Jesse stared at Cassie, who was struggling and thrashing in her grip like a rather large viper, before looking at Petra. "I think she's kind of pissed," she said mildly.
"I'll say... why though?" Petra wondered, staring at the practically rabid Cassie, who looked as though she was more in the mood to kill someone than to do anything else.
Jesse sighed, swivelled Cassie around, and, with a quick, mumbled apology, brought her hand in a sharp slap across the red-haired girl's face. Cassie stumbled back, one hand cupping her now-red cheek, red eyes wide in surprise.
"Rose, please at least wait until after they finish explaining things to kill them," she sighed, putting her hands on the red-haired and now red-eyed girl's shoulder.
"I can't tell if you're joking," Jace said, with a nervous chuckle and glance at the 'Old Builders'.
Jesse thought about it for a moment, and then shrugged at her twin. "Neither can I."
Petra stifled a snort at this.
Cassie shot the Old Builders a venomous look. If looks could kill, they'd have died from a poison stronger than Jesse's- and you'd be hard-pressed to find it. "Fine, but if we're gonna kill them, I have dibs on going first," she growled, crossing her arms and glaring at them.
Jesse shrugged, one hand still on the girl's shoulder (both in a comforting way and in a restraining way), and then reached into her pocket and handed her a vial of clear liquid. "Here, have some water, 'kay?"
Cassie looked at the water, before taking it with a still rather stormy expression and chugging it down in about two swallows.
Her shoulders suddenly relaxed, and her expression became much more mild. "I don't much care if you were joking earlier, after they explain things I might actually kill them," she said rather serenely. A short silence. "Calming potion?"
"Calming potion," Jesse agreed serenely, "Ivor whipped me up some in case I had nightmares."
Cassie shrugged and handed her back the vial, looking vaguely annoyed. "Fair enough, but once this wears off I'm seriously going to jump them."
"Fair enough," Jesse agreed, putting the vial back into her pocket.
Otto cleared his throat, making the four teenagers swivel their heads to look at him. "I must say, this return is rather unexpected."
"Forget me returning, Cassie trying to jump Hadrian was unexpected," Harper muttered with a raised eyebrow at the red-haired teen, who responded with a mild shrug. "We're here for Jesse."
"Ohhh," 'Hadrian' said, a sarcastic look in his eyes, "really."
"So tell me champ, why do you think Harper brought you here?"
Jesse looked around the 'stadium', before looking back to Hadrian with a plain expression.
"My bet's on 'pet spider'. That'd be pretty cute, right?"
"Adorable," the pale-blue-haired woman said with a smirk.
Jesse suddenly got this mental image of herself wearing a pink bow and being on a leash, and started smirking. She tried not to look at Petra or Jace- judging by their giggles they'd gotten a similar image.
Cassie flipped Hadrian off serenely, making the giggles amplify and Jesse start snickering, covering her mouth with one hand as Winslow gave his owner an admonishing look and she lowered her hand with a faintly apologetic shrug.
"Uh, no. Please don't make me laugh again... we just want to get our friends and go home," Jesse said, trying to stop snickering and failing.
"Sorry chief," Hadrian said, looking disgruntled at the fact that three of the four teenagers were now having a little giggling fit. "But this is your home now."
That put an end to it.
"Might as well get comfy," the pale-blue-haired woman spoke.
Jesse put her hands up. "Okay, one second. What in the frickin' world are your-" she pointed at the man in green, and the pale-blue haired woman, "-names? I don't want to just go 'hey you' if I'm trying to address someone other than Mr. Purple Guy here."
Petra jumped up and ran off to the side, her laughter becoming audible the moment she was out of sight. Jace rolled his eyes and gave his twin a lazy look. "D'you mind if I go fetch her back?"
"Not at all. Go get the Blaze Rod, boy," Jesse said, patting his head. Jace's tail started to wag, and a dazed sort of look came into his eyes. "That's... ah... that's actually... really nice..."
Jesse stopped patting him and snatched her hand back, giving him a pat on the back instead. "I'll pet you more if you go get Petra."
He was gone the moment the last word came out of her mouth, leaving nothing but a little trail of dust behind him. Jesse bit back a snicker, before turning back to the two Old Builders. "Well?"
"I'm Otto," the man in green said, pretty serenely, before gesturing at the pale blue-haired woman, "and this is Mevia."
"Nice to meet you, I guess. And... about this being my home now?" Her light, almost cheerful tone suddenly turned icy cold, and Harper took a step back in surprise, Cassie just looking mildly surprised. "Absolutely freaking not. We have been wandering your portal network for ages. We-are-going- home."
Hadrian scowled at the spider hybrid, who had an equally pissed off expression on her face. "Meaning... you need my Atlas. Very interesting. That's all well and all, but I'm confused. Why would we give ANYTHING to someone like you?"
Jace came back, towing Petra in behind him, as Jesse said, slowly, thoughtfully, "because I have something you want."
Hadrian sneered at Jesse. "I doubt you would have anything that would interest us."
Cassie opened her mouth to speak, but Jesse cut off the red-haired girl with a look, before reaching into her pocket and feeling around for a moment.
She felt it. The beating of a heart, a heart that was really just a power source, a Heart that was probably something that these people wanted back.
She hoped, at least.
Jesse held out the beating, glowing Redstone Heart.
A/N: BOOM! Drama! And another calming potion; heaven knows Cassie needs it. This is taking more chapters than I expected, lol xD
Toni42: N'awww, thanks :3 And hehe thanks xD Yep, Cassie decided to be lazy and not come through :)
rebekahtpe: Lol xD AND I HATE AND LOVE YOU SO MUCH YOU GOT ME OBSESSED WITH RWBY LIKE RRRRGGGGHHHHH
ChoyofBonk: That will be revealed later x3
RapidSammi: Lol thanks xD
DemonCatLady: Heehee x3 I think his beanie was white, actually. No idea. And we'll see (sing-songy voice)
SanstheSkeleton: Thanks, I try (poses ridiculously)
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