Chapter Six: "Safe and Sound and More"

"Love? Hm, that's quite the foreign word to me. Truly, despite all of my close experiences with it or some things close to it, I cannot say that I really understand its methods or how it works. All that I really do know is - seeing as I've partaken in the substitutes on many a occasion in the past - that it's often mistaken for lust, demand, greed. I myself know that love is really nothing more than a collection of primal or carnal desires that are so very easily directed, guided, misused. Nevertheless, love is not entirely a bad thing. I must admit that if I were to find such a wonderful thing, I would no longer need to search for new prey. I could keep coming back to just that one individual... and maybe even call myself human at last." - Ahri, the Nine Tailed Fox

Here and now, with everything rapidly heating up, on the floor, this was what the night had been building up to for Augus and Jinx. As Fishbones had said to her about her dress earlier, they would be in the bedroom soon enough... wearing nothing at all. So, screw bruises, screw dramatics, screw Piltover. Now, for the next half hour or so, there was only the Enduring Protector, the Loose Cannon, and their coming union.

There, struggling on the confetti littered floor, with him trying to push himself upright but the partially caked faced her shoving him back down while never breaking from their passionate kissing the entire time, the Enduring Protector and Loose Cannon were furiously fighting for space, to gain dominance or remain dominant, to take part in a sensual ritual older than the oldest tales. And together, as they'd done many times during the past month, they would be climbing this certain mountain of passion once more tonight.

"Trying to stay on top, huh?" Augus defiantly gasped between kissing, barely being given enough time to say anything before Jinx aggressively lip locked him again, "You think you're, ungh, hot stuff, don't you, hot stuff?"

"And aren't I?" Was Jinx's humored/hungry response while she next began to undo her aroused love's belt, "More than you can handle, anyway."

"Hah! Look at you talk big! We'll see about that!" The Enduring Protector growled, actually being given the opportunity to sit up to bite, nip, just plain dominate the Loose Cannon's neck with affection and cause her to pause in undoing his pants while she instead ran her fingers through his hair, "But not here... See, this particular bed we call the floor is a bit too stiff for my tastes. You?"

"Heh, yeah." Jinx lustily answered, staring into the sapphire eyes of her lover when he looked up from the mentioned floor and to her, "But if you want to go somewhere more suitable for what we're about to do... you know what that means you have to do."

"Pft, okay, you want me to give you a horse ride into the bedroom? Really?" Augus joked around, surging with strength and ignoring his aching cuts when he suddenly got to his feet as well as lifted a shocked Jinx up with him, her legs instinctively wrapping around his waist in turn while his hands kept her up by holding her by the thighs, "Hmf, don't make this too corny, hot stuff. You can only go so far with that joke. Here, this should do it. Now, during this kind of ride, I still get to kiss you and you don't have to walk. It's a win-win-"

Again, like earlier, like when he had been pouring his heart and soul out to her on the kitchen chair minutes ago, Augus didn't get to finish what he had been meaning to say. Not when Jinx had grabbed him by the back of his head with one hand to pull him into her latest ambitious not to mention passionate kiss. In the meantime, while the Enduring Protector purposefully walked them both across the kitchen floor and through the bedroom door into the bedroom, the Loose Cannon's other hand not holding her love's lips to her own was busy resuming undoing his belt, ripping it off to toss on the floor, and then unzipping his pants to attempt to get at whatever girth that was causing the large bulge in his pants.

Yet, as his more than earnest lover looked to pull out his throbbing manhood from its hiding place like so many times before, Augus pulled a familiar stunt that sent Jinx into a cycle of fits of tension, of lust, of disbelief. Indeed, when she had just ripped his pant's zipper open, when she had just tugged at his pant's waist to be able to grab him where it mattered most, the Enduring Protector had lowered/thrown the Loose Cannon down upon the soft mattress of her more than large enough bed to roughly grab both of her hands before holding them down above her blue haired head.

