#jantomfic

He did, but thankfully he could recover fast from injuries. “I know, but… I know it’s crazy and sounds insane, but… I don’t know I just want this, ok?! I don’t know why, I don’t have an explanation to give, I just really want to try this!”

Janna crossed her arms unbelieving, “What’s the plan? You’re planning something, some joke on me, aren’t you?”

“I am not!”

“Then explain this to me!” she points to the pink rose, “Because we had been fighting and battling each other non stop for three years and now you just come and say you want to date? Are you sure you didn’t trip and hit your head on the road? And what’s up to the pink rose? Shouldn’t be red?”

“I don’t have an explanation!” Tom exasperated, “All I know is that all that ‘imagine your future’ thing made me wonder and I realize that a future in which you aren’t there it’s plain, boring and I just don’t want that, so I’m trying my best shot here in calling you to go out with me…” Tom then looked at the rose extending for her again blushing slightly and whispering, “And the rose… Well, your favorite is pink so I thought you would like it. I stole from Marco’s garden, don’t tell him.”

“Pink is not my favorite color.”

“Whatever you say” Tom shrugged “So? I’ll meet you at the fair?”

The dark haired girl looked at the rose, then at him and sighed. Part of her was curious about the outcomes of this even if deep inside she felt like she was doing something wrong. He was Star’s ex, even if they were friends now and he even hang out with Marco, it would be weird- it should be weird.

And still Janna reached out for her pink rose and agreed.

“Eh, fine” She shrugged, “But you’re paying and if I find out this is a joke I’ll put a curse on you worse than Nasaya.”

The demon nodded unamused, “Eh I can deal with that it’s only fair.”

“One more thing,” she said as he was about to walk away, “my favorite color is not pink.” Tom smiled teasingly and went on his way, replying without looking back.

“Whatever you say.”

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Janna had to admit she was impressed.

Tom was very cool once he got over being annoying all the time, he had some temper problems to solve, but he had confessed to Janna he was taking some potions to help with that (something about two demons of different kinds not mixing the genetics well or something?) so in that night things were fine.

In fact, things were going really well.

When they were both able to set down their anger on each other, it was rather… joyful. They got to talk and find common interests, they liked Love Sentence, he liked Karate movies, but rather zombie ones. She was a fan of old poetry, he… well, he knew the old poet she liked but it was close enough. As they went on talking things began to move smoothly between them, besides Janna had to admit that being on a multiverse fair was fun and interesting.

Janna was eating a piece of cotton candy (or something that looked a lot like it) and sharing with Tom when she suddenly realized they were holding hands. Not just holding hands, they were standing right next to each other in a way she was using his arm as support without realizing. Just… Very couple like.

She didn’t know if she liked or not.

Tom was still talking about the dimension section they were in, talking how was to go there the first time in royal duties and how his mother couldn’t go because it was dangerous on them (well, if she was a cotton living next to a flame demon who cries lava, she would be worried too), so he got a giant cotton candy for his mother as souvenir and all… The filipino realized she didn’t mind enjoying time with him at all, he was indeed trying to be a nice guy for her and she was doing just fine too. She didn’t mind.

Janna found herself tempted to intertwine their fingers.

Maybe she was freaking out too much. There were a lot of people, he probably just hold her hand so she wouldn’t get lost, and there wasn’t much space to walk so that’s why he didn’t say about her standing close, and he… He was the one who invited her on a date. He said he couldn’t imagine a more boring future than to be without her so, that meant something right? Wait, why she cared in first place? She shouldn’t care at all…

Well, she cared. She cared a lot. She wanted this. She wanted him to have meant every word and every part and everything… Since when she had been like that?

Janna frowned at herself. She had been crushing on this guy all along and didn’t know? What the… Well, it explained a lot actually. On why she reacted to violent around him and felt like pranking and teasing him around… It was her way to show affection most of times, she just didn’t know how to be “sweet” and “delicate”. She always know she was the kind of love who would bite… She just didn’t expect the bite back.

Or that it would be Tom of all people.

