Okay so I decided to stop the poll early since most people chose the same thing a lot. I got 5 votes for Christmas, 2 for a random surprise visit, and 1 for my surprise for Lucy. It was all leaning towards Christmas so I'm just gonna do that. Also just saying this now but I will not be sticking to the months that I write these. I will jump around. Anyways to the story.
Chapter 8: Christmas and meeting most the family
It's been a few months since I got out of the hospital. I still wear my mask but usually take it off when in our dorm room. I'm healed physically but mentally I'm scarred for life. I lost trust in most faunus again but I still trust my team with all my heart. Gia and Nicole found out about what happened when I first woke up from my coma and keep mocking me and Lucy. We got used to it after a while. Soon after it started to snow. Today was our winter break to see family for Christmas. Well for most it was.
"Alright me and Nicole are out of here. Don't spend too much time all over each other." Teased Gia as she and Nicole waved goodbye. After they left I laid back on the bed.
"Aren't you gonna go see your family?" I ask.
"Yeah but are you sure you're gonna be alright all alone?" asked Lucy with a look of sadness.
"I'll be fine. I've made it this long without seeing my family right?" She nods and leaves the room. I sigh and look at the ceiling. I wonder what my family's doing right now anyway? Just then I hear the door open back up. I look and see Lucy walk over to me. She grabs my hand and hauls me to my feet.
"Come on you. I can't let you stay here alone when it's a time to be together." She says. She drags me out the door and I struggle to keep up.
"Lucy its fine if I stay. I don't mind."
"Well I do and you're coming to spend Christmas with me and my family."
I smile knowing she already made up her mind about this. "Okay but one thing." She stops and looks at me. "What am I supposed to wear." She opens her mouth to speak until she realizes I don't have a bag with me.
"Crap!" She says and I laugh in my head with a smile on my face.
After I pack we take an airship to Vale. Once down there I realize something else. "How are we getting to your house?"
"I took a taxi to vale so I don't know how we're going to get there." I sigh and tell her to wait. I walk off towards the airship parking lot and find the car I bought with money I earned when I couldn't sleep. I see my car and hop in (The car looks like the 2014 DODGE CHALLENGER RALLYE REDLINE RWD. It's black with a red stripe and red interiors.). I start the car and head back only to see Lucy looking around. I stop right in front of her and roll the window down. "Holy Crap! Where did you get money for this?!" I shrug nonchalantly and pop the trunk. I get out, put the bags in and open the door for Lucy before getting back in myself.
"So… Where to?" She sees the GPS and types in her address. I smile as I start to drive off.
It took us a couple hours of driving to finally get into Lucy's hometown. The town itself was just a normal town with a mall, High school, Stores, gas station here and there. Just a normal town with normal things. "No wonder you left. This place is a little too normal." She hits my arm playfully.
"It is normal. That's why I wanted to leave. To see more exciting places. Meet different people. Not be someone so… Normal." I chuckle a bit at that. "What's so funny?"
"Back where I came from I wanted to be a cameraman just so I could go and see new places and meet new people. You're just like me." She smiles and leans into me. I wrap my right arm around her until she sits up excited. We entered a little subdivision and could see her house. The house was two stories and was just big enough to house 5 people. I park in the driveway and we get out. She runs to the door while I grab the bags. I hear the door open and hear a younger girl cheer in delight.
"Sis! You made it!" She says as the girl hugs Lucy. The girl was shorter than Lucy at 5'8" and had cat ears like Lucy and purple eyes. Only difference was that she had black hair with Blonde spots in it and her eyes. I walk up with the bags just as an older woman comes to greet her. She had Long blonde hair with black spots like Lucy and had purple eyes.
"It good to have you home Lucy." She says with a smile.
"It's good to be home." Says Lucy with a smile. "Is dad home?"
"No he's not. He'll be back by tomorrow evening."
"Thank god. Oh yeah. I hope you don't mind but I brought someone as well." Lucy steps back and pushes me over. I have a nervous look on my face as I see her Younger sister and mother. "Mom. Sis. This is Jordan Stack. He's my team leader and Boyfriend from Beacon." I look around nervously and Lucy notices. "It's alright Jordan. They won't hurt you." She says soothingly.
"This is why I didn't want to come along. Both meeting your family and the fact that your family is faunus just don't go hand in hand."
She sighs as she understands how I feel. "Sorry about him. He doesn't really trust faunus that well." Her mother narrows her eyes and my hand eases toward Lilith. "Mom! There's a reason he doesn't trust faunus. Just calm down." The mother moves toward me and my hand rests on Lilith. Lucy steps between us and looks at her mom. "Mom stop! Listen. How about we all go inside and I can tell you the reason for why he doesn't trust faunus. Okay?"
Her mother looks at me, her daughter, then back to me. She sighs. "Alright fine. But it better be a good reason." She says and walks inside. Lucy's sister follows after her.
Lucy sighs and looks at me. "Sorry but you know where my mom comes from. You not trusting faunus while dating one. It doesn't make sense. I'll explain everything to her so don't worry." I nod and we walk inside. I put the bags down by the door while Lucy sits on the couch. I follow after her and sit next to her, Not daring to make eye contact with her mother.
