A couple weeks passed by, exams were taken, essays staring to be written, and CRDL found themselves just like they always are most of their time: bored, with their return to the same academy life they left for their mission. Though admittedly, it was not all the same old-same old, for with Rosemary's teachings, Sky and Russel had found themselves understanding their new bodies, and thus learned to utilize abilities long lost to modern man, but at a pace slower than a dying tortoise.
But for Dove, he just stood by, reveling, his mind seething, as it slowly repaired itself back to a stable state, now at this point, not speaking in an unknown accent, or speaking in a less verbose manner; he was essentially becoming his old-self, much to his brother's gratitude, but would still delve into an unhinged state once in awhile. But hey, they guessed it was worth it, since Dove can now apparently- as told by him and Rosemary alike- speak Soloman, understand more about the universe than any of them, and knows how to perform rituals that could help further their ascension into Kasthood.
"Yeah, let's... hold off on that, okay?" Was Russel's thoughts however, and his brothers agreed with him, noting that there's no need to hurry into ascension.
And Dove would reply, "Okay bro, but just keep in mind that whenever you want some more of that sweet, sweet, ascension, I'm always here for you." Rosemary of course would point out that she could perform the ritual herself, but no one really cared if she could or not, only to dismay her.
Gilgamesh, the small boarbatusk, she was a reluctant acceptance for Cardin. He felt for sure that nothing good would come with keeping her at Beacon. But thanks to Sky's whining, and Russel's persuasion, Cardin allowed her to stay. Mostly so far, they have left her in the room with Rosemary, with the T.V. on, and the remote in Gilgamesh's control, for them to enjoy, especially Rosemary, who still could not help herself from being impressed by the creation for television, and by all the different channels and their shows to watch.
Occasionally however, they would be brought out to the dining hall with CRDL, just so they can have someone to interact with. And no one even dared to point out Gilgamesh. Why? In God's green Remnant, CRDL had no idea why no students asked them about it.
As for Cardin, he had little to learn from Rosemary. What else would he be able to do with his own heart missing? It's just as Rosemary said: he now exists in a state between life and death. When he pondered about that, Cardin had almost convinced himself that she meant he was immortal.
And when he asked her if this were the truth, Rosemary replied, "You indeed will not die for old age, if that is what you mean by immortality."
"Fuck yeah!"
"BUT! But, you can still die from wounds and poison, Cardin."
"Pffft- poison? Winchester blood is immune to poison. Probably because of all those fucking hearts we eat. I basically have to worry about getting shot in the head now, or some shit like that!"
Although in his moment of celebration, Dove, Russel, and Sky all grew worrisome, for this immortality would only bring Cardin to watching all he loved die.
And when they brought that up, Cardin replied, just ever so casually. "Oh, well fine, I'll just kill myself when everyone I love dies, which is NO ONE. So whatever..." He did worry about it. But what he was to truly do when that unfortunate time comes- IF it were to ever come- that was left in the darkness of uncertainty.
Do not worry about the future, Cardin came to terms with, and worry only about the present.
Then there were the rest, the students. Their hatred, anger, ire for the brothers has long been struggling with their fear, horror, frightfulness towards them. But they came back from their first mission, all feelings of pure revulsion for the brothers had been totally pulverized, and in its place, the fear took over. They strayed, they ran, they stayed behind them, students, no matter where they were from, just did everything they could to get away from the mutated Disownians now. Don't look at them, don't go near them, and most certainly do not go and talk with them. Such was the unspoken rules among the rest of the student body.
CRDL would have thought that at least word would get out that they helped with saving Vale, but no, they guessed not. It was even demoralizing, seeing RWBY, JNPR, CFVY, Sun and Neptune become the most popular students, when word got out that THEY helped save the city, even Penny got some recognition on her part as well. But not CRDL, and even then, they assumed this was the best to begin with anyhow, as no one would know what it was that Cardin truly did.