"Oh, not cool. Heh, get off of me." Jinx hissed, seeing through her fierce hunger for him that Augus had once again - like several times in the past month - put her right where he wanted her on the mattress tonight, "C'mon, we both know how this night is going to end, Augus. Heh, yet, you're going to make me work for it once again, hm?"

"Yep. And you look oh so very disappointed that you'll have to work to get me again, hot stuff." Augus breathed back to his love, lowering his face down to begin loving her exposed neck, chest, arms with tender kisses and a lick or two here or there to make her groan, gasp, yelp, "You and I both know that I don't just... hand myself out. If you really want me, if you really want to see what's in these pants of mine, welllllll... get to it then. Come and get me."

"Okey-dokey! Fuck!" Jinxed laughed next, bucking her hips into Augus when he began to ever so wickedly rub the noticeable bulge in between his legs in between her thighs, "You'd best get ready, Augus... Tonight, you're really gonna learn what getting JINXED means! You might even come to regret it."

"With you, Jinx," Augus suddenly stated, making his heavily panting love arch her back while he went on to pull off her dress over her head to toss it aside as well as quickly unclip her modest bra next, "I'll regret nothing. I've never regretted anything. Always keep that in mind, won't you?"

"Augus, the feeling is mutual." Jinx said back, being foiled in her attempts to get at her lover's privates once more during his time at removing her upper torso of clothes and now finding herself laid completely out as well as at the mercy of him, "But, most of all, with you, Augus... I have never been happier. You make me happy, handsome. You've always made me happy."

A pause passed where the Enduring Protector and Loose Cannon watched each other. Then, Augus leaned down until face to face with Jinx to say to her, "Forgive me for being blunt tonight but... You not only make me happy, Jinx. I've never regretted anything I've ever done with you. What if I were, in all seriousness, to say I was in love with you on this night?"

"You haven't said that all of the time to me before now?" Jinx laughed, smiling a sweet smile under the intent gaze of her love, "Don't worry, Augus. You've never had to worry about that not being out there. It's been plain to me since October. Since before October, actually. And now, seeing as I've loved you for as long as you have me, be it in Piltover or the Freljord or wherever... I'll love you also. I'll forever love you."

Huh, love. True love at that. How quickly this month long relationship between the Enduring Protector and Loose Cannon had just escalated, hm? Well, that was love for you. True love, anyway.

Nevertheless, despite the rush of the moment, inspired by the tender words they'd just shared, encouraged by the feelings of affection, of lust, of need in his beating core aflame, Augus wasted no more time on gossips that he knew the answers to. He instead dove down upon Jinx whom eagerly accepted his assault of keen kisses, allowing his tongue to push between her lips to begin to tangle, to dance, to fight with hers. Then, she couldn't help but moan into his mouth her want for more when Augus pushed his aching bulge in his pants against her wet snatch concealed beneath only a thin layer of aqua panties.

For several minutes, deeply involved in the passion of the moment between them, tangled in each other's presence, with him looming over as well as teasing her into a practiced state of frenzied need, Augus along with Jinx intensely kissed. Every so often, they would break apart so that - with him still holding her down, with him rubbing his concealed manhood into her fiery womanhood in purposeful mockery of the most wicked kind - Augus could kiss, nip, lick, claim whatever open territory he could upon Jinx's helplessly pinned body. And wherever he planted his lips, wherever he bit down, when he forced both of his lover's hands into one of his own to use his freed hand to squeeze her flat yet enticing chest while also sucking with his mouth, Jinx's exclamations, yelps, cries grew louder if not fiercer in volume.

Truly, by the time the Enduring Protector had returned to hungrily claiming the Loose Cannon's lips in his own, when his free hand actually tugged at the waist of her delicate panties to let her fiery lower lips be exposed to the air, Jinx was so very agitated, so very lost in pleasure, so very wet down below. Indeed, when Augus partially pulled her undergarments down to her knees and next - caringly, mind - inserted two of his fingers into the most prized region of her body... she practically deafened not only herself but her love by screaming a scream of pleasure, of want, of need for everything to come together as it soon would.

