Kjon and Jennifer's Audio Diary Log
Sept 25, 2621
I left Hadrick and Stacy behind when I ran towards the medical bay. As I made my way, I bumped into Ch'ris who was going in the same direction.
"You heard the alarms too?" I asked. Neither of us bothered to stop and just kept going.
"Yes." Ch'ris replied as we speed towards the medical bay. "Here, take this." He said passing me a combi-stick. Unlike me he'd been smart enough to go for weapons before deciding to address the disturbance.
After entering the med bay, we found everything in complete pandemonium. Doctors, nurses, and other personnel in the area were fleeing in terror, as a terrible sound could be heard echoing through the halls. Some of the personnel inside were doing everything they could to get away, while others tried helping some of the doctors and nurses move some of the other confined patients to safety. I was able to catch one of the doctors as he fled with a patient. "What's happening, Michael?!" I recognized him easily since he was one of the doctors who'd worked on my leg. "Michael! Look at me! What's happening?! What's going on?!" I asked him.
"The Hunter! He's-." He manage to get out right before we heard the sound echo through the halls again, this time more clearly. It was Jon. He was awake, and he was not in a cheerful mood. Probably another episode. I thought.
"Thanks. Get everyone out that you can, we'll take it from here." I told him before Ch'ris and I went in.
Warning. Catastrophic containment failure in Area A-2. Lockdown engaged. The automatic emergency computer voice said over the intercom as the bulkhead security doors activated, trapping everyone inside.
Perfect. I thought as we ran. Not only were we going to need to face Jon while he was having an episode, but we were going to be stuck in here with him with no room to fight.
Realizing it would be more dangerous to fight him with all of these people around us I immediately bolted for the nearest intercom, and spoke into it. "Beth, this is Jenny! If you can hear me, I need you to override the emergency bulkhead door systems! Jon is having an episode and there are people trapped in here with us!" I didn't bother waiting for her to reply, and followed Ch'ris. We found Jon in Room 12, where he'd cornered a doctor and two nurses. He was completely naked, having torn off his hospital gown during the excitement. The doctor's arm had been slashed. He was holding at it as he looked at the Predator in terror. He'd probably attacked Jon out of self-defense instigating the aggressive behavior.
"Jon!" I screamed grabbing quickly grabbing his attention. He turned around, giving us an angry feral look. His mangled visage made it even more terrifying than before. We drew our combi-sticks. Thankfully, before the confrontation could become possible, the emergency bulkhead doors opened, allowing access to the rest of the facility. Beth had gotten my message. Seeing his opportunity to escape, Jon bolted.
We attempted to follow him around the facility and cut him off, but he easily evaded us. Thankfully the marines arrived on the scene to help. Most of them went to help everyone else out, while the rest tried to help us follow Jon. Thinking about it, that was actually kind of stupid. Jon was acting like an instinctive animal, trying to trap an animal when it's threatened is never a good idea, especially when the animal in question could easily take someone's head off. Then again it would've also mitigated the probability of anybody else getting hurt, and it would've also prevented Jon from hurting himself even further. Yes, Jon's condition had been stabilized, and aside from some minor fragmentation in some of his bones that had yet to be repaired, he was alright, but that didn't guarantee anything.
Some time while we were chasing him, we managed to pin him inside the Artifacts storage area. Ultimately we decided to split up and form a pincer maneuver on him. I took half of the group and went around the left, while Ch'ris took the other half and went to the right. As we moved into position... Warning. Unauthorized removal of Artifacts No 4213, 2287, and 7461. Security staff to Artifact Storage. Use of lethal force authorized.
"Oh crap!" I thought. Before I could think of what to do, we heard a short, loud, ominous beeping sound, followed by an explosion. Jon had set off a mine. No one had been hurt, but that wasn't his intent. His episode had passed some time during the chase, and with everyone running around trying to trap him like this...
