"Here." Virginia put some roasted rat in front of Jet. "You up?"
He groaned. Wiping the sleep from his eyes. "I had this great dream."
"Oh?"
He stared at her. He quickly went to the food. "Rat sucks." He muttered.
"I meant, 'Oh?', as in, tell me about your dream." Virginia glared.
He continued eating. He knew there was a fiery aura from her and eventually stopped. "Oh, well, it wasn't...that great. Nothing to mention."
"Oh, is that why I heard my name?"
He stood up embarrassed. "You heard that?" He squeaked.
"I...was joking." She blushed. "You were...Why was I in your dreams?"
"Uh...I was..." He scratched the back of his head with a light laugh. "Um...We were swimming in tons and tons of golden coins. Yeah, swimming...in gold...yeah." He trailed off.
She gave him a wary look not entirely believing his lie. "Well, whatever. I'm going to sleep now."
"Yeah...uh...You do that." He muttered as he walked off a bit cursing his stupidity as Virginia settled down for bed. He looked back to her. It had only been a minute and he could tell she was already sleeping. He walked back over slowly. He looked left and right and all around. Looked at her face. Then he placed his coat over her to keep her warm and quickly darted across the way until he was ten feet away. No one would know just how nice he could be as long as no one saw him or has any proof.
He sat there awhile looking around in those two corridors on the fourteenth floor of this ruin. He still was not sure if this was Shadow of the Sun though. He was thinking that this was the path to Shadow of the Sun still. He was expecting more of this place, and he knows this is not the ruin they are looking for. The way the halls are designed make it as if it were a route one took to get to some place important, and, not make it look like an actual important place.
Hearing a noise he moved down the hall. As he stood peering up the ramp they came down he noticed a strange air at his back. Turning he came face to face with someone he was not expecting.
"Hello, Jet."
"Oh, Emma."
"Good, you remember my name." She stepped back with a grin. "I love it when handsome men remember my name."
"I, uh, like the same." He blinked. "I mean, I like it when a beautiful woman remembers my name. Not a handsome man." He nervously replied.
"Yes, I was thinking that."
"Oh?"
"I can read minds Jet. I've been reading yours a lot. It interests me."
"Me?" He questioned. He glanced at Virginia who remained asleep. He was not going to think about anything, but that meant he could not come up with some form of plan. And, he could not know if around the corner near Virginia there was another who would be quick to kill her at a moment he attacked Emma. "Why me?"
"Well, you're...an android? That was one things that made me interested in you."
"Well, I have better features."
"Oh yes, of course, this chest of yours' for one." She gingerly moved her finger along his chest. "You have quite a build. And, you were able to climb that mountain with that girl on your back. Quite astounding."
"Yeah, annoying too."
"Well, Shadow of the Sun isn't the easiest of places to get into if you can't teleport like me."
"I would think so."
"So, Jet, what are you in this for? Why help that woman?"
"Virginia?"
"Oh, why do I ask? I know why. I can read your mind after all. Even when you're dreaming." She grins.
He blushed an looked away again scratching the back of his head. "You, uh, saw that?"
"Well, I tried my best to edit out the parts that you...Well, you know."
"Uh, I'm usually not that kinky."
"Well, it's only kinky the first time."
"Uh, yeah." Damn. She had a way of making him a blubbering idiot for some reason. "So, what are you up to?"
"Why did I come here?"
"Yes."
"Well, I'd like to get free from my prison here. You see, I'm a demon."
"You are?"
"A very human looking one, aren't I?"
"Uh, yeah."
"Well, all who lived on my planet are demons as well. Xavier, May, and March were all demons." She explained.
"Come to think of it, you're not the head honcho are you?"
"Me?" She laughed. "No, I'm not."
"Well, who is?"
"Wouldn't you like to know." She turned away. He thoughtlessly moved forward and spun her around wearing a glare. "Oh, you're serious. I'm so glad." She moved forward and took his lips. There was a kiss until Jet recognized what he was doing and then he pushed her away. "Oh, don't play hard to get Jet. Wouldn't you like to do the same you did to Virginia in those dirty dreams of yours?"
"You?"
"Jet." She softly said.
"What do you think?"
"Oh, I know EVERYTHING Jet."
"Oh, so, you know you were there too?" Jet scratched his left cheek. "That was PURE COINCIDENCE!" He protested.
"I'm sure." She mused.
He glared at her. "It was a dream. A dream is a dream. It's not real. I'm a guy. Guy's think stuff like that from time to time." He had grown up since the group broke up five years ago. By all technicality, he was about sixteen or so for real now. Seeing that he was about ten he would think when the group first met. At least, that's what he thought since Yggdrasil had happened ten years previous to that. So, he thought it only natural that he would just recently be changing in some ways if he was any bit human. "It doesn't...Wait, you like me?"
"Well, I may have controlled you, but," She covered her cheeks to block out her blush. "You really are a sweetheart Jet! I can see why Virginia loves you! AH!" She started twisting left and right to cover up her nervousness. You would think a mind reader would not be nervous. "Oh dear, did I say all that? That I like you? Oh no. Oh Dear!" She blushed even more and her face was soon redder than her hair. "I can't believe this!" With that she teleported away leaving a dazed Jet.
"Uh...That was just...a bit unexpected." Then his thoughts left Emma and moved onto something more important. "Who does she and those other guys work for?" He questioned. He looked around again. "Okay, I wish I had some sort of thought-blocking device." He agreed and crossed his arms. "I'm just going to play tic-tac-toe until that woman wakes up." He settled on as he sat across from Virginia and started playing in the dirt.
That was weird...Anyway, I gave you this bonus second chapter today so I wouldn't have to tomorrow! I'm going rafting...so...if you find a body in the nearby river help me out. Anyway, there'll be another exciting chapter on Sunday and maybe I'll add some action again, who knows, I make most of this up as I go.