As he went about working his two digits into her dampened snatch with increased speed, as he experienced his lover lose herself in a state of blind joy underneath him due to his efforts, the Enduring Protector couldn't keep from noticing through all of his primal wants of lust at just how perfect this moment seemed to be. He couldn't help but marvel at how very perfect Jinx - although formerly a goofy terrorist, yes - was to him tonight.

How had he come to be with this girl in October? How on Runeterra had he been given this honor in life to not only be with her but be able to be such a big part of her life, her needs, her purpose?

And at thinking of these things, as he lowered his head onto her heaving chest while his hand rapidly jammed into as well as out of her vag, Augus smiled a grateful smile and listened while his love went on exclaiming jumbles of words, while she grabbed at the bed sheets, while she clung to him at moments and screamed his name in approval!

"I'm going to - Oh, fuck! Augus! AUGH!" Jinx finally managed to hiss through her exclamations, making sweating Augus look contently up at her while she looked down at him laid out on her chest, "OH, UGH, I'm going to fucking cum!"

"And you needed to make that an announcement?" Augus couldn't help but smoothly joke, finding it increasingly delightful to see his love scrunch her expression, to see her body wet with sweat, to see her give a most needful face for him to finish her off in a way, "I mean, hah, look at you, Jinx. Without it being said, you're obviously at the point of no return here. I could have guessed you were on the verge of cumming. And what if I were to suddenly get an arm cramp, hm? What if I were to stop now?"

"Then you and Fishbones - Oh fuck - will be having - aaaaaaaah - an explosive talk afterwards! Don't stop! Nuh, whatever you do, Augus - aha - don't stop!"

"Well, duh. Do I ever? No. But, geez, Jinx, you're driving even me to the point of no return. You're just that hot right now. Damn." Augus hissed, really going at rapidly pushing his fingers into his escalating lover's pussy, freeing up both of his hand to do so now, "Oh, don't worry, about me though. I'm gonna finish you off first... But after this one is finished, there will still be plenty to be done afterwards. Plenty of me, anyways. By Piltover, Jinx, let loose already. I feel like I'm starting to hurt you here-"

"SHUT UP!" Jinx howled, grabbing humored Augus by his hair with her freed hands and pulling his head down onto her rapidly beating, heated chest where she held him closer to her, "STOP BEING SO DAMNED CONCERNED FOR ME AND FUCK ME UNTIL I - OH, AAAAAAAHHH! DAMMIT!"

The Enduring Protector didn't exclaim or cry out or twitch or anything negative when the Loose Cannon shook her hardest yet. Indeed, with her eyes rolling into the back of her head, with her mouth open in both delight if not strain, with her inner walls clenching around her love's invading digits, the fire that had been building too big in both Jinx's body as well as mind was extinguished with the violent expulsion of juices that flowed forth from her pulsing nether regions. Then, when she had drained herself, when she had stopped arching her spine to lay back down upon the bed in a heaving heap, there was a prolonged quiet.

Augus, used to the way their sexual intercourse was due to a month of having enjoyed it with her, removed his drenched hand from Jinx's swollen clit. Slowly, he looked over his wet fingers. Then, he glanced to Jinx who - with a slow yet sure grin - watched him wag two fingers in her direction. One finger he sucked dry himself, enjoying the familiar hints of flavor that seemed to be peach. Then, when offered the other finger, Jinx hungrily took it to suck too. Only this time, even when she had licked her juices from his hand, the Loose Cannon went on licking, sucking, popping the Enduring Protector's digits in her mouth.

"I have to say, Jinx, your cake tasted good." Augus said, pulling back his hand from his lover's teasing mouth to put it down at her side, "But you, you're... a treat without equal. There is nothing that tastes as good as you."

"Glad to hear that. Heh, really glad." The Loose Cannon sighed, looking as well as feeling quite winded form the experience, "Um... my dress. What... what did you think of it?"

