chapter two

the addiction

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"DO YOU HAVE to be so loud?" Cordelia groaned at Jess as she slammed a draw shut, the older Moore placed a hand on her head dramatically, folding the covers over to hide her face.

"Not my fault you feel like shit, Cordy," Jess smirked coyly in Cordelia's direction.

"Not my fault . . . " Cordelia mocked her cousin in a high pitched voice. "It is your fault, asshat, you're the one who kept giving me drinks."

"And you're the one who took them," Jess rolled her eyes at the childish behaviour and began to throw her cousin some clothes. "Get dressed we have class."

"No we don't, it's Saturday," Cordelia huffed, throwing the covers off of her face eccentrically, dropping her hands down besides her.

    Jess looked over at her with squinted eyes, pulling a face. "It's Friday."

"What the fuck?" Cordelia shot up, hair flailing about and sticking up in places it definitely shouldn't be. "Since when?"

"I'm kidding," Jess laughed, earning a sarcastic, dry laugh from Cordelia in response. "You wouldn't have moved if I asked you to, we're going out for lunch get dressed."

"Asshole. It's too early for this behaviour," Cordelia sighed, flopping back down onto the bed, hand resting on her head.

"It's two PM you lazy shit, get up." Jess wouldn't take no for an answer, picking up one of Cordelia's heels from the floor, she chucked it at her.

"Ow! That's fucking abuse-!"

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"Wait, so, Sammy's where?" Cordelia asked as she pushed the sunglasses up her nose, taking a bite of her burger.

"With his brother Dean," Jess answered. Cordelia thought for a moment, the name sounding familiar. "Family stuff." She shrugged.

"Is he hot?" Cordelia smirked as she popped a fry in her mouth.

"Who? Dean?" Jess scrunched up her nose. "Not my type — you, however, definitely your type. Think Carter, but with lighter hair." Jess didn't want to bash her cousin or anything but she was a bit of a whore, Cordelia was known around the University for sleeping with everyone, and I mean, literally everyone. But she had no shame about it, she claimed it was good for her health ... and her sanity.

"Hm," Cordelia smirked. "Do you happen to know whether or not we'll be seeing this Dean again?"

"Oh God," Jess sighed, pinching her nose between her fingers. "You can't sleep with him, Cordy."

"Why not?" Cordelia frowned, snatching a cucumber slice from Jess' salad.

"Because he's Sam's brother," Jess told her slowly, as though it was obvious.

"Okay? ... " Cordelia frowned before she rose her brows. "Yeah, no ... I'm not seeing the problem here. He's hot, I'm hot, equals; hot sex."

"First of all, ew. Second of all, it's weird," Jess told her, swatting her hand as she tried to grab another cucumber slice.

Cordelia rolled her eyes, taking a sip of her beer, "Did you at least get his number?"

"Did I — no! What the fuck?" Jess shook her head with a loud sigh. "No, I did not."

"Shame," Cordelia sighed, tipping back her head as she let the liquid slide down her throat.

Jess pulled a face, taking a sip of her wine, "I don't know how you can drink that."

    "It's better than that shit you're drinking," Cordelia told her, snatching the drink from her cousin's hand and taking a sip.

    "Hey! — Drink your own," Jess stole the wine back. "You're just like Uncle Ed, all whiskey and beer. You have no taste, Cordelia."

    "Please don't ever compare me to him," Cordelia pulled a face. "And I most certainly have taste." Cordelia spoke as she let her eyes follow after a redhead who walked passed their table, she sighed. She was hot. The Moore girl held her hand out as a waiter walked towards them.

    The waiter stopped by the table, a polite smile on his lips as his hands clasped behind his back, "Can I help you ma'am?"

    Ma'am? Cordelia scrunched her face up, she was twenty five not fifty. "Uh — yeah. Can I get a whiskey please? On the rocks."

    "Of course."

    Jess smiled as the waiter walked away, before she turned back to her cousin with a deadpanned stare. "Seriously?"