Yet this is where the funny part about the last two weeks come in though: despite being made out as being a plague to be avoided at all costs, the four brothers had found their relationship with RWBY and JNPR improving, even somewhat so with CFVY as well, and Sun, Neptune, and Penny. Mostly for the past two weeks, CRDL would end up being accompanied by members of RWBY or JNPR during breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Which in turn, even resulted in some of the brothers hanging out with some of them in the library to study, or more so to chat, without anymore pestering about what happened to them on their mission.
The relationship between Ruby and Cardin was kept in the dark from everyone, being the wishes of Ruby herself. Her reasoning to Cardin was simple though: she did not want to risk Cardin into getting in a brawl with her big sister, if she were to react unruly. He could understand where Ruby ws coming from, seeing Yang as being overprotective enough to beat up any boyfriend Ruby gets.
It all was appreciated by the brothers, in differentiating ways though, but all four of them agreed that it was nice to see their interactions with JNPR and RWBY significantly improve.
Leading up to the lunch period, on Friday of all days, with CRDL, JNPR, and RWBY, sitting all together, enjoying their foodstuff that day, when Ruby asked them, "Hey, you guys wanna have a movie night?"
And Russel, answering for them, said, "Yeah, that sounds neat. When do y'all wanna have it?"
"Tonight."
"Oh... okay. Are we gonna have it in your room, or...?"
"Well, we were thinking that if you guys said yeah, then maybe we can have it in... your room." Jaune replied.
Sky would ask, "Our room? Why our room?"
"'Cause your guy's room is bigger than both of ours."
"Well... shit is it?" Yang confirmed it, nodding her head however, due to her mouth being full of food at the moment. "Well if it's going to be in our room, the we get to pick the movie, understand?"
"Yeah, sure- you guys can pick the movie. What do you all have in mind?"
"We only have horror movies," Dove answered, "a lot of frickin' horror movies."
"Ohhhh, horror movies..."
"Do you got a problem with horror movies, Weiss?" Cardin inquired, smugly so.
"Yes, actually. I think they are disgusting; just nothing but gorefests for... men like you to enjoy."
"... I do like gore, I'll admit it. But if you don't want to watch a movie with it, Weiss, then we'll make sure to pick one that caters to your special needs, pwincess." The teasing between the students, however, as done little in terms of lightening up, but that one was the safest Cardin has delivered. But it still bothered Weiss, her face scowling in annoyance as Sky and Dove wholeheartedly chuckled.
"Also pick one that isn't too scary though." Ruby ruined their joy however, as each face of CRDL grimaced in disapproval, shaking their head, ashamed by her request. "W-What? What's wrong?"
Russel answered her, "Ruby, the point of horror movies is to scare people, yet you're asking us to find one that isn't TOO scary for you."
"Yes, and...?"
"..."
"I just don't want to go to sleep scared tonight, Russel!" A collective of groans filled the table, from all of CRDL to even Weiss, just baffled by her reasoning, embarrassing Rose to the point of blushing, to be left to be chastised by Dove.
"Ruby- gah, you are what, fifteen, sixteen? You're training to become a huntress! Yet you're too scared to watch a horror movie? Afraid of having a few nightmares tonight? Is that fucking it?" Rose's cheeks reddened, more and more, slumping in her seat, her eyes wandering towards her food, as her team grew disgruntled with Dove's ridicule of their petite, precious leader.
"Dove, calm down bro. Calm down." Fortunately, before he could continue on and potentially enrage them any further, Sky cut in, placing his four-fingered, clammy hand on his shoulder. "It okay bro. We got plenty of good movies to choose from. I'm sure we can find one that'll be good for everyone tonight." Of course Sky would get it all wrong:Dove was pissed that Ruby, who hopes with all her heart to one day become the most prolific huntress- like everyone at Beacon- was scare of horror movies. But in reality, Dove can see that it may indeed be his fault for overreacting.
"Fine." But that does not mean he will apologize, and most certainly that his respect- what little he had for Ruby to begin with- fell. "Did you all have a time in-mind for use to start?"
