Just so Perfect – chapter 9

The anger in Vaati's eye made it literally shake with ferocity. Below him Miriya gripped the Fire Rod tightly, teeth clenched in a matching anger, backed against the shrine wall as she glared at the four heroes.

Blue, still holding on to Red and a little slower with the intake of Vio's information, felt a grin slowly creep onto his face as he realised what this all meant. They weren't returning to one. They couldn't return to one. They were officially four separate people, Link was officially gone! And Red…

Blue looked down at Red, who in turn sensing Blues gaze, looked up at him too, the beaming smile on his face at the news still there.

"Blue." Red's eyes were sparkling in happiness, and as the shock finally wore away, Blue's mind finally realising and accepting that he wasn't going to lose Red, that their lives together weren't being taken away, Blue grinned so happily back at him!

With no words except a laugh of relief, Blue grabbed Red around the waist and twirled him around on the spot, holding him close, before placing a quick but hard kiss against his forehead and bending down to pick up his sword, walking next to Vio. Holding his sword out in front of him, his happy grin now turning into a merciless grin up at Vaati, he laughed again and shouted up at him,

"Oh I am going to cause you SO much pain for this!"

"…somehow." Green whispered unhelpfully, as they still didn't have a plan on how they were actually going to get rid of Vaati, and as Blue remembered this the grin slowly faded from his face.

The only physical parts of Vaati were out of reach, they couldn't get to Miriya due to the Fire Rod, they had no other weapons except their Four Swords, and Zelda's life was in danger the longer they lingered thinking of a plan.

"Come on Vio, now's your time to shine, if anyone's going to think of a plan it's going to be you." Blue said to him, his eyes still focused on Vaati's furious eye up above them.

Vaati seemed to be too angry and shocked to say anything, in fact his eye and Miriya's eyes had started to dart from side to side as if looking for an escape, but the only exit out the sanctuary was behind the heroes. Vaati no longer had any way to hurt them, he still had Zelda but with no way of attacking them directly, all he could do was hold on to her.

Vio's mind was working overtime. His own eyes darted all over Vaati, his eye, the tendrils, Zelda, Miriya, anywhere to spot some kind of weakness they could exploit. The one thing that was strange though was something that Vio had noticed earlier, about how anytime Red and Blue were near each other or touched each other, a great pang of jealously swept across Miriyas face which in turn, seemed to cause Vaati to glare towards Red too. Vaati had indeed glared towards Red when Blue had happily spun him around just now, the giant eye darkening in anger as Blue had kissed Red's forehead.

"So what do we do now?" Came Red's voice, as the smaller hero walked up beside Blue, his own sword back in his hand again. As Red placed his hand on Blue's arm, both Vaati's and Miriya's eyes were suddenly fixated upon him again, glaring fiercely.

Vio smiled.

This gave him an idea.

"I think I've got a plan, but we need to get the Fire Rod away from Miriya." He said.

"How?" asked Green.

"We need a distraction."

"How?" repeated Blue.

Looking serious, Vio turned to look at him, "Kiss Red."

There was a short pause as Blue blinked at him, "Excuse me?"

"I've got a theory, just kiss him."

What the hell was Vio thinking? "Vio this is hardly the tim-"

"Oh come here!" Red quickly said, dropping his sword again and reaching up and cupping Blues cheeks, pulling him down into a kiss in mid-sentence.

As their lips met the tendrils surrounding Vaati and Miriya seemed to flare in rage, Vaati's eye glaring dangerously at Red as Miriya's voice, Vaati's own deeper voice still embedded in her own, rang out.

"GET AWAY FROM HIM!"

Another burst of fire suddenly shot out from the Fire Rod directly at Red, and with Blue currently in shock at the sudden kiss and confusion on what the hell Vio was thinking, Green jumped over and grabbed Red pulling him out the way of the flames and breaking their kiss.

"I thought so." Vio said quietly, before Blue turned to him in a fury.

"Do you mind telling me what the hell the point was that you were trying to prove with that?" he shouted at him, breathless not only from the kiss but from the fact he'd barely missed the flames by an inch, still feeling the heat as the flames had rushed past him at the spot Red had been standing.

Speaking quietly so Miriya or Vaati wouldn't hear, Vio explained.

