Professor Silivieri returns to the academy with Enid in his arms, the girl is covered in wounds but the young teacher knows that he can allow himself to stop only when he is safely inside the castle walls.

"What the hell happened?!"

The stormy entrance into the main building of the academy certainly did not go unnoticed, fortunately the only ones present were the teachers and dormitory supervisors, who were gathering for an emergency situation after Wednesday Addams was found partially immobilized in her room.

"Don't worry, she was just drugged"

After having personally ascertained the girl's condition, the man assumes an expression of pure anger.

"Shouldn't I be worried?! We found Addams half immobilized by what appears to be a spell. Now you show up with a drugged student in your arms!"

Professor Silivieri gently hands the girl into the arms of her dormitory manager, then concentrates and lets his eyes light up red for a moment.

"I just released the spell on Addams, I couldn't let her follow me"

"This still doesn't explain what's going on."

Mark looks around, as her dorm leader is carrying Enid back to her room, everyone else is still around him, looking serious.

"I assume you've been informed about Laurel Gates and what happened last school year."

The principal exchanged glances with the rest of the dorm leaders present and nodded dismissing them.

"Follow me into my office and tell me every single detail"

*** *** ***

As soon as she felt free, Wednesday jumped up and ran outside.

"Damn you! I swear if he let anything happen to Enid I will kill him, I will kill him with my own hands!"

She rushes down the stairs of the dormitory like a fury, once she reaches the entrance hall she is surprised that the head of the dormitory, a werewolf ex-Green Beret, did not realize that someone was running one hour after curfew.

Once in the courtyard she is ready to rush towards the woods but instead she stops.

What's up Wednesday? Why did you stop?

The girl turns towards the main building.

"I was so busy trying to free myself that I lost focus on Enid, she now appears to be asleep and inside the Nevermore...."

She starts walking quickly towards the castle and once she returns she immediately finds her dormitory manager who is holding a sleeping and blood-stained Enid in her arms.

"Addams, she is fine, no need to worry"

The girl ignores her and rushes to Enid, takes her face in her hands and caresses it gently, she feels that her heartbeat and breathing are regular, as is her body temperature.

"You know better than me how strong she is, I was taking her to the infirmary"

Wednesday nods along with the woman and heads towards the infirmary. The corridors are dark and gloomy, Wednesday has no problem moving in the dark and Simmons, given her nature as a werewolf and a trained ex-military, has no problem moving in the shadows, but unlike Addams who sees the darkness as a candied blanket that envelops her and gives her security, Simmons has her guard up to the max and scans every corner and crevice as if she knows an enemy could jump out of each one. Wednesday observed her, she understood that the woman wasn't joking about her training, she is able to analyze in less than a second everything that enters her field of vision and move accordingly, a person like that is far too qualified to be a dormitory manager, Principal Coleman must have a lot of influence to be able to bring people like that here.

"Do you know what happened?"

The woman looks at her from the corner of her eye. The presence of the girl at her side had completely passed into the background, she knew that there was a danger lurking at the Nevermore, the girl in her arms is proof of it.

"No, I believe Principal Coleman is speaking to Professor Silivieri right now."

Wednesday nods and sprints to the nurse's office to open the door for Simmons. The room is empty, there are not even the nurse. Enid is gently placed on the center cot, away from both the windows and the front door.

Wednesday sees a military protocol in Simmons' movements and attitude, the woman is completely at attention. Even as she begins to examine Enid, starting from observing her color, taking her temperature and heart rate, Wednesday has a precise but hasty manner, as if the woman had little time.

"Do you have any medical knowledge?"

Wednesday is surprised by the professionalism and care the woman takes in examining Enid, despite the apparent rush.

"In our team there was of course also a doctor, who later became my husband. In war you can't always run to the doctor so you have to learn a thing or two. Here everything is normal, now we check the wounds"

Simmons clearly senses Addams' anger as she begins to gently remove Enid's clothes.

"Calm down Addams, we need to check the wounds and any bruises"

Once the woman also takes off Enid's tank top, there is nothing. Simmons moves away to observe the girl's body in its entirety. She knows that a werewolf heals quickly, especially if in a night of transformation, but she could never have imagined something like this, the amount of blood on the clothes, especially on the shoulder, made one think of deep wounds.

"There are no wounds, or scratches, or even just simple bruises. How is that possible?"

Wednesday smiles, she has completely forgotten that her Enid is not that easy to kill.

"In fact, she was reduced to even worse, before she could even transform and she didn't even retain a scar. The power of the blood moon wolf transcends everything we know about werewolves."

Simmons seems to lose her guard for the first time, too incredulous to see such a thing, she has seen fellow wolves die in war from a simple stab wound and now she sees what to her is a fragile girl survive what she imagines were serious wounds as if it were nothing.

Wednesday instead smiles and reaches out a hand towards Enid and begins to caress her face.

"In fact, I'm surprised that she hasn't yet worn off the sedative she mentioned before, or maybe she has and her sleep is completely natural, after all, my sleepy wolf would sleep even with hell outside the door"

Simmons can't help but smile at the look with which Wednesday looks at her classmate and especially the candor that surrounds her voice when she talks about her. In her mind she knows she has to report the new information to the principal, but by now she has understood that the two girls cannot and must not be separated.

