A/N: Here you all go! PRS but Jemily Style and with a major twist!
Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers. Mr. Saban does and always will.
Note: "Unexpected Arrival", "Room for One More", and "The Blue and the Gold" have been omitted, merely because they are exactly like the original. I wouldn't change anything about it.
~PRS~PRS~PRS~PRS~
"He just didn't understand. Today was her birthday. If that was all true, then why was it all turning out this way?"
Top of the World
Chapter 10: Team Spirit
August 15, 2012
Shiba House
Emily looked from left to right. Were they watching her? Apparently not. She didn't want them to get involved in all of this. This was her fight, and she alone would fight it.
She quietly slipped out into the bright morning sunlight and out of the safety of the Shiba House.
She knew the House was usually the only safe haven for her, but this wasn't a normal day. Today was her seventeenth birthday and the day that Master Xandred had been waiting for.
Shiba House, Kitchen
Jayden knocked on the kitchen door and opened it slowly. Those inside the kitchen held their breath. But when they all saw that it was just Jayden, they let it out.
Mike chuckled. "You guys should have seen your faces. It was like Master Xandred had just walked through the door."
Antonio, their new Ranger, Ranger Gold, and Kevin let out weak laughs, while Mia spoke up, asking "Well?"
"Emily just left the House. The coast is clear," Jayden said.
"Great," Mia exclaimed. "I have all the ingredients to make a cake. All I have to do is to make it without her noticing."
"NO!"
Mia jumped out of her skin.
"What? What's wrong?" Mia asked.
Antonio spoke up, "Umm...your cooking may still need a lot of work, so I've already bought a cake from the bakery."
Would she be mad?
Instead, she shrugged. "You may be right. Sorry for bringing it up."
"It's fine," Kevin said. "Everyone have presents? I have mine."
"Of course," Mia said. "What kind of friend would I be if I couldn't manage that?"
"True," Kevin replied. "What about you, Mike?"
"Yep."
"Jayden?"
"Why wouldn't I?" the Red Ranger asked. "You guys all know that she means the world to me."
'As in a friend, Jayden, or more than a friend?' was the unspoken question hanging in the air.
"How about you, Antonio?"
"The bass are not biting," he groaned. "And they're Emily's favorites, too."
They all rolled their eyes, while smiling amusingly. Only Antonio would get his friends a fish for their birthdays.
Pier 14
As Emily leaned against the banister, the barricade that was keeping her from falling into the river, the young girl sighed heavily. It was only a matter of time until a Nighlock showed up. All she had to do was wait.
But somewhere deep down inside of her, she never wanted this day to come. Maybe it wouldn't. Maybe it had already passed and this was just a dream. Maybe her entire destiny was a dream. Maybe her dreams, her visions from Master Xandred, were just that: dreams.
She jumped a little when her Samuraizer rang. Hesitating, she picked it up and put it next to her ear.
"Hello?" She couldn't help but notice that her voice was a little shaky.
"Emily, we need your help," came Jayden's voice on the other end. "Nighlock in City Square."
This wasn't a dream after all.
"I'll be right there," she said, hanging up right afterwards.
This day was here. It was reality, whether she liked it or not.
She turned away from the pier and started running towards the site. But she quickly stopped right in her tracks. Her breathing hitched and her knees had started shaking. No, scratch that. Her whole body started shaking.
"Hello, Yellow Ranger."
"D-Dayu..." Emily croaked out.
Dayu stepped forward and Emily stepped back.
"Lovely day we're having, eh?" The Nighlock asked. Emily immediately tensed up.
"No, get away from me!" she yelled out, and then she ran, going as fast as her legs would allow her.
No, don't say it, Dayu! Stay away from me!
She had a feeling that Dayu was coming after her, but she didn't want to turn around and find out.
All she wanted to was to get to the safety that was called her five friends.
Then, she felt a terrible pain in her back and fells to te ground. Emily struggled to get up in time, to get away from Dayu, who had fired a blast into her back. Emily grunted and got back up, morphing on the way. Her Ranger Suit would give her more power, more speed, more agility. It would protect her for a while longer. Besides, she could hear her friends fighting up ahead.