"Vaati said he possessed the girl because he wasn't strong enough to sustain his own physical form, he said himself that his power had diminished, but to possess a mind you have to have a strong sense of will yourself. I think Vaati has tried to do this too soon, he possessed her too early, he's still too weak. His own mind and Miriya's have become mixed together, he's feeling her jealously over your relationship as if it was his own." He said, looking at Red and Blue.

"Wait a minute..." Blue said after a moment, his expression one of slight disgust as he tried to piece together what this meant "Are you telling me that Vaati…Vaati, thinks he…well, that he…"

"Loves you? Possibly. A crush at least."

A moments silence stilled the group as this image filled their heads.

"…that's really disturbing." Said Green, as he Blue and Red all shivered at the thought.

"I don't like that." Said Red quietly, holding onto Blue's sleeve a little tighter.

"But we can use this." Vio continued.

"How?" Blue said, suddenly not liking the direction this was going, especially with the slight smirk in Vio's eyes as he looked at him, and with a perfectly calm and serious voice, Vio simply replied:

"I need you to flirt with Vaati."

There was another small pause, before: "WHAT? I'M NOT FLIRTING WITH VAA-!" Vio grabbed him by the head and shoved his hand over his mouth, eyes darting up towards Vaati and mentally shaking his head at Blue nearly shouting out their plan to the enemy.

"Shut up and just do it!"

As the heroes talked below out of ear-shot, Zelda couldn't help but feel a surge of hope rise within her, and she turned to look at Vaati, "What will you do now?" she asked softly, Vaati's eye turning to her, "They will kill you, somehow, they will win. It's what they do." She smiled, and Vaati turned to look back at the heroes, a panic starting to show through the anger, Miriya below him trying to edge around the wall without being seen. But with a panicked fear she suddenly stopped when Blue began walking towards her, and she held out the Fire Rod in front of her in defence, taking a step back.

"I don't know what you're planning," Vaati spoke through her, "But you will not succeed. You may not be able to return to Link but you also have no way of sealing me away. If you kill the girl, killing my power source, I'll only fade away into the shadows again and wait until I regain my strength. One day I will kill you all; it's my destiny to destroy those who would fight against the darkness!"

He began to laugh again, a rather maniacal laugh, his eye bulging above them.

Blue however, simply stood there, but he had a very odd expression on his face. He turned to glance back over at the others, to which Red waved his hands out in front of him as if to urge Blue on, and Blue sighed, turning back to Miriya, that look of disgust back on his face.

He couldn't believe this was the only plan Vio could think up of, and Red of all people was urging him on! Flirt with Vaati, eurgh, Blue felt violated already.

Over the mad laughing of a being knowing it was somehow close to death, again, Blue spoke ever so softly, and very awkwardly, "Y-you know…Vaati, I…I like you too."

Immediately the laughing stopped, and using every ounce of self-control he had Blue was making sure his face did not look like he'd just said the most horrifying thing in the world.

"What?" Vaati said very quietly.

Good, first part of the plan seemed to have succeeded. Blue had caught Vaati's attention; both the eye and Miriya were looking at him with a rather shocked and slightly confused expression.

Blue took one small step forward, before scratching his upper left arm in awkwardness and looking at the floor, "I've noticed, you know…a-and I think it's kind of…flattering, after everything you've been through with all of us that…t-that you'd still…feel that way…about me. I've noticed how you look at me…"

Blue looked towards the girl whose eyes were fixated on him, a small blush to her cheeks, and then looked up, almost afraid to see the expression in Vaati's eye. The good news was that Vaati was indeed distracted, just like Vio had hoped, and like Miriya was fixated upon looking at him. The bad news was that like Miriya, Vaati was looking at him with a soft look in that eye, such a hopeful loving look that it seemed as though it could start sparkling with happiness at any moment, which was a disturbing thought.

Blue swallowed a lump in his throat. Vaati and Miriyas minds really were combined, and Vaati didn't seem to realise. So, Blue continued, not really sure whether to look at Miriya or Vaati.

"So you know, I don't…I don't really mind…" Blue resisted the urge to screw up his eyes.

Think of Red. Think of Red. He thought desperately, Think of the time and the life we can have together after this is over. This is all for a good cause!...DAMMIT this had better work!

