June 20, 2022

There's a soft, but sturdy knock on the door.

"Um." Luna says, looking over at the door.

“So, we gonna open it or wait for whoever it is to smash their way in? Cause I'm happy with either.” Spider chuckles.

Luna opens the door. "Hello?"

Harmonia and Spider watch the door as Spider pulls out her bowie knife just in case.

There’s a tall, wideish man at the door. Slightly disheveled black hair, with a few gray slips of hair scattered throughout. He looks to be about 50 and has a Blue Rasberry Icee, half drank in one hand, being held from the top of the cup. He’s dressed in a grey and white sweatshirt and jeans, both slightly bloodstained, long dried. "Hello, I'm looking for a Harmonia Reeds?" His voice was fairly soft, but with a grizzly undertone that clearly states that he's been through a lot.

“Of course you are.” Spider mutters under her breath.

"Yo Harmonia, twinks looking for ya," Luna says, stepping aside to let them in.

Harmonia is staring at the door and completely freezes as she stares at him. "...w-who?" She asks though she thinks she knows who.

The man steps in, looking around at the crowd. "Of course I am? This is her house, isn't it?” He sees Harmonia, and lingers on her gaze, looking her up and down. "My name is Brian Thompson... I'm your father."

Harmonia stares at him and stands up, still looking him up and down in disbelief. "I..." She’s frozen.

Spider sighs and walks over to Harmonia, gently tapping her on the shoulder. "You ok?"

Harmonia looks at Spider before looking at Brian and walking closer, looking at him like she's trying to see if he's real.

Brian takes a small sip from his icee, before setting it down on the bed frame of the double bunk, kneeling down to her height. "Look... I don't expect you to forgive me, but I wanted to at least see you, and have you know I'm alive.” His eyes glance at her hand and pause there for a moment.

Harmonia hugs him quickly, tears brimming in her eyes.

Brian freezes for a moment before awkwardly wrapping his arms around her. It's clear he wasn't expecting this outcome. "Looks like you've been put through the wringer... are you alright?"

Knight walks in and just stays away from the new person.

Luna is watching from the couch quietly

"N-not really..." Harmonia says, her voice cracking.

Brian’s hug tightens. "I see, I'm sorry I haven't been here."

"I'm surprised you're still alive, it seems like pretty much everyone else is dead or hallowed so what makes you so special?" Spider asks.

Brian looks up at Spider, not leaving the hug. "I'm fairly experienced with these types of things, and I wasn't alone to get through it for the most part. What makes you so special?"

A couple of tears run down Harmonia’s cheeks as she hugs her dad, shaking. "I never thought I'd meet you-"

Spider chuckles. "Same here.”

“Who’s that?” Knight asks Luna in a whisper.

Lock walks in.

“Apparently that's Harmonia's father?" Luna whispers back.

“He…feels weird, like the air around him feels weird,” Knight says.

Lock squints at Brian.

"Huh? I don't get that vibe. If anything, I'm more confused about where he came from." Luna responds.

Brian looks around. "You've got quite the bunch around you..."

“Charming,” Spider says.

"Wasn't meant to be an insult," Brian replies.

"You forgot the milk.” Lock says.

Knight silently chuckles.

Harmonia blushes in embarrassment. "Y-yeah- we're kinda a ragtag bunch.”

"Mostly furries of some nature," Luna adds with a chuckle.

Brian tilts his head at Luna. "What's a furry?"

"Luna.” She laughs.

Lock chuckles.

"Like an anthropomorphic animal-" Harmonia says.

Luna waves with a smile, hoping her furry self doesn't freak Brian out. "Yup yup."

“Seriously, why do I get a weird feeling from you?” Knight asks.

"Interesting...? Sounds fun.” Brian turns to Knight and squints his eyes. "Why do you have proxies in your house?"

Knight gasps. “I’m not a proxy by choice!”

Fenrir appears in the living room in his cat form. "𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐲? 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐦𝐞!" Fenrir does a little spin and the beginning of the Big Time Rush intro plays in the background before he disappears.

"Oh, Jesus Christ," Luna says.

“YOU FUCKER!” Knight yells.

“So that just happened.” Spider sighs.

Harmonia is dying laughing.