"We were thinking somewhere around nine, maybe."
"Whoooah- hold on," Cardin interjected, "that seems a little late, Yang. Can't you all just come a little earlier?"
"Cardin... it's a Friday night," and Pyrrha, deadpanning, informed him, just stumped by Cardin's cognitive skills, "we have no school tomorrow, you do know that, right?"
Cardin no answer, he just let his face to all the talking, as his golden eyes narrowed, the corner of his lips stretched into the straightest of lines- an embarrassed smile, and his head tilted down a bit, tittering quietly, shaking his head. "... Yeah. Yeah- I knew."
"No you didn't."
"... Do we have to prepare any food for you, dorks, or...?" Niko's eyes rolled, sighing in disbelief, resting her face on one of the palms of her hands, letting Jaune answer him.
"Oh no, you guy's don't have to do that."
"... DO you all at least want some beer?"
And again, Jaune answered, "No, we don't need any beer either, Cardin."
"Yeah- how the heck would any of you even be able to get beer onto Beacon campus anyhow?"
"Oh we already have beer, Yang. What the hell do you think we keep in those crates?"
"So you all literally have crates filled with alcohol in your room?"
"Nah Blake, they're filled with other stuff like clothes, ropes, jerky..." Sky suffered a brainfart, just trying to think if there was anything else in them, "... yeah, that's pretty much it."
"Do you even use your closets then?" She asked of a different matter, and again was met with an answer from the freakish Lark.
"... We didn't bring any coat hangers. And we also don't want to waste any lien on them."
"..."
"..."
"... So you just let your clothes pile up in crates."
"No, we pile them up on the floor."
"Do you wash them?"
"No."
"Yeah," Russel concurred, jokingly, with his brother, "we don't wash our clothes. We much rather enjoy walking around, feeling the grime and excess build up on our clothes and rub against our skin." Cardin and Dove's mouths twisted into shit-eating grins, their eyes starting to tear up in humorous joy, as they watched RWBY and JNPR revolt in total revulsion for the brothers.
"What did you do, Ziz?"
"What? That's a fucking fine how do you do from you, Dion."
"The Grimm are growing restless! It is enough that more are starting to resist the call, but now they tell me that you have been using them to fight monsters that grow and crawl and howl from the depths below! What did I tell you about delving into the earth below!"
"Fuck off, Dion. It's not that serious of a problem anymore!"
"Oh? But it was indeed a problem, wasn't it? You released the ancient past for all of our current era, no matter if they are good or evil, to access and take for themselves! How much of it have YOU taken for yourself, Ziz?"
"There's just a bunch of fucking useless shit down there anyways- don't get your fucking wooden ass all twisted up now, Dion-"
"-ZIZ! YOU HAVE ALLOWED AN EVIL, FESTERING UPON THIS WORLD FOR EONS, LONG BEFORE THE GRIMM CAME TO BE, PASSAGE TO ITS OLD HOME! And for that, it is going to bring us all down to its feet, as it climbs above for what it once strived for!"
"The fuck are you talking about? What is this evil? Are you actually going fucking senile right now?"
"You're ignorance is what will let it win, Ziz! Please! Just listen to me, for once more in your life, and do what is right!"
"Fucking- OKAY! What is it?! Fucking seal it up?! I can do that if you want!"
"NO! It is already too late for that!"
"Then what?! HUH! WHAT THE FUCKING HELL DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?!"
"... Ziz., I want you to call a meeting, with the leaders of Remnant, and tell them of what you all found."
"... Is that it? What the fuck is that gonna do?! I don't know what the fuck went down in there! How should I..."
"..."
"THE BOYS! My sons- they were down there when it all happened! They they- they must of, at least... saw whatever it was that caused all of this!"
"Where are they then? They can tell us of what took place down there!"
"I... they're back at Beacon."
"Oh nooo-"
"-No no, Dion- I can just visit them!"
