Nightmares (Jessi)

[Jessi Burke]

Jessi just glared at Kurtis as he laid his head on her legs. She felt her temper getting worse and worse, which only meant her powers were going to go out of control. He had the nerve to take a phone call during her emotional confession and not talk about it. The last straw was when he talked about her tempting his eyes.

"If you are thinking about brainwashing me," she hissed as she pulled her legs out from under him and moved to kick him out of her bed, "you are dead. So dead." She hurmphed as she rolled over and curled up in all the blankets on her bed. "You can see yourself out," she muttered to him as she buried her face into the pillows, taking deep breaths trying not to break down into tears.

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Kurtis Lancaster

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Dare you to look me in the eye

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<sub>Kurtis felt himself on the floor, blinking and wondering what just happened as she told him to leave. For a second, he didn't know girls could say that and bristled, forcing himself to calm down. He breathed out, listening as he got up. he grabbed his pants, not saying a word. He was pissed to hell, but knew that anything he said was gonna just dig himself in deeper. 

Kurtis didn't bother with his shoes and shirt, crossing to the door and stopped, saying," Before I came to camp, I didn't care if I used my eyes on a girl or not Your the first that I've actual restrained myself. My habits won't die easily, but I've tried." He opened the door, and closed it behind him,gently. He knew the sound would be mocking, and smirked on his way out, thinking," Just like old times. I'm sneaking out of the girls bed in the middle of the night." He sighed, thinking the redundancy of it as he started walking. Maybe in the morning they would be able to talk. He hoped so. He liked her, and didn't think that if they broke up again, he would be so lucky. Actually, knowing his history, he could be that lucky, but he wasn't gonna make luck that way. If he was, he wouldn't even bother with walking out the door like this.</sub> 

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[Jessi Burke]

Jessi woke up the next morning feeling completely horrible. She didn't sleep at all once Kurtis left her cabin. She sobbed into her pillows and had a very restless sleep the rest of the night. She couldn't believe that barely twenty-four hours together they fought and she kicked him out of her cabin. And the last words he had to say to her before she left, she just felt horrible.

She took a hot shower that morning and changed into clothes that were her own, even if Kurtis's was more comfortable. She didn't even bothered to put on makeup to cover the dark circles underneath her eyes. What she planned on doing today anyway was going to the mess hall to get breakfast and then moping all day in her cabin.

So she pulled on one of her dad's sweatshirts and walked outside towards the mess hall. What she didn't expect on the way there was to run into her boyfriend after all that happened last night. "Oh..." she muttered as she avoided eye contact. "It's you."

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Kurtis Lancaster

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Dare you to look me in the eye

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<sub>Kurtis had made it back to his cabin with out any trouble from the local Harpies, and promptly had a drink of whisky. A small one, but he still took the edge off his emotions. For being a child of love, he really didn't want to feel anything right then. He just it all go, not caring much as he fell asleep.

Waking up had been worse. He didn't have a hang over, but he was still a little pissed off, and it was 5 in the morning. Still to early to be up, but he couldn't sleep. He made to grab his ring, but remembered he left it at Jessie's place. He cursed, got up and sliped a shirt on. Sneaking out the front door, he went over to the Athena cabin. 

He didn't even have to knock as Kenji opened the door, surprised to see his brother. Both looked at each other, then smirked at each other. they didn't say a word as kenji noticed the swords on Kurtis' hips. He just turned, grabbed his gloves and closed the door behind him. The twins walked out, heading towards the arena.

-2 hours later-

"You didn't take it easy did you?" Kurtis asked, holding his shoulder as a bruise was forming. Kenji just was wearing a smug smirk on his face, not looking at him. "I'll met you in the mess hall later," kenji said, holding his fist out to Kurtis. Kurtis bumped his against Kenji's, walking back to his cabin. He needed a shower. 


-15 minutes later-


Kurtis came out, refreshed and his hair looking perfect. He smirked, and hit the wake up button for his cabin. Yeah, he was just a councilor, but he felt like being a dick. He chuckled as he exited, It was a horrible night yesterday, but that work out with Kenji didn't leave him time to feel sorry for himself. Kurtis stretched, tired but emotional, more stable. 


