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When the spider arrived at the Holiday Inn… it shrunk back to its original size. Then the three just walked back into their hotel room. Lisa beelined for the laptop and made sure to hold it with both arms in a death grip.
”... What do we do now?” Lisa asked. ”Jordan and Kim might be dead! Dead! How are we going to pay for the room other than that little trick I pulled… that very illegal trick...” She tugged at her collar before her hand wrapped around the laptop.
"I'm sure your boyfriend made sure they were safe, since he's so great!" Ella grumbled, letting out a very loud huff and flopping into her bed.
Saskia yawned, lying down on their own bed and rolling over to look at them both. "I'm sure they'll be fine… we can always turn to a life of crime. Maybe pick up some hot criminals."
”Oh! Speaking of hot!” Lisa said. ”How about we call Lupe?!”
"Ohhh good idea, just what we need after that," Saskia agreed. They held out their hand. "Ella, your phone."
"You have your own!" Ella grumbled, even as she handed her phone over to Saskia… who easily unlocked it. The password was Sailor Moon's birthday, obviously.
"It's in my pocket, too much effort," Saskia shrugged as they found Lupe's number (which Ella had saved, thankfully) and called her.
After a few rings, Lupe answered.
“... Hello, Mami, what the fuck?!” Lupe asked. “Going to the Morningstar mansion?! All those motherfuckers were heading there… are you three okay?”
"We're fine," Saskia said, switching the call to speaker mode so everyone could hear. "I killed three of the Endless Seven, so it was nothing…"
"Yeah, we had Morningstar! We were gonna kill him!" Ella shouted. "Then Mr Heart Stealer appeared and stole our thunder! And arrested us!!"
”... Ah, yes, he was so big and hunky! I could just give him a smooch!” Lisa swooned, grasping both sides of her cheeks (while keeping the laptop clutched against her chest).
There was an audible silence on Lupe’s end. Before she asked.
“... Are ya’ll in jail right now?”
"Yes, it's awful, they chained us up and are-"
"No! We got away using our smarts and strength!" Ella shouted.
“Aw, cooooooooool, mami! Sounds intense…” Lupe said, before pausing for a moment. “... Wanna hang out?”
"Yes please, I need another sane person around," Saskia said.
”Oh! Why don't you come to our place!! Then we can watch anime if-" Ella looked at Lisa with a wide grin. "Lisa stops hogging the laptop!"
”Never!” Lisa shouted.
“... Why don’t you bitches just buy another one?!” Lupe asked, confused. “Ya’ll flashed some serious cash at Shadynasty’s! Just buy a cheap one! Or two!”
Lupe laughed, “Send me the addy, and I’ll be there.”
"Oh, why didn't we think about that… Lisa, later let's go acquire some cash and buy new laptops!" Ella shouted.
"And headphones," Saskia muttered. "I'll text you that and the room number… see you soon."
Saskia hung up, and texted Lupe with what Holiday Inn they were at along with the exact room. They then flopped back on the bed with a yawn. Why did they feel so tired? Their blood should be replenishing just now-
Saskia shot up, in a speed shocking Ella enough she almost fell off the bed. ”Clem still has our Channelers!"
Lisa reached into her shirt, dropped the laptop, and grabbed her own tiddy in the process, and then put her hands on the side of her face in shock. ”OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
Ella leapt forward, snatched up the laptop and did a barrel roll with it off the bed. "It's fine! We can just go get them back! We'll kick down Clem's door-"
”With what magic?"
"... I almost killed a guy without mine," Ella muttered, clutching the laptop close to her chest.
”... And where is Clem’s door again?” Lisa asked, scratching the side of her head. ”Actually, how did they find Morningstar’s lair? Ain’t it weird that they found it conveniently after we got there…?”
"Huh… that is convenient… oh Sailor Moon!" Ella shouted, suddenly dropping down and looking under the bed. "You don't think one of them is spying on us?! That's creepy."
Saskia frowned, looking at Ella being weird and stupid like normal, to Lisa. "... Maybe they snuck a tracking device on us when we slept at theirs."
Lisa shrugged.
”Maybe it’s just a coincidence!” She laughed. ”Saskia! How long before sexy gets here?!”
