Awful, Awful People

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Awful, Awful People
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"Awful, Awful People" is the 41st episode of Wiksteria Lane.

Summary[edit | edit source]

A war has officially been declared on the world of wikia, and whereas Renaboss worries about its implications, Jdg reacts quite differently. Meanwhile, Belle is horrified to learn that her hostage is gone, and a vicious beast starts to spread horror wherever it goes. Rappy is beyond confused with the ruckus created at his headquarters by a certain black woman, and Lynette is delighted to hire a new employee.

Plot[edit | edit source]

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As a child, I remember telling my mother to check my bedroom for monsters, before I went to sleep. I was terrified of them. My father would tell me tales of strange, gruesome creatures that could take me with them, in order to keep me from wandering off. To his way of thinking, those stories were told for my own good. To keep me safe, next to him. To my way of thinking, well... they were just traumatizing.
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A young mother on Wiksteria Lane, in one of the lesser parts of the wiki, hands her four-year-old son a bit of beef jerky, even though the child doesn't want it. They stand in front of a grocery store. "You haven't had anything to eat today, sweetie," she tells her son, "Mommy worries. Please, just take a bite." The young man takes the beef jerky in his hand and his mother suddenly realizes that she forgot to get their daily bread. She turns to her son and tells him she's gonna dash back inside and get the bread. "Stay put, sweetie. Watch mommy's bags. Eat the jerky." She leaves. The kid looks at the piece of beef jerky in his hand and makes a grimace.

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I got older as time went on but for some reason I never stopped being afraid of said monsters. I didn't believe in them anymore, of course. I'm not crazy. That being said, that remnant of an irrational fear still lingered...
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The child looks up and his attention is caught by the tall, large black dog that approaches him. "Hi." The dog pants.

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Little did I know, said monsters were real. Far scarier and more dangerous than I could ever have imagined.
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The dog starts to sniff out the beef jerky. The kid holds it up to his face and says, "You want it?"

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Times like these, I give thanks I'm dead. No monsters in Heaven.
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The mother comes out of the store, bread in tow. And she lets out a bloodcurling scream at the sight of the large beast chewing away at her young son's carcass. The piece of beef jerky remains intact on the ground.

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Elsewhere, life went on for our beloved heroes. As frustrating and despairing as it tended to be. They had their own personal demons to deal with.
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Renaboss knocks on the front door of Villain fan's template because apparently wiki homes don't have doorbells. Lady Junky, looking slightly better, opens the door. For a split second he marvels at her beauty, despite its damaged state. And almost loses his trail of thought, the memory of what brought him there in the first place. When it gets back to him, he hands her a pink bath towel. "You, uh, you left this behind. Or rather I did, I guess, I forgot to include it um... amidst your things. So... here." She takes it and tells him he didn't have to bother over a towel, that she has plenty. He puts one hand in the back of his head, not sure how to respond. He asks how she's holding up. "Good," she says, in her typical accent, "Very good. I, my papa is happy to have me back, and I, I'm happy to be back. He is at Gallery now. Buying me books, because he... he will teach me English. To better speak." Rena nods and says that's great. She gives him a subtle smile. "I should go," Rena says, "Nice, nice talking to you." He waves her goodbye, awkwardly. She simply says, "Bye," lowly. And closes the door.

Flashback - Lady Junky sits down on her couch, back in the house where she grew up. Aged 18. She gets up and walks around, looking very nervous and anxious. Then, the front door of the house is heard being opened and subsequently closed. Her mother, Merrystar, enters the living room, not saying anything at first. Lady looks at her, impatient. But also jittery. Merry approaches her, puts her hands on her arms and tells her here, "Il est ici. Ton père." Lady gulps. "Maman..." she says. Merry caresses her cheek and tells her, "Tout ira bien. Je sais que ça peut te sembler surprenant, ma chérie. Mais, tu as voulu connaître ton père toute ta vie. Maintenant, tu peux. Tout ira bien." Lady, still nervous, nods and says, "Okay..." Merry calls out for Villain fan. And the man enters the room. As soon as he does, his steps slow down. He is marvelled by his young daughter's immense beauty. Merrystar had told him she was beautiful, but that is just what mothers do when commenting on their children. But she undersold her. She wasn't just beautiful. Lady Junky's beauty was indescribable. He walks up to her and holds her hands. She smiles. He smiles back, and caresses her cheek. "Vous ne me connaissez pas ... Vous ne savez pas qui je suis, d'où je viens et ce que je fais. Mais le savoir: je t'aime. Déjà, comme il est, je t'aime de tout mon cœur." Lady tears up as she hears her father say these kind words. They embrace.

