Author's Note: RIP to Earl Boen, Carole Cook, David Crosby, Cindy Williams, Lisa Loring, and Annie Wersching

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Clean counters, tabletops, doorknobs, bathroom fixtures, phones, keyboards and bedside tables. Use diluted bleach solutions (4 teaspoons per quart of water), alcohol solutions with at least 70% alcohol or most common EPA - registered household disinfectants.

Chapter 23: Aftermath and goodbyes

After Gina's defeat, most of the PEACE members were rounded up, or turned themselves in the moment the authorities arrived. Eve did most of the talking of course, while Dee Dee was hopping and bouncing around much to everyone's annoyance.

After that, the group was ready to go home.

Carl was the first to leave so Eve started pulled out a HUGE sum of money and handed it over to Carl.

"Thanks," he said gratefully.

"No problem, if you need anything, holler," Eve replied with a small smile.

"Fun while it lasted, right?" Carl asked, knowing that his big adventure was coming to an end, and soon he packed his things and was given a teleport ride back to Back of the Yards, a Neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois where he had to be a Dad.

"See you guys soon!" Nate then bid goodbye to his friends and girlfriend

"Okay!" they replied back in unison.

Dee Dee rushed to Samuel and hugged and kissed him before saying:

"I'll find you."

"Okay." Samuel replied with a smile.

So Nate, Ellen, Martin, Eve, Villanelle, Willa, Luke, Jeff, Samuel and DJ were teleported home by Holden.

"I can't be here," Villanelle said sadly.

"You can't?" Martin asked.

Villanelle shook her head sadly.

Martin knew this was a huge goodbye, so he said his parting words for Villanelle:

"Villanelle...even though you are an assassin, I never felt proud to call you a good housekeeper."

Villanelle looked ready to cry for the first time ever, then she hugged Martin tightly in response.

"ThankyouThankyouThankyou soooooo much for your kind words!" Villanelle said happily.

"You're welcome. Though I imagine you won't stop on whatever you do."

Villanelle sighed sadly.

"Nope."

Villanelle and and Eve then packed their things and bid farewell to everyone even Nate and and Ellen, who had tears flowing down their faces.

"You two are the most amazing kids I've ever met," Eve said.

Nate and Ellen smiled.

"Don't let anyone tell you different."

Then Eve and Villanelle were then teleported away by Holden, who was last to depart with Willa, Luke and Jeff.

"Thanks for letting me use your powers," Nate said to Holden.

"No problem," he replied.

"Goodbye!" Everyone bid their farewells to Holden and his friends.

"Bye! I'll be in touch!" Holden called out before leaving via teleport with his circle of friends and girlfriend.

So after a few moments of silence...

"So...what now?" Martin asks to everyone present.

But despite prevailing against Gina and PEACE, Nate wasn't exactly a teacher's pet, while also not being Mr. Nice Kid everyday, having such an up and down history of getting into trouble. This did put him on shaky ground.

"Let's talk it out another day, despite today's outcome against evil and defeating Gina once and for all, this hasn't been a good day." Nate suggested.

"Yeah," DJ agreed.

So after that, Martin took both Samuel and DJ home, while Nate strolled to his room, laid down on his bed and let out a long sigh.

Ellen peered in to see her younger brother all worn out but alive and well, and knowing Nate would want to be alone for a brief period of time, headed for her room and laid down on her bed, just as her phone buzzed.

"Hello?"

"Ellen?"

"Hey Charlotte."

"I saw the news! Are you alright?" Ellen's friend asked in concern, having the knowledge of what happened today.

"Worn out but alright." Ellen responded.

"This is going to be the first thing anyone will talk about in school."

"Tell me about it."

"Is your brother alright too?"

"Yes."

"You sure?"

"Shaken up, but alright."

"Okay, just making sure, wanna talk about it later on, when we get the chance?"

"Sure, let me check my schedule first, and I'll get back to you. Right now, I want to turn in for the day."

"Good idea. Bye."

"Bye."

Ellen hanged up and sat in her bed in a long state of silence, musing over today's events and the ones leading up to today. She certainly had some ups and downs in her life, such as treating her brother rotten, having a job, a relationship, some friendships, and so on. But she never thought on what would happen after today and what would transpire after that. So she decided to take her brother's suggestion from earlier and call everything for today...

"Glad to be far away as possible," Eve said to Villanelle while the two looked over the overview at Tower Bridge in London.

"I helped stop PEACE," Villanelle replied.

"We helped together to stop PEACE," Eve corrected.

"Then I guess we both did. Isn't that romantic?"

"You know the only people who would think that are?"

Villanelle looked over to Eve with a questioned look.

"Who?"

"Us."

Silence for a few moments then Villanelle spoke:

"I don't want to do it anymore. Any of it."

Silence again then Eve looked over the view and asked looking around back:

"What's happened to us? I used to be like them."

Villanelle looked at Eve.

"What? Badly dressed? You were never like them. You only thought you were..."

Eve turned to Villanelle.

"No. I had a life. I had a husband and a house. And a chicken-"

"You still want that stuff?"

Eve looked at Villanelle as if she was ready to say something but refrained from doing so. Then she looked over the view again and said finally:

"When I try and think of my future, I just... see your face over and over again."

"It's a very beautiful face," Villanelle chimed in with a small but soft laugh, then got serious again.

"Did I ruin your life? Do you think I'm a monster?"

"You're so many things," Eve responded.

"Doesn't answer my question."

"...I think we all have monsters inside of us. It's just that most people manage to keep theirs hidden," Eve said.

