Chapter 18: Talk With Evelyn
Blue's POV
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We made it back to Jericho in time for the ending speech which was being recited by the Mayor. Behind him was Wednesday and students from Jericho's school, they were ready to perform but first we had to listen to the speech.
Mayor Walker: Thank you, it is my honour to celebrate our town's history and Jericho's noble forefather, Joseph Crackstone. Now he believed-!
And once again, I didn't really care about his speech and dozed off, no one was going to bother me anyway so I had time to think to myself. Then, Mayor Walker pressed a button and the Crackstone fountain statue began filling with a clear liquid, it looked like water but smelt like.....
Is that Petrol? Why is it Petrol?!
I look around and my eyes landed on Wednesday, she noticed my gaze before smirking and I was now somewhat worried on what she had planned.
Was I going to tell someone?
Nah, I'll just let it play out, I'm sorry but I cannot see, I'm legally blind.
The band started to play a song but then I watch as Thing lit a match on the floor, it sets a trail of petrol alight and the flames passed some vendors before it reached Crackstone's statue. The fountain burst into flames and most people ran away from the sudden explosion.
Evelyn: Finally! Some action!
Adam: Is this apart of your war crimes Blue?
Blue: Hey, it wasn't me this time, I swear on my pet hamster.
Despite the band running away, Wednesday had started to play her own song as the Crackstone statue collapses........
What a lovely day!
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Evelyn's POV
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After that fiasco, Wednesday was called to Weems' office, I went there as well because I was caught clapping for Wednesday. I was assumed to be apart of her tactics but I promised that I wasn't.
.....okay maybe I did help her a bit but it was only a part of it.
Weems: That was a disaster! The Mayor is furious! I've lost count of the angry phone calls, emails, and people in the town, alumni and parents. They want answers and so do I!
Wednesday: I would lead the inquisition, but I left my thumb screws and rack at home
Evelyn: A great answer
Weems: Miss Addams, you're already on thin ice. Wafer thin ice! You too Miss Light!
Wednesday: I swear on my late scorpion's life, my hands are clean
Evelyn: Washed mine with soap
Weems: I may not have hard evidence, but I see you, you're a trouble maker. Evelyn, your mother warned me about you,
Evelyn: So I have heard
Wednesday: If trouble means standing up to lies, decades of discrimination, centuries of treating outcasts like second class citizens or worse
Weems: What are you talking about?
Wednesday: Jericho, why does this town even have an Outreach day? Don't you know its real history with Outcasts? The actual story of Joseph Crackstone?
Weems: I do, to an extent
Evelyn: Oh so you do know?
Wednesday: Then why be complicit in its cover up? Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it
Weems: That's where you and I differ. Where you see doom, I see opportunity. Maybe this is a chance to rewrite the wrongs, to start a new chapter in the normie-outcast relations
Evelyn: That....sounds like something Blue would agree with
Wednesday: Because he is soft.
Weems: Wednesday, you can't just say that about someone! Blue is entitled to be soft if he wants to! You see it as a weakness but to me, it means he has a kind heart and is merciful
Evelyn: I mean....yeah that's my brother all right
Wednesday: I don't care. Nothing has changed since Crackstone, they still hate us, only now they sugarcoat it with platitudes and smiles. If you're unwilling to fight for truth
Weems: You don't think I want the truth? Of course I do, but the world isn't always black and white. There are shades of grey
Oooooo it is heating up in here, on one side I agree with Wednesday because racism is bad and that......but Weems is a believer in my Brother's philosophy of forgiveness....
Do I go in the middle and move to Mexico with a new identity? Sounds like something Blue would do and he can come up with the most BS but beneficial ideas ever.
Wednesday: Maybe for you. But it's either they write our story or we do. You can't have it both ways
Weems: You're exhausting
Wednesday: I know
Evelyn: I'm exhausted
Weems: Goodnight Miss Addams, but you should know, I don't tire easily
Me and Wednesday leave her office and head to our Dorm, but first I needed to speak to Blue about something really important. It was about what I saw and I felt like he needed to know, I knock on his door and he opens it.
Blue: Oh hello there, not expelled are we?
Evelyn: Nope, not yet
Adam: That's good to know, is there something you need?
Evelyn: Yeah, I had a vision and I need to tell the both of you
Blue:.....It's not about a lottery thing right?
Adam: God damn it Eve, we don't want the FBI on us. Otherwise we might have to use Blue's failsafe plan to move to Mexico.
Blue: Yes!
Evelyn: No! It's not on the lottery, so we aren't going to Mexico!
Blue: Aww.....
