Chapter 12
B: She jumped when she heard Isaac's voice. She looked over and he was standing in her bathroom. She reached for a large towel and throw it over her naked body. "ISAAC!!!!! IM BATHING!!!!!!" She yelled. Her face went deep red and she tried to find it. "Fine! I will listen only if you let me get out of the tub and cover myself properly. You know my brother would KILL you if he knew you were in here with me like this." She said with a scowl. She waited for him to leave and she put out her candles and her lavender.
She dried off and put on her pajamas. She walked out of the room still fixing her hair in a messy bun. She had on short shorts and a tank top. They fit loosely on her body but hugged her in the right places. She walked over to her bed and sat on it. "Go ahead talk." She said coolly. She would listen but she doubted any of it would faze her. She was done with the thing mundanes called love. She looked around at her art work and her shelves and all her other things in her room.
Her eyes landed on Isaac and she waited for him to talk. She knew most of what he said was going to be sorry and how much he had fucked up, but truthfully she just wanted to get it over with so she could return to her bath and finish relaxing.
Sure Alexander did not make her do the pain runes but he had made her clean most of the day and she would be for a month. It was tiring cleaning the institute all by herself. She had yet to see her brother and had yet to talk to anyone she had been close to while she lived her.
I: Zack didn't give a damn if she was bathing. As if he had not seen a naked woman before? He wasn't that angelic, and he was indeed a warm-blooded man. "Just scoot your ass out of there Jess. We have to talk, now." He wasn't taking no for an answer, but he would give her privacy. He wasn't entirely a perv.
He stood and walked to her bedroom and played around with her pictures and items. He saw the note and grabbed it, and quickly read it. He snuffed as he remembered she said her brother would kill him. He would kill him too for invading her that way, but honestly, he didn't care. When she walked into the bedroom after changing her clothes he stared at her wet legs.
"I came here to talk to you about something serious Jess." He placed the note back and folded his arms in an instructive manner as he chastised her. "I am tired of you running off when shit gets hard. If you want to be back here, then fine, we will take you back. But I already talked with the Institute and I told them to let me train you. I am sure that you are surprised that I would stoop so low, but I must admit you hurt my feelings pretty badly when you left me." He smirked and came closer to her. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her against his body.
"But this...?" he lifted her hand to show the half-written pain rune. "How could you do this? You think I am an idiot Jess? I know why you did this. You didn't have to! I am your friend and I won't break your heart! You have to know that everything I have done since we met was to protect you, and to take care of you! Don't you dare finish this rune do you understand me? If its love you are afraid of, then we won't love each other." He whispered the last part. "I don't know why I...can't let you go Jess. I don't know why I can't let you stay angry. I don't know why I can't stand to see you walk away from me. I don't know why I can't stand to let you hurt yourself! Pain rune punishment!? Broken heart runes? You're killing me Jess!"
He sighed sadly and placed his arms around her and lowered his head to kiss her lips. He lightly brushed his lips against hers. "If you are afraid of love, then I swear not to love you. But that doesn't mean I can't kiss you." He gently cradled her head and pressed her to his lips. He kissed her deeply, passionately. He would not let her protest against this. Not after all she had put him through. He kissed her deeper and pushed her to the bed and climbed on top of her, releasing a grunt as if he had waited forever to kiss her this way.
B: She listened to him. When he pulled her close, she blushed, but when he pulled her arm up to view, she stiffened. "I'm sorry that I started to do a broken heart rune because somebody was ASHAMED of me." She growled. "Pain is better than not feeling anything." She said softly. When he said that she was afraid of love she glared at him. "You think I'm afraid? I'm not....you hurt me by rejecting me in front of your brother." She huffed.
As he brushed his lips on hers and said those words her walls of anger came down. As he kissed her and pushed her onto the bed, she put her hands on his chest. "Isaac, I am not afraid of loving someone. I am afraid of loving you. If you can reject me in front of family, then you would reject me in front of everyone." She said softly. She pulled herself out from under him. "I just can't go the way we were heading for a little while." She said and before he could say anything she added. "I do like you....a lot. I would love to get to know you and maybe even date. If it comes to that." She said softly.
I: "Date?" he said the word in a flabbergasted manner. "We are hunters Jess. Hunters shouldn't date, and you know why. I have to be fully committed to the cause. Don't make this harder for me. I just want to be with you right now before I lose my chance at something beautiful! I hate it when you walk away from me Jess. You turn your back and you leave me, and you don't give a damn about why I did what I did. Didn't you know that my brother is devoted to the Institute? He would have turned you in immediately without caring why or how you ended up in the situation you are in right now. I care! I care about you and I'm asking you please don't turn your back on me again. Look at my face. Come here." He stepped closer to her and pulled her into a hug.
"Jess. I would love to date you. See? You are changing me. I hate to be the guy I was before, the guy who would have done what you think, turned on you because my family was there. That isn't what happened! I won't let you dare say to me that it is. I would not allow him to hurt you Jess. Not my brother, not anyone. Give me a chance to prove it to you. I Will prove it to you." He softly placed a kiss to her cheek and left her room and closed the door hard behind him.
That night he went to his home and slept in his bed. He could not get a wink of sleep, thinking about her and the reason why she left him. Had she given him a chance, she would have seen how much he truly cared for her. Could it be love so soon?