'Were the hell could he have gone?' Vivi yelled, she was found by Mystery once he and Lewis had discovered that Arthur disappeared. The three of them where standing in the hospital room that was for Arthur.
'Were would he go?' Lewis asked.
'Kingsmen.' Mystery muttered, he looked at Vivi. 'He would go to the garage.' Vivi nodded in agreement, she turned to Lewis.
'Do you still remember where that is?' She asked him. Lewis nodded as he picked up both Vivi and Mystery, it was easy in his smaller form. He walked over to the window, Vivi opened it before Lewis floated out into the night.
'Arthur.' The demon hummed. Arthur was putting together a few pieces, but they were being stubborn and weren't connection. The demons voice wasn't helping and only added to his annoyance.
'You are pretty lucky aren't you? I mean Lewis would have killed you if it weren't for the dog.'
'And, your point being?' Arthur gave in and spoke to it, it smiled.
'You are useless. You always have been, but you have been lucky to always have someone to save you. First it was Lance, then Lewis and then the mutt. You have never been able to save yourself.' The demon laughed, Arthur just sat there as it all sunk in.
'Arthur!' Came Vivi's voice, Arthur slumped in his seat. He heard the door open and before he knew it, he received a hug from behind.
'Why did you run off like that?' Vivi asked, her words slightly muffled as her face was in his hair. Vivi let go and he turned to face them, Lewis stood a little while away looking at the ground.
'I..' Arthur didn't know what to say, he couldn't tell them the truth. 'I didn't want to stay in that room, there were some bad memories starting swill around.'
'Maybe I can ask Sam to do a house call that way she can still check on you and you don't have to be in the hospital.' Vivi suggested and when Arthur nodded, Vivi pulled out her phone and exited the room.
'You know, I originally thought that you had killed me.' Lewis said looking around the room. Arthur's eyes snapped at him, full of concern. 'But then as I kept playing that night out in in my head, I saw it a different way.' Lewis looked at Arthur. 'And somehow, I also got it into my head that you were fully taken over. It wasn't in till I saw your metal arm that I realised that I was wrong, but that was already after I blew it up.'
'Where is it?' Arthur asked. Mystery answered for Lewis.
'It would be in the back of the van.' Arthur sighed, relieved that his arm wasn't left behind. Vivi's head popped back in and smiled.
'Come on you guys, Sam is going to be at Arthur's in several hours.' Vivi said and Arthur stood from his stool, Lewis followed him out as Mystery ran on ahead. As Arthur headed for the driver's door, Lewis frowned. Vivi noticed this as she opened the back of the van, Lewis realised that Arthur was planning to drive one handed.
'Don't worry Lew. He is surprisingly good at one handed driving.' She ensured, but Lewis was still concerned. He got into the passenger side as Mystery joined Vivi in the back of the van, once everyone was settled in Arthur started up the van and drove onto the quiet street. Lewis watched Arthur, still getting use to the fact that his best friend was down an arm. Once they got to Arthur's, Arthur quietly slid out of his seat and walked to his front door, he didn't even wait for the others to catch up. He was about to pull out his keys when he found that the door was open by a crake, he opened the door and found the mess inside.
'Oh my god, what happened here?' Vivi cried out once she entered the house after Arthur, Lewis shifted his gaze to the floor and he didn't move from the doorway when the rest of them walked further into the house. Arthur sighed as he got to the dining table, it had a split down the middle and the two halves sat on the ground. If the table had been metal, then Arthur would have been able to fix it. No, instead it was wooden and it would require more work to fix it. Like if he stuck metal beam underneath and stuck the two parts together, while Arthur was thinking Lewis walked up next to him.
'Sorry, I shouldn't have thrown you at the table.' He was saying, but Arthur was thinking and hadn't heard him.
'It's no use Lewis, he most likely didn't hear you.' Mystery said walking to Arthur side and nodded once he saw his face. Arthur finally snapped out of his thoughts before walking for his work room, both Vivi and Lewis looked confused as he left. When he came back he had a large tarp in his hands and he didn't even bother to do much more then throw it over the table.
'I can try to fix it, but not today. Not in till I fix my arm.' Arthur said and turned to Vivi, who was holding it. Arthur held out his hand for the arm and waited for Vivi to hand it to him, when she did Arthur headed for his work room and Mystery followed behind, Vivi grabbed Lewis' arm and followed as well. Arthur worked wordless as he removed the outer metal cast of the arm, part of it had been crushed inwards where Lewis' hand had been. Arthur just sat down and looked it over, Lewis had shuffled to look over at his face. Arthur was always one of those types of people that could be read easily, but when his mind was occupied with work, he became unreadable. Arthur leaned over to where he had his cigarettes and lighter, Lewis watched wide eyed as Arthur light one and started to smoke. Vivi saw his expression and decided to pull the cigarette from Arthur mouth, Arthur turned to her, annoyed.
'Don't give me that look.' Vivi said crossing her arms. 'I now remember that you quit smoking for Lewis' sake, but of course because I didn't remember anything with Lewis. I couldn't possibly remember that you had quit in the first place.' Arthur looked down in shame. 'And I saw how many you had in the work shop, you are not getting any more today.' Vivi started to put it out on the metal table and then chucked it into a bin nearby. 'Now I am going to make myself something to eat.' Vivi stated before storming out of the room, Mystery looked at the two men and could see that they needed to be alone. So he just followed Vivi out of the room, once Vivi had left Arthur went back to working on his arm.
