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New Bad Girl in Town: Observations of a TDB
Chapter 6
Silver sat on a school bench, that morning, typing away on his laptop with multiple windows filled with code.
"Hey." Will said walking up to Silver.
"Sup." Silver replied not looking up from the screen.
"So, what are you working on?"
"Stuff."
"Same stuff as yesterday?"
"Yep."
"Oh," Will cleared her throat, "so I wanted to thank you."
"For what?" Silver sounded a little confused.
"For not blaming me for what happened yesterday, defending me with what happened to that boy and that monster."
"It wasn't your fault, why would I blame you. Besides Cornelia made one point, I could have done something. Not directly, but had I thought about it, I could have done something to help. Like, I could have distracted that snake thing, Cedric, before he grabbed that guy. You could have forced it into the portal and closed it without losing that guy. I'm the one who chose to stand by and let things play out."
"Still you didn't have to say anything."
"Eh," Silver shrugged, "really it just bothered me how Cornelia tried to shirk her role and push blame on you. More than helping you, it was just fun to just sticking a thorn in her craw."
Will stopped herself from asking what a "craw" was and sat down next to Silver.
"So, where were you this morning?" Will asked.
"Excuse me?"
"You weren't at my place this morning. I thought you were going to check up on me again."
"Didn't seem necessary, beside you're not the only one I'm spying on. Today I checked on Hay Lin and Irma."
"Both of them?"
"Hay Lin's place was kinda boring, it was just everyone getting the Silver Dragon ready to open while Hay Lin got ready for school. I would've gotten something to eat but their family kitchen was a little sparse. All the good stuff was in the restaurant's kitchen where they were prepping for orders."
"Is that why you went to Irma's?
"Yup, nothing I could take without being noticed there so I thought I mooch some food at Irma's."
"So anything interesting there?"
"Well there was more interpersonal interaction between them as they got ready for the day, and the bacon was really good."
"So what about Cornelia and Taranee?"
"Eh, I'll check on them tomorrow."
"Did you get to talk them?
"Nah I didn't talk to either of them but Irma did see me. Bitch tried to rat me out."
"What?"
"I went to the trouble to avoid being seen by anyone else and Irma tries to tell her mom on me. Lucky I stayed out of her sight and I think Irma got in trouble for trying to prank her mom."
"Oh." Will softly acknowledged then fell silent. She tried to think of something else to talk about but only one topic came to mind. Truthfully she wanted to think of anything to end the awkward silence before Silver realized something was on her mind.
"Something bothering you?" Silver asked
"Huh, no why do you ask?" Will said nervously.
"Yeah that's convincing. Seriously is there something else bothering you?"
"Well yeah, I guess." Will started noticing Silver turning his attention to her and closing his laptop. "It's my mom, she was mad about something this morning."
"About "something" you can't be more specific?"
"I don't know, she was passed out drunk last night when I got home. This morning she was yelling about being late for work and that we were going have a talk after she got home today."
"Sucks for you."
"Yeah, it does, thanks for your sympathies." Will sounding depressed at his comment. "I was wondering, do you think you…"
"Hey guys!" Hay Lin called out as she and the girls approached. "What are you two up to?"
"One of us was annoying the other." Silver replied opening his laptop and began saving his working. "Care to guess which?"
"So we got some time before class starts." Irma pointed out, "Want to talk about what we're going to do?"
"Hey Cornelia!" called out a blonde girl with braided pigtail hanging down her shoulder, "Hey guys!"
"Elyon!" Cornelia called back running to meet her in a hug. "Where have you been? We haven't seen you for days."
"You wouldn't believe it. Last week my parents just up and decided to go on a trip to a cabin in the woods."
"What?"
"I know right? They were acting all excited about the trip and started talking about buying it as a holiday getaway. It was so weird no TV, no phone, no toilet, just a radio. We spent like half the time camping out exploring the woods and some caves, and talking about safe places to stay if we were ever away from the cabin after dark were we could store some emergency supplies. It was all just so crazy."
"Some say crazy, some say exceedingly well prepared." Silver offered.
Elyon look past Cornelia and took notice of the silver haired boy on the steps and the red head next to him.
"Who's this?" Elyon asked.
"Oh these are new students, this is Will and that guy is Silver." Cornelia introduced.
"Hello." Will greeted.
"Sup." Silver said putting his laptop into his backpack.