”Dunno, I'm not tracking her," Saskia shrugged, not even bothering to check Ella's phone… she just threw it onto the other bed. ”How long did it take us to get here from her place last time…"
"It wasn't that long!" Ella said cheerfully. She clambered back onto the bed, holding onto the laptop like her life depended on it. "I hope she brings more alcohol this time!"
Lisa shrugged.
”Who knows? Maybe we should use the laptop to pass time…” Lisa walked towards Ella with her hands out.
"Yeah, we can watch it to watch the latest episode of my anime," Ella said, backing away from Lisa.
”If you two start fighting I’m going to get kidnapped again…" Saskia sighed.
”... I need to, uh, ‘send an email,’” Lisa smiled, approaching Ella. ”Wait… actually, let me see the laptop! We gotta do something.”
"What do we gotta do?" Ella asked suspiciously, grip on the laptop loosening slightly.
Lisa grinned ear to ear.
”... You’ll see,”
There was a visible war across Ella’s face as she made her decision, before hesitantly handing over the laptop. Saskia roused from her lounging state to move onto their bed… they didn’t want to miss this, whatever it was.
"Alright, show us, it better be good!" Ella said.
Lisa hopped on the bed, and immediately googled Facebook, and opened the first page. She went through the process of making a Facebook account, and when she was finished, she turned to the two and said.
”... So, let’s play a game,” Lisa began. ”Give me a full name, and we’ll look ‘im up!”
"Oh, that’s easy! Kari Wil-" Ella caught herself, eyes widening and lower lip trembling. "Wait, Kari’s… Kari’s…"
”Alright, there, there," Saskia said monotonously, slinging an arm over Ella’s shoulders and patting her in an attempt at comforting. They ignored the pang they felt at that too. ”Look up…"
"Jade! I want to know how she’s doing!!" Ella interrupted before Saskia could even finish, bouncing back just like that.
Lisa raised an eyebrow.
”... Clem said that Jade got… you know….” She sighed. ”A shame. She was gorgeous.”
"... Oh yeah," Ella's expression fell. "I was too… distracted by Kari's…"
"Look up Drake then, I bet he's posting edgy memes about it," Saskia said.
"Saskia, that's not nice!"
"What? He got me killed."
”Drake it is, then!” Lisa shouted as she typed in Drake Blackmore’s name. ”You know his sister Amanda was pretty cute! So was Nikki! Victoria was…”
She awkwardly laughed before she hit enter. She found Drake’s Facebook page, and his icon was a picture of him and Jade hugging. The banner showed Jade posing like a model on the shore. Drake seemed just to post photos of Jade, or him and Jade, over and over again….
”Hmmmm…” Lisa scrolled through it all. ”He’s a cop in St. Portwell? Drake Blackmore?” She laughed.
"I bet he'd shoot us if he saw us again!" Ella said, shaking her head. "He was super trigger happy…"
”Maybe if we dig deeper we can gather some incriminating evidence and make him lose his job…" Saskia suggested ominously.
”Or we can put spiders in his boxers!” Lisa laughed.
"I like that plan," Saskia rubbed their hands together with a small, evil smile. "How easily can you do that?"
”Noooo, guys, the poor guy's lost his wife!" Ella shouted. "You know I dislike people like him but as long as he isn't actually shooting people! Let's look up someone more interesting!"
"Oh, look up Sloane…"
"I said someone interesting!"
”Oh! Sloane-y!” Lisa shouted, jumping in her chair as she looked up Sloane Faris… only for the results to turn out empty. ”Aw.”
"See, boring!" Ella shouted, before hitting Lisa's shoulder a couple of times. "Ooo, ooo, look up Luca! I want to know how the little guy is!"
Luca's Facebook page was quite… plain. His banner was a picture of St Portwell harbour at night, and his icon was a slightly blurry, further away photo of him laughing over something taken by someone else. He didn't actually seem to post - most of the posts were Olivia tagging him in things. There were pictures of both of them, always a distance away from each other, or what appeared to be their apartment a couple of years back. There was one weird post about destruction, but otherwise there wasn't much.
Upon seeing Olivia’s name, Lisa squinted.
”... Olivia,” She dramatically said. She quickly clicked her name, then DM’d her a picture of a spider. Nothing else.
A near immediate response came back, reading, ‘who are you?!’
Lisa didn't respond.
”... So who else can we look up?!” Lisa asked.
