A cat jumped up behind them, Jackie turned around and got off Hyde's lap.

Jackie "Steven, it's a sign."

Hyde groaned, he hadn't felt the warmth of her on his lap for a long time, and it had been even longer since she had kissed him while sitting on him. "Jackie, it's not a sign, get back here."

Jackie continued to approach the stray cat. "I should give her a home."

Hyde "We are not keeping a stray animal in the house, if it wants a home, it will stay. Now get back here."

Jackie "I should give her some milk, you have milk right?"

Hyde "Woman, you're trying to drive me nuts, wait you really are, aren't you?"

Jackie picked up the cat and held it in her arms, she walked back to Hyde with a sort of look in her eye. "Oh, don't be ridiculous, I'm not doing anything."

Hyde "You are, what do you want?"

Jackie "Nothing. Nothing at all."

Hyde gave a small nod, "Stay. Be with me."

Jackie smiled, "Oh if you insist, and as long as we can keep the cat."

Hyde "That cat is free entity, you can feed it, but it will only stay, if it wants to." She looked at him curiously. "That does not apply to you, just the cat."

She shrugged, that was probably the best she'd get out of him for a while. The cat suddenly forgotten, she gave up. She could torture him later, when she had fulfilled her own weakness, and Steven made her weak.

She walked towards him, untying her scarf as she went, he was better at buttons. She leaned into him, she placed one hand on his thigh and the other she placed suggestively on her top button. Within a couple of seconds he slid his fingers expertly down the front of her dress, every button undone. She straightened up, walked a few steps back and slid the dress off her shoulders, letting it fall. Heels and light blue lace bra and panties, he stared, she didn't even blush, she put her hands on her hips. Her look read 'why are you all the way over there?' He smiled to himself, even she knew when to not to talk. He motioned his head for her to come to him, he wanted her on his lap. It only took her a second to decide how to deal with his immobility. She got down on her hands and knees, never breaking eye contact and proceeded to crawl towards him. This move Hyde was unprepared for, all he could do was stare at her. The fact that he didn't respond was lost on her, she had him under her power. She reached him, still holding eye contact and on her knees she felt his abs through his shirt and her hand felt his buckle. She started to unbuckle his belt, breaking the trace. He stopped her hands, holding them at the wrists, he stood bringing her up with him. He distracted her by starting to kiss her neck and then before a few seconds had gone by he swung her around her back facing him and continued kissing her neck. He unclipped her bra, and slid it off, crushing her breast with one hand, while the other proceeded to lower her panties. They dropped to the floor and she kicked them away, she flipped back towards him and kissed his Adam's apple. Suddenly, she fled, kicking off her shoes, running towards the fire escape. Hyde opened his eyes to see her running naked away from him, he didn't respond till she had managed to slip over the other side. He went after her.

Reaching the condo, he looked around "Jackie?"

He heard a giggle, following it he reached her, she was on her back lying on the floor in one of the empty rooms, her eyes were staring out the window, she looked towards him. She hoisted herself on her elbows and brought her legs up crossing them. She opened her legs, one leg she laid on the floor the other she moved slightly giving him a view. He took three large steps towards her, got on his knees, his hands on her thighs and starting kissing her lower abdomen. She giggled again, letting her head fall back. He stopped to smile at her, and she looked at him again. She tugged at his shirt, he moved up closer to her and pulled it off himself, while she tried to undo his pants again, this time he let her. As always their patient games of seduction ended suddenly when passion overcame the other, if asked, each would have probably said it was the other who gave in first. The fact that their built up tension made the actually act uncharacteristically short was quickly forgotten by Jackie, who romanticized into much more than it was and Hyde's version was so quick, you would think he was in a daze throughout the whole experience.

Jackie woke up on the fire escape, it was still dark, she looked down at her watch, it was 4:26 she was naked, having apparently finally fallen asleep outside, and late for work, but surprisingly not cold. Hyde's possessive arm firmly held her to his chest, and his legs intermingled with hers, she smiled at him.

Jackie whispered "Steven? Steven?"

Hyde opened one eye and closed it again, "I'm awake."

Jackie "And I'm late for work, I have to run."

Hyde nodded, clearly on his way to falling asleep again, it was cold out here, much colder than she had realized, she popped into the apartment for a minute and returned with a throw, which she laid on him and then proceeded to go up to the roof to find her clothes. The scarf was missing, but she found her dress, bra and her shoes, but nothing else, her panties were missing. She hoped she wouldn't live to regret this.

Her makeup artist remarked later that morning that she had this sort of glow, her checks were all pink, the artist insisted in trying to push her look into something new, a little more cutting edge to fit in better with that day's energy.

Jackie's smile was her own that day on the news, there was nothing to fake.