"Nice to meet you I love making new friends." Elyon shook Will's hand then held her hand toward Silver.
"Who made who in the what now?" Silver said in confusion before recognizing what she was implying and took her hand. "Oh right, yeah nice to meet you too. Elyon right?"
"Yeah and Silver right? Cool name."
"Um, thanks it's short for Silverio."
"Even cooler, hope we can talk later. I have to go talk to Principal Knickerbocker about my absence but I want to tell you guy more about my trip later. The cabin wasn't much but it was right by this beautiful lake and I want to show you some of the drawings I made while I was there."
'So that's number six.' Silver thought as he watched her go. 'The question is what her role is in the grand scheme of things? Her powers seem to be stronger than the rest but I can't tell how much stronger she is. Could she be a sixth guardian? Kind of like the green ranger of this group?'
"Wow she's cute." Silver commented after noticing the girls looking at him.
"Excuse me?" Cornelia asked clearly upset.
"What?"
"Did you say you she was cute?"
"Yeah so, don't you agree?"
"I know she's cute, too cute for you. Elyon is a kind, sweet girl who can do way better than you."
"I know, that pretty obvious."
"So don't even think about trying anything with her. No flirting, no hitting on her, don't ask her out, don't even talk to her."
"Dang I wasn't planning too." Silver said indignantly, "I'm well aware that she is too good for me, geez. I'm not about to waste either of our time pretending like she'd ever consider going out with an ass like me. Besides all I said was "she's cute" not something ridiculous like "you think she'd be into me," because I already know the answer is no."
"Yeah, well good cause she shouldn't have to waste time with you. She's totally out of your league."
"I know we already established that, what's your problem? Seriously I know that girl's too good for me, most girls are, the bar is not exactly set that high. Hell most prisoners and institutionalized girls are too good for me. So can we just drop the issue?"
"Fine just don't forget that and leave her alone." Cornelia then left in a huff and hurried after Elyon.
"Damn that girl's crazy." Silver commented. "Well, so much for your meeting with Corny gone."
"Will just talk during lunch." Will declared getting up and walked off in a huff.
"What's got her so upset?" Irma asked accusingly.
"I don't know. She's thinks she's in trouble with her mom, maybe that?"
Irma looked at him suspiciously then left for class along with the rest of the girls, Silver followed.
"What are we doing out here?" Will asked seating on a bench with Cornelia, Taranee, Elyon and Silver. "We're gonna miss out on lunch if we don't get to the lunchroom."
"Don't worry about that Will, they're serving mystery meat today so we're ordering out today." Taranee explained.
"Ordering out, we can do that?" Will questioned.
"Despite the ten foot walls that surround us this is actually an open campus, at least during lunch." Silver pointed out as he once again worked on his laptop.
"So what are you working on?" Elyon asked Silver.
"Stuff."
"What kind of stuff."
"Just some nunya."
"Nunya, what's that?"
"None ya business, this is actually some confidential stuff, so no more questions."
"Hey guys, order up!" Irma called out as she and Hay Lin ran up with brown bags and started passing out sandwiches, sodas and chips.
"You got us sandwiches?" Will asked surprised to receive a sandwich.
"Yeah I didn't get to asked what you wanted so I just ordered you a chicken sandwich. I hope you like it."
"But I don't have the money for this." Will said a little embarrassed.
"You can pay me back later." Irma offered.
"Don't worry about that." Silver said handing Irma ten bucks. "So where's mine?"
"I didn't get you a sandwich." Irma said annoyed taking his money.
"You sure about that?"
"There is one more order here." Hay Lin said checking her bag and pulling out another sandwich that Silver snatched.
"Ah yes, turkey sandwich with extra cucumber and light on the mustard. Like mom always said "best part of sandwiches is that you can eat while you work." Actually she said "study" but same difference." Silver began eating, while typing away with one hand.
"Wait a minute I didn't get anything for you." Irma said in confusion. "Hay Lin, did you order that?"
"You ordered everything including that turkey sandwich."
"I did?"
"I would think so especially since I planted that hypnotic suggestion to buy it for me." Silver declared and stopped typing to make a dramatic mystical wave with a free hand.
"What?" Elyon said in surprise as she and the other girl looked at him. "Really you hypnotized Irma?"
"Pfft no!" Silver scoffed, "She wrote down the orders and I added mine when she wasn't looking. I can't believe she didn't notice."
