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Petra sent Sephy a reassuring nod before she and Billy tiptoed round the side of the house to the backyard, they had practiced how to step over the minefield of bombs but Sephy was still nervous that it wasn't about to go right.

The plan had already set into action before Sephy could even process what was going on. Saya had convinced her to part from the original plan and to follow her onto the second floor instead of staying with Marcus.

The girls left both Lex and Marcus alone but not without a soft worried stare between the pair. Sephy didn't want to believe it but it could be the last time she could lay eyes on Marcus- alive.

Each group held a walky-talky that crackled but yet still successfully worked. The explosion of the front door made every member of the group flinch.

Once Saya had pulled herself up the rope she had hooked onto the second floor she proceeded to lend a hand to Sephy who happily took it when they got to the top. She passed Sephy a large kitchen knife that made her scoff.

Maria, although was supposed to be with the girls, hadn't followed them up onto the second floor but both of them were too occupied with scanning the room before them.

Once realising all was empty, Sephy lowered her knife and took a deep breath trying regain her calmness by talking to Saya as if they were just walking the halls of Kings again.

"What's with you and Maria then?" She asked as Saya still held the sword across her body to shield her from any danger. She scoffed at the inconvenient timing but proceeded to explain,

"Let's just say that she isn't the most accepting person I've ever met" Saya said through gritted teeth and Sephy let go of a low growl.

"I'll kill her" she mumbled under her breath. She didn't know what she was missing out on, and she was sure that she must've snapped pretty hard for Saya to be in such a bad mood.

"Now can we focus before you get us both killed"

"Yes sir" Sephy giggled sarcastically as she scanned the next room, her eyes being drawn towards a table in the far right.

Upon the table was an ash tray and the girl stepped up towards it, just to fully inspect the way that one cigarette still bellowed out smoke as if it had just been newly stubbed.

"Fuck" Sephy cursed as realisation struck her.

There was a loud screech and from hidden somewhere in a closet a hillbilly lunged towards Sephy. She had matted hair and yellow teeth and kept chanting to herself and she gripped what looked like a knife.

Saya tried to push her off of Sephy but her thrashing caused her sword so clink against the wall and leave her empty handed. She cursed out loud and instead threw her foot to collide with the woman's back.

Sephy still couldn't feel herself blacking out, in fact she felt completely calm for some reason, she watched with ease as the hillbilly leant over her body and with one swing she smashed her in the jaw.

The hillbilly let out a loud yelp and held onto her jaw as a trickle of blood dropped from her lip. The hit had only angered her and when she lunged towards Saya she was much more violent.

Sephy was going to help but she was pulled back and something sharp was placed against her neck, her heart pounding she looked down only to see a familiar fan.

Maria.

"What the fuck" Sephy spat towards her as she tightened the distance between her knock and the sharp fan. She'd started to bleed now but Sephy barely whimpered.

Saya was still fighting with the hillbilly for her life, it had gotten to where the fight was almost indefinitely in the hillbilly's favour when she freed herself and plunged the sword she had got a hand to, straight into her chest.

"You mother fucker you were gonna let her kill me" Saya shouted before turning her gaze to land on where Maria had Sephy at knifepoint. Sephy rolled her eyes as if it was more of an inconvenience.

"Maria get the fuck off of me before I actually lash out" Sephy warned but the girl let go of a cackle.

"What the fuck are you doing, this isn't the time" Saya stepped forward to help Sephy but Maria pulled her backwards still making her neck drip with blood.

"What? Are you jealous that she's closer to me than you've ever been"

The way Maria said it spat so much venom and it made Sephy rage, it was probably the fastest she had ever blacked out but she smashed her elbow into her chin and sent her toppling back.

How dare she?

How dare Maria act so vile to someone who LOVED her?

Maria's first instinct was to slash her fan towards her face and it slit down Sephy's eye and lip, she spat the blood from her mouth directly at Maria's face ruining her freshly painted makeup.

Saya had started to breath much heavier, anger building up especially when Maria mentioned that Marcus wouldn't possibly like Sephy but luckily she was too far gone to have full heard it.

"Persephone" shouted Saya as another hillbilly this time Male burst through the door.

Sephy stopped fighting to throw a punch towards the man who barely felt a thing, he reached out and grabbed hold of her neck almost lifting her off of the ground.

"Duck" hollered Billy who along with Petra ran into the room both with blow pipes between their lips, not that it affected the man.

"Shit" Petra cursed but Sephy who was slowly distancing from her black out and was coming back to consciousness plunged her kitchen knife deeply into his chest.

The man doubled over and coughed on the floor a few times before falling silent. Sephy looked around to find Maria but she seemed to have disappeared. 

"What the fuck happened?" Petra asked cupping Sephy's face as she winced from the pain, her face was a complete mess along with her neck.

"Maria" answered Saya as she barged through the group coming to a stop at the top of the flight of stairs.

Petra gritted her teeth she felt angry as she looked around for the culprit but Maria was no where to be found.

"I can't do this, Persephone" whimpered Saya she had a slash across her cheek nothing compared to Sephy's wound but still deep.

Sephy knew that she was only there risking her life for Maria and so staying after her disgusting behaviour towards her seemed unrealistic and unfair.

"Come with me and we'll get you sorted out" Saya cupped Sephy's Face between both her hands looking her deep in the eyes as she spoke.

"I can't" Sephy croaked "you deserve to leave, be free of that tick" Sephy said referring to Maria who had literally sucked the happiness out of Saya.

"You don't owe Marcus anything" Petra said from behind her, she knew that he was still with Maria and that that wasn't going to change soon.

"I know" Sephy smiled through the pain.

There was a gunfire and everyone flinched, ducking to save themselves although the gun didn't sound like it was anywhere near.

"Now get out of here, you dumbasses" Sephy smirked and Petra gave her a quick hand squeeze and Saya sent her a sad smile as if she felt guilty for leaving.

"Be safe, Gray" Billy smiled, it was probably the nicest interaction they had been involved in,

Hopefully it wasn't to be the last.