"Let's look up Britney and send her hate mail," Saskia said. "For what she did to Luca and the others…"
"Or- orrrrrr~" Ella sang, leaning towards Lisa with a grin. "We look up your future wife, Adora!"
Lisa dramatically gasped, holding both sides of her face.
”... Why didn't I think of that?!”
Lisa immediately typed in Adora’s name, middle name and everything… Only to find nothing.
”Huh? Weird…”
"Maybe you spelt her name wrong?!" Ella shouted, leaning in towards the laptop.
”She’s the love of my life!” Lisa shouted back. ”How could I get her name wrong?!”
"I bet if we look hard enough… we can still find something about her…" Saskia said, with a shrug. "Oh, maybe if we look through Vanessa or Clementine…"
Complying, Lisa looked up Clementine Washington. Though several names popped up, a few of the profiles were blank. Others were obviously not Clementine. Same with Vanessa.
”Drats…” Lisa said.
"I guess we'll have to get creative…" Saskia tilted their head, thinking about it. Someone who Adora had been close to… well, aside from Lisa, who had she been close to? Maybe they should just try someone smart. "Try Greta, she always knew everything."
"Oh yeah, I want to know how Greta's doing!"
”... Gretchen, you mean,” Lisa smugly said. ”Her name is Gretchen.”
Lisa immediately typed in Gretchen Faust… only to not find her and have to type in “Greta Faust.” Then, after some digging, because there are a lot of old ladies named Greta Faust, they found their Greta, and she looked different. She dyed her hair red and started rocking the punk aesthetic. There weren’t a lot of pictures of Greta, though, and some very awkward selfies. There was a period where Greta spammed a bunch of weird sex stuff, though (especially a sex tips for nerds), and incoherent rambling about how she loved potions.
”... Awwwwwww, she’s so cute!” Lisa moaned. ”I wonder if her butt’s still big as I remember it being… eh, I’ll have to find out after we get through this, right, gals?”
"She is super cute! I love the new hair colour!" Ella grinned.
"... I'm interested in the sex tips…" Saskia reached over to scroll back up to them, quickly reading them. Very interesting… "You know, we don't have to wait. Message her now and ask for a picture of her butt."
”Okay!” Lisa ecstatically said, before doing it. No remorse. No thought. Just asking for a booty pic off rip.
A few minutes passed, and Greta responded witha succinct: “who the hell is this?”
Lisa was silent.
”... What do I tell her?”
"I've got this, move aside!" Ella leaned right into Lisa so she could reach the laptop keyboard. Her tongue poked out slightly as she wrote.
'This is Ella! Do you remember me? ╰(⸝⸝⸝´꒳`⸝⸝⸝)╯ it's been a while!! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧’
It took her so long because she was painstakingly typing out the emojis… Saskia watched and rolled her eyes. "That won't work."
They also pushed into Lisa's personal space and took control of the keyboard.
'Hello Greta. This is Saskia Otten, of Sycamore Tree. I'm here with Ella Brooks and Lisa Turner. We were wondering if your butt is as big as Lisa remembers. Please confirm. Thanks.’
There was a silence on Greta’s end.
A few moments later, she sent a request for a video call. Lisa looked to Saskia, then Ella, before hitting accept and the view on Greta’s end was a dimly lit desk. She was sitting in front of the camera with a white lab coat on. Greta stared at them for a moment.
“... I had to see it for myself,” Greta spoke in her usual nasally voice. “Now that I see your faces, there is no doubt about it….”
She paused for a moment, “But… Why? Why did you three come back now…?”
"Everyone keeps asking us that!" Ella said, slamming her hands on her thighs in exasperation. "We don’t know!"
"Someone called in a favour," Saskia explained. "We don’t know who or why, just that we get a second chance if we do a few things for the Hound."
“I mean…” Greta trailed off, “I do appreciate having you three back… And no one is as weird as you three, by the way.” Greta pushed her glasses up her nose.
Lisa was bouncing up and down in her seat. Ella grinned.
“What does the Hound want you to do?” Greta asked.
"He wants us to kill Morningstar!" Ella shouted.
"We’re in Mirage Springs right now to do that… We almost had him twice," Saskia’s voice lowered, and her hands twitched with the overwhelming urge to draw Morningstar dying. "We’ve killed most of his evil minions."
