Memories Can Be Made
By: pnaixrose
Disclaimer: I do not own WA3.
Chapter 4: Jet Realizes
"Mom, pass the soup please," Kaitlyn said. They were all seated at the table, enjoying their meals, although Jet and Gallows tried to avoid each other as much as possible. No one talked as Catherine passed the soup to her daughter. Tonight they all sensed that the air was full of uneasiness because of Gallows and Jet's argument that had been basically going on since that afternoon. Luckily they were seated at the opposite ends of the table.
"Can someone pass the steak, please?" Jet asked without lifting his head.
The steak was right in front of Gallows. He stared at the steak and then back at Jet almost as if he was comtemplating on what to do.
The Winslet family glanced at Gallows nervously. They were sure he was going to retort by saying something like, "Get your own steak, stupid…" and Jet and him would get into another petty argument.
Jet finally lifted up his head to see what was taking so long to get the steak. He noticed that it was in front of Gallows. He waited a little after seeing that Gallows was staring at the steak. 'Knowing him, he'd probably eat it all so that I wouldn't be able to get any,' Jet thought miserably, 'I said sorry a billion times already. Do I have to prove it to him or something?'
Gallows stared at the steak for a minute longer, remembering his visit with Virginia. '…I promised Virginia I'll be nice to him for a change…darn…and I had the meanest reply too…'
Jet sighed. "Oh forget it, I'll get it myself."
But before he could stand up to get it, Gallows picked up the plate and handed it to him. "Here,"he said simply with his arms outstretched.
Jet looked at him with the most confused face ever. He slowly got the plate from Gallows silently as he looked athim with uncertainly. 'Is he trying to be nice?'
"Uhh…thank you," Jet stuttered.
Gallows grunted a "You're welcome."
Uneasy silence passed through once again. Suddenly Jet burst. He stood up abruptly. "Why're acting like this? I know you hate me, Gallows!"
Gallows stood up glared back. "You're complaining? When I'm mean, you're mad at me and when I'm nice you're mad. What do you want from me?"
"I know you hate me so just show it, would ya! I don't like it when someone's mad at me, but I hate it more when people pity me!" Jet yelled banging on the table.
"You're right, I do hate you! But I can't show it! I promised Virginia that I-" he stopped, realizing he had spoken too much.
"What?" Jet asked in curiosity. But the Baskar priest didn't reply. "Tell me!" Jet growled, "Does this involve Virginia somehow?"
Silence.
"That what involves me?" a female voice said from the doorway. Virginia stood there, her emerald eyes full of confusion.
That was when everyone stood up and suddenly rushed to her, hugging her, talking to her, and basically showing that they were glad to have her back. Everyone went over to her except one person - Jet. He was happy that she was finally back, but he couldn't get what Kaitlyn had said before out of his head.
"Uncle Jet, d-do you love Auntie Virginia?" Kaitlyn asked.
"Do I what?"
"Do you love her…?"
"I…I…I'm not sure."
"I think you do. You stare at her with googly eyes."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Daddy said that one day everyone finds the perfect person for them. I think Auntie Virginia is your perfect person."
'…my perfect person?' Jet thought. When he saw her all happy and safe standing there in front of him, he never felt so relieved. He relished her happiness and tried to forget all of what happened before; their fights, their silly misunderstandings, and most of all what had happened just a few days ago - how he left. He never felt this feeling before. He never felt so happy to see someone. Was he even supposed to feel this way? He wasn't even human. Was he supposed to feel this in the first place? Do Samples have these kinds of emotions? Suddenly as he stared at Virginia, her beautiful emerald eyes locked with his. He felt his heart beat faster and the redness on his face appeared.
"Hey, Jet. Don't stand there all by yourself. You seem like you're not happy to see me," Virginia said teasingly.
"Tha-That's not true,"he stuttered.
She smiled at him. "So are you having a deep conversation in your head of yours?" She went up to him and knocked him on his head gently.
He blushed realizing how close they were. "Uhh…"
Then her eyes locked into his eyes once again. He noticed how her eyes turned from teasing to gentle. "Thanks again for visiting me while I was in the hospital, Jet," Virginia said, smiling at him.
"Umm…N-No problem…"
She smiled again and skipped over to the others to talk to them some more.
