A/N: Helloo! Wow your reviews are awesome! Thank you so much! I love to read them, it really motivates me to keep going. This chapter I had so much fun writing. I don't know why I decided some was singing but I thought it fitted…. Now I'm not so sure, but I'm posting anyway. Escape plan in action…
Disclaimer; I don't own Kickin' It, or Talking To The Moon, which is the song mentioned. Enjoy.
Why would you?
Kim's POV:
I sneak through the hallways. My heart is pounding, I've never done something like this before. My mind is making over time, it keeps telling me everything that could go wrong, like I don't already know that. The dungeons are reachable from the outside and inside of the castle. I'm taking the inside road, less guards. And that's because it practically impossible to get into the castle unnoticed. My brother sure as hell took care of that. My breath speeds up as I hear footsteps come my way, in panic I look around. I need a place to hide. I duck in the nearest hall way and pray to every god past and present known to man that I'm not going to have to explain what I'm doing here in about two seconds.
Apparently someone up there likes me because the two guards walk straight by me. I release my breath that I didn't know I was holding and let my head rest against the wall for a few seconds, then purely because I owe it to Jack to apologize I don't immediately run back to my room. When I continue my journey to the dungeons everything is so quiet, it's scary. Every step seems to make so much noise I'm surprised no one has heard me yet. All the floorboards seem to creak and honestly I've never been so terrified in my life.
Then finally I reach the door to the dungeons. I sigh and open it as quiet as I can. Of course in my opinion it still makes a hell a lot of noise. When I enter the dungeon I put on my hood. None of the other prisoners have to know I was here. When I walk further into the dungeons I hear some of the prisoners mutter in their sleep. I swallow, I don't dare to look at them. When I turn the corner, I suspect Jack is there, I stop. I hear a voice, it's not muttering like most. It's soft and almost comforting. And it's singing. I'm just standing there in awe. It's beautiful.
I don't know the song he's singing but it's a sad song. Something about a moon and a lost love. That he's talking to the moon and hoping she can hear him. The voice is so clear I just want to stand there and never move again. But then I remember I'm on a mission. Wow okay now I really sound like a criminal. I decide to act like I hadn't noticed the singing and walk into the hallway, I look sideways into the cells and at the third on the right I stop. The voice stopped singing as soon as I came into the hallway. There's a fairly small figure on the bench in the corner. Smaller than a grown up man, but bigger than a child. His dark brown hair is messy and his head is leaning back against the wall. His eyes are closed. I think he hasn't seen me yet, well I was wrong.
'I didn't expect to see you here.' he says, scaring me. 'I wanted to apologize for the other day. It was wrong to call the guards on you, it's just my brother may be a arrogant idiot but he's still my brother.' He looks at me, I'm momentarily stunned by the depth of his eyes, they look too old for such a young person. He smiles. 'I know what you're talking about. I may not really like Cray but if someone caught him I would probably be mad too.' I'm surprised by that comment. I never realized the thief's might actually dislike Cray. I heard stories of course but I always figured they were rumours, fake, made up. Maybe I was wrong.
I look at him again. He doesn't seem scared at all. He seems…calm. Content maybe. 'I'm sorry you got caught.' I say, when the words leave my mouth I realize how stupid they sound. Jack laughs. 'It's cool it's not like you could do anything. What were you supposed to do?' when I realize he's using the same words as he did when I ratted him out I flinch. 'Sorry.' He adds and he flashes me an apologetic smile. It's just like we're just talking somewhere on a street. But we're not, we're in the dungeons. Without warning I walk towards the door, Jack looks up surprised. I pull a key out of my dress. Jack's eyebrows disappear under his hair when he recognizes it. 'Wait how did you get that?' he asks me. I can tell he's stunned. 'Get what?' I ask innocently.
I put the key in the lock and it opens. The door swings open, I step aside to let Jack trough. He stands up but doesn't move further. 'That's from my friend, how did you get it?' he asks me again. I roll my eyes, god I have got to stop doing that. 'I had a little chat with Jason and Jerry after you got arrested, now can we go please? I prefer not to get caught.' I tell him gesturing for him to hurry. He nods, he seems suspicious, but moves through the door. Again I notice how silent he moves, compared to him, I sound like an elephant. When we move though the dungeons nothing seems to have changed. We manage to get into the hallway without waking up any of the other prisoners.
