Sheen woke up in a cold sweat and doubled over in pain. He coughed a little and then shivered, feeling a course of hot searing pain course through his body from his stomach into his back and through his nerves. He tried to get out of bed but all he did was fall to the floor. He gripped the floor with all his might and tried to crawl toward the door. If only he could get to the pills…

"Sheen, what are you doing on the floor." Mr. Estevez asked.

Sheen opened his eyes and looked around. He looked at his father and sat up slowly, trying to figure out where he was at the moment.

"Sheen?"

"I'm fine, Dad." He growled.

"Well you're the one sleeping on the floor like a weirdo. Get ready for school. You're going to have to walk again today."

"Nothing new."

"Let's not fight today, alright? Levantarse y vestirse. Arriba, arriba!"

"Cerrado para arriba." he mumbled as he stood up, feeling woozy.

He held onto his dresser and looked in the mirror. He squinted at himself.

"I look like shit…" he said to himself, touching his face.

His eyes looked like they had sunken in and he was pretty pale. He wondered why his dad didn't let him know he looked that bad but grabbed the pills that were there and shook two out. He took them dry and waited for a couple of seconds. They were odd pills and if he moved right after he took them, it would send him into either vomiting or diarrhea and he would not make it to the bathroom on time. He found that out the hard way. So he had to stay still for about three minutes after taking the pills.

He got dressed finally and stuck the hoodie on that he'd been favoring. It made him feel invisible but not at the same time. He went to the bathroom and brushed his teeth and then headed toward the door.

"Are you going to eat breakfast?"

"No."

"Will you at least try? I made a big one today; eggs and bacon and ham?"

Sheen sniffed the air and smiled a little.

"Okay…"

Mr. Estevez was delighted and so he made a plate for his son. For once the two had a civil meal that didn't result in them fighting in Spanish, English, or incomprehensible words that Sheen sometimes said. Overall, breakfast was great.

Sheen was hoping for a smooth middle part of the day since breakfast went so well but it didn't look like that was going to happen. As usual, when he was headed for his third period class, one of Nick's teammates would corner him and try to rile him up and make him snap. Usually he was okay with that because he just brushed it off but today was just a little different. One, it was Nick himself who was doing the teasing and two, things were not the same today. Sheen wasn't aware of that until Nick touched his shoulder and said, "And what Carl did to you about Libby."

"What about Carl?" he asked, giving Nick a glance.

Nick smirked. "I mean, completely swooping in and stealing your girl like that. The fact that you were having issues and he just went in for the gold? That's pretty cruel huh?"

"Kind of like what you did to Jimmy?"

"No. Nerdtron left because he was an idiot. You left because you went cuckoo-"

Sheen found himself slamming Nick into the wall, his hand around his throat.

"You wanna run that by me again?" Sheen seethed. "I don't think I heard you quite clear enough today. You want to see cuckoo? I'll show you all the crazy you want."

He let his neck go and punched him in the stomach. Nick went down almost immediately and Sheen grinned wickedly at him from above.

"I don't think today is your lucky day, Nick."

"Libby, have you seen Nick?"

"No… Why?"

"Well he's usually here when I get out of class but he wasn't…"

"I dunno. Ask Jimmy or Carl."

"Why would they know?"

Libby shrugged and Cindy scoffed, turning as Jimmy and Carl began to pass by.

"Hey!" They turned. "Have you see Nick?"

"I try to stay clear of him unless he's already with you." Carl said.

"I just don't care." Jimmy said.

Cindy made a face, knowing why he said it, when the doors busted open and someone began running down the hallway at full speed. Everyone watched as they ran when Cindy realized it was Nick.

"Nick!" she yelled, waving at him.

Once he saw her he ran to her and slid to her feet, holding her legs.

"Please don't let it get me! Don't let it get me!"

"Don't let what get you?"

"Slenderman!"

"Slend- Nick, have you been drinking again?" she hissed, not wanting Jimmy to hear it.