"Then go! We must hurry an-"
"-Fuck no. I came here to fucking bless these Grimm, I'm going to do it at least right now. Then I'll go visit them."
"... Fine."
"At least when my schedule is free."
"Fine... the world may be at stake, but oh lord forbid you make up space in your schedule to address this issue."
"... Sometimes I dream about ripping your face off, Dion."
"Wonderful... simply wonderful..."
"Hey... we should like, pick a movie. It's like forty minutes or so left till nine."
"Oh don't worry, brother, I have took the liberty of picking a movie for us to watch."
"Oh, whatchu pick, Dove?"
"Hellraiser-"
"-GOD. NO. DOVE." It wasn't even a second after giving his answer that Dove was instantly shot down by Cardin. "That fucking scene man, where that dude is all chained up, will just put Weiss into a fit for fuck's sake! That damn movie is everything she DOESN'T want to see tonight. Fuck it'd might even scar Ruby for life tonight.-"
"You're only saying that because you tongue-fucked her weeks ago and now want to get in her pants, Cardin." And for Cardin, it was barely a second as well, when Dove retorted his leader, sending him off into a pathetic defense of denial.
"Pfffffft. Um, no. That's... like totally not true, at all."
"..."
"... O-kaaaaay- Listen, Dove, just... pick another movie, okay? Anything will be better than Hellraiser for tonight."
"Dawn of the Dead."
"Mmmmm- Nope! Try another one."
"Bone Tomahawk."
"Gah, fuck, Dove, no!"
"It's just that one scene, Cardin! Ruby and Weiss don't even have any testicles! They won't cringe at it as much as we did!"
"Nope. Nooooooooo- Pick another, Dove."
"I wanna fucking break your ass, Cardin."
"How about later?"
Dove whimpered, frustrated from the restraints that Weiss and Ruby had set for them tonight. Russel and Sky did not care the slightest about helping them, Dove did not know if they cared about Yang or Weiss as much as Cardin apparently does now, but whether they id or not, he was grateful for them not barking at his ass about picking an appropriate movie like Cardin.
Then it hit him like a solid brick, and with a snap of his fingers, he blurted out, "Ghostwatch!"
"Ghostwatch?"
"Ghostwatch." Cardin stared, his head still, before nodding, his lips pouting when asking them, "Ghostwatch?"
"... Yeah, that sounds pretty good."
"I think that's a good pick for tonight."
"Ah, then it's settled-"
"-Ghostwatch? Are you sure that would be good enough to entertain them?" Rosemary inquired, placed atop the nightstand near Sky's bed, near their room's opened window.
"Why would you ask tha- waitwait! I remember now, I remember now."
"Yes, Sky, you remember, don't you?"
"... Well that sucks. You can't even watch any of our movies without knowing what happens."
"Hmm, it is unfortunate, but it does not mean I can't enjoy watching them with all of you. I'm sure tonight will be fun, just as long as your friends like your choice of course."
"Oh, I hope they don't like it. I want THIS all to be a life ruining experience for all of us, so that they'll stop talking to us." Cardin proclaimed, sounding as serious to the pint where very one knew it was fake, just trying too hard.
But Russel played along. "Yeah, I don't really like hanging out with them anymore either."
"Don't you wanna fuck Weiss though?"
"..." Thrush shot his gaze towards Sky, his eye narrowing, face wrinkling in irritation, as the one of flame seared a whole into Sky's forehead, as he himself smiled, smiled, to point its started to hurt, worsening when he showed his teeth. "I... I do not want to fuck Weiss, Sky."
"Not even a hatefuck? I'd hatefuck her."
"Yeah, me too."
"Ditto." Russel could feel his lips go dry, his head falling forward, chuckling in disbelief, trying to figure out if this was too a joke or not.
"Okay okay, hold up... I still think Weiss is pretty. But... but she's not into me, guys."
"But she danced with you, didn't she?"
"... Yeaaahhh... yeah, she did, Cardin. But it was more like me being FORCED by her to dance with her for ruining her night."
