Fandom Into the fire (1x1 MzHyde/Gallifrog)

[MzHyde]

Kay had similar thoughts to John. Even before she passed out cold, she wondered how her mother could know about him. She never mentioned about John when Kay was a kid, and yet that note felt old to her. Was there something always written about John and Kay that her mother knew? She tied to figure it out. She could only currently out it down to the prophecy in the book. Maybe her mother had a similar prophecy told to her about Kay, and it was linked to why she was killed.

Then there was what this masked guy said before leaving them in the state they were, and not telling them the blade was broken. Everything about this guy just unnerved her. "I'm still wondering what that masked guy meant earlier...it really unnerved me." She admitted to him. The bit she did keep to herself was she wasn't ready to possibly lose him.

 

[_gallifrog_]

"Yeah me too." He admitted. It was quite an achievement for him to fess up to being unnerved. "I'm wondering who he...she...it is. My money is on time-travel, judging on the second last comment. Bloody hate time travel, it just makes life so much more complicated than it already is." He was speaking from experience.

"I just have a million and six questions. Where are they from? How do they know us? Why are they here? Why the mask and the blood secrecy?" He asked., his annoyance at not knowing very evident.

 

[MzHyde]

Hearing him admit he was just as unnerved made Kay feel like she was being justified in her feelings over everything. "Considering what he left saying, time travel makes sense... Even when they stared right at me it just made me so uncomfortable. Their eyes were so unusual...even for me." She told him.

She wish she knew show they knew them both as well. That was the biggest question in her mind. She hated coming across people who knew her when she didn't know them. "Then there's the whole 'they told me you'd give me shit' thing they said as well." Kay added. She still couldn't get over how unusual their eyes were. They pierced right into her when she looked at them.

 

[_gallifrog_]

"Now that you mention it, there was something about the expression in the eyes that felt familiar, like I'd seen it somewhere before." John mused. It seemed that the more he thought about the more he was noticing just how strange the whole encounter had been.

"And the last thing they said. If you can't beat the odds, change the game? It's a quote, from a book I think. Can't remember for the life of me which book it is."

 

[MzHyde]

She listened to what he said. He wondered where he would have encountered someone with eyes quite like those. Then he went on about the parting line, making her try to think of all the books she could have possibly read or heard of that it could have come from.

"It all sounds like the kind of crap you'd get in The Hunger Games or something to me" she replied. It really made her think of the whole 'may the odds forever be in your favour' thing that's in the whole premise of that. Though she could never take the hunger he's seriously, she always thought of it as a battle royale rip off for kids.

"I'm also curious to why they wouldn't let you help me and insisted on doing it themselves. Why would someone we never met before care that much to save my ass?" She continued.

 

[_gallifrog_]

"Its not the Hunger Games, I know that much. I think it's fantasy, but I'm not sure, remind me to check when we get back home." It irritated him that he couldn't remember it, and there was no signal in The House, so unless he was going to look through every single book in the library until he found it, he'd have to wait.

"That is strange, do you think they knew about the shard? It stands to reason that if Mask knows us from the future, then they'd know the effects of iron. Which just cretaes far more questions than answers."

 

[MzHyde]

She didn't think it would be the hunger he's, it just reminded her of that sort of stuff. She nodded, "will do, consider me your personal reminder" she smiled. Her little quip being a sure sign she was getting back to her normal self again finally.

The idea of this mysterious stranger knowing about the shard left in her side made her skin crawl. "If they did know then it makes me not trust them even more. Because like you say, they would know what iron will do to me. So why come across as saving me if they were gonna let me suffer anyway? Or did they purposely do it to stick a middle finger up at us or get you to know what can kill me?" She replied. She definitely had to agree it left a lot more questions than answers.

 

[_gallifrog_]

John sighed, and ran a hand through his hair. "All we're succeeding in doing is continuing around in a spiral and getting more questions than answers. If we do meet Mask again, I'm willing to bet we'll either forget to ask or just get totally shut down, again."

He was glad to be able to see that Kay was feeling better. His head had been resting on top of hers this past while, a surprisingly comfortable position. "and now mysterious thing number two, the box."

