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It has been two days…
Isha is Alive, It does not sound real but somehow it is…
Jinx, from feeling suicidal enough for all the things she lost, triggered by the child’s death, to now, living as if hope had started residing in her.
She was worried, would she jinx this too?
But even so, She felt like she had a purpose, to live… for Isha’s sake.
Singed….
She remembered the deal he bestowed upon her. Something that humiliated her existence.
She couldn’t utter the words Singed spoke to her, as if it was against her morale.
She sat there, in her workshop, looking blankly at the table…silence around her, only the crackling sound of a fan, below the propeller, turning in the void.
“Jinx?”
the silence broke…Jinx looked behind, it was him, the guy she used to be best friends with, the guy Jinx still seem to like, the guy who became her best enemy…
”Ekko..”
Ekko looked at her, he knew with all the cheap mascara running down her face, she cried like some days ago when she was begging to Singed ,and she hadn’t bothered to wash her face.
”You look like as if a bug entered your brain” Jinx spoke, cutting the awkward silence between them.
”What-Oh, sorry, I just got lost in my thoughts”
Jinx gave out a single chuckle, rose up and went towards the pillow fort, the same one Isha really wanted Jinx to make.
Ekko followed her…
Both of them sat down on the makeshift pillows, in their her humble fort, which was the same place Isha laid down after she got tired, running around the place.
”This place..it’s nice” Ekko said, looking around.
”Hm- Yeah… It is”
This was Awkward, Real silent
”You were saying…..about this other me? What… really happened?” Jinx spoke.
”Oh- Yeah, You really wanna know?” Ekko questioned.
”Yea…..You seem fascinated with this one.”
He didn't know how to answer that. Fascinated? Well Of course, he had a Fat crush on Powder when they were young, before everything went, y’know…
but all he can think was that, in that world, everyone was….happy. A world where Zaun was, at peace.
But Jinx wasn’t wrong, He did like that Powder from the other world, but still came back. Why?
This woman hadn’t bothered to kill half of the firelight members, and yet here he was….here.
Maybe he liked Powder, Maybe he hated Jinx, But after all that, He loved ‘her’
whatever ‘her’ name was, Powder or Jinx,
He would still fall in love with the same girl with pale skin, powder blue hair, pink and blue eyes, the girl who thought she Jinxed missions, but inside-
she would be the Strongest And Most Enduring Woman he will ever meet…
“Yeah…Well,me and two other guys had to head to the hexcore, for examination. And, well, everything started glitching and I got…teleported to this world….where Zaun was….Independent, happy, free from Piltover. And the people we lost, they were all alive”
”Alive?” Jinx normally didn’t belive shit like this, but, she too had a theory about some realm of ‘heeby-geebies’ when she got that book..
was this the same thing? No shit doesn’t feel real, It must have been some stupid theory, but what if…
”yeah, there was Benzo, Vander, Mylo, Claggor……and Silco” Ekko went on.”And then there were the usuals, Me and You”
What. They were all alive. How.
That was….amazing….a world where everyone….?. Wait,
“What about Vi?” Jinx asked, For that was the name she didn’t hear in this list
Ekko froze. He didn’t know how to say this……”Vi, Yeah….Everyone was alive. But except for her”
Jinx looked at Ekko. Really, A world full of people she loved and cared about, only for her very own sister to be dead. How was that a dream? That would’ve been a nightmare for her.
Her own older sister, the one who shared her blood. Dead.
”That really wasn’t the great part about the world, Vi should’ve been there to see it” Ekko blurted out, not knowing that Jinx was thinking the same.
“I wanted to find out more about it, turns out…Vi died while robbing that house I gave as a tip. Her death was caused by Hextech, which never seemed to develop after her death”…..
”What happened then?” Jinx asked. “How did you…..come back?”
Ekko answered ”Yeah, me, Powder and Heimerdinger, well, found some hex crystals, created that machine, that helped me to come back….
that thing I had…..when I stopped you, that thing can rewind time.”
Jinx looked at Ekko, as if the shit she heard wasn’t real.
Rewinding Time? As if that happened. That was some shit theory she heard. But she couldn’t lie, Ekko stopped her exactly 4 times, he said that. She couldn’t lie that she felt like she did the same work repeatedly.
She looked at Ekko, with shock and impression, Wow.
All this, and she came to know about it now…
…..
