Devastated || 12. Remorseful
Paring: (Christopher "Sully" Sullivan x Original Female Character Mance!)
Word Count: 2101
Warnings: slight language, death, unnecessary guilt
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After some time, Henry goes into the room to check on Jennifer, "You okay now?" He asks her, so she just looks up at him.
"Taking it as Abby isn't adjusting well due to all the noise."
"Not as well as you did. I have some news... Jimmy and Sully agreed to sign a full confession. But they won't sign it unless they get to say goodbye to you and Abby. I just told her as well." He puts his hand out to help her to get up so she looks at it, "Come on. I'm not going to hurt you, Jen."
"Henry, if you could... would you have done this all a different way without killing people?" She takes his hand as he pulls her to stand up.
"No... there was no other way because they would all still be in the way." He sighs looking her in the eyes.
"You know, it wouldn't have taken much to get me. You know how close we were before coming here. I would've done anything for you then, Hen."
"And we're still close, Jen." He motions for her to leave the room with him, so she does.
They wait downstairs till Abby joins them, and he walks them to the guys. Abby goes to Jimmy, and when Jennifer was going to go over to Sully, Henry stops her, "One at a time." He tells her.
Abby apologizes to Jimmy for leaving him, and she kisses him. Henry becomes jealous and pulls her away from Jimmy. Henry slaps Abby when she tells him she loves Jimmy, making her fall to the ground.
Henry panics, feeling bad for hitting her, so Jennifer makes a run for it, so Abby stabs him in the foot with an awl before running out too. Henry chases them, grabbing the boarding knife on his way out.
After Henry leaves, Jimmy pulls the nail Abby slipped him out from under his tongue and used it to pick the lock on his handcuffs.
"Are you even capable of running?" Jimmy helps Sully get loose.
"I don't care if I die as long as I can protect her from Henry." Sully tells him, "I'm sorry for-,"
Jimmy cuts him off, "It's good, dude. We got to help the girls." He tells him and they go after the others, with Sully moving slightly slower.
Jennifer comes to a cliff and soon Abby almost runs into her but Jennifer stops them from falling off. Henry catches up to them and Abby concludes that Henry told Jimmy and Sully, he'd kill them unless they signed a confession. Henry denies it, stating he would die without them.
"Really? Then why do you have the boarding knife?" Jennifer says as she and Abby hold onto each other's arms.
Henry tosses it over the edge, "There. Now do you believe me? You two and this island are my home. The only thing that makes sense to me."
"None of this makes sense." Jennifer walks towards him and Abby tries to stop her but Jennifer knew he wouldn't hurt her, "You destroyed everything we love? You killed Abby's dad, our friends. Now you want to take Jimmy from us and Sully from me."
"BUT YOU HAVE ME!"
"WE DON'T WANT YOU!" She screams back at him and she can see how hurt he was so she steps closer, "You ruined everything, Hen. You ruined us for this." She tears up as he steps closer to her, and Sully comes running at them, tackling Henry off the edge.
Henry reached for Jennifer so Jimmy runs over pulling her back so he goes over the edge with the two.
Jennifer rushes to get down before Abby, rushing over to Sully first only because he was in bad shape compared to Jimmy, "You break anything else?" She asks him.
"I don't think so." He groans as Abby goes to Jimmy, asking if he was okay. "Jen," Sully sees Henry walking towards them.
"Jennifer!" Abby tosses the boarding knife to her, so she runs it through Henry's stomach, feeling bad deep down.
Jennifer's hands shake, looking at where she impaled him before looking back up at him with tears in her eyes, "Jenny." They both go down to their knees.
"I-I..." She cries to him because he was her best friend after all. She did love him, but it wasn't in the same way as his love for her and Abby. "Hen," She sees the hurt in his eyes.
"But... I love you."
"I love you too." She barely whispers as he slowly dies.
Abby and Jimmy slowly walk over to them as Jennifer looks at her hands, "Jen?" Abby bends down next to her. "Jennifer..." She looks at Abby with tears running down her cheeks so Abby hugs her.
"Ow, fuck. Why did I tackle him off a cliff?" Sully groans as Jimmy helps him up.
"I have no clue. You were slow the whole way here, then suddenly, you slammed on the gas pedal. You almost took Jen, too so I took the fall instead." Jimmy groans as well. "If you ladies are ready, I'd love to go find help. I'm sure Sully really would." Jimmy holds him up.
"Yeah, we just have to walk a few miles." Abby says, pulling Jennifer up as she was still in a little state of shock.
Later after walking for a while, they finally get to help and the coast guard gets them on the boat to head to the mainland. Jennifer watches Jimmy and Abby share a kiss so Sully holds her hand, "You did what you had to do." He tells her.
"Why do I feel bad if he deserved it?"
"You've known him your whole life. You thought he was someone that would never hurt you or was capable of that stuff." He says as she starts to tear up again.
"This whole time... He was our brother. And I've always treated him like he was one. He knew we were his sisters, yet... he still loved us in a different way. He ruined everything because of something we said as kids. It's really our fault." She cries, so he holds her.