"yeah it's me," he said, his eyes narrowing but not looking at her  directly. That was more of a show that he knew she didn't trust him, so he wasn't going to look at her. He started walking towards the mess hall, thinking of what to eat. yeah, he was still bitter. "You sleep alright?" He asked over his shoulder, his feet heading towards the mess hall.</sub> 

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[Jessi Burke]

Jessi felt herself getting more and more upset with this little diva act he had going on. He was in the wrong for taking that phone call and not telling her why it was so important that he had to answer then and there. She was in a middle of a confession! Not many people knew that her parents were dead and she felt guilty for it.

"Oh, I slept fine," she spat out sarcastically at him as she stormed after him towards the mess hall. She felt her emotions getting out of control, which meant her powers were too, but she really didn't give a damn at that moment. "In case you couldn't tell by the dark circles underneath my eyes. I hope you were quite content with yourself, jackass."

She huffed as she stormed past him, making sure that her shoulder bumped against his quite hard and didn't apologize for it.

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Kurtis Lancaster

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Dare you to look me in the eye

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Kurtis looked at his shoulder, bristeling but paused, watching her walk off and exhaled. He wasn't gonna let this get to him. He wasn't. He opened his eyes and purple light spilled out, his emotions making his powers act up. He closed his eyes, turning his head as the light spilled across her form. He smirked, forcing that cocky swagger on and walked forward.

"I thought that was a new make up you were trying," he said, the sarcasm thick, on his voice. He opened his eyes, covering them with his hand, no light coming forth. he lowered it, and walked ahead of her, bumping past her and entering the mess hall. Usually he always opened the door for her, but he didn't bother to as it closed behind him. 

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Kenji had been leaning on the wall next to the door as Kurtis barged in, surprise in his storm gray eyes. He watched for a second as Kurtis stomped off, anger rolling off him. If you didn't know him, you would swear he just won a high stakes poker game and was flanting it, but Kenji knew his brother well, and knew a fake swagger when he saw one. That and his brother was squinting. It was harder to tell with their eyes, but again, twins. Kenji took a step forward, hearing the door open behind him but not caring. His foot steps were walking over, going to demand to know what his brother was angry about. 

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[Jessi Burke]

"Oh yes," she sarcastically replied as she rolled her eyes. "It's the latest trend, don't you know. It's called my boyfriend was a jackass last night and made me cry. I think it's a wonderful look on me, don't you think? I might start wearing it everyday."

Two could play this game, Jessi thought to herself as she felt Kurtis bump her arm back and immediately walked into the mess hall without bothering to hold the door open for her. She was outraged. He went from being some asshole to becoming a complete douche bag. Jessi didn't bother keeping her powers in control as she walked into the mess hall.

She glared at Kurtis and Kenji as they walked away from the door as she walked in. She stormed over to her table. Her powers were radiating over everyone in the room. If she started another food fight, so be it. Hopefully Kurtis would get some gum or hash browns in that hair of his. She no longer cared.

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Kurtis Lancaster

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Dare you to look me in the eye

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Kurtis huffed, sitting down at his table, and felt it. That same attraction to her. That tug. His eyes went wide as he looked over at her, and saw her non-caring face. After being ... "Exposed" to her power many time, though just simple contact and "Closer encounters" he had been building up a resistance to it and starting recognizing it. Right now, at that level, anyone who wasn't ready was gonna have a real bad day. Kurtis had time to notice the shadow before pain flared.

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Kenji didn't know what had hit him, as he had never been exposed to Jessi's power like this before. The most he had ever felt was a ting when he hung out with Kurtis and Jessi when they were on good terms and dating. He hadn't been there during that food fight, and right now, he was unprepared for when that extreme jealousy hit him, and the person he was looking at was his own brother. There was plenty of reasons to be jealous of his brother. Kenji cross the room, and his fist connected with his brother's face.

