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Episode 20 : Keep

Better Halves | ft. Cable, Yarn, Mayflower, and Battery
"Haunting me forever."

October 19th, 2025



In the past Pepper is seen cleaning dishes. Peter with an orange house coat is standing in front of a stove. Blaire watches the TV as it plays. "It's Sunday July 7th 2002. I'm Aspen Audry here with Caitlyn Cheiro for the morning news. Alright well Cait do you wanna go ahead and dive in?" The other reporter responds "Of course Aspen. Just this morning..." Peter looks over.
Peter cuts off the TV and says to Blaire "Turn this TV off and do something with your life lady." Blaire shouts "MYA?! You KNOW I'm sick and you KNOW why! You're lucky I could drag..." Blaire begins to hack and falls to the ground.
Peter looks at her and scolds "Yeah RIGHT. Freeloader. Get up and do something. Support them." Later Peter is seen without his house coat looking at a coat on a rack in worry. He grabs his coat and says to Pepper "Umm... honey." They ask "What?" and he responds "I need to go to work okay? I need to go to work. Okay? It's work." As Peter walks away Pepper says "See you soon honey! I-I'll see you! I love you!"
A dialogue can be seen. "Blaire Arkwright. I will tear through this world at the seams and shred it into nothing. And then I will build anew. Do you want to witness the rebirth of our universe with me or against me?" She asks "Will it hurt?" and is met with a "No." She continues "I want to be with Pepper Worley. From now to the end of the world."
A few days later Pepper is sitting amidst a handful of trash bags. Blaire says "NYA I'm getting tired..." Pepper responds "It's okay honey! You're almost done." As Blaire moves furniture out of Peter's room with her bare hands she says "I'm glad you packed the bags for me at least. All that strength and you're still too small to carry stuff." Pepper says "You did a great job building these new limbs sweetie but that doesn't mean I'm not short hehe!"
Blaire slams down a mattress with a grunt. Pepper says "Thank you sweetie! I'm so proud of you!" They lean in for a kiss and Blaire blushes.
The two kiss a few times and Blaire embraces Pepper. Blaire then goes to open the garage door and says "I'm gonna go find that stranger. Can you find something for it to wear?"
Minerva can be seen by itself in front of a store. It thinks to itself "Blaire doesn't seem to like me very much at least compared to Pepper. But... for some reason she was pretty easily convinced to uproot her house and hide in a pharmacy of all places. When she brought up Peter a week ago Pepper seemed really stressed out at just the mention of him. Whoever that is to them... he still has a room in their house. Maybe they saw it as a good excuse to get away from it." Something appears from behind Minerva and it looks back in fear. It sees hands and spider legs.
It sees Madeline and screams now in therian form. It is suddenly knocked over by Peter's coat and it yelps. Blaire mutters "Uuh..."
Blaire looking worried says "You... you okay?" Minerva stammers and says "Um I I just uh I um I yeah I uh I just. Man this is big on me." Blaire says "Let me see this place." She puts her hand on Minerva's face and pushes it as she walks forward and it blushes.
As they enter the store Minerva thinks to itself "Even if it hurt... I haven't felt another person in so many years... and it was someone so pretty and strong..." Blaire and Minerva wander the store and Minerva mutters "Maybe we need to move the shelves around..." Blaire growls before knocking over several shelves.
Minerva mutters "Wwwoww... you're really strong..." Blaire shouts "DON'T YOU GET ANY IDEAS!!! I'M THEIRS!!!" That night Minerva is seen laying on a mattress in the store. Blaire is dragging a mattress with several bags and Pepper on it. She picks up the mattress and the bags slide on it.
Blaire tosses the mattress onto the floor of the store and Pepper exclaims "Whee!!" Blaire says "That was the last mattress..." Pepper giggles "Again! Again!" Blaire grabs a blanket and puts it up towards a window.
Soon all the windows are covered with blankets, like curtains. Blaire tired faceplants on the ground. Pepper climbs up somewhere and Minerva looks towards them.
Minerva approaches Pepper and asks "Do you um even need me? I haven't been able to help at all..." Pepper responds "Of course we do!" Minerva looks worried as Pepper smiles from the top of a step ladder and Blaire is on the ground.
In a dream, Peter can be seen laying behind Pepper. Pepper looks worried and Peter reaches out a hand.
Illegible dialogue, possibly singing of some kind, can be seen, in Blaire and Pepper's colors. Much later in the night Blaire awakens dizzy and tired.
Blaire stands up and vomits a large amount.
Blaire then faceplants into it.

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