City Square
Dayu paused when she saw the Yellow Ranger attack Splitface, who she told to keep the other Rangers busy while she went after the Yellow. This had to go smoothly. The other Rangers could not interfere. Besides, Splitface was on her side. If she attacked the Yellow Ranger, she could miss and hit Splitface instead. And there is no way on the sanzu River itself that she would ever help the Rangers.
Emily pushed Mia out of the way, out of Splitface's Body Swarm's line of fire. Splitface reformed above her and held out his orb of a hand, which lit up.
Dayu immedaitely tensed up. 'You idiot! You're not supposed to attack the Yellow Ranger! Attack the Red, you idiot, the Red!' Dayu wanted to yell that out so much, but it seems like the Yellow already had it covered.
"Noooo!"
There was a bright flash of yellow and the birds in the air had ultimately stopped in mid-flight. In fact, everything had, even the clocks.
Emily peeked her eyes open and let out a breath she hadn't realized she was holding. She looked all around the scene. No one was moving. As much as she was relieved that she had prevented a kid from falling, she couldn't help but feel guilt that she had actually stopped time.
"Did I do this?" She asked, getting up and running over to the kid, who, in a flash of yellow, had changed positions from tripping to sitting on the ground. She couldn't just leave the kid hanging like that.
"Yes, you did," came Dayu's voice. Emily immediately turned to the female Nighlock, who was glowing red and had that S mark on her forehead. Emily softly gasped. "I have to admit. I never knew you to have that much potential." Emily started backing away. Dayu only followed, continuing, "But did you really think that you could stop your destiny? Your fate?" Emily started running. Dayu merely super sped up to her and slashed her in the shoulder with her blade from her Harmonium. "Did you think that you could just blow out the candles, and wish it all away?" Dayu caught the Ranger's left wrist, causing Emily to cry out in pain. "Well, let me give you the truefacts, Yellow Ranger. No matter what you do, no matter what you wish for, there is no way that you can stop it." Emily was pressed up against the way, facing away from Dayu, her enemy, trying desperately to get away. She shivered as Dayu's cold breath sent chills down her spin, the Nighlock whispering in her ear, "Is that really so hard for you to accept?"
"I thought I told you, Dayu, to LEAVE ME ALONE!" Emily turned and struck Dayu in the chest with her Earth Slicer. The Nighlock stumbled and fell to her knees. Emily ran over to where a certain, frozen Red Ranger was. Placing a hand gently to his chest, in a flash of yellow, he resumed his original action. When he stumbled and fell to the ground, he finally noticed Emily.
Using his hands to push himself up off the ground, he asked, "Emily? What's going on?"
All Emily had to do was look back at Dayu, who was now up on her feet. Jayden stepped in front of Emily without a second thought, the latter of whom had pulled out her Samuraizer.
"Symbol Power: Teleport!"
Meridian Avenue, Panorama City
After the yellow light had disappeared, Emily felt a pressure on her wrist, which she had now noticed was ripped and on the bare skin was a red mark, the same mark as the one on Dayu's forehead. The Sanzu River water soaked on Dayu's hand had burned the spandex clean off. She snapped out of her reverie when the pressure on her wrist tightened, and she glanced up to see Jayden.
"What's going on, Em? And what happened? Ranger spandex doesn't rip this easily," he asked her. The last part she already knew. Actually, she knew every part. She was about to speak, but Jayden beat her to it. "Most importantly, Em, how did time stop? Unless..." he paused. "No way. That couldn't have been you. How did you stop time, Em?"
"I-I don't know..." her voice trembled as she spoke, pulling her wrist out of Jayden's grasp and holding it close to her. She glanced at it, the marking disappeared, and Emily continued. "Yesterday, I never wanted this day to come. But ever since it arrived, all I wanted was for it to stop. I...I guess got my wish..."
