After a few hours later I opened my eyes after apparently falling asleep on the couch. The first thing I saw was Steve giving me this look that scared the daylights out of me. I shouted and sat up.

Steve laughed at that, sitting back on the floor. "Dude, I thought you were never gonna wake up. I was about ten seconds away from drawing a dick on your forehead."

"Fuck you." I grumbled after my heart stopped beating out of my chest.

"I only do that with girls but if you're down with that, I'm up for some experiments." He grinned.

Seriously, he needs to grow up.

He chuckled before reaching over to the coffee table, grabbing a beer he had and drank it. "You left the door open. That's really easy for assholes to break in and steal your crap."

I rubbed my eyes and sighed, sinking in the couch. "I got nothing worth stealing anyway. It's out of their luck."

Steve sighed before joining me on the couch. "So….hows the head shrink?"

I scuffed, "he threatened me to send me to the bloody asylum."

"That's fucked up."

"No shit." I grabbed the beer he had offered and took a drink at that.

"Well, is he tired of dealing with your crap?"

I glared at him before I weary sighed, giving up. "Something like that."

"Then change shrinks, or do what I do," he said.

"Drink, get laid and break all sorts of laws?" I asked.

"Bingo!"

I handed him the beer back and stood up. I stretched and popped my back. "I'm not like you who can just do that and forget."

"It's easy...it's called "don't think about it."

This idiot.

I went to the kitchen and grabbed myself a bottle and popped the cap and drank it. "Basically he told me to go to the show."

Steve was silent about a minute before he laughed. "Oh god, you now have to go. Doctor's orders!"

"Oh shut up." I growled.

It was embarrassing to think that.

"Oh you know I'm just joking." Steve sighed. "Seriously, if the doctor said you have to go to the show - for once - I'd listen if it's good for your psyche."

"You never listen to anyone, especially doctors."

"Because what they tell you certain things that is all complete bullshit. But I agree with the doc, it may do you some good. It's been what, fifteen years? New acts, different situation." Steve got up from where he was at and came in, leaning against the doorway between the living room and kitchen.

"If it gets too much, we'll bounce." he then offered.

I glanced at him. I stared at him for a moment before grunted, "you promise?"

"I swear."

"What about Nyx?"

"She'll understand. Besides, we're her chaperones, what we say, she has to do."

A couple of days later around ten thirty at night, Steve and I left to pick up Nyx from the hotel where she had stayed. I couldn't believe that I was going to the Cirque again. IT's what I've been thinking of for a while.

Though what I remember wasn't much, I did remember how much fun I was having that night all those years ago. Steve was right, there would be totally different acts, I was kinda excited...and scared at the same time.

Steve was keeping me occupied as we walked by spilling tales from his travels, the places he went to like Mumbi, London, America, vaguely telling me the jobs he told me. His "hunts" he caught.

What made me uneasy was the fact there wasn't a trace that he was bullshitting.

When we got to the hotel, Nyx was standing outside on the steps waiting…

Wearing one of those japanese gothic lolita dresses

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How I know what that was, Anne went through an anime phase and what is what she wore typically. Her hair was red this time and her eyepatch was like the other day - a rose looking one.

Steve snickered. "Wow, Nyx, you look cute."

"Oh shut up." Nyx sighed as she stood, smoothing out the ruffles. It's the only thing I brought that was somewhat formal. Pops' idea."

"I like your old man and I never met him."

"Speaking of," I jumped in. "Should we meet your dad first? I mean, two grown strangers taking a twelve year old somewhere just seems...wrong."

"Pops trusts me, I trust you guys not to kill me and he does too. Besides he's not here. He left an hour for work."

"And you just...sat here waiting for us?"

"Eeyup." Nyx giggled. "Let's get going." She said and before we knew it, we were on our way.