Hey ya'll! Okay, this is the chapter when Lukas and Jesse finally see each other.

Gonna be a bit of cuss words at the end and through this story if you haven't noticed already.

Not too much, just a little at times when needed.

This is gonna get a bit INTENSE hehe

Her heart almost stopped. Her breaths turned heavy. Time seemed to slow and whiz in front of her.

"Jesse?" Lukas asked, his voice cracking as a smile tugged at his lips. He looked just as miserable as her. Bags under his eyes, hair messy, bruises and cuts all over his body.

His blonde hair. Those strikingly-blue eyes.

Something moved, like a piece of her shifting. But what it moving out, or fitting back in?

She wanted to hug him, she wanted to feel his arms around hers, his heart beating in his chest. She wanted her lips to touch his, she wanted his laughter and smile. She wanted that feeling to come back. Love.

That's what she had expected to feel. Love, happiness at his arrival. But she didn't. Instead, it was replaced with something else.

Hate, a loathing. Burning inside her like an angry fire, nipping at everyone's heels.

The next thing she knew Lukas was sprinting towards her, wrapping his arms around her and hugging her, tears coming out of his eyes and running down his face.

Jesse didn't know what to do. Anger flickered in her eyes as she put her hands against his chest, and shoved him.

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The force of the shove was so great that Lukas stumbled back and fell to the ground. Luckily, Petra and Olivia were near him, so they quickly jumped forward and caught him in their arms before he reached the ground.

"Whoa!" They said, picking him back up to his feet. "Why did you do that?"

"Jesse?" Lukas asked, hurt clear in his voice. Pain glimmering in his eyes. "It's me, Lukas."

She unfroze, feeling tears run down her cheeks as she gritted her teeth.

Lukas. He was back. The person who loved and cared for her, the one she trusted with her life, the one that made her life complete. The one who left her alone, threw her trust back in her face, and took part of her life, crumpled it into a ball, and then tossed it in the fire.

"Like hell you are." She snarled, taking out her sword as the room burst into chaos. Petra and Axel moved towards Jesse, holding her back as she struggled. Ivor and Olivia stood in front of Lukas who stepped back in fear.

"Jesse, what the heck are you doing?!"

"What's gotten into you?!"

"Jesse, please stop! It's me!" Lukas said desperately, confusion and hope in his eyes as he reached out his hand to her.

She stopped struggling, the sword falling to the ground with a CLANG.

"You." Jesse said quietly, almost choking on her tears. Axel and Petra let go of her, slowly as to make sure she wouldn't attempt to attack again.

"Me." He replied softly.

There was a short moment of silence.

"If you were Lukas, you wouldn't have left." Jesse said, gritting her teeth and struggling to keep her voice clear. "If you were Lukas, you wouldn't have left me. You wouldn't have hurt me. You wouldn't have made my life a freaking hell."

Lukas looked at her in surprise.

"Jesse, you do not know how awful I feel. I am so sorry-"

"You're 'sorry?'" Jesse asked, a cruel laugh forming. "You're 'sorry?!' You think that's going to make it okay? You think that everything will go back to normal if you just apologize?"

Rage filled her voice as everyone looked at her in shock.

"You think telling me those stupid, pitiful, lies are going to make anything better?! Look at me Lukas! Look at what you did.

"Do you know how much it hurt when you left? Do you know how much pain I felt when I saw that note on the empty bed? Do you know what it feels like, to have the person you love most in the world, break your heart and throw the pieces back in your face?!"

Jesse made hand and arm gestures as she spoke, boiling with anger and hate. Lukas looked as if he were about to break.

"Jesse, please. Just let me explain-"

"What is there to explain?!" She asked bitterly. "That you used me? Toyed with me? Broke me?"

"No, I-"

"I tried so hard to be strong Lukas...but you broke me so easily."

Lukas' mouth opened to speak, and then closed again to think of words to say. The rest of the group gave each other uneasy glances, uncertain of what would happen next.

"I got notes." He said finally, sighing. "From PAMA."

"What?"

"I got two messages. From PAMA. That's why I left."

Silence.

"PAMA had my journal, I knew-I knew it was back somehow and I needed to stop it. To stop it from coming here-"

"And look how that turned out." Jesse murmured under her breath.

"I left because I knew PAMA was out there, and it was my fault that it happened. I needed to stop it. It was my fault Jesse, my problem. I didn't-I didn't want you to get involved...or hurt."

"It's too late for that." She replied briskly. "Way too late."

"You have to understand Jess, that I left for a good reason. That I wanted to protect you, keep you safe. I never wanted you to get hurt."

"You didn't give a shit, didn't you?" Jesse asked harshly, voice shaky from the tears that wouldn't stop pouring. "And you still don't."

"I left because I love you. I love you, Jesse." Lukas pleaded, his eyes staring intently into hers, desperate for some sort of forgiveness.

Jesse stared for a moment, and then looked away, face wet from tears.

"Damn you Lukas, damn you."

And with that, she turned and headed back into her room, the looks of shocked and surprised faces in the midst.

The slam of the door making Lukas' heart break.

WTH? THIS STORY TOO? THANK YA'LL FOR 1k READS!!

If you're reading my other story, Regret, you'll probably notice that I posted Lukesse fight scenes on the same day lol. Idk why haha

Baii and hope you're enjoying the story 👍