 

[MzHyde]

He was right. They were just going round and round in circles. "That's an understatement" she added.

She was aware of his head resting atop of hers for this while but she really didn't mind. She actually enjoyed the closeness of it. She was glad she was able to be herself with making the quips again. She didn't forget how stand off-ish she was this morning and how distant she had been with him. She hated being that person deep down, she felt much more comfortable being her usual self.

"Ah yeah..the box. What happened to it when I passed out?" She asked, she couldn't remember if she dropped it or kept ahold of it. Though if she was remembering when she passed out correctly, she should have kept ahold of it...just. Which also made her think how she even got to this different do before twigging he must have carried her. Of all the days to have been wearing her bloody short skirt and she goes and passes out on him.

 

[_gallifrog_]

"Ya, it is. But I don't think there are enough words in the English language to truly do it justice." He conceeded

When Kay asked about the box's location John gestured to beside the bed. "It's over there, it kind of slipped out of your hands, so once I removed the iron I went back and got it." His priorities had been to get the shard out. There was no point in having the box if Kay wasn't around to analyse it's contents.

 

[MzHyde]

She chuckled at his reply to her understatement remark.

She appreciated he put her first over the box. She looked across to where he gestured and saw the box just sitting there. She stretched her arm out and grabbed it, staring at it yet again. "So much of this bloody thing is confusing me. I just wish mom would be direct for once and not leave me with more and more cryptic messages. Drives me nuts. I wonder how I ever enjoyed her little treasure hunt games as a kid" she commented. She was one of those girls who hated Barbie's but loved playing treasure hunter. Now she's an adult, she wondered why because now she's living her biggest mystery to date, it drives her insane.

 

[_gallifrog_]

"Its like there is some kind of unwritten rule that says you have to be deliberatly cryptic and vague, to the point where it pisses the reciever off." John groaned. "But there is an allure to having everybody follow the path you set out, even if you aren't there to see it. It's an extreme version of getting the laugh."

John knew that he would be the type to do that. He had done it before- manipulated an entire group for his own means, turning them against each other and making them do exactly what he wanted and solving his problem, instead of their own. Then he simply walked out, leaving a whiff of cigarettes, brimstone and an even bigger mess behind him.

 

[MzHyde]

She smirked with a little half chuckle. "Sounds like you're talking from experience" she remarked glancing up at him without moving her head, before looking back at the box. If she hadn't already opened it she would definitely have made a Seven reference.

She reopened it and saw the notes again. She had to hope there was some kind of clue in them. They were the only things they hadn't looked at. She took one of the folded notes out that had her nickname on it in perfect italic handwriting. Unfolding the paper she decided to take the leap in reading it with John beside her. Her hands were slightly shaky, the paper fluttering in her grip.

"My little bird,
I know you must be frustrated with me and all these vague clues having to give you but it's safer this way. If I made things too obvious and it got into the wrong hands I'd fear the worst would happen. But you need to work it out yourself. I hope by now you've found out exactly who you are. If you have, then you're on the right track. I understand it's hard for you to process, but please do. It's been written for millennia that you'd come into the world and save our kind. An older prophecy told me about your meeting of a one Constantine. I'm trusting your life in his hands. Our kind was wiped out by downworlders, descendants of Eve. She found the weakness of iron to our kind. I will tell more soon but know this- everything you need to know is in this box. I love you my little bird, your mother, Fira"

Kay didn't know how to process what was said in the letter.

 

[_gallifrog_]

John was far too nosy not to read the note. A normal guy might have looked away or pretended that they were not reading it. But that wasn't John's style, he was nosy as hell and besides, it could have valuable information that they both needed. He leant over Kay's shoulder as he read.

It did clear up some of the questions. The vagueness made sense, there was too ways around it, it was the right choice. And of course he was prophecised, that was not at all weird or creepy. Though he couldn't help but think that if Kay's mother had actually done some proper research into him, she would have reslised exactly just how much of a fuck up he was.

