•To The Simpler Times ~Vi x F!Oc•

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"No!"

"Stop!"

Both me and Violet yell. I can see Silco with wide eyes at the other end of the table as he looks from them to us. I furrow my brows in confusion and  shake my head softly, silently telling him we didn't ask either of them to do this. He shrugs his shoulders back, he didn't tell them to either.

We look back as Caitlyn speaks again. "Drop the gun." After a second with Jinx's hands in the air but still holding the gun she goes to fire again before Vi calls out.

"Wait! She's my sister."

"Vi, she's too far gone."

"Really? Do even know what she's been through? What we've been through? It's reason enough!"

Jinx snickers at the interaction and takes one step back. She places the gun on the table infront of Silco and steps back to where she was with her hands back up. Caitlyn clicks the gun ready to fire but looks down to the floor. She's possibly thinking about what I said about our pasts, neither me nor Vi has mentioned it before.

Jinx whimpers softly in fear, looking as if she were to cry before she grins widely, running at Caitlyn and seizing the gun from her before she can react. She knocks Caitlyn to the floor and points her gun at her.

She looks around herself frantically as she pants, heavier by the second.

"Remember who you are, I know you know who you are!" Vi calls to her. She tells her to picture Mylo and Claggor but I can see Jinx spiralling.

"Stop..." I say softly, too softly. "Vi, stop. Look at her!" I yell this time but she's too focused on trying to help her that she doesn't realise it isn't working, nor can she hear me.

"Shut up! Don't listen to her!" Silco tries to stop it too. But Vi continues.

Watching Jinx spiral makes me want to projectile vomit across the entire city. Her frantic pants, screams and the way she hits her head makes me twitch like I never knew I could. The stress of trying to stop Vi and/or calm Jinx down and/or get everyone to shut up builds on my shoulders and the noise fills my ears and I begin to grow confused as to how to do all that.

My confusion twists and turns into panic as the yells and screams become white noise. I feel my lungs close and I gasp for air. I panic further as my lungs feel as if they are to collaspe in on themselves. My head feels heavy but my body feels light. I yell out in confusion but all the white noise drowns it out and all I can see is a blurred version of the world.

The noise stops. Well... most of it. Silco and Vi stop yelling and all that is left is the muffled screams of Jinx as she fires her machine gun, spraying it around the room.

Tears run down my face as I grunt through my struggling breathing. Vi finally realises due to the quiet area.

I can hear Jinx panic to a dying Silco in the background but all I can focus on is Vi's arms as they wrap around me. Vi talks to Jinx softly. About what I don't know. I just see her sit in the darker chair, the one labled Jinx.

"I just thought... maybe you could love me like you used to. Even though I'm... different." She says. Albeit muffled due to the panic attack that I'm calming from but I can feel Vi's arms go weak around me as she says those words.

"But you changed too. Both of you. So... here's to the new us." She gets up and takes the gem off of the cupcake, walking away.

I can feel Vi sob into my shoulder and our ropes weaken more so than before, letting us go. We crumble to the floor together and rock eachother soothingly. Like that night Benzo died. Like in prison. Like the simpler times.

Caitlyn wakes up and looks to Jinx in the distance. She gets up and helps us up before we help her walk outside.

We stand by the door as we watch Jinx on the balcony. She holds a large rocket launcher over her shoulder and aims it at the Council building. A large flash of bright blue shines out from within as she screams into the night. A loud bang goes off and the three of watch as the bomb leaves a trail of blue behind it to the Council building.

Everyone in there, Jayce, Medarda, Caitlyn's mother. All about to die because of her. Caitlyn screams our for her mother and a tear falls down my shock stricken face. Seconds of watching it inch closer to the window before it finally crashes through and explodes the entire building and everyone in it.