She placed a hand over her mouth--"Even if it's bad news, I still want to know it."
He hesitated before speaking, "Your key lies in the hands of the boy"
"Guess I was wrong about that 'simplest of places' thing."
"So my skeleton key's in the attic? Are you sure how do you know?" Tohru picked at the skin above her fingernails, she was nervous and had never done that before. 'nice nails are the least of my worries right now, actually I should probably cut them soon..' Bill started to speak so she quieted her mind.
"Well after you got hear I started to hear about how vivacious and stubborn you were, so I decided you were worth helping. Defiantly not a dud like that kid up in the attic." Bill itched his nose before he continued, Tohru took this as an opportunity to speak. However as she opened her mouth to interject Bill silenced her with a wave of his hand. "Just let me finish please. After your meeting with the triplets, the kids in the closet, I started lurking around to look for that key. I didn't find anything in any of the obvious places so I decided to look in some of the harder ones, namely the Attic. I knew that was the one place you wouldn't think to check. So, I looked around with that annoying brat three feet away from me the whole time. He doesn't like to get near, I think he's still afraid of me." The red head paused for a breath, then cracked his neck, knuckles, back and elbows.
Tohru cringed, the noise drove her insane. Her mom used to do it and it drove her mad.
Bill shrugged, "eh. Bad habit's die hard?" then scratched his neck.
"Guess so." An awkward silence followed. After a few minutes of fidgeting she found her voice again. "So were exactly in the attic is it? And how do we plan on distracting that kid, will he attack me if I go up there? Wait.. If you found it why didn't you just bring it down to me? Why the hassle of coming to see me?" It was allot of question for one person to answer in one sitting, but Tohru had to be very thorough.
Bill sighed and rolled his eyes, " How can you have so mush stored up in that little head of yours! You talk storms girl." He sat up and stretched out his legs, the brunette just shrugged. "It's in a box under the front window, the only window. I guess If I go to I could distract him while you snatch up that key. You'll have to leave pronto though because I don't know if the which will find out or not. I don't think he'll attack you, he barely has a mind of his own anymore, basically he followers his, 'mothers' orders. That's why we don't want her finding out K? Also, I'm a ghost Tohru! How the hell do you expect me to pick the key up? I wasted up all my energy just flinging all those boxes around. A poltergeist only has so much strength to spare." Bill wiped his eyes dramatically.
Tohru chuckled, "Well ok then, but you better have enough energy today because were going for that thing now." Suddenly Bill turned stark white and looked wildly around. He dashed over to the toy pile and managed to throw, quite clumsily, a bear at Tohru.
"Wha-" Bill shook his head and sank through the floor just as the Un-mother walked in.
"Tohru dear who are you talking to?" She stared coldly at her hostage with those big black beetle eyes. For a moment Tohru stood transfixed, coughed in those bottomless black pits.
"I was playing with the bear!" Tohru nodded both the convince the beast and herself, "I used to play with these all the time when I was little!" She scrunched up her face and deepened her voice, "Grr that's right! Tohru used to love her teddy's!" the brunette made the bear say.
The beast let up her cold stare and nodded in approval, "I know you like your teddy's Tohru. That's why I made you so many." She walked over to Tohru and ran her hand through her hair, "Your my special girl Tohru." Mother smiled and walked towards the door, "Come to dinner soon, there is someone I would like you to meet." Then it left.
"I need a shower." Tohru whispered and franticly shook her hair to rid herself of all the beast's 'germs.' "Disgusting! Absolutely disgusting!" 'I never want her to touch me like that! Monster, how revolting. How can you steal so many children just to kill them... Bastard.'
Tohru sat in silence for several minutes, regaining her composure and taking in all that she had just learned. Once completed she stood and left her safe haven for the hell that was downstairs, hell was anywhere that monster dwelled. Before she entered the kitchen Tohru heard the Un-mother speaking with someone else, she put on a stiff upper lip and entered.
"Mother will you please re-fill my glass?"
"Of course Son, you need you're nourishment."
Tohru stood and gaped, there in front of her was the buttoned eyes boy, the Brutus to all the children, and he looked just like Yuki.
His hair was grayish purple, his skin was pale, he was tall and thin. So this was going to be her brother?
"Yuki.." she said before sitting down in a huff. He looked up at Tohru and stared at her with is big black eyes. this Yuki wore a black dress suit, like he was going to a funeral or something. 'but their are funerals hear all the time, with all these dead children lurking around.'
"What did you say?" 'Yuki' had a very far away sounding voice, like if you speak when the wind just begins to blow.
The Un-mother walked over and placed a bowl of mashed potatoes in front of her, then a bowl of beetles for her self. Yuki already had his plate of fried worms and strawberries. "Oh Son I do believe she just gave you a name. Do you like it Son?" The beast beamed and crunched down on a beetle.
"Um, yes I like it just fine mother." New Yuki speared his worms with a fork and began to eat them slowly.
Tohru gagged and looked away. 'oops! I didn't mean to name him that, but they could be identical! Maybe this is part of the lady's illusions? She looks like mom, the brother looks like Yuki? after all that's how I feel about him, he's like my brother. This is so weird.' "Thanks for the potatoes, I really like them, you must let me cook for you some time." Tohru stole a glance to the right of her where Yuki sat, he looked dazed.
"Oh dear that would be lovely, then we can sew on the buttons! I'll get them ready for tomorrow night!" The Un-mother scurried away down the hall.
"NO! Wait I don't want those! I never agreed to those buttons! STOP!" Tohru screamed and ran after the beast, but she was non ware in sight. 'Tricky women.' She went back to her seat to finish her potatoes.
"Tohru, thank you for the name. I've always wanted one, and none of the other children ever called me anything but 'boy'." Yuki genuinely smiled over at her. He was absolutely identical to the original.
"No problem." Tohru decided to get the key the very next day, she couldn't take much more of this. It was all too confusing, and she was forgetting things.
a/n next chap she's going for the key, telling what she forgot, racing to the door etc. 2 or 3 left