"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it."
― Vince Lombardi
"Las....you should probably be the one to ask him," Troy said as the two walked down the hall towards Jax' room.
"Why me?" Las asked as they turned the corner down the hall Jax' room was on.
"Cause you're his best friend, he trusts you." Troy said as the two stopped outside Jax' door. Troy knocked on the door and stepped back, motioning for Las to move in front of the door. The door opened to reveal a red eyed, unkempt Jax standing there, his dark brown hair in a mess, his shirt crumpled and looked as though he hadn't changed in the past few days.
"Jax? You ok buddy?" Las looked at his friend.
"I'm fine, what do you want?" Jax looked at Las with a annoyed expression.
"We.....we came to ask you something....." Las looked at Jax, wondering how his friend would help anyone on this Ark.
"What?" Jax asked.
"We....we need your help, the Ark needs you Jax, but so does your family. We came to ask you if you will come out, clean up and help us take down Reynes." Las looked at his friend, Jax looked as though he was battling himself.
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Here we take another switch and it's back to Jax' view
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Las was standing there, waiting for me to answer, but I couldn't, I was to caught up in a struggle with myself.
"How can I? How can I say no? How can I stand idly by while the Ark I call home is ravaged by war? But I can't leave them, I can't leave my brothers, I definitely can't leave Celia......Why is this thrown at me?" I was caught up in turmoil when a voice rang out in the back of my mind "He said take down Reynes, take down means kill, you can avenge your mothers death Jax, you can make right his wrongdoings and stop this from happening again!" I knew what I had to do, for me, for my family, for my home and for my friends, I had to kill Reynes.
"Yes, I'll come out, I'll save the Ark, but on one condition." I looked towards Las and Troy.
"Yea? What is it?" Troy looked at me confused.
"I get to kill Reynes. Me, personally." I responded, feeling all emotion leave my voice, all feeling of rage left me...I was.....I became cold.
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Switching again :3
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Las looked at Troy in shock, he couldn't believe what he was hearing, Jax wanted to kill Reynes.
"Jax? Are you sure you're ok?" Las looked at his friend, worry building up inside.
"Yes, I'm fine. Can we get going now?" Jax asked, annoyed.
"Ye-yea let's go..." Troy responded, looking at Las.
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A new perspective, now we get a look into Las and his opinions on this situation!
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I moved closer to Troy and tapped his shoulder to get his attention.
"Troy?" I whispered, my head still spinning from Jax' demand to be allowed to kill Reynes.
"Yea?" Troy whispered back to me.
"Are we seriously going to let him kill Reynes?" I whispered, worried about losing my friend to this cold that has taken his place.
"No...we can't, he isn't thinking, he's reacting. Right now he wants revenge and trust me, the last thing Jax needs is to kill a man in cold blood." Troy answered quietly.
"We can't lose him to this....to this cold thing that has taken over his body." I looked around Troy, seeing Jax walking ahead looking as though he was lost in thought.
"I agree, we protect him no matter what, agreed?" Troy looked at me, his face, usually stern and serious, now creased with worry.
"Yea, I agree....." I trailed off, I can't let Jax fall away, we will need all our strength to help him make his comeback.
A/N: Lots of view switches I know, but I felt that it was the easiest way to capture the scene, hope you enjoy brátans!
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