“Now… I have no clue about who Morningstar is,” Greta said. “But, I-”
”... GRETCHEN!”
Lisa loudly screeched, interrupting the conversation.
”How are you doing friend?! How’s life?! You look sooooooooooo cute! It’s so great to see you!”
“Lisa…” Greta said, a tear running down her eye, before she quickly tried to wipe it away before they noticed. “I am… so glad to have you back… I…” She couldn’t hold it anymore, and began crying profusely.
“... I missed you so much, Lisa!” Greta shouted. “I… I can’t put it into words!”
Lisa placed her hand against the laptop scene.
”I’m sorry I was away. I… I am glad to be back,” Lisa laughed. ”I think we all are! Right girls!?”
"Yeah! I’ve never been happier to be alive- do you have any idea how much anime’s been made in the last ten years?!" Ella grinned, before forming a heart with her hands towards the camera. "I missed you Greta!"
"It certainly beats dying… that sucked…" Saskia intoned, before looking straight on at the camera. "So, show us your ass, Greta. We need to judge if its improved."
Greta gave them a blank face. The tears stopped flowing.
She pressed a key and disconnected the call.
”... Aw, man.”
"Damn, I was getting excited," Saskia sighed, flopping back.
”Horny!” Lisa said.
Saskia discreetly turned her head to try and look at Ella’s ass instead.
It was made easier when Ella jumped up, yelling, "When’s Lupe getting here?! It’s been ages!"
”Oh, come on Ella, she's probably putting makeup on or-” Lisa said with a shrug before she was interrupted by an explosion of pink light and smoke.
“... Ya’ll ready to party, mami?!”
Lupe screamed as she held two large brown bags full of booze.
Ella screamed too, launching herself at Lupe with a foot outstretched. Midway through the jump kick she realised who it was and awkwardly twisted, falling on the bed.
"I’m always ready to party," Saskia said, very much sounding and looking like she was never ready to party.
"Lupe!" Ella shouted excitedly, jumping up off the bed and towards Lupe in a hug rather than an attack. "I’m so happy to see you! Oh, what drinks did you bring this time?!"
“You know, basic shit, mami!” Lupe said as she put the bags down on the counter. She dug through the bag as she said, “Vodka, rum, tequila…” She said with a purr, as she gave them a flirtatious look.
Lupe kept going through the bags until she grabbed a bottle, before she dramatically said, “... But it's time for you gals to enter the big leagues.”
"What’s that?" Ella gasped dramatically, getting in real close to the bottle.
Saskia narrowed their eyes. "... but Lisa almost died last time."
“That just means she gotta build a tolerance, mami!” Lupe said before she whipped a bottle of Everclear and presented it to the group. “I’m going to put a little bit of this in all your drinks! Just a little bit!” Lupe pinched her fingers together.
"I’m down! I want to get properly drunk this time!" Ella shouted, skipping away to pull out the little glasses they had in their room. "Let’s get started!"
“Oooh, you’re gonna get drunk alright, mami!” Lupe deviously laughed.
"Can we play spin the bottle again?" Saskia asked. "This time I’ll master kissing."
“Unfortunately, mami,” Lupe sympathetically said with a shrug as she prepared some drinks. “I didn't bring any empty bottles. So you know what that means, right, mami…?”
"We gotta drink a whole bottle!" Ella shouted, throwing her arms in the air.
"Ohh, perfect, I need you all drunk enough that you don't notice the biting…" Saskia said in a low voice.
A few moments later, Lupe had finished the first round of drinks. Which were sprite, vodka, and just a teeny bit of Everclear. She put them on the desk.
“Mami! Ya’ll got any speakers in here?!” Lupe curled a finger through her hair and put her weight on one hip. “How are we gonna party without some music?! Dios mios!”
"We can sing! Me and Lisa are great at it!" Ella shouted, grabbing a cup and taking a big gulp of it.
"Or we just play it out a phone…" Saskia said, more sensibly sipping the drink she'd picked up.
Lisa silently took a sip of her drink.
“Jesus, Mami!” Lupe said to Ella. Before she looked at the laptop. “Hand that to me, mami,”
Ella looked at the laptop, then at Lisa, then at Lupe again. She reluctantly handed it over.