BelleLover comes home from the hair salon. She looks exactly the same. Her expression, however, changes from a laid-back one to one of true shock and confusion once she notices that her template was ransacked. Things are missing, stuff has been knocked over and the door to the pantry is now off of its hinges. To make matters worse, her hostage is missing. "Oh, my God..."

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BelleLover was stunned. No, that's an understatement. She was horrified. The woman she had tried to keep a secret, both from her lover and from her daughter-slash-son, was now loose, running wild. A woman who now had the power to destroy her life as she knew it. Not only that, the bitch apparently also had the nerve to steal from her home. She knew she had to find her as soon as possible.
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Belle rushes out of her home, desperate to find Merrystar.

Nosh is seen cleaning the PM room in the template he shares with Matthew, trying as best as he can to live up to the cleaning standards once set by their third party, Mirlo. He uses his duster on the few framed pictures they have on the stand, and stops to pick up and admire a picture of Matthew, posing on a beach. One of the vacations the three of them took together with the money they got from whatever boss hired their services. Nosh smiles and daydreams about getting away with Matthew. Being free, good and happy.

"What we do here?" Pll asks, innocently, as she and Devious Peep troll the halls of the main building of Staff Headquarters/Community Central again. "Fool I said we's gon' be back for mo' shit," Peep tells her, explaining why they are back there again. Pll holds in her hand the frying pan she'd used before, with some blood drying on it, indicating she's already resorted to using it in order to get past the security personnel. "What we look?" "Anything, bitch. Momma needs to hock sum shit to get sum bling." They go in a different direction than the ones they'd gone before. Devious Peep opens a door and says, "Every fucking wall is covered in gold yet these sumbitches can't afford locks fo dey doors." They are confused to find themselves in a strange monitoring room, filled with several screens, showing different places all over wikia. "Da fuq dis shit be fool?" Pll walks around, and notices her boss' template over at the Lostpedia on one of the screens. "I tink they watch people with TVs," Pll tells her friend, and Peep replies, "Holy crap these fools can see me when I take a shit?!" "What you care you shit on street," Pll reminds her. Peep notices a screen on the left side that shows the front view of Wiki Burger. "Oh look fool it's that raggeddy-ass place where I should be working right now. God I hate dat place. Now I'm gon' press dis red button cos surely ain't nothin' wrong gon' happen if I press dis red button." She pushes the red button.

DisneyMeerkats checks her purse, which is surprisingly organized in its interior, probably due to the fact that she wasn't always a woman and women are renowned for having World War III taking place inside their purses. She heads towards Wiki Burger, across the parking lot, having just come from a nearby snack-bar where she had lunch. Suddenly, she is sent flying back when the establishment explodes. Her body hits a black car behind her, and she ducks and cowers on the ground as pieces of debris and whatever else that is blown out by the explosion come flying in her direction. She squeals and gasps and keeps cowering. A great big fire now stands where Wiki Burger used to be. Then, half of a hairy leg hits the side of the black car, right before her face. The foot is still inside a shoe. The leg is chopped at the knee. Disney screams out with horror.

Back at the monitoring station, Peep looks on with confusion at the black screen before her. "Did I turn dis shit off?" she asks. Pll looks at at a screen that shows the snack-bar next to the famed franchise restaurant. She turns a handle below the screen that indicates degrees, and the image slides over further and further to its side, to reveal as much as that camera can of what is left of Wiki Burger. "I tink you blow up burgers," Pll says. Peep looks at the same screen, dumbstruck. "I no clean it up," Pll states. Peep looks on at the mess she provoked. "Damn. Deys is so gon' blame me fo' dis shit cuz I'm black."

