Late at night, at a bar in a small town, the patrons of the bar looked love struck or in some kind of trance. The trance seemed to be powerful enough get their undivided attention, due to a couple of raccoons had walked in and started stealing food from the plates of some of the patrons. A shady looking guy had also walked in and had stolen somebody's purse, but had stopped at the doorway, due to falling into the same trance as everyone else. And if you looked close enough, there seemed to be wisp of some type of smoke coming out of the people, and traveling up the stage.
The person up on stage had a beautiful voice.
Under my spell
You can't deny that your
Under my spell
The person onstage was beautiful, she had tanned skin, the type that people from the Mediterranean would have, looked to be 17 years old, black hair with a couple streaks of brown, that went down to her shoulders. She wore sneakers, ripped jeans, a blush pink blouse, and a Leather Jacket that stopped at her stomach. She had a small earring on her left ear, and she wore light makeup, and had small to medium sized breasts.
And once I caught you
You can't get away.
She finished the song with a charming smile and winked at everyone.
Everyone blinked, and then started to clap and cheer. Although they all looked slightly drained for some reason.
The owner got onstage and said," Well we got a great performance from this lovely lady everyone! How about another round of applause for… I'm sorry what's your name?"
"Kassandra."
"For Kassandra! Who's next for Karaoke?"
As someone was chosen and walked onto the stage, Kassandra was already walking out of the bar.
She sighed contently, as if she ate a good meal, and said," Nothing like a full house."
She walked to the side of the road. She saw a truck coming and waved it down. She slung the backpack she had on her shoulder as the truck stopped and walked over to the drivers side. The driver rolled down the window and asked," Where you headin'?"
"Next town please."
"Hop in."
Kassandra walked over to the passenger side, got in and the truck took off. As the truck drove along the road, it passed by a a sign that read.
Gravity Falls next 10 miles.
(Cue Intro)
At the Gravity Falls mall, Leni was at her job at Reininger's. Before she and her siblings went to Gravity Falls, her boss, Mrs. Carmichael had told her and her friends that the company was having a worker exchange program. This meant that they can switch jobs with someone from a different store for a few months, and work there.
Her, Miguel, and Fiona were thrilled. Fiona had chosen a store in Chicago, and Miguel a store in Manhattan, New York. The three of them would've gone together to New York, but only one person from each store can go to one location, so they had to go to separate places. Leni had been still thinking of where to apply, but when her parents told her and her siblings they were going to Gravity Falls, she checked if there was a Reininger's in the town, and she happily found out there was one.
Even though she really wanted to go to a store in a nice city like Miguel did. She thought about going to the state that had Detroit, Michigan. But Lori pointed out that it was in the state that she lived in, and it was only an hour away from Royal Woods. But at least she was going to work at one near her family.
And she had two jobs now! Like, one here, and one at her Great Uncle's tourist trap.
That meant more money to use to buy clothes and material!
Although, she did wonder how the other employees were doing at the Royal Woods store.
From what she had gotten from her friends, Jackie and Mandee, the employees at her store were ok. Although they mentioned that the employee that transferred from Gravity Falls seemed off… or weird. She had merely shrugged it off; some of the people in this town were weird.
Since she started working here, she had become friends with the two other employees who worked there. Surprisingly, they were the employee's who lived here in Gravity Falls. Apparently their parents didn't allow them to go abroad.
It liked, totes sucked, but parents were the boss.
The good thing was that she had became fast friends with Mirajane, and Cody.
Mirajane had white hair like Lincoln, and she had it in a high ponytail. The surprising thing about her was her personality. She was a really nice person, but also had a temper if someone annoyed her long enough. She did dress girly, but it had a slight punk feel to it.
While Cody, he was nice, and was very articulate when it came to trends. And his normal attire was a mix of formal and cool. He was also a ladies' man, and knew how to get women to by clothes.
