Jesse had been walking for what felt like hours, but what she knew was only about twenty minutes.

Finally, she stopped, backtracked three steps, moved aside some ivy with a stick (she was NOT getting a rash) and moved through it cautiously, before going down some rocks and finally stopping in a little clearing.

The clearing was beautiful. There was a waterfall that was about three times Jesse's height, with clear, clean blue water that flowed into a stream, surrounded by trees that almost completely hid the clearing from view, except for some sunlight that filtered through the leaves.

Jesse took a deep breath of clean air and stared at the sparkling water.

It had already been a week. Yet when she closed her eyes she could see the image of her little pig, horribly pale, trying to move, but not able to. Looking so weak when usually he was so... there, so alive.

But of course he wasn't alive anymore.

Jesse sniffed slightly, and rubbed a couple of tears out of her eyes, before wading into the water. It was pleasantly cool, but Jesse concentrated on making it through the waterfall. She got completely soaked in the process, but... it was okay. That was okay. Because she was in that hidden cave that she and Reuben had discovered a few years back when coming here to play. The others didn't know, of course. No one really knew about this place.

Jesse reached out a shaking hand and put down one of the pink wool blocks she'd knitted over the past week when she'd had the time, trying not to drop it by accident. After that, she pulled out a carrot and a poppy and put it at the base of the pink wool block.

It wasn't really a funeral... but it was the closest thing Jesse could probably ask for.

She knelt there for a minute, a full minute, her knees on hard stone and her hands on her knees and her shoulders shaking slightly, before standing up and laying her fingers on the pink wool block, giving it a longing sort of look for a minute, before letting her fingers slide off.

Walking back through the waterfall seemed a bit harder. It was as though she were leaving one of the only things she'd ever really known behind.

She kept walking.

She climbed back up the rocks, past the ivy, turned a left to get to town- and ran into Lukas.

"Oh! Jesse, I- I was looking for you!" The ocelot hybrid smiled at her, his ears twitching, before his smile faded and he put his hands in his pockets. "Um... Jesse?"

"Yeah?" Jesse asked, rather shortly. This was not a good beginning, but Jesse's emotional range was a huge pendulum at this point in time. She was worse than a teenage girl hyped up on hormones.

"Why are you wet?"

"Reasons."

Lukas seemed to bristle a bit at her short response, but said nothing. "Um... so... I think the other Ocelots are mad at me."

Nothing. Jesse just arched her eyebrow. This conversation was going even further downhill by the minute, and if Jesse had been in any mood to, she should've made a funny face, or apologized and talked to him, and gone right back uphill to a happy medium, but Jesse was not in the mood, and she was already getting into a rather bad mood.

Lukas's brow furrowed. "I think they're mad at me for not going to save them." He waited. Still nothing. Still the patient one, Lukas continued, "Well, I mean... I don't really mind, because... I'm glad I came with you. Really I am." Another pause.

"Jesse, is this about Reuben? Because seriously, you just need to calm down and... well, maybe... get over it-"

Jesse's head snapped up. "What?" Her voice was dangerously low.

"- I know he was- he was like a best friend to you, but, in- in the end," Lukas fumbled, because unlike Jesse he was NOT good at making up motivational speeches on the spot, "he was just a pig-"

Jesse let out a cry that was a mix between rage and sorrow. "Do not just call Reuben a pig! I can't believe you, Lukas!"

"I-I'm just saying," Lukas backpedaled, "it's been a week, m-maybe you should start... start letting go-"

"You want me to just let go of one of my best friends?!" Jesse wasn't quite yelling yet, but her voice was barely raised, and getting a bit louder by the second.

"No, I'm not saying that, I'm just saying, it's okay for you to move on-"

"It's only been a week, I'm not ready to move on, of all the people I could've talked to about this," Jesse was starting to yell now, heat building up behind her eyes, "I thought you of all people would've understood!-"

"I'm not SAYING you should move on all at once, I'm just saying-"

"Yeah? Well stop, it's not your strong suit!" Jesse shot back angrily.

Lukas's eyebrows descended angrily. His pupils were slits, and his tail was starting to flicker in agitation. "Jesse, I'm trying to help-"

"Then just stop! Just stop and go be with your friends!" Jesse was definitely yelling now, loud enough she was pretty certain everyone in 'town' could hear her, "go be with the friends you wanted to go risk your lives to save, because you can't just tell me to move on over my best friend!" And she shoved Lukas as hard as she could, with all six arms. Which was pretty damn hard.

Lukas toppled backwards and landed on his bottom, eyes wide in surprise. Then his eyes narrowed, and he climbed to his feet. "Fine," he said, voice sharp with anger, "fine," he repeated, "forget I tried to help you. Just forget it, okay?!" he snapped, and he whirled on his heel and stormed off.

"I will. We don't need you, anyway!" Jesse shot back, and she turned on her heel and ran, deeper into the forest.

It wasn't until she'd slowed down to a walk and she'd gotten quite far from town, that she realized tears were pouring down her face.

A/N: Ouch. Emotional Jesse is dangerous Jesse.

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