Before The Separation

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They'd finally been caught. Out of all the things Jasper and Monty had gotten up to on the Ark, all the little laws they'd broken, they'd finally been caught. Because Monty had forgotten to replace the little bit of medicinal marijuana they'd stolen. Jasper was a little annoyed by that, but that wasn't what he was worried about right now. 

Did their parents know yet that they'd been arrested? Where was Monty right now? The guard had separated them when they processed them for the Skybox, and Jasper had been put in a cell alone. It had two beds, so Jasper knew it was meant to hold two people, but would they put Monty with him? When was he going to see Monty again? Did they let the kids in the Skybox socialize ever?

His heart was racing as he paced the cell, scrubbing his hand through his hair and wishing he had weed right now, ironically. He wasn't sure how long he'd paced when the cell door opened. When he looked over and saw Monty, he ran over and wrapped his arms tightly around his best friend. "Monty!"

They stumbled a few feet into the cell when the guard apparently pushed Monty in further so he could close the door, but Jasper just clung to Monty. "I was so worried I wasn't going to see you again!"

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[Monty Green]

Monty was internally kicking himself, how could he be so stupid. They'd 'borrowed' those herbs dozens of times, the key to them not getting caught was that they always replaced what they took. Not this time though. He'd been distracted, it was a simple mistake but this mistake had gotten both himself and Jasper arrested. He could almost forgive himself for screwing up, everyone screwed up, everyone made mistakes but when his mistakes brought harm to his best friend, he didn't think he'd be able to forgive himself for that.

He didn't even know where Jasper was, they'd been separated and Monty doubted that he'd ever see the boy that he called his brother ever again. He was being escorted by two guards to the skybox where he'd stay until he reached the age of eighteen and Monty wasn't looking forward to the amount of free time he'd have alone without Jasper by his side. He couldn't help but think about what his parents would be thinking, what they would be feeling. They'd always been so vocal about how proud they were of him, would they be proud of him now? He'd stolen, he'd been using illegal substances and he'd gotten caught doing it. No, they probably hated him. He swallowed back the lump that had formed in his throat at the thought.

The guards stopped in front of cell and opened the door before waiting for Monty to enter, the boy looked back at them one last time before shuffling into the cell. He hadn't even had a chance to look around properly before he felt a body slam into him which sent him stumbling backwards a couple of steps "Monty!" his whole body relaxed as he heard Jasper's familiar voice and felt his arms wrap comfortingly around him. It only took him a second of hesitation before his own arms wrapped around his friend and clung to him as if he were his life line.

Feeling somebody roughly shove him forwards, he allowed himself to stumble further into the cell, still clinging to Jasper "I'm sorry" he muttered into Jasper's shoulder, feeling the need to apologise immediately to his friend. He was the one that had landed them both in this mess in the first place. He still felt slightly numb to everything that had happened, it hadn't fully started to sink in yet that he'd possibly be spending the rest of his life in a cell, but if that was to be his fate then at least he'd be spending the rest of his time with Jasper. His stay wouldn't be nearly as lonely as he'd originally anticipated it to be.

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"You should be," Jasper said automatically, but he just squeezed Monty even tighter as he said it, pressing the side of his face to Monty's hair. He immediately followed those words with, "I'm so glad you're here. I was starting to panic." Monty had always been able to ground Jasper when he felt out of sorts. It was like Monty had some had some magic power that Jasper didn't dare question.

He was probably squeezing the breath out of his friend. He pulled back, but didn't break contact, gripping Monty's shoulders as he met his eyes. "Do our parents know yet? Did they tell you anything? Can we see them? Do we get visitation?" he blurted, not giving Monty a chance to answer before starting the next question.

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[Monty Green]

Monty let out a small chuckle at Jasper's words and he could feel his friends grip tightening around him and he let out a choked sound "Friends don't crush friends... Jasper" he muttered, but the smile on his face didn't disappear. He was too relieved to stop smiling, they hadn't been separated after all. "You were worried?" he asked, his smile turning playful as he heard his friend tell him that he'd been beginning to panic. It sounded just like Jasper to panic, Monty was often the most calm out of the two even in the most severe of situations.

Monty was somewhat relieved when Jasper held him at arms length and stopped trying to squeeze the life out of him but that relief was short lived as he began to throw questions at him. Questions that he had no answers for "Jasper, slow down! I know just as much as you do!" he understood that his friend was scared, but he didn't know why he was asking all of these questions, as if he thought that Monty knew something that he didn't. "I don't know whether to hope for visitation or not" he muttered, knowing that facing his parents after they'd pulled this would be almost impossible. He could just see the look of disappointment on their faces now and he didn't know if he wanted to see that. They'd never been disappointed in him before.

