@Uh.Yeah.I.Sure.HOPE.It.Does!
Something had indeed caught jackie's eye. A silver dagger with something, maybe words, carved into the hilt. She pointed to it. "What does it say?"
Something had indeed caught jackie's eye. A silver dagger with something, maybe words, carved into the hilt. She pointed to it. "What does it say?"
John raises an eyebrow surprised that the dagger was the item that caught Jackie's eye. He picks it up and inspects it with a mixed expression "This…is a prophecy tool. I was told to keep it around for it is to be important sometime in the future…It says "Upon the day the last heir returns, a refusal shall usher forth the overthrowing of royalty."
"Refusal will overthrow royalty. What does that have to do with you?" Jackie said, even more intrigued.
"I am a prince, maybe it means I will overthrow my father? It is not exactly clear" John shrugs setting the dagger down
"A prince huh? That's a big responsibility, love. What are you doing here with me if you have a kingdom to rule?"
"I was banished when my father found out Mariana killed my mother and I had disappeared as well. I was eventually found and brought to the counsel and banished under grounds of treason and other things. Plus I like it here with you….You make my days brighter"
"Oh wow. And I like it with you too." She kissed his nose lightly. "Why don't we head upstairs?" Jackie offered.
John makes a funny face and scrunches his nose then he nods at Jackies offer "Sure, but first c'mere" John pulls Jackie close and gives her a long kiss
Jackie kisses John back mirroring his passion. After a long while, she pulls away slowly. "Love you John."
John smiles loosening his grip on Jackie waist and he murmurs softly his tone soft and his expression tender "Love you too Jackie"
A small smile grows on Jackie's face and she puts her forehead against John's. "We have to make sure we never break each other's hearts like we've had ours broken in the past." Jackie said, her tone firm but kind.
John nods slightly which caused his nose to brush up against Jackies nose "I hereby promise to not break your heart if I can so help it. I truly would love for this to blossom and work out."
"Me too. Now let's head up stairs."
John nods then holds jackies hand as he walked her up stairs shutting the door behind him "Since I have told you about my work and myself. Can I ask what you do for a living and perhaps what you were like in past?"
"Well… I work for a coffee shop at the moment. I'm looking for a journalism job. For a good couple years, I was at a refinement camp for faking a medical degree. I trained hard and tried to be good to get out of there but my redemption came in the form of a 20-year-old woman with little bits of pink on the ends of her strawberry blonde hair and a scar over her left eye." Jackie took in a breath and sighed before continuing. "She was looking for a group of delinquents to help her get revenge on a thief who had hurt her when she was younger. Her name was Scarlet and her goal was to have the best group of thieves Seattle had ever seen. She took me and 3 other people and we trained hard. One night we got into some sort of chemical pond. It was dark and murky and we almost died. When we woke up we all had these shadow powers. We improved greatly after that with our new powers and people began calling us the shadow of Seattle. We never hurt anyone with what we did." She paused for a second, regaining her confidence. "One night I was running and I saw a girl who was hurt. I went up to her and made a mistake. I touched her. At the time I didn't have much control over my powers. One aspect of our powers is if we touch something we can make it into a shadow of its self. Touch it again and it will disappear from existence. I saw the poor girl turn black and unsure of what to do, touched her once more. I murdered a child. Not only that but my team stopped to see what was wrong, because I was crying on the ground, and the police caught up with us. Jasmine got caught. We got her back but she was hurt and we had given ourselves away. A month or so later, we disbanded and here I am now. Turn me in if you want…" Jackie fell silent now as the memories flashed through her head.
(That does happen in the book I'm writing, Shadows of Seattle, which is from the perspective of Scarlet. Except they don't disband. Jasmine doesn't get caught but gets hurt trying to run away.)
(Jesus…scared me for a second seeing that huge paragraph lol)
John stays silent the whole time Jackie was speaking then he blinks slowly trying to form together what he wanted to say. John then starts to speak slightly pacing as he did so "Jackie I won't turn you in. That would be stupid and foolish of me to do so. For if I was to turn you in I would have to do the same to myself." John clears his throat and continues to speak "Being tortured for so long and so badly caused by body to split in itself and I turned into a alter of myself. During that time I supposedly destroyed one city and several towns." John stops speaking and reaches up touching Jackies face "You didn't mean to do that love, and I forgive you"
"I didn't mean to hurt the girl. But what about all of the things I stole? All the things we stole?" She stopped herself. "I know you would never turn me in, but the guilt weighs me down. Ya know?"
"I can show you my powers. They haven't gone yet." She whispered nervously.
John nods then he starts to smile slightly "You aren't the only one to have stolen something though alot of my collection is stolen really.And I understand the guilt, but if you had a chance to start over would you do the same? And I would love to see your powers"
(Oh and sorry about the huge paragraph. I suppose I should have split it up more.)
( nah it is okay, I really liked learning more about your character )
(yeah! It's pretty cool. if you want I can get you some bits from my book)
( That would be awesome, only if you really want to though)
"That's a good point. Yeah I can show you!" She thought for a moment deciding how she wanted to lay this out. "So the first thing we do is shadow transformation. I can transform into any shape but just the shadow of it." She transformed into a small cat and purred at John's feet. The cat was thin, black, looked like you could walk through it. "Next is shadow clinging. It's a really fast way to travel since you can go from one to another. I can take the place of anything or one's shadow." She clung to John's shadow and it looked normal except when "he" waved. She came back. "Have you seen star wars? One of our powers is kind of like the force but only with shadows. I can mold existing shadows into different shapes." Jackie used her hands to twist the shadow of a vase into a cupcake. "That's pretty much it. And finally, the irreversible power, which I won't demonstrate, is shadow touch. Similar to that of King Midas. If I focus on it and touch something it turns completely to shadow. A second touch and it will disappear."
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