While their boss, Mr. Westly was an ok boss, Leni was glad he wasn't a 'Drillster', like Mrs. C was sometimes. Although the only thing that was noteworthy of him was that he was a huge fan of BABBA, the band that Dipper liked. And also that Multibear creature that Lynn befriended that lived in the woods.
And he tended to play their songs when he was in the mood in the store. That made working there annoying sometimes. And both Leni and Cody found themselves constantly calming Mirajane down. The worst she had ever done was punching a mannequin's head off. This accidentally caused it to fly into a kid's hand, and he ended up crying and running away in fear.
Her type of music was rock, so the very peppy annoying music that Mr. Westly listened to, annoyed her.
But overall, working at this location was good.
"Okay, Leni, I want you to take inventory of the new product from the back, Mirajane, you make sure we have everything out, and have a spot ready for the new shirts. Cody, try and woo some people." Mr. Westly said.
"Like got it." Leni cheerfully said, and hummed as she went to the back of the store.
Cody was walking around the store, he hadn't seen anyone walk into the store yet, but he had a very good eye.
He then noticed someone looking around one of the shelves, and approached her.
"Hey there, do you need…"
He didn't finish what he was saying, due to the girl turning around, and giving him a small smile, and fluttered her eyes.
"Hi, I take it you work here?"
Cody got out of his trance, but it was kinda hard, considering she was one of the most beautiful woman he had ever met.
"Uh, yeah, I work here. M-may I help you with something?" He nervously said.
The girl giggled and said," Yes, I've got what I need and I am ready to buy these."
"Sure, Leni and Mirajane are up in the front. Either one of them are the ones you want to talk to."
The girl nodded in appreciation, and said with wink," Thank you, handsome."
As she walked away, Cody shook his head and said," Huh, why do I feel a little drained?"
Mirajane was humming a My Explosive Romance song when she heard someone clearing her voice.
"How may I-"
Leni was at the other counter, she was looking at her nails, and then looked at Mirajane. She was helping a customer that was probably her or Lori's age. She was dark skinned, was quite attractive, she probably got boys at her hand and foot, and had a punk look like Luna or Mirajane, but it looked more… bikery.
She narrowed her eyes slightly when she saw that she didn't hand Mira any money. But shrugged it off, she probably got distracted with looking at her clothes.
The girl looked her way, and winked at her. Leni smiled, and waved. Leni was momentarily confused when the girl had an odd look. She then looked at Mirajane, she then said something, and walked off with her bags.
Leni came concerned when she saw Mira sway a little.
"Mira, are you like, ok?"
"Huh… yeah, Leni, I'm fine."
She then opened the register, and narrowed her eyes.
"Hey Leni, can you take over the registers? I need to talk to Mr. Westly about something."
"Like, sure thing."
Kassandra walked out of the store, chuckling at another successful trip. She patted her stomach, those two were a good snack, but she was planning on getting something better.
"Excuse me, young lady."
Kassandra glanced behind her, and saw that worker from earlier, and what she assumed was her boss. She grinned when she realized what she had to do.
"My employee-"
"Under my spell…"
Leni and Cody were talking at the register, and then heard a nice song coming from somewhere.
"You are under my spell…"
"O-M-Gosh! That is a beautiful voice! Cody, what do you… uh Cody? Are you like, okay?"
She saw that Cody had a glazed look, and what she couldn't see, was a small vapor trail leaving his body.
A moment later, he blinked and looked around.
"Cody?" Leni asked, getting slightly concerned.
Cody shook his head, looked at Leni and said," Huh, I guess that song was pretty memorizing. Now I know how Mira and Mr. Westly feel."
Leni shrugged without a care, sure the song was nice, but it didn't have the same effect as Cody had felt. She then saw Mirajane and Mr. Westly walk back into the store. But Leni didn't notice their slightly confused looks.
Kassandra sighed as she walked to the food court. Another snack was eaten, but she was so ready for some lunch. But, for some reason, she couldn't help that something felt off. And it possibly had something to do with that cute blonde.
