I'm so DAMN SORRY about the wait I had to give all of you. I've been so freakin busy the last few months. Now that I have an entire week of vacation time I decided to sit my lazy ass down and write for you lovely people and this is what I came up with. I don't own the forensics or any version really, or The Insanity of Mary Gerard, Taco Bell, Godsmack, Theory of a Deadman, a paintballing team or mobsters in any shape or form. The TC Paintball is real but I did change a lot of stuff, obviously but you never know they might like the free publicity. But I am telling lies about everything so maybe not. So here we go and enjoy the newest and extra long chapter of Living Arrangements for you guys.

Katie

Being back home had its advantages. For example, I could take nice long showers and use my favorite shampoo without worrying about the door being slid open. Let me tell ya locks are amazing. I could go downstairs and pig out in the kitchen whenever I wanted, and I didn't have to worry about looking behind me everywhere I went. Oh the change in scenery was great too.

So when we got back it was just us, Lilinette, Grimmjow, and Ulquiorra in the house. By the end of the day everyone was back and all of us were living in the house again. I loved being back home, listening to Brooke and Grimmy fight, Fran and Ulqui off in their own little world. It was nice to get away after a while though. In the Soul Society I was always watched and never had any free time to myself. Now I could get away whenever I wanted to.

"Lilinette where's Starrk at?" I asked about an hour after we got back. She sighed and rolled her eyes.

"He decided to go take a nap on the roof" I looked at her and she laughed "Hey just because he's lazy doesn't mean he can't come up with creative ways to nap." I laughed and nodded. Lilinette then gave me a worried look.

"Are you alright?" She asked. I gave her a smile that was so B.A, it would have made Gin cry tears of jealousy

"I'm just fine. Alright, I'm going up to talk to him if you need me you know where I'll be" She went back to what she was doing and I took off to the roof.

Stark was lying on his back facing the sun sleeping soundly. I wondered how much he had missed me, but before I could take another step towards him, a hand lashed out and pulled me to the ground. Stark had me in a death grip crushing me to his chest. His eyes were still closed and he hadn't moved from his spot on the roof.

"I missed you" He whispered into my hair. I relaxed into his arms feeling all of the stress and anxiousness run right out of me. This felt right, like this was the way it should be.

"I know I missed you too" We stayed there like that for a while. It felt great to have all of those old feelings come back. All of the emotions I felt with Shuuhei went right out the window the moment I saw Stark again.

"So how was your adventure in the Soul Society?" he asked. I decided then and there that I was never going to see Shuuhei ever again; nothing would ever happen between us so there was no sense in really telling Stark about it. There was nothing to say.

"Nothing incredibly wonderful. It was no vacation by any means. One of the pranks I pulled landed us all in solitary confinement" I felt his chest rumbled as he laughed at me. I smiled and looked up into his face.

"I missed you so much" I said kissing him. He kissed back and all the time we had been apart was forgotten.

"I'm going to see what Brooke and Fran are doing, you wanna come?" Stark grumbled and we got up and went to find the rest of our misfit group. Fran and Ulqui were on the couch and Brooke was channel surfing, her eyes glazed over with boredom. She seemed to not be able to stay on the same channel for more than ten seconds...man was her ADHD acting up.

"Ok you guys, we need to do something because Brooke is about ready to fall asleep from boredom and I have nothing else better to do myself." Fran and Brooke perked up at the idea of going on an adventure.

"Whatcha got in mind Kat-chan?" Brooke asked.

"Well I want to take a road trip...anyone up for it?" There were grumbles of annoyance and cheers of happiness as we took off. There were seven of us total so we couldn't take my car; we had to take the Blue Beast. Not that it was a problem though, Brooke snagged shotgun before any of us were anywhere near the car, Fran, Ulqui, and Grimmy sat together and behind them, while Stark was passed out asleep with Lilinette. But before I put the van in reverse Nnoitra came out and stood in front of us.

