Jack the Kid

[ifallupstairs]

"I would rather be dead though then talked to as if I am purposely repressing what is going on in my head. And it would be easier if to try and become someone new if I didn't have to deal with the fact that he wont let me forget that I am forgetting. I want out, I want fun, I want to cry, I want to know if I even have money." Vaka sighed, "What am I supposed to tell him, yeah you are sweet and all but I want to have sex with a stranger in a romantic place, I want to eat fine food and not have to foot the bill, I want to be naked in the water. How well do you think that would go over with Mr. Overprotective in the other room."

[Invader Len]

Damian raised an eyebrow, cleaning an ear at her outburst.
"Well now. You certainly have time to get your priorities straight. I never said that you were purposefully repressing it, now did I? I just said get over it. Meanwhile, I'll go tell your childhood friend that you'd rather have sex with a stranger and that he has officially been friendzoned. This is going to be fun to watch. I always loved watching divorce court when I was a kid, but I have never seen such an amusing case as when the wife loses her memory an tells the husband he don't cut it for her, when she has nothing in memory to compare him to! That's just a riot! The irony of it! I mean, the guy spends his whole life trying to win you over, and once you realize that you really are in love with him, bonk! There goes your standards! Hey, babe, let me know how the stranger sex goes, maybe I can get you into some hooker rings, if that's what you really like. Man, if this is your true nature, damn am I glad you dumped me! Oh geez, now my sides are hurting from laughing! You're hilairious! I... Haha! I'm gonna go let Mr. Series of Unfortunate events in the other room know just how shallow his girly was all along. See ya, Doll-face!" he called, exiting the room.

[ifallupstairs]

"I hope you die sucking your own dick you prick!" Vaka yelled, she felt tears start to wet her eyes again and she let out a frustrated scream, she tried to talk to someone and they twisted her words and he wondered why she didn't trust him. No one listened, really listened. Vaka went over to the door and took a deep and ragged breath, she wanted out of this whole ordeal. She then locked it before checking out the window in the room right next to the chair the assassin had sat in before. She was able to open it and saw that she could jump out and make a quick run, it would probably be better for him too. Vaka got onto the chair and then jumped out of the window and slid the window back into place and started to run down the cobble stone, trying to figure out where the fuck she was and who she could trust.

[Invader Len]

Jack was waiting for her at the corner, leaning against the wall, staring at the ground. Tears were visible on his face, his eyes red from crying. He looked up, making eye contact with Vaka. He took a shaking breath, cracking a sad smile as he wiped his eyes.
"So you really are leaving? I guess I can't say that I blame you, it's my fault you got involved in this crazy mess. I can't do anything if you don't love me anymore. I just... I just want... to wish you happiness in your new life. I'll take care of your family." he said, turning away a bit.
"I suppose it's pointless to tell you that I love you? Even now... as you leave me a second time... I... I'm sorry for everything that's happened, and I hope that you make happier memories than the ones you spent with me." he said, his voice breaking in his sadness.
He turned and left, leaving her behind. He was met by Damian, who nodded, before vanishing into the dark. Jack turned to give a last look at Vaka, before slipping into the shadows as well.

[ifallupstairs]

Vaka watched him quietly, she really didn't know what to say, and so she just watch him walk away. Once he left she leaned against the wall and felt her chest become hollow for some reason. She rest her head against the cold stone of the wall and her eyes closed as she started to hyperventilate. With her eyes closed, she was taken back to a different time, one that felt like a cross between a dream and a memory. She saw herself holding him, Toby, from behind in front of a window in a bedroom and kissing his shoulders. Vaka let out a loud gasp as she pushed herself away from the wall, she didn't know what she had just seen but it was enough to at least remind her, as much as they may not have liked each other with her in her current state, they had loved one another at a different time.

"Fuck me, of course I remember now." She muttered before jogging down the path of shadows she had seen the two leave by trying to find them and maybe an answer to what she had just seen.

