7

          "Grrr." Slender growls.

              "Father, would you calm down? We are doing the best we can!" Strife says, going through her dad's stuff. 

                   "BEN, Jeff, Golden Heart, you, Eyeless Jack and Clockwork..." He says ignoring her.

                "Well, Splendor is a part of the group but he never helps." 

               He ignores her again "7 people can't get the damn job done...Strife, go get someone else who could help." 

              "We don't need any more help. The only reason it's not done is because of all the war and I've never gotten out my idea that would-"

               "Did I fucking  ask?" 

             She rolls her eyes and walks out of the room. She walks to the mansion's basement to see a woman with white angel wings with blue flowers that go along with her white dress. She had grey ears and brunette hair that flew as she did. Her eyes were purple with a tent of blue. She had a cloak that was almost as long as her dress. It was dark blue on top but an orange-brown color underneath. Her bare feet were tan like the rest of her body. She had a grey wolf tail with a white tip and she was healing Laughing Jack from his before the fight. 

               "Are you almost done, Angel?" Strife asks. Yellow sparkly magic finishes leaking out of her hands. LJ's scars and bruises disappear.

          "Thank you, Angel. Could've gone faster-" 

           "Quit being a dick and leave. I need to talk to Angel alone.'' Strife demands. LJ rolls his eyes and stomps upstairs.

             Angel lands and looks into Strife's eyes. "Yes?" 

              "Slender demands another member for our little team we've made." 

             "Yes, I've heard. The one the get rid of Splendor's child?" 

              "Yes. I figured you could help somehow." 

               "How's that?" 

               "Well, I have a plan to get rid of Tiffany once and for all. It's perfect, but we need the help of a....human... To do so." 

              Angel rubs her chin and just looks at Strife. "Hmm... Well, I can shapeshift."

               "Show me." 

                   Angel changes into a human girl, basically just herself without the wings or tail. 

                        "Perfect, now to be honest. We can not go through with this plan in a couple of days and the baby is almost done cooking. So the first part of the plan is convinced Slender to give us more time if we promise to rid both children." 

                       "Alright, but who's all on our team?" 

                       "Just me, you, and Golden Heart. The original team has no idea what to do and Splendor isn't even helping. They can take care of all the wars and protect the mansion. We got the Fansworths.".....

            "Daddy! I'm hungry!" Tiffany yells from her bed. 

              "Pizza is on its way, love." He loves from his room, packing some more of his clothes. 

               "pizza!" Tiffany runs into his room. "What kind!" 

              Steve hesitates, "Pizza stores pizza." 

              Tiffany groans and flops on the bed. "That pizza sucks. It's not even pizza. The sauce is ketchup!" 

             "It's all we can afford, Honey. We need to save money for the new house." 

             "But I eat enough vegetables, I don't need to eat the crust, ketchup, butter, and broccoli. It's like they have no idea how to make pizza." 

             "If people didn't like it, it wouldn't be in business. Now is all your stuff packed?" 

                "We live with weird people."

               "Tiffany, is all your stuff packed?"

              "Mostly, I just need another box for Lilly, Tobias, Seth-" 

               Steve chuckles and puts a box by Tiffany's head. "Put all your friends in here."

               "...But I don't wanna get up." 

               He leans over and playfully smacks Tiffany's arm. "You're not even 7! 'But I don't wanna get up' what's the matter with you!"  

               Tiffany giggles, Steve comes over and starts tickling her. 

                "What has happened to my daughter! Given the disease of laziness!" 

                  "Dad!" Tiffany says laughing extremely. He stops and lays down next to her.

                   "How do you feel about having a baby sister?" 

                   "I don't know. Mom said she'll love me for who I am no matter what, because that's family, but at the same time she was drunk. What if my own sister looks at me like I'm crazy or evil? What if she's always scared of me and tries to hide?" 

