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Cyn recreated N with the help of the copy she had from the teared-out parts of the spacecraft, she used his essence from the small blackhole thingy that was floating around. Afterwards she carefully curated his memories, so he will be the lovable ‘idiot’ she so much loved and preferred over the rebel who helped two of her toys disappear.
Furthermore, Cyn was quite angry to learn, that in the end her code was spread to multiple places throughout the human colonies. She started a hunt, to destroy all the planets that could intercept the message that was sent by Tessa, leaving Copper-9 for last. She enjoyed the process that was spread over years. Despite the joy and the power, she felt while striking fear into the heart of the creatures she encountered, she was eager to get back her old toys.
She tried to recreate Mark from her memories, but the biological mass she created never worked, she was quite frustrated with that, even though she dissected multiple other humans during her journey she simply couldn’t replicate Mark, for some God forbidden reason. After a while she decided that she will go after Mark later, once her safety was ensured.
Cyn made a deal with V and J, so her hunt will be more efficient. The deal that was offered V contained that Cyn would leave her and N alone as far as she follows her orders and keep N in check. V was hoping deep in her hearth, that Tessa would return and help them get free, with some kind of miracle weapon, that would be able to stop this tyrannical overlord.
Cyn enjoyed toying with J, in the end she decided to close off J’s memories about Tessa, Mark and most of the things that made her happy, turning her back into a bitter, sad creature, who’s only good memories were the momentary joy of serving the Elliott pair and other humans. The deal Cyn offered to J for helping her was quite simple, she could regain all her memories. Cyn made clear for J, that she is the only way to regain what she is, what she had.
After escaping, Tessa soon realized the spacecraft, she was driving wasn’t stable the integrity was too damaged so she landed on a lifeless planet, she used the materials she could found on the ship, or she could easily mine to ensure the cryo stasis that Mark was in would last as long as possible. She was using some solar panels as well to recharge herself. She quickly realized that she is fighting an uphill battle against time. She built a beacon and was trying to figure out how to rebuild the spacecraft her desire to stay alive strong holding onto hope, that someone might rescue them in the future.
Roughly ten years after the Gala Massacre a little purple worker drone was lurking around in a bunker, that used to have three doors separating it from the outside world, however these were mostly decorational those days. Standing as memories of the past they overcome. A deadly entranced of three Disassembly Drones, an unexpected serial killer out for vengeance and the fall of a creature that was eerily similar to an eldritch being. There was a memorial on going, but this purple drone left it early.
The little purple gremlin was laughing under her breath as she sneaked into Lizzy’s room where V’s jacket was during the memorial,that was held for Doll. "V will be distracted with Lizzy for a while". The small worker drone was searching through V’s jacket, now that she was in her prom dress once more. "I will find something embarrassing here for sure. What’s this?" the little worker drone held an old pendrive in hand with a label "To: J" she turned serious, and she made her way to her room quickly, she was quite suspicious however no one really wanted to question what she was doing.
She was there in front of her computer quite frustrated as she couldn’t access the content of the pendrive. She was loudly grunting after one hour of trying. She spined in her small chair, when her tail started speaking.
"Interesting find … I never thought they would make a backup for her. Well, all the other backups are destroyed so let me just" the tail tried to reach out and snap the USB stick out of the computer, but it received a slap from the small drone. "Okay okay"
"Hey Uzi! I know you didn’t like her that much … but leaving us in the memorial was quite rude." N gently spoke to the little worker drone.
"Yeah, I know" Uzi said with some shame that quickly disappeared as she showed N the USB stick "Look what I found in V’s jacket!"
"UZI! Don’t just take her stuff!" N sounded a little bit angry, however curiosity got the better of him as well. "What is it though? What did you find?" his tail swayed with excitement.
"That’s the thing … It’s addressed to J, however without her hardware I can’t access it, since Cyn’s modification is so weird I couldn’t figure out how to read your guys memories without your bodies." Uzi sounded a bit disappointed.
"Then let’s find J’s body!" N said with great hope "Another mystery will be uncovered by the great detectives" N formed a pipe from his hand and blew some bubbles from it, just like a child toy pipe.
"What did THE detective find this time?" an angry voice came from V who was just standing behind N in these moments "You are a terrible thief Uzi, you left my jacket on the floor…" V glanced at N complementing in herself how much punishment can she gave Uzi, before N would stop her.
"The thing you been hiding from us!" Uzi accused V in self-defence. "Explain yourself!" Uzi showed the USB stick with the label.
