We actually have real slash in here. Dwayne is going to show up a lot more, because he is one of my favorite characters.

Chapter three

The situation got worse when Virgil and Richie got there. Sure, there were a couple of friendly, familiar faces, but most of the people looked at them with killing intent. "I think it would be a good idea to sleep in shifts." Richie said.

"No kidding. I'm not interested in dying." Virgil commented back. Shiv was already molding his hands into a blade and had his insane smile on. How long is this peace going to last? Five minutes?

"Don't forget our agreement." Talon was the leader of the group. With Ebon and Hotstreak gone, there was no one really left to lead the bang babies. Virgil had to admit that Talon was a much better leader, and he wasn't just saying that because without her, he would be attacked.

"Yeah, don't forget he also provides us with power. I really don't appreciate having to live out here without electricity." Madelyn complained. The day was just getting worse and worse. "Somehow you being Static doesn't surprise me. It should."

"About that…I really need to recharge." Virgil never felt this drained in his life. He would not do something this stupid ever again.

"Here you go." Richie tossed some zap caps over. "I haven't used them yet."

Virgil felt instantly better and zapped the lights. Everyone calmed down somewhat. About half of the people wanting to kill him decided against it, probably because it would be suicide. The other half gave him murderous scares that chilled him to the bone. Somehow, he knew he would be getting no sleep tonight.

Later on that night:

Virgil gave Richie the first shift. He had no problem falling asleep. It was either he trusted Virgil, or he knew the people in this building were not after him or both.

Now that Virgil was not focusing on getting murdered or running, he had time to think. Why exactly did he do something that stupid in the first place? Richie could take care of himself and he had a new power. Why was he so worried?

Not saying it wasn't normal to be worried. After all, several people were bent on capturing his best friend. Anyone would want to hurt them, right? He would react the same way with any of his other friends.

Okay, to be completely honest, the reaction wouldn't be the same, even with Daisy. He did go in anger over her getting in a coma, but it wasn't the same with Richie. With Richie, he couldn't even plan, he couldn't even threat anybody. He only could react, and react with his full power.

Richie had always been there, ever since they were kids. He hanged out every day in Virgil's house, and Virgil's family was accustomed to putting out an extra plate for him. He was the one person he could always trust, and the first he told about his powers, even before Richie was a bang baby.

Thinking about it now, he cared for Richie a lot more than Daisy without realizing it. As much as he might hate it, Sharon was right. He was dense sometimes. He couldn't even recognize his own feelings.

It went beyond basic friendship, and now was not the best time to figure that out. He couldn't tell him now. First off, they were living with people trying to kill them. Second, they were sharing a room (yeah…to protect themselves from being killed by various enemies). The situation could get awkward to say the least, and Richie didn't have a home to return to at the moment.

Then the alarm went off. Virgil just shut it off. "What now?" Virgil just sent a zap in the general direction, and a howl of pain was heard. Madelyn was the one he hit. "Never thought you be the one that tried to kill me first."

"You did screw up my life." Madelyn replied. "I had it all planned out…then you showed up." With that, Madelyn disappeared somewhere in the building. That was strange. She was probably waiting for another time to kill me.

"Virgil, you know it is your time to sleep, don't you?" Richie asked. He heard the alarm go off.

"You looked like you needed your sleep, and besides, I can't go asleep anyway." Which was actually the truth because of the whole being surrounded by evil bang babies, "You can go back to sleep Richie if you want."

"Nah, I think I have more than enough sleep. Besides, I need to find who is behind this." Richie stretched and left the room.