"I don't mind if you want us to be together." Blue felt like being sick at his own words, "I never knew you felt that way about me, a-and of course, I'd much rather be with a strong powerful demon such as yourself. You're…eurgh…" Blue quickly hid that escaped groan of discontent with a bright smile, trying to mimic the sweet innocent smile Red had often given him "You're just so perfect of course I'd want to be with you over Red, he's nothing compared to you."

The words felt like acid in his mouth, this had better all be worth it. He risked a glance sideways and could see Green start to silently make his way around the wall of the shrine, creeping up slowly towards Miriya behind her. Vio and Red stayed where they were near the exit, in case Vaati realised what was happening and tried to make a run for it. Blue tried not to think what Red was thinking, hearing him say all this towards Vaati.

"Do you…" Vaati began, Miriya taking a few small attentive steps towards her crush, "Really mean that?"

Hearing Vaati say this through a small girl was disturbing enough, but Blue hadn't been prepared for just how disturbing this would turn into. After he nodded a silent yes, one of the tentacles wrapped around Zelda unwrapped itself from around her and instead slowly wound its way towards Blue.

Blue's eyes went wide though he tried to remain calm as he watched this pulsating tentacle worm its way towards him. Out the corner of his eye he could just see Vio quickly put his arm out to block Red from running towards him.

Vaati's tendril slowly wrapped itself around Blues waist and hoisted him into the air so he was level with Vaati's eye.

"You finally feel for me that way I feel for you?" came Vaati's voice from Miriya below them, and Blue swallowed, trying to place that smile on his face again though finding it very hard to, "Sure…o-of course. I…I've always wanted to be with you."

Come on Green! Blue thought to himself. He didn't know how much longer he could keep this up, it was the most disturbing experience of his life.

Suddenly another smaller tendril loosened from Zelda, who remained very still having guessed what was going on. But even Green below suddenly paused to look up, his face turning to one of shocked revulsion as this small tendril suddenly licked up the side of Blues face like a dog, Blue freezing like a statue, eyes wide and a look of sickening disgust on his face.

No, THIS was now the most disturbing experience of his life!

It was impossible now for Blue to keep that revolted look off his face, and he gritted his teeth and screwed his eyes shut as the tendril left a thick clear slime on his cheek. Blue desperately tried to pass it off with a small chuckle, hoping Vaati didn't notice his expression, and he forced a smile through clenched teeth.

At the back of his mind Blue was mentally preparing painful ways to kill Vio, for if they ever got out of this he'd never forgive him for making him a sex object to Vaati! He understood why, he understood this was the only plan they had, but still, come on! This was more disturbing than anything ever! And poor Red, having to stand below and watch this, Blue felt disgusted and humiliated and he wanted nothing more than to chop off these tendrils wrapped around him and stick many pins in them like a voodoo doll.

"MIRIYA!"

Suddenly out of nowhere Tyron's voice rang out. Blue blinked, as did Vaati, and they both turned towards the entrance of the sanctuary, as did the other heroes. They saw the young soldier standing there having obviously run back from the infirmary to try and save his sister. His wounds were wrapped but were still bleeding through, and he was panting hard, holding his bleeding shoulder, and it took him a moment to realise that everyone in the sanctuary was now staring at him, and he'd obviously interrupted something.

At the sudden voice and distraction, Vaati's eye looked downwards to see Vio and Red…but no Green.

"Oh no…" Blue groaned in annoyance, and with a flash of anger in the giant eye it turned downwards, seeing Green barely three feet away from the oblivious Miriya. With a scream of rage passed through the girl, Vaati squeezed both Blue and Zelda tightly in fury. Zelda screamed, Blue bit his bottom lip and grunted loudly in pain.

"YOU WILL NOT DEFEAT ME AGAIN!" Vaati hollered.

"NOW!" Vio's voice suddenly rang out, and just as Miriya began to turn around Green lunged towards her, grabbed the Fire Rod out of her shocked hands, rolled across the ground out the way and pointed the rod upwards.

A great surge of flames shot out from the rod straight up into the air, consuming Vaati's eye. In a scream of pain Vaati's tendrils gave a great spasm and loosened, dropping Zelda and Blue in an instant. Vio ran across the grass just in time to catch Zelda before she hit the ground, whereas as Blue simply dropped and rolled across the floor, grabbing his sword as he past it and standing up swiftly next to Green, who was still lying on his back on the floor shooting flames up at Vaati's closed eye. The screams from Miriya suddenly began to sound more like a girl, and as she pushed the palms of her hands against her eyes Vaati's eye began to melt towards the ground. The great eye fell, the tendrils recoiling away out of the girl, before Vaati hit the ground and liquefied into black, just like how Shadow melts into the ground every morning.