For the first time in forever, he didn't hold back his full strength. Kurtis' face hit the table so hard that the table broke. Kenji didn't let up though, spinning and kicking Kurtis as he fell. The boy of love flew across the room into the wall. Kenji was there as he flew, his fist pounding into his brother's mid-section. Kurtis' coughed blood, and a clear crack was heard in the whole room as the boy's rips gave out, breaking. Kenji didn't give up though, grabbing an arm that his brother brought up in protest, and tossed him over him at Jessie. Kurtis flew over her into the far wall, making a small crack in it. 


Kenji didn't pause, his jealousy and rage making him run, jumping off the ruined table and over, bringing his fist forward and at Kurtis' face. Kurtis fell though, making Kenji miss as he hit the wall. There was a crack, and it wasn't his fist. Kenji was still wearing his fighting gauntlets from their sparing in the morning. Kenji looked down, and saw the purple of his brother's eyes, a silent command on his lips and his Jealousy and rage sparked to a new level. "WHY DID YOU GET THE POWER?!?" he yelled, grabbing Kurtis' shirt and picking him up, bringing his fist into his brother's face, knocking him out. Kenji dropped him, seeing his brother now a bloody mess. If he had to guess the damage, he would say internal bleeding, broken rips with a broken collar bone, Bruising enough to cover a wall, a broken nose, and possible internal damage, depending how hard he hit the wall. Kenji's leg snapped down, and Kurtis' arm snapped, making his brother scream in agony. In that moment, that moment where Kenji stood over the ruin of his brother with the most evil expression on his facethe power driving him stopped. 


Kenji looked down at his brother, and then at the blood on his hands. His expression changed from one of gloating to horror, taking a step back. That horror and fear of what he did was written as his hands started to shake. He turned, looking around and only seeing Jessi. "What?" he asked, unable to get the rest of the words out. His mind was the weakest it had ever been right then, but it was enough to reconize the look on his brother's girlfriend's face. Guilt and horror. "What did you do!" he roared at her, the force of his blind fury enough to make Dragons run for their caves. Then, there was silence as Kurtis stopped screaming. 


Kenji looked down at his brother, fear written there as he though his brother dead. "HELP!" he shouted, running to the door, not bothering with the handle as he made a new door way with his fist. "HELP!" he yelled, looking back. The Infirmary wasn't far, but he couldn't move his brother like this. he ran back, checking his brother's pulse. His heart was still going thank gods. He looked up, and said," You come over here, I'll kill you myself."

Kenji looked at the broken form of his brother, thinking of anything he could do to keep him alive a little longer, and remembered something. A dragon's blood will heal those that drink it. He looked at his wrist, and then with out a moment's hesitation, grabbed the shorter blade of his brother's hip and slit his wrist open, and forced it to his brother's mouth, letting his blood trickle in. He knew he had a dragon's blood in his veins. It was a long shot, but it might work. The tears were rolling down his face now, guilt as he said," Don't die on me Kurtis. You can't die now." He wiped his face with his free hand, and then felt Kurtis' pulse become stronger a little. "Holy shit it works," he said, giddy laughter on his face. He remembered back in europe when he killed it, he drank from it and it sped up his healing in his shoulder tremendously. His was just a watered down version, but if it kept his brother alive till they got here, so be it. Even if he bleed out.
 

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[Jessi Burke]

Jessi immediately sat down at her table as she put her head in her hands while propping her elbows up on the table. If it wasn't for the foot, she would have stormed her way out of here. Kurtis was being more a jerk than he was last night. She heard the displeased murmurs around her as her powers affected those around her, but she really snapped out of her mood when she heard a very loud crack and snap.

Her head whipped up just in time to see the Aphrodite table in half, Kurtis on the floor, and Kenji standing over him. It was only seconds until she realized what she did and her heart dropped to the pit of her stomach as she ran over there to stop them. Everyone who had enough sense and broke Jessi's jealous trance had enough sense to stay away from the two and gave Jessi weird looks as she ran over to them.