"But, it's your birthday, Emily," Jayden replied, quietly, her words sinking in. "Yet, you said that you never wanted this day to come." Emily, her back to him, nodded. "Why?"
It took her a while to answer. She couldn't answer this right away without spilling her secret, without revealing her dark destiny. She took a deep breath and improvised, "If you knew anything about the day of my birth...you'd know it's nothing to celebrate..."
"Why focus on the past, Emily? You're right here, right now, with someone you can trust. Isn't that why you chose me instead of any of the others?" Jayden asked, knowingly putting her faith to the test.
Emily turned slightly to face him. "Y-Yes...that is why. I chose to unfreeze you because...well...you're not like the others..."
"And why is that?" He gently retaliated. "Why am I so different?"
Emily opened her mouth, but then closed it. Jayden had a point. Why indeed? What did he have that the others didn't?
Kevin didn't have his open-minded-ness.
Mike didn't have his patience and calm facade.
Mia didn't have his excellent listening skills.
Antonio didn't have his good and helpful advice.
She finally answered. "I just...for some reason...I always feel safer with you..."
Jayden suddenly remembered something he read in a book once. In every single generation of the Samurai Rangers, from the first up until now, the Red and the Yellow were always closer than any other Ranger in that generation.
That must be happening now.
Now that he thought about it, Emily had once told him that he was more reliable to her that Mia was.
"The others might misunderstand, right?" He gently asked. She slowly nodded, as she realized with a sudden pang of panic that she had lost her Spin Sword when she was teleporting away from Dayu. She was defenseless. All she had was her Samuraizer and Jayden to help. "But that still doesn't explain what's going on."
Emily turned slightly to face him, a huge risk for her right now. "Well, actually, you see...it does. All of this is happening because today is my birthday."
"Em, enlighten me, please."
Emily took a deep breath. It was now or never, but she didn't want to reveal her destiny just yet. "On the day I was born, my parents looked into my future. What they saw was that, on this day, the seventeenth anniversary of my birth, something was supposed to happen. Something really bad. That is what is happening right now."
She knew Jayden would immediately reply to that, and when he started to say something, she knew she was right, but he was stopped by a crash above them. The two Rangers looked up to see a fire on the top of a building and Dayu and one other person emerge from said fire.
Well, not person, per say...more like half-human, half-nighlock.
"I brought help," Dayu said simply, motioning to Deker beside her, who she turned to. "Keep the Red Ranger busy. I know you'll be more than happy to. Master Xandred wants my mission to be done before midnight tonight."
"Good luck," was all Deker said, as he unsheathed his sword, Jayden doing the same, going into defensive mode. Deker landed in front of the two Rangers, the youngest of the two taking refuge behind Jayden.
Emily didn't realize that her breath was hitched until Jayden whispered, "Breathe, Em. In and out. I know you're scared, but you've got to trust me."
Emily found herself obeying him without question as she relaxed her tense body, and she whispered back, "Don't fight him, Jay. He's not worth it."
"It could be you he's after, Em."
"I can take care of myself, Jayden. You know that."
"I know, but what can you do right now?" Jayden quickly retaliated. "You don't have your sword."
Emily was about to reply when Dayu landed right behind her. She successfully managed to suppress a scream, but not a loud gasp.
Deker lunged. Jayden blocked, and then attacked. Deker retaliated, and soon it became a full blown fight.
Dayu threw a dark energy blast at Emily, who jumped, managing to avoid the hit, and landed behind Dayu, hoping to take her by suprise, but quickly learned that what she did was a huge mistake. All it did was get her farther away from Jayden.
Dayu stepped forward again and Emily stepped back. This time, Dayu continued walking forward, making Emily walk backwards, away from Dayu.
"I have a message," Dayu said, a hint of anger in her voice. "And I will deliver it, whether you like it or not. No matter where you go, no matter how you squirm, no matter who you trust and get to help you, your destiny will always be there, right around the corner. It will always be waiting for."