"QUICK! He's trying to disappear into the shadows again!" Green cried out, leaping up off the floor.

Quick? Quick what? He'd turned into a shadow again! Blue tried to run in front of Vaati but the shadow just passed underneath his feet.

As the great blob of black shadow slithered flat across ground, trying to head towards the exit, it past over the Four Sword pedestal. As it did, it suddenly stopped, as if something had snagged it. The heroes looked down only to see Shadow, their Shadow, holding the shadow of Vio's sword into the ground right into Vaati. Having caught Zelda Vio was right close Vaati's shadow as it slithered across the ground, and Shadow had been close enough to join in on the defeat of this monster.

Shadows black sword seemed to be holding Vaati there in shadow form, as it wriggled and pulled and tried to get away from its pinned position. The shared thought of "Now what?" seemed to pass through everyone's faces, before suddenly, Red's worried eyes abruptly widened as an idea flew across his mind.

Turning around he ran over towards the stunned Tyron, who was staring bewildered at what had just transpired, and quickly grabbed the sword out of the sheath at Tyrons waist while saying, "Excuse me can I borrow this?". Turning around Red ran back towards the Four Sword Pedestal, stood on the wriggling shadow, raised the sword above his head and in one swift movement, stabbed the sword straight into the pedestal.

A white light erupted from the pedestal, so bright that the heroes and Zelda had to shield their eyes. Tyrons sword glowed gold, and the shadow of Vaati suddenly started seeping upwards, through the ground, through the pedestal into the sword. It struggled like mad, desperately pulling away as the sword sucked it up like a sponge. At the last moment as the white light began to subside and the heroes opened their eyes, they all saw the shadow of a terrified eye opening on the ground, before finally; it was sucked into the golden sword. The gold began to fade and the sword returned to normal, its hilt glinting in the bright sunlight that now filtered into the sanctuary once more.

It had all happened so fast that the heroes just stood there, staring at each other and at the sword, the peace and the twittering birds that suddenly surrounded them feeling very out of place after what had just happened.

"How…" Blue began, turning to look at Red who stood there staring at the sword looking utterly shocked, "How did you know that would work?"

Red slowly turned to him, "I didn't." he said, slightly out of breath, surprising himself that that had actually worked, " But I guess I figured if our Four Sword won't return, maybe the pedestal would want a new sword, a new Four Sword." He looked back to the plain looking sword sitting in the pedestal, "A new sword to bring the light back and keep the evil away, just like what was supposed to happen before, but we never returned our Sword."

Another silence fell across them, a gentle autumn breeze blowing a few brown leaves from the trees. It seemed it was taking a while for them all to relax, for them all to realise that they'd just won.

"That was a very clever idea Red." Vio slowly said, smiling at him, Shadow below him giving him the thumbs up while waving his shadow sword around with the other.

"So this means Vaati's sealed away?" asked Green, walking up to the sword and looking it over, "Ganon's split into four and sealed away in our Four Swords, and Vaati's now sealed in this one? Does this mean it's all over? For real this time?"

To answer his question Zelda walked up beside him and placed the palm of her right hand just above the sword, closing her eyes. "Yes…" she slowly said, before opening her eyes again, "Vaati's inside the sword. I sense the same power the original Four Sword produced; this new sword really has turned into the new Sword of Light. Vaati's sealed this time, he's not going anywhere."

Red beamed, and Blue had to admit, it was hard not to beam too. It was over. It was all over. He felt a wave of relief and relaxation wash over him, and he knew one thing for sure, he was going to seriously disinfect his face from Vaati licking him. But as he looked at the smiling Red, he knew for sure now, thanks to their Four Swords, that being with Red really was exactly what he wanted, what he needed.

The Four Sword had proved to them all they were not one body, they were not one mind, not anymore, and being separate people gave them all the right to love whomever they wanted, and Blue wanted no one but Red.

It made Blue smile, that sweet smile that very few people ever saw.

"Miriya!"

Tyron, who'd been watching this all from the sidelines, ran over to his sister who was sitting in the grass by the wall, tears running down her face, her eyes blotchy and scared looking.

