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Strangely Hungry: Appetite increasing but... not for food. Mabel felt a sense of emptiness that nothing seemed to be able to fill. She tried eating some leftover birthday cake and watching a movie to pass the time, but the sensation was coming in waves.

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A double funeral in the forest. Rua on one side, Mabel on the other.

Vulcan and Caleb are standing next to each other, both facing Mabel's coffin.

Caleb: "I hired Rua to protect her, after we found Vlad everyone was on edge. I wasn't aware that he was a friend of yours though... Though I'm not surprised, you seem to know everyone... I'm so very sorry, Vulcan." Vulcan: "Ghosts never remember how they died, but the certificate said it was a cowplant." Caleb: "Someone made a poison from a cowplant and she ingested it... I think someone is hunting vampires, Vulcan." Vulcan, his mouth becoming dry: "What can I do to help?" Caleb: "Keep your eyes and ears open. You've been spending more time in the Valley, yes? Some new celebrities seem to be rolling through and picking up speed remarkably fast." Vulcan, pausing to compose himself a bit: "I'm sorry too... I'm not proud of my behavior before. I wish I had made it up to her before this happened." Caleb, meeting Vulcan's eyes sympathetically: "We all handled it as best we could, just how we'll handle this."

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Lucy aged to elder sometime late in the evening and suddenly her life force drained from her body. A revelation of dread swept over her and she could see her children and partner, helpless to save her spirit from escaping her. There was silence, she was calm and she saw him enter through the front door next to her daughter.

Lucy's voice spoke out into an echoey void: "When my father died, he greeted death like an old friend. After spending my life being recognized by everyone who knew his name, I joked that death would be the last one to ask me: 'Are you Vulcan's daughter?'"

To her surprise, death didn't say a word. Simply checked his notes and manifested his scythe to cut the chord to her mortal coil.

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You're such a good friend.

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Wedding Day pt 3 The ring, the kiss, the forehead to the nose.

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Pre-wedding bonus: Grab lunch

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Sylas and Fortune can talk in person after graduation.

Fortune: "I'm happy you could make it." Sylas: "Oh? I'm happy you made it out alive. You have got to be the most reckless person I've ever met. And what was with that voicemail? You scared me to death." Fortune: "I was really lucky I think. Whatever was in there seemed to be temporary. Everything I said in the voicemail was true, just the timing was prompted by the fear of imminent death." Sylas: "I do appreciate knowing your reasons I guess. I'm not really mad anymore though. Fortune: "Sylas, I'd like for us to start over if we can. I still care about our friendship." Sylas: "You... what to be friends?" Fortune: "If that's okay with you I mean, yes." Sylas, straightening himself up: "Well, there is the matter of how easily you were able to lie to me, for as long as you did. I think that was the worst part, you had so little regard. You could've told me, we could've kept it a secret together, but you didn't think of that, because you didn't trust me the way I trusted you." Fortune, looking down: "That's fair." Sylas: "I suppose what I'm trying to say is it's not a no on the offer of friendship, but it's a... not right now." Fortune: "Yeah?" Sylas: "The girl who successfully broke into a secret science lab is a bit more interesting than Nemo Vatore ever was. Heh." Sylas gently kissed Fortune's forehead. Sylas, his voice in a low whisper: "I just need time to heal." Fortune, closing her eyes: "I'm afraid Nemo Vatore is who I'll have to become so that Fortune Nebula can get away with breaking into the secret lab. I've been bound by contract to stay in Forgotten Hollow. Just... while you're healing, don't forget me off in the shadows ya know..." Sylas, a bit uncertain, simply nodded his head. Sylas: "I suppose this is goodbye then." Fortune, taking a deep breath and nodding her head: "That is the case. Goodbye Sylas... until next time." Fortune turned to head back into her home, leaving Sylas standing by the pool. He waved to her with a bright smile. Sylas, with his best announcer voice: "Until next time, Nemo Vatore; Ghost Writer of Forgotten Hollow." Fortune stood on the porch and looked back at him over her shoulder. Fortune: "That does have a nice ring to it..." She stated, partly to herself, but mostly to get another good look at him before they went their separate ways.

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Bonus: The images Ash is daydreaming about while they lay in the grass together.

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The Valley Report pt 2: Front Page The Valley Report Leaked Security Footage! Strangerville Calls for Justice! Suspect could be a TEENAGER!

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The Valley Report pt 1

The BB unit chimes with gentle music that a new tabloid has surfaced. Vulcan arched an eyebrow, already at his computer. "Read it for me?" He said out loud.

The small robot chimed its confirmation and then read the article in question:

"The Valley Report.

Strange weather in Strangerville revealed to have a cause.

Strangerville is widely seen as a beautiful, albeit strange place to live, so when things become even stranger, its denizens notice.

