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Finding Home ~ Chpt 11

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AN: Thank you so much for all the love this story has received! We're not near the end yet, a few more things gotta happen before that but we are getting close! I hope you enjoy this update. Just so you know this one does kinda push towards that teen rating but it's nothing you haven't seen on screen in a say PG-13 movie before. Happy reading!

Katherine went to go close her door. She had a few hours to freshen up before heading to the art gallery opening. Her hand met air though. Confused, Katherine turned around to actually face her doorway when she noticed that her bedroom door was missing. “What happened to my door?!” She yelled.

Jack poked his head out from his room, her shout loud enough to be heard over the music he was playing. “Well, it certainly does look like you’re missing a door.”

She gave him an exasperated look. “How did you not notice it before?”

He came out into the hallway with a smirk. “Believe it or not, princess, I don’t pay attention to your room all the time.”

“Ugh, you’re no help to me.” She groaned, going out into the living room to interrogate the two boys sitting on the couch.

Jack just rolled her eyes and followed her out there, even walking faster so he could get there first. “Alright, boys. What happened to Katherine’s door?”

Romeo paused the movie and looked up at his roommates. Charlie sighed, looking over to the two. “Those who aren’t liars get to keep their doors.” The blonde said.

Katherine looked over at Charlie in disbelief. “This is all because I didn’t tell you guys I was a Pulitzer? Well welcome to the family.”

The boys all looked at her in confusion. She rolled her eyes before explaining. “My father took my door away because I slammed it one too many times but he was the one that kept upsetting me.”

“Now it’s because you lied to us.” Charlie said.

“I’m not the only one who keeps secrets.” She threw back before storming off but not before she saw Charlie’s brief terrified look casted her way. Before going to her room, she slammed Jack’s door before softly opening it again and going into her room.

“Hey…” Jack dragged out the sound as he hurried to check to make sure nothing fell off his walls.

Romeo looked over to Charlie. “Are you sure that was smart, pissing her off? Darcy’s told me horror stories.”

Charlie sighed. “You mean you aren’t even a little bit mad?”

The other boy shook his head. “I know her father’s an ass and treated Jack wrong but she’s nothing like her old man. I mean she’s here because she wants nothing to do with him, right? We all need fresh starts and second chances.”

“I guess you’re right.” Charlie groaned. “You gonna listen to your own advice?”

“Too soon, Charlie, too soon!” Romeo said with a bit of a laugh.

Once he knew everything was fine, Jack made his way over to Katherine’s room. She was face down in one of her pillows, sprawled out on her bed. Chuckling, Jack sat down next to her. “So because you don’t have a door, you had to slam mine?”

She nodded her head. “It wouldn’t have been a dramatic exit without it.” She mumbled into her pillow.

That made Jack laugh. “What like accusing people that they all were keeping things secret wasn’t dramatic enough for ya?”

She shook her head. After a few moments of silence between the two, Jack sighed. “I’m sorry for Charlie overreacting. We’re real protective of each other and well your pops isn’t one of our most favored people.”

“Mine either.” She mumbled.

Jack looked down at her with a small smile and moved some hair from out of her face. His smile grew when he could properly see her features. “I know, ace. I’ll try to persuade him to give ya your door back.”

She smiled back up at him. “What are you wearing tonight?”

He placed a hand over his heart. “You don’t trust my fashion choices?”

“You’ve had some bad ones. I kinda need to make sure I keep getting assignments.” She teased him.

“That hurts, ace, that hurts.” He laughed a bit. “What are you wearing tonight?”

“Probably just one of my black dresses. It’s nothing too fancy but it’s a step up from business casual.” That got her a blank stare from him. “Oh, my god let go find you something.” She sat up and got off her bed before going into his room.

She was standing in front of his closet when he joined her. She shifted through his pants and tossed a pair of gray slacks on his bed. She moved onto his shirts and found a red and gray plaid button down. She then grabbed a gray striped tie and some gray shoes. Once her hunt was done, she smiled over at Jack. “There you go.”

He groaned. “I gotta wear a tie?”

“The tie and shoes are what dresses it up a bit more. Or I suppose you could forget the tie and wear your gray blazer.”

Jack sighed. “I guess tie it is since the blazer’s dirty.”

“Well, then there you go. We’ve got to leave in a few hours.”

A few hours later, the two reappeared and smiled at each other. They met in the middle of the hallway and Katherine adjusted his tie. “I swear I have to fix this every time before we go out.”

He smirked down at her as he stuffed his hands in his pockets to keep from touching her. “Maybe it’s so I can get you close.”