"Where the fuck do you think you're going?" he said glaring at us.

"Why do you care now get out of my way before I run you over. This van has hit heavier stuff than you so I think we'll be just fine, you on the other could suffer greatly." An argument between me and Nnoitra broke out and didn't stop until Brooke yelled at us.

"You know what Nnoitra, YOU'RE GAY!" she said yelling out the driver's side window.

"I'm NOT GAY! You guys are PRICKS!" he said his face turning red.

"No I'm pretty sure you're gay" she said enjoying the fact that she was getting a really big rise out of him.

"You guys are FUCKIN PRICKS!" he screamed.

"OOHHH! So that's why you like us" I said smiling. At this point Nnoitra couldn't take anymore and he looked like he was going to explode.

"I fuckin HATE YOU!" he yelled and turned around and stomped off back into the house.

"WE KNOW!" Brooke and I yelled out my window. After the small drawback we were on our way.

"So I'm thinkin that we need to go to Traverse City, sound good?" I said putting on my sunglasses. I heard people grumble in agreement and we were on our way. Man what was with these people being so lazy that all they could muster up was a grumble to reply to me. These 'Spada were too damn lazy and I didn't just mean Stark.

"We don't have to do any shopping do we?" Brooke said turning down the radio

"Give me one good reason NOT to shoot you for turning down Godsmack? I don't know it all depends on what I see first." Brooke sighed and turned my iPod back up realizing that you don't EVER turn down Godsmack...NEVER.

So we finally reached Traverse City. The great thing about this city was it was pretty big. The Traverse City Bay was gigantic and the beaches were great. The water was a beautiful blue color and the deeper you went the darker it got, obviously. There were so many people around and the festivals they had were always done in a huge fashion. I loved coming here during the summer; the Mall the little shoppes and my favorite coffee place tucked in a small building downtown. There was a huge sign that caught my eye as we drove past it. The advertizing was for the paintball arena offering by one get one free games of paintball. Who in their right mind doesn't like paintball?

So I followed the directions the sign said and we pulled up to this building with a huge sign that said "TC PAINTBALL" I knew this place pretty well. Me and a bunch of my cousins would come here and shoot the shit out of each other while our parents watched. It was amazing because it had an outdoor and indoor area. The indoor one had black lights and they would give us paintballs that glowed in the dark. It was all pretty sweet.

"But Kat, I wanna play lazer tag" Brooke said slumping in her seat.

"But you get to inflict bodily harm on people" I said sneakily.

"Yeah but in lazer tag they have black lights" Brooke argued back

"They have it here too, and you get to hurt people and sneak around like a freakin Ninja" I smiled evilly knowing that I was going to win her over and get to play paintball.

"But...that's not fair you're using my love of hurting people and ninja-ing against me" She said.

"Is it working?" I asked looking at her.

"Yes..." she grumbled and got out of the car.

"WOOT WOOT, let's go and shoot the shit out of each other" I yelled and got out of the car.

Once we were all geared up and ready to go we had to divide up into teams and decided were and what we wanted to play.

"I want to do the indoors one"

"Yeah ME TOO"

"Yep we have to because it's like a million degrees outside"

"But I hate the indoors"

"No one asked your opinion"

"Shut the hell up"

"NO!"

"Fine! We'll play indoors" There were cheers and we argued over who was on whose team.

"Hey we should play capture the flag" Lilinette said pointing the gun at Uluqi's face and fake pulling the trigger.

"We think it should be girls versus guys" Brooke and I said

"That's not fair, you have more players" Grimmjow pointed at us.

"So, you think if you have one more player it's going to make a difference?" Brooke said pointing in his face.

"Why you...FINE we'll play girls verses guys" He said storming off into the paintball area. We hooked the neon colored ties around some appendage so they could be seen and stood by the entrance and waited for the horn to sound. A few seconds later the horn blared and I took off into the darkness to shoot the shit out of the other team.