"I need to ask…" Saskia said, drinking more… and it already started going to their head. Everything was slightly fuzzy. "Lupe, if a friend asked, would you show them your ass."
“I mean…” Lupe said as she prepared her own drink. “... Back in the day; no. But now, who gives a shit, mami? If it makes someone’s day, why not?”
"See," Saskia sighed, taking a long drink. "Greta was just being a bad friend… I would if anyone here asked…"
”Maybe she’s saving it for when we get back!" Ella shouted, finishing her first drink already, and holding it out to Lupe. "More, please!"
“Mami…” Lupe rolled her eyes. “If she don't want to show her ladybits, that don't make her a bad friend…”
"Oh," Saskia tilted their head, thinking about it. They guessed Lupe was right about that…
Lupe then shrugged as she quickly made another drink for Ella. Once it was done, she handed it to Ella and said, “... Slow down, mami! It’ll creep up on ya’!” Lupe stuck her tongue out, sat on the sofa with the laptop, and played with it for a moment.
”I want it to, last time the other two got wayyyy more drunk than me," Ella grinned. She then skipped over to Lisa, leaning in and whispering, ”do you still want to look at her tiddies?!"
”Of course!” Lisa estatically (and loudly) said.
Ella nodded in understanding. "Remember what she said… if you want something you gotta ask for it. You can do it!"
Saskia rolled their eyes at them both, sitting down on the sofa next to Lupe and leaning over to watch whatever she was doing on the laptop.
”I mean, I do want it!” Lisa shouted. ”But, what if she thinks I’m weird?!”
“... I already think you’re weird, mami!” Lupe noted as she typed away… scrolling through YouTube looking for music. “What’s a good song for your nerd asses… Ah-hah!” Lupe shouted as the laptop played some music at max volume. It wasn’t too loud, but sufficient.
"Weird is good, embrace it, Lisaaaa!" Ella shouted, after another big swig of her drink.
Saskia closed her eyes for a moment, tilting her head to listen to the music. Not… her kind of music at all. Part style rarely was but the lyrics were apt. She could appreciate it. Thinking about the song made her miss writing her own. She hadn’t had time or the peace to do it. Maybe once this was all over.
"OHH I GET IT- Coming back to life!" Ella half sang, catching onto the chorus quickly. "It does feel good coming back to life!"
”Yes! We all get a second chance to live,” Lisa shouted.
“Now you get it, mami!” Lupe raised her drink in the air. “Let’s toast! Hopefully ya’ll keep slappin’ that bitch ass motherfucker Morningstar around!”
"Yeah, he’ll be regretting his evil once we’re done with him!" Ella shouted, raising her drink and splashing a little.
"Oh, he will," Saskia smirked, lazily raising their drink. "To murdering Morningstar, Lisa getting a hunky boyfriend, and Ella finding someone real."
”... That’s not her uncle!” Lisa shrieked, raising her drink.
Lupe tapped her drink with the others.
Some time later.
”WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
Lisa shouted as she hung from the ceiling by her foot.
“Come down, mami!” Lupe shouted, as she danced, the music blaring. “You can’t dance on the ceiling... crazy.”
"Noooo, Lisa, you’ll hurt yourself!" Ella shouted, standing in the middle of the room waving her arms at Lisa… in just her bra and underwear. She’d said she was going to change out of the boring, black outfit she had on but seemed to forget halfway through. Saskia didn’t remind her. "Youuu’re too sexyyyyy to get huuurrttt!"
"She’s on the floor for me," Saskia said, giggling. She lay on the bed with her head upside down.
”I’m fine, watc-” Lisa disconnected from the ceiling, and loudly screamed as she fell from the ceiling and hit the floor. ”... Ouch.”
"LISA!!" Ella screamed, running over to Lisa and falling to her knees with a dramatic wail.
“Dios, mios, mami!” Lupe shouted as she ran over to Lisa. She put her hands on Lisa, and a wave of pink light overcame her. It began healing her, but Lupe noticed something on her feet. “... Oh, mami, you got burns!”
”... I was casting without mah’ channeler!” Lisa shouted.
“... Why would you go and do that, mami?” Lupe asked.
”... I wanted to look cool in front of my friends. That’s all…” Lisa moaned.
"You always look cool to me, Lisaaaa!" Ella sobbed, tears suddenly streaming down her cheeks as she grabbed Lisa’s hand. "You’re gonna make it through this!"