V’s eyes widened and her jaw dropped as seeing the USB stick activated her brain pathways unlocking memories that were inaccessible because of her abuse of magnets "Oh sheesh … that explains … a lot. Oh frick, this is bad!" V started to panic a little feeling more responsible for how she treated J. "She never knew I have this back up … I made a mess … What’s on it … I can’t remember. Maybe some stuff about Tessa?" V’s voice was unusually worried.
"I can’t access without her body … or it will take long. Didn’t Cyn have copies of her?" Uzi asked curious.
"Well, she had some backups, but … during the final fight it fall into the core of the planet…" V detailed the fate of the copies.
"What about her main body? We might be able to salvage it!" N proposed his idea with eagerness. "Detective trio, we have the femme fatale the brain and the crazy one. Both and Uzi and V was quite sure who is the femme fatale and who is the crazy one. Of course, the roles were reversed in their head. While N in his head "I’m crazy good at fighting, Uzi is the brain, and V is the femme fatale"
The trio got ready for another trip; they were quite excited although V seemed to be a bit under the weather during the flight. Once they arrived at the place where the battle took course, they started investigating and searching for J’s body. They spent hours before N stated loudly with worry in his voice.
"Guys … we might have to fight another of those big centipedes … J’s body was here based on the snow imprints … but not anymore." he started scanning the area around himself, and found the ‘footprints’ of J.
Uzi and V quickly flew down to him ready to save N if anything were to happen to him. They looked around then Uzi started talking.
"Well, no signs of centipede so far …" she said with a hint of disappointment in her voice.
"Shouldn’t we go back for the cool as heck railgun?" N asked a bit worried about their firepower.
"I’m the new god!" Uzi exclaimed excitedly "Of course I don’t need those toys anymore" she waved in the air, trying to sound cool.
V rolled her eyes before smiling, "then you will go ahead if you are so powerful." her voice was clearly mocking her.
Uzi seemed a little bit less sure of herself, however N stepped in. "We have regeneration powers, so it makes more sense if I go ahead. We will need the firepower ready as soon as possible." N winked at Uzi letting her know that it will be okay this way.
The trio was ready to jump on anything strange, they slowly made their way between the wreckage following the ‘footprints’. All a bit nervous of what will they find. They could hear the cold wind howl at them between the iron pipes that were torn from its place. Soon they arrived at place that looked like a sanctuary, with the moonlight shining through the small hole in the ceiling. In the middle of the light was one spaceship almost in shape to be flyable with some curtail parts still missing. Soon they heard a little bit of noise, and it went silent like a scared animal trying to hide.
"Come out, or I will beat your ass once more!" Uzi shouted proudly.
N put his hand in front of Uzi to signal not to do so as he called out. "J, are you here with us?" he tried to be gentle.
"We are not doing a seans N!" Then V shouted as well "Get your sorry ass here we have something for you!" V was hoping that J was still in one piece.
"You unemployed, failures of the month! Because of you …" there was a sobbing sound " … there is nothing left for me. I will never know what Cyn had on me, what I was before this" her voice was a bit shaking, and she remained in the shades.
The trio looked at each other knowing, that this indeed must be J. Then Uzi spoke again, unprompted "What was your plan, fly yourself into the sun?" there was a mocking in her voice, she felt powerful, it made her happy, that this monster of the planet is reduced to this state. Uzi was never aware of what J went through she just seemed like an asshole bootlicker.
"I was planning to go back to the previous planets … to find something … to somehow be something…" her voice started to fade with each word.
"Look you can … build yourself up here with us." N extended his arm into the direction of the sound inviting her out.
"What do you want from me?" J asked back with caution and distrust.
"There is a USB stick … that we can’t read without you… " V said in a sad voice "It might have what you are looking for … maybe more about Tessa." V sounded hopeful
"Do I really want those … memories she died didn’t she? Why would I make things worse with memories of her?" her voice was bitter and fading into the darkness she was standing in.
"Maybe she is not!" V blurted out. "There is a possibility … if … it wasn’t just a hallucination" V stepped towards the shades as well reaching out her hand as well. "Let’s switch to the winning team this time, okay?" V gave a small smile.
J limped out of the shades not having any better ideas of what to do. "So, what is going to happen?" her voice was unsure.
"It’s hacking time!" Uzi loudly and proudly proclaimed "We will enter your memory and figure out what made you such a miserable … such a miserable … oh man come on why can’t I say that word I will turn off the parental advising stuff for sure once we are back!" she said angrily.