Abby and Jimmy go to the Seattle FBI field office, while Jennifer goes to the hospital with Sully and a few officers. They all were questioned about the whole thing from the first day up until now alone. At the moment, Jen was waiting for Sully to get out of surgery when Shea walked into view with Madison.
"I heard you and Sully would be here." She goes to sit next to her.
"I'm just waiting for him to get out of surgery. he was stabbed in the back, broke his arm and sprained his ankle."
"Henry didn't make it?" Shea says, not knowing that piece of info that he helped Wakefield.
"No, I killed him..." She looks at her and could see all the emotions going she was going through. "He killed Trish... and Ben, Fain, your dad, Richard, Malcolm, JD, and Katherine. He killed our dad, Wakefield. He was going to kill Sully too. His romantic obsession with Abby and I motivated him to lure us and everyone to the island was all part of an elaborate gambit to kill off everybody from his and our old lives so we could be happy together on the island forever. All for something Abby and I said to him when we were kids. " Jennifer cries to her.
"I don't blame you for his action because of his deranged mind taking something you said as kids literal." Shea says as the doctor says Sully can be seen now. Sully was glad to see Shea and Madison were safe and she thanked him for getting them off the island again before letting him get some rest with Jennifer.
"Since you are responsible for breaking my arm... I'm expecting you to help me." Sully drinks his water.
"You prefer to be dead right now?" She laughs at him.
"I guess I should thank you, huh?" He smiles.
"You guess?" She gets up, acting like she was going to hit him.
"I'm just joking." He has her sit next to him on the hospitable bed, "Thank you for saving my life. I'm really grateful you came looking for us." He takes her hand into his and he sees her getting upset.
"Everyone didn't deserve to die. Danny and Shane went out trying to save others. Trish was betrayed by someone she loved. Shae lost her family. Abby lost hers... Cal and Chloe were getting engaged. Booth was the only lucky one that died because it was an accident and not murdered by his friend."
"At least Henry and Wakefield are dead now and we know that's true." He squeezes her hand.
"Remember when Abby wouldn't kill Wakefield... I told her and Henry I'll be a killer if I had to, and Henry said I wouldn't. I said bet and I guess I proved him wrong by killing him." She tears up, "I hate that I still feel bad, Sully. I loved him like a brother and he was and I killed my brother. He deserved it, but I think it's the fact I hate hurting people's feelings even if they are a bad person and I'm not in the wrong."
"Jen..." Sully sits up more.
"The look in his eyes when I ran the blade through him... He was so hurt and I broke his heart." She sobs.
Sully grabbed her face so she would look at him, "I know it's because of the type of person you are. Like you said, you hate hurting people's feelings even if they are the bad person because then you feel bad but this is totally different. He killed our friends, Jen. He had a whole-ass elaborate plan to get us all somewhere to kill off. Don't feel bad for hurting his feelings when he hurt yours first."
A knock at the door makes Jennifer wipe her tears away as Abby and Jimmy enter the room, "How are you feeling?" Abby asks Sully.
"Okay, I get to get out of here tomorrow afternoon. Shae and Madison were here earlier. Jen told Shea everything. She thanked me for getting them off the island again" Sully tells her then looks at Jennifer looking down, "Tell her don't feel bad for killing Henry." He begs the two.
"Don't Jen... I know he was our best friend growing up and you two were even slightly closer than us, but he wasn't the Henry we thought we loved. He had to be stopped and that was the only way." Abby explains to her.
Jennifer just nods her head, "So you going to stay with Abby or?" She smiles at Jimmy.
"Umm, yeah. For the time being. What's your guys' plan?" It was his turn to smile.
"Apparently, I'm responsible for breaking his arm, so I'm expected to help him out for a while." She looks at Sully, who was nodding his head.
"Didn't she save your life?" Jimmy laughs.
"Thank you," Jennifer tells her brother.
"Don't push it, Sully. You finally got her after trying for eleven years." Abby gives him a wink.
The four spend some time together before Abby and Jimmy leave as it gets dark out and visiting hours were ending. "You're staying, right?" Sully asks as she goes through the channels.
"I'm not leaving you." She glances over at him then back at the tv.
"Come here." He pats his bed so she gets on his good side, "I love you."
"So I've heard and I love you too." She kisses him.
"Marry me," He says, making her sit up to look at him a little shocked, "Now isn't the best time to ask for many reasons. And we haven't even dated at all but I've loved since I laid eyes on you at the age of fourteen. Then tried making a move on you since we were seventeen, and then finally succeeded at the age of twenty-seven. I've learned life is too short so marry me, Jennifer."
"You're insane, you know that?" She giggles, "Our first kiss was like, what, a day ago? And now you are asking/ telling me to marry you because life is too short?"
"Exactly. You are all I want in life, Jennifer." He says, being completely serious about what he wants.
"We're not getting married on that island, Christopher Sullivan." She smiles, causing him to smile too.
"The hell we aren't, Jennifer Mance-Sullivan." He gives her a passionate kiss.
