The next morning, Jasmine slowly stirred from her sleep, her head was pounding from the drinks they had last night, Revy who was already awake and dressed smiled slightly as she said, "About time you woke up, we have a Job." And Jasmine rubbed her eyes a little as she sat up in the bed and looked at Revy as she sleepily replied,
"What happened last night? All I remember is falling asleep after having a few drinks."
And Revy looked at Jasmine and smirked a little as she said, "Well, we had a few drinks at the Yellow flag and then I helped you into our hotel room after you could hardly walk from being so drunk, and you also said to me that you loved me and kissed me, then we both fell asleep with you laying on my chest, that about cover it short fuse?" After hearing that, Jasmine blushed deeply as she thought, "Oh god, did I really kiss Revy last night? What was I thinking?"
Seeing Jasmine blush, Revy let out a small chuckle as she said, "Relax short fuse, I ain't gonna tell anyone, come on we have a Job." So Jasmine quickly grabbed her sniper rifle and her beretta after getting dressed and walked out the door, Revy smiled as she followed after her before she said, "You can slow down a little ya know? Besides the kiss wasn't that bad, I kissed plenty of girls when I was in prison."
Jasmine then slowed her pace down a little as she looked back at Revy with a small blush still on her face as she replied, "Yeah, but this is different, I don't know if I like girls in that way, and...I don't even know if you like me in that way either, let's just get this Job over with." And Revy couldn't help but smile at Jasmine as they walked to the lagoon office, a small part of her did enjoy that kiss they shared and she did think Jasmine looked attractive for a girl her age.
Later
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When both Revy and Jasmine walked into the lagoon office, everyone could tell that something was different between them as Rock said, "Morning guys, I see you both aren't glaring at each other as much, what happened between you two last night?" And before Revy could have a chance to reply Jasmine blushed a little deeper as she quickly blurted out,
"Nothing happened between me and Revy! We just had a few drinks and went to our hotel room ok? Now, what's the Job we have to do?"
Dutch took a sip from his can of beer as he smiled and said, "Straight to the point, I like that, now the Job we have been assigned is that we are to retrieve an old German painting that was thought to be lost from a shipwreck." And Jasmine smiled a little as she replied,
"Ok, what are we waiting for then? Let's get out there and find this shipwreck before someone else does."
Benny then smiled as he said, "Alright, here is where supposedly where the submarine that was carrying the painting sunk. It won't be easy as the Germans will likely want their hands on the painting as well." And Rock then asked,
"Ok, so who will be going down there to retrieve the painting?"
Dutch took another sip from his can of beer before he smiled and said, "I have already decided that Revy and Jasmine will be the ones to fetch the painting, it's our Job to monitor them." Revy then had a huge smile on her face as she said,
"Yeah! let's go already."
Once they were on the boat and were travelling to the location of the shipwreck, Dutch walked up to both Revy and Jasmine with a couple of guns and handed them over as he said with a smile on his face, "Present from Balalaika." And Revy held her gun and smiled as she looked it over and replied,
"Awesome, sis never disappoints in the weapon department! Lemme guess, semi-auto?"
Dutch nodded is head as he said, "They're both semi-auto rifles, seeing as Jasmine's sniper is only effective at long range and you will both more than likely be in close quarters with the enemy." And Jasmine also smiled as she replied,
"Nice, I get a new toy to play with! This will be fun, let's suit up."
After both Revy and Jasmine into their scuba gear, Rock smiled at them as he said, "Be careful down there you two, the wreck itself might not be very stable." And Jasmine looked back at Rock as she replied,
"Me and Revy will have each other's backs down there, your Job is to monitor our progress, we'll be fine."
Before both Jasmine and Revy plunged into the sea and began diving down towards the shipwreck, Benny was looking at his equipment as both Revy and Jasmine's signals appeared on the screen before he said with some concern, "I just hope those two find what we are looking for, after all those tanks only have enough air to maybe last them an hour at most."
As Jasmine and Revy were getting closer towards the shipwreck, Jasmine pointed it out to evy and Revy just nodded her head before the swam closer and Revy blew a hole in the the torpedo launcher before they both then made their way inside. Once they were inside, both Jasmine and Revy removed their masks and began to look around the shipwreck and Jasmine was a little creeped out by the skeletons they saw.
They continued to look around before they came across a room that had the painting inside and Jasmine called out to Revy, "Hey, I think I found what we are looking for." and Revy came in the room next to Jasmine and smiled as she said,
"Nice Job short fuse, while we're here we may as well see what other treasures we can snag home with us."
Jasmine then smiled at Revy as she said, "I suppose so, after all, it's not like these people will need them anyway, and I guess a bit of extra cash would be good."
