SUMMARY: Thought = Action a look at what happens in a friendship that's become unbalanced.
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Broken Wings
Part Four
Island
You have to wonder sometimes, about the sixth sense that grows up between partners. It took time she knew but it was worth it. The minute Jubilee stepped out of the door of the school and heard the roar of Harley engine noise. a smile crossed her face, the first one since the fight with Frosty.
She took a deep breath, she had always lived for mornings like this. Quiet enough for her to hear the wind tousling her hair, but unfortunately it also let the long suppressed thoughts give tongue. Something in her would look back on this moment later and be very sorry for the sad person she had been at the time, but that wasn't now. All the possessions of her life were tucked into a small back pack and wallet. It was one of those things that had hurt to look at.
Packing last night was a thing of nightmare. Have you ever wanted to sit back and cry? not small sobs but to howl at the moon in sheer tearless grief? All over one photograph? If she hadn't already figured out that she was having severe problems then that would have tipped her off.
"Darlin'"
Jubilee never thought the words 'jumped out of my skin' were real until that moment. she must have gone up at least a foot. All that gymnastics training hadn't gone to waste.
"Bloody hell Wolvie! Havn't I told ya not ta creep up on me?!"
She had never seen someone manage to combine amusement and worry in quite that way before. It told her something was up.
"Darlin…"
Hesitant Wolvster, the thought almost made her smile. that means either he's cancelling on the trip, which wouldn't be unexpected. Or theres something had gone really wrong.
"What?"
"I've been waiting fur ya fur the last five minutes, Darlin, did ya fight with Em?"
That's when her knees buckled, something in her should have heard him coming, well heard him again. And she should have, definitely should have known he was there. She had always known. She managed not to collapse. Just turning it into a stagger but she doubted she'd fooled Wolvie. Ten points to Lee.
"I'll go 'talk' ta her, shall I?"
She couldn't help grinning at that statement, walking forward a few steps and wrapping her arms around the Wolvesters waist, for a minute letting herself become his 'kid' again. It worked for a minute.
"Nah, let it slide Wolvie, I wanna get outa here"
Ducking out of the hug she made a three point turn 'round and grabbed the haversack, the blue eye's she turned back to Logan were dull and disinterested. Flat.
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He'd never actually been worried about Jube's mental health until now, the look she'd given him just before they'd roared out of the school had actually reminded him more of himself that he'd ever wanted to see in another being. He'd never had this problem with the kitten.
That he realised was the problem
Jube's wasn't the kitten.
He thought that he didn't have that problem even after 'Ro had accused him of it. He could remember the lecture she'd given him "You cannot treat that child the way you would treat Catherine, they are not the same person" His reply had been along the lines of 'I know 'Ro' and now he did.
She'd been grown up when he met her, and yet despite bruises that soul of her's had blazed out of those eyes. The only person he knew who could meet him as an equal on almost any playing field.
It had almost been a physical pain to see that spirit gone, and if it took him all of the private time he had they'd get it back.
And back to stay, now where to…….
"Umm Wolvie?"
"Yeah Darlin'?"
"Whats with the road block?"
He looked up and groaned internally, turning the sound into a growl low in his throat.
"That's no roadblock Darlin'"
What It was was a full scale ambush.