AN: I'm just going to say one thing, school work sucks.

A Walk at the Park

It was around three when Alex and Justin got home from school. Max was in his soccer practice. Today was a slow day, not too many people were in the sub station. Since their parents didn't need any help Justin went upstairs to study, leaving Alex with nothing to do. Harper went straight home to make one of her ridicules outfits and Riley was still avoiding her after the chocolate incident. So to sum things up, Alex was bored. After she learned how to ride the magic carpet, she didn't stop riding it for a week, but the thrill didn't last long. She still enjoys it, but only from time to time now.

She, however, got an idea when she saw J.R sitting in one of the tables and it looked like he was deep in thought. Alex casually walked towards him and sat across from him. He really must've been out of it because he didn't even notice her. Her eyes fell from his face to his crystal. Lately, J.R has been wearing it like that, he doesn't hide it anymore.

Alex thought it was better that way. If you have something good, you should show it. Alex looked at it closer and she didn't notice it until now, but there was something different about it. From far away you couldn't see it, but if you look at it closely you could see a lightning bolt inside the crystal. She was pretty sure that wasn't there before.

"What?"

Alex stopped staring and realized J.R finally noticed her.

"Uhh, I just noticed that marking in your crystal and I could have sworn it wasn't there before." Alex said what she was just thinking. Lately, she has been getting to be very comfortable with J.R. She couldn't help it, but the more time passed the more she felt like she has known J.R her whole life and even though that to everyone else, besides her family, he was a very…strange person.

"You probably must of have been looking at it from a different lighting." J.R said.

"Maybe" Alex said not sounding too sure.

"Don't you have anything to do?" J.R said trying to make her stop thinking about it.

Alex stopped thinking about it and remembered what she came here. "No, but that's the reason why I came here." She said. J.R gave her a confused stare.

"Do you have any plans?" Alex asked. Before he could say anything she grabbed his arm and started walking towards the door. "I need to get back to wo-" He started, but was interrupted.

"Mom, dad! Me and J.R are going out okay? Okay, bye!" Alex quickly said as she walked out the door with J.R before her parents could argue.

It was a nice day outside on the streets of New York. Like usual the streets were filled with people and cars.

Alex and J.R were walking on the sidewalk watching the lively scenery. "Where are we going?" J.R asked not getting what the purpose of this was. Alex looked at him. "Don't you ever walk just for the fun of it?" Alex said.

J.R gave her weird stare. "Just because I said we're going out doesn't mean we have a specific destination." She said.

"Don't you ever do things just because you feel like it?" Alex asked. J.R had a blank stare. "I'll take that as a no." J.R tuned his gaze back in front of them, watching the people and cars that passed by.

"When was the last you had fun?" Alex asked. He didn't answer, which made her sigh.

After walking in silence for some time, Alex saw that they were walking by stores and spotted one store that gave her an idea.

"Hey J.R, what do you think about magic?" Alex asked. J.R immediately stopped walking. Alex looked back, wondering why he stopped.

J.R stared at Alex with a small amount of surprise. "What? Haven't you ever seen a magician before?" Alex asked. J.R looked at the store's display of magic tricks.

"You mean that kind of magic." He said pointing at the store.

"Yeah, I mean is there any other kind of magic?" Alex asked.

They started to walk again.

"What would you do if you could do magic?" Alex asked looking at him. J.R stayed quiet. Alex stared at him wondering what he was thinking. Just as she was thinking he wasn't going say anything he answered.

"I would bring back my sister and family."

That answer threw Alex of, she was just trying to break the silence with an innocent question.

"How do you know magic can bring them back? I mean, magic has to have its limits." Alex said.

J.R shook his head.

"My sister once told me that with magic you can do anything." J.R said looking at her. Alex wondered why he was looking at her like that. He was looking at her strangely and she couldn't describe it. This made Alex forget they were speaking figuratively.

Alex was so deep in thought she didn't notice that J.R stopped walking or that the crosswalk signal turned red. "Alex!" J.R yelled as bus was coming right at her. Alex snapped out of it and saw the bus. Everything happened so fast, the next thing she knew she was safely back on the sidewalk in J.R's arms. J.R pulled her back just in time before the bus hit her.

"Are you alright?" He said softly, seeing as she was holding tightly to his shirt. After she calmed down, she couldn't help, but feel how warm he was. "Yeah." Alex said quietly. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the warm feeling he gave of. He was holding her with such delicacy, as if he was afraid he would break her with the slightest pressure. "Good" He faintly said, while stroking her hair.

"Hey mom isn't J.R suppose to be working right now?" Justin said once he came down the stairs and looked inside the kitchen.

Theresa sighed as she looked at the kitchen and saw an upset Jerry making sandwiches. "Yes, but your sister dragged him out of the station when he was on his break." She said.

"Let me guess dad isn't good mood is he." Justin said standing behind the cash register, ready to start his shift.

"Nope" She said while going to get orders.

As Justin worked he couldn't help, but think back to the night he taught Alex how to ride the magic carpet. That night when he saw the red light, he had to admit he really was curious to see what caused it, I mean who wouldn't. The more he thought about it the more curious he became.

As Alex said, that light could only have been magic and magic meant wizard. He had so many questions. Who caused it? What kind of spell was it? And most of all for what reason? Justin has always known that he's the kind of person that asks questions about everything. That's why he is the way he is. The only way to gain knowledge is to ask questions.