Emily looked around for something to fight with. Her hands finally reached her Samuraizer, and she automatically knew what she could do to delay the message Dayu was supposed to deliver.
She knew who the message was from. Master Xandred himself.
Emily flipped open her Samuraizer. "Symbol Power: Rock Slide!"
As soon as the barrage of rocks engulfed Dayu, Emily ran to a building and opened the door. She ran up the long flight of stairs, drawing symbols for boulders as she went and smashing them on the steps behind her, hoping to stall Dayu if she got out of that rockslide alive.
When it felt to Emily like hours had passed, she wasn't even to the top of the steps, she felt two hands grab her forearms and roughly pull her back.
Dayu's voice behind her said, "Did you really think you could kill me and stall me with those lame Earth Powers of yours. You forget what the marking on my forehead does for me. It increases my power by nearly fifty percent. You are no match for me, sword or not."
Emily managed to shake off Dayu's hand on her left arm, which hand she used to grab a hold of the railing on the side of the stairs, hoping to prevent herself from falling backwards into Dayu. But just like with her wrist, the protective spandex around her forearm was burned off as well, with a red marking on the exposed skin. She was sure her right forearm was the same.
The young Ranger tried with all her might to get free and keep running up the steps, and she succeeded for a moment until Dayu roughly shoved her to the ground, causing Emily's helmet to crack and making her feel as though her back was being burned with scorching hot lava.
Emily wildly flung her arms around her, hoping to find something to whack Dayu with, eventually finding something and after hitting the Nighlock in the head with it, Emily through it down the stairs.
Emily automatically felt all the pressure Dayu was placing on her lift up all the way. "My Harmounium!" The Yellow Ranger wasted no time getting back up and running up the stairs.
"Symbol Power: Wall!"
A solid, brick wall was placed behind her as she continued to run. Emily sighed in relief when she saw a door. When the girl opened it, she realized that what had took her so long to get to the top was the fact that this was probably the highest building in Panorama City. She was on top of the Watchtower.
Before Emily had time to do or say or think anything else, she was roughly shoved to the ground again. She could feel the red markings burn in her exposed back.
"Did you honestly believe that would hold me for long?" Dayu angrily taunted, as she through another bolt of dark energy at the Yellow Ranger, who mask had fully cracked, leaving her face exposed. Dayu was getting pretty mad at all the resistance the Yellow Ranger was putting up. She was glad that, even if time had stopped, Deker was dealing with the Red as she and the Yellow spoke and the other Rangers were frozen in time, along with Splitface. When time resumed, Splitface would deal with the Rangers.
"Long enough..." Emily grunted out.
"For what?" Dayu asked, half taunting and half curious.
Emily did not answer, yet she stood up and ran towards Dayu, yelling angrily, surrounded by yellow energy, but when Dayu grabbed her wrist, that energy turned from yellow to bright red.
"Did you really think you could hide from your fellow Rangers?! I thought Master Xandred told you already. What you have concealed you shall become!"
In a brilliant, strong burst of energy, Emily fell to her knees, her legs, her arms, her midriff, her back all exposed, red markings littering her entire body, and on her forehead, the same marking that was there when she was born.
"No..." she whimpered.
"Take a look, little Ranger," Dayu said. Emily looked up to see not the beautiful world she protected, but the destroyed world, filled with the Sanzu River, pain, sorrow, dispair, the world filled with evil, and in the distance, Master Xandred, sitting on his throne of human misery. scattered all around the city were, literally, stone-cold statues of her friends, Mia, Kevin, Mike...Jayden... even Antonio and Jii. Her mother and sister were the same way in another area of the city.
Her eyes widened at the sight.
"No...!" She gasped.
"Yes," Dayu calmly retorted. "Look at it. Drink it in. Behold the world you are destined to create..."
"No! This is just a vision," Emily muttered to herself, holding her head. "This can't be real!"
Dayu grabbed her arms and held them close to the girl's side. "This is the future, you know, your future. This will come to pass. You are destined to destroy the very world you and your friends vowed to protect. And what'd'ya know? It's written all over your face..."
