Lukas was frozen in place, his teeth gritted so hard that they were starting to squeak a little bit, and his eyes were flickering from red to cyan as he stayed frozen in place, a mere half-foot from the Redstone Heart. Tears were beading in his eyes and overflowing down his face as he struggled desperately against PAMA's control. "No," he repeated.

Jesse was frozen in place on the carpet, but now her gaze had become more intense. "You can do it," she whispered. "You can do it, Lukas, you can do it."

The ocelot hybrid was still frozen in place- when suddenly his head snapped up with a gasp, the screen zooming into his wide eyes rapidly.

"It's a flashback!" Gill shouted, despite the fact that his stomach was tied up into a knot that was tighter than his clenched fists.

The screen zoomed out again to show Lukas standing in a dark, empty-looking room with images blurring by him at such a rapid speed that the audience could catch only mere glimpses of what Lukas was being shown.

Soren backing away a step with a bewildered look, Little-Lukas perched on his back and hissing furiously at a small Axel, who was hiding behind Magnus. The bald Order of the Stone member was looking down at Axel with his own bewildered look.

Lukas brandishing his claws and slashing right through one of the webs Jesse had made. The little spider hybrid gave him an irate hiss herself and launched herself at him- before landing square on him and bowling the both of them over. The two hybrids sat up, looked at each other- and started giggling.

Little-Jesse and Little-Lukas curled up against Petra under a blanket, who was glowing with a pleasant gold light and looking very pleased herself.

"Error. Information overload. Error," and the memories suddenly disappeared from sight as the screen zoomed out from Luka's eye, his eyes flashing open to reveal that they were just pure cyan now, no longer flickering from red to cyan to that dull red again. His shoulders suddenly relaxed as a loud, high-pitched beeping rang out through the cavern.

The ocelot hybrid looked around frantically for a moment, looking for the source of the sound, eyes wide- before he spotted PAMA's screen, which was flashing the '...' processing screen over and over, the face of the computer occasionally flickering on in between, although it looked a little sick or a little frightened each time it did it.

Harper snapped her fingers, eyes widening. "The memory chip," she muttered. Then she nearly shouted it. "The memory chip! PAMA's signal is interfering with Lukas's memory chip, releasing a huge flood of information that PAMA can't process- it's too much in too small of an amount of time...!"

She trailed off when she realized nobody except maybe Hadrian was listening. There was this sort of stunned silence filling the entire room, so thick and almost solid that the air seemed to be difficult to even breathe. Ivor was slumped against the seat back, blinking blankly but intently at the screen. Even Mevia had one hand tangled up in her hair, her eyes closed as she muttered something under her breath. Lukas's arms were so tight around Jesse that it looked like he was cutting off her circulation, his head buried in her shoulder. Real-Jesse was still frozen in shock, although her lips were still moving soundlessly, whispering encouragement to her friend silently.

After all of that, after all of those events, after all the danger she'd been through...

Jesse couldn't be gone.

She just couldn't.

Onscreen, Lukas shook his head rapidly to clear it as PAMA continued repeating 'Error. Information overload,' and traversed the six inches between him and the Redstone Heart in a literal heartbeat. His hands seized ahold of it, claws digging into the side of it a little bit and leaving pale, white scratches on the sides. His cyan eyes narrowed in determination, and he heaved backwards-

The Redstone Heart literally came out with a loud pop, and the cavern suddenly started rumbling, shaking so violently that Lukas actually lost his footing from where he was already extremely off-balance and slammed onto his back, letting out a muffled scream of pain as the chip on the back of his head started sparking and flashing so rapidly that it looked a bit like a dimmed strobe light. PAMA's screen started glitching out and flickering with miniature arcs of lightning so badly that even the shell-shocked members of the audience scooted backwards automatically, to avoid the arcs of lightning.

"NOOOOOooooooo..." PAMA's deadpan 'scream' powered down, the processing screen coming on as it desperately searched for its power source, once, twice... before a small error sign appeared in the center of the screen.

