“Hey Jack…you still have your wolf ears and tail…kinda jealous” she said as she approached him, keeping at least three spaces away from him between them.
Jack chuckled. “You should ask for the grey faces, maybe they’ll give you one.”
“Why, of course.” He whirled his staff around them and the temperature dropped down almost five degrees.
Darcy looked over toward him, meeting his gaze. She kept totally silent as he began to talk and continue to talk, explaining his feelings. As she was listening to him, the more and more stupid she felt, along with feeling embarrassed and disheartened.
Her brow slightly quirk at his comment of, “But i’m not really info…that”. She looked at him slightly confused at that comment. What does he mean by that?.
She turned her gaze away from him, and looked down toward her hands as she rested them along her legs. She didn’t really what to even say to all he had said, she took a few deep breaths as her long hair hid away her face. “Sorry” she muttered as he rose to her feet and took steps away from him. “It isn’t that help, thanks for helping cooling it down” she added before she sat down again, with her back faced toward him.
She stared down at her feet, resting her arms along her legs. I’m such an idiot…..stupid idiot…..not only have I embarrassed myself, I was such an idiot….
Oh man. You’ve hurt her feelings, Jack thought to himself. One minute he’d been doing a friend a favor, and then burying himself in guilt the next. He didn’t mean to be harsh; he just couldn’t find out a way to tell her the truth without sugarcoating it.
“Look, Darcy,” he said, sitting up straight before he attempted to explain. He wasn’t the best at explaining things, but he could at least try. “I… don’t think I’m open to, uh… affectionate stuff. Yeah.” He nodded once to express finality, and then stood up, his hands now in his pockets.
He didn’t really know what to say anymore. If earlier was awkward, then there were no words for this moment. What was he supposed to say, anyway? He wasn’t sorry either, he’d only told her the truth.
“Why, of course.” He whirled his staff around them and the temperature dropped down almost five degrees.
She gave him a gentle smile, before looking away from him again. She felt the temperature around her become even cooler, making her widen her smile. As the silent went on, she started to feel slightly awkward.
Why isn’t he saying anything….doing anything?….SIGH!….
She glanced back toward him, resting her chin on her palm. She noticed him fidgeting around and her smile slowly fating away off her lips. God this feels awkward. She heard begin to whistle, she looked away for a moment, face palmed herself.
Seriously…?..please just do something, start a topic up, hug me, tease me….something…
Darcy sighed and looked back toward him, she wasn’t liking this awkward silent. So with that thought in mind, she rose up to her feet, planted herself right beside him on the tree trunk and wrapped one of his arms around her, being quite bold. “I’ll cool down faster this way” she commented, avoiding his gaze.
Jack found himself blushing, but he knew he had to do something. If he were to be honest, Darcy was a lovely person, and he was glad to be her friend, but he wasn’t quite sure if he was up for that level of friendship.
“Uh… Darcy?” he said, looking over at her. Since she had been bold about her feelings, he wanted to make sure that he be bold about his’. He took his arm off from the girl’s shoulder as gently as he could, and slowly backed away.
He sighed, interlocking his fingers together and resting them above his nape.
“I’m really flattered and everything,” he said, finally catching up that she was expecting some sort of affection from him. “But I’m not really into… that.” He shook his head slowly. “And frankly, if your sunburn is that bad, then you should probably go to a hospital.”
“Why, of course.” He whirled his staff around them and the temperature dropped down almost five degrees.
Darcy sat herself down some place near by him. For a few moments, she closed her eyes and herself relax, as she continued to feel the cold against her skin. After a few moments, as she heard him speak, she opened her eyes and looked toward him. “Nope, not yet” she replied.
He nodded once. “Alright, then,” he said, turning the temperature up a notch by giving another wave. He fidgeted around, still pretty clueless. The moment became so awkward, Jack actually started whistling.
“The city is celebrating their first centennial?” she repeated after him, as she swam on following him and avoiding water plants, here and there. She looked around and saw it was beginning to darken around them, becoming night. She looked back over to the doctor and saw him flipped a switch in his helmet.
“Obviously” she mumbled quietly with a smile. It took her a moment but she flipped the switch on her head, copying what the doctor did to do so.