The rest of the Loud's were back at the shack, either helping Stan with tourists, or were just hanging out around the shack or in the living room. Dipper, Lincoln and Lori were watching TV, the two former were, while Lori was half watching, and texting on her phone. They then heard the door open and close, and Leni walked into the room.
Lori glanced from her phone, and said," Hey Leni how was work?"
"It was like, good." She said, and sat next to her brothers.
"Anything interesting?" Lincoln asked.
Leni thought about it for a moment, and said," Not really, but like I did hear some really good singing. I should've taken a video of it for Luna, too bad I didn't see who was singing it though."
"Well, you can wonder about it later, it's time for your shift." Grunkle Stan said as he walked into the room.
"Okay, Grunkle Stan." Leni happily said, and walked out of the room.
Lori raised a brow and said," She just got back from her job at the mall. I think she literally deserves a break, Grunkle Stan."
Stan shrugged, and said," Meh, working two jobs builds character. I worked multiple, and they helped me became the man I am today." He happily said, and walked to the kitchen to get something to eat.
The three siblings exchanged looks, they could see some validity with Stan's words. Especially Lori, due to knowing Bobby having multiple jobs before working at his grandfather's Mercado. But Stan comparing himself wasn't the best role model, considering some of the… illegal things he's done.
"Probably should've used someone else as a different example." Dipper deadpanned.
"Yep."
"I literally agree."
Leni was busy checking to see if everything in the gift shop was nice and orderly. She then heard someone clear their voice, and turned around.
Leni squinted at the person, and asked," Like, have I seen you before?"
Kassandra smiled at her and said," Oh, I think I just have one of those faces, ο φίλος μου. So, do you think you can show me around this… fine establishment?" [1]
Kassandra used the term loosely, she seen the ruins back at home that looked better than this tourist trap.
Leni grinned, even though she didn't what those words she had said, and said," Sure! My Great Uncle normally does that, but I'll happily do that! Also, my name is Leni Loud. What's yours?"
Kassandra's lip curled up a little bit and said," Kassandra."
The two of them walked out of the gift shop, Luna walked passed them, and then looked over to Wendy, who was at her usual spot at the cash register, reading a magazine.
"What was that about, Wendy?"
Wendy shrugged, and said," Just another tourist. Except now that I think about it."
Luna smirked at her and said," Thinking? That doesn't seem your style, dudette."
Wendy shot a glare at her, but Luna could tell there wasn't any anger, and continued," She had an accent of some sort. Didn't catch it."
Luna nodded, and muttered," Whoever she is, she got it goin' on." [2]
Wendy giggled, and said," Liked what ya saw, Loud?"
Luna blushed, and mumbled," I need to call Sam later."
Wendy laughed at her friend's embarrassment, which Luna ignored.
Meanwhile, Kassandra looked around the 'museum' and half listened to Leni try to explain the exhibits. To anyone else, they would've threw their hands up, and left, due to her poorly explaining what the exhibits were. Although to be fair, they all looked like someone had cobbled them together in the spur of the moment. Which wasn't a lie, due to Stan having literally done that. Anyone could get the description of these things wrong. The ones that were supposed to be of Greek origin did make her giggle.
"What's like, so funny?" Leni curiously asked.
Kassandra looked at the area and said," Oh, it's just some of the stuff that is of Greek Origin. Some of these are so bad."
"You're Greek? Like, no offense, your fashion needs work. I mean, Toga's are not something I really like."
Kassandra raised a brow, but shrugged it off. It wasn't a pressing concern. Right now, she had to focus on the girl she was with. Something was off about her, and she just couldn't put her finger on it. Back at the mall, when she had finished singing to the worker, she noticed that Leni didn't seem entranced. Maybe she was one of those who got out of it faster than others. It couldn't have been the most obvious. But she would've known by now if she was the same as her. So she felt it was something different, but she didn't know what. So she was going to have to spend time with her.