"Oh," Saskia sat up suddenly, falling off the bed with an off as their head suddenly spun. They had a brilliant idea. An idea so brilliant they deserved a… fancy smart person reward for it. "Let’s go get our channelers back."
“Hahaha! In the morning, you mean?” Lupe laughed, as she kept both hands on Lisa. “Ya’ll drunk as hell!”
Lisa raised a finger in the air.
”... I just want to see some titties,”
"Are mine not enough?!" Ella shouted, gesturing to her chest.
”... I need more!”
"Enough about titties," Saskia’s head popped back up over the bed. "We should do it tonight otherwise… Morningstar might get us…"
“If he was going to get ya’ll, he would have done so by now!” Lupe shouted. “C’mon, mami, I know ya’ll drunk. Do ya’ll even know where they are?”
"Yeah, our friends in the PRA have them!" Ella said, dramatically gesturing towards the window.
“One, mami,” Lupe raised a finger. “The feds ain’t your friends.”
Then she raised another finger, “Do you know where they are?”
”... Titty?” Lisa said.
"Yes," Saskia agreed, nodding with a look of sage wisdom they definitely didn’t have. "They are… at the… titty…"
Saskia completely lost their train of thought, trailing off while looking like they’d just given some kind of nobel peace prize worthy speech.
"They’re probably at their police headquarters! I bet that horrible man has them now," Ella ground her teeth. "He put his hands all over me! They’re all the same! Stauber, him- they just want to touch me!”
”... Something they have in common with your uncle!” Lisa shouted as Lupe took her hands off her.
“Mami, slow down,” Lupe got up, and she made another drink for the three. “Ya’ll fucked up right now! You’re only going to get in trouble!”
"Maybe I want to get in trouble," Saskia said, eyes narrowing. "Maybe I want to… be… tortured… why isn’t torture cool anymore…"
"Torture was never cool!” Ella shouted, grabbing the new drink Lupe had made them and knocking it back. "But you know what is cool?”
"Here we go again."
"The latest anime I’m watching, it’s about-”
“Look, mami,” Lupe said, interrupting Ella. “You don’t want to be tortured! Sounds like you want to get down with some freaky BDSM shit! Whips and chains and all that!”
"Yes, I want BDSM torture."
She finished the drinks… which had a lot more Everclear than before.
“Well, before you get tortured or something: come get your drinks!” Lupe announced. “Another toast!”
”... Yay!” Lisa shouted as she ran over and began drinking without a second thought - though she stopped to cough for a moment.
“Yeah, drink it up, mami!” Lupe shouted.
Saskia took hers and drank it a little slower than Lisa. The burning taste didn’t bother them, with a heavy haze over her mind stopping her from feeling much at all. It tasted pretty nice. Oh, yeah, the burn really added to it.. Saskia tilted her head back and finished the whole thing. "Let’s get… fucked!"
"Yeahhh!” Ella shouted, grimacing as she drank. ”Oh! Oh! We should play a game! A different game! Lupe, know any other games?”
“Mami! Stop acting like you don’t just want to make out with each other!” Lupe laughed, as she made them even more to drink (with more Everclear than ever before). “We’re going to be playing the drinking game! Where we keep drinking until one of us passes out! Last woman standing wins; you in?!”
”You know I am!” Lisa shouted.
"I'm going to win!" Ella shouted, finishing her current drink. "A magical girl never backs downnnnnnn!"
"Pass," Saskia mumbled. The drinks were too nice to stop but… they were so sleepy already. Maybe they could keep going if they replenished their blood… ooo… that was a good idea… They winced as a burn wound up their wrist and the rate at which their blood replenished sped up. Which didn't make them any less drunk, but they'd lost a lot earlier.
“You mean pass-out?” Lupe laughed as she walked over to Saskia with a drink in hand and a smile on her face… then she saw the burns on her arms. “Dios mios, can you three keep it in ya’ pants for a bit? You’re hurting yourselves.” She placed a gentle hand on the side of Saskia’s face as a pink light pulsed over their skin.
"I lost a lotta blood," Saskia mumbled, leaning her face into Lupe’s hand. "Gotta get it back with magic… so I don’t lose…"
"Oh yeah! Saskia went crazyyy today! Like, she killed three people alone then fought us. It was insane! Like- boom! Kapow!" Ella started acting out ‘the fight’ though it really just looked like flailing about… in her underwear. "Lisa had to melt her face off!"