[Invader Len]

Damian watched from above as Vaka ran off in the direction Jack had disappeared. The phantom thief was still concerned about if whatever organization that had struck tonight was still targeting Vaka, and so Damian was asked to tail her. If nothing happened within three days, he'd leave Vaka to her new life, whatever her choices may be. He wished he hadn't been so hard on her when he was speaking to her, although in his eyes, she needed that wake up call. But if she had been so adamant about running away, why was she chasing after Jack? He touched the headset by his ear, turning it on.
"Jack, girly's coming your way. She looks-" he never got to finish that sentence, because just then, three bullets ripped through hhis chest, sending him crashing to the ground.
"Damian? Damian, what happened?! Was that gunfire? Damian?!" came Toby's voice from the headset. Damian coughed up blood, the pain in his chest excruciating.
"J-Jack... I've been shot. Someone knew I was here. You've gotta get Vaka now!"
"What?! Is it serious?! What about you?!"
"I've taken three bullets to the chest, and my sniper is probably coming back for more." Spitting up more blood, he struggled to crawl out of view, barely able to move.
"Listen to me, I found out information about this gang. I told most of it to Harp, but I didn't tell him everything. I don't have much time." he gasped, relaying the information over the headset.
As his vision deteriorated, his could hear the clicking of heels on the pavement, calm, steady, and with purpose. This was the person who'd shot him. Shakily, he pulled a pistol from his pocket, his breathing heavy and clogged from blood. A woman in black appeared before him, the same woman who'd shot Toby in the church. As she stepped closer, he fired three rounds at her. Even though he was nearly blind, the bullets still struck. The woman cried out in pain as the bullets struck her in the leg, thigh, and abdomen. Damian grinned at her.
"Have fun running away now, you bitch." he spat, his eyes closing and his breath slowing as he seemed to fall asleep, his lips moving as he breathed his last words.
"Sasha... I'm sorry." he whispered almost inaudibly, his life fading and ending.

[ifallupstairs]

Vaka was still chasing after Jack and the direction she had seen him leave hoping he had not already left. She was coming to a fork in the road when the sound of three shots pierced the silence of a new morning. She heard the heavy fall of a man and heard a quiet voice speaking quietly and and rushed. Vaka stopped and listened before hearing a familiar voice. She cursed hearing a familiar voice. She hadnt liked him at all but it would be cruel to abandon him. She looked up and around trying to find a way up when she saw a fire escape, " fuck Vaka this guy is an ass" she muttered under her breath before she started to quietly climb the stairs when she heard a other three shots and she gasped softly hearing the shots clearer now and Damien's voice much clearer, but now also a woman's voice and her own muttering and gasping.

She looked around for anyone coming to help but saw no one. "Fuck me" she whispered under her breath and sat on the top stair looking over the ledge at Daminens body leaning against the side of the building and the woman, she was frozen, unsure what to do.

[Invader Len]

The woman in black swore in a strange language, limping away with her gun trained on Vaka as a warning as she slipped into the shadows. No sooner had she disappeared then Jack leapt down from the skyline, quickly kneeling by Damian.
He checked his breath and pulse, closing his eyes as he was overwhelmed with rage and sadness. Damian... His rival, his ally, and his friend... He was gone. Jack moved Damian's body from the pile of trash, he was surprisingly light, with ribs jutting out in places. His face was still warm, but blood stained and gaunt. He turned to Vaka, his expression hidden behind his mask and hat. He didn't speak to her, just brushed by her cooly, void of any hint of feeling. On the inside, however, it was a raging hurricane of emotions. He was fighting back his rage, his sadness, his pain, his despair. He couldn't let it conquer him. He would have his vengeance. That was all that mattered now. Vengeance on these people, each and every last one of them. Anything else he didn't care about.
He started down the sidewalk, with or without Vaka didn't matter to him anymore.

[ifallupstairs]

Vaka watched as jack acted with cold kindness to the dead assassin and how he made sure he would have been found by the garbage people what shocked her was that he didn't even try to pursue the woman, the one that had killed him. As he walked on by her, she remained frozen, unsure of what to do. She took a deep, shaky breath before following him, the world had gone from a mystery to a scary place in a matter of moments, a place where she knew none of the answers. She was at the bottom of the stairs when she realized he was walking away too fast for her to catch up. Vaka called out, "I remember......I remember a night.....standing infront of a window....begging for you...for you to tell me something....and kissing the scars on your back as you sang a song...did that actually happen?"

[Invader Len]

He stopped walking as he heard her call out. He turned a bit as if he was going to look at her, but seemed to change his mind and stopped halfway. He opened his mouth, closing it and opening it again, conflicted of how to get the words out of his mouth. He sighed deeply.
"What if it did? That doesn't matter anymore. I don't care about it anymore. I don't care about what we had anymore. All I care about now is avenging the deaths of two of my closest friends." He looked at her, his eyes flashing with vengeance under his mask.
"I'm going to kill each and every one of those bastards." He whispered darkly.