Author's Note: More or less, this is just me getting back into the habit and comfort of writing again. There may be mistakes, errors, fragments, and the whole story of this may change, but I hope everyone enjoys.

Also, Merry Christmas all.

Goau took a bite of his fish sandwich, Sarah tapped her foot impatiently, and Jinx examined the various equipment of the armory.

"You two can't have any of this." Miss Fortune reminded them before looking toward Jinx. "Get away from that!" She said as she drew one of her pistols and began storming toward the smaller girl.

"But I need this! Just think of all the fun I can have with something as cool as this!" Jinx said as she held up a chain shot cannon ball.

The weapon was grabbed by Sarah and swiftly yanked from her hands, but, due to its weight, the physically weaker but larger woman had trouble holding the ammunition and was quickly forced to let the pair of ball fall to the ground.

Jinx, seeing the weakness, laughed at Sarah's attempt to assert herself as the dominate force in the warehouse. "Please. Half this stuff you can't even pick up, and the other half you can barely hold for a second!"

Goau took another bite of his sandwich as he watched the two from the side of the doorway.

"Listen you. The sheriff and her deputy may let you run all over the Piltover as you please, but, here in Bilgewater, we follow unwritten rules. One of them being no one but me and my crew come in this warehouse!" Sarah said as she pointed at Jinx with her pistol. "Now, why don't you and your date go for a nice, quiet, relaxing drink. I'll even give you the first round on the house." She offered with a small smile and serious look on her face.

Goau coughed at the offer, causing Sarah to turn her head to look at him. "I don't drink actually." He informed.

Sarah rolled her eyes. "Then I'll get you some milk or juice or something. Just get out of here, and take her with- where'd she go?" She began to say, but stopped when she looked back to Jinx and saw she was gone.

Goau gestured to the next isle of shelves with his head. "I think she's looking for chains now. She wants to make, what I image to be, a gatling gun with three cannons that fires, well, cannonballs and chain shots; assuming you'll let her out with them." He explained.

"Can she even lift something like that?" Sarah asked, more surprised by the ridiculousness of the description than anything else.

The surprise did not last for long when Jinx appeared with a crate of cannonballs in her arms. "Are these the ones that go BOOM! or the ones that are solid iron?" She asked.

"Put those back!" Sarah yelled. "If you drop those, this whole place will turn into one big fireball!"

Jinx's smile grew and her eyes sparkled.

"You may want to get closer to me." Goau said before taking another bite of his sandwich. "Also, don't tell her the consequences to actions. Things tend to go better when you don't do that." He warned.

Sarah turned her head back to him, but kept her pistol pointed at Jinx. "Will you stop eating and help me convince her to leave-"

She began to say, but was interrupted when he walked toward her and pulled her closer to the door.

"What did you do that for?" Sarah demanded.

"You didn't move." He replied.

"Why did I need to move?" She asked.

"Jinx took your gun." He replied.

Sarah's eyes wide-eyed and she squeezed her pistol with her hand… and then turned her head to see that Shock was still there and the barrel of Awe pointing at her in Jinx's hand; the girl looking relatively annoyed that her ambush had been avoided.

"I was going to use rubber bullets!" The Loose Cannon informed with a whine.

"Before or after the pistol was empty?" Goau replied.

Jinx seemed surprised by his question. "You mean this is loaded?" She asked and pointed the pistol downward. Even if Zaun and Piltover used more advanced guns, the Bilgewater firearms were just as familiar in her hand as their counterparts.

"Give me back my gun!" Sarah demanded and aimed Shock at Jinx.

Goau raised his free hand divert Sarah's aim and held his other hand toward Jinx. In the moment Sarah fired at Jinx, he was able to both prevent his charge from being hurt and swap his sandwich with Awe with his Flash spell.

"Here's your gun, please don't shoot at her. Jinx-" Goau called out, his tone changing from collected to serious.

"What's up, Bookworm?" The girl asked with a playful tone. "Is this about how about the ammo, because I'm keeping it." She added.

"Can… you just explain what you want to do to Miss Fortune? Please with sugar on top?" He asked with a pleading tone at the end.

Jinx stared at him with an even expression before point at him with the sandwich. "You promised me fun! And now you want to take it away from me!" She demanded, and then went to slam the crate she had been holding with one arm on the ground.

"You jerk!" Jinx shouted out as Sarah tried to run toward her to stop her, but it was too late.

Just as Sarah had warned, the cannonballs were the type that exploded on impact if enough force was applied to them…

"Can I have my sandwich back?" Goau asked as he held out his hand toward Jinx.

"I just saw my whole life flash before my eyes…" Sarah cried, unsure if she and this part of the town were still safe.

"Take it from me if you can." Jinx taunt before she took a bite and stuck her tongue out at him. "You always ruin my most destructive fun!" She added before kicking the crate of cannonballs toward him.

Goau had to jump out of the way before he was crushed by it, but then looked up from his prone position at his charge. "Well… at least you know what it is." He replied.

