A/N: no confrontation (unless i figure out how to write it), but here's an aftermath to Poison. Featuring Aiden.

also holy crap this thing reached 1,011 views wth

THanks for that! :D

Genre - Friendship

Jesse - F2nd / Middle Female / Red Jesse

It was an awfully cloudy day today. Which was strange for April weather, but it's not like there was anything anyone could have done about it. Even if the clouds were getting darker and heavier by the minute.

Jesse and Aiden were walking through the jungle. The boy's week long visit had come to an end, and now Jesse was walking him to the portal home. This was mostly because if the portal to Sky City (the new name of which Jesse had already forgotten) wasn't lit, Jesse could light it for him; but it was also because he didn't want his walk home to be lonely. Which was why Jesse was there with him (Lukas had a sour look on his face when they left the town, but Aiden decided not to mention it. For now, at least).

They conversed for most of the trip, talking about things that had transpired over the week or about how things were going over at Sky City. Right now, they were talking about the former.

"So.." Aiden began as he stepped over a sleeping rabbit. "I heard you poisoned yourself last week?"

Jesse made a rather loud noise of annoyance. "Oh my god, they told you about that?!"

He laughed. "Lukas did, actually. He was really upset about it."

He noticed her fists ball up as she spoke. "They all were."

"What happened, exactly?"

She sighed as she swat a fly away from her face. "He didn't give you details?"

"He was too fired up about you potentially killing yourself to tell me."

"Of course he was."

"So...?"

She gave him one look, then rolled her eyes. "Fine."

Aiden gave her an amused smile as she began to fill him in on the details. "Ivor told me about how poisoned food wasn't actually a thing, and probably won't ever be a thing because there hasn't ever been an update for it. But that doesn't make any sense, does it? I mean, mantel clocks I understand, but poisoned food?"

Aiden shrugged, not really agreeing or disagreeing with her. But she didn't see him, so she continued.

"So I figured I could, y'know.."

"Try to cheat the updates and make it yourself?"

She nodded. "So.. after a few week's worth of trying to get it right, I did it. I managed to poison a loaf of bread. Then I tried it on myself, almost died.." she waved her hand around, "And now we're here."

"I thought poison didn't kill?"

"I thought so too! But oh, would you look at that? It almost did."

He quirked a brow. "Then how come?"

She stopped in her tracks and turned to face Aiden, who was a little ways behind her. "Apparently, in my efforts to make a potion of poison that'd be compatible with bread, I accidentally made the poison lethal."

Once he finally caught up to her, they walked side by side. "So when I ate the bread.."

"It almost killed you."

She hummed in confirmation.

Aiden blinked. "Huh."

"Yup."

There was a small moment when neither friend spoke, letting the cry of crickets take over. Suddenly, just as Aiden had come to realize something, thunder clapped in the distance.

Before Lukas told Aiden about Jesse's poison incident, he was hanging out with Jesse in her lab. While there, he found a potion bottle with a green and red substance inside it. His eyes narrowed as he turned to look at Jesse. "Wait, was that weird potion in your lab the poison?"

"The green and red potion?" She nodded. "Yup, that's the one."

He raised a brow at this. "Why do you still have it?"

Jesse shrugged. "I don't know, really. I mean, if it's that lethal, then.. who knows?" she looked back at him, "Maybe I'll need it in the future."

He stifled a laugh. "Is this Jesse planning a murder that I'm hearing right now?"

"Aiden!" Jesse laughed this time, shoving him playfully, "No! Of course I'm not gonna murder anyone, silly."

"I don't think I can ever trust whatever food you give me anymore."

"Oh my god."

It took the both of them a while to calm down, but when they finally did, they'd already made it to a clearing, the Old Builder's temple standing right where it always was. At the same time, rain started to pour. It was only a drizzle now, but there was no doubt in either of their minds that it would strengthen in a while.

"We're here." Jesse declared. The green-eyed boy marveled at the temple for a moment. Memories resurfaced, but Aiden shrugged it off, taking to following Jesse up the stairs to the second floor instead.

"It's still lit!" He heard her say as he walked up the stairs. She turned to him as he made it to the top of stairs and walked over to her.

There was an awkward pause as they stood there, the rain getting just a little stronger as the moment passed. Then Jesse grinned, spreading her arms for a hug. "So uh.. see you?"

He smiled, obliging and wrapping his arms around her. She happily returned the hug. "Yeah. See you." He pat her on the back, "Don't poison anyone!"

She chuckled as they pulled away. "Don't worry, I won't."

Then, after an exchange of 'take care's and goodbye waves, Aiden stepped through the portal.

A/N: more on 'updates' in a future one shot. probably. maybe.

gaaahh ok time to write Chapter 2 of the fic this is a prequel(?) to

preuqel for? prequel of?

i dunno, one of those.

Thanks again for the 1,000 hahaha