Irma knew that it was a lie, she didn't write down the orders she just remembered what the girls usually ask for during a sandwich run. It scared her to think that Silver may really have hypnotized her just for a sandwich and wondered what else he could make her do.
"You didn't notice Silver writing in an extra sandwich?" Elyon asked smile trying not to laugh.
"Well in all fairness she was collecting money when I picked her pocket and was in a hurry when I slipped it back in. That reminds me." Silver pulled out a pink wallet with a cartoon frog off it and handed it to Will.
"You stole from Will?" Irma said in anger.
"I would have said "borrowed" why do you think I offer to pay for her meal. I'm just paying her back."
While they talked Will checked her wallet, all it had was her student ID from her old school, a "return to" slip with her name and old address, a picture of Susan and herself when she was younger, and another picture of a cartoon frog that came with the wallet. It had no money, but there hadn't been any since long before she even met Silver. So he hadn't stolen anything from her.
"You know you can get in trouble picking people's pockets." Elyon warned.
"Only if I'm caught or anyone can prove I did it."
"You did just confess to picking our pockets ya know." Irma pointed out.
"Don't make me discredit you." Silver warned looking sternly at Irma. "There are things that can follow you the rest of your life even after they're proven false. Don't doubt me on that."
"Is that a threat?" Irma argued.
"Guys, can we not fight about this?" Taranee stepped in, "Will is there anything missing from your wallet.
"No, it's all here." Will answered hiding the fact that she had no money to steal.
"Yah, sho ets ul good." Silver said eating his sandwich, "Ey, u'eres, *gulp* where's my chips and drink."
"Here you go." Hay Lin passed him the items.
"Thank you."
"Hey did you guy's hear that someone solved Missus Rudolph's bonus question yesterday?" Elyon asked getting their attention except for Will who noticed Silver ignoring the question.
"No way that long one on the board?" Irma asked.
"That's right I already had her class she told us that it had been solved so no more bonus for the year." Taranee confirmed.
"So you guys don't know who solved it?"
"Who cares." Silver responded, "Too late to get the reward, not like knowing the answer will make you smarter. Most we could hope for is the person who solved it agrees to tutor us, though really most of us would probably benefit more from a tutor that's closer to their own level. The guy's probably just an arrogant sonabitch."
"Arrogant huh, sounds like you're trying taking credit for solving it." Irma accused.
"Hey don't look at me. I'll be the first to admit that I'm an idiot."
"You can't be an idiot you're doing all that complicated stuff on your computer." Elyon pointed out.
"Hey, don't let this fool you I'm definitely an idiot. I've done so many gawd damn stupid fucking… You're just gonna have to trust me on this."
"If you want us you trust maybe you can tell us about you, like where are you from?" Elyon asked.
"I travel a lot so couldn't really tell you where I'm from but before I came here I spent some time in Ba Sing Se."
"Oh, where's that!"
"China I'd say, very interesting place. This guy I know was having a party at his tea shop with his nephew and friends."
"Oh you went to a party with friends? What was the occasion?"
"Just the end of a century long conflict."
"Conflict? What like a war?"
"You think we'd celebrate the end of hundred year long war with a freakin' tea party?"
"So what was the conflict?"
"Oh it was… a family matter." Silver spoke carefully, "Iroh's brother Ozai ran the family business which has been conducting criminal acts for generations. He was finally called on it and punished for his crimes. His son Zuko took over after Zuko's sister Azula had a psychological breakdown shortly after succeeding their father Ozai. So now they're working on reparations for their um, company's actions. But I'm sure Zuko gonna set things right with everyone that was wronged by his father. He's got the moral fortitude that, Ozai thought made him unsuitable to be his replacement."
"Wow, that's really something. Can you tell us anything else about your trip to China, like did you see the Great Wall?"
"Yeah I've seen the Great Wall," Silver smiled, "and you literally can't go to Ba Sing Se without see such a great wall."
"Hay Lin have you ever been to China?" Elyon asked.
"No my parents left before I was born and they've never taken me there."
"So Silver, what do you think of Heatherfield compared to the other places you've been?"
"Actually it's weird. I've never been to such a diverse community that didn't have a single Hispanic. Seriously where are the Mexicans at?"
"What?"
"Seriously, there's a lot of white people in this town, a fair number of black people and Asians, I even seen some native americans and India Indians around town, but not one Latino. It's just a weird demographic here."
"I never really thought about it. Is it really that weird?"