"What the hell?! What did you just say?!" Rena is shocked beyond belief, and unable to cope with what he has just been told. Before him stands the jittery Jdg98, who repeats his earlier statement, "I just... I said I'm thinking of joining the war. Help our cause." Rena runs his hands through his hair. "You are 14!" he reminds his protegé. "Yes, and I was a homeowner at 13. Laws aren't very strict in wikia. It's just how it is. Look, Rena, I feel useless all the time in this great big fight we have going on against Lynette. I need to do something, I need to be a part of something bigger than myself, just so that I know that I've helped." Rena is actually seriously frustrated. "Look, I'm just gonna flat out say it, I forbid it. Do you hear me? You're forbidden." Jdg looks annoyed. "You can't tell me what to do, you're not my father..." "Yeah well I helped bury your father! So I'm the next best thing. You live under my roof and you will obey my rules! I am not letting you join the war, do you understand me?!" Jdg gives him a spiteful look and says, "Just try and stop me then." He moves past Rena, ready to go upstairs, and the annoyed Chat Mod stops him, saying, "You know, when I first got here, you were a scaredy little pussy, a whiney kiss-ass, willing to do anything to please me. Now, now you're, you're arrogant, you talk back to me a-and..." Jdg turns back to him, from the stairs, and says, "And what? You want me to go back to kissing your ass? Walking in your shadow?" Rena doesn't know how to respond. "Right," Jdg continues, "You miss being the doting hero. Having people looking up to you. Rena, I love you. I appreciate everything you've done for me. I will never forget it and I will never leave your side. But I am also not gonna be crawling over your footprints either. I can make my own decisions, and I've decided: I'm going to war." "Like hell you are!!" "I can't talk to you when you're like this!! Chill the fuck down!!" Jdg dashes to his navbar, and Rena kicks a chair in the kitchen. He then sits down in another chair, fuming. Belle lets herself in, having overheard a part of the commotion from the outside. She makes herself visible and asks if everything is alright. Rena doesn't even try to pretend. "No, Ma... Not at all. In fact, my life is pretty much a flaming piece of shit right now." Belle slaps him on the back of his head and tells him, "You know I don't like that word! I oughta scrub your tongue with a bar of soap, young man." Rena apologizes. She sits down next to him, and he asks why she came. She awkwardly tries to come up with a reply. "I, um, I lost m-my... clutch. I'm just looking around the neighborhood to see where I could have left it." "Why?" Rena asks, "Do you often go around the neighborhood, walking?" "I, I jog," she tells him. "With your clutch?" "Is that really what you want to focus on right now? Tell me, sweetie, what is the matter? Is it that you miss that lovely young lady, Villain's daughter?" "No... I mean, yes. But, just, not just that. You know there is a war going on, Ma." She rubs his arm and says she knows, she heard it on the news. "I wish you and Disney were elsewhere... Anywhere but here. Safe." Belle smiles and says she and her daughter can fend for themselves. She then adds that he shouldn't be worried about that so much, everything should work out just fine. "You were always so optimistic," Rena remembers. "And you were always so negative! Sweetie, remember what I used to tell you whenever you were glum about something?" Rena smiles and repeats her words: "If we can face our problems head on, that's when we find out just how strong we really are." Belle strokes his hair and says that's right. "You know... I remember that, back when I was friends with your mother... She once told me why she had named you Renaboss." "Oh?" Rena wonders. "Well, the 'Rena' part comes from the Latin word 'renatus', which means 'reborn'. She went for it because she... She was depressed for many years. But when you were born, you brought the joy back into her life." Rena smiles. She continues: "You symbolized the rebirth of her happiness. And 'boss'... Because she knew you would one day be a leader. And you will be. I know." Rena thanks her for telling him this. She kisses him on the forehead, and then advises him to go sit down in the PM room, watch some TV - but not the news coverage, maybe cartoons - and relax. Rena asks if she wants any help looking for the clutch first, but she assures him that she's got it covered. Rena heads into the PM room and she prepares to leave, but once he turns on the TV the coverage of the explosion at Wiki Burger is showing. Their eyes widen, and Belle brings her hands to her mouth. "No..." she says, through her hands, "My baby..." Suddenly, the front door opens and DisneyMeerkats comes in, relatively unscathed. They both look at her. "Mom!" she says, and Belle moves in to hug her, tears in her eyes. "Oh my God! Oh my God, sweetie!! Oh God these were the worst three seconds of my life." Rena joins in on the hug and Disney starts to cry, telling them that she was so scared. Belle caresses her face and tells her, "It's okay. It's okay, mommy's here." She holds her daughter tight again and says, "Mommy's here, and I'll never leave you."

Villain fan is seen talking on the phone at the Gallery, picking up books meant to help foreign young children learn how to speak English. "Yes, sweetie. Papa's got it taken care of. Yes, I will buy razor blades for your sister. Ok. Reception's bad here, hanging up now. Bye. Bye." He hangs up and resumes shopping.