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Jasper wasn't sure how Monty managed a smile right now, but he had to admit that it relaxed Jasper a bit. He tried to smile back as he nodded in response to Monty questioning that he was worried, but it didn't feel like it worked out on his face.

When Monty told him to slow down, Jasper nodded and drew a deep breath, closing his eyes for a minute. Monty was here. He could be calm. He could be calm because Monty was here, and they could get through this together. "I thought maybe you'd asked more questions than me. I sort of froze up," Jasper said finally, opening his eyes again. he let out a heavy breath, thinking about their parents and what they would even say to them if they got visitation. "On the bright side, our parents can't ground us," Jasper said, a little sarcasm in his voice.

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[Monty Green]

"No, sorry... I didn't ask" Monty muttered, apologising for the second time since entering the cell "I didn't think to ask, I didn't know if they'd answer my questions anyway" they were just common thieves to the people on the guard, they didn't matter, their questions didn't matter. It didn't matter that Monty had been pursuing a career in engineering or he'd never gotten so much as a verbal warning from a guard until today. They were all criminals, they were probably viewed the same as murderers now that they'd been put in the skybox.

Monty pulled away from Jasper and crossed over to one of the beds before sitting down heavily and letting out a sigh. His head fell forwards to rest in his hands and for a moment he was silent "That's not funny" he'd never really been grounded before, he'd annoyed his parents in the past, even made them angry on a few occasions but he'd never done anything bad enough for them to ground him. Or rather, he'd never done anything bad enough and gotten caught, this was definitely a first. "Do you think they hate us Jasper?" now that was a terrifying thought, what if their parents were so disgusted by their actions, so ashamed that they wanted nothing more to do with them? Monty wouldn't blame them, they'd broken the law, they didn't deserve the love of their parents.

Or maybe he was just overreacting, maybe everything would be fine. Anyway, it wasn't his place to freak out, that was Jasper's job. He was always the one that stayed calm and collected in situations such as these. But they wouldn't know their parents opinions until they got visitation, if they got visitation.

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Jasper wasn't sure he'd actually meant to be funny, but it didn't matter. He was just trying to cope with what was happening to them. He followed Monty over to the bed and sat next to him, close enough so that their sides were pressed together. He shook his head emphatically. "They can't hate us," he said firmly, as much to convince himself as Monty. "They're our parents. They'll be mad, but they won't hate us. They can't hate us."

He sat there another moment, trying to convince himself he was right about that, trying to push away the panic. He'd started getting into things he shouldn't have on the Ark because life confined in a floating tube in space had felt mind-numbing, boring, and confined. Now they were in a small cell, and they didn't know if they'd get let out. Jasper shifted to hug Monty's arm, resting his head on Monty's shoulder.

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[Monty Green]

Jasper's words did bring some comfort to Monty. He was probably right, no... Of course he was right, their parents couldn't hate them. Not after all the 'I love you's' that they'd told him, he figured that they couldn't just disown him. He was their only son and smoking a bit of weed wasn't exactly a major offense, he was a kid, he just wanted to have a bit of fun. It was just unfortunate that the counsel couldn't see it like that.

The smile reappeared on Monty's face as Jasper hugged his arm and leaned his head on his shoulder, but it was smaller than it had been before. He leaned into Jasper, bringing his arm to wrap around his back and hug him tighter. Whenever Jasper was around, he always managed to make Monty feel safe, he always managed to put a smile on his face again. Either with his jokes or by just being there when nobody else was. Without really thinking about it, Monty repositioned himself to wrap his arms around Jasper's waist and used the obvious difference in height to his advantage so that he could easily bury his face in Jasper's chest. Of course many people would not expect two friends to share such an intense hug, but Monty had no clue what boundaries were and he figured it would be a long time before anyone else offered to give him a hug, why not share one with Jasper, the boy who had been with him for as long as he could remember.

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When Monty repositioned himself and pressed his face to Jasper's chest, Jasper automatically wrapped his arms around Monty's shoulders. After a moment, he dropped his head so that his face was pressed to the top of Monty's head, breathing in the familiar scent of Monty's hair. He didn't feel happy in this moment, but he felt safe. Monty was his home when he was away from home. Jasper couldn't be more thankful the guard had at lest let them share a cell. He hoped it wasn't temporary.

Monty's hair tickled his nose after a moment, and he huffed a laugh, and lifted his head to scratch his face. When the itch subsided, he opted to rest his chin on the top of Monty's head this time, and found himself staring blankly at their cell door. After several steadying breaths, he half-jokingly murmured, "I don't think this is a lock I can pick, Monty." In fact, there wasn't any sign of the lock on the inside of the door at all. Not that they could really escape. There was nowhere to hide on the Ark, and trying to get out would add another charge to their rap sheet.

