deep in the sea (I give you my heart) // jenlisa

Chapter 18: Sweet Revenge

A/N: So someone requested another update, therefore...enjoy. Next chapter tomorrow, thanks to anyone who still reads and who didn't give up on this story even tho I had a little hiatus.

Votes are very much appreciated!

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Indescribable emotion churned her stomach as she kept her face blank, trying to swallow past the lump in her throat. Losing Jennie was her worst nightmare- a world without her was unimaginable to Lisa.

One of the men closest to the cage slid off his horse, pulling a ring of keys out to unlock the cage. Lisa stopped just outside of the door as the younger man climbed into the straw-covered back, moving to grab Jennie.

She thrashed at him, but when he grabbed her by the collar and slammed the back of her head against the cage she stilled, clearly dazed.

It took absolutely every ounce of self-control in Lisa's body not to punch the young man in the face, her fingers trembling as they clenched around the nail in her fist.

Dragging the stunned Jennie out of the cage, he roughly dropped her to the muddy ground before pulling out a second key to unchain her.

"I got it, buddy," Lisa said with as calm of a voice as she could muster, gently pushing the kid back. In her mind, however, she was committing his face to memory; she'd get him back for hurting Jennie like that.

Bending down, she grabbed Jennie under the arms, dragging her a few feet away from the cart before propping her upright. She pressed a hand to her shoulder, holding her still as she unwrapped the chains from around her girlfriend with the hand that didn't hold her nail.

With the chains gone, and her hand holding the clearly fuming Jennie, Lisa knelt in front of the woman she cared most about in this world, trying to stop her legs from shaking.

Fear, anger, and a whole cocktail of emotions pumped through her as she struggled to keep her face stoic.

Lisa's mind kept her painfully aware that if this didn't work, she'd loose Jennie forever... The idea made her heart contract painfully, terrified that she might fail. Her chest swelled with emotion for her girlfriend, her eyes suddenly threatening to water with burning tears.

In a split second decision, Lisa leaned forward to whisper something in Jennie's ear- her hand theatrically grabbing the front of her shirt like she was saying something hostile.

She needed to say her last possible words, just in case... Even if Jennie was so clearly enraged with her.

"If this doesn't work... Please know that I love you, and I didn't mean anything I've said up until this point..."

Lisa leaned away, pausing for only a moment to take in the look of shock in her girlfriend's eyes.

She shifted the hand that held the nail so that it stuck out between her thumb and forefinger, bringing it around to press against the left-most rune.

Before Nichkhun or anyone else around her could stop Lisa, she dug the nail in as hard as she could and slashed as if cutting open Jennie's throat.

The runes flickered, the purple glow fluttering for half a second.

And then they went completely dark.

It was like a switch had been flicked on.

One moment Lisa was kneeling on the damp moss with a thick fog that seemed to constantly hang around the moors.

The next it felt as if she had stepped into the desert- all the moisture completely leaving the air.

The once vivid chocolate moss wilted into a dead yellow color for at least a mile in every direction, all the water ripped from the surrounding area as Jennie flourished her hands.