Emily had shut her eyes tightly. "NOOOOO!"
A giant yellow-energy ape rose from Emily's position, yellow energy waves flowing away from it like an ocean wave.
The destroyed city went back to the wonderful world Emily fought for and time had resumed. The world went on and kept going like nothing had ever happened.
Dayu now held a de-morphed, unconscious Emily upright by the forearms, whose birthmarks eventually faded away, tears falling from her eyes.
"We'll be in touch," Dayu said, as she let the girl go. As she watched the Ranger fall away from the top of the Watchtower, she added, "Oh, and happy birthday."
After she observed the Yellow Ranger being caught and prevented from falling to her death by a familiar Ranger in red, Dayu went through a gap and back to the Sanzu River.
As the kneeling Red Ranger held an unconscious Emily, tears falling from her eyes, in his arms, he insisted, "Come on, Em, wake up. Wake up, Em. We all need you...dammit..." he angrily sighed. "Why does this type of stuff always happen to Emily?"
Why Emily? Why indeed?
Soon he heard footsteps coming towards him.
"Jayden!" Kevin called, still morphed. Actually, all the other four were still morphed. They all stopped when they saw Emily, de-morphed and out cold, in Jayden's arms, the latter of whom had not bothered to look up.
Mike kneeled in front of Jayden and Emily. He was only focused on the latter. "What happened to Emily?"
"Dayu," was all Jayden said.
"Dammit," Mia said, angrily sighing, "I knew I should have destroyed Dayu when I had the chance."
"I have a funny feeling, Mia, that nothing could have prevented this," Jayden said, Mike running a gloved finger through Emily's hair. After a while, he asked, "What about Splitface? What happened to him? You guys wouldn't be here if he was still attacking."
"That's true," Kevin said, "but the dirty coward retreated back to the Sanzu River and said he was never coming back."
"And by doing that," Antonio spoke up, "He's preventing us from destroying him and freeing all the souls he ate today. But I do have an idea." They all turned to their new Ranger. "It involves the Clawzord and lots and lots of Symbol Power."
The others nodded, but Jayden stood up, saying, "I have to take Emily back to the House and make sure she's okay. Once that's done, I'll come and join you guys."
"Sounds like a plan," Mike said, standing up also. "Let's do it. And Jayden?" The said red Ranger turned to face his green teammate. "We'll get Dayu back for this. Maybe not today, but one day, we will."
Jayden nodded before the Rangers went their two separate ways.
Afternoon
Shiba House, Recovery Room
Emily felt pain throughout her entire body. She felt pain, weariness, like someone was weighing her down with five-ton weights. She groaned and opened her hazel eyes slightly.
"Emily?" She turned to her right, where she had heard the familiar voice. "Emily, are you okay?"
She blinked tiredly. "Jayden...?"
"Yes, it's me," the said male Ranger confirmed. "Are you okay?" he repeated.
"I feel...tired...weak...helpless..."
"You must have used up a lot of Symbol Power against your fight with Dayu," Jayden tried his best to ease her pain. "Nothing else would explain you passing out."
'He's right,' Emily then thought. 'I did use a lot of Symbol Power.'
"The others..." she managed to choke out, "Are they alright?"
"They're just fine," he reassured her. "They're all just worried about you."
"They shouldn't be..." Emily felt her energy ebb away quickly. Jayden noticed this right away.
"Emily!" He didn't want her going back to sleep just yet.
"I'm fine, Jay," she whispered. "I'm fine..." And she was out like a light once again.
Jayden felt his happiness edge away piece by piece. His sad smile was replaced by a frown, which was then replaced a glare.
Dayu had done this to Emily...
Emily had been reduced to this because of Dayu...
But Splitface was still here. Not only that, but he had also promised the others that he would help when he knew for sure that Emily would be okay.
Jayden stood up and turned to Jii, who was standing off to the side the entire time. "Take care of her for me, will you?" Jii nodded, finally starting to see how much Jayden cared for Emily.