She was almost convinced herself, the idea of them being together as a couple getting wrapped around her head while she was moving her hands slowly to intertwine their fingers. She felt as if she did something simple as that it would mean everything would change. Like by intertwining their fingers meant to commitment to this - whatever it would be called - it meant a step to never go back… She was overthinking? Maybe. Possibly… Mostly like it. Yep. She was overthinking but who could blame her? Why it had to be him of all people?

Her fingers had already opened from his hands as she tried to move to intertwine with his when he suddenly stopped and so did she. She looked up to him wondering if he realized and would put an end on it, it he planned something or… Why he was staring at somewhere else?

Janna tried to follow his gaze through the crowd trying to find what was that caught his attention so much he forgot he was around her. On the other side of stalls corridors, there was a sweet desserts stand (a very much likely the one they got the cotton candy thing) and in front that the only thing that could have been on his attention was a blond hair… Right beside a red hoodie and dark hair.

She felt the pain in her chest. He was watching those two, now that she think about they had been on the same quarter for a while. The moment the couple turned to each other to talk it was impossible to not recognize their faces or the hearts in her cheek, or miss how Tom flinched in the moment when Marco leaned and kissed her mark making Star giggle.

That was the moment Janna came to realize. They had been hating each other for months why would that suddenly change? It didn’t. Tom didn’t invite her to the fair, he invited the first girl who accepted and had some experience with multidimensional stuff and wouldn’t be overwhelmed. If she had refused he probably would had invited someone else. But he made it all be so fun and romantic and… She was stupid enough to believe in all that.

Janna pulled Tom away and throwing the cotton candy on the floor angrily before stepping on it repeatedly. The action causing a yelp from Tom and some surprised gasps from people around.

“Hey! What was that for?!” Janna ignored him, so he tried to hold her and stop her from keep smashing the candy, “Hey! Janna!” But instead of listening she pushed him again and stormed out the scene, he called after her running right after. It was troubling since Janna was smaller and was getting through the creatures faster than him. It didn’t take much to lose track of her.

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Tom went around the fair, he asked the stalls they had been if they had seen her, he asked a few people around, but no one knew where she could be. He was beginning to get worried at this point, those fairs were open to anyone participate, which meant that even monsters who despised humans (or those who eat them) would be around.

“Hey, is everything ok?”

Tom turned around to Star and Marco standing behind him. Star was holding Marco’s hand intertwining their fingers as the other held his arm closer to her, they both looked worried at Tom.

“Oh hey guys… It’s just Janna, she run away and I can’t find her anywhere. I’m starting to get worried, have you seen her?”

Marco looked at Star and she shrugged, “I haven’t seen her around from the moment we got here.”

“Me neither, sorry man.” Marco replied shrugging too.

He sighed tiredly, messing his hair “That’s ok, I’ll try to find her.”

“Did something happen for her to run?” Star asked, “You didn’t get mad, did you?”

“What?! No! I told you guys I’m taking care of that!”

“What was it then?”

“I have no idea, I saw you guys in the other stall and thought on getting to say hi and maybe hangout all together and then- oh…”

Star looked at him quizzically, but Marco seemed to understand the same as him “Well, better find her to explain yourself then.”

“Yeah, see you guys around!”

Tom ran around the stalls for a while until he decided it was no use, he took a breath and then closed two of his eyes leaving just the third one open. There were a lot of creatures around, but only one was a witch descendant. Tom was able to identify the trace of her essence on the stalls corridors and followed them until he was out the fair, the traces led to a hill and going on a tree to one branch where… Where she was sitting on currently.

The demon wouldn’t admit out loud, but it was always mesmerizing to look at Janna with the magic sensible eye, sometimes he did without her noticing. It was an flow of energy and magic unique and beautiful, it was in constant change and movement since it was a magic that still getting used to her body after she got her witch powers. It was one of the reasons he was drawn to her.

He opened his eyes and blinked twice to adjust to his normal vision. Janna was looking right at him with unamused face from the tree, her face with clear determination to not move from there.

“So you can see with the third eye.”

He shrugged, “It isn’t a big deal.”

“I guess.”

She stayed silent and he sighed, “Can you come down?”

“For what?

“I want to talk.”

“We have nothing to talk about.” She drifted her eyes watching the fair from afar again.

Tom took a breath trying to be patient “We just were talking for the most part of the night!”