I saw a cloaked figure jump down from the catwalk stairs. A marine from Ch'ris' team tried rushing Jon. He successfully managed to tackle him to the ground, but that resulted in him getting hit in the gut before Jon nailed the poor marine in the groin. With his attacker pushed off, Jon got back up and ran. He didn't slow down and charged right through a window ,escaping outside. Ch'ris and I tried to make it to the window, but we were to late. He was already gone. Hadrick tried having the marines set up a perimeter, but Jon easily broke through it, disappearing into the jungle.
"Damn it!" I cursed when I heard the news. A couple moments later I found out, that when Jon had woken up, the doctors had become scared and forcefully tried to sedate him, instigating his aggressive behavior. And when we'd tried to pin him down, all we'd succeeded in doing was scaring him away. It was evident that if we were going to get Jon back, we were going to need to go looking for him.
/
I found myself in the Nightmare Desert again. Thankfully nothing was waiting to attack me this time.
After a couple seconds of waiting, looking out at the biome around me, a luminous presence materialized beside me.
"Kjon." Mom called for me.
"Mom." I replied happily as I saw her form standing over me. I immediately pounced to my feet and threw myself at her, wrapping my arms around her in a hug.
"Hey, Cazador Hermano." Mitchelle said. Argr-lo, Julia, and the rest of my Hunter Siblings were standing beside her. All of them looking at me with soft smiles. It's finally over. I thought joyfully as I saw them. I had finished everything that was necessary of me, and now I could finally come home to my family.
"You've done well, youngblood." Argr-lo said with a proud look on his face as he and the others stepped forward.
"Not bad marine. Not bad at all." Julia spoke.
"Is it finished?" I asked. "Is everybody safe?" I needed to know for sure.
"You tell us, bro?" Rich spoke with a bit of sarcasm.
"Yes, my pup. All of your friends and the colonists are safe." Mom answered with a soft purr, putting me at ease.
I embraced her once more for a short moment. It'd been so long since I could cherish a moment with her like this, I just couldn't help myself. "Can we go home now?" I asked everyone after cuddling Mom for a short moment. I couldn't help but ask. I just wanted to be home with them in the worst way... but... Mom's smile dropped into a disheartened frown when I asked that, as did everyone else. "W-What's the matter?" I asked ,confused.
"Hey. Kjon... I hate to have to tell you this, but... you're not coming back with us." Rich answered.
"W-What and do you mean?" I asked ,shocked by the answer.
"It's not your time yet, Hermano." Michelle replied.
"B-But I... I-I thought..." I stuttered.
"We never said you were going to come home." Argr-lo told me.
"Afraid you don't have permission to die yet, kid." Julia said.
"The Lord still has work for you to do, Kjon." Taylor said with a frown.
I shook my head as I heard their response. What do you mean there was still work to do?! I thought it was over?! I'd done everything that was asked of me?! What more is there to do?! Why can't I come home?! Why can't I be with my family?! I thought as tears began to stream down my face.
"I-I... I don't understand..." I said trying hard not to chock up, and failing.
"I am sorry my sweet little suckling. I want you back in the worst way. All of us do. We don't wish to deny you of your peace like this, but it is not up to us. N'yaka-de says you must stay. He says there are others down there who need you worse than we do." Mom said to me. Instinctively, I grabbed onto her, and began crying into her shoulder.
"No... No... I don't want to go back..." I objected.
"Kjon... I don't know what else we can tell you. We don't want to hurt you like this. But you can't come back with us. It's just not your time yet." Taylor said.
"I don't care... I don't want to go... I don't want to leave you guys... I don't want to be alone again..." I shook my head in refusal.
"Kjon. Look at me, my son." Mom said pulling me away from her shoulder for moment. "I understand you miss us. We have missed you too. I miss you, my son. But I have no control in this matter. N'yaka-de says it is not your time yet. It hurts me to say it as much as it does you, but it is his rule. I am sorry... I am sorry." She said as she began to sob.
"We all are, Kjon. But there are others down there that need you." Willie spoke as he and everyone else began comforting me.
