Author's note: Warning, spoilers for Where Angels Fear to Tread and mature content, yes more sex. If you've had enough of that, I'm marking it with lines so you can skip it and still follow the story.
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Jack watched as the small frame of his girlfriend lay bleeding out on the snow. He surprised himself by feeling a twinge of sadness and regret. Not something he felt often. He shrugged it off and fiddled with a few controls, triggering the transfer of her DNA to the New-U station in his docking bay. He looked at the screen again. Her body disintegrated. He rushed out of the observation room, down the hall into the docking bay. He stood by the New-U, his heart pounding with anticipation. How would she respond to being killed and digistructed by him? Probably not well. Good. He was pissed too. He waited, beginning to get nervous. He realized he would be devastated if something went wrong and she didn't appear.
Finally her digitally reconstructed form materialized on the platform. Her dark hair flowing long and loose around her slender pale shoulders. Her blue siren tattoos were striking against the fair skin of her arms and neck. He was struck by how beautiful she was to him. Not surprisingly, Celosia was less then happy to see Jack.
"Did you seriously just murder me so you could get me back in your house?" Her green eyes blazed indignantly and she held a ball of fire ready to throw.
"Well, I did ask you to come back nicely first." Jack shrugged. "You weren't being very polite."
"Oh, I wasn't polite? I told you I loved you and you had me shot in the head!" The fireball went flying towards Jack's face, he stepped casually out of the way, brushing the charred remains of it off the shoulder of his perfectly fitted jacket.
"Well, you had just hacked into my things, stole one of my ECHOs, and found out information I had not decided to reveal to you yet. Plus you were about to betray me to those filthy bandits! I didn't have a choice." Jack was beginning to lose his cool, his blue eye snapping with anger, his green eye expressionless.
"'Not decided to reveal' to me? Seriously that's what you are calling it? I call it lying. I can't believe I trusted you, even let myself care about you. Let myself believe you were capable of caring for someone other than yourself. And then find out how you treat your own daughter! You are a disgusting, sadistic, psychopathic, douche bag." She charged towards him, flames in her hands. He grabbed her arms and spun her slamming her into the wall pinning her hands by her head. The flames went out.
"Don't speak to me about my daughter as if you understood. I love her and I loved you, I didn't think I would ever love anyone else until you came along. I should never have tried. love doesn't suit me." Jack moved a long, slender, hand to her throat. He could feel her windpipe beneath the strength of his elegant fingers, he could feel her swallow as she struggled to breathe. So fragile, so easy to crush. Suddenly he felt his hand heating up. Smoke began to rise from his fingers.
"Bitch!" He swore releasing his grip and attempting to shake the burning sensation from his hand.
"Jerk!" She replied, meeting his gaze with defiance.
Before he knew what he was doing he kissed her violently on the mouth, his hands grabbing handfuls of her thick hair and holding her to him. She grabbed his belt buckle and ripped it open tearing his belt out and unbuttoning his pants. He let go of her hair and reached down, shoving his hand into her pants and he stroked again and again until she was wet and throbbing, desperate for more. He lifted her up enough to thrust himself into her. He thrust again and again, as if pounding her into the wall. She gasped, and cried out, the pain of before becoming unspeakable pleasure as the ecstasy washed over her like a drug. He came suddenly and forcefully with a guttural cry and together they collapsed onto the floor.
It all happened so fast, but when it was through, and they were laying there panting, half dressed, she knew. She knew that Jack was a monster. He was all the terrible things she had accused him of being. But she knew something else, she knew deep underneath all the crazy, was a man who was lonely and insecure and desperately needed to be loved. And she knew one more thing. She was on Pandora to be the one that loved Handsome Jack in spite of everything. She belonged to him, and that would never change.