"Eh, it's not for everyone. Say, I'm new here in town. Do you think you can show me around?"
Leni perked up, and said," Like sure! But unfortunately I can't right now. My Great Uncle needs me to work. Maybe later?"
Kassandra nodded, she would've hypnotized that old con man she saw earlier. Who would've made good friends with some of the street vendors back home, but she didn't feel like it.
"Very well, sounds good. I'll see you later then." Kassandra said, and took her leave.
Luna and Wendy saw Kassandra leave, but not before she offered the both of them a wink. Wendy raised a brow, Luna blushed a little bit, but was also felt like there was something about her, something she can't figure out what.
Leni came into the room humming with small grin.
"Hey sis, so what's the deal with her?" Luna asked.
"Oh, her name is Kassandra. She's like new to town, and she asked me show her around. And I said yes." Leni happily explained.
Luna nodded, and said," Good for you sis."
On the inside however, due to being in this town for a while now sorta makes you paranoid. When she first arrived at Gravity Falls, she knew the town was going to be boring, and wondered what mom and dad were thinking of sending them all, minus Lily, there. But she was the type of person who could make due with any type of situation. So she was going to make her time there as enjoyable for her, and her family as much as they could. And the day that Dipper found the journal, she knew that their time in this small sleepy town wasn't going to be normal.
And due to that, she ended up being slightly suspicious of what happened every day since then. Including the people, almost everyone had their weirdness. She knew Lori did the same, because they talked about it a couple of times, along with Dipper and Lincoln.
Or the both of them talked to their brothers. She and Lori were concerned for the boys, because of all the dangers their new hobby entailed. Sure they did try to solve some mysteries and other things back home, alongside Clyde and Brock. But none of the things they did involve some kind of conspiracy… well they did sometimes, but nothing on the scale that detailed in Dipper's journal.
The others were concerned, but it was mainly her and Lori. For Lori it was because she was the oldest, and she wanted to look out for her younger siblings. While for Luna herself, she felt she was closets to her only brothers, well besides Mabel, but that was because she and Dipper were twins.
For all she knew, this sudden suspiciousness was an overreaction, and Leni's new friend was normal. A bit on the reserve or slightly flirty side, but normal.
Leni then came from the museum area a moment later.
"Hey guys, I just made a new friend. I'm going to be showing her around town later. Eee! I'm like so excited!" She said and walked off somewhere.
Luna internally shrugged her thoughts off, and then hung out with Wendy. She was sure Leni would be fine.
A couple of hours later, Leni hummed as she walked back inside to the shack. Her day with her new friend Kassandra went well. They went around town, and she showed her the places she liked to go to. Leni did feel that Kassie, that's the nickname she gave her, wasn't interested at first, but then started to later on. She did seem like the quiet type, except for when they went to a Karaoke bar that Luna went to.
She sung like a natural! And it was a pleasant surprise that she was the one who was singing at the mall earlier. She knew that she and Luna would get along, due to their love of music. And her singing got the crowd memorized. But when she stopped, she looked at her, and she had a look she couldn't determine, but shrugged it off.
"Hey Leni, how was your time with your friend?" Lori asked.
She and the rest of the siblings were watching TV, along with Soos.
Leni beamed, and said," It was good. I showed all the places I go to, I even showed her the Karaoke Bar Luna performs at."
Luna looked interested, and said," She sings?"
Luan smirked, she nudged Luna, and then said," Oh, do I hear interest in your voice, sis? What would Sam think?"
Luna gave her a flat look, and said," That wasn't funny dude. But seriously, how good is she?"
"Yep, she pretty left everyone there… memorized."
"I think you literally mean mesmerized, Leni. But it's nice you met someone new. Does she live here?"
"I don't think so dude, Wendy and I heard an accent when she talked. Don't know where." Luna said with a shrug.
"Oh, she said she's Greek. I'll explain more later." Leni said, and went to go upstairs.
