Author's note: If you have made it this far in my story, I officially love you :-) (p.s. there will be more chapters to come)
Life with Jack up in the Moonbase was very different from life down on Pandora. For one thing, Cel did not have to fight for survival every moment of everyday. She didn't need to earn a living by killing things for people. There was plenty of food, albeit most was rather stale. There was a gorgeous pony made of diamonds. Jack called him Butt Stallion, B.S. for short, but Cel nicknamed him Buttsy.
Overall life was comfortable, but it could be boring at times. Jack, she discovered, was a little controlling. She was not allowed to have an ECHO. He said it was too dangerous and that the Crimson Raiders might discover her if she wasn't careful enough. And besides, he so kindly pointed out, she didn't have any real friends to communicate with anyways. She also wasn't allowed in his observation room. Ever.
"Jack!" She pounded on the door of his observation room. "Jack? Are you in there?"
"Yes. I'm busy. Go play with Buttsy, I'll be out in a couple hours." Jack snapped through the closed door. She waited. Apparently he was ignoring her now, and talking to someone through the ECHO.
"No Angel!" She heard him say, he was almost yelling. "Not now. Be a good girl and be patient." A woman's voice replied through the ECHO but she couldn't make out quite what she said.
Cel found herself wondering if she was the only woman in Jack's life. Who was Angel? She knew he communicated with the Vault Hunters fairly regularly but that was just to mess around with them. Even Jack got bored up here in the Moonbase and needed some kind of entertainment. Other then screwing her of course. But this Angel, this was different. His voice had an urgency that it lacked when he was talking to the Vault Hunters.
She wandered off to feed Buttsy and wait for Jack to finish tormenting the people of Pandora for the day. The more she thought about it, the more she became convinced Jack was hiding something important from her. Perhaps that even had something to do with why he wouldn't let her access an ECHO.
"Hey there Sexy." She turned to see Jack draped languidly against the door frame of Butty's stall. "I've missed you today. Lot's of business to take care of. But I've got a few minutes now." He raised his eyebrows suggestively.
"How many minutes exactly?" Cel teased with a half smile.
"Oh, how does forty-five sound?" He beckoned to her with his finger.
"Make it an hour." Cel fingering her lowcut neckline suggestively.
"How can I resist? Get over here." He smiled and drew her into his arms.
About an hour later she was sitting on his lap, stroking his bare chest absently as he twirled her hair with his finger.
"Jack?" She ventured cautiously, looking up into his blue and green eyes.
"Yes baby?" He droned euphorically, high from their love making.
"Who is Angel?" She sat up a little more so she could watch his expression. His eyes lit up, but he kept his voice calm.
"Oh, nobody. Just some bandit." He sounded perfectly relaxed, but by now Cel knew him well enough to see through that. He was definitely hiding something.
"Jack," She started. "Who is she really?" He interrupted her by sticking his tongue in her mouth. As far as distractions go, it worked pretty well. She forgot all about Angel. At least for the moment.
She woke up early the next morning. Jack was sound asleep next to her, his mask on the nightstand. She gazed for a moment at his face. Even now, he rarely took his mask off except at night. He was really ashamed of his scars and branding. She tore her gaze away from his face and reached carefully under the mask on the stand. Sure enough, his pass key to get into the observation room was there. Apparently he underestimated her curiosity.
She took the key and tiptoed out of his bedroom and down to the observation room. Swiping the key opened the door with a bang. And she froze. Nothing happened. She quietly closed the door and sat down at the desk in front of a large screen where Jack monitored any activity on Pandora that he could get footage from through an ECHO, New-U station, or Fast-Travel.
She spoke into the ECHO hesitantly. "Angel? Angel? Anyone there called Angel?" A beautiful girl's face appeared. "Hello? Dad? Wait, no, your not him...I have to go. Sorry."
"Wait! I need to speak to you." Celosia replied quickly. "Um, your Dad told me to contact you."
Angel paused. "He did?"
"Um, yes, he...uh...he wanted me to ask you where you are right now?" Celosia grasped at ideas for how to keep the mysterious Angel on the ECHO.
"I am sure he knows exactly where I am. He told me about you though. You're his other siren aren't you? The one who controls the element of fire?"
