"I- I thought he was right behind me!" Jesse said, looking behind her as if to check to confirm, no, Lukas was not behind her. Of course, he wasn't.

"Well, if he's not here, then the only place he could be is..." Axel trailed off, eyes widening in shock, and Jesse finished the thought, looking back at the door. "He's still down there!"

"Ivor has an iron golem and all the ingredients to make a Wither down there!" Petra said, eyes widening, "if he was to unleash it on this crowd of people... we have to act fast!"

Olivia jerked her head at Gabriel, who was talking about something. "It just so happens that the greatest warrior of all time is in the building- we can ask Gabriel to help! This is the smartest way to help Lukas."

"He's tough," Petra agreed, "I just hope he's tough enough to hold out a little longer."

Jesse shook her head, looking back at the door. "I'm going after Lukas myself," she said, firmly.

Petra's eyes widened. "By... yourself? A-are you sure, Jesse?" she asked. She actually sounded quite.. admiring.

Jesse looked back at her redhead friend, and felt uncertainty creep into her stomach at the hint of fear in her friend's eyes. But there was no way she could just bail now, after suggesting it in the first place, so she nodded affirmatively. "Yeah..." She turned back to her friends, "the rest of you, go get Gabriel."

"We're on it, Jesse," Olivia agreed instantly, both eyes brightening, Petra piping up with a smile, "We'll find a way to warn Gabriel and then we'll meet you back here."

"Let's crash this party," Axel agreed enthusiastically.

"Be back as soon as I can," Jesse promised, before crossing her heart and then covering her eye.

Her friends all grinned at her at the sign of her usual oath.

Petra gave the black-haired girl a long look, the grin fading, before quietly uttering, "Be careful."

And Jesse and Reuben turned and ran back towards the door, staring down into the darkness again. "Here goes nothing," Jesse whispered, before stepping down the stairs.

The path down the staircase was long, and a little frightening, since Jesse had NO idea how she was going to get Lukas without:

A) Getting her head knocked off by the iron golem, or

B) Getting spotted by the iron golem, since A was not really an option.

She stepped off the stairs- and immediately whipped back, slamming her back against the wall and covering her mouth as her heart pounded as the iron golem stared in her direction. Good thing she hadn't just charged in. Reuben was being very quiet as well- smart pig.

After a whole minute, in which she forced herself to count to one hundred as slowly as she dared, she peeked around the corner, and tiptoed into the bookshelves when she saw no sign of the iron golem. "Lukas! Can you hear me?" she whispered as loudly as she dared, looking around.

"Jesse?" and Jesse looked back as Lukas's blue-green eyes peeped over the edges of a chest, one hand keeping the lid lifted. "You- you came back for me?" Surprise was evident in his whisper and his eyes.

Jesse felt a relieved smile creep over her face. "Lukas! Over here," and she gestured towards her.

Lukas's eyes shifted, his eyes widened, and he shut the chest.

Jesse felt her face fall back into a frown. "And... the golem's right behind me, isn't it." She turned around to see the golem glaring down at her with red eyes, and Jesse dodged it the best she could as it swiped clumsily at her.

"Hey!" The golem looked away, Jesse leaping into a nearby niche and kneeling down so that the golem couldn't see her, her heart thudding like a jackhammer in her chest.

The golem looked back to where Jesse had been. Not seeing her, and being too stupid to look around, it lumbered away.

"You okay?" Jesse whispered to Lukas.

She almost immediately winced. He was stuck in a chest. With an iron golem roaming the room and ready to take their heads off if they so much as peeked their heads around a corner. He wasn't exactly 'okay' right now.

He considered the question. "I've... been worse. Of course, I can't say this is the best situation I've ever been in... any bright ideas?" he whispered to her.

Jesse had to think about that. An idea came to her mind, but...

She looked down at her hands, steeling her resolve, before nodding at Lukas. "I think so. One second."

And she jumped out of the niche, even though every muscle in her body was screaming not to. Loudly. "Hey!" she shouted at the golem.

The golem whirled back around to see her, but Jesse raised her palm at the golem and poked the tip out of her tongue out of her mouth, as a huge strand of silk shot from her palm and nailed the golem right in the 'chest'.

The golem staggered back, and Jesse began to move. Like the flashback she'd had only this morning- had it only been this morning? It already felt like much longer- she didn't even try to think. She didn't try to wonder how or why she was doing this, she just did it, silk streaming from her hands. The golem tried to swing at her, but it was too slow for Jesse. She could feel the bumps on her sides, growing ever bigger, struggling to join the two that were working already, but she forced them to curl in on her sides again, making her own ribs ache in pain.

Finally, she landed on the ground in front of the chest, panting heavily, staring at her hands as she scraped off the silk on the stone floor, before finally looking up from her hands to admire her handiwork.

The iron golem was swathed in white silk, tangled up in the strings like a fly in a spiderweb, the world's most elaborate spiderweb stringing from a few of the bookshelves and the walls, struggling.

"Jesse?"

Jesse turned to see Lukas staring at her, a stunned expression on his face.

"Hurry, it's not going to keep the golem forever!" Jesse hissed, and Lukas quickly took the hint and jumped out of the chest, the three of them (including Reuben) racing away.

"Axel's explosion knocked me back into the shelves, and by the time I managed to get up again it was too late," Lukas panted as the two of them ran, "Thanks for coming back for me, Jesse. Didn't know if anyone would."

Jesse turned to look at Lukas, a small smile forming on her face. "No problem, Lukas. What are friends for?"

Lukas blinked at her, his hair twitching again, before a small smile formed on his own face. "Thanks, Jesse. I owe you one."

"No problem. Now, I would explain how I did that," and she nodded at her elaborate spiderweb, "but right now we need to get out of here before the golem rips through, and try to stop Ivor from spawning his Wither."

"That's probably a good idea," Lukas agreed, smiling lopsidedly at Jesse. She smiled back again, before the two of them rushed up the stairs and out of the basement.

A/N: WOW. Wow. I updated... really, really fast. Like, twice in one hour. Like, wow. I don't know how I did that.

Yes, Jesse used her powers to save Lukas. I went through multiple options before deciding that this one seemed pretty likely, since in the game Jesse does have a penchant for having a hero-complex.

MissyMattingly: No problem :) Hopefully the 'magic potion' I'm using to update that Toni42 managed to give me somehow doesn't wear off anytime soon

NoItsBecky: It may take me a while due to my grammar nerd persona, but I'll do my very best :) And I do ship Luktra. I just ship Lukesse more xD And thank you! And no you have not.

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