I'd waited so long for this... I'd worked so hard... I was so eager to be with them again... I was so sure that this would be it... but it wasn't... As painful as it was, that was just how it was. It wasn't my time yet. There were others down there who still needed me. There was I or anybody else could do about it. Although, that didn't mean I'd never come home, nor did it mean I'd never see my family again. I'd just need to wait a little longer that was all. Sure it would be painful, but that was just how it was. Besides, things might be easier for me now that Weyland was gone. It was a small hope, but it was better than having no hope at all.
After our comfort cuddling was over, I was able to dry my face and look at them straight.
"Better now, young-blood?" Argr-lo asked in a less than sympathetic tone.
"Yeah." I answered.
"Good. Now get that stupid look of your face, marine." Julia said in an apathetic, but light hearted manner. I did as she told me too.
"So I don't have permission to go home with you guys." I said to myself. "Tell Master I will do as He wishes me to. I don't want to, but, I'll do it." I said to them.
"Thank-you, Kjon." Mom said. "Please don't be angry with us, my son." She said as she wrapped her arms around me.
"I'm not mad at anyone, Mom. But... I was so close... to being with you guys again..." I stammered awkwardly.
"Do not fear, young one." Argr-lo spoke as he and the others began to surround me, wrapping me in another loving hug. "Your time will come soon enough." His voice sounded distant, like he was moving away, when he was standing right beside me.
"We'll miss you ,Hermano." Michelle said softly, her voice also began growing distant.
"I'll miss you too." I said softly as I felt their warmth slip away from me. "I love you all."
"I love you too." Mom's voice began to grow further and further away like the others. All I could see of her was fading away, like sparkling dust. "We'll always be with you, my son." Her loving voice was nothing more than a soft whisper. And just like that, they were gone.
I felt a soft smile creep over my face. "I'll always be with you too."
Unfortunately when I woke up, it wasn't as peaceful...
/
Ch'ris and I immediately began assembling a team together to help us look for him. Rachelle also readied herself for the search, but we denied her. She was pregnant and we couldn't just endanger her children like that. Despite how forceful we were about it, she wasn't going to back down. Not wanting to stall any longer, we begrudgingly allowed her to come with, although we made sure to have someone around her at all times just in case.
We flew towards the area the marines had seen Jon last, and began searching there. We searched for days, looking for any sign of Jon, a trail, a track, some blood, any sign we could use to find him, but we found nothing. We even tried locating the wristbracer he'd taken, but he'd discarded it. Most yautja were stealthy yes, but Jon was different than most yautja, that and he knew the jungle better than any of us. The forest was practically his home. He could've been anywhere. Jon could've been watching us and we wouldn't have known it. For all we knew, we'd scared him so bad he didn't bother stopping and just kept running. I couldn't blame him.
The nights we spent camping reminded me of the nights Jon and I used to spend together when we first met. It had felt like it was just yesterday, yet at the same time it felt so long ago since it'd happened. Meeting Jon had been the best thing to ever happen to me. He'd cared for me, protected me, and taught me how to take care of myself. And I returned his kindness by stabbing him in the back. I couldn't get over it and I didn't think I ever would. Serves me right. I'd cry myself to sleep thinking about it. Still I wasn't going to let my guilt stop me from finding him. I needed to apologize to Jon, I needed to make things right. I didn't care what it would take or how much it would cost. Even if he didn't accept I still had to try; it was the right thing to do.
After a week of searching, everyone had just about given up.
"It's no use, Jenny. We've searched as much as we can. We're not going to find him." Rachelle told me.
"He's out there Rachelle. I know he is." I told her.
"Jenny, we've found nothing since we first started looking. To go even further now would be pointless." Ch'ris said taking his mate's side.
"We just haven't been looking hard enough." I replied stubbornly.
"Jenny." Ch'ris said, clicking his mandibles in frustration.
"No Ch'ris! It's my fault for what happened to him! I'm not going to stop unless we need to, or until we find him!" I snapped. I'd hurt them with that remark and I could see that I had. They were just as upset and tired as I was. They wanted Jon back just the same as I did, but they could tell that this was pointless. "I'm sorry Ch'ris... I'm sorry Rachelle..." I apologized.