His heart slowed down gradually, and the red tint on his face went away. But Jet suddenly realized something. By looking into her eyes staring back at him, and by seeing her smiling face, he realized that she washis 'perfect person' after all. Kaitlyn had been right.Virginia had been the one for him all along and he didn't even realize it. Just seeing her energetic personality, her kind eyes and the way she cared about people started pumping his heart faster. He knew then, that she was his one and only perfect person.
-
Gallows stared curiously at Virginia and Jet talking. He was really happy that their leader had returned, but something about her changed. She acted even more happy and energetic. She even acted differently around Jet, too. There were no more silly fights or stuff like that. He knew why too. She liked him. She really, really liked him. But Gallows was confused. Why did Jet act all different? He acted so…shy. Suddenly it hit him. Jet liked her back!
Heheard Catherine and Clive talking, while Kaitlyn was jumping around happily.
"Isn't that cute, honey?" Catherine whispered to her husband.
"Yes. It's like a match made in heaven," Clive said happily.
"But he doesn't even know that he likes her yet, right?"
"I guess…he should realize it soon, though. Jet's smart."
"Let's hope so…"
'So Jet does like her back…' Gallows mused. Suddenly he narrowed his eyes slyly. 'Even though I hate the guy right now, I know that Virginia loves him. I want our leader to be happy, so, let's match 'em up a little.' He laughed silently in his head as he saw Virginia skipping back to them.
They all sat down while Catherine made more food for the celebration of Virginia returning from the hospital.
-
After the delicious meal, Kaitlyn jumped from her seat and stood next to Virginia's chair."Hey, Auntie Virginia, let's play tag!"the girlsaid excitedly.
"Kaitlyn, let's let Virginia sleep," Catherine said with a frown.
"Oh don't worry about it. I'm all cured by eating all your wonderful food!" Virginia said patting her stomach.
Catherine blushed. "Oh well…thank you."
"I don't mind playing with her. I need some fresh air anyway. Being in that stuffy hospital bed wasn't good for me."
"Are you sure, Virginia?" Clive asked.
"Yep. I'd love to play tag!"
The snipersmiled. "All right then. I'll call both of you in when it's getting dark."
"Jet dear, can you do the dishes?" Catherine asked, "I have to finish the laundry."
"I'll help you, honey," Clive said tohis wifeas he followed her to the laundry room.
Jet got up to wash the dishes, while Kaitlyn grabbed Virginia's hand and started towards the door. She chatted happily with Virginia. Jet heard them talking as they walked to the door slowly.
"You know Auntie Virginia, Jet is really good at playing horsy. He let me ride on his back even though I can tell he didn't want to. He's really nice, don't you think?" Kaitlyn was saying.
Virginia blushed. Jet was good with kids even though he didn't know it. "Y-Yeah?"
"Yup. But he's not as good as you when it comes to playing tag."
Jet was trying hard to wash the dishes and hear them talking at the same time. Gallows, who was clearing up the table, saw this. He chuckled to himself as he saw Jet forgetting that the water was still running while he tried to hear what the girls were talking about. Soon, the water started spilling over the counter while Jet didn't notice a thing.
"Yo kid, if you don't start the dishes right away, there's gonna be a flood in here," Gallows pointed out with a smile on his face.
Jet practically jumped and quickly starting doing the dishes again. Virginia and Kaitlyn were already outside playing tag anyway. He couldn't hear them anymore from where he was standing.
"So, why'd you want to hear what Virginia thinks about you anyway?" Gallows asked.
Jet hid his burning face. "I-I wasn't…"
But the older mansnorted. "Yeah right. I know you like her, kid."
He turned even redder. "I don't know what you're talking about."
Clive suddenly appeared and stared at the quietness between Jet and Gallows, noticing the red tint on the younger man's face. "Why is Jet all red?"
"I was just trying to get Jet to admit his feelings," Gallows said slyly.
"Oh I see…his feelings towards Virginia?" Clive asked. Obviously, the whole house basically knew about it.
"Wh-Whatever. I don't know what you're talking about," Jet said trying to look grossly involved in washing the dishes.
"Heh. Don't try to hide it Jet," Gallows said, giving him more dishes to wash.