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[Monty Green]

As Jasper wrapped his arms around him, Monty heaved a sigh of contentment. It wasn't easy to relax in the cell that he figured would now be their home until they turned eighteen, but having Jasper by his side helped. He heard Jasper say something about being unable to pick the lock and he couldn't help but laugh "even if we did get out, where would we go?" it wasn't like there were a million places on the ark where they could hide comfortably without being found a couple of days later and brought back to the skybox.

"We're locked up but that doesn't mean we can't have fun, right?" he asked his friend as he pulled away from the hug to look at him, they were Jasper and Monty, they were practically the kings at finding ways to entertain themselves. Looking around there didn't seem to be anything that looked like it would give them a good source of entertainment, but they could make their own fun. They just had to keep their spirits up.

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It made Jasper smile faintly that Monty at least laughed this time at his attempt at lightening the mood a little, but he didn't bother answering where they would go. They both knew escape was impossible.

When Monty pulled back and suggested they could still have fun, Jasper glanced around the empty cell. "How?" he asked. The guard had to let them has some of their things. Isolation without stimulation was torture. They couldn't torture kids. Or maybe they didn't care. Maybe they were all just criminals. "We can't play 'fuck, marry, kill' or 'on which planet would you rather?' 24/7." The answer was always Earth in that game anyway.

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[Monty Green]

"Why not?" Monty asked with a smile, sure it would eventually get boring but they'd passed a lot of time in the past through the use of pointless games. Now, the days would eventually get dull, they'd run out of things to do, things to say. Did they even know what time it was, Monty had no way to tell what the time was, did they have a curfew whilst they were in the skybox? He supposed they did, but he wasn't sure at what time that would be.

There wasn't much else to do in the cell, unless they wanted to lie on their beds and stare at the ceiling all day and as appealing as that sounded, Monty had to give it a pass. "I think we've got a lot of time to kill, might as well try to have fun with it" he looked around the room briefly and then appeared to drift into thought for a couple of minutes. "Fuck, Marry, Kill... Albus Dumbledore, Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy" he muttered after a while with a smirk on his face "And no... Nothing you can say will stop me from bringing up Harry Potter characters at every opportunity"

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That actually made Jasper laugh. Monty had gotten better about the Harry Potter thing, but when they'd read the series together, Jasper had barely been able to make Monty shut up about it. "Well, kill Dumbledore, obviously. I don't want to fuck him, and you're going to fuck whoever you marry more than once."

He thought about his other choices for a moment, tapping his fingertip to his chin. "Fuck Hermione, because she's too high strung to put up with me long term. Marry Draco. Even though I'm not big on blondes." He grinned at Monty. "Your turn. And I'll stick with Harry Potter. Lupin, Snape, Hagrid."

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[Monty Green]

Monty was incredibly interested in Jasper's opinion when it came to Harry Potter characters and if he was completely honest, he wasn't impressed with his friends choice. "C'mon, if you're going to marry anyone out of those three, it'd be Dumbledore, if for no other reason than to take advantage of his wisdom, you wouldn't have to fuck him!" obviously Jasper was only interested in what each character had to offer him physically and considering Dumbledore was over one hundred years old, he didn't suppose he would be what Jasper was looking for in a partner.

As Jasper listed his own selection of Harry Potter characters, a look of disgust appeared on Monty's face "Now that's just harsh!" he chuckled, Jasper knew that he'd have a difficult time choosing between the three characters that he'd listed. "If I'm honest, I'd kill Hagrid because he's nice and everything but he's too tall and he'd make me seem like a dwarf!" there wasn't a massive height difference between himself and Jasper but it was still there and enough for his friend to crack some jokes about, he didn't need to be compared to Hagrid. "Umm... I'd fuck Snape, he's a total buzzkill and I wouldn't have the patience to keep him around, he'd ruin all of our fun and I'd marry Lupin because he's just great in every way possible! If you overlook the werewolf thing" he could talk for days about his decision but of course, Jasper wouldn't share his enthusiasm for Harry Potter characters and the last thing he wanted to do was bore his friend. "Fuck, Marry, Kill... Percy Weasley, Neville Longbottom and Cho Chang"

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Jasper made a face when Monty criticized his choice to kill Dumbledore. Apparently Monty wanted Jasper to have a sexless marriage to an old dude because he was 'wise'. Jasper thought Dumbledore was also manipulative. Even J.K. Rowling called him Machiavellian. Dumbledore couldn't be trusted. But apparently his best friend had a hard on for him, and Jasper did not want to open that can of worms again, so he just let Monty keep talking.

He listened to Monty's choices for the options he'd been given, and he couldn't really disagree with any of them, even if his own reasonings were different. "Jeez, taking a deep dive with those," Jasper said, when he was given a new set of characters. "Fuck Cho, marry Neville, and kill Percy." He grinned. "Now no more Harry Potter! Fuck, marry, kill: ummmm...." He took a few moments to think about his options, then said, "Batman, Superman, Catwoman."

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