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Characters: Jestery & Cora

World: Digitalverse

Notes:

This takes place right after Session 73 of Digital Adventures Online.

Chapter 54

Jestery's Meltdown

Cora took a deep breath.

"You just had to come here, didn't you?" the chrono maid whispered, staring up towards her mother.

"Of course!" Jestery answered and watched Cora pull herself up a tiny bit. "Jestery wanted to make sure you hadn't died!"
The chrono maid took a deep breath and sighed, possibly not wanting to deal with her mother at the moment.

"Why is Cora pissed at Jestery?" Jestery inquired as she inched closer to Cora. "Did Jestery do some-"

Jestery was unable to complete her sentence, since Cora decided to slap her.

"Wrong? Where do I even start?!" the chrono maid shouted and pushed Jestery away. "Let's see… You kill people for no reason other than 'they'll get in the way', you call yourself ruler but don't do anything to prove you're worthy of such a role, you pull pranks on people, you whack people with a dead guy corpse…"

In the back of the room, someone shouted 'hey'. Whether or not it was in reference to that particular act or them not being dead was not known. Nor did it anyone care to actually look into it.

"Jestery had reasons for doing those things…" Jestery whispered as Cora knocked her to the ground. "Why won't Cora listen to what Jestery has to say?"
Cora didn't answer, choosing instead to watch her mother get up.

"Make me listen then." Cora whispered as the two charged towards each other, weapons in hand. "Show me, dammit!"
The duo then reached other and slammed their weapons towards their opponent. Yet, try as they might, neither could quite get the jump on the other. Blow for blow, it didn't matter. It was quite an even match, that could be easily ended by one of the party's resorting to using their powers. If nothing else, they could at least trying moving, since they forgot what form of media they were currently in.

"Boo hoo, author!" Jestery announced and stepped to the side, allowing her daughter to swipe at air. She then followed it up by throwing her butterfly swords at Cora, allowing the weapons to do the work for her. "Are you happy now… Cody?"

Offscreen, the author resisted the urge to slap the jester. It was one thing for his own partner to call him that, it was another for the resident unpredictable prankster to do such a thing.

"I'm still not listening." Cora shouted and pulled herself up, flinging Jestery's butterfly swords back at their usual wielder. "You aren't even trying!"

Jestery didn't even answer and slammed her foot down, following it up with a smack to the face. As she did though, tears began to fall down her face.

"Do you really think I enjoy the monotonous stuff that come with this shit?" the jester screamed as she grabbed hold of Cora. "I long lost track of how many things I've done to just so everyone could reach that point. I never ask for thanks, make small requests and try to keep the peace when possible. But where's my thanks?! Where is my 'Thank you Jestery!' or 'We're glad you took the time to lend us a hand, Jestery'?! Nowhere, nowhere at all!"

Jestery then collapsed to the floor as Cora watched on.

"It'll be alright." the chrono maid whispered and kneeled down. "Mommy is still here."

It felt odd to say that after so long, yet she didn't care right now. For the moment, the chrono maid would just have to play mother one more time...

Notes:

Not going to lie, I've had days like that. Days where I'm running on empty and just can't seem to win in the endless game of life. And that's alright. What isn't alright, is letting it get the better of you and flipping out on someone. Even if they seem to deserve it.

But life is what you make of it. You can choose focus solely on the negative, letting it bog you down. Or you can get up and keep going. It's easier said than done. Yet as long as you keep walking, things will get better.