”Yeah, I threw acid in Saskia’s face like I was an incel!” Lisa laughed.
“Jesus, mami,” Lupe laughed. “Yeah, and Morningstar sent everybody to his mansion… actually, how the fuck did you three find their lair?”
"Torture," Saskia said helpfully… which was almost true. Sort of. Not that they’d properly tortured her but she had been spun around a bunch.
"Saskia got kidnapped by these weirdos and they gave her the location!" Ella said, stopping her weird movements to explain. "The… something house. I don’t remember!"
“... Dollhouse, mami?” Lupe tilted her head as she kept her hand against Saskia’s face. “Um, shit, I wouldn’t trust them if I were you… They’re shady. The shadiest of the shady. Like everyone was scared of them back in Florida, mami. Everyone. They gotta be playin’ an angle here. You know, an ulterior motive?”
"Of course we don’t trust them, they gave Saskia a stone that made her go insane! And they kidnapped her!" Ella shouted indignantly.
"I was so powerful with it," Saskia said wistfully. It had been nice… the slight insanity aside. Really, wasn’t everyone a little insane? Didn’t everyone punch holes in walls every now and then and try to kill their friends? "Why did you throw it awayyyyyyyy?!"
”... Because it was dangerous and made you crazy!” Lisa shouted.
“... They’re gonna want it back, y’know, mami?” Lupe sighed. “They might torture you. They like the Cartels in Mexico!” Lupe awkwardly laughed.
“I heard a story about them, mami, through the Society. They had this business partner, and he tried to scam them, like uh… I’m not sure about the details, but they didn’t go after him,” After Saskia was fully healed, Lupe released their face. “Oh, no, mami, they went after his family. His wife and two kids? They went missing. Then like a month later, these little giftboxes appeared around his house, job, and places he frequented. And take a guess what was inside of them…?”
"Oh no," Ella gasped, eyes widening and a hand slapping over her mouth. "They didn’t-"
"How many pieces did his family come back in?" Saskia asked calmly.
“Liiiiiiiike, um, who knows,” Lupe shrugged. “They’d open the boxes and there would be a finger or a toe - or a hand without any fingers or toes - sometimes an ear or a nose. But, nothing like definite, you know. Nothing that’d make papi go ‘Yep, they’re dead’...”
"Noooooo I don’t want my family sent to me in little pieces!" Ella screamed, holding her face and collapsing to her knees.
"We’re more likely to be the ones sent in pieces," Saskia pointed out. "They kidnapped me real easily."
“Well,” Lupe shrugged. “After you take care of Morningstar, what are ya’ll going to do next? Skip town?”
I wish, I think we gotta go back to the Hound! He said he had two tasks for us… even after killing that bastard we’ll have more to do!" Ella wailed.
”I mean..” Lisa shrugged. ”We’re back to life, right? You can’t complain about that..”
“Hopefully, it’s somewhere else,” Lupe said, “Don’t fuck with Dollhouse, Mami. They built different!”
"Yeah, especially that shapeshifter," Saskia agreed. "She pointed a gun at me the whole time."
”Don’t worry, Lupe! After we’re done with Morningstar and our other task, we’ll go straight home to St Portwell, right, girls?!"
“... That’s where they’re located.” Lupe facepalmed.
”Whhhhatttt no way!" Ella shouted, looking very panicked. ”Then where do we go?! We gotta save our coven from a murderer- but we can’t if we’re chopped into pieces- ahhhhh!"
“Good grief, mami,” Lupe continued facepalming. “You know what? All of ya’ll are thoroughly fucked up - no position to think. So, let’s just keep drinking!” Lupe grabbed her drink and downed all of it.
"Ella’s never in a position to think," Saskia mumbled, finishing off her drink and leaning back against a bed. She was so sleepy, but she couldn’t sleep… then she’d lose.
”You guys just don’t understand meeee!" Ella wailed. She held out her empty cup to Lupe. ”Another! I need to drink to cope with how mean everyone is to me!!"
“That’s not what I meant- know what?” Lupe said as she went and made Ella another drink… same as before, but with a little less Everclear. Then she made the other two more drinks, too. “Drink up! We got a whole ass night ahead of us!” She laughed.
