That night, Destiny and Jason acquired the taste for ramen. Sure, it took Destiny twenty tries to actually get the noodles right, but Jason seemed to like it. By the time they were done, it was around eleven thirty at night, and Destiny was almost as exhausted as she was the night before. She wound up falling asleep with her upper body in the sink, which was pretty fascinating to see from Jason's point of view. How in the heck could she pull of a stunt like that without falling over?

So Jason had to scoop her up in his arms, which he had absolutely no problem doing, and brought her to the guest bedroom, which was pretty large. He gently lied her down in bed, and almost instantly, she woke up. She rubbed her eyes sleepily and stared up at him.

"D-did I fall asleep in the sink?" Jason stared down at her, trying hard not to laugh, and nodded. Destiny smiled up at him softly, giggling and stretching her arms out over her head.

"W-well, that's something I've never done before…" she yawned and glanced around, looking confused.

"E-Er…wh-where am I?" Jason shook his head slowly, chuckling to himself and reaching for his notepad.

"You're in the guest bedroom. This is where you'll sleep from now on. I kind of wanted my old room back." Destiny looked at the notepad, slowly tilting. She must have been half asleep already. Jason gently pushed her back down in bed and pulled the covers over her. She stirred slightly and looked up at him, her face lightly flushed.

"J-Jason…?" Jason tilted his head slightly, indicating that he was listening. "C-can I get Lacey?" Jason stared down at her for a second. Her hair was slightly splayed out around her on the pillow, and she was looking up at him with half-glazed eyes. The last thing he wanted to do at the moment was stop her from looking so fragile. He gave a quick, little point to the ground, trying to tell her to wait there, and he left the room to get Lacey. When he came back, Destiny's eyes were half-open and still glazed over. She was truly losing reality now. Jason gently pressed Lacey against her side, letting her know that the stuffed dog was there, and Jason watched her, intrigued by what she did next.

Destiny didn't wrap her arms around Lacey this time, like she did last night, but she turned to her side and pressed her face against its chest, cuddling as close against it as she could. She tucked her arms between herself and Lacey and her hands were balled up into loose fists and pressed against Lacey. The blankets were shifted enough for Jason to tell that she had curled her body up against the stuffed animal.

Jason felt his heart melt at the sight. She really was dependent on this stuffed animal to feel protected while she slept. Jason usually saw girls cuddle up like that with guys while they slept, but never had he seen a girl do it with a stuffed animal. It made his sick to his stomach when he saw it happening with a guy, since they had more or less just finished having sex, but seeing it now…she was doing it so innocently, like she needed this stuffed animal by her side, always.

Jason smiled softly and pulled the covers over her shoulders slowly. He hesitated before slowly brushing some hair out of her face. He jumped slightly when Destiny opened her eyes slowly at his touch and looked up at him. She smiled sleepily.

"G-Goodnight, Jason…p-please sleep well, o-okay?" Jason smiled behind his mask and nodded slowly. He patted her head gently and left the room, the smile still on his face.

"I knew I made the right choice choosing her!"

Destiny had less nightmares then the night before. The fear that Jason was going to tear her in half while she slept was slowly fading, but she still had her doubts deep in her mind. For all she knew, Jason could just by toying with her mind. He could just be acting like this big sweetheart until he decided enough was enough and tortured her until she couldn't feel anymore. Yeah…that thought stuck with her all night. She did have a few nightmares of Jason suddenly turning on her and killing her in some gruesome way, which left her in a cold sweat. Eventually, however, she managed to fall asleep and stay asleep until the morning.

After Destiny had fixed breakfast (Oatmeal. AGAIN.) And took a shower, she couldn't help but glance at the car. She knew that if she was going to live here with Jason, she would need to go out and get some necessities, like clothing and food. Nothing stupid like makeup or DVD's, since there obviously weren't any DVD players or TVs around here. But the thought of it made her nervous. What if Jason didn't let her out of the campsite? What if she wasn't allowed to go shopping? Destiny knew the half-bag of marshmallows and three packages of ramen, along with disgusting oatmeal wouldn't last them too long. She knew that Jason didn't really need to eat to survive, but she definitely did. If Jason didn't let her go get things for her to make, she would starve to death. But the last thing Destiny wanted to do was upset him. That would only make her death come around more quickly. How would she rather die was a better question. Would she rather die of starvation, or of being chopped into pieces?

Destiny's heart thumped, body trembling softly as she walked up to Jason. He was waiting for her to change downstairs by the door. He jerked his head slightly to the door, as if asking if she was ready to go outside yet. Destiny stared at the floor, trembling.

