Yours Truly[𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆]

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Fifteen- Dealing with the past

*Pandora's Pov*

"He's a leprechaun, so be careful love." I heard Constantine's voice over the coms. 

I will admit being on a mission without John can be a bit nerve racking sometimes never knowing what's going to happen. 

"Mind telling me why you didn't come on this mission and decided to stay back at the Time Bureau of all places?" I questioned him, as the line was just silent him probably trying to come up with an excuse. 

"Just trying to help around here is all." Was all he responded with as I spotted the target. 

"Target acquired." I heard Sara's captain voice kick in as we slowly started to form together to take him on. 

They usually never are the ones to go willingly so this time I was given a gun to shoot a sedative out of to put the fugitive to sleep. As I aimed at the magical creature I was shoved by some rude asshole and missed the shot causing the leprechaun to run.

"Dammit!" I shouted as Sara and I ran after the creature.

Finally we were able to catch up with the fugitive, Sara and Mick were able to pin it to the ground while I took another shot, this time not missing, putting him to sleep.   I was able to open my time courier and get to the Time Bureau without having to memory flash anyone this time. 

After we arrived Sara and Mick took the fugitive to the containment facility as I searched for John. We've actually been great lately, he's been helping me use my powers and focusing on visions while teaching me spells.

I was brought out of my train of when the lights in the Bureau went red and there was an emergency sound, alerting the whole building that something in the containment facility got out.

Neron

I immediately ran towards the area where he was being held, along with Ray assuming; he had the same idea. 

Ray ran in but, I saw John and Nora trying to kill Neron. I shouted for Ray not to go in but not before he was already in. There were two loud crashes, as I ran in Constantine was thrown against the wall and Nora-well she wasn't looking to well. 

I tried helping John off of the floor, but not before hearing a very familiar voice. 

"P-pandora?" The voice stuttered out as I turned behind me and saw Ace on the ground. 

"Oh my god, Ace!" I ran towards him; after of course making sure John was okay.

Then he started bleeding from his wrists crying out in pain, and I engulfed him into a hug behind him trying to stop the bleeding.

"No, not again! Constantine help him please!" I cried out but he just kept standing there.

"DO SOMETHING!" I shouted again before giving me a sad look, I knew what that look meant, this was a written fate. No matter what we did he'd still die anyways. 

"Pandora..you look beautiful please don't cry." Ace caressed my cheek with the rest of the strength he had left. Tears slowly started streaming down from my cheeks landing on Ace's clothes. 

"I'm so sorry Ace, that I couldn't save you this time. I'm so sorry." I laid my head on his shoulder slowly crying and listening to him slowly die. 

"Sweetheart, you did everything you could." He spoke out while hanging on a thread to stay alive. Everything in my life felt like how it did before, crashing non stop crashing. I saw the look in his eyes, he was in so much pain and suffering just trying to hold on. 

"Ace..I'll be okay. You go, don't worry about me." I choked out still drowning in my own tears. 

He gave me a small smile, before his breathing stopped and he was finally relieved back to heaven. I watched as the blue dust came out of him soaring up into the air returning his soul back up there. 

I was still sobbing over Ace's dead body when Constantine came over to comfort me, and I turned to see everyone else in the room staring at me wondering if I was okay. 

John wrapped his arms around me pulling me away from Ace's body long enough for the others to put him into a bag and zip him up. 

*John's Pov* 

She didn't deserve this, she didn't deserve to see him die again, for him to die in her arms. After Ace had passed I walked over slowly to Pandora trying to pull her away long enough for the others to come get the body. 

She began sobbing into my chest as I held onto tightly, trying to show her that she wasn't alone. 

"I can't believe it John..he died again and I couldn't save him." Her muffled voice was cracking against my chest.

"Love, there was nothing you could've done. He was already gone before Neron used him as a vessel." I explained to her while slowly stroking her hair. 

"Do you want me to take you somewhere, away from all of this?" I asked her because she was still sobbing into my chest. 

"I want to go to my mom's house." She told me, honestly I was surprised by this answer because she hasn't talked to her since we left the last time. I was still going to take her there anyways because that's where she wanted to go. 

At Pandora's Mom's House

Pandora had fallen asleep in the taxi on the way to her house, when we finally arrived I swooped her up into my arms carrying her up onto the porch. 

I slowly knocked on the door, patiently waiting for an answer. 

She had finally opened the door, and her eyes looked at me with worried filling them. She quickly told me to come in as I sat Pandora on the couch. 

"What happened John?" She asked clearly worried about her daughter. 

"The demon we were fighting, was using Ace as a vessel. We were trying to kill the demon; myself and another powerful witch and when Neron was no longer possessing Ace's body he was alive but then died the same death as before." I told her mother, I didn't know how else to put it because I'm not the guy you usually bring home to meet your parents. 

"Oh my, my poor sweet girl." She knelt down kissing Pandora's head and then stood back up. 

"I'm sorry if we disturbed you, Miss Archer she just told me she wanted to come here." 

"Oh don't apologize dear, and you can call me Diana." She said with a faint smile while getting out some blankets covering up Pandora.