Hi peeps! Sorry it took so long, but I had to start this chapter from scratch and I forgot to add that I can only write this on every second weekend, not every weekend.

Anyway, I'll give you all a clue that the reference last chapter was the line 'of the violence that tore their family apart' and if anyone can get it then I will give them a cookie and I will mention them in the next chapter. Also, I think Rigby seems a little OOC-ish in this chapter, but I hope that I got everyone else and managed to get some of Rigby, it's hard to keep everyone IC.

I went to see How To Train Your Dragon 2 on the weekend (finally!) and it was totally awesome! I so need to get it on disc when it comes out.

So, without further ado, I give you chapter 3!

*Knock… knock… knock* Phoenix started as she heard someone knocking on her door and quickly rubbed her eyes. She was still holding the picture as she opened her door and saw Rigby.

"Oh… hi." She said weakly, as she stepped back so that Rigby could come in.

He looked bored as he said, "Benson asked me to check on you, he said that you might need…" But he trailed off as he looked around at the room. He'd been in here before to clean it and he definitely knew that the bedside table, TV, DVD player and FetchTV thing hadn't been there before and he hadn't seen her holding anything other than her suitcase. His jaw dropped as he gazed around the room until he heard a quiet giggle. He turned to Phoenix and gestured around at the room. "How did you…?"

"A magician never reveals her secrets." She said as sweetly as she could after she had been crying.

"You're a magician?" Rigby asked while looking both excited and impressed.

Phoenix chuckled a little before she answered, "Well… no, but I do know how to do some magic tricks." She smiled as she held up a remote for the games console downstairs that Rigby had been holding. She then handed it back to him and he placed it on the bed.

"Woah!" Rigby exclaimed in awe. He took this chance to look over her properly, trying to see how she did it, but to no avail. He did, however, notice the tear stains on her face and the object in her hands. "What's that?" He asked, looking at what she was holding.

Phoenix glanced down at the picture still in her arms and noticed for the first time that in the picture her family were cats like her, and she assumed that that would be what they looked like if they were turned into cats as well. Her mother had platinum-blond fur with slightly darker blond hair and blue eyes. Her dad had extremely dark grey fur with black hair and brown eyes. Her sister had silver fur with long black hair and hazel eyes. Lastly her brother had ginger fur with spikey brown hair and green eyes.

She tried to quickly put the picture out of sight, but Rigby was too fast for her. He snatched it out of her hands and looked it over, dodging her attempts to take it back. He looked up at her. "Is this your family?"

"Yes." She choked out and she had tears in her eyes again.

"Why are you crying?" He asked her and Phoenix realised that Benson was the only one that knew that her family was dead.

"Because they're dead!" Phoenix cried/yelled out and snatched the photo from his hands, turning away and putting it on her bedside table. She didn't see it but Rigby had stepped back in shock; both from her yelling at him and because he had expected basically any answer other than that.

It was silent for a minute with Phoenix staring at the picture and calming down and Rigby nervously and awkwardly shuffling his feet, until, "How did it happen?" He quietly asked, hoping not to get yelled at again.

She rubbed her left arm with her right hand and gazed miserably at the ground. "I don't want to talk about it yet. I know that nothing will get better until I tell someone about it but I'm just not ready yet." He looked at her sympathetically. He couldn't imagine what he would do if he lost his parents and Don (who he really did care about), and here was someone that basically had, but she'd lost even more. "Now can we please talk about something else?" She begged and he nodded.

"So… um… Do you have anything else to unpack?" Rigby asked Phoenix quickly.

She just looked rather bemused (well as bemused as you possibly can after just having an emotional breakdown) and gestured at her still open suitcase. "Does it look like I have anything else to unpack?" She was rather amused, but she was still sniffling and hiccupping a little.

"Well, no." Rigby admitted, but then he decided to try and lighten the mood. "I just thought that you were magic or something."

Phoenix giggled, and decided to play along. "How do you know that you're not correct in that statement, hmm?" She eyed him playfully and he responded, glad that she wasn't crying or yelling at him anymore. He didn't know why, but he didn't like seeing her upset.

"Dude! You said that you weren't a magician." He mock-glared at her in accusation.

Phoenix decided to play the innocent, smart-alec, but high almighty role. "Oh yes, I said that I wasn't a magician, but I never said that I wasn't magic. I could be in-learning, I may think that a magician is a boy and there is another word for a girl that knows magic, like witch. I could even have been lying to you this whole time."