City Square, Panorama City
Mia, all Rangers de-morphed, turned around when she heard a pair of footsteps behind them. On her face, a smile lit up as soon as she saw him.
"Jayden!" she called. Jayden was staring directly at her, but said and did nothing, and Mike automatically knew that something was up, also judging by the angry, determined look on his face.
"Mia, stop," the said Pink Ranger found herself obeying without question. Mike went on, "Jayden, what's up? What's wrong?"
The look on Jayden's face said it all.
Antonio spoke up next. He could read his childhood friend's emotions like an open book, even when no one else could. Well, besides Emily. "What happened to Emily? Is she alright?"
This is when Jayden spoke. When he did, he sounded mad, stoic, and ready to kill the next person who hurt Emily. "Actually, no, she's not." Mia softly gasped.
"Is she...dead?" She asked the dreaded question, which answer everyone didn't want to hear.
"No." Relief filled the area within and surrounding the five Rangers. "But I can't exactly say she's alive either. She's in a coma."
"H-How?" Mike asked, staring directly at Jayden.
"In her fight against Dayu, Emily lost her sword, so she had to revert to Symbol Power with her Samuraizer to fight back," was the Red Ranger's reply. "Needless to say, she's out cold until she regains her strength back."
'That, and I want revenge for what Dayu did to Emily,' Jayden wanted to add, but he didn't if it was appropriate.
"Dude, we know how you feel," Mike said, causing Jayden to glance up, confused. "Emily is a great friend to us all. You're not the only one who wants revenge. Emily is the best person I know. I'm willing to fight for her too."
'But you are the only one who can't see your true feelings for Emily,' Mike wanted to add, and he knew the others were thinking the same thing, except Jayden.
Overprotectiveness, caring, the need to be at her side the whole time...Jayden, in the past sixteen hours, had displayed probably all of the signs that he was in love. There was no doubt about it. Even without Kevin telling him, Mike could see those spars between Jayden and Emily as well. Mia could too, and even though Antonio had just arrived, he saw it right away.
"So, Antonio," Kevin interupted, and broke the silence, "what exactly is your plan? And what does it have to do with the Clawzord?"
Antonio's face lit up and he told them the entire story.
Evening
Shiba House, Kitchen and Main Room
It turns out that Emily was only exhausted, Jii revealed. All she needed was some rest. Antonio told their Mentor about using the Clawzord and reawakening it to draw Splitface back from the Sanzu River. Now the guys were preparing Emily's party.
Soon they heard the two ladies' voices.
"Mia, I told you," they heard Emily insist. "I'm fine now."
"I know," the older girl replied happily, "but you're about to get even better!"
Then emerged from the shadow of the doorway Mia leading Emily by the hand.
"SURPRISE!"
There was her smile, the smile that Emily always had on, everyday except today. It was her birthday. She deserved to have that smile on.
"Are you surprised?" Kevin asked Emily, who wordlessly nodded, that huge, bubbly smile never wavering.
Mike stepped forward, handing a yellow envelope to Emily. As he spoke, her smile started to fade. "To be honest, Em, Jayden told us what you told him, why you hated your birthday, why you were dreading this day your whole life...but to tell you the truth, Em, you may not like your birthday, but we're all glad you were born."
Emily felt touched...Mike had said that, not just for himself, but for everyone else too. She felt her smile return, but also the tears.
"Hey, Mike?" Mike perked up. "Would you mind getting the ice cream? We're going to need it."
"Yeah! Coming right up!" Mike roared happily and he raced off to the kitchen. Emily guessed this was Antonio's que to cover the said girl's eyes.
"And what's a birthday party without a little...cake?!" Antonio uncovered her eyes and let her sit down in a chair. On the yellow-frosted cake read...
"'Happy birthday, Emily'," Kevin read, "'and Clawzord?'" They looked at Antonio, confused and surprised.
"What? It's his birthday too," Antonio defended, and Emily laughed as Clawzord beeped happily. Mike came back and set the five gallons of ice cream down to the table, mindful of the presents.