'You don't blame me for coming after you?' Lewis asked, he didn't like the silence between them. Arthur paused before laughing dryly.
'To tell you the truth, no I don't. I killed you and you have every right to kill…'
'Stop that.' Lewis commanded, Arthur looked at him in surprise. 'I don't want to hear you say that it was your fault, because it wasn't.' Lewis was serious and close to becoming angry. 'And stop saying that I should kill you, I would never do that. I wouldn't be able to do that.' He voice went soft at the end. Arthur turned back to his arm and started to take it apart, Lewis just stood by him as he worked.
Vivi walked back in after a couple hours with Sam at her side, both Lewis and Arthur turned to greet her.
'Sorry that you had to come.' Arthur apologised when he faced her, Sam was already shaking her head.
'No need Arthur, I can afford to come by. I can pick up the finished ones since I am here anyway, it's a win-win situation.' She said with a smile. Arthur stood up before walking out of the room, he went straight to the living room and he saw that Sam was already set up there.
'Vivi, if you don't mind, can you measure out some of his medicine?' Sam asked as she passed Arthur and sat on the couch, she then looked at him and lightly tapped the spot to the right of herself. Arthur sat down at her request and started to pull off his shirt, she helped him pull it over his head. His stump was already bandaged from the hospital, but Sam started to unwrap it with experienced fingers. Once she was finished and the last piece fell off Lewis could stop the gasp that came from him, Arthur looked at him in surprise.
'Is this your first time seeing it?' Sam asked in concern. Tears were starting to fall as he nodded his head, Vivi walked over from the kitchen to him and hugged him. Sam scanned over the affected area before putting cream on and rebadging it.
'Hey Vivi, want to take your friend to grab the finished ones and put it my car.' Sam said looking at the two of them. Vivi nodded before pulling Lewis back to the work shop, once they were out of sight Sam sighted.
'Your friends seem to care more about your missing arm, then you do.' Sam commented, before turning back to Arthur. Arthur was looking at the ground, he wondered why Lewis had reacted like that. 'Well every looks good, you were lucky to have only have the arm disconnect. Have the bandages on for a few days, just to make sure.' She said as she stood up and went to the kitchen, when she returned she handed Arthur some tablets and a glass of water. Vivi entered with a long cardboard box in her two hands, Lewis followed soon after with two boxes in his hands. Arthur quickly swallowed the pills and drank the glass in one go, Sam walked over to the two of them and motioned for them to put the boxes down. Sam opened them and looked over every single one of them, Lewis looked over her shoulder.
'Arthur.' He breathed in amazement. 'Did you make theses all by yourself?' He asked as Sam put them back.
'He has made me many more like these. He is brilliant.' Sam praised looking at Arthur, Arthur only turned red and looked away. Sam picked up a box and headed for the front door, followed by Lewis with his and Vivi's box in his arms. Vivi went to join Arthur on the couch, glad that he seemed to have calmed down.
'Hey Vivi.' He said quietly, Vivi looked to his eyes. He looked worried and Vivi gave him all of her attention. 'Do you think things can go back to the way they were before?' He asked.
'Why wouldn't they?' Vivi asked instead of answering his question.
'Well…' Arthur paused as he thought. 'Lewis is dead and I am the one that killed him.'
'No you did not.' Vivi snapped, Arthur shuffled away from her out of shock. 'We all know that you didn't do it, so stop saying that you did.' Her anger died away before speaking again. 'Did you know that Lewis worries that you are scared of him? Have you made any sort of move to mend your friendship?' Lewis chose that moment to walk back into the house.
'Hey the doctor said bye and that…' Lewis was saying before Vivi jumped at him and pulled him towards the coach.
'I want you two to hug and make up, now.' Vivi said as she pulled Arthur up. The two boys looked at one another, they started to blush and look somewhere else. 'Guys.' Vivi warned. The two of them looked at one another before Lewis made the first move towards Arthur, Arthur didn't move as Lewis pulled him into a hug. Slowly Arthur brought up his arms to return the hug, he trying to hold back his emotions only for them to fully take over. He held onto Lewis for dear life and he wanted nothing more than to explain everything that happened, but nothing but a wail came out of him as he cried. Lewis flinched in fear at Arthur's reaction, but as he pulled him back to have a look at his face Arthur just pulled in closer.
'You died. You died because of me.' Arthur screamed into Lewis' chest. 'It most likely chose me because I was the weakest in the group.' He said as he struggled to breathe. 'Yes I was a bit lonely at the time, but I didn't want you dead. I never wanted that.' He hiccupped. 'I am sorry.' He finished as he let his entire body lean on Lewis'. They stayed silent as Arthur's breathing returned to normal, Vivi snuffled as she started to hug the two of them. She looked at Lewis and couldn't hide her sad smile, he was speechless as he struggled to keep his emotions down. Tears fell from his dark eyes, but they disappeared into the air as they fell. The three of them stood there in till Lewis lowed them to the ground and leaned against the couch, Mystery sat nearby, happy that the three of them were together again after all of this.