Nina felt Samantha's glasses bump against her nose, and Samantha's hand run gently through her hair.Samantha drew back. The kiss ended, as sooner or ...ater all kisses must. "I love you too, Nina."Nina smiled. "Thank you for showing me this."Samantha said nothing, but looked relieved."I think I understand," said Nina, stroking Samantha's cheek, "that it's not enough to just destroy something evil, sometimes."Samantha nodded. "More satisfying to change its nature. Corrupt it into something. You should know that my daughter and I can be highly competitive. We often make little bets, and when we pinky swear on it, we never go back on the bet. She offered me a finger to pinky swear.“The pinkiest of swears, Ma’am,” I assured her.“What happens if you quit or get the boot before I graduate high school?” she said. I promised her the same thing. She was old enough to make her own food. She would need to start getting herself up for school anyway now that I was surrendering my parental. "So Hugo, I have a plan. You might not like it, but it will work." I spent fifteen minutes answering his questions and explaining how it all should work."So you are sure this will work?" he asked in his gruff voice."I'm 80% sure it will work. It it doesn't work you and I won't have much time to think about why it didn't work. We most likely will be dead." I replied."That isn't very reassuring," Hugo said."Would you rather I lied to you, as if you were a ten year old," I asked."No of course. It went this way for awhile until the last few days of December when he had called me at about 4:00am because of a broken heater in his room. He explained to me that is was 'damn near freezing' and needed to be taken care of right away. "Well no problem, I'll be there in a few minutes" I said. I had had quite a bit of experience fixing heaters back home so I knew it wouldn't take long. So I locked up the Front Desk, took the maintenance mans tool box and headed to his room. We had given him a.