"No! Slenderman is after me! I swear! I saw him!"

"Okay… get off me…" Cindy said, shaking her leg.

"Oh my god, girl, he's telling the truth." Libby said, elbowing her friend in the side.

Cindy turned to the window as something that kind of looked like Slenderman passed by the window but coming out of the back wasn't tentacles but something else… at least that what the silhouette looked like. Cindy sighed and picked her boyfriend up and took him to the nurse's room.

After Nick's parents came and took Nick back home, Sheen walked up to them.

"What happened?" he asked.

"Nick went cuckoo for Coco Puffs." Libby said, shaking her head. "That boy has been acting odd all week. Why didn't you go with him, Cindy?"

"I just really didn't want to deal with that. I mean… I think I may be crazy too and I just didn't want him to make me feel even more that way.

"What do you mean?" Jimmy said.

"You guys didn't see the shadow of that thing Nick was talking about? It was for a split second but I swear I saw it."

"I believe you." Sheen said.

"Thanks, Sheen, but… well, we can't go off of your testimony."

Sheen lifted an eyebrow as Libby touched his hand.

"She means we don't want you to go through what happened last time. If you said anything to anyone, your Dad will try to send you away again."

Sheen looked at Libby and smirked at her.

"I won't say anything, I learned my lesson. I just mean I believe her. We should all believe Nick anyway. There's too much we've seen for this not to be real."

"Sheen's right." Jimmy said. "How many of my experiments made weird things show up or happen? I don't like Nick but we should try to think of what it could have been that he saw. Cindy, what did it look like?"

"Just like what Nick said, like Slenderman except… it wasn't tentacles in its back but something else. It was weird… It was for literally a split second so who really knows."

"Maybe he's drunk again." Libby said.

Jimmy slid his gaze to Cindy who didn't do anything.

"Anyway, that's that. Let's get back to what we were doing and maybe Nick will have his act cleaned up by tomorrow." She said, beginning to leave.

Jimmy went after her as Libby and Sheen stood together.

Jimmy grabbed Cindy and made her turn around.

"You lied to me." Jimmy hissed.

"What of it? It's my problem and I never said anything about him drinking."

"You said he only hurt you because he didn't know his own strength… as in he was too drunk to realize he was hurting you. And you're okay with that?"

"I have to be." She growled, wrenching her arm away from him. "We were perfectly fine until you came back. I told you how I felt about you and even Nick can see it now. He gets mad because of it… I try to stay away when he drinks but I'm not always lucky. You think I can't take care of myself? I was a black belt in karate."

"And a white belt against Nick Dean." Jimmy snarled.

"Just like you against human interaction." Cindy sneered, making herself taller and looking down on him. "Stay out of my business, James Neutron."

Jimmy watched her walk down the hall and clenched his fist. He would fix this… He would figure out a way to make things right… Maybe if I perfect Formula I20-8, I can fix everything. he thought. He made decision to start working on the formula that night.

Jimmy was working late in the lab (even though his Mom told him not to) on the formula. He was testing it out again when he heard something enter the lab. Thinking it was just Goddard, he didn't say anything or do anything. That is, when Goddard never barked or showed up but he felt something behind him. Jimmy looked up slightly from his work and gulped, slowly raising his head. He knew something was there…

When he turned around he gulped again as he came face to face with a humongous seven foot werewolf.

"Holy mother of god…" he said softly, not moving. "Where the hell did you come from?"

The werewolf didn't make a response, just stared at him as Jimmy tried to figure out what to do. How did it get in, was the first question that he had but he knew that werewolves couldn't talk. The other was: would it eat him?

"Um… D- do you mind not eating me, Mr. Werewolf, sir… I'm with child and to eat a baby like that would just be cruel, you know?"

The werewolf jeered at him, lifting its lip a little and making a growling sound. Jimmy took that as a good sign. He slowly began to make his way to the lab lockdown button by edging against the table. The werewolf only stared, just looking and never making a move other than to follow his scooting.

