Author Notes: Well, truth be told I had considered to write a part III for Foxy but ultimately I decided not to so since I did not want to waste any more time on it, feeling that it would get old rather quick and I thought it would be better if I came back to the real plot of the story which was Jade and Tori raising their children.
Dont worry, in here I have a background of how Foxy became part of the family.
Jade was in her study room, sitting in front of her computer as she typed away on her new horror novel.
"Such amusing fiction, these stories they tell. It always comes to this. If they really had a desire to live, they would've been more aware of how easy it is to die, would've chosen their actions more wisely. In these moments, you can tell they're not regretting having hurt you. They regret doing it to your face. They get so loud. They make so much noise. I try to wait until I'm out of the room before I start laughing... A blur... of... sweating... screaming... human... drama... but, everyonce in a while, they say things that sound like words. They make me think about what I'm doing. The noises make me uncomfortable. So uncomfortable that... sometimes... I wonder... why I don't just get myself a pair of earplugs."
A knock on the door interrupted her work.
"Yeah?"
"Mom; it's me can I come in?" Anthony asked.
"Sure Tony"
Her ten year old son quietly opened the door "Come in Foxy, your invited too"
The family pet sniffed around, a habit the silver fox had since he was brought into the West household a few years ago, the tiny animal still wasn't used to his home and was easily afraid.
Jade and Tori guessed it had something to do because of the abuse he had gone through in his first few days of life.
So it came to no surprise to anyone that Foxy had grown attached to both his "adoptive mother" Jade, since he had imprinted on her as well as growing close with Tony since the young boy was exited to finally have a pet at last and had he not given his parents the puppy dog pout that neither of them could say no to; they wouldn't have allowed him to keep the fox, so since then Foxy has become both his best friend as well as the newest addition to the West family.
After a few sniffs and sensing no danger afoot, the fox followed his master into the room.
Tony closed the door before he made a jump towards his pale mother.
"Whatcha up to mom?"
"Writing"
"About?"
"My new horror novel" She answered curtly "Still thinking if I should give the identity of my character or leave it open to the imagination"
"What is the creature anyways mom?" Tony asked curiously "An alien? A monster? A ghost?"
"It's a man"
"Huh? That's not scary"
"Well Tony, not all my books involve creatures of the unknown, sometimes the biggest monsters in this world are as human as you and me"
"That... Is eerily creepy mom"
"Doesn't make it any less true son"
"I guess so"
"Wanted to ask me something?"
"Huh? Oh yeah I was wondering if you wanted to see a few horror films with me? they're showing a marathon on the nightmare on elm street on the Panic channel"
"Sorry Tony I can't, I have a deadline with this book and if I don't finish writting it then it won't be good for my job"
"Oh" He said dissapointed "Ok... How much longer do you need to write?"
Jade shrugged "Can't say for sure, I don't feel like this is my best work, I been writing and re-writing this more than a hundred times"
"Can I... Can I take a look mom?"
Before his mother could answer, her stomach did for her, a very loud growled came from it.
"Mom... Have you eaten anything?"
"Just an apple" Jade replied "Your mama should be bringing dinner anytime soon, so don't worry"
Tony frowned worriedly "And how long have you been writing?"
"Since nine this morning"
"Mom, you can't stay in front of the computer screen all day!"
"Oh?" This is coming from someone who plays video games all day?" Jade retorted in amusement.
"That's different I'm young your..."
"Finish that sentence and you'll be grounded till you finish college"
"Uh... Your... Not used to staying in front of the computer for too long?"
"Nice save" Jade told her son sarcastically "But if it makes you feel any better I'll rest once I'm done, so don't worry about me"
Her son grabbed the map top without another word and began reading, much to his mom's chagrin who did not like her family read her work before it was finish.
"You give my computer back to me or..."
"Why does your main character have to be a villain?"
"What?"
"I mean yes he kills people but why does he have to do it with malicious intentions?"
"Well, killing is never seen as a good thing Tony, so obviously I wrote for my main character to be evil"
"Well yeah I know mom but why not play around with your novel?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean why not turn your character from a villain to an anti-hero? That was it can be both good and evil, very few people do that"
Jade started to ponder "You may be onto something there"
"In here maybe you can have him saw off a quarterback's legs"
The brunette gave her son a curious look "Some resentment towards jocks I see"
"Maybe"
Jade smirked in amusement "Ok Mr genius, what else do you have in mind?"
"umm how about he kills a rapist and uses scissors to make his hole bigger as revenge?"
"Not bad, not bad" She said approvingly "I was thinking that he could use his victims blood as a souvenir"
"Why not paint a wall with the blood"
A tear ran down her cheek"
"Mom... Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I am"
"Then why are you crying?"
"Because I never knew you could have a dark imagination" Jade said proudly "You may have your mama's heart but you really got my brain"
"That's what I get from watching so many horror movies with you"
"Very true... So any more ideas you want to share"
Needless to say that both mother and son continued to co-write the book until the late hours of the night or early hours of the morning.
A few days later The boom came out.
And in big bold letter said "Written by Jade West and Anthony West.
The former goth couldn't have been more proud of her son.
"I Know that I been focusing on Anthony and Jade lately, don't worry I'll get back to writing for Tori and the twins soon enough.
For those of you who probably didn't catch the reference, what "Jade" write in the beginning was actually a monologue from Jhonen's Vasquez comic Johnny The Homicidal Maniac and what Tony was saying for the character was a reference to Nny who is not evil but "lost".
Also the character in Jade's novel while not specified it's actually a parody of Nny and the ideas Tony came up with were actually how Nny killed his victims in the comics, I didn't go into details because trust me if you seen the comic the murder scenes are very graphic.
The idea of Jade and Tony bonding over a horror book is actually taken from my own relationship with my grandfather who loved horror films and I used to watch a few with him growing up.
Invader Johnny Signing Off.