Jack stared at the ceiling. For a moment there he hadn't known if he was going to kill her or screw her. Apparently he liked sex more then murder after all. At least with her. Ever since he lost his wife, he knew he would never love anyone. Sure, he'd had a few girlfriends, but nothing like this. This passion, this love that kept loving even after she betrayed him? People always said he was crazy, but loving her was a whole new kind of crazy for him. And he actually kind of liked it.
Things down on Pandora were escalating. The Vault Hunters had located Angel and were planning something terrible. Jack and Celosia had finally come to an agreement so she could use an ECHO. She communicated with Angel every day. She found out that Angel was very special siren. Her powers were amazing. Everyday Cel promised Angel she would work on Jack to convince him to release her from her bondage. But Jack continued to insist that Angel's powers were so strong and unpredictable that it would not be safe for any of them if she roamed free. He insisted it was for her protection and theirs that she stayed in her "throne" as he liked to call it.
At last the Vault Hunters and Roland made it to the place where Angel was being held. Jack watched in horror as they plotted to murder her, is beloved daughter, in cold blood, just to stop him from being able to charge the vault key.
"I can't believe how low those stupid bandits will stoop to stop me!" He shook his head at Cel. "Can you believe they would kill my little girl?"
"I don't know Jack. She seems to want it. Have you ever bothered to stop and consider what she might want for her own life? She has feelings and a mind of her own you know." Cel placed her hand gently on his shoulder and looked searchingly into his eyes. "What are you going to do"?"
"She's a young girl! She doesn't know what she wants. Everything is so dramatic with teenagers. They can't kill her, they just can't!" Jack fumed.
But they did, that siren, Lilith, that everyone thought had died, arrived to help. Despite Jack's attempts to thwart their plans, the cut off her Eridium supply and she lay, helpless and weak on the floor.
"That is it!" Jack screamed. "I am going down there."
"No! They'll kill you!" Celosia grabbed his hand.
"Like hell they will." He teleported into the room, Celosia still clinging to his hand. They arrived just in time to here Angel's final words.
"Dad. You're an asshole." And that was it. She was dead. Tears stung Celosia's cheek as she watched her only friend, released from this world. As she sobbed, Jack finally noticed she had come with him.
"You weren't suppose to come." He gasped as he saw her materialized beside him. "Stay out of this! You'll get hurt."
Jack grabbed Lilith and snapped a restraining collar around her neck. "Now that you have murdered my baby girl, I will have my revenge. This siren will take her place as I charge the vault key."
"No!" Celosia tried to pushed in between Jack and Lilith. "I can't let you take her. Use me. I can charge it for you, you don't have to kidnap her."
Jack fixed his eyes on Cel, still keeping a firm grip on the beautiful red haired siren. "I won't use you. I love you, I can't do that to you."
"You loved your daughter and yet you used her." Celosia argued. "I'm volunteering, you don't have to do this."
"And look how that ended! I won't put you in that kind of danger. I can't lose you too. Grab my hand let's go. I'll keep you safe and when this is all over, we can rule Pandora together!" Jack held his hand out desperately. "Take my hand! I love you!" Celosia hesitated.
The vault hunters stared, frozen for an instant in shock, they couldn't believe what they were hearing come out of Handsome Jack's mouth. This must be the siren Jack had called for on the ECHO all those weeks ago. No wonder they hadn't been able to find her. She was actually with Jack, and he cared for her? Weird. They moved quickly and grabbed the mysterious siren as Jack and Lilith disappeared.
Jack arrived in his Moonbase to find only Lilith beside him. "NOOOOOOOO!" He collapsed to his knees wailing like a madman, his face in his hands. Lilith almost felt a little sorry for him, almost. Until he turned slowly, menacingly, to face her. He spoke slowly and deliberately. "You bandits murdered my baby girl and as if that wasn't enough, you stole my girlfriend. You will all pay for this you filthy, rotten bandit scum." He stood up and started toward Lilith. "Now, I'll start with you." He growled, his eyes colder then ice, his mouth a grim line as he stepped closer. "To the vault."