"Hey I'm just hoping there isn't a reason for it, like they were run out of town or something. That would suck if that were the case, viva La Raza!"
"No I'm sure it nothing like that. Heatherfield such a nice town." Elyon encouraged.
"Right, so should you really be wasting time interrogating me? Don't you have an ass load of homework you need to catch up on?" Silver asked
"Oh that, I can do that at home." Elyon reasoned, "Besides I was hoping I could borrow some notes to help catch up."
"Good luck with that."
"We'll lend you our notes Elyon." Cornelia offered.
"Still you already have some of your homework," Silver pointed out, "don't tell me you can't at least get started on the easiest assignments. You still have you textbook to work with. They'll get you copies of their notes afterschool. Or do you want to waste your whole weekend with your homework because you didn't make use of your time here."
"I guess you're right, there is some easy stuff I can get out of the way. I'll see you guys later so don't forget to get those notes for me." Elyon got up with the last bite of her sandwich and her bag.
"Now that she's out of the way don't you girls have some important things to discuss?"
"Like what?"
"Like guardian stuff." Silver sighed.
"We already have plans to practice again after school. What else is there to talk about?" Cornelia complained.
"How about, what you'll do once you've got a real handle on your powers? Like how are you going to deal with that snake guy Cedric or Phobos and how are you planning to find open portals so you can seal them up again?"
"He's got a point, how are we going to find the portal" Taranee asked, "And are we really supposed to fight that snake thing with our so-called powers?"
"I'm sorry girls but I'm way to pretty to end up as snake poo." Cornelia joked earning smiles from the most of the girls.
"You don't think that's what happened to that boy with saw yesterday do you?" Will asked with concern. The girls became solemn over that thought.
"I doubt that." Silver said, "If Cedric works for Phobos I doubt he has to hunt down people for food. The fact that he carried him away seemed more like an arrest. He's probably alive and fairly well, as he rots away in jail."
"So we should rescue him!" Hay Lin suggested excitedly. "It'll be our first mission."
"Great," Silver mused, "that still doesn't answer any of my questions."
"Maybe we should talk about it later. Let's talk about something else." Will suggested.
"Really you're just gonna put it off longer."
"Lay off her," Irma defended, "I agree we can talk about after practice. So anything you wanted to talk about Will."
"Well," Will paused for a moment thinking of a topic, "School picture day's tomorrow. Are we supposed to dress up for it?"
The girl's immediately replied with denials of even considering what to wear for the occasion and joked of how silly the idea was.
"Of course Cornelia's been planning her picture photos since kindergarten." Irma joked.
"Wait did you say picture day?" Silver asked in surprise, "Fuck."
"What's wrong, don't know what to wear for picture day?" Cornelia joked.
"No, if anything I'm going to being ditching tomorrow."
"What, you're skipping tomorrow?" Will asked in surprise.
"Of course, I don't even like the fact that I have a record of enrollment at this school. You think I'm actually going to leave photographic evidence that I was ever here?"
"Evidence, are you planning to hide the fact that you're a student here?"
"Yeah, except I forgot about school picture day. Damn it, now I got to keep tabs on whoever's in charge of the school yearbook."
"Why?" Hay Lin asked curious to his change in plan.
"So I can remove myself from it. It's not enough to leave a "photo not available" space in the student picture section. I got to remove every trace of me, my name and picture space, I gotta move everyone that follows me up one space up, adjust any name listings or graphic borders on the last page of student, check that I'm not in the background of any other photos, make sure I'm not listed in any other manner like one of those "Most likely to… something or other" or getting named "The class Jack-Ass" or something. Not to mention if I am selected for any such title I got to replace my name with who ever came second in that category to maintain plausibility. And, of course, any and all changes that I have to make will have to be done at the last minute, after the final draft is completed but before it gets sent for publishing."
"Ugh, it just more work than I remember." Silver groaned.
"Wow I'd almost feel sorry for you, if you weren't such a creep." Irma mocked.
"Thanks, nice of you to as least consider it."
"Hey Irma!" A boy with thick glasses called out earning a groan from Irma.
"Orale, who's butting in now?" Silver asked annoyed but smirked noticing the look on Irma's face.
"Greeting Mon Cherie." He said with a gentlemanly bow and a smile to Irma. "You're looking especially beautiful today, I can only imagine what you have planned for picture day tomorrow. Maybe we should talk about it and wear matching outfit like a couple."
