A/N: This is a sequel of sorts for Paterfamilas and I wanted to do something sweet and fluffy for M/J. The song is "Ma Belle Evangeline" and is from The Princess and the Frog, I may have taken some liberties with the song, but I think it works all right (if I do say so myself :P)
Hope you enjoy! xo
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Prologue
"Michael, when are you going to tell me what this is all about?" Jackie asked as she sat in the car. She touched the blindfold, but Michael reached out a hand to stop her.
"No peeking," he teased, laughing at her mock pout as she allowed him to take her hand away.
"You're up to something, Michael, I can feel it," she told him.
Michael chuckled, "I'm not up to anything, that's your forte," he told her.
She stuck her tongue out at him and he laugh again, "You should just be glad that I trust you enough to go along with this."
"After a year of marriage, my dear, I should hope you trust me," Michael told her.
"I think I'll reserve judgement on that until after I find out where you're taking me," Jackie told him, smiling to herself as she imagined his mock hurt expression.
"You're sounding pretty smug for someone who is blindfolded and completely at my mercy," Michael said, it was Jackie's turn to laugh.
"Completely at your mercy? I can think of worse places to be," she said with a grin, allowing her voice to go a little husky as she did so.
Michael made no reply and her grin grew wider, only to disappear as the car came to halt and she felt her anxiety about what was happening come back.
"Careful now," Michael counselled as he helped her out of the car, "you're going to have to trust me."
"I trust you," Jackie told him, she jumped slightly as he shut the car door.
"A little twitchy there, Mrs. Jardine?" he teased.
"Quiet you," Jackie admonished him as he began to lead her forwards.
Jackie quickly lost track of where they were going since without her sight she was completely disorientated. Soon, however, they came to stop and she felt Michael move behind her to take off the blindfold.
Jackie gasped in surprise at what lay before her; they were on the rooftop of one of the fancy new restaurants. A table for two sat off to the side, all the other tables having been cleared away, a stringed quartet stood unobtrusively in a corner. The whole place was lit by fairy lights, with only the night sky spread above them.
"It's beautiful," Jackie breathed.
"Happy anniversary," Michael whispered in her ear, wrapping his arms around her from behind. Jackie leaned back into his embrace.
"I don't deserve you," she whispered.
Michael laughed, "If we only got what we deserved, darling, I wouldn't be here with you," he told her gallantly. "I was going to give this to you after we had eaten, but I think I'd rather do it now," Michael continued, looking a little apprehensive.
Gently pulling away from her and leading her to where a small dance floor had been set up. Jackie gave him a quizzical look as he took her in the waltz hold, "I found this song a little while ago and it's my gift to you," he explained.
"Michael-" she began to protest, but he cut her off with a small peck on her lips.
"Shh," he told her as he pulled away, "just listen."
Jackie did as she was instructed as the music began to play, presently someone began to sing:
"Look how she lights up the sky
Ma belle Jacqueline
So far above me
Yet I...know her heart belongs to only me
Je t'adore"
"I adore you," Michael translated in her ear.
"Je t'aime"
"I love you," Michael whispered again.
"Jacqueline
You're my queen of the night
So still, so bright
That someone as beautiful as she
Could love someone like me
Love always finds a way, it's true
And I love you, Jacqueline
Love is beautiful
Love is wonderful
Love is everything, do you agree?
Mais oui!
Look how she lights up the sky
I love you, Jacqueline"
By the time the song had finished Jackie was speechless, "I love you Jackie," Michael whispered as he leaned forward to kiss away the tears in her eyes that she hadn't even known were there.
"I love you too, Michael," she whispered back, "so very much," she added as she kissed him.