"... That sounds stupid. What the hell did you even do?"
"I told her about how I helped Jaune hook up with Pyrrha." Russel answered Cardin.
"Ahhh- I still don't get why that ruined her night."
"Mmhm, yeah, I honestly don't care about it anymore. At this point, I'd be lucky to get a slag to fuck me, let alone actually wanting to develop a well-meaningful relationship..."
"..."
"..."
"... I'm hungry."
"Of course you are, fatso." Was Lark's pompous and proper response to Cardin, getting up from his bed, as Russel encroached upon him.
"Shut up, bitch." A cruel relationship, that soon would leave their own room, with Cardin opening the door, being followed by Russel and Sky, the latter closing the door behind him, leaving behind a Dove, Rosemary, and Gilgamesh, who whimpered and squealed, as she stomped over and started to push her head against the door.
"Nooooo- Caaaardin~" Dove rolled his eyes, sighing, irritated by the fact he had to deal with her now, before she starts to cry.
"Nah nah, c'mon Gilgamesh, he'll come back soon."
She turned around, her body visibly shaking in sadness and fury, as she exclaimed, "B-But I want to be with Cardin!"
"I know, I know. Just wait for him, okay?"
"N-No!-"
"-Here," Dove patted his lap, faking a smile, "come sit on ol' Uncle Dove's lap." A mewl of discomfort came from her, just prompting Dove to pat his lap again, "come on, come on." Eventually, he successfully coaxed her into doing so, jumping up onto his bed, but only to sit by his leg, curling up, oinking in a gentle fashion, as Dove himself relaxed, starting to use his scroll for his own entertainment. Until Rosemary start to preoccupy him.
"That didn't bother you at all?"
"What?"
"Your brothers, they just left you in here, without even looking back at you."
"Oh yeah, we do that to each other sometimes."
"But why?"
"'Cause that's how we are: just jerks to each other."
"Yet all of you are brothers. Brother should not treat one another as such as this, or any other way."
"Mmmm... yeah, I get it. But no matter how badly we treat each other, we'll always be brothers still. It's been that way for a long time. I treat Cardin like shit, he treats Russel like shit, we ALL treat ourselves as shit, but we do it because we love each other."
"... That doesn't make sense."
"We love each other so much, Rosemary, that we know that we don't really mean it whenever... say, Sky tells Russel that he's going to kill him. Or whenever Cardin calls me a chubby manlet that has no hope of ever getting a wife. That's just how young men like us nowadays act like when they become close friends."
"Hmph, and you're fine with it yourself? You never find any pain when you're treated like trash by your own adopted brothers?"
"... It does get sting a little, whenever we start to dig into our own little traits or habits we're self-conscious about. But I still take it, because I'm not a little bitch."
"I see. And does... RWBY, or JNPR, treat each other like you all do?"
"... No, not really. But RWBY are just all girls. Girls treat their friends kindly still."
"And as for Jaune and Ren?"
"Uh... they're nice to one another too, and their own teammates."
"So then they way you and your brothers treat one another is truly not how all men treat their friends-"
"- Hold up, hold up. Ren and Jaune haven't been friends, let alone BROTHERS, for over decade like us! They've only known each other for probably eight, or nine months. Of course they're not gonna call each other faggot, or loser, or beat one on another."
"Or, or, it could be because they aren't such mentally unstable human beings like all of you."
Dove's expression went into an open smile, his baby-blue eyes just staring up at the ceiling, as he processed what Rosemary just said.
"... Yeah, that... that's a good point."
"Yes, yes, but, the trauma you all suffer is probably why you all still remain such close brothers. Perhaps you all find comfort in your own presences, for you all suffered together, and you would not rather suffer with anyone else but them."
"..."
"..."
"... I'm going to the bathroom."
"Okay." Dove brought himself up, softly brushing aside Gilgamesh, leaving her to snuggle within his own sheets, and Rosemary to stare out the open window- even if she was capable of such a thing. She must be, right?