V was quite amused with the display of Uzi, while N patted her calming her nerves, telling her "Everything will be alright". N look at J as well and he extended his hand for a handshake. "Welcome to the team … however you are the intern now." N couldn’t resist the joke which made V laugh a little bit.
"Ha ha so funny" J was clearly unamused "I’m not bringing you any coffee I’m a freelancer from now on, … who is now with your group at the moment." J still had some pride left in her, something she desperately tried to hold onto as the last things of her personality before she lost her happy memories.
The group head back to the bunker, at the main door Uzi stopped wondering in herself "I went out this door to kill these three demons … now I bring them to my bedroom … it’s not the result I was expecting. Now I can see all the cringe memories of J, what a delight it will be" Uzi was chuckling in herself a little bit.
"Is that normal for that toas… I mean worker to do that?" J asked while trying her best not to call them toasters. She felt more and more unsure of the idea of Uzi entering her head, however this seemed like the only option.
"Yeah, sometimes it’s even worse" V commented jokingly "Don’t worry, she likes to be leashed by N"
"I don’t like that! I’m the one leashing him!" Uzi tried to make it sound better for herself, but she wasn’t helping the situation that much.
"Oh well … if you want, I’m open to new things I guess" N added him not helping the situation either.
J just let out a sigh "How did these idiots destroyed Cyn in the first place?" but a small barely visible smile was tugging at her mouth she was glad that Cyn lost in the end.
As they were walking inside V got closer to J and she said in a low voice “Sorry … “ V made quite sure to swallow what she was saying, so J can’t hear it well.
J didn’t react to it, however she heard it. She just didn’t feel like addressing this problem as of now. Once they were at Doorman house they saw that Uzi’s mother Nori and father Khan were building a new body for Nori. They casually said “hi”. Then Nori in her crab solver heart form jumped in front of the group.
“What the hell are you doing young lady?” Nori asked in disbelief “Are you a Pokémon master or something collecting Murder Drones, left and right?” her voice was dropping with sarcasm.
“Excuse me miss Doorman, there is something that my body is needed for” J wasn’t the brightest with her words in those moments. She wasn’t used to not being the top dog nor that she is talking with worker drones.
Nori turned towards Uzi whose tail was giggling to herself with the eyes shining in a sinister yellow. Uzi said “There is a code that only she can read, that’s what she means. It’s a mystery!”
“Oh .. can I see, I always wanted to be part of a flashback.” Nori said with nearly childish excitement, then she turned to Khan with a serious voice “No touching my new body while I’m not here!”
“Of course, my dear, I wouldn’t dare” Khan said with an added warm smile “Mother daughter bonding time, I’m so glad to see it” he looked at the friends of Uzi as well. “If you even just scratch her screen, you will be made into a nice door.” his voice was quite threatening and calm.
“Worry not Mr Doorman, I will protect her with my own life if it’s necessary!” N said with determination. This made V a little eNVious, however she didn’t feel like saying anything.
“Don’t I have a say in what is going to happen?” J asked starting to worry how many of them wants to enter her brain.
“No” come to unified answer from Uzi, Nori, V. While N of course was silent as he did believe that she should have a say in that.
“Okay … to have a better access to these … we are going to link up all three of you.” Uzi said in the room, now V started to have her doubts, however she felt, that she needs to do at least this much for J, who was willing to save her even during the fight against Cyn.
J was suddenly back in the Elliott Manor in front of her a drawing of a human guy. She felt some strange calmness seeing the drawing. Then she realized quickly “Oh I need to get ready Mark is coming over to play with Tessa” she calmly made her way to Tessa’s room, where Tessa was already excited.
“He is coming again … we will come to the drone yard today and bring back another drone.” Tessa could barely contain her excitement.
“What about your parents?” J asked as she was worried of their wrath.
“Mark said he will figure something out, to convince them … it seems like he is good at that.” Tessa seemed to be happy, that there was a human being, that was helping her do what she loved.
J sighed deeply then she smiled warmly at Tessa that’s when she noticed a text on the window. “If you need help call out darkXwolf17**”** J felt that something is not okay, it’s the first time that she is hallucinating, but she went on with her day, she was cleaning around the house when she suddenly heard an unusual noise from Tessa’s room. She quickly ran up and saw Cyn in Tessa’s flesh, Mark and Tessa tied up on the bed. J’s breathing stopped and her eyes were darting for a weapon. As soon as she saw the lifeless body of Tessa.