Putting that aside, Justin was a little worried about J.R. That same night when he passed the couch to go upstairs, he heard J.R breathing heavily. He must have had a pretty bad dream. It didn't surprise him really, with his kind of past, he himself would probably have nightmares also. Justin didn't know what he would do if his family died. That was something that scared him deeply.

After almost getting hit by a bus, Alex suggested they should go to the park and by suggested she forced him. That's where they were right now, taking a walk on the park.

The events from earlier have been plaguing Alex's mind. She knew J.R was a good guy deep…very deep down, but she thought he would never show his good side. Back then, when he was holding her, he was so gentle and caring.

Alex looked at her side where J.R was. Just like Justin, she has been wondering who J.R really was. The things he did were far from normal, just like her and her family.

"You're doing it again." J.R said.

Alex broke out of her deep thought.

"What?" She acted like she didn't know what he was talking about.

"You're staring at me with the same weird look." He looked at her with his lifeless eyes.

"If you want to say something then say it."

Alex opened her mouth to say it was nothing, but decided to just say what has been in her mind.

"Why were you hurt when I found you?" Alex asked the question that she has been wondering since the first moment she saw him.

Now that threw him of. That was the last thing he thought she would ask, but than again it should've been the first the moment he came back from the hospital. He thought of what he should say, but couldn't come up with anything.

Alex waited for a few minutes for him to answer. She almost gave up, but at the last second he started talking.

"My family was the most precious thing I had, they weren't perfect, but that was what I liked about them." Alex didn't know what this had to do with what she asked, but she certainly wasn't going to stop him now. She has been waiting for him to open up.

"I didn't realize how good I had it until they were gone." J.R looked at the sky and Alex saw his face turn from his usual cold expression into a warm smile. For a spilt second Alex thought she saw him glance at her. "For a short time I felt like I had no purpose or anything to live for, but then I remembered I still had a one." J.R stopped walking and so did Alex. He looked at her and couldn't believe what she saw. J.R was still smiling, but his eyes actually held emotion. To Alex, he was starting to look like a normal person. She couldn't help, but notice something, now that his face showed emotion he looked very familiar. Had she seen J.R before she found him back at the alley? Alex tried to remember where she has seen his face before. It was right at the top of her head, but she couldn't quite get it.

Before she could give it anymore thought, he started to talk again.

"I was to busy drowning in my own misery, I forgot how much my sister needed me. I was the only one she had left." He looked deep into her eyes. "That moment I promised myself, I would do everything in my power to make her happy and protect her." By the way he was looking at her while he talked made her feel like he was talking about her.

"She was the only thing I looked forward to each day. All that mattered was her happiness and nothing else. As time passed, I slowly realized that I no longer lived for myself, I lived for her." Alex didn't know why, but with each word he said the sadder she became. It was more than just feeling sorry for him, but she couldn't explain what.

Alex turned her gaze away because those eyes of his were making her feel feelings she didn't understand and that scared her. As much as Alex liked hearing all this, she still wanted an answer to her question. Was he trying to avoid the subject?

"You still haven't answered my question." Alex said in a low voice looking down with a blank expression. She didn't dare look at him when he became quiet.

After some time he spoke in a voice that she could practically feel the anger radiate from it. "She was the only precious thing I had left in the world and when she died so did the rest of whatever happiness I had left…along with my control."

Alex quickly turned her head to look at J.R. He couldn't possibly-no he wouldn't! Not a guy like him! Alex immediately stopped right there. She couldn't say he wouldn't do that, she had only known him for barely a month. Another part of her told her that he had a good heart and wouldn't do a thing like that. Alex was having mixed feelings and didn't know what to think.

One thing was for sure. Now she knew the answer to her question and it frightened her.

Revenge.

Everything in the sub station was going well, besides Jerry still being a little mad with the fact that Alex stole J.R in the middle of the day. Justin and Theresa tried to avoid Jerry as much as possible otherwise he would start contemplating of how irresponsible Alex was.

At the moment Jerry was taking orders trying to distract his mind from a certain female wizard. After he was done, he started walking back to the kitchen, but stopped when he saw a man in a suit looking at the station from outside on the street. The weird thing was that the man seemed to be looking at him. Jerry shook his head thinking it was just his imagination.

The sun was starting to set when Alex and J.R walked back to the loft. Waverly Place was still filled with people who were buying their last things for the day. On the way back Alex was very quiet and J.R felt guilty about it. Alex was just trying to have a good time like always, but then he had to open his mouth and ruin it. He didn't like seeing her like this, all quiet and sad, he never did. He would do anything to see her smile.

"Alex, thank you."

Alex looked at him with a confuse stare. "What for?"

"For listening and tolerating me. I know I'm not the easiest person to be with." Alex was a little surprised.

"And…for being my friend."

Now that shocked her, but after it passed she smiled which caused J.R to smile a little. J.R watched as the station came into view. He immediately stopped when he saw who was standing near the sub station.

Alex stopped walking when she realized J.R wasn't next to her. She turned around and watched as J.R's face went from shocked to anger and then back to emotionless. Though something was different, it was as he was holding something back.

Alex followed his gaze and saw a man that was wearing a suit standing near the station. She couldn't see his face because he started walking away with his back turned, but unknown to her that was the man J.R saw every night when he went to sleep, the man that filled his entire being with immense rage…

…the man that killed his family.