Revy slowly continued to drag Jasmine back towards the car and to Rock, she knew she had to move quickly but it was difficult to walk and keep Jasmine upright at the same time, and as she continued to drag Jasmine back to the car she thought to herself, "The hell did she mean by she owes me a drink for this? But at the end of the day I can't complain, a drink is a drink."

Meanwhile Jasmine's vision was becoming blurry and she felt her body becoming weaker by the minute, she did her best to try and stay on her feet as to make things a little easier for Revy but her legs felt like they were going to give out on her any second. Her head dropped and Revy noticed this as she waved a hand in front of her face as she said, "Hey, short fuse, you still with me?"

Jasmine coughed up some more blood before she forced her head up as she looked at Revy and weakly smiled as she rasped, "Yeah, I'm not dead yet...don't worry…" and a small part of Revy was terrified by the response from Jasmine, she didn't sound as healthy as she did earlier and she knew if they didn't move fast she would lose her. So to try and save some time, Revy lifted Jasmine onto her shoulders and sprinted as fast as she could towards Rock.

Rock however, had just finished with their final client for today and was walking to the car when he noticed both Revy and Jasmine were missing and he thought to himself, "That's odd, I would have thought Jasmine would have been back from her walk by now, and Revy said she would be waiting for me by the car. I wonder where they could have gotten to?" and Rock didn't have to wait long to get an answer to his question as he saw Revy sprinting towards him with Jasmine on her shoulders as she called out to him, "Rock! We have a fuckin' huge problem!"

And Rock didn't even have to ask what the problem was, as he could see Jasmine was bleeding heavily and so he told Revy, "Get Jasmine in the car, I'll do my best to treat her wounds." And Revy didn't even answer back like she usually did, as she opened the back door of the car and placed Jasmine inside on the seats, Rock got in the other side and started to clean most of Jasmine's wounds before he wrapped some bandages around them.

He then climbed into the front seat and didn't even put his seatbelt on as he just put the key in the ignition and put his foot down on the accelerator as they floored it through the streets, as they zoomed by the red light district Rock asked Revy while keeping his eyes on the road, "Do I even want to know what happened Revy?" and Revy glanced back at Jasmine with some concern in her eyes before she looked back at Rock as she answered,

"It was those fuckin' Mexican cartel assholes from the other night, apparently their boss wasn't happy with his boys making an ass of themselves, so those assholes waited for Jasmine to be alone before they made their move. But Jasmine is just as stupid for thinking she could take those assholes by herself."

Rock then glanced over at Revy as he said to her, "Look, Revy, I get that you might find it difficult to trust Jasmine at the moment especially after we found out she was contracted to kill me, but perhaps if you talk with her and get to know her a little, you might find that you two have more in common with each other than you first realised."


A few hours later


Jasmine could hear some distorted voices, "Is she okay?" "How is she looking?" and as Jasmine opened her eyes and looked around, she could see that she was in Revy's room and she also looked down and saw the bandages around her waist and the bandage over her left shoulder, before she then slowly sat up and put her legs over the edge of her bed before she then heard Revy's voice in the doorway as she said,

"I see sleeping beauty is finally awake. You had us all worried."

and Jasmine looked at Revy as she replied, "I owe you a thank you for saving my life...and a drink." and Revy smiled a little at Jasmine as she walked into the room before she said,

"You don't owe me shit, except for that drink."

In that moment, both girls stared at each other, and Revy's hazel eyes met Jasmine's violet ones just like they did when they were at the yellow flag, there was a burning question in Jasmine's mind that she had to ask Revy, so she took a deep breath before she asked, "I have ask this, why did you save me? I thought you hated me especially since I tried to assassinate Rock?"

And Revy let out a puff of smoke from the cigarette she was smoking before she looked at Jasmine as she replied, "Why did I save your ass? It's simple, I didn't used to give a shit about anyone before, but then you came along and for the first time in my life you gave me a reason to care for someone other than myself, that's why I saved your life. But don't expect me to save your ass every single time, got that?"

Then Revy took another puff from her cigarette before she added, "And I don't hate you...not entirely anyway, but you do have some impressive gun skills and that I can respect, also Dutch has a point if we have you around then some of our jobs might be a little easier." And after hearing Revy's response, Jasmine sat there and thought to herself,

"So Revy doesn't hate me, not completely anyway, maybe this the start of us becoming friends. And I guess I don't hate Revy either, well...at least not as much as I thought I did, should I tell her how I feel about her? No, it's too early and she might not feel the same way about me."

Before Jasmine then tried to get up and walk but she stumbled a little and Revy rushed to catch her before she said, "Easy short fuse, you were out for sometime and your body needs time to adjust." and Jasmine smiled at Revy a little as she replied,

"I know, but I think the others would want to know that I'm fine and that I am walking about."

Revy smirked at Jasmine a little as she said, "On that I can agree, but let me help ya, at least until your body adjusts to being able to move again." before she then wrapped Jasmine's arm over her shoulder as they walked out of the room and into the main office together. When they walked in the main office area, Dutch smiled as he took a sip from his can of beer and said,

"Well, well, look who's up and walking about, even if she needs a little help from Revy."

And Jasmine smiled at everyone as she replied, "I'm tougher than I look, it will take more than the Mexican cartel to take down the angel of death." and Rock also smiled back at Jasmine as he said,

"It's good to see you are ok Jasmine, we weren't sure if you were gonna make it or not."