It was another spell down for him, but Fortify, one of the older summoner spells that had been made unavailable for League matches due to its nature in the current times, had to be used to stop the warehouse from going up in smoke and flames, even if the cannonballs did go off inside the crate.

Thankfully, Goau's summoner spells, all of which were had his disposal, were much more potent than the standard ones most of the others used. Sometimes it paid to try new things, even if the results tended to increase the real world cooldown of the spells.

The summoner pushed himself up, dusted off his robe, and looked at Sarah. "Are you okay Miss Fortune? Do I need to call a medic?" He asked.

"Ju… just take her… and leave…" She pleaded.

"Okay… I'll just leave a writ for one thousand gold. It looks like she really wants a crate of cannonballs and my spell won't be available for another two-"

"She can have what she wants." Sarah interrupted as she laid on the floor.

"Really!?" Jinx asked, moving over to Sarah and lifting her up by the shoulders. "I can have anything?" She asked with sparkling eyes.

Sarah could only nod weakly, to which Jinx replied with a hug before dropping her back onto the ground.

"You heard her Bookworm!" Jinx began.

"I don't think that's what she meant." Goau replied.

"Get out your bag of holding! We got stuff to load!" Jinx added.

"It's an inter-dimensional pocket, not a bag, and you can't just fill it with whatever you want. There is a limit." He explained to her.

Jinx was obvious to his words and began pointing out things she wanted. "That crate, those cannons, four of those chains, that anchor- why aren't you filling the bag?" She asked before she walked over to him, took him by the wrist, and began leading the way through the warehouse. Eating his sandwich in between sentences.

"I'm trying to tell you, it doesn't work the way you think it does." He tried to tell her.

"Does stuff go into it?" She asked.

"Yes, but there is a limit." He answered.

"Make it bigger then! Like… five hundred times bigger!" She said. "I'm going to be using it to shoot like fifty thousand cannonballs out of it and sinking like thirty ships!" She added, beginning to get that excited looked in her eyes; the same she got whenever she was about to begin a rampage through Piltover.

"You don't understand how magic works." He told her.

"You don't understand how I work!" She countered.

"No, but I'm the closest person to figuring it out… maybe next to Zilean, but he sees the future." He counter-countered.

"Cannonballs. Cannons. Chains. Gun powder." Jinx said, pointing to each as she spoke. "Bag of holding." She added as she pointed to him.

"Inter-dimensional pock-" He began to say, but stopped as he thought about her list. "Wait a minute, those things were outside. Why did we need to come in here?" He asked.

"Oh, because then Booty Lady might have been shot dead if she wasn't with us." Jinx replied.

"What was that about me being shot?" Sarah asked.

"Oh yeah, kinda forgot you were here." Goau said. "Well, Jinx said something about an invasion and that she wanted to make a new gun. Just go with her on this." He said quickly.

In return, Jinx smacked him in the back of the head. "Hey! I said don't tell her! How can I have fun if she gets the defenses ready!" She asked. "And there's only like five ships… maybe three by the time I'm ready for them." She added before going back to her browsing.

"So… yeah. There's that." Goau said in response to Sarah's questioning and confused look.

"Bilgewater's going to be attacked? By who?" She asked.

"Jinx?" Goau asked.

"Do I look like an oracle to you?" She asked.

"There you have it." Goau replied.

"Just what I need, more crazies today." Sarah said with a sigh.

"It could be worse. Jinx could have already finished her weapon and be firing off in the middle of a pier as we speak." Goau said, trying to ease the older woman's worries.

"I'm still here by the way!" Jinx said, seemingly and sounding annoyed as she held a cannon in her arms. "Open the damn bag already!" She demanded.

Goau rolled his eyes, smiled, and opened a pocket in space with a wave of his hand. The opening was too small at first, so he reached out, grabbed it in his hands, and forced the space opened further. Doing this did not cause a disturbance like many thought it might, but it did lower how much could be stored in it. "Two thousand pounds is the limit." He said before he walked toward the pirate hunter, who seemed to be getting her head back on straight.

"I need to prepare my crew for the attack. Maybe I can get Graves to help if I promise to let him off a week earlier." Sarah said.

"Graves is in prison?" Goau asked.

"Bar brawl, and firing off randomly into the night sky the other day." Sarah quickly explained. "What do you want now? Can we talk while we walk?" She asked, already heading toward the door.

Goau looked over at Jinx, and then back to Sarah. "I can't leave her alone, but I'll make it quick." He said as he followed her toward the door. "I think Jinx wants to be a hero in this, but she doesn't want to admit it." He said. "Good luck on your part. I'll try to keep her from burning down or exploding the town." He informed her.

Sarah nodded her head. "Do that." She said before leaving.

"So..." Goau began.

"So..." Jinx replied with a smile.

"You're just planning to shoot at ships you say are going to attack Bilgewater, right?" He asked her as he followed in front of her.

"Yep! This place is too much fun to be sunk into the boring, murky, cold, and depressing briny deep." She answered as she walked backwards with her hands behind her back.

