"Hey," Lukas said, a little awkwardly, turning around fully and batting at his ears nervously. "You guys are back. How's... uh... how's it going?" He was determinedly staring at the floor.

"Hey," Jesse said, eyes narrowing as she pointed at him, before a softer smile came over her face and she let her arm drop. "You came back."

Lukas smiled a little at that, still batting at his ears and fidgeting with his twitching tail. It didn't take a genius to tell that he was nervous. "Yeah. Uh... thought I'd show my face again."

The tension was so thick you could've sliced it with a knife.

"Well, it-it's great to see it!" Petra said, looking from the spider hybrid to the ocelot hybrid. "Your face, I mean." Her attempt at releasing some of the tension flopped miserably.

There was another silence, in which Jesse and Lukas looked at each other awkwardly, neither sure what to say to the other.

Lukas let out a sigh and trotted down the steps towards the spider hybrid. "Listen, Jesse, I'm not going to beat around the bush here. The last time we saw each other? With... what I said... I'm not happy about how things went down, and... well, I wanna patch things up. I'm tired of us not talking to each other, so... I'm sorry." He stopped walking towards her, arm's length away.

Jesse stared at Lukas, her green and red eyes widening. She'd been worrying and stressing and running over in her head how she wanted to apologize, and Lukas was the one who apologized first.

"Hey..." and Jesse crossed all of her arms, looking at the floor awkwardly. "I'm the one who's sorry. I wasn't in a very good... emotional state back there and... well, it's not how I wanted things to end."

She found herself being enveloped in a warm hug by the ocelot hybrid. She stood there awkwardly before a soft smile came over her face and she reached out to return it. "You're a good friend, Jesse," Lukas said, in her ear. "That means a lot."

Jesse smiled slightly at him, before the two of them stepped out of their hug, smiling at each other.

And just like that, they'd made up.

"You sounded like you broke up or something," Petra said absentmindedly.

Both her hybrid friends gaped at Petra, hot pink in the face.

Lukas cleared his throat a minute later, looking down at the floor. "Um... it's, uh... it's good to be back," he said, awkwardly, before looking around.

His eye caught something, and he walked towards Reuben's corner. "Oh, wow. You framed it- uh, him."

Jesse didn't take offense at that- just nodded. "Yeah," she nodded.

"How are you doing?"

Jesse was quiet for a second, before she cupped her elbows in her hands and stared down at the floor. "I really, really miss him. Every morning, I wake up, and... just for a minute, I can pretend that he's just in another room, or rooting outside looking for carrots." She let out a soft, sad little sigh. "And then every morning... I get to wake up and remember all over that he's gone."

Lukas was quiet, before suddenly Jesse found herself being enveloped in another hug. "I'm so sorry," he said softly.

Jesse hugged him back, closing her eyes just for a second.

Lukas stepped back for a minute, rubbing his head. "Okay, guys, I didn't just come back here to bum everyone out."

Jesse had to smile faintly at that.

"I actually came back because I have to tell you something. It's about this weird run-in I had... with Aiden."

Jesse's smile fell right back off her face, and she turned to look at Lukas. "Yep, we saw him too," she sighed, "The Order of the Stone and the 'Blaze Rods' are just as friendly as ever.

"That's an understatement."

Jesse grinned at Petra's sarcastic comment, as Lukas continued, frowning, "He's been so jealous of you and the rest of the Order ever since you saved the world from the Witherstorm. Convinced that HE was supposed to be a hero... ever since he took over the Ocel-" He stopped himself, "the 'Blaze Rods', it seems like he's just gotten... meaner. Pushing Maya and Gill around."

"Jealous?" Jesse asked, incredulously. "Why? Does he think it was fun having to run for my life in terror nine times out of ten?"

"No... he..." Lukas hesitated, before saying quickly, in the manner of someone who had something unpleasant to say and wanted to get it off his chest as fast as possible, "he thinks you're a big bully, Jesse, looting and keeping all the good stuff for yourself. So... what'd you find that got Aiden so excited, anyway?"

Jesse reached into her pocket and held it out, showing it to Lukas, with a small smile. "Check it out."

"Wow," Lukas said, going up to the flint and steel and looking at it along with Petra, staring at the azure glow with fascination, "what a weird glow..."

"Yeah, I'm supposed to show it to-"

"YOU FOUND IT!"

All three of them let out a loud yell, as Ivor skidded into the room right next to them. Lukas put a hand over his thudding heart and Petra yelped, looking ticked, "Dude, what's wrong with you?!"

Jesse shot Petra a look as Ivor said, sounding excited, "This is the greatest find of our time!" Ivor bounced up and down, hands together, looking like a six-year old on Christmas morning. "I can't believe you actually..."

Jesse arched her eyebrow at him, smiling at her mentor's antics. "Okay, spill, what's it do?"

Ivor grinned up at Jesse, dark blue eyes sparkling. "That glow... that enchantment is the work of a very old group of builders, a group so old that they existed even before the Order of the Stone!"

A/N: AND the flint and steel has been found, Lukas and Jesse have made up.

You asked for fluff. I have delivered.

You're welcome xD

Kaos Ruin: You have the fluff :)

angelwings: Sorry, Tem, no money.

rebekahtpe: Also kiss Lukas. He's also one of my favorite characters (although Ivor is a close second, he's so funny xD )

Guest: (shrugs)

Guest: Yep xD

Guest: Maybe? I don't know. I didn't have much of this story planned out.

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