Time

Time turned back to Jee, her eyes the only part of her showing her worry.

"What are we going to do about her?" she hissed, glancing towards the popular group. There, Prylia was facing them with a smirk on her face. Time looked back at Jee, who was biting back a snarl. "I don't know what kind of information she has, but if it's about what I think it is about," her eyes flickered to him, watching as he joked with Shade about something, who was threatening to, in her words, "truss him up like a pig and hang him from the ceiling in the gym if he doesn't keep his trap shut". She sighed before continuing. "Who knows what will happen. To Nicolas and all of us."

"I know," Time shook her head sadly. "Thanks for the ambrosia, by the way. How was the group when you visited?"

"Thry weren't too happy with me having to come here," Jee sighed. "Especially Mirage, but that's mainly due to the fact that he wants in on the action as well. Actually," she shrugged. "They all do."

Time had expected that reaction, knowing how they were. She turned in her seat… to see Shade holding Fear in a choke hold as he pretended to be unconscious. The only reason she wasn't stopping Shade was because Healie was motioning for her to leave them alone. Jee and Time looked at each other before shrugging.

It was just the average day of their group.

*Hop*Scotch*Game*Through*The*Time*Stream*Also*Known*As*A*Time*Skip*

Time sat on her bed in her room, waiting expectantly for the call.

You can never call a favour from an immortal without one in kind being called.

She glanced around her room, with its sky blue walls and light grey door, matching the furniture around the room and the bed directly opposite. She sat on her bedspread, which appeared to be comprised of every shade of blue and grey one could find, creating a rather mellow and relaxing tone. Next to her bed was an attached dresser, of which one drawer was locked and the key on her chain necklace.

Her phone beeped once before she answered.

"So," the deep baritone of the voice as familiar to Time as Fear's voice was. "Did he feel better? Did sending her work?"

"You know it did," she sighed and nodded silently, waiting for him to make his request. She heard muttering in the background before she heard him speak again.

"Is he happy now?" she raised an eyebrow at his quiet tone, even while she answered normally.

"Yeah," she smiled as she remembered their crazy battles during and in-between classes. He was a lot happier now.

"Then don't worry about it," she raised an eyebrow at her phone. Very rarely was she surprised, but she had not expected the revelation that she had just reached.

"Has he grown on you?" she smiled slightly. He always had a special ability to win over some of the most stubborn people somehow.

Apparently, the very Boogeyman himself, well known for his hatred for all beings, had softened to Fear as well.

Or he owed Fear's cousin another favour, again.

"Nah," she could hear the shrug in his voice, but she noted the telltale warble in his voice that proved his words false. "I owed… you know, her, another favour. She called it in before you called."

Time silently thanked her foresight to call him beforehand.

"Understood," she cut the call immediately. Had anyone else done it, it would have been seen as rude. However, she had a lot she needed to do, a fact that she knew he was aware of.

She opened the locked drawer, her eyes falling on the square packet lying there.

Just in case…

A/N: The plot thinkens…

…and yes, I was the one to contact the Boogeyman. She asked us all to keep our eyes peeled, so naturally I watched Fear and spotted the process begin, and since Pain is the only one who can help him through the process, I called in on a favour.

I had to babysit his kids for him while he and his wife Trauma went on a date.

Those two make Fear with a candy high seem calm.

(*in distance* I heard that)

(Don't care)

So while I deal with those memories and other junk.

Denograde out ;)

(*door opening* Now what's this about me and sugar?)

(FEAR GET OUT OF MY OFFICE!)