We appear in a house, which doesn't look familiar to me at all. Vinny immediately starts to rummage around, looking for a way to find Jeff. After a moment, I find a door where nothing should've been.
"Vin?" I call. "I think I found our entrance!"
"Pan, duck!"
I duck just as a demon I hadn't seen lunges, embedding his knife into the wall where my head just was. I snarl and kick him, knocking him over and seizing his second knife. I knock him out before he can attack me again.
"Pan, Pan, come on," Vinny says, pulling me off the demon guy.
I look at him and nod. The two of us slip through the door and make our way down the stairs behind the door, and suddenly, we are in a room with no windows or doors. And no stairway either.
"What the fuck?" Vinny asks, walking around.
"Where are we?"
"Not in Jersey anymore, I think," says a voice from behind me. A familiar one.
I turn around, and see Evan. Only I know instantly that it isn't him, it's Habit.
"Hello, daughter," he says softly, and then he slaps Vinny, knocking him over with the force of it. I shriek and hurry over to his side, and we both face him. "I did miss you, but I haven't thanked your friend for giving me back my favorite toy!"
"Evan isn't your "toy", Father," I growl.
"Oh, but isn't he?" Habit grins. "You know, I've come to really like your spunk, Pandora. Maybe you don't deserve to die like your mother did."
"Fuck off" is all I can say.
"Careful," he hisses as my control over my power begins to slip. "You hurt me, you hurt poor little Vinny there."
"I will kill you, and I won't hesitate to do it. Give us Jeff back, take us home, and we won't bother you."
"Pan! He's got Evan!" Vinny says.
"I know."
"You're a lot smarter than I thought you'd be," says Habit. "But bartering for someone else's life like that? Asking for your friends to go home and for what?"
"Just take us home."
"And what do I get in return?"
"Leave the boys alone and you can have me."
"Wait, what?" Vinny says. "Pandora, we're supposed to protect you. Like your mother asked us to. This isn't what she'd want, and it's not what I want."
"She's gone. And I know. She's gone because I couldn't save her from him, but I'm not letting the same thing happen to any of you. So there you go, Habit. Let them go and you get me."
"Deal."