Rigby looked amused and was about to reply when he spotted the games controller on the bed. He picked it up, "Do you play video games?" He asked her and she nodded enthusiastically.

"Ptch (that is the actual sound she makes, just to clear things up)! Of course I do dude! I mean, who doesn't play video games?" Phoenix crossed her arms, looking at Rigby as if he'd just grown an extra head.

"I was just making sure!" Rigby said, putting his hands up in defence. "How about a game of Strong Johns?"

"Sure!" Phoenix happily agreed, excited that she was going to finally be able to play the famous game in Regular Show.

They walked out of the room, Rigby in the lead, and went down the hall. They walked down the stairs, past the pictures of Pops, and into the living room. Phoenix saw Mordecai sitting on the couch, obviously waiting for Rigby (who had obviously brought the controller with them) he turned around when one of the floorboards squeaked under Rigby's foot, and his eyes widened in surprise when he saw her.

"Oh hi Phoenix, did you get the job?" He asked, smiling warmly at her.

She smiled back and answered, "Sure did! Rigby offered to let me play Strong Johns with you guys, if that's alright with you?"

"Of course! You got us out of trouble with Benson back there, I owe you one." She smiled and sat down on the couch, picking up the second controller.

"Where's the other controller?" She asked, although she knew that Strong Johns was a two-player game.

"There isn't one. Strong Johns is only a two-player game. Why don't you watch me and Mordecai play?" Rigby piped up from next to her.

"Fine with me." Phoenix answered and sat back, watching them play the game.

It was about half an hour later when Rigby threw down his controller and groaned loudly ("Ugh"), as Mordecai stood up and lifted his arm above his head, spinning it. "Ooooohhhhhhhhhhh! I win again!"

"Whatever, Mordecai." Rigby grumbled, as he sulkily looked at the floor and crossed his arms.

"Haha." Phoenix chuckled, "So who am I versing?" She asked. Rigby tightened his hold on his controller.

"Have you ever played before?" As Phoenix shook her head Mordecai continued. "Well then you can verse Rigby, then maybe he will have a chance of winning." He smirked as Rigby scowled.

"Alright." Phoenix shrugged. "How do you play?"

Forty-five minutes later, found Phoenix (having been told what controls to use) pumping her fist in victory as the TV screen flashed the words 'High Score' over and over again. Rigby and Mordecai's jaws were almost touching the ground as they saw the high score that they'd worked so hard for replaced by one about five time higher, by someone whose first try at Strong Johns made it look as though they had been playing this game for years.

Phoenix smirked at their dumbfounded looks. "Oh yeah, I am so the master of this game." They didn't move a muscle, they didn't even blink, and Phoenix grew a little worried. She waved her hand in front of their faces and she clicked her fingers. They still didn't respond and Phoenix looked around guiltily.

She easily heard the door open with her new sensitive hearing and waited for whoever was there to come in to the living room. "What are you two doing now?!" Benson groaned as he walked in and stared at Mordecai and Rigby's unresponsive forms.

"Um… it's my fault Benson, I think I broke them." Phoenix said as she poked Mordecai and Rigby. They still didn't respond and she guiltily shuffled her feet.

"What? How do you break someone?" Benson asked/exclaimed, his voice breaking on the last word.

"I, uh, beat their video game high score?" Phoenix voiced as a question, even though it could easily have been a statement. She shook Rigby by the shoulders and peered at Mordecai's eyes.

"Well it serves them right for slacking off so much to play video games." Benson mumbled, rubbing his temples. "Okay, stay right here and keep an eye on them, I'll be back in a moment with Skips." Benson went back out the door.

Phoenix stood awkwardly and shuffled her feet a little. She heard the door in the kitchen open and for a moment she thought that Benson was already back with Skips. That was proved wrong when Muscle Man and High Five Ghost (or HFG) came walking (or gliding in High Five Ghost's case) into the living room. They stopped when they saw Mordecai, Rigby, the TV and finally her.

"Who are you babe?" Muscle Man asked as he narrowed his eyes at her.

She looked at HFG for help but all he did was shrug so she went with the most intelligent response. "Uuuuhhhhhh…." He kept staring at her so she finally gave a proper answer, "I'm Phoenix. Benson just hired me."