"You need not apologize. You are just as exhausted ,if not even more so than the rest of us." Ch'ris excused me as he wrapped a supporting arm around me.
"I just want to find him..." I sniffled as I rested my head against his chest.
"I understand. So do we." Rachelle said reassuringly as she joined us.
"And I have no doubt we will. We are all just tired from what has happened." Rachelle said.
"One more day... One more day guys... and then we'll head back. Alright?" I proposed. They both growled softly in agreement.
Not long after that, one of the marines called for our attention. "Hey! Miss Weyland! We got something!"
Eagerly, we came to see what they'd found. It was the carcass of a mutilated brear-hog. Claw marks raked across it's skin, and there were parts of the mammoth sized pig missing, some of which looked like they'd been bitten off. The corpse was still fresh. It'd probably been killed earlier that morning just before we got up.
"He must've been hungry." One of the marines added.
"Clan Leader." A young-blood called out, pointing towards a set of tracks, and some of the brear-hogs dried blood.
"They're Jon's. They have to be." I said after Ch'ris and I took a closer look at them.
Eager with his discovery, the young-blood enthusiastically sprinted into the jungle to follow the trail. "Nei-dl'epha!" Ch'ris tried calling for the young blood to come back ,to no success. "Ready the others. Tell them of what we've found. I will go after him." Ch'ris said before following after the youth.
"Miss Weyland!" Another marine called out. As we came to look at what they'd found, I noticed something off. It seemed like there were some of us missing. I thought nothing of it though, and kept focused. The marines had found the remains of a giant yellow-banded zomy frog. The massive three-foot long amphibian had been flayed. The scent of the frog's skinless husk, coupled with the sight of flies and maggots feasting on the body made me want to gag. "Think this was, him?" The marine asked.
"Yeah. This had to be him." I said, sensing a bad feeling as I looked down at it. Before I could say anything though, one of them tried turning it over with the barrel of his rifle. "NO DON-!" I screamed, but it was too late. The marines were caught in a net trap leaving them suspended in the air. We began trying to help them, but as we did so a yautja suddenly roared in pain. We abandoned the marines to aid the Hunter. The rest of us came to investigate as well. It was then that I noticed that there were only eight of us left. I told Rachelle about this as the rest of us tended to the wounded yautja's leg. Something had cut a nasty gash in his leg, crippling him.
"It was him! I saw him!" The yautja growled in agony, as we treated his injury. We didn't need to ask who "he" was. Rachelle and I gave each other an uneasy look. While this was happening we heard the marines we'd left behind scream in terror before suddenly falling silent. We readied ourselves ,forming a defensive perimeter around the wounded warrior. We remained silent as we scanned the forest around us, listening for any sounds, and watching for any sudden movements. Some of the yautja with us had their bio-masks on, but they couldn't detect any heat signatures. After about five terrifying ,but uneventful, minutes we all were able to calm down.
"We need to get the hell out of here." One of the marines said.
"We can't just leave them out here! We've got to find them!" Another ,braver, marine began to argue. Before she could say anymore though, she was ripped up into the air, from her back, screaming bloody murder as she was being taken. It all happened so fast we couldn't properly see what had taken her. Suddenly she went silent. Her pistol fell to the ground seconds afterward.
"Fuck this!" The other marine said as he ran.
"Hollingsworth! Hollingsworth! Dammit, get back here!" One of the older marines who was still with us called for the marine ,to no avail. "Shit." He cursed under his breath.
"Here, get this Hunter out of here. Rachelle and I will continue on." I ordered helping the injured yautja to his feet before passing him over to the marine and one of the remaining yautja warriors. "We're supposed to be protecting you!" The marine protested.
"We're supposed to be finding Jon, and you're supposed to make sure we're all safe while we do that!" I told the marine. He gave me a nod a couple seconds after I said that. I think I'd surprised him when I'd said that. As he and the two remaining yautja warriors carried the wounded Hunter to safety Rachelle, and I, along with the two remaining marines continued.