"Hm? Oh, your dress? Ah, yes." Augus quickly replied, glancing over at the Demacian styled, summer dress colored tropical, "It looked good. You looked beautiful in it... But do you know what, Jinx?"

"I don't know, actually. What is it?"

"You, hot stuff... You look good in anything. And, ahem, especially in nothing like now."

"Fuck you." Jinx suddenly giggled, reaching up to frame her love's face in her hands happily, "Or, hm, more like fuck me. Where have you been in my life, Augus? Why couldn't I have run into you sooner than I did in October?"

"That is a very good question. One that I have often asked myself too in the past but also one that doesn't need an answer anymore." The Enduring Protector concluded, gently kissing his love on the lips at which she sighed, "We don't need to ask it anymore. Not since October when we found each other, anyway. Because here we are now, not in the past but the present. Here we are, with each other."

There was a tender silence for a long moment where, intertwining their fingers at moments, the young couple - the man on top, the woman laid out beneath him - simply stared into each other's eyes. Then, abruptly, Augus began laughing. Soon enough, aloud, he was falling over onto the mattress where he was laughing up a storm.

"And what is so very funny, hm?" Jinx questioned next, surging with newfound not to mention devious strength and taking advantage of her lover no longer on top of her but laid out beside her by laying on top of him next moment, "Tell me before I make you lose your pants and see how you taste."

"Oh, hah, yes! I can't remember the last time you tasted me, Jinx!" Augus immediately exclaimed, his expression very excited as Jinx spread his zipper to hungrily tug at the waist of his pants but not before he explained himself, "Oh, why am I laughing? Well, hah, you may not where I was before we met... but I know where you were!"

"And where was I?"

"You were busy blowing shit up, making people run, and forging official WANTED posters of yourself wherever in Runeterra!" The Enduring Protector roared out, covering his face as he laughed harder than ever and the Loose Cannon ripped off his pants with a humored roll of her crimson eyes.

"And, as of now... I know where I am." Jinx purred, very much aroused at seeing the sizable bulge poking awkwardly in her love's exposed boxers which he would soon be losing too, "I'm here with you. I'm here and you're here and you're about to learn what getting Jinxed really means."

"Go for it." Augus growled, honestly bracing himself when Jinx seized his undergarments and fiercely ripped them in two to let his throbbing pride as well as joy be shown to the open in all its pulsing glory, a bit of pre-cum having escaped from the display earlier, "And you can tear my boxers like that but don't tear me where it matters most - OH, WOW, UNGH, HAH!"

Augus didn't have to worry about his manhood being torn in two like his boxers had been due to Jinx's eager hands. Not when she had just taken his length into her mouth, sucked on it roughly, then popped it out of her mouth to begin licking its length while also handling it in both of her hands.

All of the time since they had met on the rooftop where he had come to be in possession of Mojo, Augus had been in charge of everything during missions throughout Piltover. Now, though, in the bedroom always... he lost control. Sure, he was an excellent lover, an excellent fight, an excellent everything. Yet, when it came down to him being pleasured by Jinx like currently, he wasn't in charge of anything anymore. He was at her mercy, under her command, he was her victim much like how she had just recently been when he had been fingering her. Except her form of revenge against him in bed now - having been built up since he'd thrown cake in her face at the kitchen table - was most terrible, most cunning, most mischevious.

Repeatedly, gentle sometimes, rough at other moments, Jinx teased, taunted, encouraged her love's length into a perfectly solid stand before letting it frustratingly loosen a bit and then be turned rock solid next instant. Every so often, she would take the rod into her mouth to play with it with her tongue while - as Augus bucked, arched his back, gasped involuntarily at the attention - she gently raked her nails up as well as down his now fully naked torso.

"Wait, Jinx, nuh," Augus abruptly gasped, seeing his lover stop in giving his manhood the attention it needed as she laid herself on top of heavily breathing him instead, "you can't just stop like that! You can't quit halfway!"

