.:.Come Out, Come Out, Wherever you are.:.

.:.Come Out, Come Out, Wherever you are.:.
.:.Mid-May.:.

The dining hall was buzzing in the compound, word had gotten around that Angel had not been seen since the late night encounter. Muri sits at the end of one of the long tables picking at a pile of mash potatoes looking rather depressed. V and the good Doctor are standing in line looking at her. V with a deep look of concern towards his little sister.

“Has she been in her room all week?”

“And refuses to come out. She won’t even let Muri in. She’s even tried bringing her some chocolate and Angel just ignored her.” the Doctor said as he gathered his plate from the line, “The good news is she is at least accepting her meals, though the trays have not come out. So we’re assuming she’s eating.”

“I’m more concerned as to what this is doing to Muri at this point. Not even a word to her.” V said, grabbing a plate and sniffing at it before dropping it back, “I get that she’s pissed at me but at Muri?”

“Well, you did tell Muri to not rush things with Ms. Wilde. She’s still recovering after everything she went through with the Carnival. ...or do I need to remind you of your state of mind when you joined our merry band of misfits.”

“Yeah but eventually I got over it and became a leader.”

The doc looks dead at him and sighs, “You weren’t given much of a choice on that either. But perhaps it’s more than just seeing you that has sent the young lady into hiding.”

V growls before grabbing a drink and tossing his tray off to the other side of the line. He turns and glares, speaking low enough that only the doc can hear him, “Something like that, but she should be stronger than this.”

That pisses the Doctor off and he slams his tray down on the table near Muri, which makes her jump a little bit, “V! For heaven’s sake the woman was left for dead after years of mental manipulation and torture. She was left for dead in the middle of a field where we were lucky to even find her before it became worse. She’s gonna have growth and then she’s gonna regress more than just now. Give. It. Time.”

Just then the crowd starts to murmur even louder as the men and Muri turn around to see Angel walking with her head held high.

“ANGEL!” Muri calls out before running up to her and wrapping her arms around Angel’s waist, “Thank the Gods you are ok.”

“Hey,” Angel says softly before peeling herself from the young girl’s arms, “Sorry to scare ya kid.”

“I’m just happy to see you. We were so worried.” Muri said, looking back towards her brother and the doctor.

“I’m just gonna get something to eat. Everytime I get food brought to me it’s freezing.” Angel says, glaring at V but his stare doesn’t whither, “Maybe I should look into a microwave to go with that TV and mirror you wanted me to get.”

“Just show you can shut yourself in more?” V couldn’t help but speak with a bit of a bitter tone.

“Well it’s better than being left to die.” Angel shoots back.

Muri stands between Angel and her brother, looking worried, “Guys, can we not fight?”

“We’re not fighting. Are we Angel?”

Angel slides Muri behind her and takes two steps towards V, “Nope, if we were fighting I’d knock your brother on his ass. Just like the old days.”

V smirks and turns to the doctor, “Now I know she’s got hallucinations, doc. You may wanna redo that brain scan.”

“If you insist, but she’s cleared.” the doc said noticing Angel’s movements trying to get him to turn around, “But umm, V...”

“I do insist because if this woman actually thinks that she can knock me on my ass...”

WHACK!

Angel, when he wasn’t paying attention, picked up the metal tray with Muri’s plate on it. Carefully cleared it off....and just as he turned back around to face her, she cold-cocked him with it. V dropped like a ton of bricks only making out the muffling screaming.

The doctor just looks down at V holding his face, taking a bite of his meal and shaking his head, “Well...can’t say I didn’t try and warn you, kid.”


.:.Why would they let a demon into Fantasyland?.:.
.:.Present Day.:.

Disney World is still recovering but through the cleanup Angel with Muri by her side, steps over the small branches that have yet to be cleaned up.

“We live in the real world and yet here we are walking through this God forsaken place.” Angel gags as Muri giggles, “I think someone had a funny thought when they put together this match between the Victory Champion Ellie Quinn and the Fallen One, Angel.”

Angel swoops down and picks up a paper map of the so-called ‘Happiest Place on Earth’, completely soaked from the heavy rains that fell there recently.

“See Ellie, I don’t know if you have been paying attention since PWE returned but I have been running absolute carnage all over without any remorse whatsoever. I am not surprised that this has already come to pass. What’s amazing is I think that in another life, Ellie and I would have perhaps been something close to resembling friends. She enjoys the pain just as much as I do, doling it out and maybe, just maybe feeling it run through her blood, nerves, bones...that whole body.”

Angel taps on Muri’s shoulder and points out a window that has been reopened.

“I think that this place may have done itself a disservice by removing the protective boards from its buildings because Ellie, I’m going to drag you from one end to the other. I’m out to prove a point that back when we returned back when I came so damn close to shocking the world that at that point someone should have been sent out to officially take me out.”

Angel shrugs, as we see V walk up to her and with a bow and a tip of the top hat that he is wear, he hands Angel a Mouse Head balloon.

“For you, my lady.”

“Why thank you, sir.” she smiles a little too sweetly to be considered remotely comfortable. “You see Ms. Quinn, you come into this with the understanding that I can be stopped. If the devil’s favorite child cannot end me, if everyone that I have faced since then has not ended me...if a CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE CANNOT END ANY OF US...then you are about to have a whole realization and it’s gonna hit you....”

She pulls a hair pin out from the back of her hair and pops the shiny balloon and drops it to the ground.

“And your whole reality will pop, just like the weak reality that you have been living.”

Muri skips over to them and stands in the middle taking both V and Angel’s hands.

“And then it will be truly the Wickedest Place on Earth.”