walking by and-"

"Of course you were walking by you jerk. You live in my head!"

"Now, now. No need to be snappy my little thumbwallet. I just want to talk."

"Greeeat. Talk again…With one of the voices in my head. Yep, I'm not crazy."

"Oh stop it snugglepoof!" The figure standing in front of Raz was very tall. This is said loosely however because it wasn't actually tall but it was at the same time. To explain this would be very hard and normal human minds such as yours could probably not comprehend it anyway so let's just say that you can do these kind of things inside brains. "Rumroller, I think that we should chat about how you've been since we last saw each other. It's been so long!"

Raz, for the most part, was doing a very good job of keeping his hands clasped together rather than around the thing's throat. "Alright then, let's chat. As a personification of my hatred however I'm sure you already know everything that's happened to me since last."

"Well that's true honeysquirrel. But I'd still love to hear it from your own mouth!" then the tall yet not tall thing, which has now been identified as Hatred, clapped its hands together and jumped up and down. "Oh do tell me please!"

Rasputin lay back down on his MINDbed and turned his head to look at the creature. It didn't actually fit any of the stereotypes for a personification of hatred. First off it was happy and, Raz was almost positive of this, homosexual (or at the very least, the gayest straight thing on the planet). Mind you, how a gender neutral creature can be homosexual is quite confusing but somehow Hatred pulled it off. In addition to Hatred's personality it didn't look the part at all either. It looked very similar to a large, purple puppy dog that had run into a bunny and had become inexplicably fused to it. All of this in a ridiculously, "stab out the eyes" cute way.

So essentially it was completely impossible to take Hatred serious at all. "All right Hatred… What do you want to know about?"

Hatred thought for a moment and then did its clapping/jumping thing that just drove home its homosexuality. "Oo! Oo! I want you tell me about Lili!"

Raz sighed. Every single time he told stories to Hatred it wanted to know about Lili. Why Rasputin had no idea. So Raz began his story of how he had STILL not seen Lili for years just like the last five times Hatred had asked him.

Hatred enjoyed the story anyway.

After Rasputin had finished telling the story to Hatred the boy stepped off the bed. "Now it's my turn. Has anything changed since I've been away?"

Again the being thought for a moment and again it did the jump/clap thing. "There's been a murder!"

"WHAT!" this wasn't exactly what Raz had been expecting as a response. He'd more been expecting along the lines of 'Oh well the door's still closed but that thing is still banging on it. Guilt is still missing. And Love and Happiness have gotten married.' Okay he hadn't really been expecting the last on (Especially since happiness and love were both trapped behind the door). But he most certainly had not imagined this response. "You can kill an emotion?"

"OH heavens no! You can't kill an emotion silly!"

"Oh!" Raz settled down a little.

"You can only murder an emotion!"

Had Rasputin been sipping any sort of drink at that moment there would have been a very clichéd comedic scene right here. However, as he had not been doing anything of the sort, we are left only with a very clichéd jaw drop instead, courtesy of Raz.

"Wh- What! How is that any different at all?"

"How is what different?" the confused emotion asked kindly.

"How are killing and murder any different?"

"Well killing can include accidental deaths, which one cannot do, or suicide, which one also cannot do."

"But it also includes murder which means that by there having been a murder, someone was also killed."
"Well yes, I understand where you're coming from sugarcake."

"So that would mean you can kill emotions!"

"No you can't! You can only murder them!"

"But… But logic would dictate that by being able to murder someone you would als-"

"Rasputin, excuse my saying this, but when has your head ever been logical?"

Unable to come up with a worthy counter-argument Raz yielded. "So who was… murdered then?"

Hatred's eyes shifted across the dusty wagon room and it leaned in close to the boy's ear. "It was-"

(Hee hee, YAY cliffhangers!)

SCENE CHANGE

"Lovely! Just lovely!" Lili pouted as her car began to sputter and die.

She got out and ran over to the engine. "No! No baby you can't die on me please! Please baby, I need you! Oh come on, I was only LOOKING at those Germans, I would never actually go for one of those gas eaters! It was a moment of weakness I'm sorry! You're the only one for me baby please!" and Lili fell to her knees and started crying on the hood of her accord. To anyone watching her it must have looked strange to see a purplish haired young adult saying these things to a car and crying. To anyone who knew Lili they wouldn't find it all that odd. Unfortunately the only person who really knew Lili was Dogen and Dogen well… He doesn't really find anything strange. Even squirrels that talk to him and exploding heads.

After Lili was finished crying and they had buried Randolf (Lili's car) the two young adventurers took to the road once more. Stopping every now and then when a car drove by to try and hitchhike but with little reward. "I guess we could levitate. It certainly would go faster. But psychics aren't in the most positive of lights right now…" Lili said to herself and then continued almost unconsciously, "No thanks to Raz." And thus Lili's frown became even more depressing.

Dogen, of course, didn't notice. He was busy attempting to shoo off a blade of grass trying to sell him a year subscription to Watering Monthly. "Stupid door to door salesmen… always trying to… stupid…" was all that Lili could make out from Dogen's mutterings.

"Dogen, let's stop here for the night okay? We'll just camp out," Lili smiled at Dogen and then muttered so he couldn't hear, "since we're completely broke."

The half-aware boy looked up at his 'sister' in a face that said, "I'm sorry, I was completely not paying attention to you."

Lili sighed. She seemed to be doing that a lot lately. "Dogen could you get out the tents?" and, surprisingly, Dogen did just that. And he set about putting them up too! Lili almost said good boy but caught herself (if she did the exact same thing she yelled at everyone else for how would that look?). But still she smiled in spite of herself. It WAS good to see Dogen doing things of his own accord. Usually you had to tell him to do anything, maybe he was getting better?

After Dogen and Lili finished setting up their tents, one for each of them, they said goodnight and ducked inside their respective tents. Dogen was out like a light. But Lili was out more like one of those lights that starts to dim a little tiny bit but not completely and you keep waiting for it to just blow out but it doesn't until that one moment when you look away and then you're all like, "Gawdammit! Iwantedtaseethelightesplode!" Or at least that's the closest analogy possible. Anyway, back to Lili…

So Lili, unlike Dogen, couldn't seem to find it in herself to fall asleep. It wasn't from fear of who could be out there of course. Because realistically, Lili could kick the ass of just about anybody who wanted to try and steal or rape or pillage from them. No it more a feeling of anxiousness. The source of the anxiousness was a mystery however to even Lili herself and she could only lay in her cot (yes she'd brought a cot along) and try to puzzle it out. Eventually though Lili's tiredness overcame her anxiousness and her eyes slowly closed. "Goodnight Rasp-" Lili began but never finished.

And so endeth chapter 3 of "SEALED DOORWAYS" Tune in next time for

The ship that sunk Or What not to do in a bear attack (note: these will not actually be the next chapter) Please R&R!