This is getting quite ridiculous… Ah... here's the continuation of the story. As usual, Ennis' thoughts. I put a little surprise inside. Really small one.

Warning: Totally ridiculous plot.

Disclaimer: Not mine…

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Jack stood there, Ennis' words echoed through the rain.

"Excuse me?" the Grimm said and Ennis could imagine one of Grimm's eyebrows rising up under the hood.

"Jack, I…"
"Ennis…"

The two men looked at each other as Grimm watched the tableau like scene. "What's…going…on…?" Grimm said in almost a whisper as if disturbing the two men's gaze is a total felony.

Ennis was cold but he felt warm inside. The warmth he had lost before but not this time. Not again. He flexed his fingers and clenched them into a ball. Happiness is not easy to achieve but damn, it sure feels good…

"I LOVE YOU, JACK! I'm so…" damn, here it comes "S…SORRY! I was scared , I was…" git them out! Git these fucking words out, now!

Ennis clamped his mouth shut again. He realized what he just said. He just claimed his love with another man, in the open, with the rain and the… the Grimm as a witness. There was that one second when he felt so free, to be able to say those words without fear and paranoid glances over his shoulder. He loved that moment. And he loved it better when he saw the cheerful grin crept on Jack's pale face again.

"Knew yer a man, En!" Jack said cheerfully.

Grimm stood there perplexed but he grabbed Jack by the collar. "No more dilly dallies, you're going now!" he tugged hard at Jack but Jack fought back. He tried to elbow Grimm on the stomach but failed. Ennis took a fast pace to save Jack but Grimm had already escaped into the light with Jack in tow.

"JACK!" Ennis shouted. He reached his hand out to reach the light but to no avail. The light was gone. Poof. "Hey, son of A BITCH! LET GO OF JACK!" Ennis shouted into the empty darkness.

Nothing. No answer. Ennis stood there. Jack's sudden departure was a pang of his life. Like the 'deceased' postcard he received long ago.

"Jack…" Ennis covered his face with his callous hands. He let his hands slowly slide from his face to his chin and let them rest at his side. Ennis was empty; in fact, he was so empty he did not realize what it meant. He only knew that that empty space was supposed to be occupied by Jack. Only Jack and the memories…

Ennis could feel a monster rising inside him, angrily tearing him apart, desperate to self-destruct for being so stupid and such a coward at the same time. Jack wouldn't have died if ya weren't such a pussy…!

Ennis grunted and knelt on the muddy ground. He punched the earth once, twice, the third tore through his fist's skin and the fourth made it bled. "FUCK!" Ennis shouted at the ground. He was on all his four, trying to grab onto what was real. Let the pain come, he did not care. His heart was wounded much worse than his hands and all because of his own fault.

"Jack…" Ennis' grunts turned into sobs. "Why…?" he was so sick of every blunder he had ever made, the rejection, the loss, every thing seemed to happen just to make his life a living hell. He changed his position into sitting. He was not sure why he was sitting on mud in the middle of the rain, but what he was sure of was that he was not sure what to do.

Ennis was busy wiping away his tears when the cheap lightning effect came back and landed six feet away from Ennis' left. There was thunder and the light came back. Ennis stood; maybe this was his chance to chase after Jack while the light thing was back again. Ennis was about to step closer to the light when a familiar voice rang through the air.

"Jack?"

Jack stepped out of the light followed by Grimm.

"What the hell are yeh doin' back here?"

"Em…er…" Jack was smiling sheepishly but Grimm answered his question.

"Wrong portal." Grimm snapped his fingers and the light was poofed away.

"Whaddya mean, wrong portal?" Ennis said in a demanding way. His head was still fuzzy from what happened just now. "What I mean…" Grimm plucked out a piece of glass stuck at his backside "is that that portal wasn't going where dead people go,"

"So, where did ya go?"

Grimm glanced at Jack who looked back at him. Then Jack answered, "a brothel,"

"A brothel?"

"Yeah, one a' the ladies were… well, doin' sumthin' with this other guy when we got poofed inside,"

Ennis was obviously surprised. He looked at the piece of glass in Grimm's hand which was plucked off his backside earlier. He gave a puzzled look.

"And, the nice lady threw us with bottles of wine, scotch and other alcohol stuff," Jack said to help solve the puzzle inside Ennis' head.

"Melissa's alcoholic," Grimm said casually.

Jack and Ennis stared at Grimm.

"What? So? I made a few acquaintances and friends here and there." Grimm replied defensively. He knew what was going through both the men's heads.

