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The group found themselves at the river yet again. After Alina had slept almost all day at the prospect of having a secure place to rest she needed a good treatment of her scratches and new clothes. Jinx had spent the day doing some redos on one of her outfits given that the new kid was taller than Isha. And now they were having a clean off gathering.
Lux was combing twigs out of her hair with her claws and knot picking, while Jinx was taking care of the scratches dubbing it with some cotton. Isha was the one holding the medical kit they had built with some cotton, bandages and some natural ointment that Lux had made, she said it worked wonders (even though she didn’t sure how she knew), the chocolate bunny just thought it sting like hell, but she gotta admit watching Alina hiss at it was way funnier.
“What is this thing?”
Another kick, Jinx holds her by the ankle to secure her, but softly, making sure her grip is not tight. Her metal finger was put away in her trousers pocket.
“Don’t ask me goldie, big girl made this shit up, she could be as well as scamming us”
“I’m not, I swear this ointment is magic. Could get the most injured man and get him ready to be a soldier!”
“Well, don’t know about soldier sunrock but goldie sure is dying to battle us”
Lux traces her claws on the blonde child, some of her magic going out of her fingertips. Alina calms down her struggles, getting hold of that magic flow and taking a deep breath when she feels it connects to the one of her own.
Jinx smiles at them and ends the treatment, petting Isha's hair, thanking her for her little assistance.
She went to the edge to leave down the box and came back to her family. Clenching Lux's tail looking at her expectantly, the gargoyle gives her child a toothy smile and lifts her up, the girl laughing swinging herself into the deeper part of the river.
Alina watches while she lets Jinx wash her hair now knot free, Jinx smiles when she pulls some blonde hair behind her ear.
“Want to go for a splash too Alina?”
“Uh? No is just…why are you guys just accepting my presence?”
“What do you mean goldie?”
“I…you guys are a family, I just came by and invited myself to your home. I'm a runaway, I could be dangerous, but you guys are still being so nice”
Jinx stops her work and chews on her lip watching as Lux walks nearby a doggy swimming Isha giving her tail to the kid to help her pull through.
“Well we all met like that you know?”
“Uh?”
“Neither of us were expecting to run into each other. Isha literally fell into my back from the sky, and Lux was kinda just a pretty statue on a tower we stumble into because of a storm”
“But you guys seem so close”
“Well these things happen kid, family can have too many forms. Sometimes they are all born into it, and other times just like this one? Are just a group of misfits that stick together, me and Isha are runaways too. But we found a home here, so don’t feel like you're intruding anything okay?”
Alina who had turned around in her spot to look at Jinx just hugs the girl by the shoulders, a little sniffing is heard but Jinx doesnt say anything other than hugging the girl back.
When the blonde parts from the hug, Jinx lightly takes her tears away smiling and puts her glasses straight.
“No rush into anything kid”
“Thank you”
Then a form splashes the girl, she huffs, stands and looks at a tooth gaping grin.
“You did not just do that you goblin”
Isha blows a raspberry at her and runs away, splashing the glasses girl, who starts giving chase with her hands outstretched, she doesn't know the bunny for a while but she got she was playful. Well if she wanted to mess with her, Alina was ready to mess back.
Isha ran out to Lux hiding in between her wings, Alina trying to circle around a really confused gargoyle who was helping without knowing the brunette.
“Omy for the Veils lady, what are you searchin so madly little spark?”
“Just, stop moving please Lux”
“But why?”
“That little goblin is using you to hide her crimes from me”
Alina takes hold of Luxs pants, stopping the big girl from moving, and Isha lets out a squeak when a hand grabs her out of her hideout by the arm.
“Gotcha!”
Alina laughed for her victory but Isha was not having it, so she bit the blonde's hand, when she let her go, she pushed her into the water, but Alina grabbed her arm and then they were rolling in the river's floor.
Lux was about to hold them both apart but Jinx came to her side putting her hand on her arm.
