Twins and Jesse Blue
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Twins and Jesse Blue. Part 1. |
Jesse entered in to the cell where April was held captive. She was lying on the dungeon plank-bed, staring at one point on the ceiling. Only for a moment the girl looked asquint towards his direction. At first, she wanted to play that she was terribly affronted, but after deciding that it would be too boring, she decided to play another game. There was only one thing to do - to hit Jesse with critics! At least, it was better than dying out of boredom.
Right after his first visit to the underground dungeon, Jesse Blue realized that to save his nerves he should see her as rarely as possible. Her comments about his base were just too much for the Trail Boss to handle it. After hearing numerous complaints of how your base was not hidden good enough, or not equipped as it supposed to be, or that your staff was dumb as bad trained turtles, then you certainly would start to ask yourself: Could it be true after all?
If it wasn’t April herself, he would have found a million ways to tame that hard-bitten girl by now, but despite it, he simply couldn’t do anything to harm her. Even though she was always in his way along with the Star Sheriffs, he had fallen under Nemsis’s esteem and failed his missions on several occasions. However, when she was far away from him he had always promised himself to kill her, or at least get even with her, but as soon as he was near her, all these thoughts disappeared. He would do anything just to be close to her. The only reason that he was on this crowded Planet Arrow now was only because he had found out that Ramrod was heading that way. He even didn’t care that if he made the slightest mistake he would be recognized and arrested instantlty. Nevertheless, there was no such danger that could keep him the pleasure from seeing her again. It wasn’t the first time, and with a big help from other Star Sheriffs, April always had been the winner until now…
Jesse still couldn’t believe that she said "NO" to him. He was sure that she played a "hard to get" game with him.
And now, when he was the one who had her very life and future in his hands, she was supposed to accept him as her master… But still, that hard-headed girl didn’t even think about it! Instead she started to bug him! No bug was a mild term to say. She was insulting him. It was a good thing that none of his subordinates ever saw how she dares handle him!
"I have a good news for you!" started to say Jesse.
"Really?!" she looked skeptically at him, "Are you letting me go? With no conditions whatsoever?! It’s not like you!"
"It’s not that, April. I’ve got your sister!"
"Stellar!" stunned shouted April, "Oh, Jesse, you won’t harm her? Where is she? I have to see her!"
Jesse Blue was pleased to see her reaction. Finally he had found her weak spot.
"You will see her!" he promised, "In fact, she has asked me to help her to find you!"
"You?!" she looked at him with wide open eyes.
She couldn’t understand what was going on and kept gazing at the Trail Boss. He would do anything to see her like this all the time.
"And I’m planning to help her!" he added smugly.
The last sentence surprised April even more. She wanted to say something, but couldn’t say a word.
"Don’t worry, I’ll keep you informed."
He left the dungeon, leaving the girl in a depressed condition.
* * *
Jesse Blue kept his promise. Together with Stellar, he ran around the city chasing after ghosts. They asked everyone they met on the streets. This cock-up continued almost for two weeks, and in the meantime, April was sitting in her cell and read halfpenny horribles, which Jesse brought her.
At evenings, after useless search, Jesse visited his prisoner and told her about their day adventures. April listened to him with big interest and even laughed at the funniest parts when Stellar had done something unusual. It seemed that she didn’t care much that she and the Trail Boss were becoming friends. However, only those who didn’t know her well would think so. As for Jesse, he knew with what he was dealing with. He was sure that this so-called "friendship" would only last until she found a way to escape, blew up the base or organized a riot. One thing he knew for sure - he couldn’t trust April, even if she was trying to acertain him in her loyalty. Furthermore, he also knew that he couldn’t search for Stellar’s sister for too long.
He needed to make some kind of a decision as soon as possible.
* * *
April walked back and forth in her dungeon cell. She was worried of what was going to happen to her, but most of all, she was worried about her sister. From the quiet Outrider conversations during their watch at her door and from Jesse’s half-words, she could make out that sooner or later Stellar was going to fall in love with this traitor. And this was one thing that she simply couldn’t allow for it to happen. Yet, the worst thing was that she couldn’t warn her sister in any way. April couldn’t do anything, and she knew that Jesse himself would never deny Stellar’s love. She could only hope that her friends were on their way over here to safe her and prevent that diaster from happening.
* * *
Stellar stood at the window and watched the tiny cars passing by endlessly the basement of the tower.
She heard someone coming from the behind. He suddenly stopped a few feet away from her, not daring to interrupt her thoughts.
Stellar made an impatient gesture, allowing him to speak up. She wanted to finish with this visitor as soon as possible.
"Good day, Stellar!" she heard the familiar voice.
A sweet smile instantly appeared on her lips. Stellar turned to Jesse and kindly bowed in return. She waited for him to say something while looking into the blue eyes of her friend.
"The squad I’ve send this morning came back without any result." he sadly informed her, "I’m preparing another search team. If you want, we can join it.
Jesse Blue was kind and attentive to Stellar. He was not going to repeat the same major mistake with her, which already had proven diasterous with April. He had made up his mind the first time he met her and had followed it to the letter ever since.
Instead of an answer, Stellar asked:
"Guess what I was thinking about?"
Jesse shrugged.
"I remembered when April and I were running back home. It was so nice then and fun!"
Tears then suddenly appeared in her eyes. Stellar was starting to loose hope of ever finding her sister again.
"It was so good with her! We could understand each other from one word. I never was so fond of anyone except her." she whispered, nestling her head like the first time to Jesse’s shoulder.
"And what about me?" he asked as he gently caressed her head.
"Now I have you, but I still have to find April."
"And we’ll find her! We have a lot of friends - they’ll help us."
Stellar’s eyes sparkled with hope. She pulled Jesse closer to her and kissed him lightly on the lips before pushing him gently away afterwards. She walked over to the lift not waiting when, the zaped guy would finally catch up on her.
However, Jesse didn't even didn’t think of chasing her. What for? Stellar was already his.
Filled with joy and pleasure he promised himself that Stellar would see her sister soon, but he didn't say anything about the way he would do it…
Twins and Jesse Blue. Part 1.