He still was not convinced that that was what she intended to do, but he didn't see any harm in letting her play and tinker. He'd use up most of what's in his summoner account for this, but as long as she was happy and having fun, it was worth it.

"Now, where are those workshop areas? I need one that's super expendable! Cause I'm probably going to blow it the heck up and to many, many, many sharp, pointy splinters!" Jinx added as she began hopping up and down in anticipated excitement.

"Just... don't blow the town up." He asked with an uneasy smile on his face.

She stopped in her tracks and leaned toward him with a very sly and very mischievous smile on her face. He stopped as well, the distance between them only about a foot or two, and swallowed nervously.

It wasn't the smile or look in her eyes that unnerved him, but it was the fact that she didn't say anything.

They stood like this for nearly a minute, a long time for her to sit still, and then she took a step toward him, standing on the tips of her toes so she could put her mouth next to his ear as she spoke.

"Just a little bit."

The words sent a shiver down his spine and caused him to visibly shake.

When she backed up, putting one foot behind the other and taking two steps back, her eyes were half lowered and the look she gave him was like that of a confident gambler.

This was the same look he had noticed her make whenever an idea came to her... just before she began one of her rampages through Piltover.

Her expression suddenly changed then to a more causal playful. "I'll be kind of careful to not blow up anything or anyone else." Jinx assured him.

"I... I really hope so. You're probation is really close to being over." He reminded her.

"OH!" Jinx exclaimed, her mouth making an 'O' shape as she put her hands together in front of her. "Does that mean I can have all of Fishbones' and Pow Pow's snacks back?" She asked, looking like a child who had just been told she'd get a box of chocolate if she was good.

Goau blinked at her, unsure of what to think whenever she changed on the fly like this, and chose to look up in thought as he scratched an inch on his chin. "That's really not for me to say, but I think so." He answered.

"Let's go then!" Jinx nearly shouted, turning on her heels and walking toward, what he assumed to be, an old inn or tavern. "I'm going to get back their snacks so they can spit all of the death!"

Goau let out a sigh and hung his head. "I'm going to need to call Zilean, aren't I?"

"Probably." Jinx replied with a monotone voice. "But then I can blow the place up again!" She added.

"But you'd also have no memory of doing it the first time." Goau reminded her.

"But I can blow it up again!" Jinx said with confidence.

"You'll be stopped before you can do it again." Goau said causally.

"I'll just blow it up a different way then!" Jinx replied with determination.

"Eventually, you'll be stopped and nothing will be blown up." Goau said simply.

"Or I'll blow up part of the time line thingy that does the resetting-" She stopped talking, turned around, shook her fist him, and made an angry face; if she had sharp teeth, she'd be baring those too. "Just shut up! You're making think and it's hurting my head!"

Goau put his hands up and looked over her shoulder. "Hey!" He called out.

Jinx's angry face softened and she stomped her foot and stopped in front of him. "Are you ignoring me?" She grumbled.

"My friend needs a work area. Is that place okay?" He called to someone behind her.

The person in question looked to be a regular citizen of Bilgewater, either a sailor in town for a rest with the rest of his crew or a retired pirate or sailor having a drink in during the day. "Oh, tourists are you? This place is a gamblers' den, but they're playing this week." He said as Goau kept walking, even past Jinx. "There are some beds in the upstairs too. Hope you brought your own sheets." He said.

Goau smiled and shook his head. "No, it's not that kind of work place." He replied.

The man laughed. "Better not ignore your lady, friend, or else no place will get that kind of work done."

As if on cue, Jinx walked up, past Goau, and toward the drinking man. She swiped the bottle from his hand, took a long swig, and then thrust it back at him, knocking him from the crate he was sitting on before entering the empty building.

"Sorry about." Goau said as he jogged toward the man. "She's... something like what you'd call Miss Fortune." He said as he offered the man a hand up. "Are you alright?"

The man coughed as he took the hand and was pulled back up on his feet. "That girl's got a strong arm. I'd be careful when you two are alone together." He warned.

The summoner shrugged his shoulders. "That day's probably only in my dream." Goau admitted with a causal and friendly smile. "All I do is try to make her happy." He informed.

"You have a funny way of show it." The man said.

"Yeah, I do, but she still lets me tag along with her no matter how much I annoy her." Goau replied, and then he started into the building.

When he entered, he was surprised to see Jinx sitting at one of the tables with her head being pillowed on her arms and turned away from the door.

He walked toward the table, looked at her in case she didn't want him sitting with her at the moment, and then took the seat to her right, away from where she was looking. "Do you want to go back to Piltover?" He asked.

She did not respond.

"Or the Institute?" He asked.

Again, she did not respond.

"Are you asleep?" He asked.

"Z. Z. Z." She whispered, each one a little louder than the last.

The summoner straightened in his chair and leaned back with his hands behind his head. It was time for a break, it seemed, so he decided to let her be.

After about a minute, he waved his hand in the air, opening his little pocket in space, and pulled a book from the portal. This seemed as good a time as any to catch up on some reading after all.