"Oh but I can and have." Jinx mused, trailing one of her fingers along Augus's shoulders while she took in how cute he looked when not getting his way in bed, when he was being jinxed, "Now you're the one getting jinxed, Augus. I'm showing you how it felt to be me a few seconds ago. So, take it like the good boy you are, wouldn't you?"

"Fuck that!" August snarled, looking to take over and appease his lustful needs but being shoved back down where Jinx sat on his midriff and her hands pressed down upon his chest, "Okay, wow, hah, ugh, I do so deserve being held down like this... And you make it worth it every time, hot stuff!"

"I know that." The Loose Cannon snickered back, reaching behind her to take a hold of her shocked love's length and watch his expression go from being excited to being purely distressed, "And I'm going to make it worth a lot more. I wonder, is this cock of yours like a shifting stick in one of those hextech vehicles in this city?"

"What?! I'm no car, Jinx! I - AHA!"

"Hm, I need to go to the store to pick up a few more things for your birthday." The Loose Cannon innocently yet not so innocently announced to the aroused Enduring Protector trapped below her, cutely looking thoughtful with a finger tapping her chin and her eyes looking upward as she jerked on the erect cock in her hand behind her, "So, let's shift into first gear to get out of the garage or whatever. Now, we're out on the road... second shift and third shift it is."

"Dammit, Jinx, I - AH - wasn't at all this mean to - AUGH - you! Stop this before - OH, UNGH! HAH!"

"Okay, now we're on the freewaaaaaay. Sooooo... Fourth shift maybe?"

"JINX! I'm gonna explode before you even get the chance to opick up whatever you have in mind - HNGH - By Piltover, I really hate stick shift vehicles right now! I hate them so very much!"

"Oh, pft, you don't lie very well in bed, Augus." Jinx laughed, knowing full well that her love couldn't have been more thankful for stick shift cars as she went on stroking his manhood stiffening against her backside, "We're just going out for a drive. That's all - Oh, hm. Getting a bit too excited, are we?"

Augus couldn't keep from pre-cumming a bit on Jinx's hand when she made a most serious if not direct stroke on his length. What she did next though nearly made him lose all control of his being. Looking innocently at the bit of his white seed he'd involuntarily loosed on the back of her hand, the Loose Cannon licked the excited Enduring Protector's cum off of her hand next before leaning in close to audibly gulp it down.

Then, when finished, she nipped his neck before whispering, "It seems a certain wait can't stop, lover boy. We need to make a special stop before attending to the rest of the shopping list. There are special items we have to get to first. Feel up to it, hm?"

"By the hells, YES!" Augus half laughed-half shouted back at his smirking love whom rose to her feet, positioned her throbbing clit over his expectant penis, then smugly watched him exclaim, "Jinx, for the love of - Just do it! Come on! Ugh, let's do this!"

"Say you're jinxed first."

"I'm jinxed! I'm so jinxed right now!"

"Tsk, tsk, you know that won't do." Jinx tutted, looking to sit back down on Augus's midriff in disappointment, "It seems that special stop of ours is going to have to wait until a certain someone gets the hint that he really needs to mean what he says-"

"Jinx! Alright, alright!" Augus sharply exclaimed over his lover, shaking his swimming head annoyingly in the sheets, "I... I submit. You win. You always win. You got me. I'm jinxed. You jinxed me."

"There we go." Jinx chimed, leaning in close to tense Augus as she softly said to him next, "Now, what happens when you're jinxed?"

"I... I owe you."

"You owe me what?"

"Oh for the love of... I owe you smexy time. A lot of it."

"Hah, yes you do. Good boy." The Loose Cannon agreed, now grabbing onto Augus's length to put it just at her swollen clit, "You owe me smexy time. So, get ready. You're going to give it to me. Got it?"

"Got it! I'd be more than happy to!" Augus gasped, awaiting the moment to go to town on his lover, "Just... give me the signal or say so or do whatever!"

"Heh, alright." Jinx breathed, readying her own self for both pleasure and minor pain, "And we'll be beginning... Now - AH!"

