Watching and Listening - An Empires SMP AU

1, 2, 3, 4...

           "You're from that evolution world, aren't you?" Jimena asked. "Sorry about 2." "It's in the past." Pearl said guardedly, watching her carefully. It was evident that she didn't fully trust the girl, if she even did at all. Jimena didn't harbor any ill will about that; in her opinion it was pretty deserved. 

           "Guys, what's she doing here?" Jimena glanced around to see who had spoken and came face-to-face with a short hermit who was wearing an extremely shiny glowstone cloak for some reason. It made her sensitive eyes hurt. "Uh, hi?" Jimena waved somewhat uncertainly, blinking at the glare. 

           "Be nice, Bdubs," Grian said as if talking to a small child. Bdubs, understanding his tone immediately, swelled instantly as if to make himself appear more threatening, but the effect instead made him look more cutely enraged more than anything else. 

           "How am I supposed to be nice if she's friends with the enemy?!" Bdubs protested. Immediately Jimena glared daggers at him and he backed down hurriedly. "False is a nice person." She said coldly. "It's you hermits who are on the wrong side."

           "Let's just not get into a fight here," Pearl said evenly, pulling out her ax and holding it as a barrier between the two short people. "Okay, Bdubs, you're the one who says that False has a sad villain backstory, and Jimena, she killed innocent people just to get at our False, so there. It's just perspective."

           "She did that as revenge." Jimena found herself saying, turning to Pearl and glaring at her. "And you think that it's justified?" Grian asked. "You don't know what hermit False did to her!" Jimena shouted. The other hermits hesitated slightly and Jimena caught it. She'd struck a nerve, a weak spot. "You don't like what she did either, do you?" She pointed out. 

            "I'm more worried about the fact that your False tried to kill me multiple times." Bdubs huffed angrily. "She was just trying to destroy the tower to keep us safe! You wouldn't have gotten into any trouble if you stayed away." Jimena said. "Our False was there and we weren't going to just let her die." Grian said suddenly, locking eyes with her. 

           Jimena paused, trying to think of a good comeback. Nothing came to mind. "Let's just simmer down a bit, 'kay?" Pearl tried again to smoothen out the tension. "Mellow out, you guys!" Everyone calmed down somewhat and stopped talking. Pearl sighed in apparent relief. But then she came. "What's going on?" False asked, walking in and then spotting Jimena. 

           They immediately tensed when they noticed each other, locking eyes. "Uh oh," Grian said quietly. "What are you doing here?" False asked, glaring at Jimena distrustfully and pulling out her sword. "I was just going to talk to Grian. It's nothing to do with you." Jimena said truthfully, somehow glancing at the blade while still glaring at the hermit. 

           "I don't buy that." False said darkly. She pushed the blade against the girl's throat. "She sent you here, didn't she? What's she doing?!" "False!" Grian yelped, rushing forwards. "Don't-" "You stay out of this, Grian!" False shouted, pushing him away while simultaneously knocking Jimena against a wall where she had nowhere left to run or fly. 

           "What's False up to?!" False asked her, pushing the sword in closer. "False, calm down-" Pearl said, moving towards her. The hermit ignored her and stared at Jimena in her eyes. She looked at her eyes' reflections in the hermit's blue ones, which interestingly seemed to make hers erratically flicker blues. "She's trying to have a normal life now." Jimena answered, gritting her teeth. "Without you around trying to kill her she'll finally be safe and happy." 

           "Me trying to kill her?! That's the other way around you-" False abruptly cut herself off. "Don't you know all the people she's killed just to hurt me?!" "I do." Jimena said sharply. "But I think you deserve it after what you did." Somehow False was able to glare at her even more dangerously than she already had.