A/N: PLEASE DISREGARD ANY GRAMMATICAL ERRORS! MY GRAMMAR ISN'T TOP NOTCH SO PLEASE BE SPARING AND UNDERSTANDING IF ANY ERRORS DO COME UP AND I APOLOGIZE DEEPLY FOR THEM. Enjoy!
We flew for a little while, but I was buried into Dirk's back to notice where we were and where we were going, no one said anything, only the whistle and wails of the wind were heard. Soon, the wind died down, feeling like I was being lowered down slowly. A small bump from under our feet told me we had finally landed. But I refused to move, keeping my face in Dirk's back. "Janey . . . we're here, you can let go now." I didn't even respond, I stayed in my same position frozen. Dirk unlatched my arms, but I remained the same. "What's wrong with her?"
"I don't know, but I got this." Dirk picked me up, carrying me bridal style into the house, up the stairs and back into his room. But I still didn't react.
They bandaged me up, gave me medicine, lied me down on the bed and tucked me in. But through all of that, I never spoke, made a sound, and kept the same distant facade. Once they finally situated me in the bed, I stared up to the ceiling, and that's when I crashed and fell back down to earth.
At first, tears just flowed out of my eyes, getting the pillow wet, and then I started to sob, covering my eyes as I inhaled and exhaled in a sobbing manner. Alerting Roxy and Dirk immediately, "Janey, you're fine." Roxy soothed, but I still curled up into a ball and hid my face in my knees, hugging them to help hide my face. Both hushed me, trying to tell me that I was safe, but I still felt scared and in trouble. "Dirk," Roxy started.
"Tell her."
"She's not ready-"
"Dirk Strider, if you don't tell her I swear to God I will. I don't give a fuck what you do to me because she just witness what we're hiding from her this entire time!" Roxy exclaimed. Dirk sighed; I could feel a warm hand smooth the side of my head, then my cheek as I undid my fettle position. Dirk smiled at me, his mouth being the only sign of what emotion he was trying to portray. Once he got my attention, he removed his hand. "Jane . . . I just want to tell you right now, that those guys who were trying to take you . . . are trying to assassinate you." I let out an exhaled sob, covering my mouth and sobbing a bit more, he smoothed my hair again. "That's why I've been, quote, unquote, stalking you. I've just been trying to protect you this entire time. Like New Year's night, there was a plan to assassinate you at Roxy's house because they knew Roxy would be drunk. Roxy invited me to make sure you would be ok, and when you disappeared, I have to admit I jumped the gun too much and broke down the door. It was an honest and stupid hunch and I'm very sorry about that. And when I chloroformed you, that wasn't me; it was one of those goons who did, they actually tapped the phone lines and made a fake call to get you out of your classroom. Roxy and I were able to find them before they could take you away, and we had to fight them for you. The cut on your side was mistakenly from my katana; one had you and was using you as some kind of shield because they knew I wouldn't go for them with you in the way. I took a leap of faith and grazed you with the blade, you got in the middle of some of the fights so you got a little beat up, we're sorry for that. And then we took you to my apartment here so we could patch you up . . . are you ok?" He asked as my body started to shake. I shook my head, silent tears pouring out. "W-w-wh-why a-a-re they-y d-doing th-this?" I hiccupped.
"So we don't win in the future . . . you see," He repositioned himself getting closer as Roxy started to smooth the top of my head. "We're supposed to play a game in the future that will end the world, you, me, Roxy, and your new friend Jake are all supposed to play. It's something we can't get out of because we were destined to play this game." Dirk explained.
"I'm not sure what will happen to us in the game . . . but it's a fate we were born to do . . . fucking sucks." He muttered to himself.
"I say we don't even play the damn thing. All that thing has done is brought those goons into our world and made us suffer, look at what they did to Jane! Do you really want this to happen to us?"
"Of course not! But we're all going to play it somehow." Roxy sighed, resting her head on the bed and continuing her rhythmic petting. "Whatever, as long as it doesn't take you guys away from me." She sighed. It was silent for a while, Roxy continued to sooth as Dirk just lied against the bed.
It had been what felt like ages before Roxy broke the silence, "Whelp, I should head home, my Moms probably worried about me. Oh fuck- Jane, what are we going to do about your Dad?" I shrugged, keeping my silence. She whipped out her phone, dialing a few numbers into it and walked to the other side of the room, placing the phone to her ear. "Mr. Crocker? Hi it's Roxy Lalonde . . . Hey it's good to hear from ya' too. Anywho, Jane has been over my house and she forgot to call you, she just fell asleep and I wanted to just let you know that she's safe and sound at my house is it ok if she just stays for the night? . . . Ok, thank you. Bye." She snapped her phone shut, having a victorious smile on her lips. "You're covered Janey, see you two tomorrow m'kay?" Roxy started to leave the room waving to us in the process. "See ya' tomorrow Lalonde." Dirk called back as Roxy said her last good-byes.
I could hear her footsteps down the stairs and the faint shut of the front door, it was just silence after that, just Dirk and I inside an empty house. Finally he spoke, "I'll see you tomorrow Jane, I'm going to crash on the couch downstairs, if you need anything just-"
"Dirk . . ." I quietly whispered.
"Yes Jane?" I took a deep breath, finally collecting my thoughts and questions on the entire situation. "You never liked me . . . did you?" I whispered. He shook his head, taking a moment to collect his thoughts, "I'm sorry Jane, you're a nice person but . . . I sort of have my eye on someone else at the moment."
"Oh . . . um . . . who?" I shyly asked, feeling weird to even pursue that branch of the conversation. "Um . . ." He sighed.
"You don't have to tell me." I reassured, waiting for him to agree.
"No it's ok . . . that kid . . . Jake English. He's handsome. . . I'm not sure if i'll pursue him though."
"So you're . . . gay?" I awkwardly asked, bringing up more weird conversation.
"No, bisexual. I'm still attracted to girls, I'm just checking out that Jake kid." I nodded, not sure of what to say next. It was silent for about a minute or two before Dirk arose, pulling the blanket over me more. "I think we're going to have to work something out with your Dad, they know where you live so they can plan an assignation and get you easily without any protection around you. They don't know where Roxy and I live so you're good here." He explained, trying to leave.
"Um Dirk?" I whispered, having one last thing on my mind.
"Yeah Jane?" He asked while hovering in the doorway.
"Why me?" Dirk leaned up against the door frame, "Because they wouldn't dare fuck with Roxy or me, they know how skillful we are when defending ourselves, and as for that Jake kid, he wields guns around like it's nothing. So he's capable of defending himself and as for you . . . well-"
"I'm just a weak little girl who just got tied into all of this." I sighed looking away from dirk.
"You're not weak Jane, I saw what you did to those thugs, the way you smashed their heads with that pipe. I thought you didn't need any help from us at first . . . I didn't know you could do that." I smiled a bit, "Well I didn't know you could wield a katana like a ninja." He chuckled to that.
"Night Jane."
"Good-night Dirk." He turned the light off and closed the door, I fell asleep in my fettle position, feeling somewhat safer now, but still afraid that those thugs could be lurking outside the window, or house even . . . what will become of me now?
A/N: I promise there WILL be Jane x Dirk, I'm building up towards it and I know I just made Dirk confess he has attraction towards Jake, but again, this entire story leads up to the way the kids are in Homestuck. Thanks for reading my lovely reader!