AN: Yuppp… so it's been a while, hasn't it? Heh… my bad. It's just that… I had absolutely no inspiration whatsoever. At all. Zip, zilch, nada. And I'm sure all of you that write have felt that at one point or another- which, it sucks. To the extremeness of extreme -.- And then, of course, life is a bitch. Lots of stuff has been happening these past couple months- and the majority of it isn't good. So, I had to deal with Real Life first before I could start writing again. But, I'm back now… hopefully. I don't know how long it's gonna take me to update this anymore- I guess whenever I get mojo? Who knows…

But, but, butttt- I absolutely am completely and utterly thankful to those of you that waited this long for this chapter. I'm soo sorry for how long it took. I didn't mean for it to- but life has other plans sometimes -.-… hopefully this was worth the wait, and my loyal supporters will enjoy it! :D

This is dedicated to: Star1095 and SilverSorbet. Hopefully it was worth the wait…

Eric raised a sandy blonde eyebrow as he stared at the stained walls. "How exactly did this happen again?" he asked, looking at Thea, his witch soul mate that on normal circumstances didn't have spells backfire like this.

"Well, you know how just about all of the new Daybreak witches are new? I was trying to help Gill and Illiana with a spell that was only supposed to levitate a few object off the table. But, then Winnie came in, and apparently had the same idea… and her spell mixed with mine kinda made this…" She indicated to the walls- coated in a mixture of slime, soot, something that looked suspiciously like mashed potatoes, and a few other things Eric wasn't sure if he wanted to know just what they were.

Gillian stared up at him, her violet eyes wide, "We didn't mean to, honest! I just wanted practice. With the apocalypse coming up soon and all, I want to be as strong as possible. We can help clean up! After all, it was our fault… or we can find another spell-"

Winnie cut her off. "No. No more spells. This was our learning lesson right now. From now on, if we wanna practice, Thea and I need to make up some type of schedule so this doesn't happen again…. But we can still help you out if you want. It is your room we killed after all."

Eric ran a hand through his sandy hair. "Nah. It's fine. I'll go grab some cleaning stuff and pray this crap comes off. After all, if one person can't do it with Oxyclean, what makes you think five people can?"

"Um… Oxyclean is for clothes…" Thea put in, a smirk forming on her supernaturally-pretty face.

"I'm a guy. I'm not supposed to know that," He waved his hand dismissively, before pausing in thought, "And, have you seen the new adds? They take stains out of carpets with that stuff."

"Will it work on walls?" Gillian was always the most concerned out of the bunch.

"I'll let you know when I'm done."

"Are you sure you don't need help?"

Eric shook his head. "I'm good. Don't worry about it. And if I can't get it cleaned up, I'll go to Thierry and have him and the expert vampires do it. Problem solved. I don't think he'll be too mad if he knows you guys were just trying to practice. And, if he is… well, it was nice knowing all of you. Now, shoe. I gotta get to work."

The two witches- Illiana had taken off the second that the spell backfired, according to Winnie, to go find Keller for some help- gave him one last, worried glance as they left the soul mate's room, leaving only Thea and Eric.

She gave him a small smile. "I really didn't mean for this to happen…"

He shook his head. "I know. It was an honest mistake. At least it doesn't happen all the time." He wrapped an arm around her waist, and gave her a kiss on the temple, "Now, we have to get cleaning. It's your room too."

Thea gave him a playful scowl- though Eric could sense through a certain bond that rhymed with "cole kate" (1) that she was expecting to help all along- before following her soul mate out of the room and down the stairs to the cleaning closet on the first floor- where everything they would more than likely need to tackle this mess would be held at.

"Let's go get your Oxyclean," was all she said as she trailed behind him.

"Mary-Lynette!" Thea's shout could be heard throughout the whole house- thanks to certain creatures with very strong hearing- and was sure her call could be heard, "We need your help!"

The brunette's head appeared in the closet doorway a few seconds later, with Ash on her tail. "What's up?"

