Faith woke up to the push of Jacknife's hand. "Get up." He whispered in her ear. Faith pulled herself away from Jacknife's front side and looked at him. "What? Is there something wrong?"
"No, I just.... I just wanted to talk."
"About what?"
"I dunno, I just like talking to you."
"OK. Tell me why you killed Duncan."
"I was jealous. I didn't want to admit it but I knew it was true. I did it because I was jealous."
"My God Jacknife. Jealousy? Really? Don't you think that's foolish and dumb?"
"Faith I know I was wrong and I was stupid but I felt so angry I couldn't control myself. I'm sorry."
"No apologies." Faith kissed his lips. "None."
"OK Faith. If you say so." Jacknife kissed her lips and watched her as she hopped out of bed. "What do you wanna do today?"
"I dunno, maybe go see what Merc's up to?" Faith nodded and the two headed off to work. Merc was surprised when the two walked in the door. "Well, who wants to explain this situation now?" Jacknife and Faith started to look guilty. "And exactly what happened to Duncan?"
"Merc... I killed him. He annoyed me. I couldn't stand him anymore. Then Jacknife got upset but.... he forgave me and.... we spent some time together."
"Doing what exactly?" Merc asked. "C'mon man! You don't gotta know all the details!" Faith pinched Jacknife's arm trying to tell him that's not what he should've said. Merc got very suspicious now. "So now you're giving me an idea. If you don't tell me what you two were doing, I'll stick to that idea."
"Merc we just.... we were.... we fell in love OK?" Faith said. She plopped herself onto the couch and Jack did the same. They had no idea of what to say or do and neither did Merc. "Well.... you two didn't have..."
"No Merc. We didn't. We didn't have sex. Too explicit for us. But Merc you make every relationship a huge deal. Why? Why's it always have to be like that?"
Merc sat down in his rolling chair. "You two are young. When young people fall in love, it doesn't always lead to something right. Faith, I feel like your father. I don't want anything bad to happen to you so I just..... I just don't."
Faith was touched she walked up to Merc and hugged him with great force on account of how large he was. "Thank you, Merc." Merc smiled and hugged her back. Jacknife sat there looking rather disgusted.
"What on Earth happened to my Faith? Is she gone? I bet she's just afraid of Merc." Jacknife's thoughts were all cramming in his head. His temper began to show. "Uh, Faith, I think that's enough hugging now."
Faith let go of Merc. "K Jack." She sat back down with Jacknife and kissed his cheek. Jacknife shot her a what-you're-doing-isn't-right-in-my-eyes look. Faith knew that and she completely disagreed. They kept making faces at eachother as if that was another language and Merc was completely confused. "Are you guys' faces OK?"
"Yea, Merc. Me and Faithy are fine." Jacknife stood up and approached Merc. "What do you have for us today?"
"Actually, you two need to make up the runs you missed yesterday." Merc handed the two comm links. "I'll give you the directions."
"Actually, Merc, before we start, can me and Faithy talk? In private?"
"Sure I guess." Jacknife and Faith walk outside. "What is it Jack?"
"Faith, why are you kissing up to him? Are you afraid of him?"
"I'm not kissing up to anyone! What are you talking about?"
"The hugging, touchy feelings, the disappointing looks! And why did you say YOU killed Duncan?"
"Because I didn't want to lose you! You would've gotten fired Jacknife!"
"But you could've left and lived with me! You ARE afraid of him!"
"I am not!"
"Don't give me that!"
Faith took a deep breath. "We're gonna settle this as adults, OK? You can either understand my side and I can understand yours and we'll be together forever, or we don't and we break up."
"If we understand eachother's sides that means you're wrong?"
"See Jacknife! You always want to be right! WHY are you like this? WHY did I fall for you? WHAT is my problem!"
"So now you wanna break up?"
"YES! YES I DO!" Faith and Jacknife stopped yelling. Faith turned around to head back to Merc's lair but before she reached the lair she was stabbed in the back with a knife.
"All you had to do was admit you were wrong. All ya had to do Faithy."
MUA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! I LOVE TRAGIC ENDINGS! THIS IS HILARIOUS! BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Hee hee.. heh.. K I'm done.