However, there was nothing she could do. By the time she got there, Kenji already did his damage. Looking over Kurtis's nearly lifeless body, Jessi felt herself wanting to hurl. She wrapped one arm around her stomach and placed a hand over her mouth as she look over the scene with horror guilt. I caused this, she thought to herself as Kenji looked right at her. I caused Kurtis's death.

And she tried to reverse it. As soon as Kenji yelled for help, she took a step forward, but immediately took two steps back as the Athena boy threatened her. She couldn't help but feel guilty and needed to do something. She glanced over at the Apollo table who were just standing there in shock.

"What are you doing?" she cried out to them as tears streaked down her face as she pointed to Kurtis. "Help him!" She took very many shaky breaths as she watched them scramble over to her boyfriend to take his vitals before ultimately picking him up and carrying him over to the infirmary.

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Kurtis Lancaster

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Dare you to look me in the eye

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Kenji felt hands pulling him back, looking up and seeing a girl pulling him back. The apollo cabin. He let her pull him back, and she pulled a few napkins and pressed them against his wrist. he barely heard them say follow them to the Infirmary. Kenji was still in shock, not caring. if he wasn't light headed right then, he would have grabbed Jessi right then and there and demanded to know what she had done. He didn't have the strength for it though. 

When the Apollo started to pull him towards the infirmary, he let her pull him there, numbness on his body. He wasn't even sure how to move right then. 

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It was an hour later, and Kenji was sitting outside the Infirmary with his wrist wrapped up and the blood vessels healed up with a bit of nector. He wasn't allowing them to heal it fully. The dragon blood would speed it up the rest of the way, making the cut gone by tomorrow. He looked at his hands, where the blood had been. They were still trying to save his brother, setting bones and getting his organs going again. Kenji felt massive amount of guilt on his emotions, his face down from everyone. He would hear Jessi near by, but had sat in silence, not even looking at her the entire time. He wasn't gonna risk that. If he did, he would kill her, no remorse. 


It took a few more minutes, but someone came out then, hands covered in blood but with a smile on his face. Kenji looked up, and heard," He'll be all right." And that's all he got. he got up, but the apollo camper stopped him and said," He's asleep, and he needs his rest. We managed to save him, but he came really close to dieing. We don't get it, but his heart was beating really strong when he got hear, which let him survive the treatment. I never seen it, but right now, you have to be careful. His bones are still healing. You did a real number, and we need you in here," The apollo camper said, nodding at Kenji. "We need a blood transfusion, and Kurtis has AB, which we are short off. we know you have," He stopped as Kenji rolled his sleeve up. He nodded, letting them come in. 



Kenji stopped two feet in the door, seeing his brother. Kurtis had a cast on his upper body, arm and face, which was swollen. Still, it didn't look swollen, his charm still working to make him look good. Kenji's breath caught for a moment, walking over and taking His brother's free left hand, grasping it. kenji sat down, the apollo camper coming over and making him sit back. Kenji let go of his brother's hand, letting them stick him in the arm. The blood flowed out, but it didn't look like human blood. It was darker and even anyone close that could smell it would smell the difference. "Just do it," Kenji said, the apollo camper looking stunned. They nodded, the bag filling up. 


It was not even 2 minutes later the bag was filled, and the apollo camper was doing what he needed and sticking Kurtis with it. The whole time though, Kenji hadn't even looked at Jessi, but he asked,"What the heck did you do?" His voice didn't leave options for lies. He looked over his shoulder, and his eyes said 'Were in the infirmary. I'll leave you here.'

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[Jessi Burke]

The next hour was a blur for Jessi as she somehow made it into the waiting room of the infirmary. She was quite a few seats away from Kenji, not fighting to get anywhere near the door that held her bleeding Kurtis. She heard what the Apollo kids said as they hurried through the doorway. He's critical! We need to hurry or we might lose him! She curled up in the chair and tucked her head into her knees as she tried not to cry, but a couple of tears made it down her cheek. It was all her fault that he was like this. All her fault she couldn't control her powers.