Flashback - Villain fan gives Merrystar a drink, as they take a cruise. They are seen standing on the deck of a large ship, cruising the Atlantic waters. "Thank you," Merry tells him, in a moderate French accent, "I am so glad you took the time to travel with me." Her English is slightly better than her daughter's. Villain doesn't look appeased. "I am just... I can't believe you waited so long to tell me I have a daughter." Merry apologizes for that, and tells him that Lady loved to meet him. "And I love being with you," she adds, "And I really look forward to being with you more in the future." "Right..." Villain tells her, looking rather uncomfortable. "I, I gotta go to the bathroom." Merry smiles. "Your coat," she says, "Take it off, I put in bedroom. It's hot." He acquiesces, taking his coat off and handing it to her. He leaves, and she takes a sip from her cocktail. Then she takes out his cell phone from his coat's pocket. She looks around in his contact list, and picks a contact in particular. She presses the call button and holds. The call is answered on the other side. "Hello?" Merrystar says, "I, you don't know me, but... look, lady, my name is Merrystar, and I am your husband's mistress. We have a daughter together. He will leave you for me. So pack your bags and go, because nobody cares. Bye." She hangs up. On the other side of the call, DocMD looks completely stunned.
Merrystar smiles, victoriously, having just assuredly destroyed her lover's marriage. He will be upset, surely, but she'll help him get over it. Pick up the pieces and start anew. Footsteps are heard behind her, and she turns around to face her beloved man, but as she begins to say, "Welcome back..." she is hit in the face with an oar. Unconscious, she falls overboard. Villain fan puts the oar back in its place and looks around to make sure nobody was watching. Then he picks up his coat and cell phone from the floor of the deck.

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Rappy, the head of Staff, was beyond confused. And also beyond livid. His security guards kept rambling on and on about a loud, large black beast, and a tiny Ninja with a deadly frying pan, bringing forth hell at the headquarters. And now a second building had been suddenly blown up, which was bringing about heat from the media. And he held someone responsible for this.
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In his office, the very angry-looking Rappy calls Lynette, who answers, with an annoyed Pll holding up the phone to his face, and asks what is going on. "Did you come back and blow up that building?" "Oh," Lynette says, "Yeah, I saw that on the news... I had nothing to do with it. Why would I blow up Wiki Burger?" "No one else knew about my room! Only you! Not even Trella, no one knew!" "I didn't do it..." Lynette reassures him, "And I didn't tell anyone either. I'm not stupid." "You better be telling the truth!! You better not be fucking around behind my back, I can destroy you with the push of a button!! You just keep that in mind." Lynette, slightly annoyed, asks, "Are we done here? I have business to get to. I already said I had nothing to do with that. Now if you will excuse me..." He hangs up. Rappy looks further aggravated. Trellar comes in, with a provocative smile, having overheard his side of the conversation, and says, "Well, that's what you get for trusting the wrong people." "Fuck off, skank!" Rappy says, "Just... just fuck off." Trella turns to leave, still grinning wickedly.

Matthewvp09 comes home to find Nosh sitting in his PM room. Not moving, just sitting, hands together, looking depressed. "What's up with you?" Matt asks, rather bluntly. Nosh doesn't quite know how to spit it out. "Oh fuck no..." Matt says, "Don't fucking tell me you're throwing another tantrum over wanting to leave." Nosh still doesn't say anything. "I don't have the time or the patience for this shit," Matt says, and prepares to leave again, but Nosh stands up and says, "I wanna talk about it but I know you'll get upset if I do." Matt turns back to him and looks him in the eyes. Then he says, "Then we better not talk." He leaves. Nosh looks even sadder.

"Sir?" Lynettefan holds his head up from whatever bureaucratic affair he's entertained with, much to his boredom, to find his assistant, IceBerry, standing at the entrance to his office. Lynette comments that he'd been away quite a long while, and Ice responds that it was hard tracking down the employee he'd so wanted to hire. "But I finally have, sir, and she's right here," he says. Lynette smiles, hopeful, and Ice leads the way for Andalusian to enter the office. A woman of dark complexion and apparent islamic origins, Andalusian is exotic from top to bottom, right down to her name as well. Her eyes are green and piercing, and her red lips contrast with her brown skin. Her voluptuous body is partially concealed by her black outfit, meant to hide her femininity. She approaches her new employer's desk, and he motions at her to sit, which she does. "Well, it is certainly a pleasure to meet you, Miss. I've heard so many wonderful things about you." Andalusian's face doesn't change from her permanent quasi-smile, and she doesn't say a word. Or even open her mouth. "Well, you see, um, I will get straight to business," Lynette starts to say, "There is a war going on. Or, getting started, in my... in wikia. A war I started." He says this last part with some pride. He continues: "And I need all the expert players on my side that I can get, and your reputation for, well, terrorism, it travels the worlds... I need someone like you on my team. I am prepared to offer thousands of badges on a monthly basis. If you are prepared to join me on my cause." The woman's smile becomes more noticeable. "Not a lady of many words," Lynette says, "I like that. The women I've had working for me so far, well, they didn't know when to stay quiet and put. Um, Ice, dear, see to it that Miss Andalusian gets set up with a proper home, here on the Lostpedia. I shall direct her to her first assignment when I see fit." Ice nods, rather reluctantly. Anda stands up and prepares to leave, still not saying a word.

