Chapter 4: All Amazing Jack
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Kate began walking out the office door; or should she say heavens office door.
It just felt all so unreal. Her feet walking in soft clouds that felt like ripped cotton and fog, the fact that her whole background right now was just the blue sky and other clouds, and also, a man in a suit with a unnecessary large pair of wings was floating behind her.
They reached a perfectly circle hole in the cloudy ground, where you looked down, all you saw was light blue.
“Alright Kate, now listen, I am going to push you in this hole, and you will be back in the hospit- Kate are you okay?”, Jack looked over to see Kate biting her nails.
“Oh no, I’m fine. Just worried about falling five zillion trillion feet to the ground, that’s all.” Kate blabbed.
Jack laughed. He couldn’t help it, here he saw a girl who spent most of her time stealing from markets and stores, not caring if she could end up in the slammer, and now he saw her shaking like a leaf.. Priceless.
“Don’t worry Kate, this is a portal, you won’t be falling onto anything.”
Kate looked down at the hole again.
“Jack, are you absolutely positively positive?” She choked.
“Hundred percent. I’ve delt with this for a hundred and fifty-six years, I think I would know what I am talking about.”
‘A hundred and fifty six? Wouldn’t he be an old bag? Dang this guy could kill me if he wanted to if he can force me to go down this hole’ Kate thought. ‘Maybe I shouldn’t have been such a little-’
“First of all Kate,” Jack started, “I’m a spirit, spirits do not grow older, I wouldn’t have expected you to know that. Second of all, I give lives, I don’t kill the person or purposely take away them because someone gets on my last nerve. That is ridiculous.”, He looked at Kate who was in absolute shock.
“Besides, if I did, you would have already been dead and have to stay here.” He added playfully as Kate gulped.
“How di-did you?”
“Read your mind? Hmm, I never seemed to figure that one out, I am just gifted, that’s all.”, Jack then snapped his fingers and a mug of coffee with a black kitten on it appeared out of no where.
He took a sip, “That’s the stuff! A cup more and I’ll be back to my normal jitters! You have been one tiring client Kate!”.
Kate couldn’t help notice how jittery Jack was. She couldn’t tell if maybe the coffee had all to do with it, because he acted like he had a bug crawling up his sleeves, and he always had to do something. It was very annoying, but Kate did her best to push it out of her mind so Jack wouldn’t read her like a book again (to her astonishment).
Jack sighed, “Well, well, I guess it is time for you to jump down. I will keep good company of your cat until you come back up here.”
The last six words hit Kate like a brick.
“Jack, what do you mean come back? Sure, yea, okay you handed me eight lives, but that doesn’t mean I need the next one. I’m pretty sure I can stay out death ‘till I reach about ninety.” She assured.
Jack grinned widely, exposing his coffee stained teeth.
“Oh, don’t be so sure. Take this like a story Kate, because the bad guy always learns their lesson.”
And at that, Kate fell in the hole. She didn’t even have time to think about what Jack had said, or about the feeling of going through the hole, because when she fell.
Everything went white…
He's got the kind of humor i crave in a character. He's simple but what he says is still funny and introduces light to her dark situation. I love that.
