The Dark and The Light-Billy

Swan's Necks

I stared into the bathroom mirror at Sherlock and Watson's house, the images hadn't fully stopped and it was driving me insane. I watched for the fifth time as Billy was killed in some horrible way, tears filled my eyes as I could hear his screams, I wanted to close my eyes but the images would still be there, there was no escaping them. 

"Anybody in?" I heard Spike yell slamming the door, I wiped my tears away and walked out of the bathroom to see Billy grinning "Look who I found" Spike announced, B walked out of a room as well she looked so happy to see Billy, we had all been worried for him

"How did you get him out," I asked, I felt bad about snapping at them both and I was now a little timid 

"I don't understand," B said 

"His Majesty here pulled a few strings for me," Billy told us I turned around to see my brother standing behind us looking as timid as I probably did 

"Thank you" B nodded at him 

"It's the least I could do, really," Leo said softly 

"I haven't gotten a hug yet Kitten" Billy watched me with a small smile, I laughed and rushed into his arms, I was glad that Leo had been able to get him out of that cell 

"Where's Jessie?" Spike asked, we led him into the other room where she lay motionless on the sofa "this is my fault, I shouldn't have pushed her, I messed up, she just needed someone to be there for her" 

"Wake up Jessica," Billy said 

"Please Jess" Spike begged 

"Come on Jess" I took one of her hands 

"Come back to us," B said sadly "Jessie, you sulky cow we need you to come back cause we love you because you are so so special to us"

"Where are you, Jessie?" Spike asked 

"We're here Jess" Billy sniffed "we're all waiting for you to come back to us" 

"This only works when we're all together," Spike told us "Hanna, you aren't part of the skeleton because you are a feeling, you are the feeling of love, you love everyone in our little group so much" 

"Thanks, Spike" I smiled, we all put our hands on Jessie's hand "we'll never stop loving you, Jess" I watched Jessie's cold, pale face, come on Jess, we need you 

"Together," B said looking 

"Together" Leo agreed 

Billy focused on our hands "Together" 

"Together" Spike wiped his tears away 

"Together" I whispered, Jess, gasped suddenly and sat up flinging herself into B's arms 

"Jess" B cried happily hugging her tightly "you're ok, you're alright, thank god" Billy sighed in relief and Spike smiled 

"We did it" Billy sighed chuckling a little 

"We need to get to Aldgate now," Jess told us seriously "that's where the Rip is" we took a few minutes to tell Jess all that had happened and we made a plan to stop the Linen man 

"You'll need weapons for that" Watson announced, Billy, Leo, Spike, and I walked with him to a cabinet that had a lock on it 

"Are they in there?" I asked 

"Yes, the code that opens this lock is the answer to a riddle" Watson informed us closing his eyes to think "which two prime numbers, when divided by the square route of six, are greater or equal too-" Billy got something heavy and slammed it against the lock breaking it open 

"I'm done with riddles," Billy said annoyed, I chuckled as he opened the doors revealing all sorts of weapons 

"The streets are going to be much worse now" Watson reached into the cabinet "as the Rip widens there will be more monsters, we need to be ready" Billy grabbed something that looked like a very thick and heavy cane "good choice, amazonian, apparently" Billy shoved a rifle into spike's chest 

"How do I make it rifle people?" Spike asked 

"Point it and squeeze the trigger" Watson commanded "don't pull, never pull and work this bolt here to re-load" Spike went to do that "Not. Yet" 

"As you all know I'm not much of a fighter" Leo mumbled 

"You think I am?" Spike chuckled "mate, put it this way, yeah? you wipe your bum with swan's necks at the palace right?" 

"Pardon," Leo said, his eyes growing wide

"Swans necks?" Billy wrinkled his nose 

"The fuck are you talking about?" I asked 

"Why do you think there's a law that the Queen owns all the swans in England," Spike said in a duh tone and Leo looked at him like he was insane 

"That's absolutely preposterous" Leo scoffed, Watson looked so confused and I just burst out laughing at Spike's weird comments 

"Anyway, what I'm saying is, imagine you finish your business, you look down and ooh! there are no swan's necks left in the umbrella stand or whatever you keep them in, what I'm saying is don't get caught short" Billy held up a spikey thing for Leo still looking mildly confused about Spike's weird-ass speech 

"Trust me, Leo, you're going to need it" Billy assured a terrified looking Leo then he gave me a very lightweight gun 

"This isn't badass at all" I grumbled holding the tiny gun 

"It can do a lot of damage," Watson said "don't be fooled" I nodded still scowling at the puny looking weapon in my hand, we all headed for the door 

"Hey, be careful," Billy told me hugging me to his side 

"I'll be ok," I said "I have you" he smiled and we walked out of the house to a street in even more chaos than before 

"The more the Rip widens, the more the city will descend into turmoil" Watson mumbled "Stick together, look at you all when I first asked for your help I was apprehensive, thought you were just a bunch of kids"

"We are"