Star sat on the curb of a busy street, taking a few minuted break from lugging her heavy pile of newspapers around. She was still really stiff and sore. She wondered if she'd ever feel normal again. She looked up as Kid-Blink rounded the corner and flopped down next to her.

"Heya Star," he said casually.

"Hey,"

"You ok?"

Star stared blankley at him, "Do I look ok?"

Blink didn't say anything. It was either that or lie. They sat in silence for a moment.

"Do you...do you think Mush'll forgive me?" she asked suddenly.

Blink looked sadly at his feet for a moment.

"I dunno," he said truthfully, "I don't think this'll end your friendship..."

"Great," Star said sarcastically.

"But really... don't be mad at him," Blink said, "Cause... well, ya can't blame him exactly,"

"Thanks Blink," Star said, hurt, "thanks for that, cause I didn't quite feel bad enough!"

She got up and stormed off.

Blink grumbled and put his head in his hands. As if on cue, Mush strolled around the corner, sitting down next to his best friend.

"Hey Kid," he said, wiping some sweat off his forehead.

"Hey, you just missed your girlfriend," Blink said, reffering to Star as 'girlfriend' purely on auto-pilot.

"She's not my-"

"Yeah, I know, sorry," Blink said quickly.

"I just can't belive..." Mush trailed off, shaking his head.

"Well... maybe... ya know, Switch forced her into it?" Blink suggested.

Mush shook his head, "Nah... she would've said somthing..."

"You sure?"

"Yup. She always told me everything. Until this, I mean," Mush looked really sad and it hurt Blink to see him like that.

"Cheer up, k?" Blink nudged his friend, "there are other fish in the sea man,"

Mush smiled slighty.

"I'll believe that when I see it,"

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Switch walked down to street, newspapers propped on his shoulder. He was staring at his feet, thinking. He continued walking untill... SMASH! He collided hard into somthing. He fell over, dropping his papers. He looked up to see Star scrambling to gather her own fallen papes. Switch could see the fear in her eyes. Probably afraid he was going to attack her again. Switch didn't blame her. He knew he had an uncontrolable temper.

"Wait," he said softly as she was about ready to leave. Possibly out of pure fear she stopped.

"What?" she asked, as edgy as she dared.

"I'm sorry,"

Silence.

"Pardon?"

"I said I'm sorry," Switch repeated.

"For?" Star asked, getting ready to run if she needed to. She couldn't belive she was still pushing her luck with this kid.

"For hitting you," Switch stated.

"Hitting me?" Star said, her voice growing louder despite herself, "You tried to kill me!"

"Yeah, well, generally after you fuck someone you don't ignore them and pretend it didn't happen!"

Star started to retaliate but didn't.

"And stop acting like it's all my fault Mush dumped you! What we did was a two sided coin sweetheart!"

Star's stomach flipped slightly when he called her sweetheart. It wasn't in the gentle way Mush had always said it...it was... dangerous... 'No, stoppit,' Star demanded of herself. He tried to kill you. He's not safe. Stoppit.

"Yeah but you damn well knew I was with Mush but you went ahead with it!" Star steamed.

"Of course I did!" Switch said, laughing, "What was I supposed to do? Turn you down?" He laughed some more.

"You could have," Star said, she felt tears bubbling up again and she gritted her teeth.

"No, that's the thing... I couldn't." Switch said, he'd stopped laughing, "I have a sort of 'condition' (he rolled his eyes)... when I get fixated on somthing, I can't let it go,"

Star looked at him.

"And right now, I'm fixated on you."

Star swallowed. Great. So now she has a crazy, lust-driven, abusive outcast stalker.

"Well... I'm sorry to disapoint, but wether or not the feeling's mutual, I still love Mush," Star said, turning to leave, "you were a one time thing."

With that she left. Switch twitched in rage but held back. Not yet.

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Back at the fort, Spot was perched on his 'throne' looking over the river and part of Brooklyn. Jamie had left. What had happened earlier that morning left Spot with so many feelings bouncing around in him that he thought he might have the slightest idea what teenages girls go through. The weird thing was... unlike most of the girl's he's spent time with... Jamie actually left a mark. At times Spot wondered what things would be like without Jamie and he found himself thinking he'd rather not think about. It was all so confusing. A strange realization was growing within him. He, Spot Conlon, Brooklyn's finest... was in love.

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"Mush?" Star walked slowly up behind her ex boyfriend. He was sitting alone by the river, dipping his feet into the fridgid water.

"Uh huh," he responded.

"Can we talk?" Star asked meekly.

Mush turned to face her for a moment before turning back to the dark water, "Sure."

"I just wanted to tell you... I can't say how sorry I am for what happened."

Mush said nothing. Star waited anxiously. Once again, the now farmiliar feeling of tears assaulted her eyes. She looked at the figure of the boy she loved, the boy she wanted to spend her life with. Her insides were churning, her mind was going from over-loaded to blank and back again so fast she thought she might throw up. Without really thinking she did somthing she told herself never to do. Not to Mush.

"He forced me to," Star said, not needing to fake tears, as real ones came flooding forth anyway.

Mush turned and looked into her tearstained face.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Mush asked, putting a hand on Star's cheek.

"I w-was scared," Star stammered.

A look of pure fury washed over Mush's handsome face, "Where's the git, I'll kill him!" he said through a clenched jaw.

"No! Don't!" Star said, thinking quick, "Please, please, just let it go... for me Mush... let it go," Star wrapped her arms around mush and cried into his shoulder, but she felt Mush relax and knew that he'd listened to her plea. Star cried even harder. She'd got what she wanted, but at what cost. She did what she swore she wouldn't do. She lied. She lied for personal gain. And that was somthing no one would have expected from Star.

It was somthing people would expect more from... Switch.

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