“Chill out Luxie, this is good for their growing”
“But they fighting Jewel, they could get hurt”
“They're hardly fighting, they're just wrestling around”
“Oh like cubs?”
“Yep”
“Okey…But humans are way more fragile than cubs”
“If we see a nasty hit we stop them, got it?”
“Okey…Okey”
Then Alina pushed Isha a little too hard into the side, and the kid got up with a grunt. Jinx got worried now? Had she done the right thing? Flashes of fights, bad fights with her sister, fights that had doomed their relationship to a breaking point from too much. She froze, had she jinxed it again? Were the voices right all along?
And then laughter broke her state, she and Lux let out a sigh of relief when the kids started playing more calmly, Isha teaching her the pew handshake and some hand movements.
When Jinx looked up at her partner she could recognize the look. A look of someone that was longing for a relationship they once had. Did blondie have siblings? Was that from the past she couldn't remember?
Jinx lightly hug the gargoyle and the grey creature put her chin on the blunettes hair. They didn't say much until they went out of the water and got Alina into her new clothes, going back to the tower.
When both kids had gone to Isha's room to sleep, they cuddled up in their nest at this point.
“I had a sister, talked about her before, you remember?”
Lux caresses Jinx´s back lightly, looking into the eyes of the head that is resting on her chest.
“I do, you have mentioned her in passing a few times”
Jinx takes a deep breath playing with a cord of Lux´s shirt.
“Violet…Vi…she was my whole world when I was little, she used to fight the monsters off, cared for me, encouraged me. Me and her blondie? We were toe and nail. We..went through our first parents deaths together and when our second dad died things just spiralled. We loosed touch, well she got into a filthy cage I was adopted by my third father bussy becoming a loony”
“Jinx…”
“The thing is…I made a lot of bad stuff, lots of mistakes, driving by a hella bunch of feelings, most of them bad, others confusing. Me and my sis got back, fought, almost killed each other, teamed up again, that was the wolfy story, remember that one?”
“I do recall it”
“Great mind Sunrock, the thing is I sacrificed myself at the end, for her, for us. I realized that us together wasn't something meant to be.”
“That's when you and Isha ran away”
“Yeah”
“But you miss her”
“Yeah…I guess…seing Isha and Alina made me go memory jumping. A little jealous too jeje…
Lux cupped her human against her chest with a wing protectly.
“Maybe your paths were not meant to cross…at the time, but nature changes right? Maybe the path was waiting for you guys to make it to other stop”
“Yeah maybe we both needed someone to spent our days other than the voices and guilt”
“You have us now Jinx, do you…think you're in a better place?”
“I do…I genuinely do, I´ve never felt so…light, and soft like I have felt with Isha and you, now with Alina too…I'm just a little scared that those will end up like me and my sis you know?”
“I understand the worry, but they're not you or me, they're their own little creatures. And i'm sure we can take good care of them”
“Yeah we're like totally good parents for a bunch of hippies living in the forest”
They both laugh softly nuzzling their noses together, gazing at each other lovingly before closing the gap between them in a sealing kiss. Hands tracing fangs and mossy cheeks, claws going around clouds and burns lighty. Their lips clasped together every time they parted.
They were gasping and Lux really didn't know what she was doing when her tongue lick its parted tips at Jinx's lips, but Jinx gasp sent her wings around her mate completely , protectively. Jinx knew that Lux was asking, she was really okay with deepening the kiss, she never had thought once in her life she would have wanted to do this with someone. She could gag at everything she remembers seeing, even at her sister's puppy eyes when looking at Top hat.
But here she was, wanting this magic knight parted tongue on her mouth. And she was really okay with it. So she opened her mouth, Lux by instinct tilted her head to one side, open her maw, letting her tongue out completely, and entering the blunettes mouth, the tips tracing over all of her partners mouth hungry. Jinx clenches the gargoyle's chest, moving her own tongue against the long muscle, in tiny gasps and breaths. They were a mix of light grunts and pants, then Lux´s tongue slid a little deeper, Jinx opened her pink eyes lighty surprised, surprising a sound from escaping her when the tips hit her throat. Her hands just go to grab into the blonde's horns and finally a little moan comes out of her. Both of them break contact with messy mouths, full of drool.