A blush colored the blonde witch's cheeks. "Um… what products would you use to get stains out of walls?"

Mary thought for a minute, seeming to consider the answer, when Ash beat her to it. "Oxyclean," Eric gave his soul mate a triumphant look, "and some CRL, depending on if it's calcium, lime, or rust. Maybe a little bit of the Lysol or Windex wipes, if your mess needs to be wiped up."

The other three gave him a sideways look, but Mary-Lynette spoke up. "And you know this how?"

"Well," the vampire started, dragging out the word, then smirking a bit as he saw a look of annoyance cover his soul mate's face, "I'm your perfect match. I should know this stuff, right? That, and I had three sisters. Two of which that loved makeup, and would constantly get it on my walls, and the other that loved to draw on the walls and blame me, so I would be forced to clean it up."

The human boy held up a hand. "Amen to that." Eric had a little, feministic sister that was constantly drawing things to promote "female power" everywhere in their home. Until she got older and their mother talked her out of it by saying she wouldn't be able to eat any sweets for the rest of her life if she kept it up.

The vampire and the human high-five-d, smirking at each other. Sister problems weren't fun.

"So…Which one of those works the best?" Eric asked, wanting to see if he was right with his famous product once and for all.

Ash seemed taken aback by the question, but answered nonetheless. "Oxyclean. It gets out almost every stain." He looked lost when the human boy gave the witch next to him a proud glance, before whistling innocently and walking away. Mary-Lynette rolled her blue eyes, but followed him.

"Don't you even say it," Thea warned, "it's a cleaning product. You have no right to be proud."

"Says the person that didn't know it could clean walls."

She picked up one of the sponges on the ground and threw it at him. It whacked Eric in the gut. He tossed it back at her, and then even threw one of the duster rags, making the two of them cough. And their laughing didn't help much, either. Thea found a Swiffer duster and whacked her soul mate on the head with it, and then hit both sides of his face. Eric got a random plunger- that probably didn't count as "cleaning supplies" but was still in there anyway- and stuck it to her stomach. She took another sponge, after removing the suction cupped thing, and wrung it out on his head. And he, in turn, took a bucket and stuck it on her's- which the witch countered, after fumbling around for a little bit.

And, with both of them blinded by the buckets that were blocking their vision that they didn't bother to take off, they wound up running into each other in an attempt to find more ammo.

Thea wound on top of Eric, her bucket whacked his, and causing them both to laugh. They tried to remove the things at the same time, only to whack each other again.

"Okay, you take yours off first," Eric instructed, his voice muffled. Thea did as he said, and took off her soul mate's as well. She rested her de-bucketed head on his stomach as he stroked her blonde hair and gave the occasional kiss on her head while she did the same to his arms that were right in front of her face.

Thea pulled herself up while Eric followed her lead. "I believe we have a room to clean up," she said with a small grimace.

He laughed. "With my Oxyclean."

She rolled her eyes before taking a bucket that had been on somebody's head and filling it with everything they would need- Eric's favorite included. He smiled down at her, gave her a peck, and headed back upstairs right by her side as they went to do a chore they weren't excited for in the least.

At least they had some fun in the closet (Wink, wink).

AN: take that last sentence however you wish ;) XD Like I said before, I'm so sorry I was gone for so long, but life's a bitch :P I'm back now, at least, and hopefully you guys aren't mad enough to not read this story anymore… :~( Please, if you don't hate me, let me know in a review! I really appreciate all the support! :D

(1): I'm not even going to clarify that… if you don't know, you shouldn't be here ;)

The magical order of when each chapter shall be done:

Xcatx, lula6791, and SweetNight: Ash and Mare 2

Lula6791, AngelDuckii: Keller and Galen

Lamia Vampress, LJ Shan, theVERYCONFUSEDgirl : Rashel and Quinn 2

Adamsgirl, RoseJean Sterling Salvatore, and christinaxo: James and Poppy (discovering the magical straightener)

SilverSorbet: All of them :D