Lady Junky is seen washing dishes in the kitchen of her father's template, and, in the midst of her chore, she glances outside unwillingly and seems to spot her mother, Merrystar, in the corner of her eye. She looks back up and doesn't see her anymore. Attributing this to an illusion, Lady continues scrubbing the dishes clean.

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Much to her confusion, it seemed for a split second to Lady Junky that she had witnessed her mother's presence on the lane. Which got her thinking about the time when she was told her beloved maman had perished.
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Flashback - Lady Junky is washing dishes back in her old house. It's been about a month since her parents left together to go on a cruise. Her father lets himself in, having been given a key by Merry. He walks into the kitchen, and Lady turns around to face him, surprised to see him. "Papa..." she says, with a smile, "Où est maman?" With a sad look on his face, Villain tries to choose the words carefully. "Bonbon... votre mère est morte." Lady drops a soapy dish to the floor and it shatters. She brings her wet hands to her mouth, and tears start to well up in her eyes. "M-maman?..." Villain walks up to her and puts his hands on her arms. "Je suis tellement désolé. Nous, nous roulions, je veux dire, j'étais, à la croisière, et, et il y avait un chevreuil qui traversait la route, et je fait une embardée pour l'éviter et je suis tombé de la voiture. J'étais indemne, mais votre mère, elle ... ma chérie, je crains qu'elle périt." Lady starts to sob. Villain holds his daughter in his arms. "I am so sorry..." he tells her, tears in his eyes. Lady asks where her mother's body is then, and Villain explains that she was in such a bad shape that he asked for her to be cremated, and scattered her ashes by the lake where she grew up. As she had always wanted. Lady is surprised by this. "Mais ... et moi? P-pourquoi ne voudriez-vous que je dise au revoir à son? Pourquoi n'avez-vous pas me, me dire?" Villain explains to her that he didn't want her to see the state she was in.

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Unbeknownst to Lady, of course, her mother's fate had been quite different. Villain had originally intended to simply reveal to her that Merrystar had fallen overboard from the ship and presumed dead, but he knew his daughter would never give up searching for her mother, until she was given some sort of closure. The truth, therefore, as tampered as it might have been, was not an option. And Villain had lied all his life up to that point. Even to himself. What was one more little fib?
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Villain breaks off the embrace and tells his daughter, "No matter what, sweetie... I am here for you. You have me now. Do you understand? I will never leave your side. Okay?" Her face red from the tears, Lady nods slightly and says, "Oui... okay." They hug again.

Some time later, Villain fan returns home. DocMD is surprised to see him. "What are you doing here?" she asks, bluntly. Confused, Villain says, "Um, honey, I'm home. Figured you'd be happy to see me. I brought you something awful pretty." He starts to take out from his coat's pocket a small box that contains a diamond necklace. "It's gonna look so beautiful around your neck." Insulted, Doc tells him, "Well, you certainly are pretty shameless, showering me with gifts when you have just returned from your one-month trip with your whore." Villain's world is turned upside down. "W-what?..." "She called me, Villain!! From your cell phone! To tell me you we were leaving me, to be with her." Horrified, all Villain can do is tell his wife, "She... she shouldn't have done that." Doc laughs. Without wanting to. "Oh, God... tell me, Villain... tell me, please tell me, what I have done to deserve getting a call from a mistress of yours telling me that our marriage is over! You just tell me what I did to earn that!!" "Honey..." Villain says, with sadness in his eyes. "Don't you dare!..." Her voice sounds different from anything we've ever heard from her. "Don't you dare try to speak softly to me... I will kill you, I swear to God I will kill you..." "You're not thinking straight..." "Oh, God..." she finds herself laughing again, "No, you're right, I'm not. I haven't been for almost 20 years now! God I can't believe I could be so stupid." Villain looks desolate. She goes on: "I remember so well... my dear friend Belle confiding in me that as much as she loved you, and as much as she wanted to believe that you were a good person, that she could hardly trust you. She knew you always had lust in your heart, and that you couldn't be faithful to one person for long. She told me, Villain! Time and time again! She was always insecure in your relationship, and I had to go and marry you. I should have known better..." "Doc, please! I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I know that now, but it's not everything that you think, the only reason I met with this woman was because...!" He stops himself. "What?" Doc asks, angrily, "Because what?" Villain tries to muster up the courage to tell her: "We... we have a daughter. Together." Doc doesn't talk or react for a few seconds. Then she bursts out laughing. Once she's recomposed, she asks him how old she is. He tells her she's eighteen. "And tell me, Villain, seeing as how that's approximately the amount of time we've been together as a couple... When, tell me, when was this bundle of joy conceived?" Villain gulps. "Yeah..." Doc says, "I thought so." They don't say anything for a while. "Honey..." "I called a divorce attorney. I was just waiting for you to come home from your 'business trip' to serve you the papers." Villain's eyes widen. "No, no.... No, you don't mean that." "Oh, yes, I do. I want you out of my life. And I want out of this marriage." Tears in his eyes, Villain grabs her arms and tells her, "Doc, please, I know I fucked up, okay? I know I did but we can't throw away 20 years of our happy marriage because I made one fucking mistake!!" "Let go of me!!" she orders. "Please I love you! I love you so much, and she's gone, okay, she's gone, she won't be a nuisance anymore, she died in a car crash!!" This triggers an odd reaction from DocMD. "What did you say?..." she asks. "Uh... she, she died in a car crash. She's gone." "Oh..." Doc says, rather lowly, "Funny how that keeps happening to people around you." "W-what do you mean?" "Get out, Villain. Leave. Get out of my life. I wouldn't want to wake up one day in a car crash." She says this with the utmost contempt. Villain looks at her with hope in his eyes. She doesn't budge. He turns around and starts to leave, heartbroken. Then he remembers the necklace box is still in his closed hand. He puts it down on the floor, by the entrance of the house. And leaves. DocMD comes up to the door, to close it behind him. She slides down to the floor, accompanying the edge of the door, and picks up the box... She holds it up against her chest and cries. And, crouched down, she slowly closes the door.