They're both flushing and their eyes are glowing in the dark. Jinx gulps back tracing her fingers lightly not believing what just had happened.
“Are…are you okay my princess?”
“Yeah, yep I'm…eh fine”
“I was just following my instincts, was that too much?”
“Well it was definitely more than we have done that's for sure…but good!, really good!”
“Oh I´m glad, I didn't want to make you uncomfortable”
“That was the opposite, believe me, you always make me feel comfy”
“You do as well Jinx”
They smile at each other, Jinx pulling her hands inside Lux´s shirt tracing lines of gold that feel a little rough but soft, the gargoyle starts “purring” at the touch and her tail swings around content. Jinx observes with a soft grin on her face, touching all of those scars and letting her ear near the other girl's neck to sense the purr completely.
“So Isha was right about the purring”
“She told you? who I’m kidding of course she did. Why didn't you try it before?”
“Was waiting for the good moment”
“And this was it?”
“And this was it”
Jinx scratches a little at the mossy happy trail gaining a deeper purring from the girl. Jinx giggles and kisses softly one of her fangs going a bit serious. But not stopping the caresses on her partner. Whose hand is also holding and almost tracing all of her torso with her thumb.
“I saw the same look in your eyes”
“Mhm?”
“Longing”
“Oh…”
“Want to talk about it?”
“In some of my nightmares there was this boy I think, I remember something he said when I saw Isha and Alina fighting.”
“What did he say?”
“He proclaim to be my brother”
[.........]
“So…what are you saying that my sister is alive?”
“Yes Vi”
“My little sister, who I watched tackle our dad into a void of chemy blowing stuff. Who sacrificed herself for me?”
“Yes”
“You are saying that she didn't blow up but she rocketed to an airconduct”
“Indeed”
“And she just went into a fairytale place, all alone”
“Again, yes”
Vi is pacing around the Kiramans mansion, followed behind by her partner. Vi had hated this stupid huge ass house months ago. But turns out long halls were perfect to lose yourself in your mind. And she needed it right now. Because guess what, everything involving her sister involves bombs. Even if this time was just metaphorical, Vi’s brain had stopped working, she didn’t think this was what they were going to discuss when Cait told her they needed to talk.
She thought it would be about them, about the firelights taking more appearance around, about Zauns breath thing getting better, heck she expected even talking about making more get along time with Tobias. The man had been really on edge these past months around her, but really she couldn't blame him, he had warmed up to her again yes. They often got up early in the morning to cook, his ionian dishes were something really good, and Tobias had liked zaun spices a lot. But they were still in rough patches, Vi could sense perfectly how lost he got when he looked at a portrait of his wife.
Vi wondered at times if he would remove them. But then a smile crossed his beard, a sad one, but so full of love that Vi had to look away from the sight. Guilt feeling her insides. It was funny, ironic in a way. Vi had lost her parents to topside and now…Cait had gone through the same but reversed. She thought that this, payback, would make her feel better in some kind of wicked way but it didn't, Vander had been right. No one wins in a war.
She wanted to be mad at Caitlyn, she was, big time really. But Jinx had just left, without saying anything, fuck, she had fake her death. She doubted she wanted to do anything with them but.
“Always with you sis, even when we are worlds apart…”
“Vi?”
The pink-haired girl spinned around, almost making the taller girl crash into her. A look of both realization and sadness crossed her expressive grey eyes.
“That's what she meant. She was telling me she was leaving, whatever the outcome of the fight, she was leaving”
“Vi-”
“How could I be this stupid Cait?! How could I not sense the goodbye in her words?!”
“Well there was a whole war happening darling”
“I should have know non the less”
“Violet, that is not the important matter right now”
“Yeah, you´re right cupcake…you hide it from me”
“I apologize for that, but I didn´t want for you to have false hope”
“I´m not mad…entirly…I get you cupcake, I do, it stings still, a lot”
“I imagine…I promise that i would not hide anymore information from you”
“You better not cupcake or we are fighting”
Vi smirks at that a little playfully and crosses her arms going to lean into the wall. And then just stares into the wall in front of her.
