ROTT Jlaire One-Shot

♡ 'Promise?' ♡

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Trigger warning for blood and wounds! (No descriptive gore)

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"Jim, lookup!" Douxie warned, but it was too late. A massive gust of fire crashed into Jim, knocking him off the edge of the cliff. "Gah... Uh, Claire, portal!" He shouted, returning Bellroc's attention fully on him rather than the child they just knocked off.

Luckily, Claire reacted quickly, though completely on auto-pilot. She threw herself into a portal and caught Jim with another, teleporting them back into the ruins.

"God, Jim," Claire mumbled under her breath. She slung his arm around her shoulders and guided him to the stairs. She reached over and pulled out a bag from their stash of things that contained bandages, aloe vera, and antibiotics (all of which provided by Barbara). Lifting his shirt up, she saw dozens burn marks and small open wounds across his chest and stomach. "Bellroc I... I saw they-they hit you... hard... and I-I couldn't do anything about it. I just stood there, watched... We never should've let you out there without armor... I'm so sorry I..."

"Claire, hey..." Jim soothed weakly. He tilted her chin up, forcing her to look him in the eye before he continued, "It's okay, you were kind of preoccupied with Skrael. There wasn't anything more you could do."

Claire began silently sobbing, "I know, I just... I can't lose you again."

Jim smiled sadly, leaning his forehead against hers, "Never again."

Claire sniffled, leaning back, "You promise?"

"I promise... Gah!" Jim winced. Claire had started spreading the antibiotics around his chest and stomach wounds without warning, hoping the small conversation would've distracted him slightly. 

"Sorry," She whispered, pressing a gentle kiss to the scar left by the amulet on his heart. Which luckily wasn't reopened from the strike. It had been a while since the detransformation, long enough for scar tissue to grow around the old markings. He said that it still stung sometimes, but nothing "too unbearable". Jim always sugarcoats, everyone else before himself. It must've felt like fire. She knew that, everyone did, but he was too stubborn to admit it. Too stubborn to make one situation about himself. It was a horrible habit for Mr. Hero. His heart's too big for his chest, but she loved that about him.

"Why do bad things happen to good people?" Claire asked, rubbing aloe vera on the burns.

Jim cringed back from the sting of it, "I don't know, God's plan?"

"Well God might need a bit of rethinking." She teased. She began wrapping a bandage around him and smiled sadly, horrible possibilities beginning to fill her head. What if she wasn't there to open the portal? To catch him? What if she didn't hear Douxie call her name? The thought made her sick. Jim was way too good of a person to have this be happening to him.

"Hey, you okay?" Jim asked, throwing her out of her daze.

She smiled, "You're covered in wounds and you're asking me?" He laughed softly but winced back, the action jarring his wounded chest. Claire shot him a worried look but he held a dismissive hand up and mustered a weak smile.

So stubborn.

She sighed, "Yes, I'm okay, Mi Amor. You need to take a break, heal a bit."

Jim shook his head, "But, Claire, I-"

"No," She interrupted, tone low and serious, "You're not leaving these ruins. You're way too injured. We can handle it, I'll come back for you, okay?"

"I'm the Trollhunter!"

"What you are is injured, Jim Lake Jr.!" She shouted, not in anger, more in frustration. "You're staying here, do not argue with me. Do not join the battle again until I come back to get you, you hear me?"

He gave her a pointed look, knowing he wouldn't win a fight against her. "Fine."

"Promise me you'll stay here."

He groaned, annoyed, "Yes, okay, I promise."

She sighed happily, leaning down to kiss his forehead, "Thank you, I love you."

"I love you always, please be safe."

"I will," She promised, opening a portal behind her and stepping halfway inside. "Hey, Jim?"

"Yeah?"

"If I see you out there before I come back to get you, I will not hesitate to pull every deez nuts joke I have in me on you."

The sound of the portal closing left Jim in complete silence. Trying to comprehend what just happened. "Did she just threaten me with deez nuts jokes?"

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I didn't want it to be completely sad so take this ending ;p

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