Lincoln blinked, and said," Greece? Wow, that's a bit far."
"Huh, never thought a boring and rundown place like this would have people that far visit here." Lynn commented.
Soos rubbed his chin, and said," It almost seems suspicious, dudes."
"Soos, I'm your friend, and I can tell you that not everything can end up suspicious, or involve a mystery." Lana said.
"Yeah, that seems kinda repetitive. And boring." Lola agreed.
Meanwhile in a motel room, Kassandra laid on her bed, thinking, mainly about the day she had. Normally she could care less about others, and the people she normally associated or talked to were a means to an end. But, she ended having a nice time hanging out with Leni, and going around the town.
In fact, just thinking about it, and her, made her heart skip a beat.
She then shook her head, she had to focus. She had to figure why she couldn't hypnotize, and feed off of her. She had finally figured it out when she and Leni went to that Karaoke Bar that Leni's sister went to. When she was singing, she had her eyes on Leni, she didn't have the faraway look like everyone else did.
She was a Succubus for crying out loud. With the exception of animals, they can hypnotize, and feed off of anyone!
She then realized that there was something about her that made her like that. Kassandra grinned, looks like she was going to spend a little more time with Miss Leni Loud.
Although she wondered why she was excited about it.
A couple of days later, Kassandra found herself back at the Mystery Shack. Her time spent with Leni had been... nice. She was a great, nice person, who was dimwitted, but still treated everyone nicely. Kassandra couldn't remember someone like her, besides her family. She could call her a friend, but she couldn't think about that now. She had come up with another theory on why she wasn't getting anything from Leni, and it had to involved her family. She was surprised by how many siblings Leni had; especially with the fact the majority of them were female, while only two were boys.
How the heck did that work exactly? The Greek Gods didn't have that many children when they met people they that were interested in, from the stories she heard.
She was lucky though, Leni had texted her that she wanted her to meet her family. And she needed a way to meet them. So she can test her theory out.
Or else the alternative was something that she should've realized at the start.
She knocked on the door to the house part of the building, and the door soon opened. She found herself at a little girl, who was goth. Just looking at her gave her the willies, and she felt like she was looking into her soul or something.
"You must be Leni's friend, come in." She said in a neutral tone, and walked off.
Kassandra blinked, shrugged, and walked into the house. Lucy on the other hand, felt a chill go up her spine.
'There is something about her, but I don't know what.' Was her thoughts.
When she walked into the living room, and she found Leni and the rest of her siblings sitting there, watching TV. Leni noticed her first, broke out into a smile.
"Hey Kassie! It's totes awesome that you can come! I believe you already met Lucy. And this is the rest of my family."
Lori stood up, waved at her, and said," Kassandra, was it? it's literally nice to meet you. I'm Lori, that's Luna, Luan, Lynn, Dipper, Mabel, Lincoln, Lucy you already met, Lola, Lana, and Lisa. Our Great Uncle wasn't interested in meeting you."
Lincoln snorted and said," His exact words are 'I'll only meet her if she is a paying customer, or if she has money she is wishing to give away.' But it's nice to you meet you."
Everyone else either said hi, or some variation of it.
Kassandra raised a brow, and said," If all of your names begin with an L. How come those two don't have an L name."
Mabel was the one to answer, and said," That's because that mine, and Dippinsauce's nicknames. My real name is Leia, and Dipper's name is Lucas, and it's so awesome to meet you Kassandra! What's it like in Greece? Are you going to sing because Leni said-"
Dipper chose that time put his hand over his twin's mouth.
"Sorry about that, but she would've continued on. Ew." He said he removed his hand, and saw saliva on it, and Mabel giggled.
Kassandra found herself amused by this, and said," No problem. She was just curious. And Leni, you told them I sing, that was nice of you."
Leni smiled, and said," Of course I did. You sing totes good. And you don't sound scratchy like Luna, no offense sis."