“How long have you been chasing this?”
“Since she died”
“Almost three months…”
“Yes…but I wasn´t sure about her location until recently. I was getting the courage to tell you.”
“So…Demacia uh? What do they have there? I´m sure she is whining her ass of not having any tech to gadget up. Nah knowing her? She would have been able to scrap something out of wood and dragons poop or something”
“Demacia is indeed not the technology troupe. Castles, monarchy, modest villages, magic seen as a sin”
“Jeez, what a place…maybe she isn´t really happy there.”
“Maybe or maybe she had become number one criminal already”
“Cait…”
“For stealing sheep”
“Okey…that is way light comedic that I was expecting”
“Vi, I hate her”
“I know”
“But I can't stay mad at her without killing myself. So I'm letting go, a little. She stills needs to account for her crimes, but she also…needs medical help. And I doubt demacian grounds has good healthcare”
“You…you are on board with making her a visit?”
“If you decide to find her, yes.”
“I want to try…she said will be always be together, maybe…there isn't all lost for us”
“Then we will do a little field trip”
“I guess we will, wait what about the force?”
“Think Ekko would mind doing a little extra work?”
“He would but…not when I tell him his buddy is alive”
“Then is settle, we would part tomorrow”
Vi looked at the girl, with a determined look, but a scared hunted gaze. Vi got closer and cupped her cheeks pulling her into a kiss a little on her tiptoes.
“I got you hot shot, everything would be alright”
“We are together in this, now for real”
“Now for real, let's go get that loose cannon”
[........]
“Oh no general the mages had taken out our cannons, what do we do now?”
“Fear not, my dear lieutenant, those fools are not expecting us!”
“What can we do against them?”
“Well, we are the Crownguards siblings, Lux! We are the mighty knights that would defend this kingdom from every monster that comes into our sight”
The brunette boy spins around with his wooden sword smiling down at his sister full of scratches just like him, wooden sword colliding with his in a mighty clang. They laugh while they spare doing moves that are too quirky to actually work.
“Garen, cease this nonsense at once!”
The boy stops abruptly upon hearing his mother´s yell. Lux sword hitting him across his face.
“I´m so sorry brother! I didnt ment to!”
“Don’t worry Luxie, your big bro is tought; a little of rivertoad oinment and ill be back and kicking, but that was a good hit!”
“Luxanna!”
Now is the blonde who stops the smile that was coming out of her face, she throws the sword into the grass, and lowers her head before Augatha is in front of her, starting to fan over her hair and clothes with a disgusted face.
“Where is the precious summer dress you were wearing?”
“It was getting caught everywhere when I ran! And it was really uncomfy between my legs…”
“Luxanna go inside and put on that dress immediately, and please if you want to be with your brother just find some book to read while he trains”
“That is not fair at all! Garen and I are going to be knights!”
“Not lady like Luxanna, you should act more accurate for your state”
“But aunty says-”
“Your aunt doesn't knows you like I do, now go inside”
“Yes mom…”
The brunette just stays still gripping his sword firmly watching Lux step into walls that can't fill her adventurer heart.
“Mom she really has a heart of a soldier, we-”
“Garen, you are my son, you can be the pride of the house by protecting the king, but I need Luxanna to fulfilled her pride in other ways as my daughter, so now, be a good boy and put away that sparring sword, she is not training with you again”
“Yes mother”
The broad man looked into their family yard with a lost look playing with the hilt of his sword. How ironic it was that the last time he had seen his sister was fighting….but she had been seen as the monster.
“I miss you Lux…I hope lady justice…even the lady of the Veil, if she is the one who is bound to you is caring for your soul. You were too bright for us…I wish I had let you shine before…”
With a long take in, Garen walks away from the yard back into their state. He needed to take his senses onto the mission. It was a long trip.