(Ekko was willing to take the chance, after all he knew his way out of a sticky situation. And there was never a day he couldn't make the most of in one way of another. She was the unexpected, and for most that meant problematic, for Ekko it was the variable to keep things fresh, to keep them exciting. Jinx was a person not a bad penny to be discarded, not that any of them had a cent to lose.

He was sturdier than he was as a kid, no longer frightened, no longer hiding. And she could squeeze as tightly as she wanted because he wouldn't cry out or call for mercy. As she held on he began to move a bit, a slow rhythm as he started singing the song from earlier in the night. What would not be their song.)