Knots in the Ties

Luna came out of the temple with a huge bag over her shoulder. She set it down next to me and pulled out some kind of armor. There was a black chest piece, a helmet, gauntlets, and leg pieces. She handed them to me and then went over to Jack. He was given the same thing, but his were white.

“This armor is made out of dragon scales. They are pretty light weight, and some of the toughest material out there,” Luna told us. “You’re going to be needing them tomorrow.”

“Anything else? Do you have any weapons for us made from their teeth or something?” I questioned.

“Why would they make those? We’re not going to give you weapons because you won’t need them and you’re not supposed to have any.”

“Why won’t we need weapons?”

“Well, you can summon a sword made out of darkness.”

“Yeah, but that’s all I can do. Don’t I at least get a shield, and what about Jack? He can’t summon a sword made out of light.”

“Jack specializes in pure magick. He’ll never need a weapon or turn magick into a weapon.”

“Jack passes out after he uses his magick though.”

“The tests will make you stronger. By the time that it is all over, you should be able to use darkness more, and Jack won’t pass out. He’ll also be able to control it better. I’m giving you armor because you don’t know any way to use magick to protect yourselves right now. You might need it when you enter. Back in the day, if a witch was tested, they wouldn’t even give them armor, so you’re lucky.”

“Whatever.”

I got up and started to make my way back inside. I could just feel dark energy radiating off of me. Of course that made sense since I was so pissed off right now. I walked as quickly as I could back to my room. As soon as I was closed to the bed, I collapsed on it. I was only there for a minute to a minute and a half when I heard someone outside my room. I knew who it was.

“Alex?” Jack asked. “Are you ok?”

He came over to the side of the bed and sat down next to me. He placed his hand on my back and started to rub circles into my shoulders. It would have been very calming if it wasn’t for the fact that there was so much emotion inside me. I sat up and just stared at him. Jack seemed...scared of me.

“Does it really look like I’m ok?” I sneered.

Jack got off the bed and took a couple of steps back. “Wh-what’s wr-wrong?”

“Everything is wrong!” I exploded as I stood up and got in his face. “I’m sick and tired of going through all the shit that we’re going though. I don’t even feel like myself half the time. Sometimes I don’t even know who I am. Why did it have to be us? Why did it even have to be our past lives? Why us? There are so many people on this earth. Why were we the ones that were chosen to go through with all of this. I hate whoever or whatever decided that it was going to be us. Why can’t it just go back to the way it was? I’d do anything to make all of this go away.” I put my hands over my eyes. “I just want this all to stop. I want all of it to stop. I hate everything we’ve gone through. We might even succeed. I just want all of this to go away!”

“Does that mean that you wish that this never happened?” Jack said under his breath. “Does that mean that you wish that I never talked to Luna? Does that mean that you wish that you were never with me?”

I took my hands off my face and saw that there were tears spilling down Jack’s cheeks. All of the anger started to exit my body as I saw the man I love cry. It is the worst thing that I’ve ever seen in my life. “Jack.” I reached my hand out and put it on his cheek, but he jerked away from it and ran out of the room. “Jack!”

I ran after him through the hallways. He ran right into Cymbeline’s arms. I stopped running at the end of the hallway when I saw this. She put her arms around him and shot me a dirty glare. Since Jack and Cymbeline were connected because she was his guardian, I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to talk to him if I asked her. I would have to go to Luna.

I didn’t want to walk away from Jack, but I didn’t have a choice. I walked into the other hallway since the library was there. I entered the room and saw Luna sitting on the ground with piles of books around her. There was a book in her hand that she was reading. I went up to her and sat down in front of her.

“I need you to tell Cymbeline that I need to talk to Jack, and I won’t take no for an answer. You two are sisters, so you should be able to make her let me.”

“You really messed up, didn’t you?” She continued to read as she spoke.

“Yeah, and I need to make it right, but I can’t do that with her there because I know that she isn’t going to let me talk to Jack.”

“I’ll go talk to her.”

“Thanks.”

“Just don’t hurt him again.”

“I won’t. I can’t.”

“Good.”

Luna got up and went out of the room. I waited and waited and waited for her to come back. When she did, she came with Cymbeline. She didn’t seem as angry as she did early, but I wasn’t going to test that by talking to her.

“Jack’s in his room,” Luna told me.

I got up and went to his room. He was sitting on his bed with his knees up. His head was buried in them with his arms around. I went over to his bed and sat down next to him. I cautiously put my hand on his back and rubbed in circles in it like he had been doing with me earlier. When he didn’t do anything to stop it. I took the chance and wrapped my arms around him.

“I’m sorry,” I gently told him. “I didn’t mean it like that. If I had to do all of this in order to be with you, I would. I was just angry, and I shouldn’t have let it out on you. Please look at me.” He lifted his head up, but he wouldn’t look at me. “I want to see your beautiful eyes.” Jack finally looked at me. “I am really sorry, and I know that one word doesn’t really cut it, but I do love you and I would go to the ends of the earth to be with you. Yes, I know that sounds cheesy, but it’s true. I’m happy that you ran into Luna and was turned into a girl because it made me realize how much I care about you. I love you, Jack. I really do. I never thought I could feel this in love with someone before, but you proved me wrong.”

“I love you too. I forgive you.”

I gave Jack a kiss on the cheek. “Good because I don’t want to live without you.”

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