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The group made their way down the corridor. At least, Minnie tried to make her way down the corridor. It wasn’t easy when Victor kept swooping down and kissing her. Not that she minded. 

The fourth time he did it, Minnie pulled him close. They only pulled back when Felix made a noise akin to passing a kidney stone.

“Will you shut up?” Minnie asked.

“Only when you two stop doing…that.”

“Make us,” Minnie teased, ducking to avoid the inevitable ball of golden light.

“You know, when we first got together, I thought you and Nicolas were going to be the sticks in the mud,” Victor said to a grinning Perry. “Instead, we have to deal with him.”

Perry laughed and asked, “Why would you think we’d be sticks in the mud?”

“I don’t know,” he said with a shrug. “You two are the most vanilla people in the history of history.”

“Oh, hon, no.”

“No what?”

“No.”

When he tilted his head like a lost puppy, Perry offered him a smirk. When he and Felix exchanged glances, Perry’s smirk widened. When Felix let out an abrupt yell, Perry’s smirk split her face in half. 

Minnie and Morgan burst out laughing, the former saying, “Oh my god, I just gained so much more respect for Nicolas.”

"I regret talking,” Victor muttered. “Not just now but every time I’ve ever talked.”

“The world just became less pure,” Felix moaned.

"Oh, lighten up,” Perry said with a laugh.

“Says the woman who constantly rants about how consent is the most important thing in the world.”

“It is,” she slyly said. “You can do anything so long as it’s consensual.”

Minnie cracked up at the look on Victor’s face.

“Well,” her husband bemusedly said. “You can’t unlearn that.”

“The hell you can’t!” Felix screamed, grabbing the front of Perry’s dress. “Erase that memory. Make me want to live again. Please! Please!”

“Felix---”

“Please!”

“Okay, all right, hang on.”

Perry raised her hand and Felix’s face became blank. His cheeks became pink as he realized that he was holding Perry’s dress. Letting go, he wheeled his chair back until it bumped into the wall. The others slowly approached as he blinked at them all. It was Victor who asked, “You all right, Broseph?”

“Yeah,” Felix said. “I just don’t remember anything after we turned the corner.”

“Oh, well let me refresh your memory,” Victor cheerfully said as Minnie roared with laughter in the background.

He blurted out the conversation before anyone could stop him, not that anyone would have. Felix’s eyes widened and he lunged at Perry with a shriek: “Erase that memory, erase that memory, erase that memory!”

Perry sighed before raising her hand. Once again, Felix fell backwards, this time clutching his head. It was Minnie who threw her arm around his shoulders and cried, “Hey, what’s up? How are you? Nicolas and Perry are into some non-vanilla shit. You feeling okay?”

“No, my head is---” His neck snapped up and he shouted, “What?”

The others dissolved into even more laughter, though Victor fought through it to remind him of the conversations he kept wanting to forget. And once again, Felix grabbed Perry, who genuinely said, “No, Felix, no. The more I mess with someone’s mind, the more fragile it becomes. And you’re already just so fragile to begin with!”

“Just do it!”

She groaned and raised her hand. This time, Felix let out a scream of pain and buried his forehead in his hands, his entire body twisting and lurching. Within seconds, he had begun to cry.

“Oh, Felix!” 

Perry fished several vials from her pockets and handing them to the weeping sorcerer. Victor grabbed his brother’s hands to keep them from shaking, looking guilty as he helped pour the vial down Felix’s throat. 

“T-thanks,” Felix croaked. “What the hell just happened?”

Minnie and Victor opened their mouths, only for Perry to cry, “No!”

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Like I said, one of the most important excerpt in The Antagonists: Book Seven! What? You don’t believe me? You think I’m exaggerating for the sake of humor? That’s entirely fair, I guess. But what if I did this?

[At the end of the book]

And suddenly, there was pain.

So much pain that Minnie immediately had no thoughts other than wanting it to end. Not just the pain but everything. For surely the end would be nothing but sweet release compared to this. It was the worst pain she had ever felt, despite all of the surgeries, despite dying multiple times. It bore into her head like a thousand swords, slicing through her brain in a way that would have made Rosemary Kennedy gasp. It filled every cell of her blood with fire as her vision turned white. She tried to remember what it was like to scream but all she could remember was the pain. It was all she would remember for awhile. [...]

She realized that she was still near the lake, lying in wet grass, despite the sky being free of any clouds. A figure was lying nearby, her screams echoing the agony that Minnie had just experienced.

“No, no, make it stop, make it stop, please, no!”

Minnie’s word was stuttered and slurred but she still managed to push it out:

“P-P-Perry?”

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