Hey. So I might go to college soon! XD I'm soo happy! On to the story.

Chapter 9: Meeting the rest and new mask

I wake up to Lucy shifting under me. I look up and see she's awake and trying to get up without disturbing me. But she's failing miserably. "What are you doing?"

She's shocked after noticing I'm awake. "Sorry. I was trying to let you sleep."

I smile and snuggle into her. "It's fine. I probably wouldn't have waken up otherwise." I stand up and stumble over to my bag to grab some fresh clothes.

"You want some coffee for when you come down?"

"Oh ya." I say, making her giggle a bit. She heads down stairs while I head for the shower. After the shower I head down stairs in clean clothes and see Lucy pouring coffee. I smile and start to walk up to her.

I reach my arm out till I hear, "Lucy! Get down!" I look towards the voice just as a gunshot rings out and something hits my mask. I fall backwards and lay on the ground dazed. Lucy comes over to check on me.

"Jordan! Are you okay?" She asks with panic in her voice. I look at her just as I realize what happened.

"Was I just shot at?!" Lucy sighs in relief and looks over to the doorway.

"Lucy get away from him." I hear and look to where the voice is and see a man around my height with short Black hair with golden brown eyes like Lucy. He was pointing a gun at me and was glaring at me.

"What the hell dad?! You could have killed him!" Just then Linda comes down and sees the situation.

"What's going on here?! I heard a gunshot."

"Dad just shot Jordan!"

"What?!" Linda looks at the man. "Why the hell would you do that?!"

"He was going to attack her! I wasn't just gonna let that happen." Says the man now wondering why they were defending me. I get on my knees and stand up. My mask falls off due to the fact that it was fully cracked from the bullet round that bounced off. Linda gasps at my face while I stare at the man with dead eyes. "Stay down!" He says. I take a step towards him and he raises his gun. "Stay BACK!" He shouted. I activate my semblance and freeze time. I rush at him and take the gun out of his hands and get behind him. I resume time as he looks around for me. "Where did he go and where's my gun?" I put the barrel of the gun to his head and he turns around.

"Jordan Stop! He doesn't know about you yet!" yells Lucy. I cock the gun and the man starts to shake in fear. Lucy comes over and puts a hand on my arm. "Just calm down. He didn't mean it." I look at her and the life goes back into my eyes. I let the clip drop to the floor, empty the chamber, and put the gun on the table. Lucy comes over and wraps her arms around me. "It's okay. He doesn't know about what happened."

"Okay? Someone want to fill me in on why Lucy is trying to console an escaped psychopath?" Says the man and Linda slaps him in the back of the head.

"Don't call him that! And where do you get off on just shooting at him?" She says.

"What am I missing here?"

Linda sighs and comes over to me. "This is Jordan. He's Lucy's boyfriend and team leader from BEACON." She puts emphasis on that last word and the man realized what he did.

"Oh crap. I will admit. That was mostly my fault."

Lucy and Linda look at him in disbelief. "Mostly?! That was entirely your fault!"

"Well he was wearing a mask made for psychos. Anyone would think he was a escaped Psycho."

"He wore the mask so he wouldn't have to worry us with. THIS!" She says motioning to the scars. I sigh and start to head for the door.

"Jordan. Where are you going?" asked Lucy.

"To get a new mask." I open the door then feel someone grab my arm. I turn and see Lucy. Then I remembered I didn't know where to get a mask. "I need your help for that."

"I knew you would. So let's go." I head out the door but before she does she looks to her mother. "Tell dad what happened. I don't want to see him right now." I open the door to my car and me and Lucy get in. I start up the engine and look to her.

"So where to?"

She thinks and gets an Idea. "I got just the place."

"Alright but I think you should drive."

She looks at me confused. "Why?"

"Kickbacks finally kicking in." I say as I lay my head on her shoulder. I wake up and notice that we haven't moved. I look at her and she's looking out the window. "Why didn't you drive?"

She looks at me and smiles. "I don't trust myself to drive a car like this."

I smile at her comment. "Nope." I say and undo my seatbelt. She looks at me and I pat my lap. "Come on you. You'll get used to it better this way." She shakes her head but moves over and sits on my lap. I start the car and she takes the wheel. We back out of the driveway and are soon heading for the mall.

When we get to the mall, we park and head inside. I look around and noticed the mall was huge. It probably had one of every store out there. I feel Lucy grab my hand and she leads me to a store made just for masks. We enter and I see different types of masks around. Wood, Metal, Plastic, and many different other kinds of materials. I look around and I stop at one certain mask. It was made of metal and the right bottom part had a bronze skeleton jaw (Rios Bronze from army of two devils cartel).

"Like the mask?" I look up to see the shop owner looking at me. I nod to him and he looks at me. "I can see why you want a mask. Hide the scars am I right?" I look away but nod. "Don't worry. It's nothing to be ashamed of. But that mask cost around 700 Lien. Are you sure you have enough?" I take out my wallet and hand him the cash. He looks shocked for a minute but regains his composure. "How do you have this much money?"