“Another toast! To whatever this time!” Lupe shouted as she raised her drinks, silent momentarily before saying. “Grab your drinks!”
Later on…
Vomiting.
Lisa was on her hands and knees, throwing up on the floor, literally expelling everything, including spiders. She huffed twice, ”... Ooooooooh my God! What… did you do to us!?”
“Mami, the fuck?!” Lupe shouted - now topless - before adding on, “Throw up in the toilet! Ya’ll gotta clean this up, hehehe!” She laughed.
”Saskia won't budge from the toilet!" Ella wailed. She lay in the door in between their room and the bathroom.
Saskia was slumped over the toilet, throwing up everything she had inside of her - mostly alcohol and bile, along with a little bit of blood. The more alcohol she threw up the more with it she felt, still seeing the others out of the corner of her eye… but she overall just felt fucking awful. "You can come… join me…"
“The fuck, mami!?” Lupe laughed, shouting out loud. “You tryna’ get freaky in the toilet?! Ya’ll got two beds! Two! Have some dignity!”
"No, I just mean we can both- blergh," Saskia was interrupted by another round of vomiting, shoving their head right in the toilet bowl. Once they were done they sat back up, swaying. "Puke together. Friends that puke together stay together…"
”No, Saskia, that’s gross!"
”I’m-” Lisa tried to say before she projectile vomited across the room. ”-in!” She shouted as she ran into the bathroom without a second thought.
“Dios mios!” Lupe shouted, shaking her head. “I shouldn’t have given you all that damn Everclear! I just didn’t want you crazy bitches to be a menace out in the streets! That’s all!”
”I’ll be a menace if I want to be a menace!" Ella shouted, flailing her arms and legs all over the place. She was like a child having some kind of weird temper tantrum. Unlike the other two she’d thrown up a couple of times and seemed to be ‘fine.’
“Look, we had a deal: if you three stay in, I would take my chichotas out!” Lupe pointed at her breasts.
"You’re hurting my head, Ella," Saskia groaned, shuffling over so there was room for Lisa beside them. They weren’t sure they had anymore to throw- oh, they did, there it went, right into the toilet, more vomit. "When will this end…"
“In the morning… maybe later, mami!” Lupe laughed. “I should have brought some water! Just drink some water out the si-”
The door clicked.
It opened.
Kimberly and Jordan walked in wearing an entirely new set of clothes (matching black leggings and T-shirts). Jordan’s jaw dropped as Kimberly put on an overdramatic expression of shock and horror.
“... The hell going on in here?!” Jordan shouted.
”Kimmmmmmm, Jordannnnnnnn!" Ella wailed, turning around and… flopping over to them on her stomach. ”We thought you were dead!!"
"Oh no," Saskia muttered, leaning back with a groan. "Mom and dad are here."
”I missed you!" Ella sobbed, having reached them and suddenly clinging to Kimberley’s legs.
“Awwwwwww… I missed you, too,” Kimberly smiled as she embraced Ella. “... But you’re crushing my foot!”
”Kim… Jordan…” Lisa tried to say before she spewed up more.
“Good grief!” Jordan shouted as she raised a hand in the air. The room was wrapped in a coral-pink hue, and time was reversed until it was spotless. The trio were still inebriated.“Well…” Jordan shrugged as she walked over to the rum, grabbed one of the plastic cups and poured herself some rum. Straight. No mixers.
“... Mom and dad need a fuckin’ drink.” She said as she took a sip.
“Well, help yourselves!” Lupe laughed.
”Oh, this is Lupe!" Ella shouted, moving off Kimberley’s foot but still clinging to her. She somehow seemed the… most sober of the three. Which wasn’t saying much. ”We told you about her!"
"She warned us that Morningstar's minions were coming for us," Saskia said, slumped against the bathroom wall. Finally she didn’t feel like throwing up anymore.
“Thanks,” Kimberly laughed, before extending a hand. “It’s great to meet you!”
“Nice to meet you, too, mami!” Lupe shook her hand. “We’re just partying to blow off some steam....”
Kimberly and Jordan looked at each other.
“... You know what?” Kimberly laughed.
“Let’s cut loose!” Jordan shouted, throwing a hand into the air.
