Alphabet Soup II (Part 4/8)
Title: Alphabet Soup II (Part 4/8)
Characters: Kate, Jack, Kate/Jack
Summary: A series of drabbles. Jack/Kate. Post The End. Set in the Afterlife-verse
AN: not my best chapter. Sorry :[
Kiss
Her taste still lingers on his lips, hers being the last thing his mortal body tasted. He licks his lips and tastes the sweetness of her full lips as they merged with the salty tears that streamed down her cheeks. And as they walk hand in hand out of the church and into the light, this is all he can think of.
He watches Charlie and Claire move ahead of them, making their way to discover the place they are led to. He stops in his tracks and waits for her to stop too. Her hand still in his she turns to ask him why they’d stop. He just smiles, and she steps towards him.
He wants to crash his lips to hers, make up for all the lost time, to bring the taste of her that lingers on his lips back to life. But when she looks up at him, her green eyes shining into his, he knows he wants to make it last, savor their first kiss. And so, he steps forward, bringing his fingers to brush against her cheek, her jaw, his thumb carefully tracing her bottom lip. He slowly lift her chin up and brings his head down.
And he makes it last.
Love
The last time she told him she loves him; she had to watch him walk away. And although he said it back (and the way he said it kept on resonating in her ears until the day she died), there is a fear in her that one day she will say it and he won’t say anything back.
He never gives her a chance to test the theory though. He is always the first to say it. She breathes a sigh of relief and says it back.
He doesn’t let her know why he always has to say it first though. Just like her, he has his own fear that if she says it first he won’t be able to reply. However, it is not because he thinks he might stop loving her one day (no, the way he sees it, his love for her can only grow from day to day), his fear is something else. Every time she tells him she loves him, she leaves him speechless, and he is afraid, someday, it will take his breath away and really leave him speechless. And not telling her he loves her scares him more than anything. SO he always says I love you first.
Muffin
He cannot help cracking up when Kate pops her head into the room and states, plainly, James just invited us over for brunch.
The thought of Sawyer inviting him over for brunch just seems a little too surreal and as they make their way over to the Ford’s household, Kate has to poke her elbow into his side to make him stop with the comments. He apologizes and stifles a giggle, avoiding her playful glare.
They step into the house, and the smell is mouthwatering. You cooked? He teases James and gets an eye roll from James and Kate for his joke.
After a few minutes, James invites Jack to a game of poker, I gotta win my mangoes back, he says jokingly.
Kate leaves the boys to their games (she had enough of their competitiveness to last her a couple of eternities) and makes her way to where the cooking is happening. She find Juliet in kitchen, bending to get a tray of muffins out of the oven.
Everything looks amazing, she says, getting Juliet’s attention. The other woman smiles and walks over to embrace her friend. So glad you guys could make it.
Do you need any help? Kate asks, and Juliet, shakes her, everything’s done, she says, taking off her oven gloves to reveal a shiny ring on her finger, one that Kate remembers watching drown to the bottom of the ocean. Juliet sees the look on Kate’s face and smiles twirling it slightly around her finger.
She falls back a bit when the other woman launches herself at her and pulls her into a crushing hug, Congratulations! Kate whispers, as tears of joy well up in her eyes.