If it was prophecised about him meeting and bonding with Kay, then surely it was prophecised about how much of a twisted manipulator he was. And his track record with kids wasn't at all good. One was his niece, who he made sure to stay as far away from as possible, incase his mere presence would somehow ruined her. The other was an exiled alien he had ended up taking in and was slowly turning into a mini version of himself. And the other was damned to hell. His eyes seemed to change by at least five shades as he thought about her.

Not the kind of guy you wanted protecting your only the daughter, let alone the future of the whole freaking race. If he had to pick somebody to fulfill the role it would be Chas, not him. He ran a hand through his hair, trying to push all thoughts of Astra from his mind.

 

[MzHyde]

Kay could sense he was reading over her shoulder. Normal circumstances and she would have told him where to go, but she just let him read it, especially when his name cropped up.

"She wouldn't have trusted me to you if she didn't think there was something to what she was told John." She said, getting various thoughts of how he must be feeling about what was said about him. She knew what he thought about himself, that night when he opened up to her never left her memory.
Kay then rummaged through the box again, between a couple of other letters to her there was one addressed to John. "There's one here for you" she added. Her mother sure knew how to up the creep factor.

 

[_gallifrog_]

"I'm starting to doubt her judgement to be honest. Clearly she didn't look into me enough, before deciding trusting me was a good idea." There was bitterness in his tone, along with a whole host of other complex emotions. He had been half expecting a letter adressed to him, considering the way it was going. So when Kay produced one he merely sighed.

"That just creepy, yet it was kind of heading this way." He considered not reading the letter, but there wasn't exactly a choice in this. "let's get this over with, see how much she knows." his curiosity wouldn't let him not read it. He was wondereing if he would be getting a bollocking, a pep talk or a creepy message from beyond.

 

[MzHyde]

Bitterness she should have expected to hear from him, but it still made her sad to hear it. She hoped it didn't stop the way he felt about her. They were moving forward with each other and she was scared this might push him away from her.

She opened the letter for him and began to read it out loud:
"Constantine,
apologies for only using your surname but it was all I was given. I just hope this letter finds its way to you. Please be aware that all I know of you is what I was told, which was merely that a Constantine would walk into Kay's life and be bonded with her. For a Hellblazer and phoenix will connect. I've been warned you are flawed but so is Kay. Whether she has grown out of her stubbornness and flaws I fear I will not know. Yet I feel it's those flaws that will make your connection strong. All I ask is that you do what you can to keep her safe. Trusting you, someone I do not know, is a risk I have to take. I am choosing to believe you will genuinely choose to let her in and care for her.
Fira"

Kay actually got embarrassed by the letter. "Even not in my life she succeeds in embarrassing me..." She mutters.

 

[_gallifrog_]

John wasn't sure how to deal with the letter. Here was a woman he'd never met (and probably never would) putting complete and utter blind faith in him. Trusting him to be the right kind of person. The fact that this woman believed he could do what was right for Kay was a big responsibility. But he had to admit, she might have a point about their flaws making the bond stronger. It was the things that he went through that made him strong.

He couldn't help but think that he would rather do this face to face with her. For both of them to be able to gauge up each other and find out what information they were lacking. And of course Kay was getting embarrassed, she had no idea just what she had. She'd known her mother, spent all those years of her life with her. All John knew of his mother was a headstone, the name 'Killer' and a message given to him by a half delerious psychic.

It was a good few minutes before he said anything. "I don't know whether it is a good or bad thing that she knew little about me"

 

[MzHyde]

"If she was here she'd probably say something like..'its a bit of both'" Kay replied to him when he finally spoke up. They were so different but so similar all at the same time. It just felt like the whole opposites pattern between them was reering it's head again.

Kay too wished this whole thing could be spoken with her in person but she knew it couldn't be. Going by the two letters out the three she had, she could only guess that she was indeed murdered and by something that knew Iron would end her rebirth abilities. "Either way, as far as I'm concerned, I don't care she knows so little at this moment in time. I'm knowing enough and witnessed enough to know I'm right where I need to be. And it's not just this stupid prophecy or bond talking. You could have betrayed me enough times now but you haven't." She told him, looking up at him in the eye.

 

[_gallifrog_]

"And I think she'd be right with that." He replied. It seemed that Kay decided he was in need of a pep-talk/ego boost at that moment it time. He could tell she meant every word of it. And that only made things worse, the last person to believe in him with such blind belief had died, come to think almost anybody who believed in him died.