"Martin what have I told you about bothering me." Irma responded, "I already told you I'd never go out with you why would I want to wear a matching outfit with you."
"Because we're destined to be together my love, just get me half a chance and I'm sure you realize how perfect we are for each other."
"Not gonna happen Martin, now go away."
"Ahh why not Irma he seems like a nice guy." Silver interjected.
"So, you agree that Irma and I are perfect for each other?" Martin asked excitedly for more support.
"Didn't say that, but she certainly could do worse that you, keep at it man."
"Don't worry I will!"
"Would you stay out of this?" Irma scolded, "Don't encourage him. And who could be worse that Martin, you?"
"Yeah, but let's not focus on worse case scenarios, and consider more positive but still lacking options. You could overlook this guy and fall for a handsome violent drunk, or a manipulative drug dealer, a reckless convenient store robber, or just someone who won't tell about his venereal diseases until it's too late."
"I would never…"
"… know until you're in the thick of it, yeah that's how it happens. You think people get into abusive relationships knowing what going to happen. All I'm saying is that as weird as his declarations are, he at least seems to be sincere about his feelings. He's really speaking from the heart and there aren't too many people like that anymore. Far too few people like that in the world."
"Wow you really get me." Martin said, touched by the show of support, "See Irma my love, my feelings for you is so strong anyone can see that my love for you is true."
"Calm down dude, I didn't exactly do you any favors. Irma hates my guts, so siding with you will probably make her more adamant on not falling for you."
"Wha?"
"Yeah, in retrospect I guess I shoulda kept my mouth shut."
"That not true is it?"
"Martin there was never any chance between us so no matter what Silver said!" Irma pointed out.
"That's good news. Means nothing's changed since before you walked up here man." Silver offered. "Don't give up someday you'll win her over."
"That right I won't give up my love." Martin declared, "I shall earn your love. And thank you, Silver was it? I'm glad to know someone believes in me."
"Yeah, sure whatever man, good luck with that." Silver replied dull tone, "To be honest, I don't really care if you do succeed."
"Oh, still I appreciate you recognizing that my feelings are genuine."
"Like I said, people like you are rare nowadays. I nice to meet you Martin" Silver pronounced in a Spanish accent (maRR-tEn).
"Um, the names Martin not Marrteen."
"I know but as I was just mentioning to the girls on this town's lack of Hispanic culture. So I'm making you a token latino. Consider yourself an honorary beaner, until an actually Chicano show to fill the position. Congrats Martin." Again with a Spanish accent.
"Martin, Martin." Martin tested, "That actually sounds kind of cool. Hey you think it would help me get some street cred?"
"Not even a little, but it's good that you like it. Since there's no way you could stop me from calling you that if you didn't."
"I'm gonna see what the guys in the A/V club think." Martin announced and turned to Irma, "Until next time my sweet. Bye everyone."
"Later ese." Silver called out.
"That was mean." Will pointed out.
"I know, Irma really could have been a little more tactful." Silver agreed.
"I meant you."
"Oh, yeah? Well, I actually think I was much nicer that I normally would have been to such a cheerful upbeat guy like that. I must be in a good mood today."
"How was that nice?"
"I said nic-er. When the bar's set low enough it takes almost no effort to show improvement." Silver retorted, "Speaking of no effort, if you guys aren't going to take you duties seriously right now I'm just gonna go take a nap."
"What, can't wait for class to get some sleep." Will scolded.
"HA!" he laughed, discarding the remains of his lunch into a nearby trashcan. "Yeah I can wait, I just don't want to."
The girls watched Silver climb a nearby tree and balancing himself on a branch before falling asleep. The girls ignored him for the remainder of lunch and enjoyed themselves as they ate and gossiped with one another.
It was already twilight as the girls walked home together after practicing the use of their powers. Again the girls were simply enjoying each other's company while they ignored Silver trailing behind them. Hay Lin skipped ahead of the others and turned around to face them.
"So when are we going, tonight?" Hay Lin asked.
"Going where?" Will asked.
"You know, to save that boy we saw."
"Slow down Tinkerbell, we can they guy after picture day." Cornelia replied.
"Call me a wimp, but in the school yearbook I'd like to still have a face." Taranee agreed.
"Forget picture day," Irma ordered, "I don't care what I look like. I care about who I am. Now let go kick some Meridian butt! Maybe will meet some cute boys other there like to one that snake thing caught."