Her head perked up when she heard Kurtis was out of surgery. He's alive... she thought to herself. She moved away from her chair once Kenji was inside the infirmary to the doorway. Kurtis was in really bad shape, but that was not what got to her. Seeing the blood transfusion, Jessi suddenly felt herself hot while her vision darkened around the edges. Slowly she was going out of it and she stumbled over to the nearest chair to stick her head between her legs as she took deep breaths. She felt pale, but her vision was slowly clearing up. Apollo kids would come by to check on her, especially when she finally sat up and her skin was a ghostly white, but she would just wave them off. They had better things to do than worry about her.

She adverted her eyes most of the time away from the blood transfusion, but she still had a good view of Kurtis's bed. Her eyes stayed glued to his feet, until they were blocked by Kenji sitting on the edge. She heard his one question and she felt her heart drop to the deep, dark pit of her stomach.

"It's my fault..." she whispered barely enough for him to hear. "I couldn't control my powers..." She closed her eyes as a couple of tears streaked down her face. "It's my fault he's like this... I made you do it... because I was angry at him..."

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Kenji looked up, his eyes narrowing at the girl. He was still weak, but he had enough strength to make a point. He rose, his legs unsteady as he cross the room. The apollo campers watched him, but none of them wanted to risk his wrath. he had sent more campers to this place then most of his cabin. Put together. He didn't want to brag, but he was pretty sure his score was higher then the Ares cabin. He sent some of them here as well.

Kenji stood over her for a moment, then in a flash, grabbed her throat and slammed her against the wall. His arm was protesting, but he was using his power. An extension of his photogenic muscle memory was partly being able to disengage his mind from his body, and make it go beyond it's normal human limits by having his minds direct it. His body suffered for it later, sometimes even ripping muscle, but for this little excersice, he wouldn't suffer that much. Maybe some light headed-ness later.

"Let me make something clear," He said, and tightened his grip on her throat. "I only put up with you because I thought you were good for him. I even said to him that he should drop his pride, and this is what I should suspect?" He tightened his hand again to cut off her air flow. His arm was feeling it now, but he ignored the pain. "So I'm gonna say this. Your not good for him anymore. Kurtis is a prick, pervert, and a general pain in the ass. I've seen him walk through woman like you, fuck then, and walk away leaving their hearts broke and not caring that he wrecked them for life. I could do that now," he said. he held her throat for another moment, then let go, letting his throbbing arm fall.

Kenji was about to say something, but felt something hit him in the head. "Who has the balls?" he asked, turning and saw his brother trying hard not to laugh. Kenji blinked, and his jaw dropped, then his face went red.


Kurtis had woken up when he slammed her against the wall, the noise reaching him. He blinked his eyes open, and spotted what had happened. He couldn't move much, but met the eyes of one of the Nurses. He sent the command to throw one of Kurtis' shoes at Kenji's head. When he turned around, Kurtis contain his laughter, since it hurt to laugh. "I think I do," he said, and then looked over at Jessie, then back at kenji and said," So, what just happened and why were you strangling my girlfriend, and how the hell did I end up here?"


It took only a few minutes to explain to Kurtis what happened, and after Kurtis wouldn't meet ether of their eyes. He had his closed, looking away. "I'm not sure what is worse," he said, and looked at both of them. "The fact that you had those feelings in the first place," he looked at Kenji, and the shame was plain as day there," Or that if we have one fight and then I end up in the infirmary." He winced, the pain coming back a little. pain pills were only so good. He couldn't lift his arm or his broken legs. He could feel the castes on his limbs anyways. His only uninjured limb was one his arms, and he slowly lifted it to rub between his eyes. "Both you are idiots," he said, and he could feel it inside him. He wasn't always intuned with his mother's opinion, but he felt it now. Love forgave. He gave a painful smirk, and said ," Both of you." He opened his eyes and look at both of them. Kenji gulped, and said,' Asshole. You can't forgive that easily."

"Just did little brother."