"He does that a lot," Luna says.

“Next time it’s on fucking sight,” Knight says.

Brian looks up. "What-? Does he live here?"

“Nope,” Spider says.

Lock is staring at where Fenrir was.

“He's just a pest,” Spider says.

"Gods no," Luna says.

"Does that happen often??" Brian asks.

"He's a cunt who killed my friend and SHOULDN’T COME BACK!" Harmonia yells into the air and lets go of Brian.

Brian then flips off the spot Fenrir was.

Ratty scrambles through the open window and runs into the corner under the couch squeaking like mad as he does. Whatever he's seen out there, it wasn't pretty.

"Mouse," Luna says.

Chris walks in and sits down near a wall. He looks tired like he hasn't been sleeping at all.

"Mouse," Harmonia says.

"Mouse?" Chris asks.

“It was a rat but sure, mouse.” Spider chuckles.

"Luna when she eats it." Luna’s mouth waters.

“I’m gonna go to a different room….bye,” Knight says before passing out.

Lock has an off stare as she heads to the hall.

Chris sips his orange juice.

Enoch stands in his soul-headed flame body form in the doorway into the hall. Only Brian can see him. He stares directly at Brian.

Brian looks up at them, not saying a word.

Harmonia stares at Brian. "So... Enoch led you to me?"

Brian nods, keeping eye contact with Enoch. “If that's what you call them.”

"Are you looking at someone?" Harmonia asks, looking at the empty doorway.

Brian points at Enoch. “I mean they're right there.”

Luna looks but sees nothing. "I don't see anything, sir."

“Hm… really?” Brian asks.

“Really.” Spider replies.

"Me either,” Harmonia says.

Fenrir appears in his human form in the living room. "𝐇𝐞𝐞𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨!~" He says, looking around the room.

"Oh piss off Fenrir." Luna says.

Harmonia turns on her heel and decks Fenrir in the face.

Spider rolls her eyes muttering something.

Fenrir’s head recoils backward, slowly turning to face Harmonia as his eyes glow yellow. Vines burst out from the floor and pull Harmonia down onto it as Fenrir places his foot on her neck and starts slowly applying pressure. "𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐈 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧!" His grin widens.

Harmonia struggles, trying to breathe. "CUNT-"

Brian stands and pulls a gun on Fenrir. “Let. Go. Of. Her.”

Fenrir looks over to Brian. "𝐂𝐮𝐭𝐞. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥?" His head tilts slightly as he relieves some of the pressure on Harmonia’s neck.

"I WILL KILL YOU BITCH-" Harmonia screams.

Brian narrows his eyes and tosses his gun to the ground, making sure the safety was in before doing it. “Let her go.”

"𝐇𝐦𝐦𝐦..." He narrows his eyes, stroking his chin. "𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥'𝐬 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥!" The vines retract back into the floor and he takes his foot off her throat, kicking her over to Brian. ”𝐓𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫, 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭!"

"And to be fair, you murdered Cole. She had every fucking right to hit you." Luna says.

Harmonia growls and gets up, extending her claws. "Get out of my house, furball.”

"You're just wasting your breath, Luna,” Spider says.

Brian sets a hand on Harmonia’s shoulder. “Who are you, why are you here?” He asks Fenrir.

"𝐌𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐢𝐫 𝐀𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐮𝐬, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮!" He walks up to Brian, tickling underneath his chin as he walks past him. "𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐈 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠! 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭!" He looks back at Brian, smiling as he always does.

Harmonia tries to slash at his face with her claws.

Fenrir catches her hands. "𝐎𝐡, 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟! 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞!"

Brian snarls and watches Fenrir with piercing eyes. “Don't touch me.”

"I will violently murder you," Harmonia says.

"𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐩!" Fenrir closes his eyes, smiling innocently as he lets go of her hands and starts walking away.

Harmonia chases after and tries to kick at his knees.

Fenrir’s tail sprung out from behind himself, wrapping underneath her ankle and knocking her over.

Harmonia falls onto her back, wincing in pain.

Brian steps in front of Harmonia. “You will tell us why you're here, or you'll leave.”

"𝐓𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐳𝐞!” He looks to Brian. "𝐈 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬! 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬, 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤, 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭? 𝐍𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞!" Fenrir claps his gloved hands together.

