A/N: Last chapter guys! Here it is!

Chapter 4

Griffin was awoken by loud yelling. It was his fifth day in the cell across from David. It was hell. No worse. It's a Paladin building. He was beginning to miss Penelope and, shockingly, civilization. He only had the company of the emotionally scarred, blond haired, blue eyed man named David. The yelling grew louder as he sat up. Griffin saw David doing the same. Are they finally coming to take one of us away? Maybe kill? He looked to David, who was straight faced, standing at the bars of his cell and straining to see what was going on. "Wha's it?" he half whispered to David.

David shook his head. Griffin stood up as he heard a woman's voice shouting about someone. Soon footsteps.

Roland and a woman came around the corner and into view. Roland looked furious and stormed over to David's cell. The woman followed close behind, saying things like, "You can't do this" and "This is against orders." She had short brunette hair and was wearing a grey trench coat. She was obviously a Paladin.

Roland stopped in between the two cages. "We have no use for him, Mary. He mustn't be allowed to live." He narrowed his eyes at her and said darkly, "He's a jumper."

Roland began to pull out what seemed to be a handgun as the woman named Mary shouted more at him. "I won't let you kill my son! My people are hidden among us all and will destroy this wretched group from inside!" She stepped in front of Roland, blocking his view to David's cell.

Griffin was in awe. A Paladin mother with a jumper for a son? Talk about confliction. He backed up a step as he saw David do the same.

"Mom," he heard David say. But he was too late. A single gunshot rang through the cells. Mary stood with wide eyes. "They'll destroy..." With those last words, Mary crumpled to the ground in a bloody slump. David yelled as if he was the one who was shot and tried to jump. He went nowhere and simply stood in front of Roland, who was cocking the gun again.

"No..." Griffin mumbled. Roland heard him apparently and turned, looking over his shoulder as he pointed the gun at David. Griffin was about to stutter out a few words but Roland was faster.

"Don't worry. You're next O'Conner," Roland had an evil smirk plastered across his face as he spoke.

Griffin shivered as the attention turned back to David. A second gunshot rang across the area as David groaned and stumbled back. He gasped as he fell down, clutching his chest. Griffin took a final look at David, who was grinning at him from the ground. "Kill. That. Bastard."

Griffin clenched his right hand into a fist. He knew it was how Paladins were, but even he wasn't that heartless. "You fucker," he grumbled. His rage was building as Roland threw down the gun and turned towards him. They glared at each other as Roland unrolled a knife from it's sheath. "You're gunna kill me too now?" Griffin asked.

Roland smirked at him again. He yelled, "Open the cell!" The door to Griffin's cell opened and Roland stepped in, taunting with the knife by waving it around. "Today is the day I finally kill you. After I do that, I think I'll find your little girlfriend and kill her too."

Griffin screamed savagely at Roland as he ran towards him and threw a few punches. Roland got hit twice and blocked all the other punches. He retaliated by kicking Griffin in the chest, causing him to fall to the ground. Griffin groaned as he was kicked again. He didn't have the strength to get back up. The torturing did a lot of damage he assumed. Out of instinct, he tried to jump. Nothing happened. He twitched and only moved a foot away from where he was. Damn it. Is this how I'll die? Fuckin' ridiculous.

Griffin moved to pick himself up but Roland held him down, holding the knife against his neck. He smirked at him, the man who would kill him in a few short moments. "You jumpers are always eager to die," Roland trailed off. His face turned to shock as he toppled onto his side. Griffin saw a knife sticking out of his neck. He rubbed at the spot where the knife had been held against him as he saw Penny standing over him.

"Thought you were a goner, eh?" she smiled at him, trying to look innocent.

Griffin sat up. "Thanks Pen. I think I owe you one."

She held out her hand and pulled him up. "We're even, Griff. You saved me and I saved you."

He looked down at Roland's lifeless body on the ground a few mere inches away from them. Griffin sighed. It was a relief to finally see Roland dead and many lives avenged, but it didn't make Griffin feel any different. He turned back to Penny. She was looking at Mary and David's bodies before turning around to face Griffin. She grabbed his hand and jumped them to the lair. Penny threw herself onto the couch and curled into a ball. I wonder if she feels any better now that Roland is dead, Griffin thought. He took off his ruined shirt as he was about to ask when she spoke.

"Who were they?" she asked quietly.

Griffin put on a clean black shirt and sat down next to her. "The guy. Tha' was David. He was a captive too. An' the woman...I think that was his mother. She was a Paladin," he told her. "She died trying ta protect him. Kinda weird, but...I dunno," he shrugged.

Penny pulled her knees to her chest, wrapping her arms around securely, and resting her chin on the top of her knees. "Maybe things can change now. Maybe the Paladins will think about everything. The lives they stole. The chaos they've caused," she trailed off.

Griffin put an arm around her. "Maybe."

Griffin sat at the bar relaxed, with a drink in hand. Penny was sitting next to him, smiling and giggling. He could tell she was buzzed after one drink. He leaned against the counter and smiled back at her. It had been a quiet and peaceful two weeks since the whole ordeal with Roland. Four days after it happened, he ran into a, now ex, Paladin he recognized and they told him what had happened. He remembered his words clearly.

'Mary and a group of us were on the inside, trying to halt what the Paladins were doing. They had just found out about us the day she died. That's why they killed her Jumper son. To see if she really was with them or against them. The rest of us followed her plan and destroyed the Paladins from the inside by messing their tracking systems and records on all the Jumpers in the world. Just yesterday, a handful of us blew up one of their buildings that the remaining higher ups were having a meeting in. Now, it's only a matter of time until they crumble...' He would probably never forget Mary or David for what they gave up in order to give the rest of the Jumpers safety.

Griffin took a sip of his drink and looked at Penny again. She was still smiling away along with tugging on his beaten up leather jacket. Who really knows how long this peace will last? Griffin thought to himself. He got up and helped Penny off her bar stool. Who cares? They were finally allowed to live normal lives and Griffin wasn't going to take his for granted anymore. He draped Penny's arm over his shoulder and assisted her out of the bar and walked into an alley. Things can change, he thought as he jumped Penny to their new home in Los Angeles.

A/N: Happy how this turned out. And i know it's a tiny bit open, that's incase I get bored and decide to make this a trilogy. David fans: I'm sorry.
Review(tell me what you think), vote in the poll on my profile(ideas nedded for oneshot), and the sequel to Reckless, along with my Chumscrubber fic, should be out soon!!