Note: One shots, take them as you will.

#01. Laundry

Angelica didn't mind doing her own laundry, but when it came to the others it seemed to become somewhat of a chore. Of course, she wouldn't complain. Not straight out anyway.

So when the blood stains in Billy's shirts refused to come out, when Montego's and Bailey's sweats became too disgusting to even touch, when Vito's jumpsuit had too many chemicals on it to hold it without feeling her flesh burning from the material, and when the general amount of laundry became too much for her to bare, she would silently cry in hopes that someone, anyone would hear her. Hear them.

Because even laundry could show how fucking messed up their lives had truly become.

#02. Fat

Jinx really did think she was fat, even though everyone else (minus one) would tell her differently.

Angelica would say that she needed to eat more, although the mother figure herself was too thin to resemble anything but a talking skeleton.

Elliot would hug her, trying to silently convey to her how beautiful she was, without having to become too emotionally involved to actually tell her so.

Billy would make snide comments about how stupid she truly was for thinking that an 80 pound, 4'9 ft female was anything but thin.

Xilo would ignore it, thus leaving Jinx to think that he didn't give a damn about her problems. Which was an accurate assumption, since Xilo had more problems than weight. Although when confronted with this topic, Xilo would like to add that he had never said anything good about her weight either.

Vito would give her the facts, letting her know how much time she probably had until her body would completely shut down. Leaving her in tears, which Vito thought was stupid because she should have seen it coming anyway.

Montego and Bailey were just too tired to say much more than, "eat", to her after their extreme workouts.

And Seymour. Well, Seymour was the minus one in this equation. He wanted her to be as thin as him, or thinner really. So while the rest of the family wasn't around, he would comment about her weight. Calling her, "fat" or "overweight" just so that he could keep her self esteem so low that she would never dream of leaving him, or rather them. Because what kind of family doesn't have the whiny little sister that needs her brothers more, than a normal sister should?

Oh, well probably not a good one.

Well, no one said that their family wasn't a work in progress, now did they?

#03. Names

Why were names so important, Elliot thought to himself, why were they even needed?

People from his dimension really didn't have names, they were just referred to as the Earth's English's equivalent of he, she, and it. There really wasn't a need for an actual name really. But, one Elliot arrived to this dimension he had been forced into figuring out a name for him self.

So, while he was only six at the time, Mrs. Crimson (the HIVE administer during that time) had informed him to either figure out a name for himself, or to leave. The problem was, she warned then, was that if he had left that the government would most likely deport him somewhere more depressing (like India, or Saudi Arabia). So, at the tender age of six, he chose the name Elliot from a book that listed U.S. composers. The composer being Elliot Carter whom had a strange way of composing music, and seemed to be as mysterious as the six year old himself. So, by sticking a strong word like Knight onto it, Elliot figured out his new identity.

One that would end up being just the first of dozens that he would end up using at least once in his life.

#04. Boss

Montego really hated being considered "the boss" of their group when Angelica wasn't there. He figured Bailey had as much responsibility over these brats as he did, but once again Bailey was off to god knows where trying to get high; someway or another most likely.

So, once again Montego was "the boss" which had made him a sometimes-hated figure in their family, though Montego couldn't really care.

These kids had to be told by someone "the right way", and Montego considered himself to have been taught "the right way "by his loving mother. So, the giant teddy bear tried to tell them the right way, but soon enough it backfired when Billy decided to take Montego's advice and confront the new girl, Bumble Bee, about her over-emotional reactions to his spiteful comments about slavery.

He tried to reason with her that he was just playing the devil's advocate, but she wouldn't have any of it. So, Billy ended up in the hospital for a few days while Karen (aka Bumble Bee) was MIA for several weeks.

It wasn't until she came back did they realize how close Blood and her had gotten during those few weeks. Damn it all for Seymour who had noticed things, without having to notice anything again. Thus causing the chain of events that made Angel find the bloodied rags that were disposed by Karen herself.

So, Montego began giving out less advice and trying to be less of "the boss" with each oncoming year in hopes that no other undesirable secrets would come out.

#05. Disco Murder

Seymour couldn't help but think about how cute it would have been if he had killed the group of 1970's impersonators that roamed the streets of Manhattan when he was younger, just so he could brag to everyone how he could call himself a disco murderer and they couldn't.

#06. Temple

Bailey never thought to tell anyone else that his mother was actually Jewish, and that he had met her once before he had been forced into that military orphanage. Because it seemed like religion was really a mind warping sport, and his current school was enough of a game for him.

Though, he had thought about going to temple at least once in his life. Just to see if it would bring him closer to his deceased mother.

#07. Golf

He tried to play the game, but god damn it if it wasn't hard! So, as Elliot began to drive the golf cart onto the HIVE's golf course, he couldn't help but laugh as he began to hit people with the golf club as he drove off.

Golf wasn't really so bad when you could just ignore the game entirely, and just hit random people in the face for the mere enjoyment of the game.

This game being called surviving, and Elliot being a fucking mastermind of it.

#08. Snow

Jinx really did enjoy the snow sometimes, because it allowed her to remember that she had escaped the hellhole that was India, and had come into another hellhole that was at least appealing to the eyes. It was better than living in India where nothing was appealing, but just one bad memory from the next.

It was a change of peace, and Jinx couldn't help but forget everything as she watched the snow slowly fall from the darkening clouds above her.

#09. Kid

Vito really hated being called a kid, because he really wasn't one. Defined as "a child or young person", Vito couldn't help but laugh at the obscurity that his age could make him less than human.

Kids were treated like animals, fawned over and then ditched once they were too big to coddle. And Vito, well he considered himself too good to be thrown away so discretely.

So whenever someone tried to call him a kid, Vito would pull out the closest weapon

on him, and threaten the bastard from uttering the word in it's entirety. And it normally worked, but there were times when damage had to be done.

Because honestly, who would just throw someone away like that again?

#10. Bones

Once Vito could see his entire ribcage, and it didn't frighten him as much as it infuriated him. Why the hell did he have to eat, when there was so much work to be done? It was just like sleeping, and it didn't just stop happening after a certain point in your life. You had to fucking eat forever. So, it wasn't much of a surprise when Vito began placing feeding tubes in himself whenever his project became too important to allow meals to come between him and it.

He just had to figure out how the hell he could fight off sleep, without having the major consequences that came from high doses of adrenaline medications.

Oh, what he did in the name of science!