Can't Rid of Me (JackLex & Marree)

This morning when I came into the gym, I had hardly espected anything to happen at all. Some conditioning or running to keep my body in shape, but when I walked in this morning, I hadn't expected to meet up with some guy who could play hard ball like I could. The way we battled it out, to try to get the other to fall for one another, was just a game. A new kind of game that gave me an edge to my charms. Normally, it worked with all the guys. I give them a simple gesture of seduction; a word or two to spark interest and their simplistic minds would give in the illusion that I was interested. That's when it would play into my favor.

However, there was only one guy, whom at first, resisted my charms. Matthew, the jerk, who I had ultimately hated at first from the moment he took a cheap shot against me in our first sparing lesson, had changed the next time we had met. Our goals was to show each other up. To get under the skin of the other person, and four days ago, it resulted into so much more than I could have ever imagined. The day that Matthew and I went beyond the fence to engage in something illegal and ended up spending the entire day together faced with fear, love and danger.

Oddly enough Mark had other plans when we began our seduction battle of charm. He had intentions of seducing me into his world. To take me as his own, but the challenge was lost and after he stitched up my shoulder, he took off. That's when I decided that staying in the gym wasn't good for me today. I needed to get back out into the outside cold. I needed to target something with my knives and get in the use of my left, since my right shoulder was practically useless. My thoughts were so jumbled right now and my shoulder was numb for the moment, so what could possibily happen?

I stepped into the changing room, changed my training outfit for something more appropriate for the outside weather. Instead of my usual outfit, the black pants, pink top and matching jacket, I had to opt for the black pants and the orange jacket. My jacket had gone missing and I had no intentions of trying to find it for at least another day or so, in order to keep the suspicions of my journey at bay. It also made me mad that after that one day with him, he was avoiding me. Wonderful... Just like a man, right? Spending one entire day in his company, and more... then he's gone. Though, I have to wonder if his injuries were keeping out of sight. I refused to keep at home, though, I'm sure I should have stayed in or I wouldn't have gotten my shoulder reinjured then stitched.

I step to the weapons table and take a stack of knives, stuffing them into my pockets. I take off outside of the training center and head toward the back of the building where I see a group of career guys taunting some people. It's usualy not none of my business, but as I get closer I start hearing things that make me wonder about who it is. Things like someone being with a girl and interest in girls. My curiosity peaked. I step over to the group after they were talking amongst themselves about them running off.

"Who you guys taunting now?" I ask Joel, one of the guys who knows my throwing ability. He gives me a symboli eyebrow lift and folds up his arms.

"That Matthew guy is down there with an actual girl. Think he's changing. Maybe. But the girls so tiny." I step to the side and see as Matthew is pushing the girl away and I begin to wonder why he is with a girl. After all these days, he's spending time with some girl, young or not, instead of trying to find me or something. I grip my right arm with my left at the elbow and shift to my right hip.

"That's funny. I didn't think he hung out with 'chicks' either." I say that word because I had heard him say it to me. What changed all of a sudden? Just then, I see Matthew take hold of her shirt and yank her close to him and his mouth moves. I'm too far away to hear their words, but I hear the laughter in the guys around me.

"She's going to get it. Guess we were wrong about Matthew." They chuckle as they give one another a 'high-five'.

"You guys are so immature." I say and shove past them and grip one of the knives in my left hand. There are enough trees around for me to play with. I take the opposite direction of where I saw MAtthew and the young girl, and toy with the knife in hand. I feel something deep within my gut that is making me mad and these trees that are in the distance are about to feel the sting of my presence.

The knife in my hand goes flying off into the direction of the tree. For the briefest of moments, I see nothing but Matthew. I see his face. His eyes. I see his body. I see the gauze wrapped arm. I see everything about him as the knife shoots through the air and lands with a 'THUD' against the tree. It's positioning similar to that of the area it would have been on his shoulder. The same wound he gave me. The same exact spot. Somewhere in my heart, I feel bad for thinking of him as the target, but after four days and I havn't even heard the slightest peep from him or anything, what could I do? After all of the events that lead up to me falling asleep in his arms that night just keeps replaying in my head. Sleeping the last couple of days has been torture on me. This is hopeless, Kyanite. You lead yourself to beleive he was different from the rest of the guys. You even gave him so much to go off of. You told him things that he's going to harbour and use against you. What if he's actually friends with Jins? What if he finds the guy and starts to be like him? If he starts out like Jins... What if... What if.

There's a moment of shock and hesitation that I suddenly realized that I almost hit the girl who almost got her face hit by my knife. I can't help but throw my hands up to my face to cover my mouth to hide the apparent shock of the situation.

"I'm... Sorry!" My words come out with a shake in them. I wasn't expecting to actually target someone again, let alone some little girl. Wait... this is the little girl that was just with Matthew. What the heck? Why is she... What did Matthew do? He hurt her, didn't he? He was gripping her shirt pretty tight not more than a few minutes ago. Bet he pissed her off.

I stand stunned, still, until she pulls the knife out of the tree and I bring my hands down away from my mouth. If she was goign to throw it, I needed to be ready for it, but what just happened was purely accidental. Little girl, I never meant to aim at you. I hear myself screaming the closer she comes to me. "This yours? I don't reach for another knife. I don't want to give her the thoughts that I was going to throw another one to show her I meant no harm at all. I see how she leaves the knife at her side as she crosses the feild to bring me the knife, but instead I get an insult. I smile at her in the best way I could even though I was still frightened that if she would have been any faster I would be screaming for help.

"I'm sorry. I didn't see you coming at all. And for once, I wasn't aiming at nothing but the tree. THank God, it didn't hit you." I say. My voice wavering just slightly, but as I stand there, I look her over just to make sure that the knife didn't nick her face at all. "You need to be more careful of your surroundings. Not to rush around the training feild without keeping an eye out... for this exact reason."

I hold my hand out, palm up. "Thanks for retreiving my knife. Can I have it back now?" I ask her. Behind me, I hear laughter from the career boys that were taunting Matthew and the girl not long ago.

"Did you get her, Kyanite?" I hear one of them shout and I shake my head. I would love to turn around and throw one at Joel for his mouth. This situation has nothing of him and his friends and their laughter was definately not needed right now. I turn around giving them a glare.

"Piss off Joel, or I'll throw one at you." I shout back at them. I see Joel shake his head, but it doesn't effect them at all. They stay where they are at, and I turn back to the girl.

"I swear... those guys are nothing but a pain. You okay though, right?" I ask, trying to find out if the close call she just encountered didn't scare her too bad.