Midnight

41 - Home Sweet Home?

Blood on her hand. A few drops of blood - black blood with a mix of red.

Spenser was now getting concerned for Blake's health that he was clinging around her the whole time when she went into school. Kept asking her questions about how she was feeling, anything abnormal about her insides, and things like that.

"Okay, Spenser! I'm fine!" Blake laughs angrily, "these symptoms that I have - my body becoming weak, the warmth and colour in my body are gone, and my change of posture is all physical,"

"Yeah, I noticed but you never know when - AH!" Spenser yells in fear when the trio of Trollhunters came out of Claire's shadow portal.

"Oh, sorry, Spenser," Claire apologized for their sudden appearance.

"Hah, that is a faster way,"

"Guess you've taken Claire's faster way of a shortcut?" Blake questioned with a smile. Spenser noticed her wide smile. Jim nodded and saw the school in front of him and inhaled deeply as the school bell rang.

"Good ol' Arcadia Oaks High! - I wonder what we'll learn today," Jim says. Everyone looked at him funny when he said that.

"He is clearly not fine! Who in their right mind looks forward to school?" Toby questions.

Once they entered the school everyone noticed Jim and started to applaud. Jim was confused about it.

While on the other hand, Blake was at her locker and Spenser was leaning against the locker. Blake sighed, she slammed the locker door closed and looked at Blake with an angered expression.

Blake opened her mouth to speak but Spenser beat her to it, "you gotta tell 'em. Are going not going to tell them and then what? You are going to die right in front of them?" Spenser questioned.

"...no, I don't want that - finding out at the last second. Look at Jim,"

"What about Jim?"

"He just got out of the Darklands where it was dark and scary and where the Dark Underlord named Gunmar was there. Do you want me to ruin his chipper mood that I am dying?"

"Maybe--"

"I am not going to walk up to him and say 'hey, Jim. How are you doing ever since you got out of the Darklands? Wait, before you answer that, I want to let you know that I am dying from the darkness consuming me because of my amulet. I only have about 25 - no wait, nearly 24 days to live. Just thought that you should know',"

"Ok, you have a point, but..." Spenser hugged her, "just let them know about you, it would be bad for them to find you dead," Spenser begged once more before he left for his classes.

Blake stood there with her textbook in her hands. She hugged her textbook as she yawned, "another night with 4 hours of sleep, damn it," Blake swore as she limped toward her class.

~ ~ ~

Jim was way too happy for today. Blake considered to ruin his mood to calm him down but she was overthinking about their reaction. Glad someone else was able to do that and not her. A Krubera walked past them and Jim wondered about him.

They arrived at Blinky's library and noticed smoke coming out. Blake was the first to go in and saw Blinky burning a pile of books while more and throwing them into a pile and muttering words to himself. He was burning to books that belonged to his brother, Dictatious, who he had met in the Darklands and realized that he sided with the darkness.

"My GummGumm brother cannot be trusted and neither can these!" Blinky threw another book into the pile.

"They've been useful before, so they can be useful again," Jim said as he grabbed the burnt book.