Vivi smiled when she finally arrived at Arthur's with nothing but junk food in the shopping bags in her hands, before having to open the door Lewis was there to open it for her.
'Why thank you, Arthur is going to be here in an hour right?' Vivi asked as she walked to the kitchen, Lewis followed behind.
'Yea, but he made me bring back his arm. Shouldn't he go to the hospital to connect his arm?' Lewis asked.
'Oh, we went there when he made his first one. The doctor had to make sure that it was going to work, I bet that he already knows what to do and that's why he won't want any one else's help.'
'So he is never going to change.' Lewis said with a sigh and a smile. Vivi packed away the food and went to sit on the couch, Mystery appeared from the doggy door.
'Vivi there is something that we should tell you about, since Arthur won't do so himself.' Mystery said when he jumped up onto the couch to join Vivi, Lewis watched him with concern shown on his face.
'I am going to guess that it has something to do with that night.' Vivi guessed, Mystery nodded.
'Where do I begin.' Mystery started. 'So you are aware that a demon took control of Arthur. What we didn't know is that it made a connection with Arthur and has been able to speak to Arthur, mainly when he slept.'
'Is that how he was getting those terrible nightmares?'
'Yes, I even tried to silence it a few times, but that left me drained and I could do it continuously. Lately it seemed to have stopped contacting him and I sure hope that it stays that way. Just for Arthur's sake.' Vivi sighed from her spot.
'And let me guess. I am the last one to hear bout this.' She glared at Mystery.
'To be fair, I only found out about it this morning and it was by accident.' Lewis said floating over to Vivi.
'Is there anything else that I should know about?' Vivi asked, Lewis and Mystery looked at one another.
'No.' Lewis sighed and looking away, Vivi glared at him before shaking her head.
'Fine. Ether way I have wanted to ask you some questions.' Lewis looked back at her a bit confused.
'What about?' Vivi looked a bit embarrassed and paused before thinking.
'Well your current state. We already know that a soul will stick around when they have unfinished business or some other similar reason.'
'Vivi I know that, I was working with you after all.'
'Ok then. What is your reason for sticking around?' Vivi froze up before adding. 'Its not that I want you to go, I am just curious is all.' Lewis hadn't heard the bit she added in, he was lost in thought. He was so deep, that his living appearance faded away and turned back into a skeleton.
'Lewis?' Vivi jumped up and placed a hand onto Lewis' shoulder. 'Are you alright?'
Lewis seemed to blink back and his face appeared again, he looked at her.
'I don't know why I am still here.' He said slowly.
'There would have to be one other wise you wouldn't be here.' Mystery informed. 'Lewis don't think about it to much.' Lewis calmed down a bit and planted his feet on the ground.
'Alright I won't.' Lewis said but still seemed troubled.
'You could still be here for us.' Vivi said rubbing circles on his shoulder.
'Lets just drop it before Arthur comes home.' Lewis said giving Vivi a little smile.
Arthur parked the van in the garage and he closed his eyes, he was tired and he still had to connect his arm. He saw the garage door open and found Lewis looking at him from the doorway, Arthur found some energy to move and make his way into the house.
'You look terrible, I thought that you slept well last night.' Lewis commented as Arthur walked by.
'I did, but I use more energy with one hand then with two and we had a lot of work at the shop.' Arthur explained walking to the living room and slumped down next to Vivi. 'Uh and I still have to connect my arm.' He stood up again only to have Vivi grab onto his shirt and pulling him back down.
'You are going to rest then, you can connect it when ever you want later.' Vivi said turning her attention onto the TV, were there was some movie playing. Arthur didn't complain, in fact he leaned against the arm rest of the couch and fell asleep there. Lewis soon brought over a blanket from his room and covered him with it.
'Do you think he will ever try to explain anything for himself?' Vivi asked while brushing away some hair that fell out of place from where it was gelled in place.
'Probably not, definitely since he hasn't changed since high school. I don't think that he will ever.' Lewis said floating himself just above the ground and crossing his legs.
'I am sorry about asking you about…'
'Don't be. Its how you are, in fact I am surprised that it didn't come up sooner.' Lewis said.
'Well I have other questions and I am sure that Arthur would also be wondering them as well, but he wouldn't ask then himself.'
'That would be fine.' Lewis assured.
When Arthur awoke he could smell pizza, there was a cackle that sounded like Lewis' and soon when Arthur moved to smell the pizza Vivi started to laugh as well.
'Works every single time.' Vivi sighed as the pizza was moved away, Arthur stomach responded to it and growled loudly. Arthur opened an eye and found Lewis smiling down on him, Arthur shifted to look towards Vivi who had the pizza in had. Arthur's stomach made some more noise before he sat up, dropping the blanket to the floor. The box was placed in his lap and he smiled down at it.
'What time is it?' Arthur asked, it came out all scratchy.
'Don't worry you weren't sleeping for that long.' Lewis assured. Arthur open up the box and settled back into the armrest, he started to eat and ate almost half of it before giving it away to Vivi.
'You used to be able to eat a hold pizza on your own.' Lewis commented, Arthur didn't respond and instead just started to rub the back of his neck. Lewis didn't continue, but he wasn't happy with him and Arthur already knew it.
'So what are we going to do, are we going to continue and do more investigations?' Arthur asked turning his gaze to Vivi, who had just finished eating what she was given.
'Well you need your arm first and then we can start looking at some jobs that I may have found.' Vivi said jumping in her spot, Arthur stood and headed down the hall to his workroom. Viv grabbed onto Lewis and pulled him after Arthur, inside Arthur connected his arm to a computer and a load of numbers appeared in graphs that no one but Arthur understood. After he looked it over and nodded that he unconnected it from the computer before hooking it onto the brace on his shoulder, he picked up a thin metal rod before pressing the button that connected and disconnected it. Arthur hissed out before checking that everything worked.
'I really should have taken some sort of pain killers.' Arthur mumbled to himself before rolling his shoulder. Lewis moved forward as he got a proper look at it, there was a smile on his face as he took it all in. Arthur didn't notice as he was packing away all the tools that he had been using the night before.
'Its so cool.' Lewis said in awe, Arthur turned to have Lewis' face less then a meter from his. He jumped and immediately clenched at his shirt just in front of his heart.
'Lewis.' Arthur managed to say as Lewis noticed what happened and backed off as Arthur calmed himself.
'Sorry, but it really is cool.' Lewis said grinning like an idiot, Arthur started to turn pink. Mystery smiled from the doorway.
'I told you he would.' He said before walking off, Arthur turned red at this point and looked down on his left hand, flexing it.
'Um.' Arthur cleared his throat.'Thank you.'
'Alright, since Arthur is now whole we should go watch a movie.' Vivi stated and walked out of the room, leaving Arthur and Lewis to go after her so that they didn't end up watching a horror.
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Note- Thanks to the reviewer that told me about the spelling mistake. I can't believe I made a mistake like that, well thats what happens if you don't read it over.