Clive looked as if he was thinking deeply. "But you do feel something for her, right? I mean she's so happy, caring, kind, gentle, strong, determined not to mention not bad with those pistols of hers, and of course she's nice to kids, helpful-"
Jet turned of the faucet and turned to face them. "Shut up! I don't feel anything for her!" he lied.
"But you still like her right?" Gallows said. He was on the verge of cracking up in laughter.
"Well…ummm…I mean no! Absolutely not!" Jet stuttered.
Clive and Gallows burst up in laughter whilehe just turned redder and redder by the second.
"Hey, what're you guys laughing about?" a female voice asked through an open window.
They turned to the window and saw Virginia there looking very confused and Kaitlyn who was jumping, trying to see through the tall window.
"AH! I mean…uhh hi, Virginia," Jet said turning his head to that she wouldn't notice the redness on his cheeks.
Gallows was trying to hold in his laughter. "Hehe, well we were trying to get Jet to tell us how he feels for y- OW!"
Jet had stomped on his foot…hard.
"Huh?" Virginia said looking at them curiously.
Clive looked nervous as he tried to explain. "Gallows was trying to explain that we were laughing because…uhh…well…Jet why don't you explain it?" he said while Gallows was jumping on one foot yelling and cursing in the background.
Jet stared at Virginia and immediately blushed red again. "Uhhhh…"
"Hmm?"she asked.
Jet forgot about the running faucet again when he melted into her eyes. Even from far away they were just as beautiful. "They were asking how I felt about you-" Jet stopped abruptly. 'I was in a trance cuz I was looking at her eyes, so I didn't realize what I was saying! SHIT!' "you-r coming back from the hospital!"he quickly finished.
"Why were you guys laughing?" Kaitlyn asked.
Silence.
Clive spoke first, "We were laughing because…"
"We thought it was stupid how I was mad at Jet before," Gallows quickly finished.
Jet looked at him with a confused face. 'Isn't he still mad?'
Virginia smiled. "It's great to know that you guys aren't arguing anymore."
"Y-Yeah," Gallows said nervously.
"But weren't they fighting about steak right before Auntie Virginia ca-"
Clive quickly covered his daughter's mouth. "Umm…kids these days, talking about the weirdest things…" He quickly whispered something to his daughterand her eyes lit up with glee and she didn't say any more.
Virginia shrugged and she and Kaitlyn went back to playing tag far, far away from the wide open window.
The three men sighed in relief.
As Jet slowly went back to washing the dishes, Gallows stopped him. "Hey, I'm really sorry for saying all those nasty things. Most of them weren't true,"he said.
"Most of them?" Jet said with a raised eyebrow.
He rolled his eyes, "Okay, okay, they all weren't true. I was just mad for you leaving. We really do need you in our team."
"It's okay, and I'm sorry that I called you an empty headed priest who knows nothing about helping people," Jet said with a grin.
Gallows narrowed his eyes, "You never called me that."
Clive quickly cut into avoid another argument. Gosh, these two just never change."Umm, Isn't it great that we're one big happy team?"
They all nodded.
"But Jet, if you love her, tell her. Because if you wait too long, she'll maybe find someone else…" Clive explained.
Jet didn't know what to do so he just nodded.
"Besides, you never know. Maybe she'll like you back."
Clive and Gallows exchanged knowing looks because they knew for a fact that she does like Jet back. Too bad it wasn't their place to tell their comrade.
"How can I tell her though? It's gonna be so embarrassing! Plus, what if she doesn't feel the same way? What if it ruins our friendship? What if it ruins the team? Ugh…I always ruin everything, don't I?" Jet said quietly.
"That's not true. But think positive. What if she does feel the same way? What if it doesn't ruin you friendship? What if it doesn't ruin the team?" Clive said wisely.
"What if you didn't ruin everything…" Gallows added.
Jet glared at him. "But Ican't tell her! I'm not even human…Am I supposed to be feeling this way?"
"Jet, shut up!" Gallows said angrily banging on the table. "We don't care who you think you are! We know that you're Jet, and that's all! So stop using that crap for excuses. YOU ARE JET! WE DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE SAMPLE STUFF!"
Jet looked at the floor. 'That's just what Kaitlyn said… '...you're just Jet.' I wonder if that's true. But Gallows is right. I can't use that as an excuse for not telling Virginia that I love her. So what if I'm a Sample?' He sighed. "Fine. I'll tell that I…like her…" Jet said.