"A-actually, Jason…m-may I as-ask you something?" Jason slowly tilted his head to the side and nodded slowly, making his way to her side. Of course he didn't see this coming, but Destiny knew she had to figure this out now before anything bad happened. But she was so scared. She didn't want Jason to get mad, but she didn't want to feel confined either. She slowly forced the lump that was forming in her throat down and took in a deep breath.

"J-Jason…w-would I be allowed t-to…u-um…well, g-go out to the town every o-once in a while, l-like…o-once a week or something t-to get some things for us? L-like food and stuff? W-would that be o-okay?" Destiny kept her head low, praying that Jason wasn't going to strike her down the minute she uttered her last word. After a somewhat heavy silence, Destiny forced herself to look up at him. Jason was staring down at her, but Destiny could decipher his expression, which made her even more nervous. But when Jason slowly shook his head, she couldn't help but feel a small bout of anger. Okay, she kind of saw that coming, but he must have had a pretty darn good reason for her not to go out, right?

"Why? W-why can't I?" Jason slowly pulled out his notepad and started writing.

"I don't want you to leave and never come back." Destiny couldn't help but roll her eyes at this. Did he seriously think Destiny would tell him about her past and let him help her through a period and then leave him behind? Destiny didn't do that with just anyone. She only did it with one person. And that was him.

"Jason, I wouldn't do something like that. I'm not that kind of person. Why would I leave you behind?"

"You want to see your family, don't you? You miss them, right?"

"W-well, I do, but-"

"Who's to say that you won't just drive away to go back to them? I'm not stupid, Destiny. I know you want to get out of here."

"What? Jason, I never said you were stupid! A-And I don't want to get out of here. I-I just wanted to get some things that I need, like food."

"I can live without food just fine, Destiny. So could you."

"Jason, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You're immortal! YOU can live without eating! I'm going to die someday, which means I need to eat something – preferably good – to stay alive!"

"So I AM dumb, huh?"

"Is that ALL that you got out of what I just said! Jason Voorhees, you are acting like a child!"

"I DID die when I was eleven!"

"That doesn't mean you should be acting like a child now!"

"I can act however I want to act, Destiny. I'm not going to let you leave me."

"Jason, how am I going to live if I can get anything to eat? I-I know YOU can live without food, but I can't! What part of that can you not understand!"

"I don't want you to go out there alone. And I can't go with you, obviously, so you have to stay here."

"Why! I-I just don't get WHY!"

"Because I don't want anyone else near you. I don't want you to become tainted by the idiots that live outside of this campsite. There are bad, bad people out there, Destiny. I don't want you to become one of them. You're lucky that you haven't been infected yet, but it's not going to last forever if you leave me every week."

"A-are you trying to say that I can only stay the way I am around you? Who said you could control that? I act the same way around everyone! Just because I'll be out in a public place doesn't mean I'm going to change my attitude the minute I run into someone! People don't change that easily, Jason, and I'm above that rule. I've had the same personality since I was born! Do you think that doing something I've been doing ever since I turned sixteen will change how I act?" Jason took a step back at this, but Destiny was too upset to care. She didn't like being bossed around after all, even if the one who was doing the bossing was a serial killer. That wasn't exactly in her mind at the moment.

"Destiny, I just want to protect you. I don't want you to be a bad girl. I want you to stay as sweet as you are now. If you ever change, I will have to kill you. And that's the last thing I want to do. I want to stay with me. Forever." Destiny felt the simmering in her heart begin to quiet down as she read Jason's response. She sighed softly and looked down slowly.

"I-I know you do, Jason…b-but I can survive here without some things that I need to go to the store for. There are just some things that you don't have that I need. Like…l-like pads or something! I-I didn't bring that many, a-and i-if I'm going to stay here I-I need a LOT of them, you know?" When it was silent again, Density looked back up at Jason in confusion. Jason's ears had gone red again in remembrance of yesterday. Destiny smiled sheepishly and giggled.

"N-not the best thing to bring up again, h-huh?" Jason rubbed the back of his head and glanced away weakly, which only made Destiny laugh more.

"B-but in all seriousness…J-Jason, I promise you that I won't leave you to go back to my family, and I promise you I won't change who I am. I promise you."

"But…don't you miss your family?"

"W-well…yes. Yes, I do. Even if they didn't pay that much attention to me. B-but now that you know where I live…i-if I DID go back to my family, you could find me and kill me AND my family. I-I wouldn't want that." Jason tilted his head to the side for a second when she mentioned the fact that he now knew her address, and looked down slowly, as if trying to remember it. He shot up slightly when he remembered and started to write again.