"Hey, Grimm…" Jack said slowly.

"YYYYEEEEESSSSSS?"

"Can ya let me live again?" Jack's request was straightforward.

"EK! Why would I wanna do that!" Grimm said as if Jack was telling Grimm to kill himself by stabbing.

"Fer the sake of…" Jack looked around at Ennis who shrugged his shoulders as response. "Ya know… jest fer the sake of it,"

"Oh… you're telling me to revive you again for the sake of nothing," Grimm said in an accusing tone. "Yep…em… maybe… geez! Can'tya jest lemme live again! What's so hard? It's not like ya hafta… ta…" Jack stammered at the sentence, "ta kill sumbody or sumthin'!" Jack gestured his hands around. He was desperate in Grimm's eyes.

"Alright, I'll do it."

Ennis and Jack looked at Grimm, dumb-founded. Could it be this easy?

"For a price," Nope. Nothing is free…

"If you have anymore cigarettes," Grimm rubbed his index finger and thumb together as if to say 'No cigarettes, no talk.' "I'll try my best to…ah…what's the word…"

"Fine!" Ennis replied. He jammed his pack of cigarettes into Grimm's hands and looked at Grimm angrily. He wanted Grimm to be quick and revive Jack.

"Jack's life worth only this much?" Grimm said and looked at the particular pack of nicotine glumly. Jack and Ennis stayed silent. That sentence struck them harder than Grimm expected. Realizing this, Grimm stuffed the pack into his pocket. "Just kidding. Don't take it so hard."

Jack and Ennis felt like killing the guy. Right now if they could.

"Right… Let me reincarnate you again as Twister," Grimm said and cracked his hands.

"Wa… Wait, what? Who? Who's 'at?" Jack said with surprise.

"A… y'know, that horse Ennis owned…" Grimm tried to finish the sentence but Ennis cut him short "Waitaminute, I don't have no fuckin' horse. I sold 'em last year." Silence relapsed between them. Ennis and Jack were in a defensive position as Grimm seemed to be trying to break his promise.

"I'm talking about Ennis from another dimension, 'Love Borned from Steel,' it's a story about…" Grimm stopped in the middle of his sentence as he noticed the perplexed plus surprise looks on Ennis and Jack.

Right, we're dealin' with a lunatic…

Grimm paused and examined the looks on the two men. Silent laughs escaped his mouth first, then followed by a fit of giggles and ended with Grimm laughing uncontrollably until he collapsed onto the ground. That was the last straw for Ennis and Jack.

"He, he, he…HA HA HA! DAMN! You guys look so FUNNY! HA HA HA! Hey, Jack, what are you, he he, doing… ACK!

Jack grabbed hold on Grimm's neck who was wheezing and swearing at Jack at the same time. The two rolled in the mud and when Grimm successfully topped Jack, he whipped out his mighty and famous scythe. "En! Grab the thing! The THING! ARGH!" Jack shouted like his life depended on it. Grimm swung the sharp blade at Jack's face as the target but Jack craned his neck to the side which luckily made the blade missed him.

Among all that commotion, Ennis finally obtained the weapon and conquered the situation. Still strong despite his aging body, he lifted the heavy scythe and pointed it at Grimm, his face strained with anger and hatred towards the being topping his lover. "Let go of Jack," Ennis made the command as clear as crystal. Grimm admitted defeat. He let go of the dark-haired man and stood a few feet away to ensure his own safety.

"Alright, Ennis…give me the scythe…" Grimm said using the most gentle voice he could manage.

"Not until ya do what yer promised," Ennis said while he watched Jack straightened himself up.

Grimm sighed and shook his head. "I hate humans, so stubborn..." he muttered to himself.

"Whaddyasay?" Ennis spat. Jack rested his hand on Ennis' arms to cool him down. He did not need to really touch Ennis to say what he wants to say. The both of them had understood each other quite well enough.

"I have a better idea. What if I was nev'r dead?" Jack suggested.

"Then you will need to prepare a lot of cigarettes for me," Grimm said playfully.

Jack grinned and he looked at Ennis. Ennis was still confused with Jack's devious plans.

-to be continued-

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That turned out quite… weird. Took me a week to write this. I hope you enjoyed the plot which is a little bit contradictory to the story. Ho ho! And… to MaineWriter, no hard feelings? I borrowed a tiny itsy bitsy bit of your fic in my story, that's ok right? Right? Right? Please don't sue me!