                      Steve kisses Tiff on the cheek. "Babies look at everyone like they are weird and scary at first. So I'm sure she'll grow up in the house only knowing us and won't even ask about how you are until she's the age that she asks questions about everything. Like you were, and your mom was right. She loves you, baby girl. She just has addictions to many bad things, and she used to be good at hiding it. Sure she sells and buys all kinds of drugs which is illegal... But I wouldn't have married her if she was awful."

                "Is it my fault you guys argue all the time?" 

                 "What! No! It's no one's fault. It's just all the stress, baby. Ya know with your mom being pregnant and were trying to move. It can just put everyone in a bad mood. Look Hunny, we love you, no matter what." 

                   "So you would never try to get rid of me?" 

                   Steve lifts his head "Where'd you get that idea?"

                    "I had a nightmare. Our last appointment for the baby. That night I dreamt you had put me in a box, then put me in the river saying stuff like 'I'm sorry' and 'We have to.'" Tiff says, tearing up as her dad stares at her intently, "I went down the river and out of nowhere I flew off something like a break in the ground, and I fell down a waterfall. I closed my eyes and when I opened them, I was in the kind of orphanages I saw online. The only adult girl there threatened to beat me."

                        "Baby come here." Tiffany scoots over to cuddle her dad. He hugs her tight and she just starts crying in his arms. "No. You are a Fansworth and we are never gonna abandon you. I promise."

                   "BELLA?" Strife says, walking in the mansion's kitchen. BELLA quickly turns around. Hiding something behind her back. "Yes-yes. Ma'am?" 

                 "Where is BEN? Has he seen Dr. Smiley or Angel yet?" 

                 "Yep, well, umm. No."

               "Excuse me?" 

                  "Like we went to go get him checked, but they were both really busy, and BEN is asleep. So this isn't really, you know, the best-" 

                  Strife walks up to BELLA so their faces are only centimeters apart. "What. Are you hiding." She demands to know.

                BELLA gulps. "Look, it's almost me and BEN's happy 20th month anniversary! So, I was cooking him a new drink I was making for him. I don't want people to ruin the surprise. So... Yeah, um, we're all good." She lies with nervous laughs and a nervous smile. Strife puts her corrupt hand around BELLA's neck. 

                "No, you look." She says with a growl. "I don't know why you can't get it through your head that I'm the boss, Slender is the boss, his brothers are the bosses, but not you. You need to learn you don't lie or hide things from the bosses, ever. Is that understood?" 

                   BELLA nods as best as she can through the chokehold. Strife puts her nail gently on BELLA's throat. "Good. Because if you don't learn that it could be a bad bad bad thing for you." She gently rubs her neck. 

                    BELLA goes to move her hand and accidentally knocks a bottle over. It falls and makes a loud noise on the metal counter. Strife starts to look around to see what it was. 

                             Bang!!!!

             A long crash comes from the mansion's living room. Strife looks at BELLA and says, "I've got my eye on you." Then runs out of the kitchen like the flash. BELLA exhales then turns around. She stands up the bottle full of Slender's blood. She takes off the lid and pours the blood into the love potion, then adds some of her own blood to the mix. She runs upstairs and gently wakes BEN up. 

                       "Benny Boo."

                    BEN opens his eyes and looks at BELLA, "How long was I asleep?" 

                   She sits on the edge of the bed by his feet. "Not too long. Are you feeling any better?" 

                     "Yeah, actually. I should go see Slender-" 

                        "Hold on let me check your temperature." 

                         "Baby, I don't-" BELLA puts a washcloth on his face. BEN starts to fall back to sleep, he flops on the bed almost lifeless. BELLA crosses the room and pulls a syringe out of the drawer. She walks over to her bottle of potion and blood and fills the syringe, then walks back over to BEN.   

                    "You will be mine. You will join our side" She whispers. She then she stabs BEN in the arm, then injects the potion in him. 

                    His veins turn from brown, to red, to pink, then back to normal. BELLA, satisfied her plan had worked to poison him, gently bends over to whisper in his ear. "You're not leaving me. I'll leave you when we're done." She says darkly before strutting out the room.

Credit to Wolfangelic12 for Angel used in this chapter and on.