Chapter 6: Constantine
When Ahsoka broke his train of thought it was like loosing Darlene all over again, he was enjoying the memory of Darlene and didn't want it lost, because if Alex lost that, then Darlene's memory would be lost. And her death will have meant nothing, he looked at Ahsoka and when she noticed Alex's pained expression she said
"Are you OK?" She asked out of concern for her boyfriend. She took hold of his hand and smiled at him, when she did this Alex found it somewhat comforting, he loved Ahsoka, loved her so much that even if something happened to her, he would only have himself to blame. He couldn't hold onto his feelings anymore so when he decided it was time to let go, he decided it was time to let go and move on with his life.
"I'm fine Ahsoka" he said smiling and when Ahsoka noticed him smiling she smiled back it was good that the two of them were sharing such a romantic moment, because Alex didn't want this to end, unfortunately like all, good things, this moment had to come to an end at some point, after all they still had tomorrow's feast in their honour to attend, Alex wasn't going to miss that, not one bit "I was just thinking about Darlene"
Ahsoka let go of his hand almost instantly when he mentioned their old friend, although she didn't very much like her, she still found it rather sad that she didn't get to spend more time to get to know her, if she did then maybe she could've done something to save her, instead of just standing by and watch Darlene sacrifice herself, but Darlene saved me, Ahsoka reminded herself, I'm not to blame for her death.
But she was to blame for Sky leaving them and going off on an adventure on his own, she wondered where Sky was now, probably on some distant planet somewhere, drowning out his sorrows, then all off a sudden she thought she sensed someone nearby, just thinking of Sky made her have this sudden thought, however it wasn't a thought or a trick of her imagination as well. When Alex noticed this he said
"What's wrong?"
"Someone's watching us" she pointed out and looked in the direction of where she sensed the person that was watching her, she tried to focus but her vision was clouded by the strange amount of force energy in the TARDIS, when the night began to fall Ahsoka cursed and Alex had to cover his ears. "I lost him"
"Whoever he was" Alex said taking hold of his girlfriend's hand "he's gone now" although he felt unsure of himself, he had sensed a similar presence but he couldn't tell if it was real or not, he wanted to get out of this forest fast, he wanted to be asleep with Ahsoka and get back to Coruscant as fast as possible, all this was too similar to Dareen, when they first met Darlene however there had been some rather different monsters then.
Whoever or whatever was watching them, wasn't a monster, Alex could tell by that much, he then looked at Ahsoka and took hold of her hand "we're gonna go now" at this Ahsoka smiled and laughed
"Best news I've heard all day" and at that she let go of Alex's hand and then walked off by herself, leaving Alex some quick time to discover who or what had been watching them, when Ahsoka had left, Alex went to the mysterious person's hiding spit and found two strange things on the ground. Either the person had dropped them in a hurry or they really had been watching them.
Alex picked up a small silver lighter for what looked like a cigerette and the other was a card which was smudged so badly that Alex couldn't read the identification, without knowing who these items belonged to Alex pockets the device and began to walk off, but when a voice called out.
"I think those are mine" he turned round to find a man standing there, he was tall and blonde haired, he was wearing a brown jacket a white t-shirt with a black tie, he wore black shoes and had a smug look about him "Hello there, mate"
"What are yours?" Alex asked completly clueless, and at this the man smiled and he spoke in a strange accent that wasn't from around here, then as Alex realised what the man was talking about he took the items out of his pocket and handed them to the man "you were the one watching us"
"Yes" the man said smiling "I've known about you for quite some time," as soon as Alex began oht his Lightsaber then man smiled and said "there's no need for that, I'm on your side, Avatar Alex" Alex put away his Lightsaber in shock and looked at the man, who the hell was he and
"How do you know my name?"
"Well it is my job to know my clients, before getting to do their work"
"Work?" Alex said clueless "what work?"
"Work you don't know about" said the man smiling "you ever heard of magic?"
"Yes"
"Very good, cause you may need it in the future" Alex didn't like what this man as saying, magic couldn't possibly exist, could it? At this Alex asked
"Who are you"
At this the man smiled and said "Constantine" he took out his hand and reluctantly Alsx shook it not knowing whether to trust him or not "John Constantine, and all you need to know is that I was sent here to help you"
"By who?"
"You know who' said Constantine "a little girl by the name of Faith"
"I don't know anybody called Faith"
"Well that's not what she told me" said Constantine and at this he mimed looking at a fake watch and said "now you'd better be getting back to your girlfriend" he then took out a card and handed it to Alex "when you use this, I'll come straight to you"
"Why?"
"Like I said it's my job" then at that Constantine dissapeared in a cloud of smoke, leaving Alex completly confused and slightly curious...