Dove would think so, shutting the door behind him and whipping it out. He would imagine her being able to see, how else would she know of what surrounded her? Or maybe it is just darkness, black, except for these glowing fires of energy, of different colors, different shapes, sizes, ferocity, each exclusive to each individual. Maybe.
He finished up, tucking himself back in and washing his hands, getting under those nails, having been left unwashed for the whole day, to be scrubbed, scrubbed, scrubbed.
Get that grime out, that filth, I can't have my little scholar all dirty now.
His throat bulged, gulping on this air, shaking, throbbing, veiny, as the bathroom flickered, dark, light, dark, light. It stopped right as he looked up at the mirror, seeing that it was still him, his eyes baggy, puffy, forhead's own bullet hole, that ugly white streak in his hair.
Get rid of him. Dove hated his own reflection now, or more so a hatred and fear for mirrors. All of his brothers developed it now, not out of disgust for how they look of course. But it was just that every second the spent, looking into the mirror, silent, looking right into their eyes, they start to fear their own reflection, foul reflections.
They once woke up in the middle of a night, to watch Sky destroy all of their own mirrors, smashing them to pieces with his fists, of those lanky arms. They sat in their beds, complacent, there was no need for them to protest, just sit in peace, letting their beady eyes follow every rise and fall of the heaving Lark that night, lit up by a small lamp, his shadow was of a ferocious cretin.
Dove couldn't believe he had forgotten about the mirror in the bathroom. After all the time that had passed since then, this one little mirror had been left to live, to thrive, to mock them every moment they had entered to piss, to shit, or to bathe themselves, blissful of its presence.
Well, not for long. Dove slammed his fist into the sheet, shattering it completely, his face tightening, breathing like a damn animal in heat, fogging up the shards, fog 'em all up, hurry. Stop that thing, smiling. Oh God- I saw it! I need to stop it!
THAT
SMASH
CLICK
"... Uhhhh- Dove?"
"..."
"People are breaking into your room, Dove!"
"Wait- no we're not!" He could hear Ruby, muffled from behind the door, from the ringing, defending herself and whoever she brought with her
"Then why are you here?"
"'Cause we're having a movie night in CRDL's room! Didn't they tell you that?" And there was Jaune.
"Yes."
"Then why are you calling us intruders?!"
"I never said such a thing, did I?" Dove found himself snickering, blood staining his teeth, smiling, as he brought himself to his feet, going and pushing the door open, seeing of course, Ruby and Jaune, accompanied by Nora, Ren, and-
"-What is she doing here?"
Dove pointed at her, Penny, who already now felt a sense of being singled-out by the ire in Dove's voice, from the bleeding Dove, albeit he meant no ill. He was to be answered by Ruby, "We invited her to join us, is that okay?" she too hearing some of the venom in his tone.
"Yeah, that's fine, that's fine." He stated, calmer, friendlier, as Penny felt something pressing at her feet, looking down to see Gilgamesh, recognizing her. "Just as long as she..." she picked up Gilgamesh, who squealed for a moment, before accepting her hold, nuzzling her snout into her chest, "is... fine with horror movies."
"Oh, don't worry, I am fine with watching them." Penny replied, sitting herself down onto Sky's bed, as Ren and Nora did as well, choosing Dove's own bed- a irk to his mood- and Weiss in one of their chairs, while Ruby and Jaune sat up on one of the crates, all still remaining conscious of the sight before them, both the state of their room, and Dove.
"Dove?"
"Yeah Weiss?"
"Are you okay? You're head is bleeding."
"... Yeah, I'm okay. My aura can take care of it."
"What did you do to yourself?"
"I just tripped, and slammed my head against the bathtub," he lied through red-soaked lips, actually now starting to wipe the blood away, "that's all."
"It looks like you smashed your head into the mirror instead." Ren however, was able to see the bathroom from Dove's bed clearly, noticing the shattered glass, stained with blood, as Dove looked back to the room itself.
