Title: Nightmares, Please Go Away
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Jack and Janet
They got married after being set up by Larry and Terri who were tired of them moving around their feelings for each other. They dated for one year before Jack proposed and one year later they were married. They still live in apartment 201.
Larry and Terri
One night Larry treated Terri to dinner and that began a whole new relationship between them. After two years of dating Larry thought it was time to propose and Terri said 'Yes.' The wedding took place six months later and the two went to hawaii for their honeymoon.
Summary: Newlyweds, Jack and Janet are very happy together. Jack no longer pays rent to Mr. Angelino for the Bistro and Janet still works at the flower shop. What happens when Jack is still at work and Janet is home alone and gets raped. How will everyone cope.
Chapter 1:
"Jack!" a voice rang through apartment 201. "Jack!" the voice called again
Janet Tripper left her and Jack's bedroom wearing a yellow sun dress that went to her knees. The back was opened, but she had to get Jack to zip it up because she could not reach it. Janet saw that he was not in the living room so that meant that he was in the kitchen. She rushed into the kitchen and saw that Jack was making last minute preparations to the dinner they were having tonight. "Jack!" she said.
He jumped. "Hey Janet," he said as he turned around.
"Jack. I was calling you."
"I didn't hear you," he said as he wiped his hands on a dish towel. "What did you need?"
"Can you zip me up?" Janet asked. She turned around and Jack zipped the back of the dress. "Thank you. Is food done yet, because she'll be here in about 5 minutes, and I haven't even met her yet and I just-"
"Janet," he said. Jack placed his hands on his wife's cheeks. "Janet, Relax. Just relax. Everything will be okay."
"BUT what do you think she wants to talk to me about?"
"We'll just have to wait and see," Jack said. He gave her a quick kiss on the lips. "Everything will be okay."
"You're right," Janet smiled as she placed her hands on Jack's cheeks. She pulled him into a passionate but quick kiss.
Janet's boss at the flowershop died about a week after her wedding to Jack. They came home after their ten day honeymoon to the Carribean and found tat their were a bunch of messages on their answering machine. Most of them were telemarketers and a few were from a couple of their friends, who invited them to go to a few places once they came back. There was one message that caught their ears. It was on of Janet's friends that also work at the flowershop. She said that their boss had died of a heart attack five days after the wedding. Now three months later, his wife wanted to talk to Janet. The door bell rang and Janet rand. "She's here."
"You get the door and I'll get dinner on the table," Jack said.
"Okay," she said. Janet rushed over to the door and opened it to find a middle aged woman with red hair standing at the door. "Hi, you must be Mrs. Johnson." They shook hands as Janet moved aside and let Ms. Johnson in.
"And you are Mrs. Tripper I presume," she said.
"Yes," Janet said. Just then Jack came out of the kitchen holding a tray with a whole chicken on it. "And this is my husband Jack. Jack this is Mrs. Johnson."
"Please, just call me Gloria."
"Okay, and you can just call us Jack and Janet," Jack said as he put the chicken on the table and then he shook Gloria's hand.
"It is nice to meet you both. And I never got to say Congratulations on your wedding."
"Thank you ," Janet said.
"Food is ready so I'll bring the rest out," Jack said. He left into the kitchen and brought the rest of the food an placed it on the table. The three sat down and ate. The first thing Gloria did was compliment Jack on the food. "This food is great."
"Thank you."
"Have you heard of Jack's Bistro?"
"Yes. I own it."
"You do? I thought it was own by a Mr. Angelino."
"It was, but I managed to buy it off of him about a year ago, so I own it now."
"That's great. No wonder the food is so good."
"Why thank you Gloria," Jack said.
They laughed. After dinner they had chocolate mousse for dessert. And after dessert and all of the dishes were in the kitchen, Jack , Janet, and Gloria sat in the living room on the couch and Gloria was sitting on the arm chair holding a large brown envelope in her hands. "I know that you were waiting all night to hear why I asked to talk to you tonight. I'll tell you right now. Before Daniel died we talked about and decided that we were going to move to Florida."
"What about the Flower Shop?" Janet asked.