"Alright Lucy. Why don't you tell us why he doesn't trust faunus. And while you're at it, Why he's dating you if he doesn't trust them." Lucy explains to them how I'm from another world and how the white fang tortured me not once but twice and how it took her some time to gain my trust. After everything was explained her mother nods in understanding with a saddened look. Even her sister had tears going down her face. Her mother turns to me and I look everywhere but at her. "I'm sorry for before. I didn't know you went through that much. How about we start over." She puts a smile on her face and reaches out her hand. "I'm Linda. It's nice to meet you Jordan." I relax a bit and shake her hand. As soon as I let go, Lucy's sister jumps on me and hugs me.
"I can't believe you went through all that." She says while crying. I sit there feeling a bit awkward and look to Lucy for help.
"Hailey, I think Jordan's a little uncomfortable with you hugging him like that."
Hailey looks at her sister then to me and hops off. "Sorry. It's just you've been through a lot and I thought that might help a little." She says while looking away slightly.
I relax and nod to her. "You don't talk much do you?" asks Linda.
"Actually he can't talk." Her mother looks at her confused. "The first time Jordan was captured they cut his vocal cords." I growl in response making her mother and sister jump. "He's trying to say it's true."
"So how can you understand him?" asks Hailey.
"My semblance Hailey. Remember? I can read minds and connect peoples thoughts to each other?"
"Oh yeah."
"Speaking of which, I should probably let him talk to you guys." Lucy looks at me and nods.
"Uhh… Hi?" Hailey and Linda start laughing at my response. I just look down in shame while Lucy puts her arm around me.
Hailey composes herself a bit to ask a question. "So why is he the leader anyways?"
"Well his semblance makes him stronger than anyone and he also came up with a plan to take out a taijitu."
"That can't be the only reason." Says Linda.
"Well he did take out a deathstalker all by himself." That made Her mother and sister stop laughing and stare in disbelief.
"That's impossible!" Hailey shouted. "A deathstalker is one of the most dangerous grimm out there. Not to mention hard to kill."
"Not with my special rounds." I say causing them all to look at me. I sigh and explain. "I have normal rounds and my special dust rounds. The dust rounds are one's I made myself. It has all types of normal dust inside. It's like an explosion from an amped grenade launcher." Everyone but Lucy looks shocked at what I said.
"How are you this smart?" asks Linda.
"It not that I'm smart. It's that I'm broken. After what happened with the white fang I was gonna use these rounds to kill every last white fang member and leave no trace." Everyone, including Lucy, was shocked at that. "What? I'm good at strategy and thinking up weapons."
"How can you say that with a straight face?" Asks Hailey. "How can you talk about killing a man as easily as breathing?"
I sigh. "I can talk about it so easily because I had to fight my way out the first time I was captured. I killed countless people, all just so I could be free of the pain that I was in. You won't understand until you've been tortured and had to escape. Life is never the same after that."
It was quiet for a while until Linda decides to change the subject. "So Jordan. What do you do in your spare time?"
I shrug. "Haven't really had spare time to myself."
"Well what did you do before you came here?"
I think for a bit. "I used to play guitar back home."
"Oh so you played guitar. Did you ever sing?"
"Sometimes I would sing. My parents liked whenever I played something or learned something new."
"So you like music? What do you listen to?" I pull out my scroll which I transferred all my music from my ipod to. I scroll down the list and play afterlife by avenged sevenfold. They all listen to the song and Hailey starts to bob her head to the beat. After the song's done Hailey just smiles.
"That was awesome! Is all music like this where you're from?" asks Hailey.
"Not all of it. Some is heavier and some is lighter. Some just describe what the band was like growing up and others about their lives or loved ones."
"I want to visit your world." I chuckle at that.
"It's actually quite boring. Nothing like here. We fight over a lot of things."
"Well it's getting pretty late. We should head to bed." States Linda. "We can talk more tomorrow. There's a spare room you can use upstairs on the right."
"Actually mom. We share a bed at Beacon." Says Lucy.
"Oh really now." Says Linda as she glares at me. I look around nervously until Lucy steps back in.
"It's not what you think mom! Jordan has nightmares of the white fang when he's alone. I learned this when he drank around 15 cups of coffee for a couple weeks straight. We sleep together so he doesn't have nightmares."
Linda sighs in relief. "Thank god. I thought he took advantage of his position as leader for a second." Lucy let that sink in and her cheeks went redder than the stripe on my car.
"MOM!" She shouts and Linda just laughs.
"Alright but no funny business you two." I nod and Linda and Hailey go upstairs. Lucy sighs and I put my arm around her.
"Your family reminds me of mine." I say. "Joke about everything but still care."
"Yeah. They're great." She smiles and stands up. "Come on we should get to bed." She grabs my hand and we go upstairs. I go into the bathroom and change into some black sweatpants and a black t-shirt. I look at my arm and frown to myself. Then I get an idea and reach into my bag. I pull out some gauze and wrap both my arms. I look at my handy work and smile. I go over to the room Lucy went into and knocked. "Come in." I open the door and she was laying in her bed with her usual leopard pants and a yellow shirt. I walk over and she notices what I did with my arms. "Why are your arms wrapped?"
I shrug. "Just another way to hide the scars I guess." She does a sad smile and moves over on her bed. I take off my pistol holsters and put them on the nightstand then climb in and wrap my arms around her.
"Not gonna take off your mask?"
"I don't trust your family that well." She laughs and wraps her arms around me and we fall into a blissful sleep.
Hey! How do you like that? Next chapter will show the father. Oh joy. We all know that feeling. Anyways, Stack out.
