Hallows: Duets

Full Monster Mode

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Ashley:

"Ashley," Kelly waves her hand in my face. I blink and look over at her.

"What?" I ask. She grins and shakes her head.

"Are you okay? You haven't touched your chocolate whipcream can," she takes it out of my hand and shakes it before filling her mouth with some. I take it from her. She knows I hate sharing my whipcream.

"She's got that first time getting fed on high," Tam chuckles.

"Oh," Kelly laughs. "Are you okay? I don't think any of the others stared into space for almost twenty minutes like this,"

"It's fine. I just didn't expect this," I admit.

"What?" Tam asks scooting closer to me on Kelly's bed.

We're unpacking their things in the new dorm rooms. Since we're all in the creatives building. Kelly and Tam are roommates now. Their room is huge. I helped them push their beds into opposite corners of the room.

"Dante and I. I just didn't think we had anything in common but now that I feel him inside of me. We're not all that different,"

"I could have told you that," Kelly laughs. "You're just quicker to physical violence. Dante is more kill everything you are with a single look. You get dangerously close but you're just too f*****g cute to pull it off,"

"Let's go get an ICEE so she can get some sugar in her," Tam laughs. "It's draining,"

We make our way down to the cafeteria in this building and find the guys down here as well. They're all horsing around. All of them except Dante of course, who is sitting there watching them with a little smile tugging at his lips. His eyes immediately move to mine. Tam takes my hand and pulls me to the ICEE machine when she notices.

"Oh, you guys are going to be annoyingly f*****g cute," she pulls me into her side.

"Yes, that only means that Dante is going to go hard when it comes to punishment and hunting," Kelly dances as she fills her ICEE cup. "If it's anything like when he first claimed, baby boy. I might even get my gold katanas back,"

"I hope not," Tam shakes her head.

Kelly hands me a cup and I fill it halfway with blue and then the other half red. We both turn around when the doors to the cafeteria open up and Lily walks in with two ladies talking to her while she scans the cafeteria.

"Holy s**t, who is that?" Kelly asks, watching as she moves toward the back of the cafeteria.

"That's Lily. My accompanist," I answer.

"Huh," she huffs and goes over to the guys. I wait for Tam and then we walk over to them together. Dante doesn't hesitate to pull me to him and sit me on his lap. His hand slides up the back of my t-shirt so his bare hand is flat against my back. He's warm today. "Is that who I think that is?"

"Yep," Dante answers her.

"Oh, my god. She is ridiculously hot now," she muses.

"Who?" Anthony asks.

"That's Creepy Lily," Dante glances back in her direction.

"Okay, baby boy said she got hot. He didn't say she got striping away my daddy issues hot," he nods.

"Okay," I set my ICEE down on the table. "Lily is my new partner and roommate. You guys are not allowed to call her Creepy Lily. You're not allowed to be mean to her. Just try not to embarrass me in front of her. Please,"

"You didn't say she was your roommate," Dante's other hand slides under my shirt so it's resting on my belly. I look back giving him a warning glare. He just grins leaning in to press his face to my shoulder.

"I just found out when Mrs. Dubois handed me my calendar earlier. She thought it would be good for us,"

"That girl?" Anthony looks at her. "That's Creepy Lily? No,"

"That's her," Dante laughs.

"I'm gonna be honest with you, Big Ash," Anthony begins.

"Do not f*****g call her that in front of me," Dante growls at him. "Don't f*****g call her that at all, dumb ass,"

"Big Ash?" I look back at him not understanding why he's upset.

"Big Ass," Rudy clarifies.

"Anthony," I scold him. They all laugh.

"We f****d the girl up when we were kids," he says.

"What? What did you do to her?" I ask.

"She was always flirting with Rudy," Tam breaks the silence.

"She was not," Rudy laughs. "We just got along because of the butterflies,"

"The butterflies?" I ask.

"When Rudy's powers kicked in he didn't know how to control his abilities so he had three butterflies around him all the time. He was our very own little Disney princess for like two years," Kelly laughs. "Lily thought it was tight and they would talk about them all the time. They had a game and everything,"

"We were eleven," he defends himself.

