Disclaimer: I don't own Jumper. If I did, this would have happened. Roughly.
A/N: I bought Jumper the other day, because had I enjoyed it in the cinema. After I watched it, I felt the same outrage that they hadn't saved Griffin. So I've done it for them. I hope you like it.
Griffin's Revenge
Chapter 1 - Surviving
David Jumped, leaving Griffin stranded in a pylon. Griffin groaned. It's your own fault for trusting the bastard, he told himself. You trust people, you get killed. That's just the way the world works.
The darkness was coming, called by the electricity powering through Griffin's body. It hovered at the edge of his sight, the edge of his consciousness. He knew he had seconds. But there was nothing he could do. Suddenly, the electric surges stopped, leaving him shaking and helpless. The darkness closing in, he looked along the line of pylons. One teetered, then fell, the shock waves reverberating through Griffin's body in place of the electricity.
"I love Chechnya," Griffin gasped. His vision was blurring, and he knew he didn't have much time. He had to Jump somewhere safe, he couldn't kill Roland in this condition, bomb or no bomb. The lair wasn't safe anymore, and home had never been safe. But there was one place he could go. Griffin Jumped.
Griffin woke suddenly. It was dark, and silent. He stood up carefully, groaning, then limped forwards. Reaching for the cord he knew was there, he pulled it, and light flooded into his starved retinas. Griffin cried out, and shielded his eyes until he became accustomed to the light. Here was safety. Here, was home.
Griffin looked around the room, his brain slower than usual from the electricity. Although he had trained himself, over the years, to be almost immune to the Paladin's weapons, a pylon carried a much higher voltage. He would be lucky if he was back to normal in a week. Your own bloody fault, thought Griffin bitterly.
The walls were covered in shelves of different sizes. Some held currency, some were stacked high with pictures, pictures that had been organized once upon a time, but now lay in a haphazard, chaotic mess. Others carried tools, hammers, baseball bats, Paladin weapons. The whole room stank of rot and neglect.
This had been Griffin's first bolt-hole, before the lair. It was a disused service room underneath a main road, fairly close to where he had lived before Roland had destroyed his life. Before Griffin had found it, the only way in had been a manhole cover. Now, the only way in was to Jump. Griffin had taken a barrel of cement and covered the entrance with it, smoothing it down so that it just looked like another patch of roadworks. Then, over several months, he had collected all the things he might need from various banks, shops and safehouses. When he had started to hunt Roland, he had realised that he would need a bigger space, and moved to his desert lair. But this had remained his hide-away, where no-one could find him.
Griffin staggered across the room, reaching for a backpack hanging on the wall. At least, it should have been on the wall. But Griffin's younger self hadn't exactly been the tidiest Jumper ever. Swearing to himself, he stooped and swiped the bag off the floor. Then, more slowly now, he rifled through the money, taking about £100's worth in each currency. Depositing these in the bag, Griffin then moved to his picture wall, and found the shelf labelled 'Paladin'. But, once again, his past failed him. The pictures were all jumbled up. Griffin grabbed the few that were relevant, hoping that he might be able to pick up some more up-to-date ones from the lair later after all the fuss had died down. Finally, he reached the tool wall, and picked up a few of his favourites. The baseball bat, the mallet, the pickaxe, and, surprisingly, the Paladin 'zapper', as he called it, the one that trailed electric cables and could stop an experienced Jumper in their tracks. This was his personal favourite, using the Paladin's own weapons against them.
Griffin turned, smiling grimly. First, he would destroy the Paladin. Then, he would find David and his girlfriend, and make them pay for leaving him to die.
"You can run, but you can't hide," whispered Griffin as he Jumped to revenge.
A/N: Hope you liked it. Review and get cyber cookies! Next chapter, a new character.