"Yes." Celosia answered, feeling very confused. "Wait, what do you mean by 'other siren'? Who are you?"
"Oh crap. I mean, sorry, I shouldn't have said anything. I have to go." Angel clearly was afraid to speak to Celosia. "But before I go. I have to ask. Who are you to my dad? To Jack I mean. What do you do for him?"
"Oh sweetie I don't think you want to know exactly what I do for him. I mean, WHAT? Jack is your DAD? He never told me he had a daughter. Oh I am so going to kill him." Celosia felt rage flushing through her body. "And what do you mean by other siren? You're not one are you?"
"I might as well tell you everything." Angel sighed as she did just that.
"Wow." Celosia was speechless when Angel finished her story. "What a bastard! I can't believe I've been with him all this time and he never thought to mention that he had a daughter, and that his daughter was a freakin' siren! I've got to help you get out of there. It's not right for him to use you like this. Where are you?"
"No. I can't say. He'll be so angry, and when he is angry, people get hurt. Just leave and pretend we never spoke." Angel sounded desperate.
"Not gonna happen sweetie. I will help you. I promise." Celosia took the ECHO with her and crept back out of the observation room. But she did not go back to bed. She was not going to waste anytime and risk changing her mind, or risk Jack finding out what she was going to do. They were through. She was going to back to Pandora to find Angel and free her.
She made her way to the Fast Travel station and teleported back to Pandora. She arrived not far from Sanctuary. She could see it in the distance.
"Angel?" She called again through the ECHO. "I'm back on Pandora. I've left Jack and I am coming to free you, please, give some indication where I can find you?"
"I-I can't." She heard Angel's voice softly. "Be careful. Jack will not take kindly to what you have done."
"I can handle myself. Remember I am a siren."
"Well, if you are truly done with Jack, the next safest place is in Sanctuary with the Vault Hunters. I am sure they would be grateful to use your skills, if you can convince them to trust you." Angel replied. "Be careful."
Going to the Vault Hunters for help would certainly end things between her and Jack. Right now, Celosia was so furious with him that she was prepared to do anything, even that. She made her way toward Sanctuary.
Meanwhile, back on the Moonbase Jack woke up and stretched. He rolled over to kiss his lovely girlfriend, and discovered she was already up. He sat up and reached for his mask. Even with no one looking he preferred the mask to his own disfigured appearance. He noticed the missing key immediately.
"CELOSIA!" He screamed. "Where are you? What have you done?" He rushed into the hall and found the door of the observation room open and an ECHO missing. "That bitch. I never should have trusted her." He sat down at his observation table. "Angel." His voice had a warning in it. "Where did she go?"
Angel told him everything.
Back on Pandora Celosia felt the entire ground shake suddenly and heard a loud crash behind her. She turned around. Six loaders had shot out from the Moonbase. Handsome Jack's voice came through her ECHO.
"Good morning Pumpkin. What would you like for breakfast? Some french toast with a side of fresh BETRYAL? Come back up here and let's talk about this or by hell I will make you." The loader turned towards Cel and aimed, waiting for Jack's command.
"After what you hid from me, after I found out what you are doing to your own daughter, a siren, like me, I won't go back to you." Celosia stood her ground and prepared for the worst.
"Well, I don't take kindly to being broken up with over ECHO." Jack sighed peevishly and gave the order. He hated to do this, but people didn't call him a psychopath for nothing.
The six loaders started firing and two more smaller loaders shot down and started running straight for Celosia. She snapped her fingers and they burst into flames, begging for mercy as the disintegrated into smoking heaps of rubble. She made a wall of fire to keep the larger loaders at bay but they continued advancing. She pulled out her corrosive pistol and started firing as fast as she could. Just as the last one crumbled, ten more loaders shot out of the sky. They began to fire relentlessly, she began to focus her powers, she was ready to unleash the fire vortex, but she waited.
"Jack!" She called into the ECHO. "Really? I thought you cared about me! I trusted you and this is how you repay me?" There was no reply. She lowered her gun."Jack. I love you." Silence. And then a loader fired a shot through her head and another through her heart. She fell to the ground, dead.