Everyone else were trying not laugh, while Luna didn't look offended. She did tend to sing and yell a lot, so she could see where Leni came to that conclusion.
"No prob sis. But yeah, Leni mentioned you have some wicked pipes. Got people hooked."
Kassandra pretended to look modest and said," Oh I think she was just over exaggerating. I sing like everyone else."
"Let's hear it then. Am I right, you guys?" Luna asked, and everyone agreed.
"Yeah, Kassie. Show them." Leni excitedly said.
"Very well."
'Perfect.' Kassie thought deviously.
Everyone got situated, as Kassandra cleared her throat and then started to sing.
Under my spell
You can't deny that your
Under my spell
Once you get caught
You can't turn
Or look away
When you hear the sound
Of my mesmerizing voice
You can't deny that
Once I caught you
You can't get away
Once Kassandra finished, she was surprised to see everyone shaking off the effects, while Leni looked the got out of their stupors, they didn't seem to notice, but they then clapped.
"See? I like, told you guys she was good. Are you like, ok, Kassie?"
Kassandra had an unreadable expression on her face. She had a nice snack, but looked like her theory wasn't true. And now she was back at square one.
She then grinned, and said," Oh I'm fine, hey Leni, can I speak with you for a second in private?"
Leni nodded, and the both of them walked out of the room. And that left everyone else in the room by themselves.
"Man dudes, Leni was right, she does have some good pipes." Luna said.
"True, but… does anyone feeling sorta drained for some reason?" Lynn said.
"Indeed, my energy levels seemed to have also been drained a little." Lisa agreed.
"Something is off, some type of darkness or magic is at play." Lucy said, and she sounded grave.
Lincoln gave his sister a raised eyebrow, and said," I think you may be over thinking things, Lucy."
Dipper thought otherwise and said," I wouldn't be too sure, with what we've dealing with lately, she probably isn't too far off."
"Unfortunately against my better judgment, I may also have to concur with what our siblings are saying. Although I still have some doubt." Lisa said.
Before anyone could comment, Leni came back into the room without Kassandra. One thing they noticed that she had a confused look, which wasn't unusual for her, but it looked different.
"Hey Lori."
"Yes Leni?"
"Do you know what a Succumbicks is?" Leni asked.
Everyone had a raised eyebrow, and wondered what she meant. Dipper had a thoughtful look on his face. Until he realized what she meant.
"Guys, we may have a problem."
Kassandra stood outside, looking like she was thinking very hard about something. But there was an undertone of shock as well.
Kassandra had pulled Leni aside outside, and she asked her a question.
"Leni, is your family or is someone in your family a Succubus?" She had asked.
Her question died when Leni gave her the same confused look she gave her a couple of times, when she didn't understand something. And asked her what that was. After she didn't answer, she excused herself to ask her family. So that meant she, nor anyone in her family, were in any way Succubi.
That meant there were two reason why her powers wouldn't work on Leni. But she then realized that Leni probably asked her family what she had asked her, and she had to leave now.
As soon as she thought that, she heard footsteps, and then someone jumping on her back. She let out a yelp in surprise, and then found herself on the ground.
"Gag her!" Someone yelled.
The person who was on top of her, then gagged her mouth. She tried to yell, but due to the thing on her mouth, she couldn't. And whatever it was that was in her mouth, she felt like gagging. Due to whatever it was, tasted awful.
"She's muted. Man I did an awesome tackle." Lynn, who was the one to tackle and hold her down said.
Kassandra saw everyone approach, and they all had varying degrees of worry and suspiciousness. Although Kassandra was feeling guilty at the hurt look Leni was giving her. She didn't want to look at her, but her sister was keeping her still.
"Alright, we're going to let you talk and have Lynn get off of you. If you don't try to sing. Got it?" Lori said.
Kassandra nodded, as she felt bile go up her throat.
"Alright Lynn, take it out and get off of her."
