Two sides of the same Jack

Chapter 23

Sapphire POV.

It was about time for me to go on another job. As sad as I might be the rent isn't going to pay itself. Man I'm starting to sound like Lucy. I went over to the request board and started going through the various jobs.

"Good morning Sapphire," It was Jack. He had just entered the guildhall and he was walking up to me. He sent me a smile.

"Good morning Jack," I smiled back him.

"So. Are you going on a job?"

"Yeah, you know the rent isn't going to pay itself," Jack shrugged.

"Well you know I could pay for you I still have some jewel left for the rest of fall and I guess I live there too so…" Did he really have nothing to spend his money on? We got that reward like a month ago. Even Kai had to have spent it all by now.

"No! It's my house and therefore my rent," I looked back at the request board and picked out a strange piece of paper. All it wrote was 'read this' and then a bunch of symbols presumably from another language. Jack looked at it beside me.

"What language is that?"

"I have no idea. Let's give it to Silver and see if she can read it," we went over to Silver who was sitting and listening to one of Zeke's stories with intrigue.

"Hey guys how's it going?" I asked my faithful team.

"It is going quite wonderful. Zeke here was just narrating a story about something him and Jack did once," Silver pointed to Jack.

"Oh no what did he tell you. Because it's most likely not true," Jack looked at Zeke who shrugged. I interrupted before it got out of hand.

"So Silver. I found this on the request board and I was wondering if you could read it for me. It looks interesting and I want to take the job if it's anything exciting," I handed the paper to Silver who smiled and started reading the strange symbols.

"I do not understand the meaning behind this sentence. What it reads is 'the one mentioned last by the reader will be faced with their good as well as their bad side' and that is it. Do any of you have any idea what that means?" before any of us could say anything the guild doors were slammed open and someone came running in towards us.

"Yo! Kai let's fight! You, me, right now! I have some pent up aggression I need to get out of my system!" I looked towards whoever was stupid enough to challenge Kai to a fight. I lifted an eyebrow when I saw who it was.

"Jack? but you were right here a second ago," I turned around and saw that Jack was still standing right there.

"How are there two of you?" I asked him. He looked at me, blushed like crazy and then looked away rolling his thumbs.

"I um… I don't know. I'm sorry," He said in a very scared voice. Was he afraid of me or was I imagining things.

"Jack is something wrong?" He looked at me for a moment and he was about to answer when the other Jack interrupted by sneaking up behind me and smacked my butt. I let out a yelp and he laughed.

"Aw man. I've always wanted to do that," I tried punching him as hard as I could in the face but he moved his head and grabbed my cheeks.

"That wasn't very nice. I like that," he said and let go of me.

"Well if none of you are going to fight me I'll take my abilities elsewhere," with that he walked over to the bar and started picking a fight Erza for absolutely no reason. But he sure got what he asked for when he pushed her strawberry cake off the table. I turned my attention to the other Jack. This was really confusing.

"What's going on here?" I was standing with his hands on his back looking at the ground and fidgeting around with his foot. When he noticed me looking at him he blushed again.

"D…Did I do something wrong?" I just stared at him in awe. This person standing in front of me was nothing like the Jack I knew and neither was the other one who had now gotten into a fight with Gajeel for some reason. I needed to figure this out. I went over to the rude Jack, hit him on the head, and dragged him over to the other Jack.

"Sorry about the trouble Gajeel," I shouted to him. He made a grunt noise as a response.

"So you like it rough I see. Feisty. That's very sexy," I held back the urge to kill him right there. Instead, I blushed like crazy. I've always liked the bad boys. Who doesn't. But this was too much. Jack wasn't supposed to be a bad boy he was supposed to be a careful, caring and shy person. But that doesn't describe him very well either because the other Jack wasn't like the normal him either. I threw him onto a chair and he tried to get up.

"Stay there Jack!" I commanded him and he sat down again.

"Whatever. I don't have anything better to do. Oh wait I do. I have a fight to arrange," He got up again and I pushed him back into the chair.

"I SAID STAY!" I went to get the other Jack who had retreated to a corner sitting with his arms wrapped around his legs and his face buried between them. I looked at him and sat down next to him.

"Um… are you okay?" he jumped and let out a surprised yelp. He moved away from me and I noticed that he was crying.

"No I'm not. No one likes me," he almost whispered in between sniffs. Why on earth would he think that.

"What makes you say that?" I rubbed his back and he started from the contact.

"I don't know. That's just how it's always been," he was totally broken.

"Don't say that. I like you," he made very brief eye contact and then looked away again and his entire face turned red.

"Do you mean it?" he said with his voice muffled by his legs.

"Yes I do but right now I need you to come with me, okay," He nodded and we stood up. When we started walking towards the other Jack, he grabbed my hand and walked right behind me almost using me as a shield. It was most likely for comfort but it made me blush nonetheless. This Jack was so cute, innocent, careful and trusting I couldn't help but smile. We got to the other Jack and I made him sit in another chair next to his other self who surprisingly still sat in his seat. Rude Jack looked at his counterpart and raised an eyebrow.

"Who's this loser and why does he look exactly like?" Quiet Jack looked to the side clearly embarrassed.

"He's you and you're him. Sort of. You are both two halves of a whole," the rude Jack got up.

"Remind me again when I care," he walked right up to me so he was standing right in front of me.