"B-brother!" she sobbed, clinging on to him as he embraced her, "I-I'm so sorry, I didn't…" she let out a wail of sorrow, "I couldn't stop him, I never meant for this to happen, I-I promise I never felt, never felt any horrible thought towards Red, it was him, it was Vaati, he made me feel this way, made me feel so horrible…"she clung to him as Tyron held her close and stroked her hair, "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry…"

"Miriya?"

It was Red's voice, and Miriya looked up from her brothers chest and peered up at him through her tears. She couldn't look at him for very long, the shame and embarrassment was too much and she started crying again.

"It's okay." Red said softly, kneeling down in front of her, "Vaati was a horrible demon, and you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. If not you he would have taken over someone else, so it's alright." Red gently placed his hand on her shoulder, rubbing it in a reassuring way, "We all know you never meant any harm, no one's going to punish you or anything, in fact…" Red smiled brightly, Miriya's tears slowing at Red's kind words," I think you've been very brave, and in a way, it's thanks to you that we managed to defeat Vaati. If it wasn't for you liking Blue we couldn't have distracted him."

At the mention of Blues named Miriya looked past Red to Blue standing some way behind him, standing with crossed arms and looking down at Miriya with half a glare, half a look of remorse. The look seemed to frighten her, and she buried herself in her brothers chest again.

Tyron looked down at her, before looking over at Blue, sadness etched across her face, "Please don't blame her Master Blue. It's my fault. I noticed there was something wrong with her after your birthday party at the castle, it's why I never turned up to training yesterday, I was following her. It's why I was there to save Red from the fire, I saw her use the Fire Rod and then run away with it." He looked down to the shaking form of his sister in her arms and held her tightly again, "I should have said something after that, but she was my sister, I guess I hoped whatever was wrong would go away, I didn't want to get her in trouble. I tried to talk to her, but she shut herself in her room all night and wouldn't say a word. Today I followed her again, and when I saw that…that Vaati's essence rise out of her as it tried to get through the seal on the sanctuary, I tried to stop him, but Miriya just used the Fire Rod on me, those horrible tendrils trying to slash at me. That's when I staggered back to the training yard to find you." A glare passed across his face, and he shut his eyes tightly, "I'm so pathetic. I couldn't even stop my own sister, I can't call myself a soldier. You were right Master Blue, I am too hot-headed, I don't listen, I haven't learnt anything!"

As he knelt there holding his sister, Blue listening to his explanation, Blue couldn't help but suddenly sigh in annoyance. Un-folding his arms, he walked up to the two huddled on the ground and knelt next to Red, grabbing Tyron's shoulder and pushing him away from his sister, making him look at him.

"If I didn't think you had any talent I would have chucked you out of the training months ago. Yes you are hot-headed, but so am I, and you're still learning. Your first battle with evil happened to be with an ancient demon who'd taken control of your sister, I somehow think you can be forgiven for not putting into practise the moves you've learnt in your training."

"But…you only told us a few days ago that to be a Hyrulian Guard you need to put the Royal Family over everything, even your own family. I didn't do that." He looked down, feeling the shame his sister seemed to be feeling too.

Suddenly though Blue hit him hard on the head.

"OW! What the hell was that for?" Tyron yelled, glaring at him despite the shame.

"This is why you're in training idiot!" Blue yelled back at him, "You tried to take it all on by yourself, and only when you couldn't go on anymore did you come to find me, but at least you DID come to find me! You'll learn in more training that the Hyrulian Guards work together as a unit, as a family, and that if a danger arises that threatens both the Royal Family and your own family then you all work together to protect them both! I only said that before because I needed you all to be focused, to realise what you could be up against, what kind of situation could arise! I'm not saying there's never going to be a situation where you may have to chose between the royals or your own family, but if that worse case scenario arises that's when you all work together! You just have to learn what that means to work together. Believe me…" Blue paused, glancing at Red and the others, "I learnt that lesson, we all did. Working together takes times to learn, but it pays off, and then you'll always have people to watch your back," he looked down at Miriya, "and your families."

Miriya peered up at him, but quickly looked away.

"Master Blue…" Tyron whispered quietly, admiration and respect clear on his face"…thank you."

Blue glared at him, "This does mean I expect you back in training tomorrow, no excuses."

Tyron smiled nervously and chuckled quietly, "Yes sir."

