A/N: summer's finally a thing now, thank goodness

that moment when you remember that cassie's va also did the voice for chloe of life is strange :D

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Jesse - M3rd / Third Male Jesse / Stripe Jesse

Three days of another portal, and already Jesse was exhausted. If the murder mansion wasn't enough, try going through a flooded city.

He shivered and rubbed his arms for warmth. Set beside him, but closer to the bonfire, was his armor and the rest of his clothes- all he had on now were his boxers and undershirt. Not that he liked being without his turtleneck on- he really didn't, but he'd go through it if it helped avoid hypothermia. The water in that other world had no mercy.

Thank god for those helmets Ivor managed to take from an abandoned chest.

They didn't have any blankets, which was a shame, considering how cold they were from swimming down a whole ocean. They did find some in the dilapidated villages that were built on top of the rooftops of the flooded city below it (they were slightly submerged in water- the water must have gotten higher since the village was built), but they didn't actually think the water would be that cold or harsh, and by the time they knew of this, they were already too deep into the ocean to turn back.

At least they had a bonfire. The wooden handles of broken swords and the sticks and wood planks they'd accidentally picked up from the villages made for good firewood.

"Hey, Jesse."

He looked up to Lukas, who was in the pretty much the exact same attire as he was, his clothes and armor in hand. "Hi Lukas."

The blond gestured to the empty spot to his right. "Can I sit?"

He shrugged. "No one's stopping you." Lukas nodded, and sat down cross legged beside him, placing his things by the fire. Jesse pulled his knees closer to his chest and scooted a little to the left to make room. As he did that, Ivor and Peter passed by them.

"-sacrificing one person save an entire town?" Peter'd asked, frustrated. Lukas and Jesse looked up at them as they walked to the opposite side of the bonfire, placing their own clothes and armor close to the fire in the process. (Well, mostly. Peter kind of sat a distance from both Ivor, who sat opposite to Jesse and Lukas, and the blonde, being in the middle of both of them.)

Lukas raised a brow, "What are you guys talking about?" Peter shrugged. All four of them were in practically the same clothes, except Peter still had his sleeveless hoodie on over his undershirt.

"I asked him the Life is Strange question."

Jesse glanced between Lukas and Ivor. "'The Life is Strange question'?"

"It's a book Ivor read back at The White Pumpkin's mansion. Life is Strange." He frowned, brows furrowed as he held his knees, "He found it while I was stuck in that closet. Cassie had very mixed feelings about the book."

"Okay.." He looked to Ivor, "What's the question?"

"Long story short," Peter huffed, "you have to choose between saving your best friend at the cost of an entire town, or saving the town at the cost of your friend's life. What do you do?"

..What?

Jesse blinked at Ivor, "That doesn't make any sense!"

This made Peter hold his hands up, "Exactly!"

"No," Lukas sighed, "It needs context- it would all make sense in context. Ivor!"

Ivor crossed his arms. "I gave him context!"

"Did you explain the time travel?"

Jesse was very confused right now. "Time travel?!"

"Okay, wait," Lukas held up a hand, "Basically, the story of Life is Strange is that this girl finds out she has time traveling powers, and then after that her best friend gets into a bunch of trouble that ends in getting her killed. So she keeps going back to save her, but every time she does, things in town get worse. Wildlife dies, weather's crazy," he moved his hands in a circular manner, "You get it."

Jesse's brows furrowed, not quite understanding the sense of the story, "Okay..."

"And it all comes to the point where in a storm hits the town, and a tornado is on its way. And you'd know that once it gets to the town, everyone in it will die. Remember how things got worse as the girl kept saving her friend?"

The boy nodded. "Yeah. Apparently, the only way to keep all those disasters from happening is to go back and let her friend die. Now the question is- what would you do? Would you save your friend and let the town get destroyed, or save the town by letting your friend die?"

Jesse leaned back as his hands supported him from the floor. "What kind of a question is that?"

"The kind that questions your morals." Peter shrugged, "That's for sure."

Jesse fiddled with the hem of his undershirt, biting his lip. It's a choice between saving or killing his best friend, with a town filled with innocent people on the line.

It really didn't take long for him to decide what to do.

"I'd save her." All three of his friends stared at him in disbelief. Peter blinked.

"I thought you'd save the town."

He shrugged. "If under different circumstances, maybe, but you're making me choose between my best friend and people I don't know. What do you think I'm gonna do?"

"Well, after what you did back at the grinder way back when?" Peter raised a brow, "I thought you would've saved the town over your friend."

Jesse shrugged. "Like I said, different circumstances."

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