"Aha! You do like her! Jet likes Virginia! Jet likes Virginia!" Gallows chanted, skipping stupidly around Jet.
Heturned red. "Shhhh! What if she hears you!"
Gallows laughed. "By the way, what did you say to Kaitlyn to make her quiet? Maybe I'll try saying that to make her quiet sometime," he asked Clive.
Clive smiled. "Simple. I said that if she's quiet, Jet will gladly give her a horsy-back-ride."
"WHAT! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT HURTS YOUR BACK!" Jet complained angrily.
-
Jet yawned. Birds were chirping outside and the sun was in the sky. It was morning.
As he got up he felt a pain in his back. 'Damn Clive. Making me give Kaitlyn a horsy-back-ride. My back hurts like heck.'
He looked around, rubbing his back. He and Gallows had to sleep on the living room floor while Virginia got the couch. Clive, Catherine and Kaitlyn all slept in their room. Jetshook his headas he saw Gallows sprawled on the floor with a blanket snoring loudly. But when his eyes reached the couch, all there was on it was a blanket.
'I guess she couldn't sleep with his snoring,' Jet thought.
Suddenly he heard his stomach grumble loudly. 'I guess I'm really hungry. That grumble was almost as loud as Gallows' snoring…almost…' he thought as he quickly sprinted to the kitchen, trying not to wake Gallows up.
But if he had waited a little longer, he would have seen Gallows sitting up, totally awake, smiling his butt off.
"The match up begins, you kids…" he said laughing like an evil villian.
-
Jet yawned and stretched as he walked towards the refrigerator.He rummaged through the contents ofit and sighed in frustration. They had used up most of the food last night. They had a big feast for Virginia's coming-back party. Gallows had suggested it, but Jet thought Gallows just wanted more food.
"Don't they at least have some fruit? An apple, orange anything?" Jet said, dying of hunger.
"There's some fruit here," a voice said behind him.
Jet quickly whipped around quickly and nearly jumped.
Virginia sat on top of the counter munching on an apple. She had been looking out the window which was next to the counter before Jet walked in.
He had almost fainted in surprise. "Virginia!"
She smiled brightly. "I scared you again, didn't I?" she asked sticking out her tongue at him playfully.
"H-How? Where?" Jet said turning red once again. He walked towards her.
"I was here all along," she said smiling.
"Oh."
Suddenly his stomach grumbled again. He turned even redder in embarrassment.
Virginia burst out laughing.
'She smiles and laughs so easily. But it somehow feels good to make her laugh…' Jet thought. Then he remembered what Clive told him yesterday. He had promised Clive and Gallows that he would tell her. But now that he was with her, it seems harder than it sounded last night.
"Jet?" Virginia asked him breaking him out of his thoughts. She had stopped laughing and was worried because Jet was just staring at her with his faceall red.
"Y-Yeah?"
"You seem really red! Did you catch a cold?" Virginia asked placing her hand on his forehead.
Jet immediately turned redder if that was even possible.
"You don't seem sick. But you're really red," Virginia said worriedly.
"D-Don't worry. I think I just got sunburn," Jet lied quickly.
Virginia seemed to buy it. She smiled lovingly. "That's good. Hey Jet, do you still want something to eat?"she asked holding out a red delicious looking apple to him. Jet quickly took it whilethe girlgiggled.
"Why're you here? Couldn't stand Gallows' snoring?" Jet asked, munching on the apple.
She laughed. "No. I just woke up early and I decided to sit here and look at the sunrise."
"Did you see it?"
"Yeah. It was beautiful!"
'Not as beautiful as you…' Jet thought looking at her as she happily explained how the sun looked.
"Hey Jet, why don't you sit?" Virginia asked pointing to the empty space next to her on the counter.
"Uhh...O-Okay." Jet jumped on the counter next to her.
For the next couple of minutes, they both were silent…and I may add they were also very red.
'Should I tell him how I feel now? No! Don't be stupid Virginia, he'll never like you back. But he might! Oh guardians, what do I do? Tell him? Don't tell him? Argh…oh god he looks so cute just sitting there. No! Stop it! He won't feel the same way! Okay, what are the bad things about him? Well he's really rude…not really anymore though…well he's always talking about that we need more money…not anymore though…wellhe alwaysputs himself in danger………because I always get in trouble…oh god I must be a burden to him! He must think I'm a useless little girl. This isn't helping. Think of more bad things about him, Virginia. Ummm he's really…'
Sheglanced at Jet and then she absentmindedly began staring at him completely.