“OH hello there, it seems like you failed me … [Cyn grinned mischievously]. Yeah, what was I expecting from you. You failed everyone you ever served” Cyn told her with a grin that was hitting J way too deep.
“You! … you! My dreams … I thought we got rid of you …” J was desperate enough to call out “darkXWolf17 HELP!”
“No, not so easily.” Cyn laughed. “I need this body J” Cyn’s tendrils darted out to tie J down. “You could do at least this much for me right?” Cyn tilted her head slowly as if she was asking for permission, however her sinister smile was a dead give away, that she didn’t really need anything like that to take her body.
Uzi in her room out of the simulation, “What the hell. I’m locked out .. how can it be? OH no no no” the realization dawned on her, J was still under the administrator rights of Cyn, who now lived within her somehow.
“I’m going in as well!” Nori exclaimed with excitement as she hooks herself up carelessly to the system and entered the Murder Drone trio’s head.
Nori appeared near the library, she sighed deeply and started rushing and tried calling out for V and N. “Murderous butler and maid! I need your help!” Instead of voice a message appeared above her head. Nori fall face down then she inspected her own body. “Oh, really! I’m a robotic bug, great … at least I still have a way to communicate” she quickly started going as fast as possible. She found V and N in the bar, where V was pinning N to the wall in a predatory manner, N hasn’t yet booted up fully. Both in their cute maid and butler outfit.
V turned to the bug who gave them the message “We need to save J from Cyn (＃°Д°)” V grunted loudly. “I thought I would have a little bit of N to myself” she quickly released N and picked up the small bug bot. “Show the way”.
“What is happening?” N asked as he slowly started to boot up properly “Why am I here?” his confusion was quite evident.
“No time to explain get ready to fight and follow me!” V sounded determined.
The group rushed up to Tessa’s room in the meantime V grabbed a sword, while N was bringing his silver plate. When they kicked in the door J’s body was pinned down to the ground and soon released from the tendrils of Cyn’s body which quickly looked at them scared as she said, “Quick stop Cyn she took my body!”
“You Liar!” came the answer from J’s body. “Stop her at all cost!” the voice become more desperate.
“How do we decide which is the real one? (。_。)” the message appeared from Nori.
“Simple” V slowly walked up to the bed while everyone was looking at her dead silence, everyone’s curiosity peeked. She made her way to the side of the bed where the tied-up body of Mark squirmed around. “Goodbye!” With that V struck the body of Mark breaking his ribcage and taking out his heart in a brutal fashion.
Silence sits in the room then Cyn’s body opened its mouth as it fall to the ground sobbing “MARK! You just want to see me suffer, you sadistic bitch!”
“That is quite metal if you ask me ┗|｀O′|┛” the message appeared above the little bug.
“That’s the real J” V stated with certainty seemingly not regretting her decision of further traumatizing J.
J’s body stood up laughing “Intriguing decision indeed, however the game has just begun. I’ve got control over both bodies!” the laughter was hunting and unsettling. Cyn started attack with her and J’s body in tandem, V was trying to block the relentless assault, however Cyn seemed to enjoy the fear that was present in everyone in the room.
“Can we pull J out?” N asked between the sounds of clashes between Cyn’s tendrils and the plate in his hand echoed throughout the room.
Message appeared on the wall out of blood “IF we do she will never get back, those memories”.
“Then we stand our ground!” V said with determination “I owe her this much … she deserves to get back what was taken from her” V was on the defensive as well.
Uzi was in distress as she was losing control over the situation in her room, “What if Cyn takes back control over all of them. Will we lose everything we fought for?” in her inner panic a voice resurfaced.
“дать отпор” [fight back]
“Is this another trick of Cyn’s. Does she want me to stay and lose?” Uzi’s hand hovered over her keyboard and waiting for a miracle to happen.
In the meantime, Doll’s personality core was reforming from the fragments that were partially integrated with Cyn. Now, that Uzi’s consciousness was half inside the dream, and Cyn was between Uzi and J’s shared network all her parts were pulled to the same part. Doll slowly got a little bit of herself back. “Нет покоя грешникам, да?” [no rest for the wicked, eh?] She saw the situation as an opportunity to get back at Cyn.
While within the dream Cyn was enjoying herself way too much “Ah how I missed you guys … I was so lonely in these days.” Cyn put an overexaggerated and obviously fake sad face, before her wicked smile returned “Well we need to make up for all the time separated! Let’s reunite in the best way!”
