A/N: Hey everyone! Told you I'd have another chapter out soon! This is odd. It usually takes me like 2-6 months to get a fanfic chapter finished, but Ive had an uncontrollable Librarians addiction for like the past week. Oh well. Enjoy!
A few days later, the group hung around the Library. Cassandra had been resting in bed in her room. They would have brought her home, but the back door was broken and plane travel didn't seem like the safest option. No one had really left the Library since the day at the hospital. No one knew how much time they had left with Cassandra.
Flynn sighed. "This is…" he couldn't find the words to describe how he felt. Everyone seemed to understand anyway. "I just wish she had used Cal to save herself that day, rather than me."
Jake, where he had been sitting alone, looked up from the floor.
"Say that again" he gasped, seeming to come to a realization.
"Well, I wish that Cassandra had used Cal to save herself that day. Both of us, we had incurable injuries, and she chose to help me…God she doesn't deserve this" Jake jumped up from his seat.
"That's it!" he exclaimed, running to a bookshelf.
"Stone?" Eve questioned. "What are you talking about?"
Jake turned to the group. Unexpectedly, he was smiling. Determination coursed through him, creating an energy that he wasn't going to let go away.
"That day, when Flynn got stabbed, he was on the brink of death. The injury was incurable, the case was hopeless!" Jake turned again to the bookshelves.
"I'm still not seeing what this has to do with Cassandra…or why you're so excited about it"
"Don't you see? If there was a way to save Flynn, there's gotta be a way to save Cass."
"Jake…" Eve muttered. She wanted to believe more than anything that there was something that they could do for Cassandra, but she had looked. She had found nothing, at least, nothing plausible. There was no hope. She didn't like it, she couldn't stand it, but they had just lost.
"Look there's nothing you can say to me that's going to make me stop trying here" Jake continued. "I'm sure there's a way out there to save her, and I'm going to find it"
The remaining Librarians and Guardian looked at each other, each wanting to say something, but realizing it wasn't the time. They walked out of the room and left Jake frantically searching through as many books as he could get his hands on.
Later that night, Jake was sitting with Cassandra. She was asleep. She did a lot of that lately. As he looked at her, all he could think about were all the unsaid words, the unaccomplished days, the unsolved cases. Simply, he thought about unfinished plans. He had let his fears dictate how he felt about Cassandra, or at least what he showed to the rest of the world. His eyes fell upon her, resting so peacefully. Even this close to death, she was a sight far more beautiful than most that he had ever seen.
Again, his mind fell to the unfinished plans. He could tell Cassandra how he felt, say everything that he wanted to say, but it wouldn't be the same. He couldn't take her to Paris, or any other of the places he wanted to visit with her. They would never solve another case together again. More than any of that, Cassandra deserved to live. She deserved to continue the life that she always said she loved so much. He had to save her. He had to find a way.
After a few minutes, Cassandra's eyes fluttered open.
"Jake" she smiled, spotting him.
"Hey Cassie" he said. "How are you feeling?"
"As good as can be expected I guess. I've had a lot of time to think."
"About what?"
"Oh you know…just about everything. About my life. What I've had, what I haven't. Where I could be going." Jake felt tears welling in his eyes. He forced them back.
"Cass" he muttered. No matter how much he tried to hide it, Cassandra noticed the pain in his voice.
"Hey" she said. "Don't be like that. It's okay really. I've had a long time to prepare for this. I've had a good run."
"Cass don't talk like that."
"This is happening Jake. And it's going be okay. Really it is." She hesitated. "If I were to regret one thing, it would just be…"
"What?"
"Well…working for the Serpent Brotherhood. I regret losing your trust"
Jake felt pained again. He looked into Cassandra's eyes. The two of them, in some strange way, they seemed to understand each other. He felt comfortable telling her anything, felt comfortable hearing anything from her. Realizing this, a truth came to him that he already knew. He just didn't know that he knew it. He grabbed Cassie's hand.
"Oh Cass" he said. "I uh…I trust you more than I've ever trusted anyone I've ever known. I fact, you're really the only person I've ever trusted." Cassandra smiled.