We quickly sprinted away from the area to put some distance between us and Jon ,for what little good it did us at least. "Jennifer!" Rachelle called for my attention. "The marines! They're gone!" She said pointing behind us. We suddenly saw a dark form fly through the trees ,startling us. Rachelle brought out her combi-stick, as I instinctively flexed my wristblades. We stood back to back and quietly crept through the forest floor, watching for any signs of movement as we went.
Before long we found one of the marines. She was bound and gagged to a tree. At first we thought she was dead until she turned her head, and began mumbling for help. Rachelle and I cautiously stepped towards the marine, carefully looking under our feet for traps, while also keeping an eye on what was around us. Thankfully nothing stood between us and the marine. As we began helping her down, Rachelle's foot was lassoed by a red-laser line.
"Jenny!" She screamed for help as she fell on her back, and we ripped into the brush.
"Rachelle!" I screamed as I ran after her. I tried to catch her, but I was too slow. I tried to find her, but she'd also disappeared into the jungle. "Rachelle!" I tried calling for her again, but no reply came.
I went to go back for the marine so I could at least free her, but as I turned around, I suddenly felt something wrap around my feet before I was pulled up. Two more red-laser lines shot at me as I ascended, wrapping themselves around me, pinning my arms to my sides. I hung upside down like that for several seconds, trying uselessly to cut myself free with my tail.
I noticed something move out of the corner of my eye. It was difficult to see hanging upside down like I was, but I could see him. I watched as Jon slowly crept away from the trunk of the tree he hid in front of. He'd covered himself in mud to mask his body heat, and providing excellent camouflage for himself. It worked so well that I didn't even notice he was there. He clicked his mandibles together in an ominous growl, as he slowly creeped along the branch. He'd stolen a bio-mask when he'd escaped so I couldn't see his face.
"J-J-Jon?" I called him, stuttering fearfully. Despite how threatening he appeared, I didn't notice that he was keeping his distance. "J-Jon?" I called to him again. This time he backed away, giving a fearful sounding growl as he did so. "Jon?" I called to him a third time, less worried than I was before. He paused for a moment, before nervously looking away, and began running "No! Wait! Please! Please, Jon! Please don't go away! Please! Please! Please don't go away, Jon! Please! Please don't go!" I screamed. Jon stopped running when I begged for him to stay. He nervously turned around, and slowly crept towards me, growling nervously as he came. He stopped just a couple of feet away from me. "We're not here to hurt you. I promise we won't." I told him. He moved closer just a little before he began removing his mask, revealing his broken face to me again. He wasn't angry like I thought he was before. He was scared.
The fearful look, coupled with the damage on his face, caused me to cry.
"J-Jenny?" Jon uttered my name softly. "Jenny?" He said again curiously.
"I'm sorry, Jon... I'm so sorry..." I apologized to him ,finally. "I'm-I-I should've believed you... not Dad... I'm sorry that... that I hurt you... You were right... and I... and I was wrong... I'm so so sorry... You did nothing to deserve what I did to you... and I... I... I'm so sorry that I treated you wrong... Y-You did nothing... Y-You didn't kill th-em... and I... and I realize that now... and... and... I... I-I... I... I'm... I'm so so sorry..." I stammered awkwardly as I cried. I was so upset seeing him so scared and broken like that. He didn't do anything to deserve that!
I felt him carefully hold me up with his stump arm so that I couldn't fall as he cut me down with his claws. "I-I'm so sorry... You didn't kill my friends... Y-You didn't do anything to them... I-I should've believed you... I'm sorry... I'm sorry that I did this to you..." I sobbed as he cradled me securely in his arms.
"P-Pyode?" He addressed me. That just made it feel even worse.
"No... No... I'm not..." I told him. I didn't deserve such a honorable, kind, and loving name as that.
"Pyode?" He addressed me again. I glance up at him long enough to see him form a short tearful smile. He missed me. I knew he still cared about me, but I still couldn't believe it. I forcefully shook myself away from him. It didn't feel right that he was comforting me when I didn't deserve it.
"What's the matter, Jenny?" Jon asked.