On the Glee Wiki, a sign-up council has been set up for people to enlist in the Medal of Honor Army, to fight in the first grand wikia war. Gleekobsessed looks depressed as he sits by a long desk, along with the army recruiters, who keep passing out submission forms and sign-up sheets to the determined young men brave enough to lay down their lives for a cause bigger than themselves. When Jdg98 makes his way to a desk, Gleek, surprised to see him, intercepts him, taking the sign-up sheet the recruiter would hand him from his hand before it reaches the young man. "What the hell are you doing?" Gleek asks, "You are 14!" Jdg reminds him that he was granted a special juridic status that enabled him to be a homeowner. Therefore, being an emancipated minor in wikia, he is enabled by its laws to fight in the war. "What are you doing, son?" Gleek asks, concern in his tone, "You are much too young for this, why would you want to be involved?" "I am involved," Jdg tells him, "I always have been, ever since I got to this place. You need as much help as you can. And there ain't no one more determined than me to help take down that son of a bitch. And whatever army he's got working for him." The recruiter tells his leader that the kid makes a valid point, and that no one should be denied the chance to fight for their land. Gleek sighs and hands Jdg the sign-up sheet. "You're gonna get yourself killed..." he says, with sadness. "What do I have to live for?" Jdg tells him, casually. He starts to fill out the form, and to Gleek's even bigger surprise, Dr. Sonya makes his way to the desk and avoids eye contact with him, informing the same recruiter that he would like to enlist. Jdg is also surprised to see him there. "What the hell are you doing?!" Gleek asks, pushing Sonya aside for a sidebar. Sonya starts to tell him, "Look, full disclosure, I have done a lot of shit in my past that I need to do right by. And this... this might be my only chance. I can't do much good by myself, but maybe if I join this, this war, this cause, this fight... I can be of service. I can do good." Jdg, overhearing them, doesn't quite know how to take this in. But somehow he feels slightly proud. Sonya continues: "I had hoped you wouldn't be here today. Because I knew you'd try to stop me. But... just don't, okay? Let me do this. Let me clear my conscience." Sonya walks past the stunned Gleek, and is given the form. When he turns back to go and fill it out, he is met with a surprise kiss on the lips. Once Gleek is done kissing him, he tells him, "Don't go doing anything stupid... Please... Don't try to be a hero." Sonya looks shaken. And nods. Jdg hands in his filled up form. Next to him stands a gleeful-looking young man, who introduces himself as Simple.PlanNER. They shake hands, and Simple, with a smile on his face, says, "I guess we'll be fighting together, huh, soldier?" He chuckles. Jdg, stupefied by his gleeful demeanor in the face of a deadly war, simply smiles back.

"Okay, I know this is... Look, I don't even know. I kinda... just tell me when you're free to hang out, okay?" Primadonna says these words with a certain confusion and reluctance. On the other side of the phone call, DisneyMeerkats, sitting in her parked car, one hand on the steering wheel, smiles. "Will do," she says. Prima tells him she was really worried for a moment there when she thought she was dead. Disney smiles again, and tells her she appreciates that. "I just gotta go down to the Lostpedia Moderation Station to answer a few questions. Seeing as how I'm the sole surviving employee of Wiki Burger and what not. I'll be back on the lane in no time." Prima says, "Okay," and they terminate the call. Disney feels cheery. Then, her attention is caught by something: in a neighboring area, IceBerry is showing Andalusian to her hew home. Disney's eyes widen at the sight of the exotic woman in the distance, and she ducks inside of her car, scared out of her mind, and repeating to herself, "Oh God oh God oh God oh God...!"