"Really?" she asked.
"Ya" Jake whispered. Smiling, the Librarian drifted off to sleep again.
"And I'm going to save you" Jake continued, now that Cassandra couldn't hear him. He kissed her hand lightly, and walked out of the room.
The next day, the Librarians sat in Cassandra's room, preparing to watch a movie together. They had been trying to focus on the simple things. There was only so much that they could still do, but at least they would be together.
"What do you want to watch?" Eve called from the next room over, scanning the shelves full of movies.
"Well I do enjoy anything involving Greek mythology" Cassandra said. As Eve searched for a good movie, a realization washed over Jake.
"That's it!" he exclaimed. He ran out of the room. Flynn, confused, chased after him.
He found Jake in the Library's main room, a book on the table in front of him. He walked over and glanced over his friend's shoulder.
"I can't believe I didn't think of this before" Jake said. Flynn glanced at the passage that he was reading.
The Gorgons were three sisters from Greek mythology, considered to be horrendous monsters. They were Medusa, Sthenno, and Euryale. The creatures were lizard like and hideous, their hair made of snakes.
Legend dictated that the blood from the right side of a Gorgon could cure any injury, even death, while blood from the left side would bring instant death. Athena once gave the blood to Asclepius, a Greek God of medicine, who began to use the blood to bring back heroes from the dead.
Some legends dictate that Asclepius was then resurrected by Zeus himself, but that he was ordered to never bring back the dead again.
Flynn looked concerned, seeming to understand what Jake wanted to do. Jake was all smiles.
"Don't ya see?" he exclaimed. "If I can find Gorgon's Blood, I can cure Cassie's tumor, and she won't die. Please tell me it exists"
"Jacob…" Flynn began.
"The Loom of Fate was a Greek myth right? So if that Greek myth existed why can't this one?" Flynn hesitated. As much as he didn't want to, he had to tell Jake the truth.
"It does exist" he muttered. Jake was about to rush out, but Flynn stopped him. "But we don't have it."
"So?" Jake said. "I'll go find it. If this is what'll help Cassie I'll do whatever it takes to find it."
"Jake listen to me. We used to have some, right here in the library, but…the day the Serpent Brotherhood tried to take over…they took it. They have it somewhere, probably under heavy guard, and I don't know where."
"So I'll find out where it is" Jake insisted.
"Jake!" Flynn shouted. "Finding that blood will be extremely dangerous, and besides, there's no way to know which vial is which. And if you remember from that story you were reading, the blood from the Gorgon's left side causes instant death!" Jake tried to interrupt, but Flynn pushed on.
"Did you read the end of that tale? Zeus killed Asclepius for bringing back people from the dead. Fate is not meant to be meddled with. Dead is dead."
"So I'll get the blood to Cass before she dies. I think everyone prefers that anyway." Flynn still didn't seem convinced. Jake took a deep breath. He hadn't revealed his feelings to anyone. Still, he owed Flynn an explanation.
"Do you remember that day with Dulac? When history got all screwed up? Don't you remember when Eve got stabbed? That was hopeless. That was supposed to be her fate, and yet, you didn't stop. You got us back here, and you got that potion, and you didn't stop trying no matter what anyone else said. You never gave up, and you saved her." Jake paused.
"I won't lose her Flynn" he muttered. "I…I can't lose her."
Flynn didn't speak. He had noticed the chemistry between Jake and Cassandra since he had first met them. It couldn't be ignored. He couldn't help now, but think about what Jake had said, how he had not stopped fighting to save Eve. He reminded himself of the what he had said that day. He didn't believe in fate. Apologetically, he looked at Jake
"You're right" he said. "But I do think Cassandra would like it if you would come and watch the movie with us." Jake smiled and walked with Flynn back to Cassie's room.
He found relief in the fact that he had a plan. Jake smiled again. He wasn't losing Cassandra. Not anytime soon.
A/N: Hope you liked it! I pretty much have the rest of this story planned out, so the chapters should be pretty close together. Just a little disclaimer, I don't any of the Greek Mythology. Bye everyone!