"I don't deserve it. Not after everything I did to you." I replied.
"Jenny-." He tried to say something.
"No, Jon! I don't! Look at you! Look at what I did to you! I betrayed you. You loved me, and I returned your love by stomping on you. I believed what Dad told me about you! And because I did you're like this now. You... the bad bloods... the fighting... the colonists... all of it's my fault. All because I didn't believe you. Even when I knew you had no reason to lie to me... and I just threw you away."
"Jenny-." He tried again, but I didn't give him any room to talk.
"You've done so much, and I just made your life so much worse. I don't deserve someone so good as you. You don't deserve a stupid bitch like me." Suddenly I felt him slap me on the face.
"How dare you say that about yourself!" Jon said angrily.
"It's true!"
"No, it isn't!" He growled impatiently. I stopped talking long enough to listen to him. "You didn't do this to me. This is not your fault. None of it is. You aren't the one who hurt me, you didn't hurt the colonists. Your dad did that. Not you. He lied to you. He lied to everyone. It's his fault, he's the one who hurt me. You didn't do anything."
"No. I did this. It's all my fault."
"How?"
"I believed Dad. He told me you killed Dr. Reida and the others and I believed it. Even when I had no reason to think you'd ever do such a thing... I chose him over you."
"How could you choose me over your family?" He replied sympathetically. I just shook my head in disbelief.
"H-How?" I asked in confusion.
"Because I know how it feels to lose someone you love. I know how much it can hurt. I understand... You'd just learned your friends died and you were stressed, you were angry. You didn't know. Your dad lied to you, and you didn't know it." He said with a soft understanding look in his eye.
"But... I... I... all those people... and you..." I stuttered awkwardly.
"Jenny, none of that was your fault. You didn't know any of that was going to happen. You didn't know the bad bloods were going to come. You didn't know your dad was going to invite Zell-oah and Brick. You didn't know it was going to happen, and I know you didn't want any of it to happen. None of that was your fault, it was your dad's fault. You may think your responsible but your not." He continued.
"But if I hadn't believed his lies, maybe you could've been here to do something. Maybe we could've been more prepared to stop them."
"They surprised you just as much as they surprised me, Jenny. There was nothing we could've done." I was about to say something, but he stopped me "I've been down this road before, Jenny. There is nothing that can be done about it." He explained. We paused there for a moment and stared at each other.
"I... I don't understand... How could you still love me though... After everything I did do... I still hurt you..." I said ,tearfully, looking at the cut I'd put between his right mandibles.
"How could you love me after how mean and stubborn I was to you?"
"W-What do you mean?"
"Jenny, before I met you I was very unhappy and bitter. Even when you tried to show me affection, I threw it back. I didn't want to be with you, because I was scared, but I was still mean to you about it." Jon explained running his claws gently across my cheek to wipe away a tear. "I still ask how you fell in love with me like you did, but I'm still every bit as grateful that you did as the day it happened. You helped me. You saved me. And no matter what you say or think. That is the truth. You gave me something to live for, you made me see that there was something in life that was still worth living for. You are that reason, Jenny. You made me the happiest person alive when you did that, and despite what you think, I will never regret the day I met you, or the day I fell in love with you." Jon said as a soft smile graced his mandibles.
I was amazed. I couldn't think of anything to say. At first I couldn't. He wasn't wrong, I didn't intend for any of this to happen. And even though I hurt him, I wasn't completely at fault for it. It felt like most of the burden I'd put on my back had suddenly gone away. Heck it was never really even there to begin with. But just because that was the case, that didn't mean I was completely innocent either. I still hurt him, and I still had to make it things right.
"Thank-you. Thank-you so much, Jon. But I still don't believe I'm not to blame for what happened to you." I told him.
"Jenny-" He spoke but I stopped him.
"No, Jon. I want to make things right. I'll give you whatever you want. It doesn't matter what it is or how much it costs." I told him.