She looked up at him, hands still on his tie. Something stirred inside them both as they locked eyes. She had this flash of an image of her pulling him down to her with his tie but Romeo’s voice broke the spell. “Get a room you two.”

At the sound of Romeo’s voice, the pair jumped apart. Katherine cleared her throat and smoothed down her dress. “C’mon Jack we’re gonna be late.” She walked off, not even acknowledging Romeo.

Jack did the complete opposite. As he passed by his friend, he stared him down before following Katherine out of the apartment. When the door closed, Romeo began laughing. Charlie rolled his eyes as he kept flipping through Netflix to find the next thing they were going to watch. “You wanna take a bet about if it happens tonight or not?”

“No. Because I know it’s not.”

“Then I think we have ourselves a bet because I think it is. Ever since they made up after whatever happened at Davey’s wedding they’ve been close. It’s only a matter of time before they give in.” Romeo couldn’t believe that Charlie didn’t see it.

“Me knowing that I proved you right will be plenty victory enough for me.” Charlie just grinned.

“Ah, whatever.” Romeo waved his hand as he made his way into the kitchen. “Whatcha in the mood for tonight?” He asked, pulling open the drawer that held their take out menus.

Katherine stared at the painting. Her head tilted as she tried to determine what was on the canvas. Jack came up beside her, handing her a glass of champagne. “Please tell me you’re not going to give them a good review.” He whispered in her ear.

She tried so hard to not let his closeness get to her. That was beginning to get harder and harder as time went on. “I’m going to give them a fair review.” She replied, taking a sip of her drink.

“Oh, c’mon, Kath, you don’t even know what that’s supposed to be and none of these pieces have any emotion behind them.” He pointed to the painting they were currently standing in front of. “How is this supposed to be a showcase on emotions when there’s no feeling behind them?”

She turned to look at him. “Maybe that’s the point? You’re feeling something now aren’t you?”

His eyes drifted down to her lips. It would be so easy. They were already standing so close to one another so no one else would be able to hear their actual thoughts on the gallery. “The only reason I’m feeling anything is because of the person standing in front of me.”

Katherine snickered. “Is that the best you’ve got?” She took a step back, finishing off her champagne. “You’re gonna have to do better than that.” She then walked off to the next area of the gallery.

Jack stared after her, groaning a bit as he slid to a slight crouch before following her. This woman was going to be the death of him. He walked up behind her and placed his chin on her shoulder. “Don’t you have enough for your article already?”

She rolled her eyes. “I don’t know why I keep bringing you to these things.”

“Because you would be bored to death without me.” He stood up straight as he smirked at her.

“I highly doubt that.” She teased him back.

“Oh, so it’s like that, huh?” He feigned offense before getting an idea. “Then I bet you one kiss, and I mean an actual kiss, not one on the cheek or whatever other loophole you’ll be able to find, that you won’t be able to make it through the rest of this event without me.”

Never one to back down from a challenge, she stuck out her hand for them to shake on it. Jack grinned before bringing his hand up to spit on it. Katherine internally groaned but copied his actions before shaking his hand. “Have fun, princess. See you in five minutes.” He smirked before heading out of the gallery.

With him now gone, Katherine sighed before looking at the program for the evening’s festivities. They were wrapping up on the viewing and now she just had to sit through the speeches. She could do that.

She indeed could not do it. The artist droned on and it was clear that the reason the art didn’t have any feeling behind them was because the artist didn’t have any personality. She tried so hard to make it through. Ten minutes in she couldn’t take it anymore and slipped out. Standing in the alley way, she checked her phone to see where Jack went. She saw the time instead and wondered if she could really go back in there for thirty more minutes.

Fuck it. Katherine thought as she read where Jack had gone. Sarah hadn’t been mentioned in months. He had started to flirt with her. She couldn’t keep lying to herself. Stupid bet be damned. She would kiss that stupid smirk right off his face.

Katherine walked to the bar at the end of the block. Once inside she looked around for Jack, finding him sitting at the end of the bar with his back to her. Perfect. She went up behind him and tapped his shoulder. He turned around and before he could get a teasing word, let alone a smirk out, she pulled him down to her, kissing him.

As soon as their lips met, a fire ignited between them. Jack grabbed at her waist and pulled her in close. Her back arched ever so slightly from the height difference of him sitting on the bar stool and her standing on the floor. One of her hands crept up into his hair as the other stayed grasping his shirt.

“I was beginning to think that I was wrong.” He said in between the wet kisses he left along her neck.