I crept along one of the far walls and ducked down in front of a barrel. Random colored lights flashed and twirled around creating odd shadows on the walls. I saw a body out of the corner of my eye and looking closer I saw the neon red band tied around their arm. Which meant A, it was a male and B I could finally shoot someone and not feel bad about doing too much bodily harm.

I circled around them, ducked behind a hay bale and aimed for their chest. I pulled the trigger and watched as the glow-in-the-dark paint hit their chest. The person pulled off their mask and showed me their face. Grimmjow glared and looked around for the person who shot him.

"Damn it! I'm HIT" He said putting his mask on and running back to the front of the game field. Alright one down, two to go and I still hadn't found the other team's flag. There was a horn and red lights flickering that signaled Grimmy's elimination and I laughed. Another horn sounded and Yellow lights flickered meaning that one of my players was out.

I ran to a barrel a few yards ahead and ducked down when I heard footsteps. I turned around and saw a person with a yellow band tied around their arm. Brooke pulled off her mask and grinned at me.

"Yo, is that you Kat?" I nodded and pulled her down beside me.

"I shot Grimmy, and worked my way over here, but I still haven't found their flag." I said catching her up.

"Lilinette and I found it. It's about twenty feet from here. Before we could get it she was shot and I took off and waited until they left it alone" She said poking her head out, looking around, and then ducking back down. I heard footsteps and I watched as a person with a red band tied around their leg came into view. Before he could move another step Brooke and I both shot at him. He stood there for a moment before taking off his mask. Red lights flashed and illuminated Stark's face.

"Ya know I thought you'd be sleeping behind a hay bale" I called over to him. His grin looked menacing in the flashing lights.

"You hurt me Kat, right here" he said looking around for us while pointing to his heart.

"I agree, Stark you really-"Brooke was cut off by the sound of a gun firing and paintballs being shot at her; one in the head, one dead center of her back, and the other in her left shoulder. I turned with my gun and got shot in the head, the chest and the leg. Ulquiorra came out from behind a stack of hay bales with his gun still pointed at us.

"Holy cow Ulqui! You're like an assassin or something" Brooke said wiping paint from her goggles. I heard laughter and found Grimmjow sitting on a barrel a few yards away.

"Hey shut up Grimmy, you didn't even know it was me who shot you" That got him to be quiet for a second before he reached for his gun and pointed it at me. Before I could raise my gun paintballs rained all over him and he was covered in glow-in-the-dark paint. I looked at Stark thinking it was his ,his gun was raised, but he shook his head. Peals of laughter erupted from behind Grimmjow and Fran poked her head out.

"Don't mess with my friends Grimmy" She said bouncing over to stand my Ulquiorra. I watched Brooke raise her gun and shot Grimmjow in the nuts. He fell backwards off the barrel he was sitting on and I started laughing. We all watched as he slowly crawled up back up and leaned on the barrel.

"What the FUCK!" he said glaring at Brooke "Was that even necessary?"

"Yes…yes it was" she replied.

"YELLOW WINS!" A voice said and Lilinette came into view with the Red Team's flag. Brooke and I high fived each other and Fran hugged Ulqui.

"Thanks for the distraction guys. Man that twenty second rule sucks. Who wants to be stuck with that" She said gesturing to Grimmjow still lying over on the barrel. "For anymore than ten seconds" We cheered and waved the flag around. After finishing our FREE game of paintball with the girls being victorious again, we took off to find something else to do.

As we drove around the backseat kept getting louder and louder, so to even it out I blared Theory of a Deadman. So every time we pulled up to a stop sign people would look at us weird. Us in our paint splattered faces and hair, arguing and gamming to music. It was great. Brooke and I just smiled and waved at them. Then Brooke decided to keep bugging me about having a Chinese Fire drill.

"So what are we up to now Kat-Chan?" Brooke asked after she got everyone to shut up, hey she wasn't called the other Mary Gerard for nothing.