"Well, I haven't," Villanelle admitted.

"No," Eve replied with a laugh. "Neither have I."

"I think my monster encourages your monster. Right?" Villanelle asked.

"I think I wanted it to," Eve replied.

Villanelle laughed softly again.

Then Eve looked at Villanelle with a serious look.

"Help me. Help me make it stop," she said.

"So, no more tea dances?" Villanelle asked sadly.

Eve laughed softly.

Villanelle followed up again with a response:

"If that's really what you want, it's not difficult."

"You're gonna tell me to jump?"

"No! Of course not. You'd die if you jumped."

"Yeah."

"It's easier than that."

"If only that were true..." Eve said, running her hands through her long black hair.

And after a brief moment again, Villanelle, noting Eve slouching, then ordered with the following words:

"Stand up straight. Stand up straight and look at me."

Eve complied after a moment or two.

"Now turn around and face the other way," Villanelle then ordered next.

"What?" Eve asks in shock as Villanelle turns around.

"I'll turn this way."

A moment passes...

"Have you turned?" Villanelle askes. "I can't see you."

Eve then turns around after hesitating to do so. Then Villanelle inhale and exhales deeply, knowing this will be the last time she sees Eve again.

"Now what?" Eve asks.

"Now we walk. And we never look back," Villanelle replied firmly.

"But I... I..."

"Don't turn. Just walk."

Villanelle then began to walk away but Eve didn't at first, the began to walk the other way. Then the two stopped walking and looked at each other.

Maybe someday their paths will cross once more...

"We're... we're moving back?" Nate asked.

"Yes. The thought of staying here is too much for me to fathom," Martin said solemnly.

After what felt like a few days of recovering and quietness (except everyone kept talking about PEACE's downfall at Nate and Ellen's respective schools), Martin found out he was passed over for a job he had originally sought (aka Promotion discrimination) back in Maine (also being his last job interview before deciding to move to California. So he decided to sit down with his children and talk about it.

"Are we going to have to say goodbye to our new friends then?" Ellen asked, close to crying again as she did when her family moved the first time around.

"Yes, honey, I'm afraid we'll have too," Martin replies sadly.

Martin did suggest the bright to moving was that Nate would see his old friends and girlfriend again, and Ellen could be with her old boyfriend again. It did cheer Nate and Ellen a little bit up, but not enough since they still had to say goodbye to their new friends.

And so came school morning...

"You're moving...again?" DJ asked in shock before 1st period began.

"Yup. Dad made up his mind, giving the controversy surrounding the construction company that my dad worked for was connected to PEACE," Nate replied solemnly.

"Harsh, bro. When are you leaving?" Samuel asked.

"Soon. Not sure when." Nate then looked at DJ.

"Sorry about Rebecca."

"It's all good. I'll... I'll be fine. I don't see any other girl that's caught my eye, but I think being single right now is not so bad after all," he said, sounding sad at first, but keeping a straight face.

"Didn't think she would work with Gina against me..." Nate muttered before the bell rang.

The rest of the day seemed normal, but after word got out that Nate was moving again, the students at Nate's school gave their moments of farewells to Nate, some with goodbye cards, hugs and high fives. And after the day was over Nate bid his last goodbyes to Samuel and DJ.

"Promise me... you'll keep in touch," Samuel said, handing a piece of paper, that had contacts from DJ and Samuel, if Nate wanted to chat on webcam and whatnot.

Nate looked at it and smiled sadly. Saddest smile ever.

"You two have been great friends since I moved here with my family. Like brothers," he said to the two friends, who in return smiled back.\

"Don't let ANYONE tell you differently."

And after that, Nate hugged his friends goodbye one last time, before departing home, as Martin had let his children's schools know he was pulling out Nate and Ellen so that they can move back.

"We leave early evening, so get everything packed," Martin announced, then noticed Nate's facial expression.

"Was it hard saying goodbye?"

"...It was," Nate said sadly.

"Anything else bothering you?" Martin asked in concern.

"...even though we've had a series of bumpy roads together..." Nate began, then Martin looked at his son as if he had two heads.

"What are you talking about?" he asked to his son.

"Examples include me having detention everyday at school, you rooting for me and Gina together, having to pick me up at the public mall after I used the intercom, having a sit-down talk on grades, and the announcement of moving here..."

"Oh, oh! Okay! I get where you going. Go on," Martin caught on to what Nate was saying.

"After everything we've been through together lately, I am proud to call you my dad."

Martin was equally taken aback by Nate's remarks at first, wondering, if his son was giving one too many hits by Gina, but after Nate reassured him he wasn't hearing things, Martin's eyes filled with tears instantly.

"Thank you! And I'm proud to call you my son... and daughter," Martin said, noticing Ellen in earshot.

Ellen then hugged her family and said:

"Wish mom was here with us."

"Think I oughta...call her when we move back home?" Martin asked.

"We'll be right with you when you contact her," Ellen her dad soothingly. And after making sure they had everything (checking head to toe the house thanks to Nate's powers handed over by Holden), the family left.

"We'll eat our leftovers along the way home, and maybe... we'll stop somewhere every now and then. No arguing, okay?" Martin said to his children.

"Okay," Nate and Ellen said.

So that was that and the Wrights started making their way home, knowing that their families, friends and loved ones are waiting for them there and that their respective futures are about to be very bright.

Just one more chapter and I'm done with this story. I never thought I would keep going but with encouragement from you, I made it to the very end. Plus I wrote this story with no sequels or prequels, just a self-contained story in mind so I hope that's not a big problem at all. So goodbye for now and see you in the last chapter! :)