The Sleeping Siren (Jotaro X Reader)

Ch. 29: The Last Joestar

     I can't breathe when I see him. Jotaro sits on a chair facing my bed and my feet struggle to take a step. "J-jotaro?"
   When he turns to me my heart aches. He came back for me. He stands up when he hears me, "sorry I took so long, the SPW didn't let me-" I don't let him finish his sentence when hug him, I'm scared that if I don't hold him tight enough he'll slip through my grasp.
    I don't even realize that I'm sobbing into Jotaro's chest when he pats my back, "dammit Jotaro, I-I thought," I sob harder, I thought I lost him forever, of all the 7 billion people on this earth I thought that he'd be like every other stranger I've met.
   "You can tell me about it later."

   "And ever since I got here I lost hope." He nods as I tell him. I tell him about my time since I left the foundation, about the horse stand used by a cowboy, Garcia, and I tell him about my ointments and self training, not to mention Ray.
   "Have you been sleeping well?"
   "Yeah, it's been awhile since I've had this much well rested sleep."
   He gawks, "really? I would think that those dreams would wake you," the dreams. I haven't had them in a while, i even forgot about them. I... I don't even remember what they were about, when I first had them I remembered them so vividly.
   "Y-yeah," I reply, I stare at the tree above us in the garden.
    "Since you left, I've been having really horrid dreams, and for these months I've wanted to see you to maybe... I don't know... ease them," months, dreams?
   I chuckle to myself, I find it kind of amusing that the big, scary Jotaro needs comfort from a girl, when he gives me a stink eye I find it even funnier, "you should've talked to that phycologist at the foundation about them, I don't know what I can do about them."
   "About that, you were right about Dr. Osberg, he left as soon as you were kicked out of the foundation's care and Dr. Netheridge left as well, both unannounced, right after that the asteroid in the lab went missing and the building exploded, I-" he bites his lips and his eyes become teary.
   Open. With that thought time stops and next to me Jotaro's blue flame burns brighter and bigger than any blue flame I've seen, when I hold it I'm teleported into his memories.
   I see and feel through his point of view, Jotaro walks up the stairs with each step taking more effort from the last. After just watching me drive out of sight in the car he yelled at everyone, telling them how pathetic they were for taking me, a target to Dio, out of their protection.
   His head aches and he just wishes that the burning feelings in his legs from all of the marching could eat him and have him stop thinking, "I lied to her, I told her that I would protect her, and that I cared for her, but yet up untill now I've done nothing to prove that to her," his thoughts are a broken record and they edge him to his breaking point, he wants to cry, but he know that'll do nothing to magically make the drivers turn around amd drop me back off at the building.
   "Jotaro!" It's Avdol, "let's go for a stroll."
    They've walked for maybe an hour now and are now walking around the first level where the air quality is best, Jotaro lost track of the time and started feeling better because of all the talking with Avdol. "You know Jotaro,"
Avdol says and Jotaro gives him his attention, "I'm sorry that all of this happened, I know how much Y/n means to you."
   Jotaro releases a hearty sigh, the kind that takes a part of that ache in you and throws it away, "what can we do about it, they won't let me follow her anyways."
   Avdol laughs at Jotaro and he goes rigid in offense, "you're a good kid Jotaro, you know I-" Avdol can't finish his sentence when, in slowmo, Jotaro watches him sit down on a chair and explode. He curses his mouth for being slower than his eyes and wished he could've told Avdol to not sit there, told him about the bombs and did some fire magic to some how break it. Jotaro reflexively throws himself meters away the instant the bomb goes off, and like dominoes he hears each one around him go off.
    "Stupid fucking Avdol, your stand is literally a bird that controls FIRE!" he thinks as he runs out the door, his lungs are stunned and he wants to cry, the image of his friend that fought side by side with him all those months ago exploded into a cloud of guts and blood.
   The building is completely on fire, he himself sustained a nasty burn on his arms and almost everywhere from protecting his face, what happened to Mr. Joestar and Kakyoin he doesn't know and his greatful that he is somehow in one piece, but if he wasn't almost dead and out of breath on the concrete he would run through the fire and grab Mr. Joestar. If I wasn't in Jotaro's body I would think the same.
   Fast forward. My stomach churns and before the feeling of throwing up comeover me I'm in Jotaro's body agian on a hospital bed with healer stand users around me. It's a day after the building exploded and collapsed and Kakyoin is on another hospital bed a little farther away from Jotaro, but Mr. Joestar is no where.
   "Jotaro, you're awake," Jotaro can't even groan in reply to the healer next to him, "unfortunately we couldn't save Mr. Joestar or Mr. Muhammad, when we found Mr. Joestar he had hit his head on the stairs, and Mr. Muhammad was beyond our help."
   "No... No, no, no, no, no, no, NO! IT SHOULD'VE BEEN KAKYOIN! That BASTARD KAKYOIN SHOULD'VE DIED! NOT AVDOL, NOT THE OLD MAN, HIM!"  Is all Jotaro can think. The imagine of Avdols guts spraying on himself and everywhere as the feeling of being on fire eats him along with the night I cried in his arms and told him what Kakyoin did to me.
   Jotaro rips off his hospital blanket, why should he be there if he's all healed? "Mr. Kujo, you need to sta-"
   "And you need to mind your own damn business!" He says before throwing his hospital bracelet at the healer, she's in complete shock when she catches it, "I'm leaving here, and I don't want you following me."
   With that I leave his head.
   Tears fall down my face when I return to reality. He lost them all, everyone, Jotaro's still biting his lip and trying not to cry. The look on his face is heart breaking, and I open my arms to hug him, a hug he so desperately needed and didn't tell me, because like me, he thinks everyone knows what he's thinking.