Rappy sits in his office, head hanging over his hand. Trellar walks in, and asks him if he is feeling more relaxed now. He says that he is. Trella announces that the security guards are adamant that the black woman and the Asian or possibly Latin woman are the ones behind everything bad that has happened. "To add to all of that, here is a bit of news... People have been calling the headquarters to complain about Sannse." Rappy lifts his head up, asking her what she means. "Sannse... she hasn't left the premises. Has she?" "No," Trella confirms, "The cuckoo bird is still in its crazy, crazy nest. Apparently, however, someone has been going around pretending to be her. Posing as Staff, to rob people blind." Rappy appears infuriated. He stands up and starts walking around, looking livid. He then stops and looks her right in the eyes. "Find out who this person is," he says, "This lowlife piece of shit who dares to pose as the love of my life. Find out who they are, and have them killed. Badly." Trella smiles, wickedly, and says, "Yes, sir..." She then adds, rubbing her hand over his chest, "You know... with all this... this anger, this fire... you really ought to be channelling it to something nice." Rappy pants. He looks reluctant. But then he throws her over the desk, rips her pants off and fucks her savagely. She adores every moment of it. "Don't look me in the eyes!" he commands. "And if you try to kiss me I will punch your teeth in." "Yes, sir... oh, yes, sir!" She moans with pleasure.

Nosh has prepared dinner, roasted turkey, for him and his partner, who comes home visibly inebriated, holding a half-full beer bottle. "Where were you?" Nosh asks, "You're late." "I was at the bar," Matt tells him, "Where the fuck else would I be?" "Oh, I'm sorry, I just figured you were out shooting people in the back of their heads as you like to do." "Hey!" Matt lashes out, "That paid for that turkey!" "You could've called!" Nosh appears emotional, "I was worried sick." "Oh my God you little pussy shut the fuck up already! What is the matter with you?" "I'm going to bed..." Nosh says. Before he can leave, Matt pushes him against the wall and shouts at him, incidentally spitting in his face with his words. "What is wrong with you?! You've been a fucking nightmare since Mirlo left!! If you miss that coon so fucking much then go be with him!!" Nosh is uncomfortable with Matthew's face so close up against his own. Their lips mere centimeters apart. "This isn't about Mirlo..." he says. He tries to leave, but Matt won't let go. "Then what?! Huh?!" Nosh says, "I just... I just..." Faking a meek girly voice, Matthew repeats his words, "I just, I just... You're just a whiney little bitch, that's what it is." He says this last part in his regular voice. "And you're a dick." He breaks off from his grasp. Matthew throws his bottle at the ground and it breaks, and grabs Nosh by the wrist. Nosh instinctively picks up the steak knife from the table and points it at him. "Let go of me, or I swear...!" Matthew lets go of him and laughs. "What? Whatcha gonna do big man?" He continues laughing. Then, with a quick move, he grabs Nosh's wrist again, of the hand that holds the knife, and retrieves the knife from him with fast speed, in the process accidentally slicing the palm of Nosh's right hand. Nosh groans with pain and Matt's jaw drops at the sight of the blood pouring out. "Oh God..." Nosh looks up at him with pain in his eyes. "I'm sorry..." Matthew says. Nosh holds his hands together, applying pressure on his sliced palm, and rushes out of the house, dripping blood as he goes. "Nosh!" Matt calls out for him, feeling bad.

Outside, Nosh keeps running till he's out of the property. Then he sits down on the sidewalk. There is no one out on the portal. He sits and gives in to his tears.

From a distance, it smells the blood. It is drawn to the blood. That delicious blood...

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Nosh sobs out of his sheer sadness and starts to pant at the sight of his bad-looking wound. The blood keeps dripping onto the pavement. Then his panting noises are drowned by louder panting noises that keep getting closer. He turns around. And a set of jaws wraps itself around his neck.