Emily's big smile was back, and she said with tear-filled, hazel eyes, "You guys are the best!"
"No, Em, Mike's right, you're the best," Jayden broke in, a gentle smile on his face. "We're just glad you're okay." Emily sent a sweet smile in his direction. "Today, victory really is ours."
"For sure," Antonio said.
"Now," Mia said, holding up a knife, "who wants cake?"
"Oh...you made me a cake?" Emily tried her best to hurt Mia's feelings.
"No, sorry, Em. We got this cake at the bakery."
"Oh, that's alright. You were busy."
"Oh, that's fine," Mia said. "Antonio's probably right. My cooking really isn't the best right best. The bakery cakes are better." Emily tried to stifle a laugh. "Now, make a wish and blow out your candles."
Emily closed her eyes and after a while, she said aloud, "I wish...that those in this very room, those I call my very best friends have a very excellent day." And she blew out the candles.
When Emily opened her eyes and looked around at her friends, they, even Jii, all had tearful eyes and touched facial expressions on, but they were smiling.
As Mia and Mike served the cake and the ice cream respectively, Jayden sat down next to Emily, who was reading the card that was in the yellow envelope that Mike had handed to her. The card, it turned out was a birthday card from her mother and sister. As if sensing his prescense, Emily let him lookk at the two pictures the card contained.
"They both sent me twenty bucks each," Emily said smiling.
"Probably to spend," Jayden replied.
"Probably," she said. "The top picture is me with Mom and Serena. Serena's the one hugging me. My mom is the woman hugging us both. And the other picture is my father."
"I think I've seen him before, in this house," Jayden confessed, and Emily turned to face him. "I was a little kid, so I can't really tell for sure." He lowered his voice. "Remember what you told me about your father?" Emily nodded. "I asked Jii about him, and he said he died in the same attack that killed my father. Thomas Suzuki was his name, right?" Emily nodded again. Jayden softly smiled at her and he chuckled. "Only you would worry about your friends on a day meant for you." And he placed a hair clip in her hair, pushing the majority her bangs to the right. The hair clip was shapped like a flower, a daisy to be precise. It had a yellow center, white petals, and a gold trimming around the edges. "This was my mother's." Emily's sudden look told him that she couldn't take it then. He knew she was going to say that, which is why he already had an answer ready. "When my mother died, she gave this hair clip to my father, who gave it to me and told me that my mother would have wanted me to give it to the girl I care about the most." Emily's facial expression changed dramatically and quickly.
She quietly said, "Thank you, Jay..."
"It's no big deal, really," he replied.
"It is a big deal, Jayden," she gently retaliated. "You said your mom wanted you to give it to the girl you care about the most. Then, it obviously means something."
A smile immediately broke out on his face. "Mom and Dad both would have loved you. My mom was the exact same way as you are."
Emily's smile grew wider.
"But what you told me about your birthday and your destiny, that something bad was supposed to happen...I guess it did," Jayden said. "I'm sorry I couldn't stop it."
"Don't kill yourself over it," she softly responded. "No one could."
"We'll get Dayu back for it, Em," Jayden vowed. "She will be brought to justice, but don't worry about that now. You're here with friends. You're safe, Em, with people you can trust."
Emily's smile never shook, but she thought, 'No, Jayden, it's only just begun.'
~PRS~PRS~PRS~PRS~
I owe some credit to the creators of the Cartoon Network version of Teen Titans. I took a lot of scenes and dialogue in this chapter from that series' episode "Birthmark".
Long chapter, whoo!
A/N: Well? What do you think? Tell me how I did! Review! How do you like the Jemily twist I gave it? And sorry for the late update! A preview:
Chapter 11: "Unspoken Feelings"
"To be honest, Emily didn't even know about her developing feelings for him until the Mr. John said something, even if the said rich man had confused Jayden with being her Butler, not Leader…"
The next Chapter is an English dubbed version of "Lord Butler." Stay tuned.
I think I will go for that sequel. What do you think?