The ocelot hybrid lay on his back for a moment, his hands still holding onto the Redstone Heart tightly, as if it were a lifeline. The Heart beat softly in his hands every few moments, the red light illuminating the trails of tears that were flowing down his cheeks.

Abruptly, Lukas scrambled to flip over onto all fours, abandoning the Redstone Heart next to him as he crawled to the edge of the platform, which was no longer descending. He jutted his head out over the edge, frantically looking down in an effort to find Jesse, tears dripping from his eyes into the abyss. "Jesse?" he whispered.

When he got no answer, he screamed it. "JESSE?!"

The scream echoed throughout the silent cavern, no sound daring to interrupt the echo.

The ocelot hybrid slowly sat back onto his heels, more tears beading in the corners of his eyes as his uneven breathing made his shoulders tremble. He was still staring down into the cavern, as if waiting for an answer, or for Jesse to poke her head out from underneath the ledge and give him a cheerful smile, or even for her to crawl over the edge and give him a hug, looking slightly bruised but none the worse for wear.

But nobody came.

"Oh no," Olivia whispered, and buried her face into her hands, feeling her eyes burn as she struggled to repress a flood of tears, because Jesse was going to feel even worse if she started crying, but she couldn't help it, and she was starting to hiccup a little bit as she tried to steady her breathing. Axel's arms went around her in a tight hug- a little too tight, actually, but her chest was just so tight and her lungs were just so taut that it didn't seem to matter.

Mevia closed her eyes even more tightly, bending forward a little bit so she was practically doubled over on herself, pale blue hair dripping off of her shoulders and dangling towards the floor, making Hadrian glance over at her with a completely blank expression on his face.

She'd only just met this girl, they'd barely actually talked to each other before, she didn't even really know her, so why...

Why did watching this girl die hurt so much?

Harper chanced a glance at Ivor. He didn't look angry, he didn't look upset, he didn't look like anything. His face was so blank that Harper couldn't see any hint of emotion on it.

Except for his eyes. His dark blue eyes seemed to be welling up with tears that he seemed to be refusing to shed as he continued staring at the screen silently, intently, because Jesse had survived everything else, she had survived murderers, being thrown off a city, his own creature, Soren's Wool World...

He refused to believe that this oversized computer was going to be thing that took her down.

Harper tore her eyes from his face, feeling a lump grow in her throat, until it was really, really, really painful for her to even breathe, let alone say anything.

Not like she could say anything, really.

Nothing except for- maybe- a frail apology.

Isa was mopping her eyes with her sleeves, both of her fists clenched so tightly that Milo could see the faint tinge of blood on them. He reached a hesitant hand to rest on her back, pulled it back a little- then set it down, feeling his own eyes grow extremely hot and scratchy. He rubbed them to try to get rid of the feeling and came up with glittering tears on his fingertips instead.

Reuben let out a little whine, nudging Jesse's hand with a worried look on his face as he looked up at the blank face of the girl whose lap he was pretty much perched in right now.

After a moment of silence, she carefully started petting the little pig, although her green eyes remained glued to the screen.

Onscreen, a full ten seconds of silence passed.

The ocelot hybrid finally put his head in his hands without a word, slowly shaking it as if he couldn't believe it.

Honestly, nobody could.

The screen changed to show Cassie running into the cavern, along with Ivor and Petra. Harper was looking anxiously over the edge, her eyes flickering slightly as she searched for Lukas and Jesse. Several feet away, Lukas's head was starting to poke over the ledge, the Redstone Heart set neatly on the edge next to him as he scrambled up onto the ledge, tear tracks still glittering on his cheeks.

"Lukas!" Petra didn't seem to notice the anguished look on Lukas's face and raced over, throwing her arms around him in a tight hug. Cassie and Ivor looked as if they'd been singed slightly as they also ran over, and Cassie had a few scratch marks on her face. Petra looked fine, though. "You're okay!" Petra finished in an excited shout, her arms tight around the ocelot hybrid.

Lukas didn't say anything.

