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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

Chapter 5: Effluvium

Summary:

Effluvium.

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Vi was absolutely ecstatic as she pushed open the doors to the Kiramman manor. 

 

Her family- Mylo, Claggor, and Vander- were all in tip-top shape. The doctors had said they were currently expected to even live a very long and healthy life.

 

Ha! Suck that!

 

If you’d have told her that all those years ago, crying and shaking in one of dark and dingy cells in Stillwater, that one day she’d be happy, she’d probably have broken your nose and then cried quite a bit more. If you’d have told her one day she’d see her family again and have a loving girlfriend up Topside, she’d probably have done the same thing.

 

But now it was here! A happy fucking chapter in her depressing little life story! And, by Janna, she could only hope it led to a happy ending as well. 

 

“Holy shit, Vi, you’ve been living here? Talk about turning blue belly.” Ah. Well, Mylo may not appreciate the happiness and vibe of the moment, but oh well. 

 

“Shit yeah I do, you brat!” Banter came as easily as it did some eight years ago for Vi. “And you best believe you’re gonna be living here, too!” Caitlyn, Tobias, and even Cassandra chuckled at the look of shock on Mylo’s face, his stupid and ugly mustache (seriously, how did he somehow have facial hair and Claggor didn’t?) covering the top lip of his now opened mouth. 

 

“Please, I would be a rather poor host if I didn’t offer you any kind of tour.” Caitlyn easily flipped back into her regal posture, although her smile did seem more genuine that when she usually did. “Mother, Father, I understand you may want some alone time. Vi and I will entertain our guests.” Tobias and Cassandra shot their daughter a thankful smile as he wheeled Cassandra off towards their bedroom. 

 

“Alright! Follow me to the kitchen, you lot!” Vi joked as she borderline skipped across the foyer into the kitchen, the others tailing behind. “Here’s the table- great for eating at, I hear- and the island!” 

 

“Vi, do you think it smells funny in here…?”

 

“And the stove, my fine gentleman! Do not touch it, I warn, for only Caitlyn and myself have resolved to harness its true power!” With the ending of her, quite frankly, hilarious line, Vi smacked her hand down on one of the knobs, electing to ignore the strange hissing, before an ear-splitting BOOM and scorching pain covered her body.

 

The manor went up in flames. 

 

No survivors were reported. 

Notes:

APRIL FOOLS MOTHERFUCKERS!

I was working on the next chapter today and was blessed with this brilliant idea. If it's not April Fools in your timezone anymore, uh, my bad. I left the hint about the gas in the last chapter, and although I planned on it being a joke in the next one, this opportunity was to amazing to pass up.

No, this chapter is not cannon to this story, and will be replaced by the actual one when I finish and edit it, which I currently plan on being by the end of the week.

Notes:

All right, thanks everyone for taking a peek at this. I have so many ideas for this story, so lets cross our fingers I don’t face any long-term crippling lack of motivation for a while, because right now I’m itching to get this story started.

Maybe a bit too excited, actually. I know that this first chapter is super fast paced and not super deep, but I promise the rest of the story will be far slower and hell of a lot more angsty. Sorry about that, but again, I really wanted to get this first chapter out and needed to establish a few things before diving into the characters more.

Also, I will more than likely be asking you guys input on a couple things in these notes, and I’m going to start with this: I haven’t put this in the tags yet, but I’m strongly considering Trans! Lux for this story. Any objections, speak now or forever hold your peace.

Speaking of tags, there are SO MANY that are going to be added as the story goes on, but a lot of them are a surprise hehe.

Thank you again for reading, and I will see you when I’m not swamped with shit to do (So probably a few days since I PLAN on the next chapter being much longer and more in depth)!

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