"Then I guess we can take her back to the room, I know you're stronger than you look so I guess it's yours to want to pick her up"

Wednesday doesn't even glance at the young woman, she simply reaches out gently to Enid and lifts her delicately into her arms like a bride. From the outside, the scene is quite ironic, a delicate twig carrying someone at least two feet taller than her.

The dorm leader follows Wednesday with Enid in her arms to their room and as they walk through the corridors of the castle she can almost see the bond between the two girls. Once they arrive in the room Wednesday gently places Enid on her bed.

"Please, Miss Simmons, could you watch Enid until I return?"

The woman is quite surprised by the request. It seems that the girl did not want to separate from Enid for anything in the world, but now she calmly passes the baton to her.

"Addams the curfew has been on for a while now you can't go out"

Wednesday looks at her with a smug look before nodding.

"Thank you for your availability"

Of course, Wednesday doesn't care about the curfew and leaves the room to head to Principal Coleman's office. Poor Simmons barely realizes that someone grabs her wrist.

"Let her go, it would be a waste of breath trying to stop her"

Enid was awake and neither her voice nor her gaze seemed sleepy or tired.

"Sinclair, how long have you been awake?"

Enid blushes and looks away.

"Since Willa put her hands on my face in the infirmary, I absolutely wanted to enjoy the walk in his arms"

Simmons smiles, happy that the girl is okay.

"Then it won't be a problem for you to give me a more than detailed report on what happened so that I can give you an appropriate punishment."

The blush and embarrassment on Enid's face quickly disappeared, giving way to a guilty, annoyed look.

*** *** ***

Wednesday's march ends when she arrives in front of what is now Principal Weems' office. She can clearly hear the chatter inside and distinguish the voices of Principal Coleman and Professor Silivieri. She quickly throws open the doors to find both men standing there staring at her, neither of them looking surprised.

"Addams, I was wondering what was taking you so long. Please, take a seat,"

Principal Coleman smiles at her and motions her toward one of the two chairs at his desk.

"Professor Silivieri"

With a look and a tone decidedly less kind, the principal also invites Mark to take a seat in one of the two armchairs. The young teacher seems quite annoyed, almost like a child scolded by a parent.

"I guess you'll have to start over as head professor.... This time without neglecting anything"

The repeated use of the word "Without" and the threatening look clearly imply that up until that moment the dialogue between the two had been anything but peaceful.

"Yes, yes that's fine"

Once again the young professor seems like a boy caught red-handed and reluctantly forced to tell of his misdeed.

"As you both know, I have been hired by the Addams family to be their magic tutor for Wednesday. Well, let's just say that's not the only reason I came here."

Wednesday doesn't reveal anything, but inside her a hint of pride shines because she had never stopped suspecting that her distant relative had an ulterior motive for coming here.

"You both know the name Laurel Gates"

The principal raises an eyebrow, he knows what he was told, a crazy woman tried to exterminate the students of Nevermore through pagan magic, only to be stopped by Addams, nothing more. His gaze then turns to Addams who instead smiles.

"Did she wake up by any chance? I knew she had been put into a medically induced coma to allow her to recover from a severe reaction to bee venom."

Mark smirks and Wednesday doesn't like it at all.

"As far as I know, she is still in a coma. The problem is who she brought from Europe. The Nevermore was not the first place she caused damage. These are facts that have been covered up more than anything to avoid panic. But in recent years there have been several deaths in Europe. Numerous gang murders of some outcast societies, there are at least 80 confirmed victims and many more of whom there is still no trace."

Principal Coleman's skin crawls, if a person responsible for such a massacre had really entered the country, how come no one knew about it.

"We didn't know she had left Europe until Gates was arrested. They found evidence in her hideouts here that linked her to the massacres overseas. The problem is that in the meantime the deaths hadn't stopped, until a few months ago, when Gates failed to attack the Nevermore"

Both Wednesday and the principal are motionless, almost as if they were not breathing.

"Are you saying there is an organization behind all this?"

Mark shakes his head in the negative.

"I would say it is more of a family matter, with the discovery of her identity we found Laurel's hiding places in Europe, unfortunately she was careful, no photos or documents, but we have ascertained that the person we are looking for is her son and should be old enough to attend Nevermore"

The principal snaps, he has understood where Professor Silivieri is going and now he has understood why his presence and that of his team in the school was requested.

"You are telling me..... that there's a mass murderer terrorist in my school and no one informed me"

Mark nods slowly. He looks the man straight in the eye until the principal regains his composure and sits back down in his chair.

"We have no clues about him, yes we have his DNA, we know he is a male. I have already started testing some collected samples but I have not had any matches with any of the students in my class"

Principal Coleman runs a hand over his bald head. The new information overwhelms him. It is not the first time he has faced a homicidal madman, in war he has seen worse, but finding himself in a school full of students, unarmed, without information and logistical support, is a borderline situation of which he quickly understands the danger.

"I was already doing some readings, I understood that he picked up where his mother left off. The Hydes, I understood that he had put together a group entirely under his command. Tonight I had proof of it, Enid was attacked by three adult Hydes, much stronger and more dangerous than the little teenager that Miss Addams has already faced. From what little I have seen and heard though, it is he who apparently leads them, Tyler Galpin"

The blood in Wednesday's veins freezes, then begins to boil, the dark power flows through him and shines purple in his eyes.

"If it is Tyler Galpin who dared to attack Enid, I will make sure to kill him with my own hands"