The Unexpected (Jacksgap FanFic)

"I wish I had a normal life."

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Jessie's POV

Euan stood holding me back, his tall muscular physique towering and over powering my own.

"W-why?" I say trying to get out of his grasp and reach for the boy I love.

"We're going." Euan says in a deep husky voice, almost intimidating.

"Or what?" I try to get the shakiness out of my voice but I don't succeed.

"Or I'll put him in his place."

"What?" I choke out. "Why? What do you want from me?"

My emotions of sadness have turned into pure anger and loath.

"You don't get it, do you honey?" He mocks my mother. "Your father, he didn't die from heart failure."

What? Yes. He did, idiot.

"It just looked like it, your mother and I plotted it so we could be together."

I feel myself drop to ground, the damp, cold grass breaking my fall as the bricks slowly come tumbling down. Once again.

His low chuckle fills my ears and the hairs on my back stand on end.

I look to my right to see Jack, still lying there. Looking stone cold, I need to get him inside.

"Look," Euan demands. "I didn't kill your father, I was joking."

"What's that to joke about?" My voice is flat, my eyes still pried on Jack and my hand reaching out for his.

"I didn't hurt Jack either." He sits down on the grass next to me, rubbing his face with his hands.

I'm so confused. Why would this scruffy man show up and lie about all this? To scare me?

"But we do need to get you out of here and back to Scotland." He puts a hand on my shoulder and I instantly move away, closer to Jack.

"Not without Jack." I say holding Jack's stone cold hand.

"If we bring Jack then it won't be safe, anywhere."

"How?" I ask, still scared of the man. How do I know he's not lying again?

I stop listening, taking my blue hoodie off and putting it over Jack. It's not much but it's better than nothing. His face is starting to swell above his eye and you could tell someone had attacked him. His hair wasn't in his usual little quiff, instead it was flat, messy and had dirt in it. I lie next to him, oblivious to my mothers -whatever he is- to my left, I start humming.

If I lay here, if I just lay here.

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

I was waiting, waiting for the right moment to move. A moment Euan won't be able to catch me, hold me back and stop me getting help. For Jack. It's all about tactics right? But why hasn't he made a move for me yet? Why is he still here?

To catch you out like you caught him out.

My conscience adds for me, great. This is so messed up. My life is messed up.

I want a normal life.

I open my eyes to see that Euan is gone. I take my chance to go and I try to lift Jack up, it takes me a few attempts because he's heavy for my strength but I succeed in the end. I have one of his arms draped around my shoulder and myself holding him up, walking to his house. Walking? More like hobbling. I manage to substantially drag Jack to his door and knock, Finn opens the door.

"Oh hey Jessie." He smiles, noticing his brother but keeping the smile on his face.

"Hey..." I reply motioning down to his twin brothers limp body.

"You want me to help you unpack a few things?" His eyes open wider telling me to go along with it.

"Uh, yeah... A few boxes my mum just brought down, they're a bit," I look down at Jack once again motioning to him. "Heavy."

Finn shouts inside that he's helping me unpack and walks out the door closing it quickly behind him.

"Care to explain?" I ask, still shocked from the odd behaviour.

"Not now." Finn rushe to his brother, picking him up but wincing in pain. "Let's go."

I contemplate whether to question him but decide against it, following Finn to my house.

My mum's car is gone and the drive looks empty. The door is still unlocked so I walk in, rush towards a first aid kit that I keep in the cupboard above the kettle that's in the kitchen and I run back to the body that is now lay down on my sofa.

I check his pulse.

Normal.

I check his temperature.

Cold.

I check his black eye.

Black.

I run back into the kitchen, Finn giving me a confused glance and I grab some ice from the freezer wrapping it with a tea towel. Then placing it on the black eye.

"Finn... I don't know what to do." I don't look away from Jack, I look at his hair and the way it falls limply across his face. "What happened?"

Finn sighs. "It's why I was acting funny too... But if I tell you then you'll get hurt, well get hurt more."

"Euan?" It comes out barely a whisper.

"No, I don't know who that is." Finn forces a laugh. "We do need to get out of here though."

"When Jack's awake." I move the ice further up his eye. "Can you please go get all the blankets off my bed?"

Finn stands up, again wincing in pain and walks towards the stairs.

"You know what, I'll get them." I hand him the ice and walk up the 13 stairs that I've counted too many times.

I walk into my bedroom and grab all the blankets off my bed, the duvet and a pillow. I look around, the warm feeling my bedroom had only hours ago is now gone and is replaced with an uncomfortable gut feeling. Walking back down the stairs I place the duvet on Jack, followed by the 2 blankets and the pillow gently under his head. Of course they're all pink... But they'll do.

I sit with my back on the edge of the sofa and put my head back, sighing.

There's no such thing as a normal life.

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A/N: IM SOOOOO SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG! I have been trying but you know... It's the holidays and I've been busy..? Not really, I'm sorry. I hope you like this chapter and instead of doing weekly updates I think I'm going to set a goal and I'll update when I reach it :3

Goal for next update:

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