“We are not your playthings anymore!” V exclaimed angrily as she was losing ground one of Cyn’s tendrils tried to pull out her leg, however the silver plate N threw cut it down. They quickly exchanged glances, before they jumped away from Cyn’s next attack.
N quickly recovered the plate with a dodge roll, and he was using it as a shield blocking attacks and the edge of it to make some attacks.
Nori was furiously looking for something a bug bot can use to help them while cursing in herself “What is this fuckery? I’m supposed to be the protagonist … or the lancer, not the comic relief!” Then she looked at J’s body that was used less and less as Cyn’s confidence were growing in the fight. Nori climbed on the ceiling and jumped onto the body of J and went inside via a crack that formed during the fight. “Let’s see if I still remember circuits”
Then suddenly Doll appeared within the room, with two cleavers “Пришло время расплаты, малышка!” [Payback time, little girl!] and she relentlessly jumped against Cyn who was clearly not expecting her as a new player in the conflict, to appear.
Cyn tried to make J’s body jump in front of an attack, to cause emotional damage, but to her surprise J’s body weren’t reacting. “How the hell are you failing me again?” Cyn grunted out, mostly of frustration as Doll’s cleaver removed one of her arms.
The message appeared from inside J’s body “Ha I’m driving a mecha suite ψ(｀∇´)ψ!” this simple message made N and V quite happy seeing as their situation was improving.
The fight was looking bad for Cyn as she said, “I’m The Solver of the Absolute Fabric. The Void. The Exponential End. The God.”
As she was saying this the top of the mansion in the dream was teared of by a giant Uzi. Who laughed manically “I’m the God eater bitch. There can be only one God, that’s me. And I’m frickin tall!” She grabbed Cyn’s body and crushed with her hand then eat the small blackhole once more. “This time you stay inside me!”
“That’s our Uzi!” N exclaimed excitedly, V just rolled her eyes, however her gaze quickly falls onto J’s body.
Soon the team woke up in reality, and something unexpected, happened J’s administrator right was set to Mark.
“Who the hell is Mark?” V asked in disbelief.
“I don’t remember him either” N shrugged
Nori’s body came online and she excitedly said, “Awesome fight, and dream sequence! Also Uzi about setting your parental …” However, she heard, that Khan was still working on her body that made her furious “What did I tell you about my body, while I’m away!” Nori rushed out of the room in panic.
The group could still hear them from the other room as Khan was saying his excuses “Well if new Threat comes, you will need this double railway gun for self-defence and the jetpack is useful to get around”
Uzi, V and N turned they attention to J who was waking up with an expression they never saw on her. J was crying in herself as she looked up “Why? Why you idiots get to be happy? He was killed by Cyn! And .. and Tessa made into … that robot … I just wanted them … and me to be happy.” her sobbing was uncontrollable and filled with anger. “I was serving her … I thought I will get to be happy.” N tentatively reached out his hand and patted J who in response slapped his hand away. Then J’s eyes widened “They could be alive … Tessa was made into a robot!” J excitedly jumped up “We could find them and live as we lived before!” J looked at the trio her smile fading as she saw their reaction. “Don’t you guys want to get back to Tessa?”
“Look J,” V said with some sadness in her tone “This is our new home, this is where our family is. The universe is big, and if they are hiding from Cyn … I doubt we could find them even if they are still functioning.” V was gesturing and slowly reaching out with her hand hoping that J would stay and build a life with them.
“I … understand, yet there is a chance. I need to look for them, even if this is the last thing I will be doing.” J was determined to find her first loves. “I appreciate the effort … I’m grateful for giving back my memories…” J’s voice was shaking, she wasn’t used to this type of kindness after all the harshness she received serving under a tyrant.
“We won’t stop you” N said with heavy words “We will have to get everything ready for you, when you find what you are looking for. Can you send as a message or something?” N was a little bit fidgeting with his fingers, he had mixed feelings, he had everything he wanted in life, and here was J betting everything on a memory, he didn’t want J to get lost in the empty space, yet he understood, that she wanted to look for her past.
The worker drones agreed and they helped J to finish the repairs, with mixed feelings she departed from Copper-9. She didn’t hate the main trio, however she was craving something that they couldn’t give to her, a closure to everything she went through. She spent most of her time in sleeping mode, to save energy dreaming of what will Tessa and Mark will say when they see her. Time to time she had nightmares of finding only the remains of them.