Ivor's relieved smile faded after a minute, his dark blue eyes darting from side to side anxiously as he realized something wrong, something very, very off about this. "... Lukas, where's Jesse?" he finally asked, a hint of something awful- something fearful- creeping into his voice, his eyes slowly shifting so they were staring directly at Lukas.

Soren squeezed his eyes shut, feeling his shoulders start to tremble. He could hear Ellegaard sniffling quietly from where she'd surely buried her head into Magnus's shoulder, and he could hear Gabriel shakily trying to keep himself from crying. Magnus was the only one who he couldn't hear crying, but if that shallow breathing was any indication... the Rogue was trying harder than any of the others to keep himself from crying.

The ocelot hybrid didn't say anything still, looking at a spot on the floor behind them with eyes that were shiny with unshed tears.

Petra's huge grin faded as well, as she stepped back from Lukas and got a better look at the ocelot hybrid, finally seeming to notice his expression. "... Lukas, what's wrong? Where's Jesse?" she asked, when he still didn't say anything. "Lukas, what's wrong?"

Lukas lifted his head slowly, his ears slowly drooping as he did so, the tearful expression on his face growing more evident as his tail flopped limply to the ground as well.

That's when he started crying.

Cassie stepped back a step, eyes widening as she put her hands to her mouth. Tears were starting to trail down her own cheeks as she realized what he was talking about. Or, rather, what he was crying about, because Lukas looked as if he was crying too hard to even utter one syllable right now. "No," she whispered, Winslow letting out a piteous meow upon hearing Cassie's frail whisper.

Petra stepped back as well, eyes widening as her usual golden glow completely dimmed out, going dark. Her gold eyes also dimmed along with the natural glow she put out, turning blacker than two pieces of coal. Burnt out.

And that was really terrifying.

"No. No, no, no..." she started chanting the word 'no' over and over again, as if that was going to bring Jesse back, as if that was going to change what had just happened, as if that one word, repeated over and over, was going to change anything.

Onscreen-Ivor shook his head as well, stepping forward and gripping Lukas by the shoulders, his expression hardening. "Lukas, where's Jesse? What happened?" he asked, voice now urgent, filled with disbelief and almost anger- as if Lukas was somehow trying to prank them all. Lukas still didn't reply- just started crying even harder. "Lukas, what happened?!" Ivor's voice was rising in volume and in panic, dark blue eyes widening in horror but still refusing to believe what Lukas's reaction was telling him, even though every bit of his common sense was screaming the obvious answer at him. "Lukas!"

Onscreen-Harper's eyes widened as well, and her hand went up to her mouth as she slowly shook her head. She lowered her hand a moment later and opened her mouth as if she was going to say something. An apology, an utterance of disbelief, even just a single word.

But nothing came out.

Maya was starting to cry, so hard that she'd actually had to turn around and bury her head in Gill's shoulder to try to stop herself. Gill was trying to keep himself from crying, like so many other members of the audience, but the effort it was taking was making his vision turn into a blurry blob of tears and was turning each breath he attempted to inhale into a tight, hot vacuum.

Cassie let out a soft sound that was akin to a sob, and Aiden glanced over at her before looping his arm around her shoulders, pulling him into her with a tight hug. Cassie didn't argue or do anything to show that she was displeased about it- in fact, she went so far as to bury her head in Aiden's chest to try to smother her somewhat choked crying sounds. Aiden's chest was also starting to tighten so badly that his throat seemed to be closed up when he attempted to say something, anything akin to comforting, releasing a soft choked sound instead.

When yet another moment of silence passed by onscreen, Ivor slowly released Lukas's shoulders, stepping back a step with a blank look on his face. "No," he said softly, but it was nearly inaudible and his own dark blue eyes were becoming suspiciously liquid as he stared at the crying ocelot hybrid, the truth seeming to hammer into him with every passing second. "No..."

Another moment of silence passed, where Lukas was frozen and still crying.

That's when something behind him started to crawl back onto the paths.

Petra automatically leaned forward, her arm dragging Jace with her to get a better look at the screen as she furiously scrubbed some tears away. "Jesse?" she asked, softly, eyes widening a little bit.