"That's why I am here. A week before your wedding, he decided that he was going to give you the Flower Shop," Gloria said as she opened te envelope and pulled out a stack of stapled papers. She handed them to Janet.
Jack was speechless. "Me?" Janet asked as she looked at the papers in her hands. "Why me?"
"He always believed that you were the one person that never let him down. He knew that you would take the best care of the shop. I'm just here to finish what he started. Now the only thing that is keeping you from the shop is your signature on the last page," Gloria mentioned as she held out a pen to Janet.
Janet turned to the last page and took the pen. She signed JANET WOOD-TRIPPER at the bottom. "Congratulations, you know own the Flower Shop.' Gloria looked down at her watch and noticed the time. "Well I better get going. I have to wake up early tomorrow."
"Well Okay," Janet said. "And Thank you."
"No problem, I was glad to do this. For him...and for you." Janet showed Gloria out of the apartment and the she sat down next to Jack on the couch. "I just can't believe it. He left me the flower shop."
"You deserve it." Jack whispered in her ear." He kissed her on the lips and then on the top of her head. Janet placed the papers on the coffee table and then leaned into Jack's arms. "So..."
"So what?" Janet asked as she looked up at Jack.
"We should celebrate." he said. Janet knew what he meant by celebrate but she decided to play around with him.
"I know, we should go to the Regale Beagle, or upstairs to tell Larry and Terri." Janet said.
"Janet!"
There was a knock at the door and Janet got up off the couch laughing. "Jack I am just kidding around."
She answered the door and saw Terri and Larry standing there with big smiles on their faces. "Jack Janet we have some news," Larry said as he and Terri walked in.
A few years before, Larry's date dumped him right before they were supposed to go out for dinner, and Terri felt bad for him so she decided to go out with him and Larry took her out. When he was dropping her off at the apartment, the unthinkable happened. "Thank you Larry. Believe it or not, I really had a great time tonight."
"No I should be thanking you. If you didn't step up, I would have been alone tonight."
It was quiet, Larry and Terri just stared into each other's eyes. Terri spoke up. "Well I better get going." Terri said as she pulled her keys out of her purse."
"Yeah thanks again." Larry said.
Terri didn't know what came over her. She was seeing Larry in a new light. Terri leaned toward him and wrapped her arms around Larry's neck and her lips met his. Larry was surprised, but he responded. He placed his hand son hands on her hips. They parted. "No problem," Terri whispered against Larry's lips. She went inside her apartment.
Larry smiling went up to his apartment and had dreams about Terri that night. Terri went to bed, wondering what got into her when she kissed him. Tonight something made her attracted to Larry, maybe, it was because he was a perfect gentleman. Larry asked Terri out on another date and she accepted. They started to date for the next 1 ½ years, and one night Larry asked her to marry him. She said 'yes' ad they got married six months later. Now it was one week after their one year anniversary, they had news to tell Jack and Janet.
"What news?" Janet asked.
"We're having a baby," Terri said with a huge smile on her face.
"Oh my God that's great."
"Congratulations." Jack said.
Hug, Kisses, and Handshakes went around. "How far along are you?" Janet asked.
"Three months." Terri said. "So in six months we'll be having our baby."
"That's in February." Jack said.
The 4 continued to talk for the next few hours, until it was about 10:00. "Larry, Hon we better get going. I have to get some sleep."
"Yeah. You're right. Alright, Jack Janet we'll see you tomorrow."
"Okay." Jack said. Larry and Terri left.
"Well that came sooner than I expected." Jack said.
"What, Terri pregnant?"
"But not so soon."
"But they have been married for a year. And these things are unexpected.." Janet said.
"What about us?" Jack asked as they entered their bedroom.
"What do you mean?" Janet asked as she sat on the bed and took off her shoes.
"Us. Do you want to have a baby?"
Janet turned and looked up at Jack. "Yeah. I do want to have a baby. I always have."
"Well..." Jack paused. He climbed on top of Janet. "Why don't we get started."
"I would be glad to." Janet said.
Janet reached up and kissed Jack soon, the only sound that was heard was the two making love.
"I love you Jack."
"I love you too, Mrs. Tripper."