'He's really…caring, handsome, helping, he has the most gorgeous hair ever, he has these eyes I can just get lost in…UGH! THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT WORKING!'
But little did she know, Jet was thinking of her too.
'Oh god, she's sitting right next to me! And we're all alone! What should I do? What should I do!I should just tell her.Wait, no. I'll just break the friendship. Okay. Think positive think positive think positive. If I tell her, she will NOT be mad. Wait ,I can't tell her. What will she ever think of a little useless thing like me! She's probably being nice to me right now because she pities me. She hates me… She hates me… She hates me… She hates me. Wait, no don't say that, Jet! She's not like that. She's just acting like her usual, lovable, dense, happy way. She DOES NOT hate you. Okay, I'll tell her. It's now or never…'
He turned to face Virginia, ready to tell her. But what he didn't expect was Virginia staring back at him with those pretty emeraldeyes of hers. She didn't even look like she noticed him turn around. She just kept on staring straight into his eyes. Their faces were so close that their noses almost touched.
Virginia finally noticed how close their faces were. She widened her eyes. 'He's even cuter up close…' She could feel his warm breath on her andwondered why he wasn't moving away. She couldn't move either though. His violet eyes paralyzed her.
Jet couldn't move if he wanted to. But of course that really didn't matter because he didn't want to move. Her eyes captured him fully and he could barely breathe. He was afraid that she might slap him though. But what happened next was totally unexpected. Their faces slowly got closer and closer.
But just about when their lips were to touch…
"Hehe…they're gonna do it! They're gonna kiss!"
"Be quiet, Uncle Gallows? They'll hear you!"
"Kaitlyn, don't be so rude."
"Catherine, Kaitlyn, Gallows, Shh…I want to see what happens."
Virginia and Jet quickly separated both blushing madly. The whispers came from the door leading into the living room. They turned their faces towards it and Jet knew immediately what was going on. He sighed. 'Argh…why'd they have to show up now!'
"It's Gallows, Kaitlyn, Catherine and Clive," Virginia whispered.
"They must be looking through the small keyhole there," Jet said.
"I guess…"
"Hey, wanna scare 'em?"he asked slyly. Virginia nodded. "Let's go." Jet grabbed her hand and ran out the backdoor.
-
"Shoot! I can't see them!" Gallows wailed.
"They probably heard your loud voice!" Kaitlyn argued.
Clive looked nervous as he tried to create peace between the two. "Both of you calm down.".
"I don't think we should even be spying on them," Catherine said in the background, "We should leave them be."
"Don't you wanna know if they confess?" Gallows asked. "I know I do!"
"I don't know…"
"Uncle Gallows, move your big head!" Kaitlyn complained, "I wanna see through the keyhole."
Kaitlyn and Gallows fought over the keyhole for awhile. This was getting them nowhere.
Clive sighed. "But Jet and Virginia should really confess. They're acting so timid."
"But it's cute watching them!" Catherine added happily.
"What do you mean we should confess?" an angry male voice said behind them.
The four slowly turned around to come face to face with an angry Jet and a confused Virginia.
"AHH!"
"Sheesh Gallows, you scream like a girl!" Jet said while covering his ears.
"Wh-What are you doing here!" Gallows asked.
"We should be asking you the same question," Virginia said.
Kaitlyn, Catherine and Gallows looked at Clive expecting him to answer.
"Dad will tell you, right Daddy?" Kaitlyn said.
Clive sweat dropped under Jet's glare. "Umm…we were…just…well…"
"Just going in to get breakfast started," Catherine said.
Virginia's confused face turned into a smile. "Oh is that it? Well we'd better get in to start! Jet's tummy needs food." She playfully tapped his stomach.
Jet blushed. "B-But wait!" he started. No one heard him. Everyone was already in the kitchen. Jet sighed. 'If it wasn't for Virginia being so dense, I would've killed them already.' Then he smiled to himself. 'But when Virginia gets dense like that, that even makes her cuter…'
Blushing, he quickly followed his friends into the kitchen.
