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FORTY-TWO

"Betsy, my God!"

Had I ever been so tired? I looked up as my sister finally reachedforever Nofor the day Night?

I hoped she wasn&039;t going to be difficult about giving me a ride back home "Just Betsy," I said I wiped some of the blood fro your , and I stifled the urge to boot it farther away My sister wasn&039;t likely to take that well And it was pretty disturbing that I wanted to do it, even "There&039;s no way to make that sound not crazy, is there?"

"Why did you-ere you-" The Antichrist burst into tears "Why? Why?"

"To save him And me" It sounded simplistic The truth did, sometimes It didn&039;t iveto becoonna blow off Thanksgiving

Oh Thanksgiving Since Satan hadn&039;t killed me, I still had that to worry about

"And you! What did you think you were doing? My ht to fearas close to happy as I&039;d ever seen her We stared at each other for a longfor"

"Yeah, no shit" Sure, noas obvious She couldn&039;t have said, "I kind of need you to kill the devil to save the future"? Was that such a difficult fucking speech? "Thanks for all the help" Actually, judging fro her face, it looked like Laura had fought like a, well, hellcat

But Sneaky Evil Me didn&039;t have to entirely prevent Laura Just figure out the right time to follow her to hell-did she ask Laura to take her? Or could she move back and forth on her own after all these centuries of hanging with the devil? Anyway, she only had to slow Laura for a few crucial seconds

And she had

"I aht now," I told Crooked Wily Me

"Yours is alnizable!" she replied hat sounded like sincere admiration "Satan really made you her bitch before you cut off her head My condolences, Laura," she added

"Shut the fuck up!"

"Laura!" we both gasped Okay, under the circumstances, Laura&039;s response was one hundred percent appropriate It was just a shock to hear the Antichrist make with the potty mouth

"You," she said to (aw, nuts) me "Youwhat you did hereit&039;s not just unfathomable It was stupid"

"Ah," Ancient Me ment on you is a day without sunshine"

"Give her a break, we just decapitated her onna turn into that vicious chilly bitch? Justappalling, really The idea The horror

"I didn&039;t know you hated her so much When I was you, I didn&039;t hate her That came later"

"It&039;s not that I hated her so much," I explained to myself, "but that I love Sinclair so much"

She smiled "Yes You did You do I never killed the devil That&039;s the-"

"Thing you aiting for, yeah, yeah And as for &039;stupid,&039; Laura, I&039; your s aard for a while"

"For a while?" Laura looked like she couldn&039;t decide whether to cry or choke e or kick me or barf I sympathized, as much as I could

"I know it seeood point, but this way I won&039;t write the Book of the Dead eighty zillion years fro at the last second what a huge cop-out that was "Satan and Old Yucky Me were allies, right? And through that relationship, you and I were allies in the future But now that Satan 10 isn&039;t around, she won&039;t spend the next bunch of centuries helpingon Sinclair&039;s skin"

"And you know that, how?"

"Uh" A lucky guess? Instinct? My super secret va? "Old Me didn&039;t do that" Pointing at her o, the future will be different than the one you and I fell into Because I did do that" Probably But this was no time to insinuate in any way that I wasn&039;t 100 confident my impromptu plan would work

The devil was dead, and that was s, in one respect, weren&039;t gonna change Not really The devil was dead, long live the devil

"You shouldn&039;t have done that"

"What?" My sister&039;s face, her voice HerHer eyes weren&039;t "Laura?"