Back on top, Rock and the others saw a cruiser over the other side of the shipwreck and Dutch let out a puff of smoke from his cigarette before he said, "Shit, that don't look good." and Benny took a sip from his can of beer as he replied,
"I agree, after all there shouldn't be anyone out this far besides us."
Rock then suddenly realised that Revy and Jasmine could be in trouble as he said, "We have to get Jasmine and Revy out of there!" But Dutch just took another puff from his cigarette as he replied,
"Revy and Jasmine can handle themselves if they get into trouble. They know the risks of this job."
Meanwhile back in the shipwreck, Revy and Jasmine were just getting ready to leave when some German soldiers opened fire on them forcing them to take cover in the room where they found the painting before Revy fired a few shots of her own as did Jasmine killing a few soldiers before Revy said, "Of course it had to be fucking Nazi's, only they would want something this ancient." And as the bullets showed the room they were in, one bullet grazed Jasminein her shoulder and she grasped it in pain and Revy looked a little concerned.
Before Jasmine sprayed a round from her semi-auto rifle as she said, "You fucking assholes got a lucky shot, but it will take more than that to stop the angel of death!" And Revy smiled as she supplied cover fire, forcing a few soldiers to take cover before both Jasmine and Revy slowly started walking back to where the came in from, firing a few rounds at the soldiers before they left.
One of the soldiers screamed at the others as he said, "Don't let zem escape, we need that painting!" and a few soldiers put on some masks and a oxygen tank before they chased after Revy and Jasmine, as they were getting closer to the boat Jasmine looked back and saw that they were being chased so she looked at Revy as she said, "We're being chased!" and Revy turned around and sprayed a few shots of her semi-auto rifle as she said,
"You fuckin' Nazi's don't know when to give up do ya?"
As her shots killed a few of the soldiers chasing them, and as soon as they were near the boat both Rock and Benny helped Jasmine and Revy onto the boat before Dutch started to pull away from the shipwreck. Once Jasmine got out of her wetsuit, Rock went to treat Jasmine's wound before she swatted him away and said with a slightly annoyed look on her face, "I'm fine! I have had worse injuries you know, this is nothing." And Rock tried to reason with Jasmine,
"But if we don't get it looked at or treated, it could get infected."
Revy then joined in the conversation as she looked at Rock and said, "She said she's fine Rock, in my eyes if she can still talk and she can still breath it means the wound isn't serious or fatal." And Rock knew better than to argue with Revy so he just went inside to get something to eat, while Revy sat next to Jasmine on the boat and lit up a cigarette.
Jasmine smiled a little as she watched Revy take a puff of her cigarette before she asked, "Mind if you light me one?" and Revy smiled a little back at Jasmine as she took another cigarette from her pack and gave it to Jasmine before lighting it and said,
"I thought you said you didn't smoke? What changed, short fuse?"
And Jasmine let out a puff of smoke from her cigarette before she looked at Revy as she replied, "My old Job wasn't anywhere near as stressful, so I didn't see the need to smoke, but since my line of work has changed and I heard that smoking can relieve stress, I figured I may as well give it a try." Then Revy looked up at the sky as she said to Jasmine with a slight smirk on her face,
"Well, we break the rules a little to make sure there is food on the table, something tells me we are gonna get along just fine, short fuse."
Then Jasmine joined Revy with looking up at the sky and smiled slightly as she replied, "Yeah me too." before she thought to herself, "Roanapur, the city of the walking dead, it's full of criminals and low lifes and yet somehow I feel at home here, I feel like I belong here. Maybe it's the people I'm surrounded with."
Rock then came back up with some food for both Jasmine and Revy as he said, "Dutch wanted me to make sure you both got something to eat." But neither Jasmine or Revy paid any attention to Rock before he added, "I umm noticed that there isn't much bad blood between you two, so what changed between you two?"
Jasmine then glanced back at Rock as she replied, "Nothing has changed between me and Revy, I would still kill her in a heartbeat given the chance, but I respect her and her skills, that's all there is to it." and Revy looked at Rock as she said,
"Yeah, how stupid do ya have to be to not see that we still hate each other?, but we tolerate each other because we respect each other, nothin' more to it than that."
Although neither of them would actually admit to the other that they have feelings for each other, they acted friendly towards each other out of respect and afraid to show their true feelings to each other, before Rock placed the two cups of food on the deck of the boat and nodded his head slightly as he said, "I see, so it's a friendship out of respect then, anyway I'll just leave these here." before he then went back inside, leaving Jasmine and Revy alone together on the deck of the boat.