The loud scream catches Matt's attention, and he drops the first-aid kit he'd gone to grab and runs outside. He is absolutely horrified to find a familiar large beast feasting on his only friend's flesh and blood. Nosh keeps trying to scream with as little vigor as he actually can. Soon enough his carotida is severed. The large dog's black face is painted red. Matthew rushes towards his friend, shouting, and scares the beast away. He kneels down before his agonizing friend, tears forming in his eyes. "Oh God oh God!!" he repeats. Nosh tries to talk. The neighbors start to emerge from their homes, alarmed by the commotion. Rena and Jdg come out. As does Prima. Disney arrives in her car. Belle, out on the streets looking for Merry, comes from around a template. Matthew takes out his jacket and tries to compress the wounded neck. Primadonna lets out a loud scream. "Somebody grab me, I'm going to faint." She puts a hand on her forehead and loses her senses, dropping to the ground, no one cushioning her fall. Disney runs to her aid. Rena rushes to aid Matt and Nosh. Nosh, with pain and fear in his eyes, looks at his crying partner above him, as Matt tries to tell him, "You're gonna be fine, you're gonna be fine..." Nosh tries to touch him, but he's too weak. He starts to say, "I, I... I lo... I l..." And dies. Matthew bawls. "No, no..." He drops his head onto his partner's chest. His heart has stopped. His blood keeps dying the pavement of the portal. Rena stands motionless, feeling useless, as he looks on at yet another casualty taking place on the lane.

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In the midst of the commotion, Belle notices Merrystar walking towards Villain's template, going in through the backyard. Belle dashes on over.

With earphones on, Villain fan listens to the English-learning tapes that he acquired at the Gallery, as he arranges a plate of cheeses and ham on his table by the poolside, in the backyard. Preparing to spend the afternoon there teaching his precious daughter to speak the language properly. He slices some of the cheese with a large knife and remembers that he needs to go get the bread. He turns around and is stunned to see Merrystar standing there. Her eyes are lit up with joy. He removes his earphones. "Merry..." "Villain..." She moves to hug him. He stands there, awkwardly, not knowing how to react. "Oh Villain... I missed you so much!" She says, with her accent. "Why... are you doing here?!" Villain asks, dumbstruck. "Oh it was horrible! I woke up from coma and came to get you and Lady and the crazy woman locked me up!" "What?" Belle suddenly appears. "Belle?" Villain is further confused. Merrystar looks frightened. "It's her!! It's crazy lady, Villain call the police, she took my cell, she locked me up, she was going to make me dead, she is crazy!!" Villain doesn't know what to make of this. With tears in her eyes, Belle tries to explain the situation as best as she can: "Villain I am so sorry!! I, I, she came in and she said that she was your lover and that she was Lady's mother and, and, and I wasn't thinking straight, I was so happy to be back in your life and I thought that she would ruin that!" "Belle... what did you do?" he asks. "She is crazy!!" Merry reiterates. "Shut up, just shut the fuck up!" Belle, crying, screams at the blonde woman. "I, I wanted you... I didn't want to lose you, Villain. I've already been without you for far too long, you are the love of my life, but... But she threatened that, I couldn't have that! I couldn't!! I, I am so sorry..." The tears stream down her face. "Call police!!" Merry insists. Villain doesn't know what to do. He walks up closer to Belle. "You locked a woman up... for me? Because you wanted to be with me?" Belle smiles through her tears, saying, "I would do anything to be with you..." Villain smiles, moved. "Villain! Call the police!" Villain looks annoyed to hear her. "Villain!" Belle calls to him, "She's dead! As far as your daughter knows, she is dead. She's been dead all this time. It doesn't have to change... She can ruin my life, she can call the police and have me arrested and she can ruin what we have... Our second chance at true love, at being happy..." Villain looks her in the eyes. "It doesn't have to change..." Belle repeats. Villain turns around to face Merrystar, who just looks confused. He grabs the cheese knife. And lunges it at the blonde woman's chest, piercing her heart. She gasps and teeters backwards, falling into the pool. And dies. Her blood starts to contaminate the pool water. "The cover!" Villain shouts. Belle moves to find the pannel of the pool and hits the button that causes the automatic canvas to cover the pool, sliding over it. Covering the corpse, floating in the red liquid. Villain tells Belle to leave. "Now!" Sounds are heard from inside the template. Lady. Belle doesn't say anything, but her eyes say "Thank you". She rushes out. Lady opens the door to the backyard, earphones also in her ears, listening to a different tape. She takes them out. She brings with her the bread, telling her father he forgot it. "Thank you, sweetie," Villain takes the bread and moves to kiss her cheek, "Ma petite jolie." She smiles. He puts the bread on the table and gestures at her to sit so that the lesson can begin.

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She sits down, and makes a comment about the pool cover being on. "Oh, the water was starting to get slimy," Villain says, rather quickly and casually, "I've been forgetting to add chlorine. I'll have the pool boy come over and take care of it." He sits down next to her, and opens up the first book. "Now, let's start with some of the basic verbs..." And the first English lesson begins, a precious moment shared between father and daughter, by the poolside.

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After all, when the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't know.
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