Chapter Two- Bonds

*John's Pov*

"You're here?" 

"Ah yes, I meant what I said; I'm not staying for you love." I told her because if I'm being honest, I'm here for Pandora. I can feel her fear, she's scared and no one else on this ship really understands her. 

"Where's Pandora?" Sara raises an eyebrow. 

"She's in her room, she hasn't been out for awhile now." She says. 

"Well I'm gonna need a room, so."

"There's an empty one across the hall from Pandora, you can stay there." I nod and head off with all my things. As I'm walking towards it I hear mumbling and then something break. "Dammit, what the hell! Why can't I do some simple shit right!?" Pandora yelled as I walked through the door. She turned to see me her eyes were rimmed around with an orange light and then they stopped. 

"Const-Constantine?" Her voice shivered. I nodded. 

"What's the problem love?" 

"I can't do this simple spell..and without magic I'm useless to the team." She sounded sad when she said this and I looked around the room and I saw a magic book opened on her bed with papers scattered everywhere. 

"What spell are you trying my love?" I saw her cheeks tint of red as she answered. "I'm trying to do a binding spell, you know the one that can bind people's minds.."  

"Do you want my help?" 

"Please Johny" That was her nickname for me. It was adorable when she said it. 

"Here watch me."

*Pandora's Pov*

"You did it!" Constantine applauded me.  

"Thanks to you Johny." He smiled as we heard Sara's voice over the interface. 

"Team meeting in the cortex it's another magical creature." 

"I've got to change you go" I told him.

"I'll just turn around and wait for you." I nodded as he turned around and I put on my cloak and grabbed my two small daggers. It looked just like John's trench-coat just black and with a hood. 

"Alright let's go" I told him as we headed out to the main room. 

"Team there was a magical interference  detected in London, 1977." Sara's team commander voice comes on. 

"The queen's new favorite band is The Smell" 

"Never heard of the rubbish band and I know every punk band in London." Constantine speaks.

"That's because they never existed in this timeline."

"Okay so we're looking for someone in the band, we could be dealing with demonic possession, illusion or maybe just a run of the mill royal dementia." 

"There's your man right there, the Irish one he's a leprechaun" 

"Wait so now we have a weasel running point?" Mick yells. 

"If you have a problem with me pie-head why don't you just say it?" 

"I have a problem with you." Mick says like a smart-ass. 

"Shut up!" I yell and slam my hands down. 

"Sara runs point just go get close to the band." 

"I'm not wearing a dumb costume." 

"You don't need to we are going as is." I told him. 

"Let's head out." 

At the bar 

"Wait Constantine" I said to him through the mind binding spell. He said back.

"What is it love?" He raises an eyebrow.

"Switch coms with me, Zari put a tracker in yours." He nods while giving me a confused look and proceeded to switch.

"I trust you Constantine, you know that. I would like if you trusted me too but I understand if you won't well because I'm me, and you're well you." I rambled out to him and he left me with nothing but a small chuckle. 

"I trust you too, love." I heard a voice in my head.

It took me a few minutes before I walked in and I saw Mick hit Constantine over the head with a bottle. I quietly sighed to myself as I pulled Constantine off of Mick, because he had started landing punches.

"Mick do not touch our Warlock again!" I shouted

"Now let's get back to the ship because Ray is with them" Sara says into the coms. 

"Ray buddy can you hear me?" 

"Ahh yeah you're pressing the button too hard."

"Oh sorry first time, if it's a leprechaun there's an old trick spilling rice and they have an urge to count them all."

"That's a stupid plan." Mick says. 

"Do you have a better one mate?"  He argues back as Mick is about to punch John I stop him but using my magic.

"Do not, touch our warlock. Maybe if you listened to Constantine who knows how magic works we'd get through this easy and you are not a master of the dark arts and therefor contribute nothing to the team!" I yell as John says he's going off sight seeing. 

"I'll go after him" says Zari.

"No you won't, I will stay here" I say stopping her and going after John. 

Later On 

"Constantine" I say finding him sitting at a bar in the city. 

"How'd you find me, love?" 

"We've known each other for months, I know your moves because I unlike the others I care about what happens to you." 

"Why I'm just a bloody bastard?" He spits. 

"Just like I'm here to give my dad a backyard vasectomy" He says as he tries to kick the man beside us in the nuts. 

"You can't do that because you'd erase yourself from the timeline."

"I screw up people's lives Pandora. People I trust, get hurt." 

"Stop it Johny. You're not a curse and you're not a mistake. Whatever you're going through I'm here for you and always will be" 

3rd Person  

"You can drag me through hell and I'd still be by your side." Little did Pandora know that soon she'd be held up to that. 

"You know people like you love, don't come by very often especially people with the interests in the dark arts." John Constantine says as he looks in Pandora's green orbs, he's already falling for her, he just doesn't know it yet. 

Pandora has had her fair amount of pain, hurt, agony and life crisis, and she knows how John feels but she knows the more she helps, and he helps her she'll fall and the last time she fell in love it ended horribly.  Who knows maybe it will be different for her this time. 

"Johny, you've been different since you've been back on the wave rider-" She paused for a minute before continuing. 

"What happened Constantine? What happened to make you more dark and twisty than you already were?" She truly wanted to know why he was like this, she wanted to help him.

He gave her a sad look as he grabbed her wrist gently and pulled her upstairs of the bar and onto the balcony. 

*Pandora's Pov*

After we were on the balcony he opened his mouth but then shut it again. 

"Give me your hand my love." He spoke as I lifted up my hand and he gripped onto it.  As soon as he did that, memories were flashing before my eyes. 

These were of a little girl, I assume he was taking care of her but then towards the end of the memories I saw her disintegrate before his eyes into the hell portal. 

When they were over I saw John with a few tears running down his cheeks. "C-can I give you a hug?" I stuttered. 

He didn't even say anything but by the way he looked at me I could tell so, I wrapped my arms around his body tightly.  "I know sorry doesn't fix the past but, I'm always here if you need someone to talk to." 

"Thanks, love."  

A/N: I just want to make it clear that, John and Pandora had already worked together before, and that's why she trusts him already. There might be flashbacks to when they were trying to defeat Mallus to give you some background information on their relationship. 

[Edited: 6/22/19]