A/N: I don't own any Puppet Master characters, they belong to Full Moon Features and Charles Band. I do however own Archer, Elizabeth and Wildcard, Lucy and Mystic and as normal when the puppets speak it will be in italics.
Also thank you Cryptic for letting me use Jinkx and Irya in this story.
Archer let out a yawn.
True she didn't need to watch Jinkx but after what happened how could she not.
She felt herself drifting off due to the elixir running out for her and let her mind wonder.
….
Flashback
Archer let out a pained groan as she woke up.
Where was she?
Looking around it was clear she was no longer in a cage in Gallagher's attic, but rather a spacious room filled with light from the sun outside.
"Hello?" She called out looking around worried.
Her concern grew not seeing any of her brothers.
"Guys!" She shouted hoping for one of them to answer.
Her stomach dropped hearing human sized footsteps.
She scurried away to find somewhere to hide.
She managed to find a spot under the computer desk if the layed on her stomach.
By the time the door to the room opened Archer was trembling from her hiding place.
"Don't let him find me." She repeated quietly.
"Jasmine?"
Archer paused hearing Jinkx's voice.
She recognised it as the voice she had heard from the attic before herself, Jester and Pinhead had been moved.
But still she kept silent.
"What are you doing down there?"
Archer looked over hearing Jester's voice.
If she wasn't so terrified she would have found Jester kneeling in front of her amusing.
"What does it look like!" She asked, her voice reflecting her fear.
"You don't have to hide, this ones nice. She's been fixing everyone up." Jester said with a chuckle seeing Archer.
Archer shook her head.
"No she's going to hurt us like the other one." Archer protested.
"Stop being silly and come out." Jester said reaching out to her.
He frowned when Archer backed away.
"Arch?"
Archer kept herself as far back as possible.
Jester stood back up concerned.
He'd never known any of them to have that reaction to a new master before.
He looked over at Jinkx concerned hoping she could coax her out.
He knew Six Shooter and Blade were still being worked on otherwise they'd probably have more luck.
Jinkx gently picks up Jester and puts down a small soft animal from Archer's childhood.
"It's ok, you don't need to be scared of me... Archer." Jinkx said gently.
Archer slowly inched herself forwards until she could see Jinkx who was sitting on the bed with Jester.
She eyed her suspiciously.
Jinkx gave her a warm smile.
It would take a few hours of coaxing before Archer even left the bottom of the computer desk, everything Jinkx went to move Archer would dive straight back down again.
Jinkx however remained patient with Archer though it was clear by her movements she didn't recognize who she was.
"You can't stay in there all day, don't you want to be with the others?"
Archer paused before nodding.
Jester looked at Jinkx and motioned if she wanted him to take her to the others.
She sat down in front of the desk.
"Come here." She said offering her hand out.
"I don't bite."
Archer backed up slightly at the comment.
"Come on Archer..Pinhead, Tunneler and Torch are gonna be wondering what's keeping us...the master still has to work on Blade and Six so the quicker you start trusting her the sooner everyone can be together again." Jester said desperate to coax her over.
Eventually Archer stood up by Jinkx.
If it was possible Jester's frown would have deepened.
"Das ist nicht gut." He said realising Archer had developed a deep distrust or fear of people.
She sighed.
"This is taking too long, sorry Archer." she picks her up and carries her through to the other room where the others were waiting trying to ignore Archer struggling.
Jester let out a sigh looking at the others after Archer was put down.
"Sie hat Angst vor dem Meister und hat gerade die letzte Stunde damit verbracht, sie von der Unterseite des Schreibtisches im Schlafzimmer des Meisters zu locken." He explained.
(She's scared of the master, just spent the last hour trying to coax her from the bottom of the desk in the master's bedroom.)
"Wir haben uns gefragt, warum ihr zwei so lange dort seid." Tunneler said, it was clear they had been getting worried.
(We were wondering why you two were in there for so long.)
Jester let out a huff.
"Ich schwöre, sobald Blade und Shooter repariert sind, werden sie mehr Glück haben, sie dazu zu bringen, mir zu vertrauen." he said dejectedly.
(I swear once Blade and Shooter are repaired that they'll have more luck getting her to trust that I would.)
Pinhead put a hand on Jester's shoulder.
"Bring dich nicht runter, du tust das Beste, was du unter den gegebenen Umständen kannst."
(Don't bring yourself down Jester, you're doing the best you can under the circumstances.)
Archer looked at Torch who only shrugged.
"Don't know, don't care."
…
End flashback
Looking back Archer felt terrible for how she acted towards Jinkx.
But that was what felt like forever ago.
Now she found herself cuddled up to Jinkx, the same way she did back when she was human.
In life Jinkx had pretty much been a second mother to her, having looked after her after her parents had disappeared.
She never did figure out what happened to them.
Maybe once she was rested and Jinkx had recovered she could ask if she knew.