I enter the room and sit down on Blue's bed, I go over on what I saw, the creature, the strange man and the other figures and then the Pure Demon Eyes. Now Blue and Adam were concerned.....
Adam: This sounds bad
Blue: Yeah, especially since I saw the Hyde again
Evelyn: You did?!
Blue: Yeah, ran away though, not gonna blame him though, I would be scared of myself as well
Adam: I don't think these other individuals will be though, whoever they are, they will be a problem if they show up
Blue: Then I'll take the fight to them
Evelyn: I don't know, they could prove to be a hassle for you, especially the one with the Pure Demon Eyes
Blue: Yeah, whoever they are......they're going to be a threat....and I need to be ready
Evelyn: Woah woah woah, you think I'm going to let you fight that Demon?
Blue: If I don't, who will?
Adam: I'm sure there is someone out there that can deal with them
Blue: I don't think so, this is a Demon with the Pure Eyes. I might have to do the fighting and if that is the case, then I'm going to need my Pure Demon Eyes
Evelyn: How are you going to do that?
Blue: To be honest, I don't know, our dad never left behind a message for me on this matter. I might need to figure it out on my own or find something of his that can tell me
Evelyn: Okay......well, I'm off then
I leave the dorm and now I was really scared, Blue says he might have to throw down with this Demon and I hope to God he doesn't.
I know my brother is strong, there is no denying that.....but this is most definitely a powerful Demon.
He could lose his life.......easily......
And I don't want to lose him just like our father......
I want to watch my twin brother grow.....
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A Few Days Later
Blue's POV
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I was currently in the dorm shared by Evelyn, Wednesday and Enid because Wednesday wanted me to come. Apparently she broke into a morgue or something and took pictures of dead bodies.......
Yeah I'm not going to question this, just treat it as a natural thing.
Anyways, she had a evidence board set up to try and figure out where the monster could be chilling at. Evelyn was also looking to help.
Blue: Could it be under a bridge?
Evelyn: Blue, it isn't a troll
Blue: Oh come on, it looks like one! I could be displaying 200 IQ here!
Wednesday: I'm convinced you don't have even 1 IQ
Blue: And who was it that solved a riddle before you?
Wednesday: What riddle?
Blue: Oh don't you play that game with me!
Enid: You know, when I suggested giving your side of the room a makeover, I did not have Ted Bundy's pinterest in mind
Evelyn: I know right? What about Dahmer's?
Blue: Ted Bundy has a pinterest? Does that mean he is alive?!
Wednesday: No, although I would've liked to meet him
Evelyn: One of the greatest collabs the world will ever see
Wednesday: Yes but it is still not as creepy as your stuffed unicorn collection, Enid
Enid: Is this why you snuck out last night?
Wednesday: Thing and I made an unsanctioned trip to the morgue to copy the files of the monster's victims
Enid: Okay, there are so many levels of new in that statement, I don't know where to begin
Evelyn: Yeah, when I suggested that you get a hobby.....I meant like bird watching or something
Blue: I like birds
Everyone: We know Blue.
Wednesday: I need to get inside its head. Discover any patterns of anamolies. I've already made a big discovery. Turns out all of the mobsters victims have had body parts surgically removed. The first one, a kidney
Blue: I'm not bloody surprised it was the kidney first, it probably has an account on the black market
Wednesday: The second a finger
Enid: Wednesday, I don't feel-
Wednesday: Third, a gall bladder-
Blue: M-Maybe we should stop talking about these things? For Enid's sake?
Evelyn: Yeah, otherwise she is going to fai-oh, and she has
I had caught Enid before she fell to the ground and placed her on her bed safely, that girl can't handle the talk about body parts.
Wednesday: These murders aren't mindless, he is collecting trophies likens seasoned serial killer. It's impressive actually
Evelyn: Yeah so while you were talking, Enid decided to take a nap
Wednesday: Fetch the smelling salts....again.
After Enid had woken up, we went to our next lesson which was Botanical Sciences, me and Wednesday were sat next to each other again and on the table next to us was Xavier.
However, we both noticed that he had these bad scratches above his shirt collar, he noticed that we were staring so he turned to us.
Xavier: I tweaked my back fencing
Blue: Oh damn, are you okay? That does look painful
Xavier: I'm alright Blue, thanks for your concern
Thornhill: The Orchid produces a pheromone that mimics a female insect, luring the males in. Now, once the plant is pollinated, what do the male insects get in exchange?
Bianca: Nada, just like all the guys at the Rave'N. Well maybe not Blue.....
Adam: Damn that's an L
Evelyn: I know right?
Blue: What's the Rave'N?
Xavier: You don't know?