"Oh. Well I'm Muscle Man and this is High Five Ghost. We already work here." He introduced for the both of them.

"But you can just call me Fives." High Five Ghost added in quickly with his echo-y voice.

"Nice to meet you." Phoenix stated distractedly, she thought that she'd just seen one of Rigby's fingers twitch.

"What's wrong with them?" High Five Ghost asked, gesturing a little worriedly at Mordecai and Rigby.

"I beat their high score on Strong Johns and they kinda just froze up in shock." She answered, moving one of Mordecai's wings upwards and took her hand off. It just stayed there. She quickly put it back down.

"Oh no bro, we should get Skips." Muscle Man said, moving towards the door.

Phoenix quickly stopped him. "No need, Benson's already getting Skips." She said, but quickly realised that she had just sounded as if she knew him (which she did, but they would never know that as long as she could help it) and quickly added, "By the way, who is Skips?"

They all heard the front door opening and turned around as Skips and Benson entered. "I'm Skips." The large, white yeti said as he skipped up to them with Benson in tow.

"Hi, I'm Phoenix." She introduced.

"I already know." He said. He then walked over to Mordecai and Rigby and tried everything that Phoenix had, just to make sure, before he turned around. "I've seen this before. We're gonna need three different things; a bucket of ice to put their feet in, a hot towel to wrap around their heads, and for the person that beat their high score to make a new one, under their names."

"Well that seems simple enough." Phoenix decided, "I'll get to work on getting a new high score while Muscle Man and Fives get the buckets of ice and Benson and Skips get the hot towels."

They all (except Skips) stared at her with their mouths open. "Well?" Phoenix clapped her hands together, "Get moving!"

"Yes ma'am." They all mumbled (again excluding Skips, who didn't say anything, just did as he was told), even Benson, who was the park manager while she was a new employee. They all went to get their allocated things as Phoenix sat down in front of the TV.

Over the next half-hour, as Phoenix was playing Strong Johns, Muscle Man and HFG came back in with the buckets of ice and they put Mordecai and Rigby's feet in them (they had been forcefully sat on the couch). Benson and Skips came back in soon after and placed the hot towels around their heads. By that time Phoenix was half-way through the video game and everyone had sat down on the couch and ground (except HFG because he floats) and watched her play.

Muscle Man and High Five Ghost stared in awe as Phoenix expertly played her way through the rest of the game with ease. They'd never seen anyone this good, and the thought that was running through their heads as they watched her was, I've never seen anyone this good at Strong Johns, she must have been playing this for years.

The game was finally over as Phoenix closed her eyes and leant against the couch in exhaustion. The new high score was around double her first and she sighed for a moment (in relief) before she opened her eyes and typed in 'Mordecai and Rigby'.

As soon as she had pressed enter everyone heard gasps from Mordecai and Rigby as they came to. Rigby instantly leapt up, jumping out of the bucket of now ice-cold water with a few chunks of ice still in it and the hot towel unwrapped around his head. He walked up to her and grabbed her shoulders and shook them as he yelled, "HOW DO YOU EVEN GET A HIGH SCORE LIKE THAT? It took me and Mordecai five months to get the last high score and you beat it the first time you ever played! HOW?"

Everyone was wide eyed; Phoenix from the shock of getting shaken by the shoulders, Muscle Man and HFG from the fact that Phoenix had only played Strong Johns two times and may have even gotten a world record, Benson and Skips from the fact that Rigby was yelling at Phoenix and hadn't noticed everyone else yet, and Mordecai because he was shocked at Phoenix's high score and because he had noticed everyone else.

"What happened?" He asked and everyone turned their attention on him.

"Well I beat your high score and then you sort of just froze up. You weren't even blinking! Then Benson went and got Skips and Muscle Man and Fives got here before they came back. We had to put a hot towel on your heads, your feet in a bucket of ice and I had to get a new high score and put your names on it." Phoenix explained this all in one breath and was feeling a little light-headed by the end of it.

"… Okay?" Rigby stated/asked at the end of her explanation. "But dude,how did you get such an awesome high score the first time you played?"

"Yeah." HFG added in.

"Well… I've just always been talented at video games. I also try my hardest at whatever I do." She answered honestly, and hearing that, Benson was sure that he had made the right choice of hiring her.

