The Sleeping Siren (Jotaro X Reader)

Ch. 9: Rage of the Black Sea

Before leaving, I had my stand hang the man with emergency rope I kept in my car to make it look like he committed suicide. My head throbs worse and I want to throw up. I think the adrenaline from the fight had numbed the pain enough to actually fight. I put Mr. Joestar's notepad into my pants pockets and rest to have my stand find my phone, when she does the screen is shattered and almost useless, but still I use it to call Mr. Joestar.
It doesn't take too many rings until he answers. My breathing is heavy, "Mr. Joestar, I need to-"
"The old man can't get the the phone," fucking Christ! Of all the people who could get to the phone.
My stand is carrying me from how dizzy and worn I am, "I need to be picked up."
On the other end of the phone I hear Mr. Joestar's grandson grabbing keys and my heart flutters, "send me your GPS to this phone, I'll be there soon," when I do he hangs up the phone and I fall asleep being carried by my stand.
When I wake up, I'm on a bench in the arms of my stand and my head throbs. Mr. Joestar's grandson offers me his hand, "damn bitch, the old man told you to be on your toes for stand users." Mean bastard. Because of his comment I ignore his hand and have my stand help me to the car. He clicks his tongue in annoyance and gets into the driver's seat.
My headache is so sensitive, every bump and imperfection of the road makes me want to cry. "You have pretty good control of your stand," he says.
I speak to distract myself from the pain. "Yeah, I guess," I reply.
He talks agian, "even when you're asleep your stand is still out," he comments.
I get confused, "is that not normal? Isn't stands a person's mental ability, what does it matter if the user is asleep or not?"
He shakes his head, "the only other person I know who can sleep with their stand still out is me but I do that unintentionally, yours is purposef- no not purposeful, it's almost like the stand chooses to be out."
I want to think about it but it bothers my head too much, "maybe it's sentient," I comment.
He thinks about it, "some stands can be that way, my stand is like that to an extent even, but some can be a conscious being and interact with the user like another human."
I can barely think when I summon my stand in the backseat. She has to awkwardly crouch to fit. Maybe I should ask her if she's sentient, "did you decide to stay out when I fell asleep?" I ask her.
No reply.
Mr. Joestar's grandson looks at me like I'm crazy and I feel stupid. Talking to my own stand? I must be delusional. I recall my stand and meditate on relaxing to not feel sick with my headache.
"What exactly happened in the forest?" I totally forgot about that. I didn't want to think about it in the first place because it made my head throb, but now I have to tell him. I need medical attention to my organs, I don't know how many or how badly my organs were eaten. So I tell him everything. When we pull into the Joestar home I explain how Dio wants to kill me and he stops me, "Dio?" He panics, I confirm and we hustle inside. When I sit on the couch he tells me about Egpyt while he writes emails about... I don't know on the computer in the kitchen. I listen to how he met his friends and a character named Polneref and their dog friend Iggy who lives with him in Paris. I'm so caught in the story that I fall asleep on the couch listening to it and imagining myself with them.

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Atop my head is a crown of teeth and flowing around my body is rows of the same. With my chin to the cloudy sad sky I stand over a still sea of water, uncontaminated yet black with no land in sight. I think I'm on a planet with no land.
When I look ahead of me the ruby swims gracefully to me. Her features are scornful to the question that accompanies it, "why do you stand with teeth for dresses?" She spits her judgment at me.
I look under my bare feet to the black water and see the reflection of myself in silks of reds and I wear a crown of rubies big and small that stare at me on every edge.
I straighten my back, "I need not too," I reply to the snake, but when I look to her she's gone. The sea rages and I leap and run over waves. I desperately look for the snake, but to no avail.
I scream into the vast ocean in Hope's she hears my crys. "I LIED, I DO, I WANT TO CHANGE!" a wave from over head flails and goes to consume me, "I-I'M SCARED! I CAN'T!" I'm eaten alive by the wave before the snake can reply, but I do not transform into reds and rubies.

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When I wake up Mr. Joestar's grandson is shaking me and I remember where I am. I sweat through my clothes and my head is shredding itself to shreds. Bile rises and I'm going to throw up. I shove him off me and sprint into the kitchen and release my guts to the sink. When I'm done I fall to the floor and cry. Mr. Joestar's grandson cleans the sink before crouching down. My head hurts so badly, I don't even care that he's watching me cry. He puts his fingers to my forehead to feel my temperature, "you were screaming in your sleep and you unconsciously summoned your stand," he says. I assume I was burning up when he makes me an herbal tea. I drink through stifled sobs. Mr. Joestar's grandson watches me calm and collected. I calm down.
Mr. Joestar's grandson prepares to leave, "I need to finish some Emails-"
I grab the hem of his t shirt, "please." I whisper. I'm so weak and fragile, I can't even speak with how badly my brain hurts.
"What?"
I look up to Jotaro. I need him right now to be with me, and stay here. Because everyone else never stays. They leave me to be eaten alive. "Stay... please Jotaro..."
He pinches his lips together contemplatingly. I hate myself. I hate myself for needing him this badly but I do. Maybe because of how needy I am he'll leave me, and I'll be consumed by myself and become my own jailer.
Jotaro sighs, "of course I'll stay," he says. There's no reassurance nor is there anger, but the words instead of the tone makes me so happy I could die.