"It'll be alright, Slime." I say to her, wrapping her in a hug. She shifts slightly, and escapes it, before turning to me.

"I – I know." She says. "It's just... hard, I guess."

We're currently standing outside of her previous home, with the person that made her life a living hell inside. After talking it over with Hannah, she agreed to help us out – as long as Slime also paid a visit to her old friends afterward.

Hannah walks up to the front door, opens it, and enters.

"I'm home!" She calls out. We hear a muffled response inside, probably just her mother replying, and Slime takes a deep breath.

"You can do this." Dorian says to motivate her.

"And if she attacks you, we'll slit her throat." Luna jumps in, already brandishing a multitude of knives in her hand. I make a mental note to ask her where her pocketknife went later, but for now push aside the thought, and instead focus on stifling my laughter from Luna's comment.

I swallow, my concern decreasing but still there. "We're here for you, Slime."

She nods again and walks away from us – towards her old home. We see her take a deep breath and open the door.

"I'm home!" she says, deliberately repeating Hannah. She leaves the door open, so she can call to us – or more specifically Luna – if she needs to.

We see her mother step out of another room and walk into the entrance way – with a clear confused expression on her face.

"Hannah, you just came through the house. Why the hell are you here? Did you leave?"

Luna tense at the 'hell', but Dorian and I hold her back.

"I'm shocked you payed that much attention to me, MOTHER." Slime snarls at her. She angrily spits the word 'mother' out so violently it feels disgusting to hear.

"How dare you! I raise you and this is the thanks I get - you little piece of-"

"You didn't raise me. LUNA!" Slime screams. At those words, Dorian and I release Luna, and she bolts forward, connecting her knife with the person Slime associates the word 'mother' to. With a cry, the knife embeds into her arm, and blood trickles onto the floor from the wound.

Slime stands over her.

"You never raised me. These people are." She gestures to the three of us. "They taught me compassion, honesty, and kindness - none of which you EVER decided to teach me. Without them - well... I'd probably be as bad as you."

And with those words said, Slime closed the door both literally on her mother, and figuratively on that chapter of her life, and walked back down the doorsteps, Luna following behind her, hand coated in blood.

I pass Slime a cloth and she takes a bottle of water out of her pocket, drenching the cloth in the liquid.

"You should get that filthy blood off your hands before you become infected by it." Slime says, passing Luna the cloth. As Luna cleans her hand, Hannah comes back over to us.

"I'm glad to help you."

There's a pause.

"What's going on?" I ask the two of them. They ignore me and continue staring at each other, until Slime finally breaks and looks away.

"I decided not to. I don't want to, it's not... right."

Hannah's eyes fill with tears.

"But - but...!"

"I'm sorry, but I can't."

I get impatient and jump between them.

"Okay, tell me what's going on?"

Slime sheepishly glances at me. "I - I planned to combine with Hannah. But then I realised - we've been separated too long. We have our own lives to live. I wouldn't want to leave you, and Hannah wouldn't want to leave our - her - friends."

She glanced back to Hannah. "We can't tell them. Your friends. We can't."

"W - What? We agreed-"

"The situation has changed." Slime said bluntly. "At least for now - they can't know. I - I don't trust them anymore, and I don't want them to find out about this."

"But you told your friends!"

"We BOTH trust my friends! I don't trust yours!"

For a few seconds there was silence.

"Fine. But - they need to know eventually."

"Well tell them when you think it's best - trust your judgement."

Hannah gasps. "My - my judgement?"

"Trust yourself. I know you can - you're a part of me after all!" Slime says with a smile. "But for now... I need to be able to continue my own life, and you need to start your own."

"But - we made our parents hate us now. Where - where shall I live?"

"You can live with me."

We all glance around trying to uncover who made the offer.

"Hey - there's someone over there!" I shout, spotting a man in the distance. Slime and Hannah's eyes grow wide.

"M - Matty!"

"Matthieu..."

"I - I meant what I said." Matthieu says, approaching the girls. "Honestly, you can stay with me. It's my fault you were both created - or I guess divided - in the first place."

Slime's smile grows wider. "You really have changed." She says. Turning to Hannah, she notices her cheeks are flushed. "I guess I'll leave you in Matthieu's capable hands. Don't let me down... Matty."

As she turns back to us and we walk back home together, I'm certain Slime has closed this chapter on her life for good.

GUESS WHOSE BACK

BACK AGAIN

PEACHY'S BACK

TO... DO THINGS! XD

Anyways, hi everyone! It's been a while, and even so this ending is rushed, but I hope you guys liked it anyways. I've got many more ideas - and a certain friend to introduce - but until then, I'll just wave goodbye.

But for now...

Peachy out!