Time

The moment that Time arrived home, she greeted her mom and ran upstairs to her room. Falling backwards onto her bed, she pulls her phone out and stared hesitantly at the screen. She knew that, regardless of how she felt about it, she had to do it.

For her partner.

She dialled the number, before holding the phone to her ear. It ringed for a while, making her hope that he wouldn't pick up, a thought that she immediately banished from her mind. She heard him answer.

"Hello," a deep, very familiar voice responded, sounding the crisp, cool professional he undoubtedly was.

"Hey, Boogs," she could feel him perk up the moment she started talking, making her wish she didn't have to do it, but knowing that she had to."Remember that favour you owe me? I'm calling it in."

There was a short pause. "I'm listening..."

Time snickered as she sat across from Fear at the lunch table. Healie had decided that Fear looked exhausted and forced him to sleep, which she figured wouldn't work, if he was on the phase that she thought he was.

Phase 4: Insomnia.

He glared at everyone as he rested his head on his arms, making her chuckle softly. He groaned and buried his face into his arms, trying, and failing, as far as she could see, to block out the world around him. Generally, they were all just joking around until a shadow fell on the table. They all looked up to see the popular girls.

Great, Time thought to herself, masking a wince.

"Hey, Nicholas," Prylia's high pitch made both Time and Fear flinch. "So I heard that you are the heir to the Denoveli fortune. Is that true?"

The curse that escaped Fear's mouth made Time backhand him so hard his head snapped back. Healie was still processing the fact that he used that kind of language while Jee was smirking at both Fear's choice of wording and Prylia's expression.

To be fair, Time mused. The guppy face really did suit her.

"As far as he's aware, yes," Time spoke up, preventing Fear from turning into an even bigger embarrassment.

Unfortunately, Fear was a little behind.

"I may be rich, but I'm not an idiot," he looked at her with a spark of annoyance in his eyes. "If I could go the rest of my ex- my life," he amended smoothly. "Without seeing a jerk like you, I'll be happy."

Time sniggered softly. Well, a tired Fear was a sarcastic Fear, and this was no exception.

Without batting an eyelash at the dumbstruck group in front of him or the three girls around him in various phases of laughing, he got up and motioned for them all to go with him.

"Hopefully we can find some intelligence in the library," he said with a shrug. "At the moment, I don't see any."

With those words, Time and her friends all staggered behind Fear, nearly collapsing from laughter as they helped each other walk.

*lé*Time*skip*from*an*alternate*dimension*

"What?" Time raised her eyebrow at her friends. "It doesn't have anything to do with me, so I could care less."

"But, Claire, she's a new student!" She bit her lip in an attempt to not give herself away. "We have to see if she's anything like Prylia!"

She very much isn't, Claire thought to herself, before spotting Fear running up to them.

"We'll discuss this later-" she fought her smirk as Healie cut her off.

"We are going to see who she is, and that's final!" Fear chuckled softly as he reached them.

"I'm all for seeing the new girl," Time shook her head in mock annoyance as they all dragged her with them.

"You know who she is, don't you?" She only smirked in response to Fear's question.

When they found that they couldn't find the new girl anywhere, they all resigned themselves to sitting in class. As the teacher started talking, the principal walked in, dragging two girls with him.

One was obviously Prylia, who was dragging her feet and complaining loudly about how the other girl, most probably the new girl, should be expelled.

The other girl in question looked as if she wished that she was anywhere else than there at the moment. Her raven black hoodie was pulled over her head, only showing her face with her long black hair swept behind one ear while curled in front of the other, showing her red eyes. She was just calmly studying the class around her before her eyes landed on all of them. With a smirk she made her way towards them. Time checked Fear's reaction, only to see his shocked expression that was slowly becoming a smirk with recognition. Time masked her own smirk behind a frown as she shook her head at their old friend.

"Shade Demo," she said with a sigh. "It's your first day of school and you already beat someone up?"

"She was asking for it," Shade muttered, glaring at Prylia. "She wouldn't stop whining and going on and on about the dumbest of things. You know I have little patience, especially with-"

"Pain?" Fearlooked at her in curiosity. "What are you doing here?"

//A/N: If you guys are wondering why this took forever, I hit a writers block and rereading this, after editing and all the type of things I learned in a year, my writing skills have developed and now I probably am going to rewrite this. Don't worry, this draft will still remain and be completed, but Time and I agree that this has to be redone.

You all can still comment your immortals if you want.

That's all, so...

Denograde out ;)