To have his aching sword sheathed at last, to have her walls swallow his rod up into her, Augus both yelped as well as thanked the gods that he was finally being given the chance to delight Jinx yet another time in bed. This time around though, he was not really in control. Not at first anyway. No, it was Jinx whom was deciding on rhythm, on intensity, on how rapid she was going up as well as down on his erected length!

Yet, soon enough, as she began to lose control over her own senses in the resulting sexual delight, as she got a bit sloppy in doing things over him and had him pop out of her every so often, the Enduring Protector had rolled the Loose Cannon off of himself to have her be below him once more. Nevertheless, instead of pinning her down on the mattress like beforehand, he grabbed her up into his arms, giving her the bonus of being able to look him in the face as well as wrap her hands around the back of his neck while he began to intensely pump himself into her repeatedly.

Several times, holding each other tightly, both sweating without end, their heads resting on each other's shoulders, gasping aloud, Augus and Jinx shared a quick kiss while they remained in each other for the entire duration. Gradually, obviously, their bodies gained flames of passion that engulfed their bodies, their senses, their minds. And soon enough, those fires of lust or love or whatever they were had taken a hold of everything in the couple.

Having been slow, precise at first in his thrusts, the Enduring Protector no longer behaved so. Instead, he had the Loose Cannon down on her back again on the bed, their eyes locked on each other's expectant expressions, their levels of bodily delight reaching their maximum faster than they could yell out each other's names. Then, something snapped in both of their minds in simultaneous order and the eventful night of sex, of pleasure, of love, of happy birthday, came to an end.

Jinx, screaming her trying lover's name the entire time, came a second time. Thus, still being rammed repeatedly, her bodily fluids sprayed onto Augus's pumping length as well as soaked his thighs. Nonetheless, still working on his own heights, absorbed in his own pleasure but realizing he had to pull out of her last second, Augus didn't slow in his actions until exploding too at which he managed to pop out of his weary love and cover her in his own milky spray. Then, with both of them panting, with both of them worn utterly out, Jinx guided Augus gently down to lay beside her.

For the longest silence ever it seemed, the Loose cannon as well as Enduring Protector said nothing to one another while recovering from what had been one of their best nights to date. Truly, tonight altogether had been so very different than any other.

Then, brushing her tired love's hair out of his bright eyes for him and as he did the same for her, Jinx whispered to Augus, "Heh, you're the best of my guns, Augus. But, sssssh, don't say anything to my other guns. Okay?"

"Sure... thing..." Augus panted, a knowing, small smile on his expression as he tried to stay awake, "I'll especially... be discreet around Fishbones..."

"Oh, he knows. It's the others that are still adjusting." The Loose Cannon admitted to the Enduring Protector before scolding herself on realizing something, "Your cuts... ugh, we're going to have to take a look at them next morning and be sure we didn't, well, do anything to make them worse. We might even have to redo some, you know."

"Worth... it." Augus chuckled, his eyes flickering open and shut wearily as his lover went on tracing her fingers through his hair, "Getting jinxed and having a few stitches afterwards? Totally worth it. Like always, Jinx... you were worth it. Every minute of it."

And at this, at being told such a tender thing, the Loose Cannon ignored her icky situation and cuddled closer to her love whom very much accepted her warmth. Soon enough, he had fallen asleep himself. Later, Jinx fell asleep also.

Yet, the Loose Cannon only remained slumbering for so very long into the night before - after having had repeated nightmares of a certain Piltovian Enforcer having assaulted Augus in the cemetery tonight, after the same enforcer had pummeled him good, after she had chained him up in some dirty cell and next come at him with a nightstick - the Loose Cannon had delicately yet resolutlely gotten out of bed, showered herself off, tied her ponytail into two separate ones again, then fetched her outfit of belts along with array of weapons scattered everywhere in her hideout.

