"I'm not letting you torture her…" Jesse spoke like they were his enemy. "She's the reason we're stuck here! And you're defending her?!" Petra got angry at Jesse's nonsense. Cassie suddenly lunged forward to grab Jesse and pull him with her into a sand trap. It pulled them into a hole and began covering it with a mountain of sand. "Jesse!" Petra stopped and tried digging the sand off of them. However, the sand trap was fake, they fell two stories before hitting the ground.

"What the hell is wrong with you!?" Cassie yelled, getting Jesse's attention almost immediately. "What do you mean?" Jesse arose into a sitting position, rubbing the back of his head from the collision. Cassie looked him and bit her lip, she curled her fists into balls. "Why...did you save me…?" Jesse's eyes wandered on her and he looked at her face, it was written with guilt. Cassie saw his gaze and peeled away from it, averting her eyes to the stone floor edge above a chasm. "I killed everyone, why did you rescue me?"

Cassie closed her eyes thinking about this, he doesn't understand! He should be scared, terrified of this murder spree, yet here he is, in front of her with a face of rather curiosity. She suddenly opened her eyes, she felt warmth, she realized that it was someone's body warmth.

It was Jesse's, he wrapped his arms around her and held her gently, but close.

"Because I know you don't want to be here, I know you want to go home"

He set his chin atop her beanie. Jesse hugged her tightly, but enough to still let her breathe. "To always be lonely, to have no one to talk to, no way to go home, if I were you...i'd do the same thing as you…" He whispered gently.

Cassie was speechless, she wanted to push him off this edge and go on, but she couldn't, it's like they shared the same pain. "You can't...you can't…..i'm supposed to be the bad guy." Cassie choked out. She burried her face in the chest of Jesse's Ender Defender armor and wrapped her arms around his muscular back.

"Then let me help this bad guy" Jesse spoke up, and it took Cassie by suprise. Cassie sweetly smiled in his chest and replied "You're really gonna help this bad guy?"

Jesse withdrew from the hug and put a hand on her head, he grinned like a happy idiot to her. He held out his hand like a promise "Yep, so are we partners now? I'm unsure of how this works." Cassie smiled back and took his hand "Mhm, just don't do anything stupid." Jesse awkwardly smiled and blushed.

A Partnership Was Forged

"Jesse?! JESSE!" Petra digged and digged, until she finally found inventory items, such as a diamond axe, pufferfish, lever, enderpearl, a book, a diamond sword, and…..the flint and steel Jesse had. Petra stumbled back staring at the inventory wide-eyed, her vision got blury then Petra fell to her knees and felt like her world collapsed.

"No….." Petra choked out, she began sobbing and let a stream of tears flow down her face. Lizzie put a hand on her shoulder to attempt to comfort her "I'm sorry this happened"

"I don't want to say goodbye to him, he's still alive! He's been through worse than this...no way he's…" Petra didn't want to say that word, that spoke of many that have been led to Heaven, it pained her to think that Jesse, her best friend that understood her better than anyone else, Jesse was their hope, and now their hope had flickered out.

Everyone stood around and put their heads down in guilt, they had believed it was their fault, mainly Petra, Lukas and Ivor, they thought it was their burden because they were ignorant of Jesse's feelings. They wouldn't consider Jesse's thought, now he became twisted and protected the one person who caused the whole mess of life or death. But now the person who caused the massacure has killed the one person who could stop it all.

Stacy walked up to the windowsill and noted the time "It's 2 hours until dawn" she sighed, but still head low with guilt. No one bothered to pay attention, they were still too shocked with the whole scenario of what just happened.

Petra curled her knees to her chest and looked down one more time with teary-eyes "I'm so sorry…."

Tenguura: I apologize if the chapter is too short, I have been working on "She Was Like a Drug" and "In Love With A Murderer" at the same time, I don't really plan on stopping these stories anytime soon though, be sure to expect slow updates!