"It starts with Sorry" (A Jax X Ragatha story)

Chapter 5: First Attempts

Jax slowly and groggily woke up to the sound of Ragatha whispering into one of his ears. "Psst...Jax...wake up" She whispered as Jax eventually groaned and woke up, stretching a bit before opening his eyes to find the RagDoll sitting on his bed already fully dressed.

"So...sleep well?" She asked calmly as Jax only continued to groan, trying to wake himself up.

"Geez...why'd you have to wake me up so early?" He asked, clearly annoyed by having his sleep interrupted.

Ragatha only laughed lightly hearing Jax's annoyance from being woken up, but she knew that they had to wake up early for what she had planned for him that day. "Well, I need you awake early for what we're doing today"

"And that is?" Jax replied, Not remembering what it was she said they'd be doing that day.

"I'm gonna try to fix your harsh attitude~" She replied as Jax then groaned upon remembering what he agreed to. "Come on Jax, you agreed to this yesterday. Being nice to others isn't going to kill you"

Jax crossed his arms in slight annoyance but still listened to Ragatha's words. "No, but I just remembered how lame that sounds. "Me being a nice guy" Yeah right"

"Well...like I said yesterday, you don't have to turn over a new leaf...just maybe try to be a little..less mean to others alright? For me..."Ragatha replied, giving a soft and reassuring smile.

Jax then looked up at Ragatha's smile, there was something about her kindness and determination to "Fix him" that caught his eye, how she genuinely desired to help him have a better image and experience in the circus alongside the others was something that made his heart skip a beat which was something he never thought he'd experience ever. He eventually sighed but agreed to continue. "Fine...but what are we gonna do to fix me anyway?"

"Well...I was thinking we could start small with simple and kind gestures and then keep going from there with each gesture becoming more and more nice" Ragatha replied, As she got off of Jax's bed and made her way to the door.

Jax then got off his bed before going into the bathroom to take a shower. "Right...so you want me to start by doing remotely nice things before moving onto actually nice things?" He asked, grimacing slightly at the idea but still going along with it.

"Yup," Ragatha answered. "But you need to get yourself showered first before we can begin"

Jax sighed slightly but still went along with her suggestion, wanting to please her for some reason. That he just couldn't explain. "You're lucky I'm a man of my word...50% of the time....actually more 5% of the time but still"

Ragatha laughed softly at Jax's words, she then grinned slightly looking up at him with clear glee in her eyes. "Well, today I'm gonna try to bump that up to 6% after you shower first~"

Jax then went along and showered before getting himself dressed in his usual red overalls as he and Ragatha walked along the hallway of the circus with all the members' bedrooms.

"So...what's my first good deed you're gonna force me to commit?" Jax asked curiously as he side-eyed Ragatha.

Ragatha grinned as she stopped to find Gangle's room. "Well, for your first reconciliation act, you are going to sneak into Gangle's room and together, we'll fix her comedy masks once you retrieve them"

"Really? Do I HAVE to do this? Jax replied, already wanting to back out.

"Well No, but you'll remain lonely and seen as nothing but a jerk by the others" Ragatha replied, which caused Jax to immediately sidetrack albeit with a mild groan.

"Alright fine, I'll fix her stupid masks or whatever" He replied, crossing his arms in mild anger.

Ragatha giggled slightly from his pouty reaction, it reminded her of how children would pout when they don't get what they want or when they're forced to do something they don't want to like going outside or going to sleep early and she couldn't help but find it amusing for Jax to be doing it. "Alright, just make sure to not wake her up"

Jax then slowly opened the door to Gangle's room, finding her fast asleep in her bed as he began to tip-toe on the room's red carpeted floor which matched Gangle's ribbons only to find all the broken comedy masks in her bathroom being hung on with duct tape. He was definitely confused as to why she'd just stick all her broken masks on the wall but didn't question it further as he began to grin remembering all the times he broke the masks and made Gangle oh so miserable.

He tried to drop some of them thinking it'd be funny to do so but when he tried it, Ragatha shook her head in disapproval from the distance, giving him a face that pretty much said "Don't you do it" causing him to roll his eyes and just top toe his way back to the doorway before Ragatha then closed the door slowly.

"Alright, got the masks but what now?" Jax asked, laying all the masks on the floor.

Ragatha then sat down and pulled out some glue before taking some of the damaged fragments from Gangle's masks in her palm. "Well, now we see what we can do to fix these" She replied, sticking some glue on the ends of the fragments.

"You really think glue is gonna fix all this?" Jax asked as he began to scan the damages. it was clear
He wasn't confident in the glue's power to fix the masks' damages.

"Well it's the best we got and I'm sure Gangle will appreciate this" Ragatha replied as she began to put the glued fragments together, slowly reforming the shape of a perfect, unbroken comedy mask little by little.

Jax snickered slightly seeing just how relentless Ragatha was with her kindness yet, he couldn't help but secretly admire It. "You're relentless, you know that?"

Ragatha laughed heartily at his response. She could see the confusion in his eyes as to just how much she was trying to fix him and show him what genuine kindness looks like as she then replied with "I could say the Same about your pranks~"

"That's...not the point" Jax replied, slightly annoyed by being called out for his relentless pursuit of pranks and gags but not having the guts to face up to it.

"Oh Jax, how am I going to fix you?" Ragatha replied, rolling her eyes in a playful, amused way after hearing Jax's piss-poor excuse.

Jax began to snicker again at Ragatha's question, he was keen to see whether she'd be able to turn him into a decent person or if she'd completely fail to redeem him even if just a little bit as he then replied with a smug "I don't know Dollface, you'll have to figure that out yourself since I'm not gonna make it easy for ya~"

Ragatha then grinned hearing Jax's challenge, feeling the urge to prove him wrong and to show that she could redeem him no matter what he may think as she looked into his eyes with smug determination. Game on, A$shole~"