Witness reports describe an eerie color to the once blue sky, thick bulbous clouds now forming over the desert. The plants have overgrown with long purple tendrils and big glowing blue leaves.

Scientists have connected airborne spores as the reason for the changes to the small town. Security footage has been released of the culprit who broke into the lab and released the spores."

Vulcan felt a knot in his chest and took hold of his mouse to look up this security footage.

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The Secret Lab: The Return of the Teen pt 5 /end

The keycard activated the lock on the door and Fortune felt her stomach sink as the two metal doors slowly opened.

Immediately she felt dizzy and for a moment, she thought she could see tiny pink puffs floating through the air. Must be nerves, she thought, and composing herself, she stepped through the threshold. Before her, was simply a set of stairs, sinking down into deep darkness.

Resolving she didn't have much to lose, she walked down the stairs. There were two hallways at the base of the stairs, one leading to thick dark blue smoke with pink glowy puffs floating around inside. She looked at it, opting to take the second hallway.

It led to large machines that looked important, one of them being inside its own glass room in the room. Other large containers held strange-looking plants that had grown much taller than the ones outside, with tendrils and bright pink and purple bulbs. Fortune found herself examining everything she could get close to. She hadn't expected to get this far and now that she was there, she couldn't conceive what all these things could be used for, or being stored here for. Another room held nothing but large barrels with warning signs indicating the shape of the plants in the container.

She went through the lab, taking pictures of everything she thought could be important and when she had plenty, she went back to the stairs, her eyes trailing back to the hallway with the smoke.

Glancing back for a moment at the stairs, she straightened her shoulders and stepped into the hallway, holding her breath for the smoke. This plan didn't last, the hallway was much longer than it looked from the stairs, especially without breathing. She turned to head back, realizing her folly. The smoke seemed thicker, the pink puffs surrounding her as she ran towards the light of the stairs waiting for her.

It was then that every muscle in her body tensed up and her arms clenched to her torso, her legs suddenly stiff causing her to fall face down. Panic struck her along with the linoleum floor, her body wouldn't move at her will. Something was terribly wrong and she wondered if this was permanent. She was aware of her surroundings, fully conscious. She could see the stairs ahead of her, she had fallen just short of their base. She laid her head down on the bottom step, desperate for air that wasn't what was in this lab.

Her muscles slowly relaxed and with her best efforts, she was able to stand again. Her vision was blurred, and her muscles were sore. She had time to think this was progress but the first step she took forward, her muscles tensed up once more. She did her very best to force her body to move, but each successful move was rigid and painful. She wanted to scream with every stiff step, but her face was forced into a wide smile.

Eyes forced wide, she made it to the top of the stairs, where the decoy office building provided some reprieve from the smokey hallway.

Muscles relaxed again, and she took the opportunity to make a mad dash back out of the office and back home, hopefully, to never experience that lab again.

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The Secret Lab: The Return of the Teen Fortune approached the curio shop confidently.

Fortune: "I hear you might have a keycard to get into that secret lab." The man's face dropped from his usual customer service smile. Malik, keeping his voice low: "You mean for that big locked door? Yeah, but it's not free. What are your intentions with the information that is hidden therein?" Fortune: "I... I'm trying to be a journalist. This story could be my breakout. I need to uncover the truth. The people need to know what's behind that door." Malik paused, considering what she said: "You seem to be an honest kid. What have you found so far?" Fortune raised an eyebrow that he was at least entertaining her theories. She reached into her pocket, brought out the red package of strange seeds, and tossed it to him. The package was made of a strange material instead of the usual paper, the image on the front of what the seeds grow into was glowing and purple with tendrils, not of their world. Malik spent some time looking over the details of the package, the writing consisted of strange symbols with dots as accents. Fortune: "That and more." Malik clasped the seed packet to his chest as if it were what he had been waiting for. Malik, passing the keycard across the wood table before him: "You've got a deal, kid. Leave whatever you've got with me. You'll need plausible deniability if you get caught, haha." Keycard in hand, Fortune headed back out to the lab on the edge of town.

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Fortune found her way to the plaza where a curio shop waited for her, the strange bobs and trinkets caught attention of all kinds for the little shack on the side of the road.

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Vulcan talks to Lucy and Fortune about tying up loose ends in life and doing their best to finish what they started. Fortune thinks back on her experience as a teenager and the one loose end she hadn't tied up, looking at the small pile of paperwork and devices from that time she went to the secret lab in Strangerville with the club. No time like the present, she thought. Grabbing the pile, she headed out to Strangerville.

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Deleted Scene: Vulcan while his daughter was up in her room with somebody's son.

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A Wish Come True? pt 4

A snarky attitude will get you nowhere Devante.