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"What! Not...I wouldn't- I meant the minis, you said I could call..." He looked at Candace, horrified. The pink clips were still in his hair.

"She-she's not listening to a thing I say. The Haunted House made more sense."

"Missions are important Tracey, we are wasting precious time, now start stirring the contents, Joy is not going to make itself now." Julie tucked in a strand of her loose hair, and for a second, just a bare second, looked not All Quite There: not that she ever was anyway considering the last time Candace had worked on a mission for Julie, the mist trainee had almost drowned in Christmas ornaments.

The Moon Hunter looked from Candace, still holding the bowl and eggbeater looking rather confused, back to Harrison. "Stevie, did you want to leave that minipet here and join us for this mission, or were you going to find me more volunteers?"

Julie's eyes brightened visibly at the word 'volunteers', missing entirely the half-misshapen minipet on the counter - a cute fluffy thing attempting to crawl away on its remaining limbs.

Candace just stared at Julie, blank faced and silent. For a second the thought 'are you ******** crazy?!' did cross her mind but then she saw the look on her face and then...she remembered.

Julie was ******** crazy.

"No."

That was it. Just. No. She wasn't going to do this. She would help Harrison save the minipets but she refused to cook with them. Hell no. She was never doing a mission for Julie ever again. No way. You couldn't pay her enough.

A movement caught Candace's eye and she winced. That poor thing. Candace brushed past Julie to walk up to the minipet, leaning down with a small frown and petting behind its ear. "You poor thing. What has she done to you? You were probably a very pretty thing before now. I'm sorry I couldn't see it." She scritched under its chin and the minipet purred sadly, not noticing as Candace grabbed a meat cleaver. "I'm sorry."

THWHACK! She lobbed the minipet's head clean off without another word. It was better to give it a mercy kill and put it out of its misery than have it continue crawling toward a freedom it would never have. She was glad Harrison had left before she'd done that, but at the same ******** Harrison left her alone with Julie.

"Did what?" He asked, not sure want she meant. "...These?" He shuffled Killer and dislodged a hairclip. He'd almost forgotten about those things. He looked at the pink thing once before impatiently getting rid of it.

"I'm okay. It's Killer that's in trouble. And a lot of your other experiments too, Julie's got them down in the kitchen chopping them apart."

He hesitated.

"I know we gotta go get the others. But she had Killer tied up, and think he might have been out of his cage for too long. I put him back, but-" He held up the cage for Clarice to see. "You think he'll be okay?"

"I knew you could help him," Harrison said, and then as Clarice took the cage, "You hear that? You're gonna live to fight another day."

Killer did look a little...melty, sure, but Harrison wasn't as pretty as he used to be either. He straightened. They had to get back to the kitchen. B0nez was paying rapt attention, but while the kitchen looked like battlezone, but it wasn't one he'd need B0nez for.

You never know, B0nez said.

I'm not going to start s**t, Harrison replied.

"I'll help carry cages, or whatever else you need me to do," Harrison said.

Candace chuckled and turned a sweet smile toward Julie, blatantly ignoring the rolling head.

"No."

That was all she would say. She kept that same sweet smile as she cleaned the knife off in the sink and then neatly put it away. Julie was crazy. Candace was not going to fall prey to one of her bullshit 'missions' again.

Dakota had only made it to the halls to look for the pups when he came back to see Jordan holding the scruff of the Grey fluff in his hand. The other one though was prancing away which had Dakota leaping forward and using his body as a cage to keep the small orange fluff in before rolling up.

"Got it covered. Damn slippery things." He sighed as he tucked the other one under his arm. "Man...Were not going to take them back to Julie are we Jordan? I don't think I can stomach her gutting one of these again...." Just thinking of the knife coming down with the dull thud on the table.

Oh man...

"So glad I am not in the Life...just what is Julie thinking?"

"... Julie? The Julie?" She frowned at the name that was mentioned by Dakota, looking from one foxfire to another before her gaze settled on Eva, a mildly disturbed expression on her face, "You're right to believe that minipets belong to the Life labs... And are thus under Clarice's jurisdiction, not Julie's... She's not even from Life, is she?"

She had heard horror stories about Julie. Horrible horror stories.

She had also been in Julie's room long enough to know that she's not normal.

She might also be a little bitter about the whole 'did not complete Julie's mission' thing from when she was a trainee... Although it was mostly her own fault for being too slow, and she heard that Cass and Candace did not have it easy with that mission, so maybe it was for the better that she had missed it.

"How long had they been out of their cages? I really don't want to see them melting anytime soon," She frowned, taking out her phone, "I'm texting Clarice to let her know that we're going over." Yes, she did say 'we'; sorry guys, you're stuck with her because she's bored.