Darcy looked toward a sign that both of them were passing. She looked toward him as he spoke to see him treading faster through the water, she began to chase after him, trying to keep up. “Wait for me!” she called. She looked to the direction he pointed toward, “that way?, okay” she mumbled to herself.
“Hey Doctor, question. Is there anything we should be looking out for?, like any dangerous fishes or whatever?.”
The Doctor nodded, but then he frowned at her snarky comments. “Just saying, okay?” he said with a shrug. His companion was getting quite difficult, and it somehow irked him - he was only trying to help, after all. But he shrugged it off, willing to give her another chance.
“These dangerous fishes you speak of were transferred to another part of the ocean by the DSCP, or the Deep Sea Creatures Preservation Committee hundreds of years ago, before they even began constructing the sites. The government saw the Great Submersion coming, I guess.”
He scratched his head as more information making its way from his mind to his mouth. It almost made him dizzy. Sometimes it was severely inconvenient to know almost everything in the universe.
“Why, of course.” He whirled his staff around them and the temperature dropped down almost five degrees.
As she felt the temperature drop around her, cooling against her skin, she let out a happy sigh of relief. “Thanks Jack” she said as she smiled toward him. Even though this isn’t what I had in idea…
He sat down on a fallen tree trunk and looked down awkwardly, fiddling with his staff. Jack was truly clueless at times. After a few moments, he glanced over at the girl. “So. You cooled down yet?"
“Oh really?, for how long?” she questioned at his comment. She swam after him, following him. She looked in front of him to see him swimming to a boulder, once they reached the boulder. She waited as she watched him climbed up the structure, until he finally climbed back down toward her.
“How far is it?, I can’t wait to see it” she commented, smiling. “Well duh, where else am I going to go but with you” she remarked as she took his hand in her own. “So which way?”.
“I think I saw banners and parades back there, so…” he paused in thought, before forming a small yet educated guess. “I’m assuming the city is celebrating their first centennial.” He swam on, avoiding water plants and lilies here and there. It was beginning to grow dark underwater, so the Doctor flipped a switch in his helmet and on went his headlights. “You should turn on yours too,” he said, nodding over at her.
The two passed by a sign saying: New York City, 1.5 miles. “Not very far, apparently,” he said, treading faster through the water. He rolled his eyes at her remark. “The question was actually rhetorical, but never mind. We go that way.” He pointed his index to the direction of north.
“W-what?” she mumbled quietly, before he told her that it wasn’t her. “what did you-” she began but was cut off as he repeated himself. Even though he told her, it wasn’t her fault but his. She felt a slight stabbing ache come over her heart, but she tried her best not to show it.
What did he do wrong?…He just can’t do it?…why do I feel like its my fault even when he said it isn’t...She thought to herself, as she kept her gaze on him. She just didn’t understand what was wrong.
She broke out of her thoughts as she heard him speak again. “Tooth?…Tooth is the Tooth fairy, right?. You need to speak to Tooth, about your memories?. I remember you telling me that you might have not gotten all of your memories” she said, as she rubbed her arm slightly, giving herself some comfort.
“Did something come to you?, do you need to go to Tooth now?”.
“I… I think I do,” he said, stepping back. He wasn’t feeling so good now. Why did he have to screw everything up all the time? He had wasted and ruined a perfectly good moment.
Slowly, the boy backed away. “I’m sorry, Darcy, I have to go.” He turned around and took off, feeling as if an anvil had been placed over his head.
“What the…?” he mumbled as grey wolf ears popped out from his head and a matching grey furry tail grew out from his back. “Very funny, grey face.”
“Then again…” he continued, scratching his furry ears. “This isn’t so bad.”
“Hey Jac-” she began but stopped mid way as she noticed, the winter spirit had wolf ears and a tail to match. She just stare at him with a curious, and awe look in her eyes. A smile began to smile along her lips.
“What happened to you?"
Seeing that he had company, he stepped back, slightly embarrassed of his appearance. But he tried to laugh it off; he didn’t want her to make a big deal out of it, did he? "Uh, apparently, I am now part wolf,” he said in between nervous chuckles.