"Anyway, just before we went into middle school, we stole her clothes on swim day and duct taped her to the Timberwolves statue in front of the school and then she was homeschooled until she started at Hellbourne Prep," Anthony tries so hard to keep his laughter in and ends up snorting loud enough for other people to turn their attention to us. I get off Dante's lap and I sit in the seat next to him.

"You f*****g asshole," he mumbles under his breath and takes my ICEE.

"Hey, that's mine," I complain.

"Go get another one," he glares at me like it's my fault everyone is staring at us now.

"d**k," I get up to get another one. Lily comes over to me as I wait for the two girls at the machine to finish up.

"Go away, Michelle," she glares at the woman with a notebook in her hands. Michelle sighs and walks away.

"What's that?" I ask her.

"That's Michelle. She's my personal assistant,"

"What? You have a personal assistant? Why?"

"Personal assistance, Ashley. It's in the name," she laughs and walks over to the machine. She fills her cup the same way I do. "I'll see you later. Umm, do I have to tell you that having them in my room wouldn't be great?"

"Okay, how about I re-introduce you to them and if they misbehave they don't have to come to our room ever again?"

"Seriously?" she smirks.

"Yes,"

"All right but only because I know Tony won't be able to help himself," she laughs. The two of us walk over to the table. They all instantly quiet down.

"So, this is my new roommate and partner Lily De Laughrey. Lily this is everyone. I hear you're all very acquainted already," I awkwardly introduce her.

"Sup," she gives them a nod popping the p.

"What do we do?" Kelly asks under her breath. Anthony bursts into laughter.

"A for effort and Ashley," Lily laughs and taps my back, and starts to make her way over to her table.

"f**k," Dante groans. "You motherfuckers have to apologize to her,"

"What?" they say collectively.

"Get up and apologize to her," he orders.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I do not apologize for s**t. f**k you," Kelly slams her hands on the table. She turns her angry eyes to me. "This is your fault. You and your f*****g wonder p***y broke him,"

"Wonder-dude. I didn't even say anything," I watch as she storms out of the cafeteria.

"Oh, s**t," Tony shakes his head. "She's probably ovulating,"

"Ugh," the guys all groan.

"The next week is going to suck for you, Kelly's roommate," Tony shakes his head.

"Wait, that's a thing?" I ask.

"Yeah," they all nod.

"How often does that happen?"

"Once a year. It happens to all female familiars once they're in control of their abilities. That's her third time," Tony explains. "The first time she locked herself in her room,"

"We were in Tokyo when the second one kicked in. It got weird," Dante laughs. "She jumped on this one dude's shoulders and ripped the top of his head off from their mouth. I had to lock her up in a crate to get her back here,"

"Uh-" Tam looks up at me with the same expression I think I have on my face. One of absolute horror. "Should I be concerned about my well-being?"

"The right question is, should we be concerned about everyone's well-being?" I counter.

"Just don't let your friend out in the halls past midnight," Rudy smirks.

"You guys are f*****g with us, right?" I cross my arms over my chest.

"No, baby. We're not," Dante shakes his head. He has the same expression he did when he told me James was an actual demon from hell.

"Oh, screw you guys. I'm going to call David later and ask him. Which one of you guys tapped her to the statue?"

"That was Carter," they all say at the same time.

"Just Carter?"

"And me," Tam raises her hand awkwardly. "The others had to hold Rudy back because he was crazy strong and he tried to stop us,"

"You two have to apologize," I point at her and Anthony.

"Why me? I had a crush on her. b***h was nuts," he grins. "I'm hoping she still is and that it's gotten worse,"

"Wait, I thought she was mean to you and threw spitballs or whatever at you,"

"Yeah, I loved that s**t. She was crazily obsessed with me. She is the OG Tony Daniels fangirl," he bites his thumb.