Immediately, everyone's heads (except for Hadrian's, whose head had already been up) collectively snapped up to look at the screen.

As if Onscreen-Lukas had heard Real-Petra's comment himself through the screen, his own head came up, ears perking up a bit as his cyan eyes widened. He was frozen in place for a moment, before his head snapped around to look behind him in shock.

The screen switched to show Jesse slowly climbing her way back onto the topmost 'platform' area. The spider hybrid looked as if she'd been thrown into a room of broken glass, scratches and scrapes all over the black armor Ivor had made her. Her face was a little cut up too, one particularly nasty-looking gash decorating her cheek and a smaller yet nonetheless nastier-looking scrape near her temple. One of her middle arms was pressed to her ribcage, and one of her lower arms seemed to be bent at a slightly awkward angle. Her hair was disheveled, the pin practically at the end of her hair, and blood from the scrape near Jesse's temple was flooding down over her right eye, meaning only her slightly dim red eye was visible.

But she was alive.

"She's alive," Lukas whispered, as if this wasn't obvious.

And then he screamed it, making Real-Jesse flinch slightly with a relieved laugh of her own. "She's alive, she's alive!" he screamed, throwing his arms around Jesse so tightly that she grunted a little bit, against her will for the most part.

Immediately a storm of cheers rose up in the air, Petra actually leaping to her feet and spinning Jace around in a little circle in her excitement. Axel pumped his fists into the air with a loud "WOO!" and Olivia was wiping her eyes with the most relieved sigh of all time. Even Reuben had let out an excited squeal. Aiden, to his own surprise, had actually jumped up and started hopping around in a tizzy as if he were some overexcited fanboy, Cassie flopping back into the cushions with a heavy sigh of relief. Gill was cheering so loudly that it was a wonder his throat wasn't getting sore, and Maya was actually screaming quietly with excitement.

Soren's shoulders sagged as he let out a huge sigh of relief, while Gabriel shook his head over and over, simply looking extremely relieved. Ellegaard had actually planted a kiss on Magnus's cheek in her excitement, the Rogue looking far too relieved about Jesse not being dead to tease her about it. Ivor was so relieved that he'd actually thrown his arms around the nearest person (who was Harper) and given her a tight hug. Harper was just putting a hand over her thudding heart and smiling in a dazed way as she shook her head over and over again.

Sparklez had thrown his hands into the air with a cheer, while Dan had literally kissed Stampy full on the mouth in excitement. Noticeably, Stampy was so relieved himself that he didn't even notice the fact that Dan had just kissed him. For all it mattered, Dan could've just punched Stampy and the cat-hoodie-wearing-boy wouldn't have blinked. Lizzie and Stacy were screaming and freaking out over this, while Nell had jumped to her feet and started jumping around in an excitement like a Mexican jumping bean. Em wasn't jumping, but she looked incredibly relieved about this.

Isa was still wiping her eyes, although now she was smiling and just seemed to be trying to stop herself from crying. Milo had flopped backwards with a relieved sigh himself, and Reginald was steadying his breathing to the best of his ability and shaking his head with a gigantic smile on his face. Slab, Clutch, and Facemeat were exchanging fist-bumps (which actually looked rather painful, since they appeared to just be punching their hands together as hard as humanly possible) with gigantic grins on their faces.

Otto put one hand over his heart and let out a little sigh of relief at that himself, and even Mevia surprised herself when she let out an incoherent cheer. Hadrian had no reaction, simply looking over at the immensely relieved expression of the blue-haired woman sitting next to him with a blank expression. It was a bit of an anomaly to see her showing this much emotion anymore, let alone to a person.

Perhaps that was something he had to fix.

Onscreen, Lukas let out an incoherent yell of joy and ran over to Jesse, who lifted her head from where she was panting heavily in a hunched-over position on the catwalk- platform- whatever the heck it was, that didn't matter right now, because Jesse was alive- and gave him a frail smile. "Hey, Lukas," she said, weakly.