They all noticed the sun was going down and they felt their stomachs rumble. "I'm gonna need some grub." Muscle Man announced.

"How about we all have something to eat?" Suggested Benson and they all nodded their heads in agreement.

"I'll cook." Phoenix said, as she headed into the kitchen.

"Wait Phoenix, you don't have to cook." Benson said as he followed her with everyone else trailing behind.

"No, it's fine. I want to cook." She assured him.

"Well if you're sure… I'll show you around the kitchen." He said, and everyone else went to set the table.

About ten minutes later Benson was done showing her where everything was, and he left to keep an eye on Mordecai and Rigby and also because she wanted what she was cooking to stay a surprise. She quickly got all of the ingredients and utensils that she would need out. She had decided that she was going to make homemade pizza!

It took a little while for her to make and roll the dough, to put on toppings that she knew everyone liked (ham, cheese, salami, onion, etc.), to stuff the crusts with cheese, and to cook it.

Out in the living room everyone was sitting there wondering what she was going to make.

"Maybe it will be soup?" Benson questioned, but no one else thought so.

"How about cake?" Rigby asked excitedly, but Skips shook his head.

"She's making dinner, not dessert." He reminded him and Rigby looked sheepish.

"Oh, right."

"How about tacos?" Mordecai asked, and again everyone shook their heads.

Suddenly they heard the oven dinging in the kitchen, the sound of a knife cutting something, plates being taken out of the drawer and being placed on the table. "Dinner's ready!" They heard her call, and they all rushed in to a glorious sight. Crunchy, perfectly cooked looking pizza was on all seven of the plates with cheese oozing out of the crusts. It had delicious looking toppings and smelled wonderful.

Their mouths watered, and they quickly sat down. "I see that everyone's hungry." Phoenix sarcastically remarked, raising one of her eyebrows in amusement. They nodded and started eating.

It was just as wonderful as they thought, if not more so, and they wondered how anyone could make pizza so well. "This is delicious!" Rigby exclaimed and everyone nodded or grunted in agreement.

"Oh it's nothing, just one of my Mum's old recipes." Phoenix knew that if she didn't have fur, that she would be blushing bright red, she might even be now.

"Well tell your Mum that she is an amazing cook!" Mordecai happily exclaimed, but sobered up when he saw Benson's worried face, Rigby's guilty expression and Phoenix's distraught expression. "What? Is something wrong?" He asked.

"Yeah," Rigby started, and Mordecai looked at him in surprise, wondering why he would know what was happening. Rigby looked at Phoenix and she nodded slightly, so that it was almost impossible for him to see. "Phoenix is an orphan. Her parents and siblings are dead, and she has no other relatives. I found out when I snatched a photo of them out of Phoenix's hands when she was unpacking." Rigby looked away guiltily and Mordecai's eyes were wide.

"I am so sorry Phoenix! I didn't know." He looked down at his plate, and everyone else, bar Phoenix, did the same.

"It's alright, let's just change the topic." Phoenix answered, and the tension in the room lessened. They mentioned how Pops was with his Dad for a little while and she listened.

"You should all see Phoenix's room! All she brought was her suitcase, and she has things in her room that weren't there before, but would have been impossible to put in that suitcase." Rigby said, thinking of something else to say as he and everyone else finished their food.

"Really? Like what?" HFG asked.

Rigby looked like he was having a silent battle with himself and then answered, "It's a little hard to explain, it would be better to show you." He decided to say, and everyone's curiosity peeked.

"I'll wash up the dishes, then you can come and see." Phoenix promised.

It took a few minutes, but Phoenix finished the dishes. She went into the living room where everyone was waiting, and called them over. "Hey everyone, I'm finished, you can all see now."

They all quickly got up and followed her out of the living room and up the stairs. She led them down the hall to her room, and the door was closed. "Well, ta da!" Phoenix grinned as she opened her door and saw their reactions, they were funny to say the least.

After a little while everyone left to their own rooms/houses thinking the same thing. That girl is just full of surprises.

She changed into her pyjamas and got into bed, snuggling down for the day. Today has certainly been surprising, she thought as she fell to sleep with a smile.

Yeah, so this chapter ended on a happier note then the last one. Keep favouriting, following and reviewing, I love you all my reviewers!

Until next time, PhoenixWillowsRox88 out!