Blue: You expect me to know?
Xavier:......Good point
Yoko: The Rave'n is basically like prom, but only the party bit
Blue: It's a party?!
Everyone started to laugh at my shock when I.have now just discovered this revelation, well except Wednesday but I could a very small smile present, my vision is beyond everyone's!
Bianca: Yes, yes it is. You got to take a date though
Blue: Ooooooh okay
Bianca: See, now, I was going to ask yo-
Blue: What's a date? And how do I take it?
Evelyn: And there it is!
Adam: His bloody black hole density
Yoko: Y-You....have to take a girl there
Blue: Oh, that's easy then, Wednesday?
Wednesday: No
Blue: Access denied, Evelyn?
Evelyn: Blue, in order to preserve your innocence....no
Blue:......Okay?
Everyone: Thank God he is dense
Thornhill: Okay, I know you're all excited about Saturday, which is why I haven't assigned any homework
Everyone: YES!
Blue: We have been spared!
Adam: Today is a good day, I can die in peace now
Thornhill: But I do still need volunteers for the decorating committee, anyone interested, come and see me up here
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Wednesday's POV
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The lesson was over and I was ready to leave, not bothering to go up to Miss Thornhill, I had no plans with helping out.
Xavier: You're not gonna volunteer? Aren't you pumped about disco balls and spiked punch? There's even a DJ. MC Blood Suckaz
Adam: That is a horrible name
Blue: Yeah, I should be the DJ instead
Adam: It would be absolutely chaotic but I'm all for it
Evelyn: Yeah, oh and about the spiked punch? Usually not a good thing big man.
Wednesday: Exactly, I'd rather stuck needles in my eyes. I'll probably do that anyway
Blue: Bet
Xavier: Or you could invite someone and have a little fun?
Fun? Does he really expect me to take a boy that only cares about girls in a certain way? Absolutely not.........who would I even take anyways?
Adam? A respectable choice but I doubt he would be up for it.
I already know that Xavier wants to go with me and I will reject him.
Blue.......I want to say no, but the thought of going with him doesn't sound bad......
Wednesday: No, I have no time for that anyways.
I walk away from the group as I resumed my investigation, later that day, I had the idea to tail Xavier as he was one of my prime suspects in this monster case. I only took Thing with me as we followed Xavier to a shed away from prying eyes.
Of course, Thing was reluctant.
Wednesday: We need to do this, Xavier didn't get those scratches from fencing. He's hiding something.
We watch and hide from plain sight, Xavier leaves so I move to take a peak inside, once I was in the shed, my interest had peaked.
Wednesday: I suppose every artist needs a muse, Xavier, you just became that much more interesting
I saw that drawings of the monster were inside the shed, no doubt they were made by Xavier himself....the question was why? I stepped out of the shed and began to walk away but I made the mistake of not checking my surroundings.
Xavier: Wednesday?
Wednesday: Xavier, hello
Xavier: What are you doing?
Wednesday: Nothing, I just saw you come out this way. What is this place?
Xavier: It's kind of my private art studio, I cleared it out, fixed it up, so Weems let me use it
Wednesday: How very entrepreneurial. I would love to see inside, why don't you give me a tour?
Xavier: Not right now, it's a total mess
Wednesday: I shadowed a crime scene photographer last summer. I'm not easily fazed
Xavier: Maybe another time, why were you looking for me?
Wednesday: I.....wanted to go over Ms Thornhill's homework assignment.....
Dammit Wednesday, you know that was a horrible lie, even Blue could've conjured up a better one. Although he can be very convincing with his words.
Xavier: She didn't give us homework remember? Why are you really out here? Is this about a certain dance that makes you want to poke needles into your eyes, perhaps? I'm all ears
Oh great....this is the last thing I needed, him acting confident that I'm here, he really thinks it is about the dance? How foolish of him, he can't seem to take the hint.
But sometimes intentions melt in the face of unexpected opportunity. If this was my chance to get a clue or even a confession, how could I refuse?
But.....I still hate this.
Wednesday: Are you really going to make me ask?
Xavier: Oh absolutely
I feel sick because of his confident demeanor, but this is for the investigation, I cannot stray away from it.
Wednesday: Would you.....would you possible consider going to the Rave'N dance with a certain...would...would you go to the dance with me?
Xavier: Yes, Wednesday, I would love to go to the dance with you. I thought you would never ask.
Wednesday: Neither did I
I absolutely hated this, I hated the way Xavier acted, as if he was being charismatic with me. It's sickening on how obsessed with me, one thing I can compliment Blue on is how he would never act like this.
A part of me would rather go with him.....
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