your love keeps lifting me higher

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A COUPLE WEEKS LATER (their fame as Ghostbusters returned)

"I thought your father and uncle were wrongfully accused of murder?" Ray asked after Silvia ranted to the crew about her situation.

"My mom lied to me about that as well. The judge gave me a file on their case, there was some pretty good evidence showing that they were the murderers." Silvia said as she held her head in her hand, her arm propped up against the arm of the couch back at headquarters.

"I'm sorry almost everyone in your family are liars and two of them were murderers," Winston said.

"Way to sum things up, Winston," Ray said, giving him a swift kick in the shin. "Is there anything we can do to help?"

"I'm not sure. The only thing I've been doing other than nothing is helping Egon with the psychomagnatheric slime tests." Silvia replied. "We noticed that it mimics human emotions. For example: when the judge was yelling at us, the slime started acting up. It responds to human emotions and repeats whatever emotion is expressed."

"Come, we'll show you," Egon says as he gets some of the slime into a plastic container and microwaved it.

"Do we need spoons?" Ray asked.

"Why are you asking as if the slime is Jello?" Silvia asked.

"Don't bother, watch this," Egon said, widening his eyes and raising his eyebrows at Silvia. "Go ahead."

"You... You worthless piece of slime!" Silvia yelled at it, causing it to bubble slightly. "You ignorant disgusting blob!" The slime bubbled more as she yelled.

"You're nothing but an unstable short-chained molecule!" Egon shouted, making the slime twitch more.

"You foul, obnoxious muck!" Ray chimed in, smiling.

"You have a weak electrical chemical bond!" Egon shouted again, smiling at Silvia.

"I have seen some disgusting crud in my time, but you take the cake! You... you're just-!" Ray shouted more.

"Woah, chill out Ray," Winston said.

"This is what you do with your spare time?" Peter asked Silvia and Egon, who nodded in response.

"Peter, this is an incredible breakthrough. I mean, what a discovery. A psycho-reactive substance. Whatever this stuff is, it responds to human emotional states." Silvia explains.

"Mood slime?" Peter said; Egon gave him a weird side look.

"Oh, baby," Peter said as he got closer to the slime. The slime bubbled over more in response, which made Peter jump back.

"You mean this stuff actually feeds on bad vibes," Winston said.

"Bingo," Silvia said.

"Like a cop in a donut factory," Ray said.

"We've been running tests to see if we can get an equally strong positive reaction," Egon said.

"What kind of test?" Peter asked him, which made Egon turn his head in the other direction to avoid eye contact.

"Well, we sing to it, talk to it.. and say supportive, nurturing things to it," Silvia replied, looking down at her hands to avoid eye contact as well. It stayed silent for a second, everyone having the exact same thought in their minds.

"You're not sleeping with it are you, Silvia?" Peter asked. Silvia looked up from looking at her hands and looked at her boyfriend, who looked away from her, flustered.

"Oh, you..." Peter said as he shook his head.

"It's always the quiet ones," Winston said.

"You hound!" Peter said, Silvia trying to hold back her cackles. Egon cleared his throat, obviously uncomfortable.

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