Lynn took out whatever was in Kassandra's mouth… and Kassandra ended up throwing up a little bit. Everyone winced, and Lynn let her sit up.
"Ugh… what the hell was that?" Kassandra moaned.
Lynn held out a dirty sock, and said," The sock I was wearing."
Everyone held in the bile that came up. They all knew how gross and smelly Lynn's socks were… especially the ones she kept for her lucky superstitions. They had never had one of Lynn's socks in their mouths, except Lori, which was an accident. She was walking down the basement steps with laundry in hand, and she ended up tripping on the last step. And one of her socks landed in her mouth, and Lori ended using a whole bottle of mouthwash, a tube of toothpaste, and a bar of soap to get the taste out.
"I would curse at you… but there are children here." Kassandra whimpered.
"It's a small price to pay for you trying to steal Leni's life force until she croaks." Dipper said with a glare.
"Yeah, how does someone like that does it?" Lola asked.
The older siblings, and Dipper's, faces went red a little. Lisa also knew what he meant, but she kept a stoic face. Kassandra's face though, was the brightest.
"Whoa! Let's go back now Ανθρωποι, shall we? Yes I'm a Succubus, but not the traditional kind. There are different versions of us. Yes, we all can feed on people by that. By my branch can do that by singing also." [3]
"Ok dude, but why Leni? I mean, she wanted to be your friend, and showed you kindness. That is just plain wrong. And why did you choose to come to Gravity Falls?" Luna said.
Kassandra sighed and said," I come from Greece, that you all know. But I wanted to see the world and I've been traveling around the United States. I've just been going from town to town. And yes, I do take advantage of my powers, I mean, who wouldn't? But nothing super bad though."
Lola nodded, and said," Having the power to control people, thought of it, but didn't seem right."
"Uh-huh. Well, as you can tell, my next stop was here. But, out of everyone I sang to, your sister didn't get hypnotized, nor did I get any of her life force. After hanging out with her, and such… I found out she was immune."
"I'm not an Emu." Leni said.
Lori groaned, and said," Immune, Leni. She means you can't get affected by her. Please, continue."
"Right, the only ways people can become immune to us, is that 1. They are fellow Succubi, which you all aren't. The last two are… well if the person you want to feed off is too pure hearted, or if they're not that bright. and I believe it's the pure hearted one. I mean, she has to be the nicest person I've ever met… and someone I can call a friend, I honestly don't have many. Leni, if it means anything, I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to hurt you or anyone. Can you ever forgive me?"
Everyone turned to the girl in question.
Leni was silent for a few moments, but she then gave her small smile. She walked to Kassandra, hugged her and said," Of course I can. Friends forgive each other. I forgive you, Kassie."
Kassandra smiled and hugged her back. She then looked at the others, and said," I'm sorry to all of you as well. But... I'm still a Succubus, so I still have to feed off people. Don't worry, the only way people can keel over, and push up daisies, is if the Succubus steals their life force for an extended period of time. But I promise there's nothing to worry about. But, I'm not planning on staying in town for long, still got a lot of places to visit, but I could visit when I can."
Lori looked at everyone, even though they were still a little bit wary of her, they all gave her looks that suggested they were ok with it.
"Okay you can, but we're all still going to be keeping an eye on you though."
"I'll take what I can get... but, does anyone have any mouthwash? I can still taste everything." Kassandra said with a shutter.
Lori knew how she felt, and said," C'mon, I've literally got some mouthwash, and after that, we can hang out, and get to know you better."
"I would like that."
As the group walked back into the shack, Kassandra was hoping that they didn't find out she had a little crush on Leni. She knew she didn't swing that way, but she couldn't help it.
No one noticed when Lori pulled Dipper aside, and asked, "Quick question, little bro... how did you know what Succubi are?"
Dipper rubbed the back of his neck, and said," Remember when you took that elective class that talked about Greek History? You had a book on Greek Mythology for the class, and you let me read it. That's how I knew."
Lori blinked, and said," Oh.