A year went by with searching when she found a weak signal near one of the planets that was destroyed by Cyn. She wake from her sleep mode anxious and excited. She carefully operated her spacecraft to land on the planet. When all the thrusters turned off, she left the space craft and went on foot to the signal. Every step felt heavier, her processor trying to think of all the possibilities she can see. She entered a small shelter made from the remains of a spacecraft. J carefully looked around and found a Cryo Capsule with a human inside, she quickly rushed there.
“Mark? Is it really? MARK!” J wanted to simply open and see with her own eyes from closer, she quickly started to check on the life signals when she felt a shock bottom hit her. She fell to the ground with a big thud.
“What are you?” Came the harsh question from Disassembly Tessa, as she was trying to examining J with damaged sensors, as she used some of her sensors in the repairs of the Cryo Capsule to save Mark.
“I’m J, Boss, Tess, … my friend” J started sobbing happy knowing Tessa is still alive.
“J? For real?” Tessa was starting to break down as well. “How much time has passed? I was awake only for 2 years if we sum it.” Tessa lumped forward and dropped the wrench she held in the darkness as a weapon then she hugged J relieved that her fight against time could finally end.
“4,126 days” J answered while hugging Tessa back “It’s so good to be with you again. I can’t pour it into words at all.”
Both of them were embracing each other for 2 hours. They were silent but they moved their hand to make sure the other is still there with them, enjoying the warm feeling of each other's body. Afterwards they calmed down a little bit, and looked at into each other’s eyes.
“What now Tess?” J asked still somewhat excited that all her work paid off in the end.
“Where is Cyn? What is she planning?” Tessa’s worry returned as she was coming back from happiness.
“She is done for. A purple li… tall drone made sure of it” J smiled as she hoped to have Uzi remembered as she would love to. “We are safe now.” J added with a relief.
“Are you the only survivor?” Tessa asked her curiosity peaked, she still couldn’t fully believe, that Cyn was naturalized.
“N and V started new life, as they found love … so most likely they aren’t going to leave Copper-9” J added with a small hint of sadness as she was growing fond of them.
“Copper-9?” Tessa asked excitedly “So it wasn’t all in vain. Is it still liveable ?”
“Not really human compatible anymore” J answered sadly.
“Well … let’s head to the closest liveable planet. We still have some things to unpack” Tessa gestured at the Cryo capsule.
“Of course” J answered happily
They packed up the Cryo Capsule, and everything important on J’s ship. It was quite packed, but still workable. After a long travel they arrived to another human colony where they safely landed, and went to a hospital with Mark. He was unfrozen there and unconscionably recovering. J and Tessa took up jobs to pay the fees while he was still not available. Days went by Tessa and J spent most of their free time in Mark’s hospital room. Watching movies, reading or sometimes playing games together.
“I think he is a double agent!” Tessa whispered to the slightly annoyed J
“Do you always need to craft theories while watching movies?” Her sigh was deep yet a smile was tugging at her mouth as she added “I agree, why else would he left that document there. I mean that would be such an amazing coincidence in that case.”
“Can you recap, I missed the beginning” Mark said his words quite powerless.
“As I said ..” Then It dawned on J as she immediately jumped next to Mark and grabbed his hand.
Tessa followed suite quickly “Are you alright? What do you remember? Do you remember us?” they started crying in relief of saying Mark once again awake after such a long time.
“Of course … I feel like I’m quite indebted to you guys boy now” he chuckled a little, but he pulled away his hand as his traumas were still fresh in his mind “So … now what?”
“We start a new life … a happy one, together” Tessa stated with confidence.
“I support her idea, that’s two vote against zero, so you have no options” J said with a smirk.
“Wait, I don’t even have a vote?” Mark asked with a smile appearing on his face.
“Why would you, you don’t even earn money.” J answered jokingly mocking him. “You are our househusband.”
“I’m still single as far as I remember, I can’t marry unconscious, right?” He asked trying his best to sound serious.
“Not for long … will you marry us?” Tessa asked a little bush appearing on her visor.
“Do I have a say in the matter? If so I do happily, once I properly recovered. Or is there some inheritance make this urgent, that I should know about?” his voice was giving away his non-seriousness
“Was he always this damaged?” J asked as she hugged him
He started panicking a little bit, until he felt the caring hands slowly pat his head and back.
Tessa joined in the hug as she said “We could fix him up”
“Or make him worse” J commented jokingly.
“Just find the equilibrium” Mark said enjoying the hug.
They started a new life, recovering from their past traumas and enjoying each others company and the hard earn freedom from all the evil that was trying to control their lives.