Spider rolls her eyes.

Harmonia gets up, growling. "Piss off. No one believes your fake ass apology.”

"𝐎𝐡, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧. 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐞! 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫?"

"No," Luna says.

“Bollocks,” Spider says.

"Oh yeah? What's that?" Harmonia asks.

"𝐖𝐡𝐲, 𝐈... 𝐔𝐦..." He scratches his head. ”𝐈 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞! 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐝!"

"We could've done it without you!" Harmonia exclaims.

"All you did was tie Mammon down." Luna says.

Knight walks in with a cake shaped like Rei’s head from the hit anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. “I got the cake-“

"The wha--" Luna turns around and sees Rei's head as a cake, holy shit what??? "Oh my god. That's..." Luna is struggling to find fitting words for something so... incredibly fucking cool???

Knight starts to shake with rage as he tries to calm down by taking deep breaths. “Happy Birthday Luna.”

"Thank you Knight!" She says with a couple of tears falling, but they're happy tears. "Uhh, yeah wanna head into the kitchen Knight? Get away from the feline cunt in the room?"

“Good idea.” Knight begins to head back into the kitchen. “If you follow Fenrir, I will not hesitate to put one between your eyes.”

Luna follows along, anything to get away from him.

Spider disappears.

Chris finishes up his orange juice and goes into the kitchen to get more.

"𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐞! 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐈'𝐦 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝?" He lets out a childish hmph, looking away in disgust as he sits down on the couch.

Harmonia runs at him and tries to punch him again.

Fenrir lets it hit him. "𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐛𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭?"

Harmonia knees him in the BALLS.

Fenrir just lets it happen, seemingly unfazed. "𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥!" He sits there. "𝐈𝐟 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝." He kicks back, relaxing in his seat. "𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬!" He glances over at Brian. "𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲?"

Harmonia starts whaling on him, trying to slash him with her claws.

Fenrir shows a small bit of pain, the wounds piling up on him. "𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬?" He asks Brian.

"Do you expect me to stop her?" Brian asks. "𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞, 𝐲𝐞𝐬! 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐚 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰!"

"I hardly have the ability to do so, Sir God."

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Brian had been asleep on the floor, sitting against the wall with his now empty cup. His eyes snap awake. "Hm?"

Harmonia is laying on the floor, half awake.

Spider appears, leaning against the wall.

"You're all awfully lax." Brian comments.

“Not like we can do anything else,” Spider says.

Harmonia is growling and gnawing on a fucking dog toy.

"We're not the type to actively look for threats. We're more reactive, unfortunately." Luna comments.

Spider rolls their eyes at Harmonia. "You're fucking feral do you know that?"

"It's still an apocalypse. You all seem like you'd be caught totally off guard if something happened right now." Brian says.

Enoch, who again only Brian can see, walks up to him and STARES

"Yeah basically." Harmonia shrugs.

"I mean I murdered a couple hundred Hallowed solo a couple nights ago. It was fun." Luna says.

Brian looks at Luna. "Couple hundred whats?" He then looks down Enoch, just kind of staring back. He even waves.

"God knows how many I killed on the 14th.” Spider chuckles.

"Hallowed are basically mindless dromen proxies, I just call them XP fodder." Luna chuckles.

”I don’t like this height difference hold on.” Enoch says, growing to 7’. “That’s better.”

"No, they're Abaddon’s proxies normally,” Harmonia says.

"Ah, I see," Luna says.

"Oh, you mean the proxies everywhere. That's an impressive feat." Brian stands up to look at Enoch better. "Is everyone just ignoring the god in the room?"

"The God? Where?" Luna looks but sees absolutely nobody.

"The what?" She looks at Enoch but doesn’t see him.

“You call him a god? We just call him pest here.” Spider says.

Enoch chuckles. “Wanna talk in private?”

Brian narrows his eyes. "About what?"

"Who are you talking to?" Harmonia looks confused.

"I'm guessing it's Enoch,” Spider says.

"Oh, that would make sense,” Harmonia responds.

”Stuff.” Enoch says.

Brian sighs. "Fine, but let's not be long."

”Right.” Enoch grabs Brian and they disappear unceremoniously.

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