“That was before I realized you were joking with me.” She replied indifferent.

“I am not joking! Can you just get down?!”

Janna rolled her eyes, but she jumped down the grass and crossed her arms in front of him “Done. So?”

“Look, whatever conclusion you got, it’s wrong.”

Janna gave an exaggerated smile to show her annoyance, “Oh, good to know! So this was indeed all a joke, right?”

“Of course not! Do you think I would spent so much energy and time on you and tonight for a joke?!”

The brunette gave a mocked laugh, “Oh, I’m sorry I’m not worth all that!”

The demon face-palmed at her answer, “That’s not what I meant! Stop twisting my words!”

“I’m not twisting nothing!” She raised her voice, “The only options for you to have called me on a date is either a joke on me or-” Janna nibbled her lower lip and shook her head- “I’m just going with the less-hurting option.”

Tom raised his eyebrows and now he was the one raising his voice, “Stop assuming stuff and hear me out-”

“For what?!” She replied in a loud tone “So you can just hang me around waiting for your first chance with Star-”

“No one is talking about Star!” He screamed frustrated.

“Oh really?!” She yelled back, “Then why you’re getting so angry and messed up by mentioning her name?!”

“I’m angry that you take me so lowy! I’m not that kind of guy!”

“Really cause your angry issues already showed up otherwise back then!”

Tom passed his hand on his hair trying to keep his control “I can’t erase my past, ok?! Yeah I did wrong and as result of those stuff I lost Star, but this had nothing to do with us!”

“There you go! You are trying to win her back by using me to show you got no more issues!”

“I never said that! She’s gone, she moved on and so did I! Why the hell you think you’re here for?!”

“Because you’re trying to fix things with the first one to raise their hand to you! It could have been anyone!”

“But it’s not anyone, it’s you in here!” Tom massaged his temples, “Freaking God, I didn’t think you were so jealous-”

There was an offended gasp from her, “Me?! Jealous?! Are you for real?!”

“Oh I’m sorry,” Tom replied inserting sarcasm into his words, “I saw my friend and her boyfriend across a festival and thought of saying hi and it was enough to make you go nuts!”

“Oh says the one who tried to fry the same guy who’s with her only because of a dance once!”

“Once! And that’s past, I wasn’t over her yet-”

“You also cursed him!”

“I was young and immature! I’m over that, freaking hell!”

“Oh you’re screaming at me doesn’t look like!”

“You started it!”

“Real mature reply!”

“Janna, just shut up so I-”

“So what?!” She screamed even louder than before.

“I’ll make you!” Tom pulled some strands of his own hair in annoyance.

“Oh, make me!”

“I am serious!” his eyes already shining in the dark, but Janna didn’t back down.

“So am I! But we both know you-”

Janna stopped talking because before she even finished her sentence, Tom’s mouth was over hers stopping any possible syllable to leave her lips. She had three seconds of shock in which she didn’t quite reacted, another five in which she just closed her eyes and started kissing back, and only then she got into herself and stepped back.

“Wait- What the hell you think you’re doing!?”

“Shutting you up.”

He didn’t wait her reply as he held her face firmly and leaned on her again, his lips going just as angry and wild as before. Janna tried to push him away again but she was unable to (ok, she would be honest, she didn’t really wanted to, he wasn’t forcing her into it - She could have got free from him if she really wanted so.) So instead she focused her energy and the heat from the fight to kiss him back.

Neither of them really knew how exactly happened, someone had moved (neither knew who was the first to do so or if they both did at the same time), she tripped, but he held her close stopping her from falling or getting her lips apart from him for longer than a moment, her body was just attached to his like they were magnets, then after the tree was giving support to her back and she used his leg to get more support (Thanks Lord, her legs were starting to feel like jelly) and her hands were in his hair while his rested on her hip and the other was closed in a fist as his arm was giving support to his own body. It was a weird - and yet - comfortable position for them.

Tom only stepped away when air was missing in his lungs and he could feel he was missing her breath too.

“I bring you here…” He said catching up his breath, “Because I really… Wanted to start something new… It was never-”

“Tom.” Janna interrupted him in a serious tone.

The demon looked at her a bit nervous, but didn’t let it show by any means, “Yeah?”

“Shut up.”