Kenji cracked a smile, and collapsed onto a bed, saying," You always were an idiot." Kurtis painfully chuckled.

[Jessi Burke]

Jessi never saw the attack coming.

She had her eyes closed and she was about to drop her head back to her knees when felt Kenji's presence. She barely had a chance to react when she found herself thrown up against the wall with her neck pinned. Her eyes widened as she gasped for breath, but felt the crushing pain of his hand. She whimpered, but her air was completely cut off.

She whimpered as she reached out grab at his arm and somehow make him let go. Only half of his words were sinking in for her as her vision started to darken around the edges. Only her thoughts of This is it... this is how I'm going to go... raced through her mind. She was going to die at the hands of her boyfriend's brother.

But he let go as she dropped to all fours on the floor and gasped for breath. One hand reached up to touch her sore neck as her throat and lungs burned for oxygen. She closed her eyes as a couple more tears leaked out. She didn't know what was worse: watching her boyfriend almost dying or almost dying herself.

She completely missed Kenji getting hit in the back of the head with a shoe until she finally looked up. Kurtis was awake. Her heart soared as she tried to get onto her feet and stumbled to the door frame. She didn't care that a bruise in the shape of Kenji's hand started to appear on her neck, but Kurtis was okay and that was all that mattered.

Everything was explained and all was forgiven, which was the least of her concerns at the moment. As Kenji flopped onto a spare bed, Jessi moved to sit down on the edge of Kurtis's bed and take his unbroken hand into hers. "I'm so sorry..." she muttered as tears welled up in her eyes once more as she gave his hand a gentle squeeze. "For everything... I'm so sorry..." She closed her eyes once more as a couple of tears streaked down her face.

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Kurtis Lancaster

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Dare you to look me in the eye

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Kurtis looked at Jessie, and then giggled. "Is this about me almost dieing or us fighting?" His eyes glazed for a moment, then said," Because I'll take ether, really." He looked around, then smiled at one of the apollo campers, trying to wave with his broken arm. He then grunted, feeling his arm protest the movement. "that hurt," He said, then giggled again, looking at jessie.


He gripped her hand in his, realizing it was in her lap. He smirked, asking," Are you still wearing that sexy underwear from last night?"

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At that moment, Kenji looked up, confusion on his face and then blushed. "I did not need to know that at all," he said, letting his head hit the pillow again and rubbed his eyes. He grabbed a juice packet left for him on the stand, sticking a straw in it and draining it. There were a few more things to eat, and he was already attacking them. Missing breakfast and donating blood. He was tired. "Someone record this. I want to have this one over his head for life."

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Kurtis giggled again, a sound that normally would have never come from his mouth. "No recording. I'm not fit for camera." He chuckled that time, and said," Someone, help me up. I need.....I don't know what I need up I want to get up." Kurtis tried, which was just a little wiggling before he settled again. "did we ever get breakfast?" he asked, his stomach rumbling. He had an IV drip so he couldn't eat solids for a while anyways.

 

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[Jessi Burke]

Jessi never thought that a tearful apology would be wasted on a drugged out boyfriend. She sighed as she chuckled a bit as she reached up to wipe the tears from her face. "Both," she responded as she gave his hand another gentle squeeze and laid it in her lap. That, however, lead to a very inappropriate question in front of his brother. "I think you're too drugged to be awake," she responded to him as she moved his hand off of her lap.

Kenji made his comment and all Jessi did was roll her eyes. That was the most tame reaction she could give at the moment, considering the boy was trying to kill her only moments ago. But then Kurtis started moving. "No," she said as she put a hand on his chest and tried to push him back down to lay against the bed. "You are in no shape to walk around. You can barely use your legs." She felt a pang of guilt as she said that as she glanced over at Kenji. She was glad Kurtis was alive, but still felt horrible with everything that happened earlier that day.

She sighed as she looked back at her boyfriend. "No," she said as she moved to push his hair out of his face. "We didn't get a chance to eat." At that moment Jessi could also feel her stomach grumble a bit. "Do you want me to see if the Apollo kids will allow you to have something?"