"You're right. I would probably do that. Since you're rich, it would be pretty easy to find your house. You probably live in a huge place, right?" Destiny flushed slightly, and nodded modestly.

"I-it's not THAT big…j-just a couple floors…a-and an indoor pool….b-but that's not the point! Th-the point is I won't leave you to see my family. I promise. And I also promise that I'm not going to change who I am just because I'll possibly be around any bad people. Okay?" Jason then gave her the same dangerous look he had given her yesterday, which sent a chill up her spine as he started writing again.

"Destiny, you need to promise me something else."

"Wh-what?"

"You need to promise me that if you get touched by ANY bad people, even bad girls, tell me."

"W-why?"

"I'll kill them."

"J-Jason!"

"I don't want anyone to touch you. ESPECIALLY men." Destiny's face went red at this. Did her seriously think that men were going to attack her?

"J-Jason, I-I think you're thinking of someone else, here. I-I'm not really that good-looking e-enough t-to get a-attention l-like that…I-I'm not really p-pretty…" Destiny's eyes were sent straight to her feet, trying hard to control the heat that was invading her face and running down to her neck If Jason thought that he was going to get hurt, did that mean that he…?

Destiny heard Jason shift a bit, and after a long, somewhat awkward silence, he slowly started to write. At some points, he hesitated, and almost tore out the page twice, but eventually he showed it to her.

"I…I think you're pretty…"

Destiny's face went red. She looked up at Jason in shock. She could see that Jason's ears were red and he was staring at his bottom left as if his life depended on it. She could see the rigidness in his body. She couldn't see his expression, but she had seen enough. It had taken a lot for him to 'tell' her that. Destiny felt her heart thud against her chest heavily, a wave of nerves hitting her body.

She had never been called pretty before.

Destiny slowly took a step back, her legs weakening. She didn't know exactly how to absorb what she had just seen. She didn't know how to react to the situation. Jason glanced back at her, and she could see a hint of hope in his eye.

"J-Jason, I-I…" Destiny looked away quickly, panicking in her mind and feeling herself begin to dissolve into a series of stutters and a flushed face. Of course, by now, she assumed that her entire body had gone red. Her hands quickly went to her hair and she stroked it quickly, curling her toes against each other. Her mind was blurring over with thoughts about her being called one simple thing, which was rather silly, but then again it never happened to her before. No one had ever called her pretty. Lord knows her parents were too busy to ever think of her as pretty, and the cooks and bakers never brought anything like that up before, so she always assumed she was somewhat decent, but never something to stop and stare at.

Jason walked up to her slowly. She could see his boots out of the corner of her eyes. She could hear him start writing again, and she looked up slowly to stare up at him. Jason's ears were still red, and he still seemed rather rigid, but it didn't stop him from showing her what he had written.

"I'm sorry if I scared you, Destiny…I didn't mean to. I just don't want any men to touch you…I don't want them to take your innocence away…" Destiny was sure that she had become the close relative of the tomato at that moment.

"J-Jason! Y-you think I-I'm g-gonna get r-raped!" Jason looked at her quickly and waved his hands in front of his chest in a frenzy, as if he was trying to rid the thought out of her mind. Destiny bit her lip and sighed softly, looking back down again.

"I-I promise you…i-if anything does happen to me, I-I'll tell you…" She slowly felt a hand on her head, patting her head gently. She looked up again and Jason nodded slowly. Destiny glanced away, now feeling guilty for yelling at him. All he wanted to do was protect her…

"I-I'm sorry I yelled at you…"

"It's okay. But you know what we should do?" Destiny looked at him, confused.

"What should we do?"

"We should make a contract."

…

"…YES! L-let's make a contract! C'mon!" Destiny ran upstairs, all of her anger, fear, and worry out the door as Jason followed her to his Mother's room, shaking his head and laughing.

'Yes…Mother you definitely made the right choice.'

END CHAPTAH!

"That night, Destiny and Jason acquired the taste for ramen. Sure, it took Destiny twenty tries to actually get the noodles right, but Jason almost literally ran back to her for more, and almost wound up stealing her bowl while she wasn't looking."

…

Yeah, that was almost the beginning. But then I thought, "Would Jason Voorhees really do something like steal a bowl of oatmeal from a girl?" Then I thought, "Maybe…in my dreams." So that went out the window. Just thought I'd share, though. I thought it was funny.

So, Destiny lost her temper a little bit there, huh? And Jason is a bit more childish then we thought! Hopefully Destiny doesn't lose her temper again anytime soon. Jason might lose his, and who knows what'll happen!

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