We manage to get through the first few hallways to but then Jack pulls me into one of the very small areas in front of a door. I'm practically pressed against his chest. I have no clue why he's doing this, and I'm about to ask why when I hear it too. Footsteps. Okay, he's better than good. Two guard pass us and I hold my breath. When they leave, Jack swiftly moves out of the hall and to my big embarrassment I trip over my own feet and stumble out of the hall. Jack grins. His cocky grin. 'I didn't know I had such an effect on you. I think you have a little crush on me.' I look at him. 'What? I do not have a crush on you.' He laughs and raises his hands in surrender.
We move out of the castle without more trouble. When we exit the castle I motion for him to follow me. He does. When we enter the square where he got arrested he looks at me, his eyebrows scrunched together. I want to answer but I don't get the chance. Jason steps out of the shadows, scaring me but seemingly not Jack. Great, I'm the clumsy girl who doesn't seem to notice anything and walks like an elephant. Jack looks at him for a second and then smiles. 'Jas, you complete idiot. Talking to the princess, breaking me out of prison. Are you crazy?' he asks him. Jason laughs. 'Yeah man, you know it. Crazy as hell.' He grins. I frown. I'm confused. Jack looks at me and seems to notice.
'It's an inside joke. If someone does something stupid we ask them if they're crazy or Cray. Since we measure the scale of craziness from normal to Cray, Cray as in out boss. Since he's, well… crazy.' He explains and I can't help but laugh. 'Okay, that makes sense I guess.' I tell them still smiling. When I turn to Jack again I practically jump backwards. Jerry is standing next to Jack. 'Seriously?' I practically yell. All three look at me, stunned. 'What yo? I'm confused.' Jerry tells me. 'You scare me every time. How do you just appear and disappear?' I ask. They look at each other like I'm crazy. 'We don't disappear, you just don't pay enough attention.' Jason tells me, he's trying to hide a smile, well he's failing.
I have the idea I'm pouting like a spoiled five year old but I don't care. The three look at each other and then burst out laughing. I scoff. I glare at them until they stop laughing. 'I've got to get back. I'll see you, hopefully not in the dungeons again.' I say, I know that's not fair, but hey they're laughing at me. When I turn around to walk away Jack's voice stops me. 'Aren't you forgetting something?' I turn back around frowning. I'm trying to think of what he's talking about when he pulls Jason's key out of his pocket. My mouth falls open, my hand shoots in the pocket where I kept it, it's empty. 'What? How? When?' is all I manage to say. The three are laughing again. They've got to stop that.
'I took it when we had to duck for the guards, I figured you were going to forget.' Jack tells me. My mouth falls open. 'I was standing right against you, how did you do that?' When I say it I realize that this sounded quite wrong. Jerry and Jason look at each other and then try to hide their laugh. Well they fail again, sneaking around and stealing, sure, but hiding a laugh, nope. That they can't. I just turn around and leave. 'Bye Kimmy.' Jack tells me, but when I turn around to tell him not to call me Kimmy he's already gone. 'Bloody thief's.' I mutter to myself as I make my way back to the castle.
Jack's POV:
I was genuinely surprised Jason and Jerry worked with Kim of all people to get me out. I was even surprised they got me out. Normally we don't do stuff like this, if you get caught you're on your own. We don't talk as we get back to the camp, well not until we're in the woods. Then Jason looks at me. 'So you just forgot to mention you knew the princess.' I know he's been wanting to ask me. I nod. 'Want to explain?' Jerry asks. I shake my head no. 'Okay, just fine.' Jason sounds hurt. 'O come on. What would you have said, huh, think about that for a second.' I ask both of them. They seem to understand what I'm talking about even though they're still not happy with it.
When we reach camp everyone is still up. I raise my eyebrows. Okay, clearly I'm a different case than normal. Normally people would be sleeping very well, except maybe their tent buddy. Chris, Milan and Eddie come forward, grinning. 'And Pretty Boy does it again.' Milan smirks. I roll my eyes, I must have learned that from Kim. 'It was more these two than me.' I tell them nodding at Jerry and Jason. They grin. Then Cray exits his tent and their smiles disappear. Great, I think they forgot to mention they were going to rescue me.
A/N: O dear, naughty Jason and Jerry! How will Cray react? He's pissed I can tell you that. Okay, thanks for reading, now please review, a few words is fine. It helps me keep writing.
Until next time… okay nice and dramatic…. Again.