    "We should go out tonight," Cordelia told her with a smirk, ignoring Jess' words as she sipped the complimentary wine that sat between herself and Jess. What? She was thirsty and she drank all of her beer.

    "We went out yesterday," Jess reminded her cousin with raised brows.

    "No — I went out yesterday," Cordelia corrected her. "You and Sam, being the boring little shits you are, left early. I would barely count that as a night out."

    "Well, I can't," Jess told her with a sigh. "Sam's supposed to be coming back tomorrow and I need to help him get ready for his interview."

    "Boringgg," Cordelia sang with a loud sigh, placing her chin her palm. "I'll just take Brady then."

     "You do that," Jess nodded her head as she picked at her salad.

     They ate in silence as Cordelia's eyes began to wander, she looked through the glass windows, and her eyes caught sight of the ambulance and police cars outside a house across the street. She watched as people carried a covered stretcher to the back of the ambulance. "What do you think happened?-"

    "Cordelia, no," Jess interrupted with a scolding glare.

     "I'm not a dog." The older girl raised her hands in surrender. "I'm just asking."

    "Yeah — and asking leads to getting involved," Jess sighed in irritation. "The whole point of you going to Uni was to get you out of the business."

    "Yeah, I know, but-"

    "No, buts," Jess told her, raising a hand. "Y'know if you get dragged back into that life you won't want to leave it."

    "That's not true," Cordelia defended.

She lied, it was true.

    "Yeah it is and you know it," Jess looked over at the house. "Anyway it might not even be anything like that."

    "Might. So what if it is?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows, looking at her cousin expectantly. "You expect me to just leave it?"

  "Cordelia-"

  "You make it sound like it's an addiction," Cordelia rolled her eyes at her cousin.

    "Because it is!"

    Cordelia pursed her lips, Jess wasn't lying. It was quite addictive. The thrill of saving people, the fight. Cordelia hadn't been in the hunting business for a while and as much as she hated to admit, she began to miss it. Growing up it was kind of forced on her. From a young age her parents both made sure their only daughter got in the family business, Jess' parents, on the other hand, wanted Jessica as far away from the supernatural world as possible.

   After seeing how Edward, Cordelia's dad, had forced the business on her, Jess' father took her in — he put her through University with Jess. Though for the few years she'd been there, there was an itch. An itch to get back into the business, school was foreign to her, but hunting, hunting she knew. Jess knew it too, but not like Cordelia. Jess knew how to protect herself if she had to, she knew how to use a gun and what to use on certain things. But it didn't mean she did. Her parent kept her away from it, so she was free of it, sorta'.

   "Come on!" Cordelia whined. "I'm bored, can't I just check it out? Just read into it a little?"

    "No."

   "Why not?"

   "It could just be a serial killer, Cordy," Jess shrugged dismissively.

   "Yeah — no." Cordelia shook her head with a grimace. "Round here? You're joking, right?"

   "It could happen. There's been loads of serial killers in California, Cordy. Look," Jess sighed upon the eye roll she received from her cousin. "I'm just looking out for you, okay? If anyone hears that you're back in the business, they'll go straight to your dad."

    Cordelia pursed her lips.

    "Do you really want Uncle Ed hearing that? After all you've done to prove him wrong, showing him that there is a life outside of hunting?"

    "No," Cordelia pouted in annoyance. Jess was right, again. Of course.

    "Exactly," Jess smirked smugly, pointing her fork in her cousin's face.

    "Fuck off," Cordelia mumbled, swatting away the fork with her hand, merely smiling at the annoyed look Jess shot her as lettuce spilled from her fork and onto the floor.

     "That one's on you, sunshine."

AUTHOR' S NOTE !
this one took longer bc I had to rewrite the entire thing as it's already been published but I didn't like how it was written when I first wrote it smh

anyway this was just a little filler, next chapter I think is when Jess goes poof 🔥

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