Lukas looked as if he was torn between throwing his arms around her, punching her with all his strength and shouting at her, or bursting into tears again. He seemed to decide on yanking Jesse to her feet, her face momentarily tightening with pain at the sudden movement. "How are you alive?!" he exclaimed, before putting his hands up in the air in slight surrender, eyes widening a little bit. "I mean, not that I'm not happy to see that you're okay, but-"

Jesse let out a pained chuckle at that. "No, no, I get what you mean. I, uh-" she flinched a bit, wincing as she pressed a hand to her ribcage. "I tried to catch myself using my string, but I fell a little further than expected and smashed through some glass before the web caught me. I think the force of the fall broke my ribs, and I think one of my arms... oh, and it might've cut me a bit, I'm not sure about that."

Jesse absentmindedly reached up and wiped away some blood out of her eyes, wincing a bit as she did so, before continuing. "When I hit the glass, the impact must've been enough to knock me out for a minute or two, because when I woke up, PAMA wasn't talking anymore and the whole place was pretty much silent. After that, it was just a matter of pulling myself up back to where I'd entered, and..." Jesse shrugged as if this was nothing, before wincing again and looking a bit like she'd regretted it.

Lukas was staring at Jesse with an expression somewhat akin to awe when the others crowded around them. "Healing potion?" Harper was at her side in an instant, holding it out to Jesse with a concerned look but a relieved smile as the others crowded around her with clamors of muted excitement and a LOT of relief. "You... look pretty beat-up."

Nobody questioned the fact that Harper had been holding a healing potion on hand. If she kept invisibility potions on hand, she would probably also keep healing potions on hand.

"Understatement of the-" Jesse winced again, her breath catching. "Understatement of the century. Thank you," and she took the vial with trembling fingers and downed it.

Immediately, her shoulders relaxed, and her middle arm dropped away from her ribs. Her lower arm also rotated a bit, the joint suddenly springing back into a normal position. The cuts on Jesse's cheek and temple area healed as well, although the copious amount of blood on that area remained, as did the cuts and scrapes on her armor.

"You feeling better?" Petra asked, voice pretty much trembling with some emotion. Her eyes were thankfully glowing again, gold and bright and almost a little happy, her entire body beginning to seethe with some barely controlled emotional glow. Warm and gold and happy and relieved. And almost... angry?

"Much, yes," Jesse nodded in agreement to that.

The petite girl was immediately pulled into a huge bear hug by Lukas, Petra throwing her arms around the two a moment later. Ivor was only a second late as he wrapped his arms around Jesse in a tight hug, and Cassie was the last to join as she knocked right into the group and sent the whole group into a little heap on the floor.

"Whoa," Jesse eked out, giving them a reassuring sort of smile, "if you keep this up I think you're all going to break my ribs again."

The joke sort of backfired because the moment they all began to quickly clamber off, Petra punched Jesse in the shoulder so hard that it was a wonder Jesse's arm didn't break again. Petra's eyes were smoldering with a funny mix of anger and relief as Jesse let out a surprised yelp of pain at the hit. "If- you- ever- do- that- again-" Petra spoke, punching Jesse with each word, the punch seeming to get more and more painful with each one.

"Woah, Petra, calm down!" Real-Reginald exclaimed in surprise, blinking at the sudden aggression.

"Okay, okay, point made, I missed you too!" Jesse exclaimed, hastily throwing her arms around Petra in a quick hug to stop herself from getting punched anymore. Petra just continued to thump Jesse on the back with this mix of anger and relief on her face, eyes still smoldering a little bit, although her hits grew noticeably less like she was actually trying to hit Jesse.

"That was scary!" Lukas exploded all of a sudden, making Real-Jesse jump in surprise. His arms tightened around her even more. "Don't ever do that again, please."

"Can't guarantee anything, but I'll do my best," Jesse said, giving him a weak little grin. "Are you all really that relieved that I'm alive?"

"No, we're even more relieved," Petra said immediately, shoving herself and Jace into an impromptu little group hug.

Onscreen, Jesse scooted out of the hug with Petra and turned to Lukas and the others, giving them a huge grin. "I'm so relieved you guys are okay," she said, and indeed, her voice seemed more relieved about them being alive than herself.

