(Jamie Bell Fanfic) Jumper: Black Balloons || WATTYS2019

Mufflers Under Sunny Days [ III ]

Mufflers Under Sunny Days [ III ]

Waking up without her presence on her matt wasn't what surprised him. Neither was the absence of the disheartened splashes since she learned to jump quick long before they fought at the beach. It was merely the silence altogether that roused him.

Griffin popped outside. No trace of water drops on either side of the river nor the cliff. No jump scars around. Did she jump underwater again? He put his hands on his hips looking around. Then, squinting at the horizon along the river, he spotted the orange tinge floating. He treaded along the rocky bank. 

There she was, drifting on the surface, eyes on the harmless sky. Her waterproof bag nearby.

"You don't feel cold?" he sat at the edge. 

"Used to it."

"Oh, yeah." Beach life.

"You're not? You live here." 

"I try not to catch myself off guard as much as I can. I get colds from diving into cold water too easily," he sniffed then shrugged, "but I don't mind." Most of the time I don't have a choice.

"Something bothering you?" he asked, aside from knowing everything about your family and not being able to go to them like all jumpers in the world?

The current shifted her body to reveal crimson burns that coiled around her right arm. Griffin sprung hip-deep into the freezing water and grabbed her. "What happened?"

They were deeper gashes than his ever were. Fresh burns.

"Wyvern, what—"

"I just had a snack in Indonesia." This was the first time she leaped countries away without him. She pulled her arm free and let the river cool off her wounds. 

Griffin sighed, settling back on the bank, removing his pants and hoodie and letting it dry flat on the rocks. "I don't wanna have anything to do with this anymore, Griffin..."

He kept his mouth shut, waiting for her to say more, cause he had nothing.

"Remember what you all said? After they wipe out our families, the love ones left end up in hiding? And that we have two choices, to fight our whole life or to hide... I'll be in hiding too. I don't wanna fight anymore." I don't wanna have to kill eventually.