Then Benny smiled as he leaned over to Rock as he said to him, "Is it just me, or do you think Jasmine has grown on Revy a little?" and Rock smiled as he replied,

"Well, I think it is still a long way before Revy will consider Jasmine a friend and vice versa, but I think this is a step in the right direction for those two I think."

The phone then rang and Dutch went to answer it as he said, "Yeah?" and Balalaika said on the other end of the phone,

"Hello Dutch, how's work going for you?"

And Dutch took a sip from his can of beer before he said on the phone, "Work has been a little slow the past couple of days, but other than that it's been good." and Balalaika let out a puff of smoke from her cigarette before she replied,

"Good, don't worry Dutch I will have another job for you soon, but in the meantime could you put Jasmine on the phone for me?"

Dutch then looked at Jasmine as he held out the phone as he said to her, "Jasmine, it's for you." and Jasmine slowly stumbled over towards the phone before she took it and said,

"Hello?"

And Balalaika said on the phone, "Hello Jasmine, I understand that you had some trouble with the Mexican cartel yesterday." And Jasmine took a deep breath as she replied on the phone,

"I wouldn't say they caused me trouble exactly, but I did have some problems with them why?"

Balalaika then said on the phone, "Well, Jasmine, I want you to hear something that should hopefully give you some pleasure or comfort." and Jasmine could hear a member of the Mexican cartel over the phone as they said,

"You russian bitch! When the boss hears about this, he'll-"

Before Jasmine could hear some gunshots and the cartel member letting out screams of pain, before then there was silence, hearing those screams made Jasmine feel at ease, she usually hated hearing te screams of her victims but this time she took a some what sick pleasure in listening to the cartel member beg for his life and she let out a satisfied sigh.

Then Balalaika hung up the phone and Jasmine looked at everyone else before she said with a smile on her face, "Who wants to go and get some drinks?"


That evening


When Revy and the rest of the lagoon company arrived at the Yellow flag, Jasmine sat at the bar with Revy and Rock, except this time she was sitting next to Revy instead of Rock and Bao was busy wiping down a glass when he saw Jasmine and Revy and said, "What can I get you?" and before Revy could say anything, Jasmine smiled at Bao as she replied,

"Hey Bao, one glass of Rum and one glass of Gin please! Rock will have a glass of beer."

And Bao smiled back at Jasmine as he replied, "Certainly sweetheart, coming right up!" and Revy looked at Jasmine as she asked,

"You seriously drink Gin?"

Jasmine then smiled a little at Revy as she answered, "Of course, Gin is the only thing that will get me even remotely drunk, Beer tastes like ass and Whiskey is too strong for me, so I drink Gin instead." Before Bao then served them their drinks as he said,

"Here you go ladies."

Then Revy took a sip of her drink and smiled a little at Jasmine as she said, "Well, at least I know you're not afraid to touch the strong stuff, unlike Rock over there." And Rock looked over at Revy as he shot back,

"Hey! I almost matched you shot for shot last time."

Jasmine then turned in her seat as she looked at Rock and gave him a smile as she said to him, "The key word there being almost, trust me Rock I was keeping count of how many shots you guys had last time and Revy was still drinking her next shot while you were passed out on the bar, before I was rudey disturbed from my drink."

After a few drinks, Revy ordered another glass for herself and Jasmine, and Jasmine was already a little drunk as she slurring her words slightly while Revy wasn't anywhere near as drunk yet, Revy smirked at Jasmine as she began drinking her next glass of Rum as she said, "My god Jasmine, you weren't kidding when you said Gin can get you drunk, ya look like you can barely stand without the bar here giving ya support." And Jasmine looked up at Revy and smiled a little as she slurred in reply,

"See, this is why I don't touch Whiskey as I would be have been drunk ages ago, I...I love you Revy."

Revy then looked a little shocked at Jasmine before she looked at Bao and said, "As much as I would love to stay here and have a few more drinks, I think a certain someone next to me has had enough for one night, so I better get her to a hotel for the night, goodnight Bao." before she then gently wrapped one of Jasmine's arms over her shoulder and slowly walked towards the door of the bar.

When they got to the hotel, Revy kicked open the door as she slowly helped Jasmine walk into the room, but in her drunken haze Jasmine pressed her lips against Revy's, causing Revy's eyes to widen a little at the sudden action, sure she had kissed girls before when she was in prison, but back then she didn't feel any emotional attachment to them, but this...this seemed different and Revy felt something deep inside her stomach.

A small part of Revy wanted to push Jasmine off of her, but even she had to admit to herself if no one else that she thought Jasmine looked attractive, even in her current drunken state, but instead of pushing Jasmine away Revy started to kiss Jasmine back and their two tongues battled for dominance inside their mouths, before the two then slowly made it over towards the bed and collapsing onto it with Jasmine on top of Revy.

Revy then soon broke the kiss as she pulled away, and Jasmine just rested her head on her chest as she slowly fell asleep, while they were laying on the bed, Revy looked up at the ceiling not wanting to make any sudden movements to disturb Jasmine as she thought to herself, "My fuckin' god Jasmine, why of all people did I have to fall in love with you for? Maybe you can give me what I have always been missing in my life."

A/N: There you go guys, even though Jasmine may not have openly admitted to Revy she had feelings for her, it seems she found a different way to confess her feelings all be it probably not how she intended to confess her feelings. What will happen when the other members of the lagoon company find out? And will Jasmine's feelings for Revy affect their jobs going forward? Find out next time.