All back to normal

Getting the drunk Edward home, I throw him onto the couch. "God, you're heavy" Sitting on a chair, I hear Edward argue that he's not heavy, I'm just weak. Untying my scarf, I tell him to keep it to himself.

Deciding to close my eyes only for a second, I suddenly feel something shaking me violently.

"Raven! Raven! We forgot Amber at the bar!" Talling him off, I turn around just to be blinded by the sun. "What... What time is it?" Looking at the clock I see that it's eight in the morning. Getting up from the chair, I pop my back.

"Raven! There's no time to be this calm! We've lost Amber!" Waving Edward off, I turn on the radio. "We didn't forget her, Edward, we've sent her home." Pointing at the radio, we listen.

"To think that Princess Amber managed to survive all by herself in the slums, It's incredible."

"That's right John! Princess Amber is now back at the royal palace, returning to her duties!"

Listening to the radio for a little longer, Edward sits down and sighs. "So it's over, I guess we're never seeing her again." Leaning back into the couch, he smiles.

"So, now what?" Putting my hand on his shoulder, I say.

"We're going back to work."

....

Pushing open a large, warehouse door. Edward and I reveal a huge storage area.

Walking past all the shelves, We see a recognizable brown-haired woman. "Emma? What are you doing here?" Walking up the railing, she smiles. "I'm here about that offer, you Said I could work for you, right?" Snapping her fingers into finger guns, I sigh.

"Follow me," Going through the corridors, we, Enter a room all the way in the back.

It's a small office filled with dust and a little light through the small windows. Sitting down, I pull out some papers. "You really work here?" Emma asks as she looks around the room.

"Yeah, now sign this." Handing her a contract, she grabs it out of my hand and reads in silence on the couch. While she does that, Edward returns with a whole pile of paperwork.

"What is that?" Dropping the paperwork on the desk, he smiles. "Your beloved work."

Patting it like it's some sort of a pet he laughs in my face, and tries to leave, but I stop him. "Where do you think you're going?" Turning around he tells me that he's just going for a walk like usual.

Shaking my finger, I tell him that he's gonna wait here and wait. Until I finish the work.

Interrupting our conversation, Emma raises her hand, "Question about the contract, it says that the base salary is 25 000, but depending on performance it can change. What do you mean by that?"

Waving her worries off, I tell her. "Nothing, your base salary every month is 25 000 you can think of it as a fee to not interfere with my work, but if I give you a mission and you do it, I will pay for it as well."

Smiling, she asks for a pen, handing her one from a cup, she quickly signs it,

Taking the contract, I sign it as well and store it away. "Congratulations, you're officially my employee." Shaking hands, Edward asks if he can go. Sighing, I just tell him to show Emma around.

Jumping out of the couch, he grabs Emma and runs out of the room.

"I have a feeling that this is gonna be a long day."

...

As Edward, closes the door to the office, he sighs in relief. "I really thought that I would be stuck there the whole day!" Turning to Emma, he asks her what she wants to see first.

Looking around, Emma says. "Anything? Cause from what I've seen, I have no idea how Raven can be considered a crime boss?" Laughing, Edward tells her that that's exactly the point.

Taking her through the corridors to the staircase, Emma asks why it leads down.

"Simple, that's because This is where it all hides!" Going down, to what looks like an underground garage, Emma is stuck dumbfounded when she sees what it's been changed to.

Hundreds of people walk around large machinery, turning valves ensuring that everything goes smoothly. Spotting Edward, one of them waves at him, only to return to his work.

"What is this?" Leaning on the railing, Edward just smiles. "This is Raven's kingdom, even though he doesn't call it that." Walking between the machines Emma asks how something like this is even built.

Scratching his chin, Edward explain that, he and Raven first transported all the equipment from their old lab here, and then sealed up the entryway to the garage leaving the only entrance in the warehouse.

Nodding her head, she looks at the wired purple liquid. "[Dreammaker] I've seen it only once before, I never knew it had such a large operation behind it." Looking away, Edward agrees.

"Yeah, it's big, but I don't like it, all the life's that this thing ruins." Squeezing his hand into a fist, Emma tries to say something, only to come up short on words.