"I- I'm going to have to put the lab in lockdown so that you don't get out, alright?" he nodded at the creature.

It did nothing and Jimmy finally hit the button. An alarm went off and doors came down over the exits and windows. The werewolf seemed unfazed.

"Gooood werewolf, gooood werewolf…"

Jimmy tried to get the elevator to come but the werewolf suddenly attacked him. He moved out of the way quickly as it guarded where he had been. It apparently didn't want Jimmy to leave. Jimmy held out his hands.

"Okay… Um… Wh- what do you want with me? Things were already weird at school and I don't need you making it weirder, okay?"

The werewolf seemed to turn its head at him. Jimmy watched it for a moment and realized that it wasn't going to hurt him.

"What do you want with me?" he finally asked. "I don't know how you got here but you know my lab and you seem like you're wanting something from me. Tell me what you want."

The werewolf lifted its arm and Jimmy stepped back until it pointed. Jimmy lifted an eyebrow and turned around to see what it was pointing at. It was at the cabinet of his old experiments and turned back.

"What about them?"

The werewolf emphasized his pointing by stepping forward and growling. Jimmy yelped and stepped back.

"Okay, alright… You want to see my old experiments?"

The werewolf put its arm down and Jimmy cautiously walked over to them. Even though he had a small display case of things left over from smaller experiments, he also had another display of things left over from his larger experiments. He walked along the back wall, wondering what the werewolf wanted when he turned and saw it looked at one of the left over parts. Jimmy walked back and saw it was looking at a picture.

"That's from an old experiment. It was a monster maker that I made for Halloween… another failure."

The werewolf turned to him as Jimmy shoved his hands in his pockets.

"I don't know what you want from me, Mr. Wolf. I've gotten past the fact of scared and now I'm just curious about you. I don't even know how you got in my lab because it's only programmed for me and a couple other people… What are you wanting from me?"

The werewolf seemed to get angry and howled, running to the wall and pounding on the glass. It shattered and it grabbed the piece from the Neutronic Monster Maker and slung it at Jimmy. He ducked but it landed at his feet and the werewolf ran to him, picking up the piece and shoving it into Jimmy's face.

"Wh- wh- wh- what do you want me to do with it!? It's broken! I just took a piece of it for good measure before I sealed it up in my old lab!"

The werewolf yowled and seemed to pace. Pace? Jimmy thought, watching it walk back and forth with the piece of the Neutronic Monster Maker in its hand. Jimmy looked around him to see what he had on hand when he remembered the sleeping potion he had somewhere. He looked around, trying to figure out where it was. He then spied a blow dart on a shelf across the room and the case of darts that went with it. He remembered dipping them in the sleeping potion.

He looked at the werewolf again and then dashed over to the blow dart as quickly as possible. Ugh, this pregnancy thing sucks. No wonder women get angry and emotional all the time. he griped in his mind as he grabbed the blow dart, stuffed the dart into the blower. He sneaked around the middle section of the lab and saw the werewolf still there. He prayed it would hit and waited for him to come into view and then hit him with the dart. The creature roared, pulling the dart out as Jimmy walked toward it with a bat.

"Don't even think about coming near me. Get back! Get back, I say!"

The woozy werewolf walked backwards at Jimmy's direction until he put it in a containment field that he had been working and hoped actually did work. He prayed it did as he hit the button and the werewolf fell onto the floor, going to sleep.

Jimmy leaned against the wall, sighing.

"Out of all the crazy shit that's ever happened to me, this is probably at the top of the list… along with this baby but…" He looked at the piece of the Neutronic Monster Maker that the werewolf had insisted on getting. "What did it want with this? I think it was trying to tell me something. Well, I'll see when I wake up. I just hope this containment field holds…"

He yawned and undid the lock down, going back up the elevator to his room.

so we'll see what happens huh? i'm sure yall can figure it out...