"And as for you." Blue said sternly at Miriya, who flinched and peered back up at him, fearing the worst, "I'm sorry." Miriya blinked. That had been the last thing she'd expected to hear, "I'm sorry for shouting at you so harshly at that party, alright? I know I've got a temper, and you didn't deserve that, so I'm sorry." A small smile graced Blues lips, just a small one to let her know everything was alright, "It's nice to know someone else out there likes me, and if you still want it, I'll give you that autograph you asked for."

Miriya's eyes sparkled, her lips matching that smile on Blues.

"And when my shops back up and running, why don't you come in for some cakes?" suggested Red, smiling brightly, "I'll bake some especially for you, then we can all be friends yeah?"

Looking from the kind, grinning Red, to her smiling crush, Miriya wiped the tears from her eyes and her face split into a grin, "Yes please!"

It didn't take long for the rumour and gossip of the famous Hyrulian Heros saving the day once again to spread around Castle Town, and by the early evening most of the town was pouring into the castle grounds, filling up the courtyard, jammed through the front doors, everyone trying to get a glimpse of the five heroes (Shadow around now the sun had gone down) that were apparently waiting behind a door at the far end of the throne room, waiting for Zelda to open the door and give them all medals of honour in a ceremony, again.

But despite the cheers and the talking and the excited atmosphere around the castle, behind that one door was a different story.

The five heroes all stood wearing the Hyrulian Guard uniforms, all polished and neat and looking very appropriate for hero attire. Green stood nearest the door, straightening his clothing and looking very serious (any excuse for impressing Zelda). Shadow and Vio were next in line with Red and Blue standing behind them.

After all of them had left the sanctuary Zelda had kept them all in the castle, Blue dreading the point where she'd probably mention something about a ceremony, and groaning at the thought of having to stand up in front of the entire town again.

Vio and Shadow had disappeared for a short few minutes after Shadow had re-reappeared into a physical form, and Blue had no intention of following them. After what they'd all just been through, after Vio's tears, after thinking they'd be merged into one again and wouldn't even have a chance to say goodbye to each other, Blue reckoned they needed a bit of time alone for a while.

Blue had kept hold of Red's hand almost every minute, a part of him just wanting to make sure he really wasn't going to suddenly disappear. He was still in a sort of daze, and just needed that little bit of warmth seeping into his hand from Red's to keep his thoughts with the present, and not wander back to what could have happened back in that sanctuary.

But as he now stood here, Red by his side looking quite excited, Shadow ahead of them regaling them all, for the 25th time, on how he awesomely stabbed Vaati's essence to the ground in the sanctuary essentially saving the day, knowing that one of them would think to stab a different sword into the pedestal, Blue wanted to be anywhere but here.

But it was then, that a rather…naughty thought entered Blues mind. Glancing down at Red, a small secret smirk to his lips, he leant down and whispered very quietly, Shadow still talking away, "Red, let's get out of here."

Red looked up at him, somehow still looking cute even in full Guard gear, "But Zelda wants us out there in a minute." He whispered back innocently, so Blue slowly slipped his hand back into Red's and squeezed it gently.

"Yeah, but if we stay here much longer we're going to run out of evening, and well…" he softly kissed the tip of Red's ear, who in turn blushed at the contact, "I won't be able to keep my promise."

At the realisation of what Blue was talking about, Red blushed even harder, and he peered up at him through lowered eyelashes, looking shy and adorable.

At least until a matching smirk fell upon his lips, "Okay." He whispered back, grinning cheekily.

With a quick grin to each other they looked up at their fellow heroes, all of whom were turned away facing the door to the throne room, so hand in hand they slowly backed away, moving towards the back door.

As swiftly and quietly as they could, they disappeared through the door, the door closing with a soft click behind them. Vio moved his head slightly and glanced towards the door, smirking softly to himself, before turning back to Green who'd just started to talk now Shadow had stopped.

"Okay guys you know the drill, we need to make sure this goes perfect so Zelda—" Green had turned around to see he was missing two members of their group, and a look of panic came over his face, "Wha-? Where are Blue and Red?"

Vio pretended to look at his fingernails with a bored expression, before replying, "Oh I think it's about time we left them alone without any interruptions, don't you think?"

The look on Greens face was priceless;

"They want to do that now?"

To be continued…