"I want to go," Will declared, "but I don't know how much help we're going to be by soaking him and covering him with garbage. Let practice again tomorrow."
"Taranee do you go this way?" Will asked stopping at an alley that lead toward her neighborhood.
"My dad's cooking tonight. I'm going to Irma's place, see you tomorrow Will." She replied and waved goodbye as she continued with the rest of the girls.
"So are you guys really not going to get dressed up for picture day" Hay Lin asked. The girls responded with more jokes of Cornelia hogging all the clothes and makeup for herself.
"Guess it's just us." Will said as she watched the girls walk off without her. She turned around to find that Silver was no longer behind her and looked back to see if he was following the girls. She found no sign of him anywhere.
"Or it's just me." Will sighed and leaned against a parked car. 'Damn and I never got to ask if he could come over to my house. If Mom's still mad at me, it might help to have someone around to make her more self-conscious and control her anger.'
"How pathetic am I? He probably wouldn't come anyway." Will reasoned. "What could mom want anyway?"
'Oh no!' Will gasped covering her mouth. 'No, please no, she couldn't have found it. Shit, how could I have forgotten about it?'
Will's mind turn to the moving boxes, one of which contained a small metal box hold all that she could hide from her mother. The very last of her stash that she had managed to hideaway before being shipped off to the rehab center. It was all she could do, as her mom went through their home daily, always finding another hiding place before flushing away more of Will's drugs.
Thinking back, Will remembered how badly see wished she had managed to sneak the box into center with her. She spent the first half of her stay aching for a hit of anything that she had saved. Wishing for one of her joints, a single rock, and any combination of the pills she had for a rainy day. When the withdrawal pains eased she promised herself to quit and tried focus on completing her rehab. After returning home she considered secretly getting rid of her final stash but found it too hard to go through with it. The desire to keep it was too strong, but despite that, she never really had the chance to use her stash. Her mother had her eyes most of the time they were home and in time Will's anger toward her mother's distrust lead to her forgetting she still had.
It wasn't until she was packing her stuff for the move to Heatherfield that Will rediscovered her stash and quickly hid it again among the boxes, wrapped within an old Christmas sweater that she figured her mother would overlook if she came across it. Only now did the idea of her hiding spot within the moving boxes and sweater seem foolish.
'Why didn't I move it?' Will question herself thinking about all the things that had distracted the past few day. The move, school, her new friends, and most distracting were her new duties as a Guardian and Silver's presence. 'Of course she found it. She kept telling to unpack over and over probably got tired of asking and went through the boxes herself. Damn it! She's gonna kill me when I get home!'
Not knowing what else to do, Will stood up with a sigh and began walking down the alley. Lost in her thoughts she failed to notice the men and strange creatures emerge from behind the dumpster and parked cars in the alley. It wasn't until a large blue hand clamped over her mouth that she noticed she was surround. Will struggled to break free until someone new arrived from further down the street.
"Restrain her." Cedric order, as he towered above a wide-eyed Will. "I don't want a single sound from her until we've returned to the castle."
The guards proceeded to tie Will's hands, gag her and began to force her down the alley to the portal that brought them to Heatherfield.
Silver stepped out of the shadows, looking down the alley they had dragged Will down. He moved to follow when something caught his attention. Will's backpack had fallen to the ground, ignored and forgotten. Kneeling down, Silver noticed a pink glow piercing through the material. Reaching down for the bag and odd feeling washed over him.
'It's can't be safe here, can it?' Silver thought, 'Anyone can find it. I can't just leave the Heart here.'
With a sigh he stood up and began following Will and her captors. The bag remained behind on the street waiting to be found.
A/N:
Once again I apologize for the long delay in this update. I have not given up on this story, it's just the difficulty of writing down the ideas.
It's even more difficult with so many distractions like, Tomb Raider, Dead Island GOTY, Borderlands 2, ect., along with YouTube videos like the gameplay vids of DanBull and Tobuscus, plus online shows like Kaijudo Rise of the Duel Masters, and Tenchi Muyo War on Gemeniar, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and others.
With that out the way I'd like to give thanks Heliosion. I've always intended to make Will's withdrawal a story point but I had no idea when or how. Your request, Heliosion, sparked ideas for several scenes. The first of which you just read before Will's capture.
Thanks to all of you for reading and I hope read your reviews in return. I welcome criticism and ideas/request.