"Oh, god," Tam rolls her eyes. "Yeah, I've always felt bad for that, and if it will help her not bail on your thing. I'm in,"

"Aww, baby. I love it when you lie for the greater good. It's cute when you try to be a good girl," Rudy mocks her. She laughs placing a kiss on his cheek before she gets up to come to stand next to me.

"Come on, Tony. I know you're dying to see if she still has that strand of hair she cut off your head in fifth grade," she waves him over.

"I love you guys," he stands up excitedly and joins us. Dante gives me a worried look.

Oh, my god I think she might fit in with us if she forgives them. The three of us make our way to the back of the cafeteria where she's sitting alone. She's got headphones on, with little devil horns on them. Today's choice of lipstick is black with a red gloss over it. Her eyes are shut and her eye shadow is on point and so is her cat eye-liner. Her eyebrows are natural, thin, and sharply sculpted.

She's wearing a similar outfit to the one I met her in. Except her little pink plaid skirt has lace. Her nylons have little spider web designs on them. Her black button-up is a little loose and rolled up at the sleeves. The four top buttons are undone showing off what looks like a matching lingerie top underneath.

Lily is holding her right hand up as if she were holding a bow to a violin. Her hand is waving back and forth to whatever she's listening to on her headphones. We all freeze when she suddenly stops. Her eyes snap open she takes the pen on the table and writes some notes down.

"f**k," she chokes out when she sees us making all of us jump including herself. "What the hell? You can't just sneak up on people like that," she pulls her headphones off. "I should know. I have a restraining order from Mr. Gallows at H.P. Mother fucker. That's how I got sent to this s**t hole,"

"We should come back some other time," Tam shakes her head. "Preferably when Kels is here,"

"Come on," I glare at her.

"What is happening?" she looks us over.

"Lily," Anthony steps forward before Tam could say a word. "I personally wanted to come over here and apologize for what happened. We all do. Except for maybe Carter. He's still a massive piece of s**t. It's gotten worse actually,"

"Carter and I are friends. We're in business together," she sets the headphones down on the table. "He personally apologize to me and sent over a big ass basket, years ago,"

"That son of a b***h. I gave him that idea," Tony growls. "Anyway. We want to apologize ourselves,"

"Yeah," Tam nods. "I'm really sorry too. You don't even have to speak to us if you don't want. We just want you to know that we're not going to get between you and Ash. This is serious, obviously and- I'm sorry,"

"Cool," Lily nods and grabs her headphones, and puts them back on her head. "I'd totally wreck you anyway, shorty. What are you like a hundred pounds?"

"b***h, what?" Tam snarls.

"No, you don't," Rudy comes out of nowhere and grabs her around the waist before she has a chance to move. "What's up, Lils?"

"Red," she gives him a nod. "Got rid of the butterflies,"

"They died," he shrugs.

"Nice," she shakes her head and goes back to her notebook.

"Let it go, babe. You f*****g taped her to a statue," he laughs pulling Tam away leaving Anthony and me standing here. She looks up at her and pushes her headphones back.

"Was that all?"

"Yeah, I think so," I laugh. She grins.

"Thanks for trying, Villanueva. I love that those assholes found someone who can slap them around a little. The big guy tries but he's just as f****d as the rest of them," she shrugs. "I'll see you back at the room,"

"Okay," I nod.

Tony doesn't move an inch when I spin around. She looks up at him amused and blows him a kiss. His eyes almost seem to glow and he sticks his tongue and wiggles it at her.

"It's good to see you're still not all there, Daniels," she smirks. "Bye, sweetie,"

Tony doesn't put up a fight as I pull him away. He falls into his seat in a daze. The others look at him and then they look back at the girl sitting in the back of the room. She is once again waving her hand back and forth as of nothing had happened.

"Aww man. There's going to be two of them isn't there?" Rudy shakes his head. "Somebody better warn, Kels,"

"Not it," they all say at the same time.

"What? Me? I can't. She's in full monster mode right now," I shake my head.

"She can't hurt you. If we try, a clash of our energies can kill a s**t ton of people," Dante stands up and takes my hand. "Come on. I want to see your room before creepy- I mean Lily, goes up,"