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Started December 23, 2019 by @PrettyLittlePyro

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(TL;DR for a quick catch up, the two (Joanna and Arsen) were assigned a mission to kill,,, someone, I don't really remember who. But he's a part of the other order, and shall i say, the good one. The two are on the wrong side, and have had their memories erased up until right now. The two have memories flooding back, starting with meeting in elementary school, at the zoo. From there to admitting she liked him in the forest, to now which is the night of the proposal gone wrong. They're meeting up with his sister, and her husband. Luna got a call from someone from the System, and now they're all a little worried, bc they don't know why. And now the four of them all have to go meet the System)

"Probably not, no," Luna said, shaking her head. Her tone was unsure, but she sent Arsen and Joanna a shaky smile. "We'll be fine. I'm sure they're just promoting us or something."
He didn't believe her, but he didn't push it. Something in his older sister's expression made him think that there was something bad going on here, something that put her in enough stress to make her not want to leave. But even if he asked, she wouldn't tell him. She would protect him. Like always.
"Probably," Arsen agreed. He took Joanna's arm, smiled down at her, and motioned to the door. "Shall we go, then? We can't have them waiting."

"I guess we should." Joanna smiled softly, twinning her fingers with his. She waved at Jake and Luna with an uneasy smile, calling out after them.
"See you in a few!"
When the two made it to his car once again, and she had slid into her seat, she turned to look at him with fidgety fingers. "Should we be worried? I… she's your sister- and I hate to expect the worst, but she wasn't lying was she?" Joanna ask, voice not seeming to carry its usual sureness.

"I don't think your sister is a liar, if that's what that sounds like…. she just seemed too nervous for her to believe it was nothing. I've got this really bad feeling, and I just can't chase it."

(That was the most beautiful recap I've ever seen. I applaud you.)

"I agree with you," Arsen said, a frown on his face. Normally, he wouldn't worry about something like this - it was Luna, and she could take care of herself very well - but this was the System. Something strange was going on in this organization that he didn't like. He knew that his sister was less than fond of the group, but she wasn't going to do anything rash, right? The System was everywhere. You couldn't do something against them and escape their notice easily.
He sighed and shrugged, opening Joanna's door for her. "I'll check on her later. It'll be okay. I promise."
Not that he could realistically promise that.

As he sat down on the driver's seat, he felt the square-shaped bump in his pocket. He reached in, felt the velvet case, and chewed his lip, debating to himself. Was this really the best time to ask her? He thought that he would know the perfect timing for the proposal, but… well, he was starting to doubt it.
Just do it now, he told himself.
He reached into his pocket again, to take out the ring box. Just as he brought it out, a bang shook the vehicle, and it flew from his fingers into the back seat.
Confused, and more than a little frightened, Arsen looked outside the car, and froze.
Masked agents surrounded the car, guns pointing straight at the two figures inside. They were trapped.

(Loll, nahhh, but thanks haha)

"Alright… thank you." She whispered, chewing on the inside of her cheek to try and hide her nerves better. With the promise, she slumped in her seat, closing her eyes to try and brush the nerves away. She knew he couldn't promise it, but it did help having him say it. Maybe then she could let it go, and try and enjoy the rest of the night. Maybe the two of them could-

Joanna screamed.
Heart pounding, thoughts rushing a mile a minute, she lost all sense of herself. "What's happening?" She asked with a whisper of a voice. She couldn't think, and she couldn't process. Everything seemed so surreal, and she couldn't figure out who they were.
When the realization hit, her stomach dropped to the floor. That was the System's mark… and they were on the other end of their aim.
"What do we do?" She barely managed to get out, eyes wide with fear. She kept her gaze transfixed dead ahead, not daring to move so much as an inch. She even held her breath, forcing her hands to stop shaking with clenched fists.

Arsen was frozen, staring at the agents outside. He couldn't help but notice the barrel of a gun pointed straight at his heart. And from this distance, he knew it wouldn't miss. He felt cold sweat crop up on his skin, and a flare of blue energy danced around his fingertips before he stopped it. There wasn't anything he could do.
"Just do what they want, I think," he said quietly, moving a hand to rest reassuringly on her arm.
"Get out of the vehicle slowly, hands where we can see them!" Came the shout. Arsen glanced at his girlfriend, then slowly unbuckled his seatbelt and opened the door, climbing out of the car carefully. He didn't let any of the fear he was feeling show on his face.
One of the men prodded him with a gun to the back, and he barely hid a wince. It had hit him right in the spine. "It'll be okay, Joanna," he said soothingly. "I promise."
"No talking!" One of the agents said, rewarding him with a kick to the knee. This time, he buckled and almost fell, before catching himself.

Joanna's hand relaxed at the touch of her lover, but it was still shaking a bit. When Arsen had unbuckled, she copied him, putting her hands up in the air as she reached for the handle to get out of the car. She tried to be as brave as he seemed, but her heart was pounding, and she couldn't push all of her intrusive thoughts away. Tears even began to whelm in her eyes, as she finally made it to Arsen's side once again.
She tried to take his words to heart, but they were washed away the second his knee buckled. A squeak barely escaped her lips, anger starting to boil deep within. She wanted to reach out to him, wanted to grab him and run far, far away from this awful scene, but she didn't move more than they made her.

Biting hard on her lip, she weighed the option to use her ability to get them out of this situation. She wasn't sure she was strong enough to hold it for long enough for them to disappear, or if she'd even be able to enchant the right amount of people. There were at least thirty of them standing around them. And the more she thought about it, she realized that Luna and Jake might be going through the same thing. Meaning she would have to find them, and get them out too. If it wasn't already too late for that.
Panic had started to settle, rippling any calm on her face to show the fear in her eyes. Her shoulders were trembling, as the full situation started to settle in her head. There was no getting out of this- not with everyone still alive.

Arsen was resigned to his fate. Or, at least, that's what it felt like. He knew there was nothing he could do to get out of this situation without hurting people. And besides, the men here were probably well-versed on the capabilities of his and Joanna's. They wouldn't come here unprepared.
His eyes slid to his girlfriend. Her shoulders were trembling, and she was biting her lip in an effort to, most likely, not use her powers. He could understand that. He saw the fight in her eyes, the anger, and he couldn't help but smile, even though he would probably regret it.
"Come with us," came the voice from one of the men surrounding them.
It's not like we can do anything else, Arsen thought with the barest trace of amusement. Still holding his hands above his head, he obeyed the prodding of the gun at his back, into a large vehicle that had been parked just out of sight.
It would be okay. Right?
And then they pulled Joanna away and into another vehicle. Separating them.
That's when Arsen started to fight. They couldn't take Joanna! Energy exploded from his fingers, winding through the men around him and sucking the life force from them. His eyes glowed blue-green, and he tried to make his way to his girlfriend.
A stinging pain suddenly hit his neck, and his power died. His legs felt wobbly, and he fell backward, the world going dark.
They expected me to fight, was his last thought.