He needed to go somewhere and think, a couple of minutes to re-order himself away from the prying and/or judgemental thoughts of others. "This is heavy stuff" He told her, keeping the eye contact. "there is somewhere I need to go."

Even as he said the words, The House was already hurtling towards his chosen destination.

 

[MzHyde]

Ay took on board what he said. She agreed that it was heavy stuff. Neither of them chose this, and here they were. She nodded, accepting he probably needed time to himself.

"Okay..I understand" she replied, part of her wished she never got made to find the damn box, just like a part of her was glad she did. She got given a part of her mother back but it threw up so much heavy revelations she didn't know how to deal with it and it was obvious John didn't either.

"I'll be here resting and waiting" she told him honestly. She really had no intention of moving just yet she may be feeling better but even she could tell she needed a bit more rest. Leaning up, she pecked his lips to solidify her reply. She knew her faith in him always put him on edge, but it still didn't stop her having that faith in him. They were in this together, and it was doing a number on her emotions towards him.

 

[_gallifrog_]

"If I take longer than fifteen minutes, something bad has happened." He told her, gently kissing her, before he walked out. They both needed their space, and as much as he liked having Kay around, the next part was something he needed to do alone.

The House had repositioned itself at the side of graveyard. Even for a graveyard, it was unusually abadonned looking, the paths and stones over grown with moss and weeds. The plot themselves weren't much better. Some were meticulously maintained, but the majority were overgrown. He made his way across the stone pathway and towards the headstones. The simple vertical slab was already growing over with moss and grass was beginning to grow through the stones that covered the grave. And just like he did every time he cleared it all away, revealing the inscription.

Mary Anne Constantine
and unnamed child
survived by her husband Thomas, daughter Sheryl and son John​

That done he sat down on the grave, and began to talk. He needed to let it all out, even if she couldn't hear him or answer any of his questions, it made him feel better. It was almost cathartic in a way, he'd been doing this ever since he found the grave. Whenever life had got too much (which happened on a far too frequent a basis as a child and teenager) he would go to the grave and just let it all out.

(last post)

 

[MzHyde]

She nodded and have him a reassuring small smile. Her eyes alone told him she was saying 'its okay, I'll be here'. She let him leave and then she took the plunge to read the last unopened letter from her mother.

She just silently read what was rapidly showing to be a personal letter. She was actually glad John wasn't here reading over shoulder for this one, because what she read actually made her cry and she refused to let John see her like this yet again. The letter got the odd tear drop on ot, which made her wipe her eyes when she realised. Folding the paper back up, she put it back in the box. Placing the box to one side she rolled over and practically hugged the pillow. She mentally kept an eye on the time incase she did have to go find him. She hoped he was okay and whatever it was he needed to do alone, it was helping him.

 

[_gallifrog_]

John did come back within fifteen minutes, but he was cutting it close. Letting it out helped, it was like a weird form of therapy. And if anybody needed therapy, it was John. He may also have let out a few tears, but those were quickly rubbed away, leaving streaks of dirt on his face, his hands and the more persistent grains lodged under his fingernails.

"So yeah, that's how I've managed to screw up my life even more than it usually is" he cracked a ghost of a smile, before adding "which is quite the achievement." He stood up, said his goodbyes and walked back to The House in silence. He shut the door exactly on the fifteen minute mark, a feat of timing he couldn't usually have done if he'd tried.

 

[MzHyde]

Kay was still on the bed in the bedroom he put her in. She heard the door shut and wondered how close to the front door she actually was, but was glad to hear him come back. She hoped whatever it was he had to do, it helped him at least a little bit.

She sat up a bit in bed and wiped her own years away, hoping it wouldn't be too obvious she was crying. In the time he was gone she did go into the box just one time to put the necklace on, which she tucked inside her top. If her mother wanted her to keep it safe, then she would. She still pondered on the letters as well, if her whole race was wiped out by iron how could she save them? Was her mother hinting at something else entirely? She couldn't fathom it out and didn't want to at this moment.