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Ed ate the apple she’d gotten from the cafeteria while waiting for Ace to show up so they could get this over with. The book she got from the library was decent, if a bit easy for her. Just because you add the word advanced to your book does not make it so, and this potionology book was laughably easy.
‘ Child's play. Nina would find this book interesting.’
‘She would, wouldn’t she?’
Andddd now Ed missed her kid again, great.
She must’ve sighed, because Grim looked at her questioningly. “I’m itchin to get this over with too, but what’re you sighing for?”
“I miss my kid.”
Grim blinked. “You’ve got a kid?”
Ed nodded, smiling softly. “Yeah, her names Nina, she's almost 6. She’s super smart, and a great kid. You’d love her.”
Grim huffed, looking away bashfully. “Yeah, yeah, whatever.”
Ed smiled. Just like Greedling.
The two of them waited a couple more minutes, before Ed slammed her book closed. “He’s not coming is he?”
Grim yowled in anger. “HE BAILED ON US! C’mon henchman, let’s go get ‘em!”
Eh, works for her. She was getting bored anyway, and who doesn't love a good chase?
****
After some help from some lovely paintings, (Ed promised them that she’d get Crowley to move them around so they could see more things. It’s not really fun to look at the same thing all day.) Ed grabbed Grim and started booking it to where the paintings said Ace would be.
“HENCHMAN! HOW ARE YOU SO FAST?!”
Ed skidded past a corner. “It’s pretty easy to run when you’ve ran for your life before! Plus some other things we’ll discuss later!”
Not even a minute later, and they were already at the hall of mirrors. Sure enough, there was a redheaded asshole trying to sneak away.
“HEY!” Ed yelled. “GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!”
‘Get him Eden! Oh, this is so entertaining!’
Ace started running away- man he’s slow - screaming, “Nope!” He then pushed a blue-haired bystander who Grim then took the liberty of yelling at. “DO SOMETHING! HE’S TRYING TO DODGE PUNISHMENT!”
Apparently to them, that meant summoning a cauldron to squash Ace.
‘Points for creativity, I guess. ’
Truth was cackling in delight.
****
Deuce wasn’t sure what to make of the pretty golden girl who thanked him for stepping in, but his stuttering was probably not helping his case. “I- um, no problem- I mean-”
The girl laughed. “ Truth , that was funny. Thanks again. I probably could’ve just tackled him, but thanks for saving me the trouble.”
The redheaded boy groaned in pain. “Why did you have to come looking for me? You could’ve just done it yourself. And how the hell are you so fast?!”
The girl shook her head. “No, if I recall correctly both you and Grim have to wash 100 windows, not me and Grim.”
“100 windows?! What did they do?!” Deuce yelped.
The girl smiled at him again. (Was he blushing? He was probably blushing.) “They almost set a statue on fire, because Ace was being a dick, and Grim - rightfully so - demanded he put his money where his mouth is.”
“You almost set a statue of the seven on fire?! You get into this school and stir up trouble on the first day?!”
The redheaded boy scoffed as the girl went to pick up the cauldron. “Oh shut up! Who are you anyway?!”
Deuce tried to help the girl, but she just picked it up with one hand and raised her brow. “I’m Deuce Spade and your…?”
“Ed. Most people just call me Ed. That moron is Ace.”
Ace stuck out his tongue before looking around. “Hey wait- THAT FURBALL RAN AWAY!!”
Ed didn’t even look surprised. “Of course they did. You gave them the idea of ditching, so they ditched.”
Ace looked furious. “And you're not mad?”
Ed smiled. It reminded Deuce of the smile his mom gave him when he was in trouble in public. One that screamed ‘Hell hath no fury compared to what I’m holding in.’ “Oh, I’m furious . But I can catch Grim no problem. C’mon you two, let’s get this over with.”
****
As predicted, Ed managed to run down Grim extremely quickly. Deuce was incredibly impressed. She had managed to corner him into the cafeteria, where Grim decided the only way to get out of this was to jump onto the chandelier.
“Cheater!” Deuce yelled. What to do.. What to do- Ah!
Deuce pointed his pen at Ace. “Why are you pointing your pen at me?”
“Because I’m going to launch you.” Deuce answered quickly.
“Uhh, Deuce, I could get Grimm down easily.” Ed said.
“Yeah Deuce, listen to Ed- Put me down!” Ace yelped as he started levitating.
“No, you're just trying to have her do all the work so you can get off scot free. Make sure to grab him tight!”
Deuce aimed and…. fired!
And well, Ace did get Grim.
…He also got the chandelier.
Oh his Mom’s gonna be pissed.
****
Ed stared at the shattered chandelier and sighed. She tried to warn them.
‘ Indeed. Well, time to fix this.’
Ed started gathering the shards all together, ignoring everyone and everything around them. The crystal was mostly carbon, so even if she was missing some pieces, she could easily take some carbon from the floor.
“My Dear… what are you doing?” Oh, Crowley. Late as usual.
‘Eden, please let me tear him to shreds.’
‘No dice.’
“Alchemy.”
Before anyone else could say anything, Ed slammed her hands to the floor, and watched as the chandelier fixed itself. The only sign of any trouble at all was thin lines where Ed fixed the crystal, but that's to be expected with something this delicate, and missing some parts.
Now satisfied with her work, she turned to everyone else (Why were their mouths open?). “Are we done now?”
Crowley shook his head. “No! Those three are still in trouble of expulsion! They have to learn that you can’t always fix something like this! They have to go to a nearby mine to find a crystal!”
“But it’s fixed?” Ed drawled.
“Yes, well- I’m the headmaster! And I say they need to learn!” Crowley shouted.
Well, Ed tried. But you can’t argue with a brick wall.