"So do you wanna or am I just wasting my time," I blushed furiously at his innuendoes.

"That's not funny Jack!"

"I…I'm sorry," the other one exclaimed.

"No not you Jack the other Jack," I let out an annoyed grunt.

"You know what you two. I'm getting launch to clear my thoughts. Good Jack, stay there. Bad Jack don't… kill anyone," I went to ask Mira for something to eat and something for good Jack too. When I got back bad Jack was funny enough gone. I sat down and gave him the food I got for him. He gently pushed his food away from himself and put his head on the table.

"Are you not hungry?"

"No… I mean yes. I'm not hungry. But thank you very much for bringing something for me. Girls usually just avoid me," I looked at him and tilted my head. Why was he talking like this? Even his innocent side should know that he isn't unattractive.

"Why do you think they'd do that?"

"I don't know. I guess I'm just not very confident when it comes to girls," tears started forming in his eyes.

"It's just so hard."

"Well you talk to me so that's a start isn't it. Tell me something that you like about me. I won't get mad no matter what you say," he looked up from the table.

"Well… what kind of thing should I say to you," I was about to answer when bad Jack suddenly came in and head locked his other self rubbing his head.

"I know what you can say to her. Tell her she's hot or that she's got a nice rack," I glared at him and he smirked back.

"See that other me. She's got that lustfulness in her eyes," I was taken aback by this Jack. He was so different from his usual self. Wait they're both still Jack just different personas of him.

"Is that really what you think of me Jack?" I said not specifying which one I was talking to. The two of them looked at each other and bad Jack let go of his counterpart.

"Well…" Bad Jack started.

"No it isn't," Good Jack interrupted. I sighed. This would take a while to get used to.

"Bad Jack is that really what you think of me?" I looked at him and he looked away crossing his arms.

"I don't have to tell you," This guy was pissing me off.

"You tell me right now! I'm tired of this," Bad Jack smirked at me.

"Uh. I love it when you get all angry. It so sexy," he said further pissing me off.

"You are unbelievable," I said and he got up and walked over to me and he was standing right in front of me.

"Jack! Sit down," he started leaning in and he grabbed the back of my head. Was he really trying to kiss me? Right now! I punched him in the stomach and sent him flying.

"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!" Jack got up from the destroyed wall.

"Why'd you hit me?" he asked as if I was in the wrong.

"What do you mean why? Because you tried to kiss me!"

"But isn't that what you want?" I looked at him raising an eyebrow. I never made any indication that I wanted him to kiss me.

"Guys? Can you please take it easy," good Jack said still sitting on his chair cowering in fear. I sighed.

"In a minute. This needs to be settled," I glared at bad Jack.

"let's fight. If I win you stop being a jerk and we figure out how to get you two to become one again. Deal?"

"Sure but what's in it for me. What about WHEN I win?" huh I never thought about that. Good Jack clapped.

"I've got it if you win she has to give you that kiss you want," I looked at him and he tugged his legs in.

"Did I say something wrong? I was just trying to help."

"Wimpy me has a good point. If I win you have to give me a kiss," he pointed to his mouth.

"On the lips of course," he winked at me and I blushed.

"Alright fine. But promise that you'll do as you're told if I win."

"That won't be necessary because I'm going to win," as we went outside something occurred to me. If this guy really was the badass version of Jack he'll be a lot stronger than his normal self because he doesn't have self-restraint. We took our stances and got ready to fight.

"GLASS DRAGON ROAR!" Jack started it off with his roar and I blocked it with my hands. When it disappeared, he was gone, I turned to see where he was, and he was right behind me. "Peekaboo," he tried hitting me but I blocked his attack and hit him in the face. "GLASS DRAGON PISTON!" he shot his arm at me and I stopped it. I held on to it and swung him over my head and into the ground on the other side of me as hard as I could. When he collided with the ground, a large smoke cloud appeared. When it was gone, Jack was standing on his hand and the ground beneath him had a massive dent in it. Damn he's powerful. He retracted his hand and used the momentum it got to sin around a little. "GLASS DRAGON STAMP!" He shot his foot at me this time with twice the power due to his use of his momentum from the previous attack. I dodged to the side, grabbed on to his foot, and pulled him off the ground. He held on to the ground with his hand and pulled a large chunk of earth with him. He retracted his leg and since I was still holding on to it, he started coming towards me instead. When he was in close enough range, he slammed the heap of rock at me shattering it into a million pieces. I fell to the ground. He put his foot on my chest and looked down at me.

"I guess that means I win," he removed his foot and I stood up preparing for the worst. He leaned in for the kiss and I knew there was no way out of it. A promise is a promise. He suddenly stopped and started shaking me.

"Hey Sapphire wake up. You're having a nightmare!"

"What!" everything went dark I opened my eyes and sat up. I looked around and saw Jack sitting by my side.

"Are you okay? You were having a nightmare."

"A nightmare," I started laughing.

"It was just a nightmare. Just a nightmare," Jack looked at me confused.

"Don't worry Jack I'm fine. Lay down," he did and I fell asleep.

Damn. That guild was taking over my life. Even my dreams were about Fairy Tail!

Authors note: i'm very sad to say that this is going to be the last chapter for a while. i need to fresh up on ideas and fight senarios. But fear not my loyal 4 viewers Jack will return. i just need a break hope you understand.
yours truely Craftex101