Greer got up and started crying a bit, the floodgates had opened and it was all too much for her to process now. Luce put his glasses back on, and suddenly realized something. "Oh, right. I guess the conditions have passed.... Would you like a hug?"

She nodded a bit and hugged him tight. There might have been a slight spine crack. Luce hugged back, the scene felt so familiar right now. "Today's been tough for you, huh? Sometimes when Blake had a particularly bad day, he'd ask me to make it go away.... I never could say no to him. He'd forget, but I couldn't. I promise things can get better, so don't give up on hoping." Luce wasn’t even paying attention to what he was saying. He was just trying to be comforting towards the broken girl in his arms.

Greer nodded a bit and started going outside with him to the unmarked white truck. She looked and saw the Ah doll and started to smile when she realized it was a legitimate toy, not a knock off. "These came out yesterday!"

Luce bit his lip slightly, hoping that this is the 'swinging back' part Shi-shi mentioned, before quickly putting on a smile. "After the day you've had, it's good to see you can still smile."

Sadly it was not. She had been under stress and was wearing white. And as she pulled out her money her eyes went a tiny bit wide. "We need to get inside quickly please."

Luce realized she must have had an urgent reason for her request, and didn’t question her. "Of course, the door's unlocked so you can run ahead of me and I'll carry up your purchase."

She ran up to the apartment, grabbed her bag and went straight into the restroom cursing. By the time Luce got back up, she was cursing and yelling up a storm. "WHY!?I wasn't due for another 3 days!! It couldn't have waited five minutes!? These are my only white pants!"

Luce guiltily called through the door. "Sorry, this might be partly my fault.” He paused incase she wanted to say anything. “I forgot to tell you something Shi-shi mentioned about your powers. They give you good luck and bad luck. Like if you get a free serving of your favorite food, but then it ends up upsetting your stomach. It's good luck balanced out afterwards by bad luck or vise versa."

".....This is the stupidest power ever!" She quickly poked her head out. "Do we have hydrogen peroxide? It'll help with the blood stain."

"Yes, in the medicine cabinet. It's the spray bottle. The fact that this isn't the first time it'll be used for blood stains really should worry me more."

She sighed, used it, got on her short shorts and came out. "..... I may have ruined my pants I want my plushie." Greer went to grab it from him. "At least the others didn't see..."

Luce handed over the robot with a shrug. "Not like they're going to judge you, but yeah, at least we're the only two home."

She took the robot and hugged it as she went to get the pants into the wash. "So.... you guys have to teach me all this stuff. Should I just stay here or get my own place still? Is it safer if I live by myself?" Greer paused before calling back. "Also can I slap your boyfriend for running experiments and not telling me because I bet that means the damn car was one!"

Luce sighed as he folded his arms. "As much as I agree that my boyfriend can be an idiot when it comes to people, he probably thought it was in your best interest not to tell you. Not saying he's in the right, but please keep in mind he doesn't really know how to interact with people. So maybe it would be best if I dealt with him? Physical retaliation won't help him learn."

Greer thought a moment. "Lemme throw him into the pool at least. He can get me fired afterwards. I'll find a new job."

Luce smirked a bit. "Still thinking like a normal. In this apartment, we go creative. Why throw him in, when we can ask nicely for him to jump?"

She looked. "Because I would feel better seeing how far I could throw his skinny butt. He can't weight that much. And shouldn't you NOT use your powers like that?" She hugged the plushie some more, like it was her sole life line. "I get why you did it with me, I guess. If I can't control I might make a bad thing happen first right? But he is your boyfriend."

Luce chuckled darkly. "I never said I was going to use my powers..... I really am going to nicely ask him to jump. Don't forget, he asked me to use my powers when I told him I didn't want to..... I'm just going to teach my boyfriend a lesson in how to treat other humans, and at the end, he will willingly jump, just because I asked him to, no powers involved."

Greer had a sudden thought and wondered if now she could get him to take the shrine money. "You know if I'm staying here until powers are under control I owe rent. If Dewi is coming back before him, do you mind my share being in ones? That get folded? And can we go to his room? The saga of the pepper and Salt wedding needs to continue."

Luce looked confused. What was she talking about pepper and salt wedding? Oh, the display that Dewi had been working on. "You mean Dewi's little play he was making? I had him clean it up. He had already put all the stuff back in their proper place...."

Greer grinned. "We can rebuild it. In your boyfriend's room. With the rent money I should be paying if I am living here for the foreseeable future. Another hundred or so dollars should do it, in ones, folded into ducks."

Now Luce was a bit worried. What had she been doing in her free time? "You have one hundred one dollar bills on you right now? what, have you been moonlighting as a stripper? Because that's super dangerous."

Greer shook her head. "Who would hire me as a stripper? No but I can run to the bank real fast. I go to the one around the corner."

Luce had to admit he was enjoying being on this end of the pranks. "Then, let's do this. Only problem is Sato will probably think it's Dewi's doing since he's the only one who does that kind of thing. We should leave a calling card or something."

"Dewi and I will sort it. I'll call Dewi." She ran out and grabbed her phone. By the time she was downstairs. "Hey Dewi, how far are you from the apartment? Cause we need to prank Sato." And this was the first time she called 'Dr Holmes' by his first name. It would not be the last.