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fembuckAuthor: Janine
Fandom: Jennifer’s Body
Pairing: Jennifer/Needy
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I don’t own them.
Summary: Needy has no intention of allowing the demon inside Jennifer to stay there, but banishing a demon isn't exactly easy and Needy and Jennifer are running out of time.
Note: This is a sequel/continuation of my story Not Quite Aces
( Part 1 - How the West Was Won )
( Part 2 - Another One Bites the Dust )
( Part 3 - Desperate Times )
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PART IV
Devil's Kettle
Five days later …
The ritual went off without a hitch. They got the fire lit with the first match. The meat they got from the butcher in the next town over was bloody and messy and sizzled like success when they dumped it in the fire. The pictures of the members of Low Shoulder curled in on themselves like the dark, twisted things that the men were, and the words that Needy had been practicing for five long, anxious days tumbled off of her tongue as if she had been speaking Latin her whole life.
When Needy finished speaking, nothing happened immediately. The fire burned and sizzled, and the pictures continued to curl and blacken, but other than the sound of the fire, the chirping of birds, the hum of insects, and the sound of Jennifer and Needy's breath, everything in the clearing was still.
Then, just when Needy was beginning to despair, with a startling quickness, the fire flared, shooting a meter up into the air. As the fire flamed Jennifer gasped and threw her head back, then wrapped her arms around herself as she fell to her knees on the forest floor, choked sounds escaping from her as she stared up at Needy with scared, helpless eyes.
Needy fell to the ground in front of Jennifer and placed her hands on her thighs so that they were connected and then met Jennifer's eyes, holding them with her own in an attempt to give Jennifer some of kind of comfort and support while the demonic force inside of her began to tear its way out.
Jennifer choked and sobbed and turned so pale that she almost appeared blue. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head until all Needy could see was white and tears streamed from her eyes. She looked so stricken that Needy became terrified that the process of releasing the demon might actually kill Jennifer, but just as Needy was beginning to truly freak and started to consider putting out the fire and interrupting the ritual, Jennifer's body spasmed.
Starring wide-eyed, Needy listened to Jennifer scream and watched as her body began to violently buck again and again until finally Jennifer stiffened. She was completely still and completely quiet for five seconds long seconds, and then a whimper escaped from her and Jennifer fell forward into Needy's arms, unconscious.
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It hadn't been easy getting Jennifer out of the woods and back into the motel room they had rented just on the other side of Doane's border with Devil's Kettle. Needy had had to sling Jennifer over her back and drag Jennifer back to the car. Jennifer's feet had trailed in the mud, bumping over tree roots and rocks all the way back to the car, but Needy had got them both back to the vehicle, and once she'd gotten Jennifer into the back seat she'd checked Jennifer's feet and legs for bruises and sighed in relief when she found that they looked okay.
Mercifully, getting Jennifer from the car to into their room was an easy process after getting her out of the woods, and once Needy got Jennifer's unconscious body settled on one the bed, she collapsed onto the mattress herself and was just starting to close her eyes to get some rest when Jennifer gasped and bolted upright.
"Needy?" Jennifer choked out anxiously, looking around the room the poorly lit room fearful before she looked down and saw Needy on the bed beside her.
When their eyes met, Jennifer's bottom lip began to tremble, and as she gazed down at Needy, her eyes began to shimmer with tears.
"Jen?" Needy breathed out, slowly, hopefully, seeing something in Jennifer's eyes that she hadn't seen in weeks.
Jennifer looked terrified, but she looked whole, all parts exactly where they should be. There was no distance in Jennifer's gaze. There was no hunger prowling at the edge of her consciousness. She could feel Jennifer again, like she had been able to before the demon, like when she could sense Jennifer coming down a hallway or knew the moment Jennifer arrived at her house.
Jennifer was Jennifer again. Needy knew it the moment she looked into Jennifer's wide, watery eyes.
Jennifer was Jennifer again, and almost as soon as Needy processed the thought and her heart began to sing with joy and relief, Jennifer began to sob.
Needy gathered Jennifer up into her arms and held her tightly, pressing kisses into her hair as Jennifer trembled and wept in her arms, her hot tears wetting Needy's chest as she cried.
Needy wasn't sure how long they stayed like that, but it was long enough that her shirt was damp by the time Jennifer pulled away from her chest and sniffled out her first words in minutes.
"I feel everything now," Jennifer whispered, blinking rapidly as thin trails of tears escaped from her red eyes. "All of it. I feel all of it, Needy," Jennifer practically sobbed. "I fucking ate them!" she exclaimed before dropping her head into her hands.
"It wasn't you," Needy said gently, stroking Jennifer's hair, knowing that all of the fear and the guilt and the shame and the horror that the demon wouldn't let Jennifer feel while she was possessed was crashing down upon Jennifer like a ton of bricks. "It wasn't you, Checkers. It was the demon."
"I know," Jennifer moaned, burying her face in Needy's neck again as tears begin to fall from her eyes more rapidly. "But it was my hands, and my mouth, and I remember. It's all fuzzy and jumbled like a really bad shroom trip, but I remember."
Jennifer began to cry again then, and Needy took hold of her once more. She held on as tightly to Jennifer as she could, and she pressed kisses to her hair and forehead between whispers to Jennifer that what had happened wasn't her fault, praying that Jennifer would believe her because she wasn't sure that she could handle it if she'd taken on and defeated the forces of darkness just to lose Jennifer to misery and despair.
To be continued …
Comments are always welcome and greatly appreciated :D
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Date: 2011-09-20 07:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-22 10:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-20 08:51 am (UTC)It was so sweet that Needy sensed immediately that "her" Jennifer was back, and the way she just continues to be there for her.
And I like the "To be continued..." here. You could've had it end here. But I honestly hope for at least another chapter, if only to see how you'll write Jennifer now that the demon is gone :)) And those two are just too cute to just disappear. So....please please please with whipped cream on top? ^_^
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Date: 2011-09-22 10:52 pm (UTC)I figure it's about time that something worked out well for them! ;)
It was so sweet that Needy sensed immediately that "her" Jennifer was back
I loved that about their relationship in the movie. That Needy was always able to sense when Jennifer was close. That's OTP stuff, right there!
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Date: 2011-09-20 03:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-22 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-20 10:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-22 10:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-23 08:08 pm (UTC)haha, honestly I didn't see subtext until that last moment on the horse. I was surprised by how much I liked it, I'm usually not really into sitcoms but it seems like they are establishing a heart behind their friendship. The show isn't anything out of the ordinary but it seems the 2 girls have really good chemistry (ha, R&I anyone?)
Last scene screencaps: http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lruf8ztLKc1qahl06o1_500.png
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrszrjOERU1qzzz47o1_500.gif
This DL link should hopefully still work: http://tvshowvault.tumblr.com/post/10522420407/2-broke-girls-s01e01-pilot-hdtv-xvid-fqm
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Date: 2011-09-24 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-25 07:22 pm (UTC)