“Have to keep your ego in check somehow.” She teased as she tugged on his hair a bit. “The artist was as dull as his paintings.” She further explained before nipping at his earlobe and kissing his neck. “Now take me home.”

He smirked down at her before giving her one last kiss. “Yes, m’am.” He then took her hand and pulled her out of the restaurant.

They couldn’t keep their hands off of each other. In the taxi, fingers were tangled in hair as lips locked. In the elevator, shirts were untucked and skirts were pushed up. Once they finally made it inside the loft, Jack pressed Katherine against the door. Working on leaving a small bruise on her neck, his hands made their way down to the back of her thighs. “Jump.” He ordered in between kisses.

Managing a small hop, Katherine locked her legs around his waist. She then pulled his head back to her and kissed him. He squeezed her legs, doing his best to navigate to his room while she kissed and sucked along his neck.

With the sound of the bedroom door closing, Charlie and Romeo slowly sat back up from where they lowered themselves to hide from their preoccupied roommates. Romeo smirked over at Charlie. “Guess you’re glad you really didn’t take that bet after all, huh?”

Charlie threw a pillow at Romeo. “Oh, shut up.”

“You think you can lighten up on her? She seems to make him really happy.” Romeo’s statement was accented by the laughter that came from Jack’s bedroom.

The slightly older boy sighed, leaning his head against the back of the couch. “Yeah, I guess so. She really hasn’t been all that bad.”

Romeo smiled. “That’s the spirit. Maybe we can give her, her door back?”

Charlie nodded. “Yeah, but I’m not going near that hallway until they’ve for sure fallen asleep.” His comment was accented by a moan.

The younger of the two shook his head. “Yeah, not going anywhere near there. So what we watching?” He scrolled through his queue and randomly selected one of the tv shows he’s been meaning to watch so they would have something to binge for however long their two roommates would be at it.

Katherine groaned as something came in contact with her breast. It wasn’t a good feeling. It felt more like someone had punched her. Then she heard the murmurs coming from next to her. She opened her eyes and saw Jack squirming in bed, an arm stretched out where he had in fact hit her in his sleep. It seemed like his nightmare was just beginning and she hoped that was the case.

Sitting up, she wrapped the shirt of his around her. Just before she could try and wake him, the screaming started. She began to run her fingers through his hair, allowing her legs to take any hits from him thrashing about. “Jack, wake up for me. It’s just a dream. Wake up. You’re safe. I’m safe.” She remained calm as if she had been doing this for years. She kept repeating the soothing words to try and get him to wake up.

Slowly but surely, the thrashing stopped, the shouts turned to murmurs, and Jack opened his eyes. He blinked a few times to orient himself back into reality, all the while Katherine continued playing with his hair. Jack turned on his side and looked up at her with his arms open wide. She smiled down at him and slid back down onto the bed and nestled herself against him.

She wrapped her arms around his torso just as he wrapped his arms around hers. His hands slipped under his shirt she was wearing, hands splayed along her back as he brought her as close to him as he possibly could. The warmth and feel of her skin against his made him want to stay like that forever. He buried his head against her neck, placing a few light kisses there. “This is so much better than waking up to the boys.” He mumbled against her skin.

That made her laugh. “Yeah, I don’t know what I’d do if Tony was the first face I saw after a bad dream.”

Jack chuckled. “I’m telling him you said that.”

She gasped. “Don’t you dare. I won’t hear the end of it for weeks.”

Katherine felt him smile against her neck. She placed a kiss to his hair and began to rub his back. After she took care of Robin Hood, she was planning on going after Snyder next. She didn’t want him anywhere near the loft, her, or Jack, ever again.

“Katherine? We’re gonna be more than like friends with benefits, right?” He whispered, still from the comfort of hiding his face in her neck.

“I’d hope you’d treat your ace a little better than that.”

He pulled back to look at her face. He really couldn’t believe what she had just said. “My ace?” He asked, looking at her in awe.

She nodded, a soft smile playing at her lips. “Yes, your ace. I’d follow you anywhere, Jack Kelly.”

Jack grinned before leaning down and kissing her. “Lunch is on me on Monday.” He whispered against her lips.

“You’re gonna make me wait until Monday to go on a real date with you?” She teased him.

He just smirked. “Mmhmm, I’m planning on keeping you in here with me for the rest of the day.”

“I think that’s something I can live with.” She pulled him in for a deep, passionate kiss. They didn’t deviate from his plan at all much to the dismay of their roommates.

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