I take out my scroll and type, "I'm a student at Beacon. I do jobs and get paid. That's how."

"Ah. So a hunter in training. What are you doing in our small little town then? I've never seen you around before." I look over to Lucy and notice she's being hit on by some guys. "Your girl?" I nod to him. "Aren't you gonna help her?" I shake my head and count down. 3… 2… 1… Shink. Soon Lucy brings a blade to the guys throat and him and his buddies run out of the store. "Ah. She's a badass and a beauty. You're lucky man." I smile and nod. "You don't talk much do you?"

"Can't." I type. "My vocal cords were cut from me."

The owner looks shocked at that. "What?! Why would you do that?"

I glare at him and type, "Not by choice. None of these scars were from fighting grimm. They were from torture sessions. Now drop the subject." The man looks at me frowning.

"I understand. It's painful. Say no more. The mask is yours my friend." I take the mask and put it on. I go behind Lucy and tap her on the shoulder. She turns around and jumps back surprised. I flip up the mask and she breathes a sigh of relief.

"Don't do that!" She says as she hits me in the arm. I chuckle at her and wrap my arm around her. "So that's the mask you chose?" I nod. "It's actually pretty cool looking. I like it." I pull her closer and nuzzle into her. As we exit the shop, we hear someone call out to Lucy.

"Hey Lucy! Is that you?" We turn to the voice and see a girl with long brown hair and dog ears on her head.

"Nina? Is that you?" Says Lucy and runs up to hug her. "It's been forever. How are you doing?"

"I'm doing good." That's when she notices me. I tilt my head to the side and look at her. "That guy over there is a little creepy. I mean why does he wear a mask?"

Lucy turns around and walks over to me. She drags me over to Nina and introduces me. "Jordan this is Nina. She's an old friend of mine. Nina this is Jordan. My boyfriend." Nina's mouth drops open as she stares at me.

"Your boyfriend?" I look at her and she shifts in place. "He's a bit scary don't you think?"

"He's really nice. It's just he doesn't like to show his actual face much to new people."

"I see." She looks at me again and I just wave awkwardly. "So I have an Idea. Why don't we get some food and catch up?"

"Alright. Lets go."

Nina turns around and instantly bumps into someone. "Oops sorry about that."

"I don't want your apology you filthy animal." Says the man as him and his group surround Nina. I see where this is going and step in. I tap on the leaders shoulder and he turns to me. "What do you want huh?"

"I want you to leave her alone. Or you'll regret it." I type into my scroll.

"Whatever asshole." He goes to turn around but I stop him. He turns back to me. "Get out of here" He yells as he goes to punch my face. His fist hits my mask and he clutches it screaming. The others surround me and I decide to end it quickly. "Get him!" I freeze time and smash all of their heads into the ground hard enough to knock them out and resume time. They all fall over at once and lay on the ground groaning in pain.

Lucy

Before the fight started between Jordan and the group I went over to Nina. "You okay?" I ask.

"Yeah. But shouldn't we help him?" asks Nina in return.

"Nah. He's got this. Besides He's part of why I do what I do." Nina was just about to respond when the group all fell at once. They lay there groaning in pain while Jordan walks over to us.

"How did he."

"His semblance." Nina looks at me. "He can stop time." Jordan comes over and Offers Nina a hand. She takes it and we all go to the food court. We get our food and sit down in a booth. Jordan lays his head on my shoulder and I know he's sleeping off his semblances Kickback.

"So why is he sleeping on your shoulder?"

"Well you see it all started a while back." I proceed to tell Nina about how I'm going to beacon and how I met Jordan when he wakes up. "Hey sleepyhead. Have a nice nap?" He nods and I just giggle.

"So you say you go to beacon now. Are you the leader of the team?"

"No. He is." I say pointing to Jordan.

"What?! How is he the leader?"

"Well he's strong and smart."

"I see. But this still doesn't explain why he slept on your shoulder earlier."

"Oh. Well you see." I look over to Jordan and he just nods at me. "Jordan was taken hostage by the white fang a while back when he first got to remnant. He's not from our world so when he came here he was tortured for info about his world." Nina gasps at this. "He didn't really trust faunus all that well so me and the team tried to help him with that. Only problem was he wouldn't sleep at night. I've caught him a couple times leaving the room late at night and not showing back up till early in the morning."

Jordan coughs as he was drinking his soda. "Wait you KNEW?!" Nina is shocked and is looking around for who said that.

"Yes I did Jordan."

"Wait that was Jordan?!" asked Nina.

"Yeah. I can have him speak in other's heads so he can communicate. Anyways, One day I stopped him and asked him why he wasn't sleeping. He said ever since he left that white fang outpost he has nightmares about what they did to him. I made a suggestion to sleep with me for a night and see what happens and he took me up on it. He hasn't had a nightmare since."

"I see. So does he trust the faunus now?"

I shake my head. "Not yet all of our work was put to rest the second time he was captured. They tortured him even worst then and…" I trail off as tears start to form in my eyes. I feel an arm wrap around me and notice Jordan looking at me.