And just closed the door, without even thinking, as he turned back to say, "It don't matter. None of it matters."
"Oh, it don't matter? Is that it?" Weiss asked. "It don't matter than you smashed your head into your bathroom mirror? Is that it?"
"You don't know that was what happened."
"Really? Then what did happened?"
"Okay, Weiss, forget about it, okay? We're here just to have a little movie night, and this discussion is going to soil the mood before w-"
"-Dove, we just want to know what happened in there."
Dove puffed his cheeks, incredulous, his face almost turning purple before he answered Ruby. "Okay, the answer is yes: I did smash my head into the mirror."
"Can you tell us why?"
"... No."
Okay," Ruby nodded her head slowly, "okay, that's... fine. Now how about... all of this?" She next gestured, all over the room, to the scarred ceiling, scarred walls, scarred floor, carved into them runes of circles, triangles, squared, forced to be smashed into one another, by the hand of a temporary madman.
"Oh, I did all of this when I will still bonkers. It's meant to just ward off evil energy, spirits, demons, shit like that." Silence fell upon them, their eyes blank, mouths open, thinking, until Jaune replied.
"Does it uh... does it actually work?"
"Yeah, it all works. Isn't that right Rosemary?"
"Yes, Dove had followed all of the proper steps in order to bless this room into a sanctuary. No Neelanths, nor evil in any form, shall step foot into this room, if they know what is best for them."
"... Can you do it for us?"
"WHAT?! Ruby- no! Absolutely not!" Weiss burst, standing now on her feet, fist pressed against her hips, slightly leaning forward. "We're not inviting DOve over to vandalize our room with his street art, that he claims wards off ghosts and monsters that only little kids believe exist!"
"Weiss! You're telling me you don't believe in ghosts?!"
"YES! RUBY- they don't exist!"
"But they do." Rosemary butted in, now getting Weiss to turn back and shoot her icy daggers at the brain, nostrils widen, her elegant brows, furrowed and ruined in annoyance. "I honestly can't understand why you don't believe these things exists, when I, who is to you a literal talking brain-in-a-jar, is real. When Cardin, Russel, Dove, and Sky are all perfect examples of Kast and Soloman magic being a success. But you don't believe ghosts exist?"
"..."
"You're just quite a raunchy bitch, Weiss. And honestly, I don't understand what it is that Russel sees in you. He finds there to be some sort of beauty in you that is only clouded by your snob-ridden arrogance!"
"... Why you little-"
"-Hey hey! That's enough, Rosemary, Weiss," Dove practically sprinted, arms out, his palms waving, "that's enough with all of this! Okay? We're just here to have a fun, little movie night. I don't want there to be any badmouthing between anyone anymore! We're already past that." They weren't, as noon provides a good example that they weren't. "Okay? If any of you, or anyone, continues on with behavior like this, then movie night IS cancelled, got it?!"
A collective of firm nods, Dove was received with, their optimism visibly draining, much to his displeasure. But to hell with it, for Weiss was one who's head remained still.
"Got it, Weiss?"
"...Yes." She murmured a suitable-enough response for Dove, her eyes refusing to meet with his, much rather choosing to just stare at the floor, with her arms crossed. Dove took a second no more of eyeing her up, before turning his back, going and closing the room window.
Just to see it, again, in the reflection of the glass, there among the stars, staring back at him, gleefully, as his body went cold, hairs on his arms standing up, brushing daintily against the sleeves of his shirt. He stepped- or more so dragged- himself back, slow as one could be, his expressing that of stone anger, remaining strong against his own fear.
"Dove?"
"... Yeah, Penny?"
"I'm sorry if we're annoying you. If you want, we can just leave and come back later." He kept his gaze on it, just hearing nothing but a moaning silence, like one to being alone in a series of caverns, void of even the smallest of bats, and scattering of bugs, all except for Penny's own voice.
"No, no it's okay. You all can stay." He shut the curtains, sternly, thinking about the possibility of buying a few boards, nails, and a hammer...