Then again, this is Jesse we're talking about, so maybe it's not that much of a surprise.

"Yeah," and Lukas's smile suddenly faded. "I can't believe I tried to... kill you." His eyes began to well up with tears again. "I am so sorry... all I could hear was PAMA's voice, telling me what to do..."

Jesse reached out and started petting him on the head, making his shoulders sag in relief as he gave her a teary little smile. "I'm just glad you're back on our side, you big fluffball," she told him, fondling his ears slightly from where they were all sitting on the floor (except for Harper, who was standing a little ways off to the side) and giving everyone a relieved look, before looking back at Lukas and giving him a relieved look. "We need you."

The whole group sat on the ground for a minute, all clustered together and giving each other relieved smiles. Ivor's hand was tight on Jesse's shoulder, and Cassie had laid her hand on Jesse's knee as if she was laying claim to the petite girl.

"I know you should probably hurry up a bit," the narrator suddenly spoke up, making Jesse flinch with such a small movement that it looked a bit like a twitch, "but after all that mess, you lot all deserve a little break."

"I'm not arguing with that," Olivia let out a relieved sigh, flopping into Axel's side. "What do you guys say about taking a LONG break after this episode is over?"

"I have no argument there," Lukas said, raising his hand and tightening his arm around Jesse protectively. Jesse nodded in agreement with the blonde. (But then again, that's not really a surprise, is it?)

"Nor I," Ivor added.

"It's settled then. After this, we're all taking a good long break," Jace said authoritatively, everyone immediately nodding the moment he'd finished.

Onscreen, Jesse's face relaxed into a smile, and she hissed in Spider- which probably just sounded like a normal hiss to everyone else- "I'm not arguing with that."


A/N: Wow, I left you guys on a massive cliffhanger last time. I am so sorry about that!

So about my, like, two or three month hiatus I've been on for everything... GirlOfMyOwnWorld posted a story about that saying I got restricted because I got caught using Twitter. The main issue was that I'd been using Twitter without my mom's permission, and also I'd been talking to people online, which I guess she's nervous about? (Understandable. There have been several situations where that didn't turn out well. But still.) And that was true, I got banned from writing fanfiction and so was immediately placed on an impromptu hiatus.

Here's the thing- I am still not OFF the hiatus. Until I have straight A's (which should happen... fairly soon, hopefully), I'm not going to be able to come on here freely without being worried that my mom will get mad about it. I might try to push for it as a Christmas gift (hopefully by that time, my grades are good or at least better), but right now, it's still way up in the air. I just figured I'd update and let you guys know and... not keep you hanging on this massive cliffhanger that I left you all on. xD

And guess what? This really sucks! I love writing, and I love getting your feedback on my writing, and I've been basically just getting really bored and working on stuff on Quotev, Wattpad, and DeviantArt instead of actually being able to work on stored-up updates for Fanfiction. It's a huge disappointment that I'm still on my hiatus, but hopefully my grades will improve and I will actually be able to come back and get back to updating.

Replies to reviews!

MissyMattingly: I knoooow and I left you on a cliffhanger forever last time I'm sooo sorry! Really didn't expect to be forced into hiatus right after that cliffhanger.

LunarTheMooncake: (laughs) I'm sorry I made you wanna write more angst. And I'm sorry about the major cliffhanger omg / Thank you for posting that notice, Lunar. :3

KaosRuin: Ahhh I'm sorry xD / Haha, go right ahead. I just had to write that all in. xD / (pats) Yeah, I wanna do that too.

Raven: Thanks! I'm glad you liked/hated the last chapter, that was my intention, but oh my goodness I am so sorry that I left you on a cliffhanger.

EmilyTheAvenger: yesitis

KrazyKat: And right when you said that I was forced into hiatus xD

LegoGirl794: Yep but still, you have no idea how many times I've wanted to kill Jesse off just because my brain came up with an amazing plot xD

Guest: Y'all right there? Go ahead and punch the wall, it's just you're yelling so xD

Mason: (laughs) I'm not surprised. (pats)

S4SH4L4SH4theGaMeR101: Hahaha, yeah, I had to put that in! It was kinda fun to write, to be honest. xD

RapidSammi: (laughs) Aaaah, sorry. Really didn't expect to be forced into hiatus all of a sudden after that.