"I don't want your money, Jenny. It means nothing to me." He said as he gently wrapped his hand behind my head. "You're all I want, Jenny. I just want to be with you again. That's it." He answered. I couldn't believe it when he said it. He saw the surprised look in my eyes and returned it with a smile. "Doo doo doo doo doo doo. Doo doo doo doo doo. Doo doo doo doo doo doo." He began singing softly "Where'd you wanna go? How much you wanna risk? I'm not looking for somebody with some super human gifts. Some super hero. Some fairy tale bliss. Just someone I can turn to. Somebody I can kiss. I want someone just like you." There was a quiet pause for a moment as I thought.
At first I didn't want to accept, because I was afraid I'd hurt him again. But then I remembered what Jon had just told me, about what I did for him one year ago. He was trying to do the same thing for me. Dad had taught me a few things about business over the years, and one simplest but most important lessons he taught me was that when I saw an opportunity, I should take it. I wasn't going to let this one go, nor would I throw it away again. I felt a smile begin to wrap around my face uncontrollably.
"I love you, Jon!" I told him as I joyfully began to cry. His smile brightened when I said that, before he embraced me tightly in his arms.
"I love you too, Jenny." He said with a purr of his mandibles. We remained like that for a moment before we embraced each other for a soft loving kiss. I wrapped my tail around him as we did so. After our loving, he wrapped me under his arms again and began rubbing his mandibles against my hair. Thank-you, Master. Thank-you... I thought.
After our short comfort cuddling ended, I spoke. "Jon?" There was something I wanted to ask him.
"Jenny?" Jon said my name at the same time I said his. "You go first."
"Jon... May you baptize me?" I asked in awkward nervousness. "I know this sounds like a weird request, but I've had a change in faith since I met you. And I want to be baptized."
Jon smiled after I asked that. "I'd love to, Pyode." He said without hesitation, as he continued holding me.
"What's your question, Jon?" I asked him.
"Uh..." He seemed more nervous about his question than mine.
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"It's just it... it kind of... pertains to the question I wanted to ask you... you know... last year... before your dad..." He stammered. Thinking about it, I remembered he did want to ask me something before dad and the Task Force ambushed us. He'd felt very nervous about it then just like he was now.
"What is it?" I asked.
He looked down awkwardly for a moment, before finally closing his eyes and quickly spat it out. "Will you be my eternal mate, Jenny!?" He spoke.
"What?" I asked.
"Will you be my eternal mate, Jenny?" He asked again, slower this time. He had an uncomfortable look on his face when he asked it, and was shaking nervously. "I'm asking if you'll marry me, and be sealed to me." He clarified. I paused. "Jenny, you're one of the greatest gifts the Lord's ever given me, and I want to share my life with you, and I don't just want it to end when either of us dies. I want to love you as my mate for longer than that... A lot longer..." He explained. "Will you be my eternal mate, Jenny?" He asked again this time with more confidence in his voice.
I began to laugh joyfully. "Yes, Jon." I accepted his proposal. "I'll be your eternal mate." I told him as he looked at me hopefully.
He began to laugh after I said that. "Thank-you..." He purred as he held me close to him. "I love you so much, my Pyode Tarei'hsan."
"I love you too, my Fire Angel." We kept ourselves braced together like that for a moment. We were about to share another warm kiss when...
"Crap." Jon exclaimed.
"What's the matter."
"Uh... I left everyone else hanging." He answered.
"Oh, yeah."
"Yeah, let's finish this once we get back. Okay?" He proposed as he quickly cut the laser lines trapping me.
"Okay."
Alright. Finally almost there. Sorry this one took a while to get to. I've been working like a madman trying to get school finished, and I've also been trying to help my parents with a couple projects they have going on. I've also been trying to focus my efforts on a couple other projects, but excuses, excuses... Anyway. Thank-you NeverNeverGirl for all the help with this. It's been almost a year since I started this, and despite how long it took and how many distractions got in my way I'm almost finished. I honestly never thought I'd reach this point but I'm glad I'm almost finished with it. Thank-you. Also there are just a few more chapters left before this is finished, but I'll try to get some more work done before the end of the month. Bye.