”Really?…. All that and you still didn’t have moments with Powder” Jinx spoke out, as if in a playful tone.
Ekko wanted to tell her all the details….that they were dancing, sitting at the edge of the last drop, the way she cupped his face and kissed in in the moonlight, Oh he wanted to tell her all……but he couldn’t, Powder was Past, Jinx is Present, And his future .
“Well…there was a party, some kind as that. And…..we shared a dance”
Jinx looked at Ekko, huffing a little, and looking straight now.
She wondered what could’ve been if, nothing ever changed. Hextech Never Developed.
Was that the reason why people lived, Was Hextech the real problem…..?
Yes, hextech was a problem, it was the same thing that killed her family, killed Silco, damaged Isha.
But she couldn’t lie, She was also in fault, She couldn’t lie that she was still a Jinx.
”Wow. Good for you I guess”. Jinx told Ekko, a bit hurt that it wasn’t her.
Ekko looked at her. He couldn’t decipher the look on her face, but still, he loved looking at it.
“You didn’t tell me about…..her.”
”Who”
”Isha”
Jinx didn’t know what to say, Isha…the kid she found out was alive two days ago…Should she tell him that…...
No. No. She can’t risk her life again. Not again
”Yea…. This kid dropped from the sky into my lap, Literally. And since, I took her in and well, we spend some time together.”
Ekko held his gaze, he couldn’t deny that Jinx loved this kid, her eyes and smile told it all
“Everything was going well, I got Vi and…..Vander”
……..
Vander? But Vander was dead, Vi said that to him, how…?
”Vander wasn’t the same anymore, he became, too hairy and….wolflike. But he was still in there” Jinx added, as if she read Ekko’s mind.
“We took him to a commune, where…..everything went wrong. Vi’s Piltie Girlfriend showed up, and a woman with a strange bob-” Jinx chucked, but soon it faded. “ And then, Vander lost control, lava spilling out of him”
How long was he gone? This didn’t feel real, what the fuck, All this, and he never knew it?
Woman with a bob- who the fuck even is that?
“What about Isha?” Ekko inquired.
”She went for Vander, took my minigun…..I watched it all happen…..she is..” Jinx wanted to end it with death but she knew Isha was alive. She couldn’t tell him that but a part of her really wanted to.
Ekko saw her face going from love to pain in a minute. He understood, She loved that girl and it affected her more than anything.
”Well then I surrendered, then broke out of jail, burned the last drop and then you found me, trying to kill myself”
….
”I’m sorry”
“Don’t be, I am Jinx after all”
Ekko realised that Jinx still saw herself as a…jinx. Hence, the name.
”You might have turned into a villain, but still, you have gone through a lot” Ekko replied.
Jinx wasn’t really used to someone feeling sorry for her. Anyone who saw her spewed with hatred and fear. He himself did
And now he was sorry?
For a while, both of them sat in silence. It wasn’t the awkward kind, but…….comforting. As if nothing changed.
He felt like as if they were kids again. Powder Jinx, who put her head on his shoulder.
He could almost hear the songs playing in the last drop now burnt down, the song which Vander used to play in the jukebox,
the one whose CD cover had two girls on it. Its lyrics were something like-
‘Our Love,……Bubbling Fountain….., deeper than……ocean…’
……………………..
”There is a war coming up, and Piltover needs our help” Ekko blurted out, it was a sudden change of topic.
”Let me guess, a war with those red guards, something like Noxus-maybe”
”You seem to know”,
“Don't know if I’ll be able to contribute well”
”You can, your weapons, they are a plenty lot” Ekko said.
Jinx thought about it. A war, fighting alongside Piltover? Fuck this is a nightmare, it was like a hate crime. She hated Piltover.
But Noxus, That woman with the hairdo- Ambessa.
She hated them, hated them more
Because they were the reason why Isha is in Singed’s Lab, why Isha got hurt in the first place.
Isha always wanted a free Zaun, that’s why she rebelled in the first place, stunning checkpoints, the reason she lit the torch at Vander’s statue, uniting Zaun, the reason she became one of the youngest stillwater prisoner.
She made Jinx feel like a ‘big fat hero’.
Maybe it was time to give Isha what she wants.
……….
”Wait.” Jinx spoke when Ekko was going to leave.
He tilted his head towards her.
”When do we start”
“What?”
Jinx looked at this boy, with a grin Ekko now became familiar to,
”When do we prepare for the war, Tell me a date”
….