All For Not - Wednesday

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The doors didn't bother with creaking on their hinges as I barged in, Enid and Davina hot on my heels as my breathing raged, ragged and heavy as I looked for her.

"Sister, the diary, do you have it?" I paused looking at her, somehow she had still stunned me with her priorities, my eyes locked on with a narrowed look as I parroted her, "the diary?" She paused, looking me up and down with a look over her shoulder before fully turning to me, "you're worried about the diary?"

"What about Thing?" The anger in my voice was clear, palpable, "what about him..."

"He was stabbed, Wednesday," Enid's voice had her eyes flicker over and her brows furrow, "you find and tell Enid before me?" Her tone had my fingers twitching and my shoulder blades aching, popping even, "how could I have ever let you know? You were on a date with the one you're hunting, and yet you didn't even think of the possibility of a trap for your stupid, fucking diary."

"How naive do you believe I am? Xavier is the hide and you know it." I scoff, my eyes are wide and feral, glowing like molten glass, "why? Because of Kinbott? Yet you should be aware that Tyler is also under her assistance, court ordered for anger. In fact if I remember correctly, which I do, he told us after our first meeting. He goes there for the same reasons as us, just because of different actions..."

"I knew you didn't like Tyler, I wasn't aware to this extent however. You should have more faith in me sister, unlike you I actually can see who's going to do what..."

"Faith...faith, in you? It is for the blind to follow alone. Your visions cloud your judgment, you see what you wish because you're fond of a boy who smells like anger and blood, you are the epitome of blinded by attraction." Her eyes narrowed, "and your siren? As well as Xavier?"

She scoffed trying to counter my own word, lifting her head up as scowled at her, "fall in line Morella." I stood stock still, angry as I'd ever been, "guys come on, your sisters-" Wednesday's eyes switched to the blonde, snapping at her, "stay out of this Enid, may I remind you, you are the one who left the room in the first place, our 'family' matters no longer concern you."

"Don't talk to her like that," Enid moved back towards Davina, "it's fine Morella..." Her words switched between us as I watched her, her eyes deepening with sadness as she whimpered, "lets just go," she pleaded with me but Wednesday stopped her, "I said stay out of this Enid."

"By the gods!" I'm engulfed in flames within seconds, my fire so enraged it teetered on the edge of pure white flames as I stalked closer yelling at her, "get it through your head Wednesday, it's enough! I told you not to speak to her like that or are you bent so much that you truly think you and your self obsessed missions are the only things that matter?!"

She was visibly stunned, audibly quiet as she watched me walk towards her, "Thing died tonight! Where were you when I found him? Not here. Where were you when I pulled the knife out of his palm and cauterized his wounds? Not here."

"Where were you when Uncle Fester tried to bring him back and failed? You still weren't here when he finally was brought back, it was me and Fester, alone! Because your date was more important than properly hiding a book you've already read! You left him!"

The tears welling up in her eyes had my fire faltering, and I let it, until it went out, nothing but a smoke left behind to drip off of my skin. The flames no longer scorched hers with unbridled heat as she stood against the back of the desk, trapped.

"You are the worst sister anyone could have," she stood straight, looking at me the same way she looks at our mother before replying back to my words, "then let me remind you since you've clearly forgotten your place. We are not sisters, you are merely a spawn adopted into my family, mine."

It was silent, her words stunning the others present as I sighed, relaxing my body so I could speak without anger, "how could I ever forget, I have you to remind me every time you think i'm a disappointment. The only thing I am to you is a pet to order around, how careless of me to have ever rightfully called you sister when you are nothing more than a housemate I was forced to endure because no one else would."

"And because you seem to have forgotten, I may be a Feathertail, but I'm also an Addams by blood and while I understand we're not sisters by the same parents, we were raised as one, yet it clearly means nothing to you." I step back, finished before turning towards Enid and Davina who stood stock still, watching me walk up to them to leave.

"You've become weak..." I pause my steps and Enid tugs on my wrist as I sizzle internally, with a sigh I finish with her, "it isn't weakness, I'm just done... I'm done doing everything for you, including caring. Consider yourself truly alone sister, it's just like you've always wanted."

I take my leave as she basks in the stunned silence, Enid frozen watching with wide eyes and Davina pausing before following, the wolf tagging along behind her as I walk from the double doors and the stuffy office of Weems. Walking right into Kent's chest once again.

"Kent, what are you doing here?" His surprised eyes flicked over to Davina's, looking between us and Enid as he noticed her, his eyes a little greener than usual, almost unnoticeable.

"She-uh, you didn't show up so I was trying to find you, your room and everything was just ransacked, I got worried so I came to Weems..." He turned from her to me with a bit of a concerned expression, confused as Davina watched us with a sly grin, pulling a wide eyed wolf away, "forgive me... Thing had been attacked, I found him when I returned from visiting Eugene."

"Is he okay?" My head tilted to the side slightly, "he's recovering in the hospital..." His brows twitched together across the center of his, "no, I meant is Thing okay? I saw the blood, could smell it from the balcony," I swallowed, "he's...being watched by Fester at the moment."

"Can I walk you back to your room then? Unless you're going to a different one, then I can walk you there, maybe? If you're okay with it I mean I don't wanna bother you if you're-" I swallowed, interrupting him swiftly, "I wouldn't mind, if you wouldn't be put out of your way..."

He smiled, looking down at me, the confidence back suddenly, "it's never out of my way... For you, I mean it's no problem I just," it was gone again, quite soon overpowered by a mixture of shyness and a quick motion of grabbing my hand and pulling me along with him before he slowed to my side.

My eyes stuck on the sight of our hands clasped together, "you're cold..." Unlike at the dance, this time he didn't pull away, instead he squeezed his hand around mine for a moment.

"Kent... Kent," I wait until he looks down at me, hand letting go of mine, "I've changed my mind, I don't want to return to my room at the moment..."