"It put me in the hospital. I was in a Coma for around three days." I start to cry and Jordan pulls me closer. He lays his head next to me and tries to comfort me.

"That's horrible. I can't believe that they would do that." Says Nina.

"Anyways." I say as I recompose myself. "We should probably get going. It's getting really late."

"Yeah. I'll see you later Lucy and It was nice to meet you Jordan." He nods his head and we get up to leave.

Me

After we get back to Lucy's house I look at her. "You sure you're okay?"

"Yeah. I'm fine. You don't have to worry." I nod and we head for the door. I open it and hear another gunshot and feel something bounce off the mask. I fall backwards in surprise and look at Lucy.

"What the fuck?! That's the second fucking time I've been shot today!" Lucy sighs and steps inside.

"Who shot him?!" She yells. I get back up and shake off the disorientation. I walk through the door again to Lucy glaring at a guy with Short Black hair, Lilac eyes, and Blonde cat ears.

"What? He just waltzed into our house uninvited. He could have been here to kill us all."

Lucy growls in frustration. "You are just like dad!" She yells. I walk up to her and put a hand on her shoulder.

"I'm good. Mask deflected the shot." She sighs in relief. "So who's this?" I say gesturing to the guy she was yelling at.

"This is my stupid brother, Drake. He's a hunter but is way to overprotective."

"I am not!" He yells in defense. Then he looks at me. "Wait I know you. The psycho who took Ellie hostage!" He raises his gun again and fires at my face. The round bounces off and I flinch from it. I glare at him and take out LILITH. I smack away his gun and place the blade to his head.

"I am not a psycho. And for your information I was tortured by faunus when I didn't even know where I was. She was a faunus so I assumed she was after me. I didn't want to kill her back then but you. You tried killing me twice now. I have no issues with killing you." He glares at me with hate in his eyes. Just then a woman with white hair and dog ears comes down stairs. Wait… It's the same one from that day! What are the odds?

"What's going on here?" She asked. She looks at me and takes out a baton and turns it into a pistol. "Who the hell are you?!"

I turn to Lucy. "I'm gonna get shot again aren't I?" She nods and I sigh. "You mind connecting me to her?" Lucy nods and gives me the go ahead. I turn to her but before I can say anything Drake tries to smack the gun away. He moves it to the side but I take out LUCY and put it back where LILITH was and press harder. He grunts in pain as I break skin and I look at him. "Behave." I turn back to the woman. "Nice to see you again." She gets a look of confusion on her face.

"What are you talking about? We've never met before!"

"On the contrary." I move my mask up and her face turns to one of shock. "I held you hostage at a white fang compound after you tried to save me. Sorry by the by."

"I see. But why are you pointing a gun at Drake?" she says with danger in her voice.

"He tried to shoot me in the face twice. Why not?" She sighs and puts her weapon away. I look back to Drake. "As for you. If you try to shoot me again, I will kill you."

"You wouldn't kill me." He says with a smirk.

"I've killed people before. That's how I escaped the compound. I can kill you and not feel a thing." We glare at each other until Linda comes in and speaks up.

"Okay boys! That's enough." I flip my mask back down and glare at him one last time before taking my gun off his head. "Drake be nice to Lucy's boyfriend."

"BOYFRIEND!?" He yells as he looks at me. "I'm not gonna let her go out with a lunatic!"

"Too late." I say and he starts to come toward me. He grabs me by my throat and puts me against the wall. I take out LILITH at the same time and place it to his gut. I tap the blade to his gut and he looks down. He growls and lets me go. I sigh and start to head for the front door.

"Where you going now Jordan?" Lucy asked almost as if this is a common thing.

"Motel." I say and look back at Drake. "Too many people trying to kill me." Lucy sighs and walks out the door first. I look over my shoulder to Drake before I leave. "People like you and the white fang made me this way. Remember that." I leave and head to the car. Lucy's already inside and waiting all while looking depressed. I enter the car and she puts on a smile. "Don't try hiding it. I saw you were depressed." She returns to her formal state after that. "What's wrong?"

"It's just… My brother and father both shot at you without thinking. I don't know what to do about them."

I lean over and bring her in for a hug. "It's alright. Your father didn't know and your brother is just mad about something I did in the past."

"Do you think I should forgive them for this?"

"That's something only you can decide." I say as I let her go and start the car. I back out of the driveway and we head off.

We find a motel and buy a room for the night. I change in the bathroom and re wrap my arms. I exit the bathroom and see Lucy on the bed in deep thought with a frown on her face. I take off my mask and guns and lay them on the nightstand. I get in bed and wrap my arm around her while resting my head on her.

"Still thinking about your dad and bro?"

She snaps out of it and looks at me. "Yeah. I don't know if I should forgive my brother but I can forgive my dad."

I kiss her on her head and she looks at me. "Just sleep on it. It will help you a lot."

She smiles at me and leans in for a kiss. I accept it and kiss her back. "This is why I love you. You know just what to say." She smiles at me and nuzzles into my chest. I hold her close and watch as she falls asleep. I close my eyes and soon follow her lead.

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