"Well they're having a car show downtown and I was thinking about checking it out. Plus they have a flea market so we can go shopping and look at all the cool stuff." Brooke nodded liking the idea and the rest of the car was forced to like it too.

After driving around and finally finding a parking spot, we walked around looking at all of the old cars and cute little tents filled with arts and crafts. While we were looking at some of the 1920's cars I saw a black mobster car.

"BROOKEEEE!" I called and dragged her over to the car. "Look at this! It's a freakin mobster car" Brooke and I grinned and admired the car. Reading the sign below I got an idea. I dragged Brooke over and made her read the sign and by the time she was through she was thinking the same thing I was.

"Oh children!" Brooke called and the rest of our group came over. "At four thirty we can take pictures by the mobster car and we're all going to get one" I said filling them in.

"Wait a second! We should dress the part then!" Fran said getting as excited as Brooke and I. "We should dress up in mobster garb!"

"YES!" Brooke said and pointed epically at the boys.

"But we gotta go get outfits or none of us will look the part." I said. We raced back to the car, well Brooke Fran, Lilinette and I the guys wanted to take their sweet old time, and took off to find a store where we could get mobster apparel. Unfortunately for us there wasn't a Mobsters' R' Us so we went to the mall to see what we could try and find some outfits.

"WE CAN GO TO TACO BELL!" Brooke said excitedly. She was jumping up and down as we passed by and kept looking back after we passed.

We finally made it to the Suit store and made the males of our misfit group try on suits until they found ones that matched them. Grimmjow was put in the classic black tux, Ulquiorra a bone white tux, and Stark a slate grey. Once we got them all dressed up and the suits paid for, we took off like the true bat from Hell Ulquiorra was and headed for the food court.

"Alright so I'm dying for Taco Bell can we get some, PLEASE?" Brooke asked as we walked into the food court. I rolled my eyes and looked at her.

"Do you remember what happened last time we went to Taco Bell?" I said giving her The Look. It was her turn to roll her eyes.

"That wasn't my fault and you know it. That guy started it with his snarky attitude and bad breath." She said in a matter-of-fact way.

"Uh huh, is that what you told the managers?" I laughed.

"What it the world did you do?" Fran asked intrigued.

"She attacked the cashier" Everyone stopped and listened to the story.

"Ok that only happened that ONE time" Brooke said pointing at me. We waited in line for our greasy fast food while the guys went to look for a table to fit us all.

"Alright last question, why did you attack him in the first place." Fran asked as we moved another spot in line.

"They were out of Fire Sauce in the front, so I went to ask the guy for some and he decided to get lippy, so I kind of dove over the counter and tackled him to the ground" She said innocently, the line moved and she went to order her food.

"Yeah and there I was with our food watching as the managers dragged her off the poor guy and "escorted" her out of the building. But then again they should have known not to keep the Fire Sauce from her" I said. After we finished ordering our food, we went to sit by the guys and dug into our deliciously bad as hell for you food.

After that was done we headed back to get our pictures with the mobster car. It was hard enough to get them to even get near the damned car, it was even harder to get them all simultaneously look at the camera and keep their eyes open at the same time. Grimmjow was trying to flirt with every female around him, something about the suit making him irresistible; I really do think it was his ego that just got inflated, not his good looks. Ulquiorra kept looking off at Fran, which may have made the picture look even better, but who was really paying attention right? And then there was Stark, Mr. ICan't Keep My Eyes Open for More Than Three Seconds, so I was demoted to tossing rocks at his face to keep him awake. After the shot was finally right, we got a picture and took our sorry butts home. The ride was relatively quiet for once, which was a surprise to us all. As long as everyone was as happy about getting out and doing something fun virtually unsupervised it was an accomplishment in my book.

Later that night Stark and I were alone lying on the roof looking at the stars. I pointed out constellations as we cuddled together. We hadn't had this type of peace and quiet sense I had been gone. Finally, I drifted off to sleep listening to the sound of Stark's breathing and the stars twinkling above us.