Wenclair - hate to love

8.

"So, Wednesday" Enid said between bites of food, "you still haven't told me why that blood is not inside you, as it should be"

"I was stabbed" Wednesday said. The sound of Enid choking on her food made her pause, she glanced at her to check if she could handle it on her own.

"You- you got stabbed?!"

"It's best if I tell you everything now" Wednesday sighed. Best to get this out of the way.

"Please do"

"I assume Thing told you what happened in the greenhouse" Enid nodded at her, "After I was unconscious, I was taken to Crackstone's crypt. There, my blood was used to open a blood seal that released Joseph Crackstone. He stabbed me before making his way to Nevermore"

"ookay" Enid narrowed her eyes, "then how come you were running around after that?"

"My ancestor, Goody Addams, the one who locked Crackstone in the first place" Wednesday explained, "she passed through me to heal my wounds and told me how to defeat Crackstone"

"Yeah, that makes sense" Enid said, "you still lost a lot of blood, though"

Wednesday said nothing, only making a point of grabbing more food from the box.

"And then what happened?" Enid asked, curious, "when you got to Crackstone, how did it go?"

"Bianca had already gotten most of the students out by the time he arrived. I grabbed a sword. We fought" Wednesday took her time to chew her food before continuing, "Xavier showed up, he tried to shoot an arrow at him, I had to stop it from being returned to him"

Wednesday rolled her shoulder, testing it. It was only mid pain, she'd had worse.

"After that, we fought some more. Bianca stabbed him in the back to distract him when he had me cornered. And I took the opportunity to stab him in the heart"

Enid made a mental note to thank Bianca later, maybe she could go easy on her during the next Poe Cup.

"Then Laurel Gates pulled out a gun. But Eugene sicced the bees on her" Wednesday concluded her story.

"I see" Enid would also be sending flowers to Eugene later.

"What about you?" Wednesday asked. She grabbed an orange from the box and started peeling.

"What about me?" Enid asked back.

"How did you... find me? How did you know you would be wolfing out?"

Enid scratched the back of her neck.

"Yeah, I kinda didn't know that would happen"

Wednesday's knife stopped in its movement.

"Come again?" She said in a perfectly neutral voice.

If Enid was unaware, or unbothered by the weight of Wednesday's eyes on her, it was hard to tell.

"Right so, after Thing came to tell me everything. We went to Bianca and the others, to come up with a plan. So, Bianca and the sirens were in charge of evacuating everyone while Thing and I went looking for you"

Thing had climbed on to Enid's shoulder. Signing things to Wednesday that the other girl couldn't see.

See what she did for you? I couldn't have convinced her against looking for you if I tried.

"And then, while we were looking for you. I felt this itch, and then poof, bones cracking and fur all around and then I was all wolfed out"

Enid drank some water before continuing with her story.