[Scene: Zoi teleports home. He doesn't see his father in the living room.]

Zoi: Dad?

Chief Midori: In here.

[Zoi goes into the kitchen and sees his father reviewing crime scene photos at the table.]

Zoi: Hi, Dad.

Chief Midori: Hey, Zoi.

Zoi: Did Susan Chiba call you?

Chief Midori: No, why?

Zoi: Good.

[Zoi starts rummaging through the fridge.]

Chief Midori: Something wrong?

Zoi: [surly] No. Sue says Mamoru is feeling better. It wasn't mono. So that's good.

Chief Midori: Are you going to go visit him?

Zoi: He's hanging out with his other friends.

[Cjief Midori gives him an incredulous look]

Chief Midori: No need to fix dinner. We just ate not too long ago. There are some leftovers in a container in there for you.

Zoi: We?

Chief Midori: Kunzite was here. He left after a few hours.

[Zoi closes the fridge. His eyes sting with tears of disappointment]

Chief Midori: Son, what are you crying for? You saw him just yesterday.

Zoi: I don't even know.

[But somehow the thought of Kunzite coming over to help his father and leaving without waiting for him to come home is heartbreaking.]

Zoi: How is the investigation coming?

Chief Midori: I've got a lot on my plate right now. Four more tourists have gone missing from a campsite outside Siren Lake. This is getting out of hand.

Zoi: Are you sure it wasn't a bear?

Chief Midori: I'm afraid I'm not sure of anything anymore, honey. Their tent was torn apart and…there was a LOT of blood this time.

Zoi: Oh!

Chief Midori: And footprints. But no bodies. Like I said, it's mostly being handled by the FBI. But it is really starting to concern me since these crime scenes are becoming increasingly more disturbing… And most of the footprints are small…women's footprints… It's almost as if the earlier crime scenes were staged by a Manson Family style cult to lure victims into Hen Tie with the intention of murdering them.

Zoi: Another cult, huh? [giggles nervously] It looks like Hen Tie is becoming cult central.

Chief Midori: [cocks one brow] You know something about cult activity in Hen Tie?

Zoi: [sighs sadly] No, it's just a bad inside joke… I don't feel much like eating. I'll head up to my room.

Chief Midori: [calling after him] Stay out of the woods, son.

Zoi: Yes, dad.

[Zoi trudges up the stairs and goes to his room with the intention of lying in his bed and moping. It's been a rough day. But all thoughts of moping flee his mind when he sees Kunzite, looking really hot in a black t-shirt and jeans, lying on his bed reading a book.]

Kunzite: [without looking up from his reading] So, you're finally home.

Zoi: [giddy with delight] Having you been waiting a long time for me?

Kunzite: [setting aside the book] Only about twenty thousand years or so.

[Kunzite lies flat on his back and beckons.]

[Zoi approaches the bed, then stops and pulls out his phone]

Kunzite: Incoming call from Usagi?

Zoi: No, I'm turning it off.

[Zoi tosses it aside. Kunzite tries to fight a smile as Zoi climbs on the bed and straddles him]

Zoi: If Usagi wants any more help with Mamoru she should talk to her parents. Or Naru. Anyone but me. I'm done playing Cupid.

Kunzite: [runs his hands over the sides of Zoi's body, lingering at his hips] That's too bad. You'd look positively adorable with a tiny pair of angel wings and a loincloth.

Zoi: [snakes his hands under Kunzite's tee-shirt] You should know by now, I'm no angel.

Kunzite: [shrugs demurely] I'm not so sure about that.

[Kunzite pulls him close and they kiss passionately]

Zoi: If I've learned anything this week, I'm the wrong person to come to with relationship problems.

Kunzite: Oh? But you're so good at this…

[They kiss some more]

Zoi: That's the trouble, you know?…relationships are supposed to be a lot of hard work…And you're far too easy to love.

[Kunzite's hands lock around Zoi's wrists and pin them to his sides. He leans up and pressed his lips very lightly to Zoi's forehead. Zoi's eyes close.]

Kunzite: [breathless] If we keep this up, I'm going to end up getting carried away.

Zoi: Why do you think I turned off my phone?

[Kunzite grins as Zoi blushes]

[He rolls over, pinning Zoi underneath him]

Zoi: Now all we have to worry about is my dad walking in on us.

Kunzite: He won't walk in on us.

[He hugs Zoi close while he holds out his hand in the direction of the door.]

[An arcane symbol appears for a few seconds before fading away.]

Zoi: [sly] Did you just put a hex on my door?

Kunzite: Only a small one… Every time your father so much as approaches that door tonight with the intention of opening it, he will be convinced he left the iron on downstairs and it's starting to burn the house down.

Zoi: That must be some hex if it can trick my dad into thinking he's done some ironing…