Justifying it as everyone needs to make a living wouldn't do any good, in this situation.

Looking back at Edward, Emma changes the topic. "And where do I fit into all of this?" Shrugging his shoulder Edward tells her that he has no idea, as to why Raven hired her.

"That's where you're wrong Edward, you know fully well why I hired her." Turning around they see Raven, seeing his cane Emma asks if he hurt his leg, only for her worries to be waved off.

Telling Edward to think, Edward focuses with all his might, almost causing smoke to come from his head. Telling him that he's thinking too hard, I turn to Emma.

"You're gonna be our spy." Tilting her head, Raven explains that Gunter will most certainly try to hire her again, and that's where her first job starts. "Gunter doesn't know you work for me, more likely the opposite, after all, who would hire someone that would try to kill them?"

Seeing the bigger picture Emma begins to nod her head, while Edward is still confused about it. Jabbing my elbow into him, I tell him to not worry too much as there is a reason why I'm the brain and he isn't.

"Anyways, for now, you're free to do whatever you want, if something comes up, tell me." Getting a nod from, Emma I smile and send her off with a word of good luck.

.....

Back in my office, I sort through some papers until I stumble upon something. It's a meeting of us southern crime bosses to discuss the crisis that befell us. It's an official invitation for me and one subordinate to come.

Putting it to the side, I make a mental note, to discuss it with Edward.

Grabbing another paper, I hear a knock on the door. "Yes?" WLaking in is one of the thugs working for me. "Sir, a package has arrived"

"Ah! Put that on the table over there, I'll take a look at it in a minute"

It finally arrived!

Doing as I say, he leaves the room. Getting up, I place it on my desk and cut the duct tape on it. I pull it open, only to stop, Feeling a slight resistance with the cardboard, I let it go and take a step back.

"Hey, Raven! Guess what arrived!" Hearing Edward enter with the real package, I curse.

Spotting the fake package on the desk, he puts the real one outside the room and asks me what it's the plan. "Getting rid of it, That's the plan." Swallowing my saliva, I walk closer to it and look for a mailing address.

"Guess we can't just send it back." Grabbing a boxcutter, I cut a small hole on the side to look inside.

"Yup, it's a short fuse grenade with the pin attached to a string." Seeing as it's nothing bigger, I open the side of the box. Only for a picture of the grenade and its string to fall on the ground.

[Gotcha]

"Run!-"

*BOOM* Shattering the windows on an entire side of the building, I find myself safe in a hug from Edward. "You good?" Wiggling out of his hug, I yell.

"What d you mean you good?! That's my question! You just took a blast from an improvised bomb!" Standing up, Edward cracks his back saying that it's nothing. Only for a few bloody nails to fall on the ground.

Telling Edward to turn around, I see his back... Completely fine? There are some nails that are barely holding onto his skin, but other than that, there's nothing. "What are you made out of?" Striking a pose, Edward yells.

"Who do you take me for? I'm the bison of the south! and the right hand of Raven!"

Not holding it in, I start to laugh together with him, while we're having an absolute blast from this situation. The worried employees that ran all the way here, question the sanity of their employers.

"I'm sorry, Okay Everyone! Back to work!" Clapping my hands, the employees leave back to their stations.

Sitting down on the remnants of a sofa, I tell Edward to bring the [Real] package inside. Placing into a pile that used to be a coffee table. I give the box cutter to Edward.

"You open it, with my luck there as well might be another bomb." Taking the knife, he cuts it open, only to reveal a..... raven head shaped statue? "What is this?" looking at it confused, Raven quickly grabs it and proclaims ultimate victory.

Grabbing his cane, he cast a spell causing the statue to become like a rubber.

"What are you doing? And why am I not surprised that the thing for which we almost dies a second ago is such a small stupid thing." Telling him that it's not stupid Ravne finally put the raven statue over his cane and returns the statue to its original state.

"Look! I've got myself a Raven cane!" Now instead of its axe shape head, it's a raven head that's shaped like an axe.

"Raven, Sometimes, I regret, meeting you."