ThatBritishGuy: B seems to have won out. And it's not like PAMA can suddenly go "Oh whoops I change my mind, I don't want to push Jesse off the edge now" xD

AquaK13: I had tooo, I'm sorry xD I just did NOT expect to be forced into hiatus. Just... yeah. / Yeah, it was a fun way to take it! I clearly had fun writing that scene I think xD / Hehe, see ya! (Much, much later than expected)

Guest: (thinks) Yeah, I think so.

CamronXTheXGamer: I'm pretty sure Lukas would've... died if he jumped after her...

LittleAngelbun: You were dead for quite a while I'm sorry xD

Shadow: Aaah, sorry. Really didn't expect a forced hiatus. That is still in effect. / Uh, well... update? xD / Narrator tends to like taking breaks, if you haven't noticed. I don't pay them to take breaks but (shrugs) / I am very sorry about being late, but I have finally managed to post one update!

DarkPrincess2001: He didn't, don't worry xD

Mikaza1498: Yeah, I mean, Minecraft: Story Mode is completely based around Jesse... to kill Jesse off is to kill Harry Potter. Actually, that's a... bad example, in hindsight. Never mind.

lol: Thank you! / Yes, but air resistance and... just plain reflexes are a factor. / Thank you for posting this link as well :3

RavenBlaze4850: Haha, yeah. Sorry about the sudden hiatus xD

InsaneAcrobat: Yeah, Jesse's fine. And about the 'unable to kill people' thing being a major plot point in Episode 8... (slowly grins) You'd better bet it's a major plot point. / Also, sorry about the super-long hiatus. / Thanks for waiting! I hope I can come back soon! / I'm able to post on YouTube because my mom doesn't know that that account exists. xD

homeworkoverload: Ah, yeah, Jesse's fine. xD / Oh wow.

azzhoe: (stares blankly at you) Sorry, don't... get what you mean?

Jack: Commendable effort but I'm pretty sure Cassie knows every curse word in existence so xD

ZenSpider: Don't worry Jesse's fine / (laughs) / Ehhh, it ended like this? / Depending on how fast her reflexes are and air resistance, but yeah. / (blinks)

ShiningHopeBeast: Yeah, it took me forever to figure out a good way for Jesse to not die. Actually, I almost didn't put this into the story since I almost couldn't come up with a plausible-sounding explanation.

Princess of Muffins: Aaaah, sorry xD

CrystalTearsofFaith: Ahaha, sorry xD Especially about the... two month long or so cliffhanger xD

PoptartCrumbs: Can't tell if that's good or bad haha xD

Infernius Flashfire: Oh noes

Rabbits rule: Yeah, this was a hard chapter to write. Mixed reactions, actually! Mostly freaking out, but some people were okay with it. Interesting myriad of reactions.

Darkbeast Dend: Haha, yeah. / Sorry! Been on a forced hiatus.

Guest: (laughs) I guess that's true. Though really, I've come so close to killing Jesse off multiple times just for sheer plot. I actually have a few fics planned- ah, never mind.

MysticKitty: Hopefully there won't be much more of a wait! I've got people reading over the script for me right now, actually. x3

J.M.M.: (laughs) Good to know.

Hi: Right now, I don't have one, seeing as I am on a forced hiatus. But usually I try to update daily or every other day. xD

Guest: Because of the forced hiatus I've been on.

Endie789: Okay. :)

studiodia29: I'm glad you like it so much xD

Guest: Because of being forced into hiatus.

RebekahTPE: Ahaha, sorry about the cliffhanger and then the hiatus that immediately followed xD

Destoyered: (thumbs up) That's what I'm here for, I guess. xD

Well, I hope I'll be able to see you all soon. This feels... nice to update.

See ya, so long, and g'bye!

x.X. A.L. X.x