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

Furor [ II ]

Furor [ II ]

Griffin thought about it over and over again, how long this peace without the Paladin fanatics will last. They might rebuild sooner or later if they missed at least one lunatic out. But let's hope we didn't. They burned everything to the ground after terminating each one in the database and finished the business as their own without alerting any of those government fools who might be their next predators if they knew of their existence.

For now, they laid low, to not alert anyone of what they could do. It was a clean start for their lives. We should all keep it that way.

"I'll jump if you don't bring my smoothie now." He daunted Wyvern. She replied with a threatening glare from behind the counter but rushed the order all the same. He sat on the nearest beach chair to the shack, eyes vigilant, like that damned Sato before.

"I really will—" he shouted.

"No, no, no!" She shrieked, pushing the glass into his hand. Sand flew around her as she slid to her knees to avoid hitting his injured leg.

He drained half the cup in one sip, "ahhh refreshing on such a beautiful bright day."

She gave him a bad look. "Anything else?"

He scrunched his nose and squinted at her, then shook his head. He watched her return to the shack, her grimace instantly replaced by a warm beam when the customers approached.  

Wyvern, do you know how many years others had to wait for this moment? How many others who didn't survive this long? He shut his eyes tight from the prickling pain in his chest as the faces of his former allies flashed. 

One of the lucky ones, I told you... 

I'm sorry— to all of the friends I've lost. I found her a little too late. 

When he opened them, he felt avenged. Heroic. Proud— that this woman who's returned to this sunny paradise didn't have to live that kind of life any longer. Cause of me (and herself and all she's ruthlessly done). I brought her home. She belonged here, forever, despite being able to go anywhere in the world. Perhaps that's what we all jumpers needed in spite of what we can all do. 

He sipped his drink, relishing the distant memories of his life in Oaxaca beach. Each day witnessing the sun's radiant cast upon everything, even on every glooming heart. It was the same here on Oahu. The difference was, the anxiousness for the life of his loved ones, he admits, had dissipated.

"What'd you do to her?" Kai asked with his furrowed brows on the beach chair next to his. He sat on the edge while Raf laid on his back. "She changed since you appeared."

"She has." His eyes remained on her. She gazed far over the beach horizon, pass the fun chaos of the island she always woke up to and thought would never relived.

"She's even more serious in slicing the pineapples and blending, she never leaves that tiny hut anymore! Dad's gonna call me out again. 'You should work hard and be more like Wyv.' 

—Hey, I asked what'd you do to her."

Was 'I took her virginity'  the answer he was looking for? Griffin pondered, already putting his arms up in a shield by the way Kai's muscular physique posed for a hit. "You should be asking her not me, look at me, don't you wonder what she's done to me?!"

"You deserve it!" He finally left when his friends beckoned him to shore. Why are people around her like that?  She didn't leave cause of me, you know! I didn't sweep her feet off this island like your sister said!

If they only knew, if it really was her who attacked me, my head would be somewhere else in the world and she didn't need them acting like this.

I was wrong before. Wyvern was still Wyvern. Intelligent and always did more than what's expected of her. Who relies on herself to not burden others. Truth is, she doesn't need any of us.

"Listen, Griff, can I call you that? Griff," Raf spoke, "I'm gonna tell you a secret."

"Hm."

"I think I like Wyv."

"Fuck off!" It was this giant's puniness that pissed him off... or was it?

It wasn't the end of the lunatics hunting us down, his gears grinded again, how is it that we can stay here on this same beach so casually? Aren't they simply rethinking their strategies to take me down again? Us. Rethinking on how to take us down after what we've done. Where they lost so many.

Damn fuck, when will they stop?!

From a distance, he spotted a flower seller asking people, "rose, Señor?" He glared at the old man in thought, then glanced at Wyvern. The tittering explosion inside him waned.

After a while of staring at the rose in his hand then at her, "get me some towels, will ya? I'm cold." He slapped Raf's beefy sun-burned arm, waking him up. "'Fuck off.' Get it yourse—" Griffin smacked him again.

He pulled up the several layers of towels over his head, wrapped himself up so well that when he jumped to her side, the towels barely moved an inch.

Surprised by his jump in the unlit corner of the shack with the rose close to her face, she puckered her brows at him and retreated to the wall. "If someone saw you—!!" UGH! I don't wanna leave this place and feel so torn again forever! Does he not understand that those bastards are gone and the world has no need of his mischief anymore?

He wore his naughty smile. She froze in her spot. He advanced, limping. His hand slid to hers, intertwining their fingers before raising her trembling hand to press the flower in it. He didn't let go as they stood with their faces inches apart in the dark.

Stay close beside me... 'til it lasts.

fin

*Cue Rainy Zurich by The Fray*

Credits Playlist:

Hold My Hand by The Fray

Black Balloon by Goo Goo Dolls

The Fighter by The Fray

Heartbeat by The Fray (Acoustic)

May the will of God be done on earth as it is in Heaven. May we all be willing, for our lives.

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Credits to Alamy for the attached image