"Where we going so early in the morning hours, you?" Fishbones grumbled sleepily to Jinx when she had exited her hideout by climbing a ladder to the roof of the apartment complex, fully equipped with her usual trickster gear as well as dressed in a heavyset of clothes to handle the presently cold weather, "Why are you not back there enjoying the company of birthday boy? Oh, wait, you two have already enjoyed each other's company tonight, right? Right-"

"Stop talking for minute, Fishbones, and maybe I can explain our reason for being out here." Jinx hissed to her rocket launcher, drawing her coat tighter over her skinny self when getting out into the nippy air on the roof, "Augus barely got away from the graveyard earlier tonight because of a certain someone. I'll give you three guesses who."

"Okay, uh, um... Loser Fat-Hands, Loser Fat-Hands, and Loser Fat-Hands, correct?"

"That's exactly right." Jinx huffed, really hating the enforcer more than ever before at the thought that she had hassled Augus earlier when he had been helping the city be safe another day, "And seeing as she hurt Augus and it's still his birthday... I have a particular idea for a last minute present for him for his twenty-fourth birthday."

"Heh, you gonna get back at the enforcer of Piltover, are you?" Fishbones chuckled in his clank of a way, "Is that it? Great. Just let me know where you need me to fire and - Hey, uh, what's with the cans of spray paint?"

"We're not going out to remove the Enforcer permanently, Fishbones, you rust face. We're just going out to do a little redecorating on her most prized possession." The Loose Cannon chortled, looking northward to Piltover's rich districts across the river, "We're going out to do a little vandalizing. Soon, the city will know Jinx was here again."

"Great. I'm ready to go whenever you are." Fishbones stated, adding in when his creator began to expertly run, jump, along with navigate her way north by traversing rooftops, "Hey, did you say that your special guy is going to be celebrating his twenty-fourth birthday today? Great! Now you know how old each other is! It would seem you really are jinxed by each other. You're opening up."

"Yep." Jinx casually replied to her rocket launcher, leaping over a long gap between rooftops with ease, "It would seem we are. You were right, Fishbones. I didn't have to worry about anything tonight. Augus is perfect. He always has been. He always will be."

"And, uh, I couldn't help but overhear that he was thinking about... new living arrangements?" Fishbones wondered next, "Living arrangements more northward than we are now."

"That's right."

"Then, if that's the case... This is a serious relationship, isn't it? You're going to go with him north into Freljord, aren't you?"

"At the moment, I'm going out to redecorate Loser Fat-Hand's most prized things, Fishbones. If I'm willing to do that to her simply because she touched Augus... Do you think I'm willing to follow him into the north if he wants to go there?"

"Yep." Fishbones answered simply, his voice a bit triumphant, "And pardon me for saying so but you seem to be on the road to being, well... turned partially normal."

"Perhaps I am. Perhaps we all are, Fishbones." Jinx admitted, stopping at a ladder to slide down its length onto the street near the bridge leading across to the city's north parts and saying as she did next, "All that is certain is that whatever Augus does, I will do. Whatever he thinks, I will listen. Wherever he goes, I will go."

"And whoever gets in his way or threatens him," Fishbones cackled, noticing the grim expression on Jinx's expression as she was thinking of Vi in the north parts of town at the exact moment, "you'll be sure to be there to stand up for him, right?"

"Right." Jinx grimly answered before discreetly running through the cold, her weapons upon her back and at her sides, to cross the bridge and pay a certain, frustrated, exhausted enforcer of Piltover a visit on this night, "I'll be there to stand up for him if not catch him too. It would seem that way, yes. And it's going to stay that way for a while. As long as possible if not forever even."

"I see." Fishbones replied, his eyes twinkling in the many passing street lights and his steely maw looking a bit like it was knowingly smiling at what had been recently said about Jinx following Augus anywhere and everywhere, "Well, seeing as I have no legs or will of my own... I'm with you, sister. Lead whichever way and, like I've always done for you, I'll be sure to follow you wherever you go."

"I know, Fishbones. I know."

End of "Safe and Sound and More"...