Prologue.

Jack and Katie

They had been friends for the longest time. Two sandy haired beauties, linked by the tragedy of circumstance and the inevitable longing for love. At the age of six he was like an angel, with the tender rolls of puppy fat that adorned his knees and his belly, his periwinkle eyes bright and exuberant. At the age of ten he had held her as she cried, wiping away the blood that a graze on her leg had created. At the age of thirteen he had loved her more then anything else, shared his first kiss with her and longed to have the taste of her essence in him, he had the face of a boy but the wounded heart of a man. When they were 18 she'd given herself to him, she had become him and he her. Those two innocent people who both shared many hard ships and broken hearts had unknowingly healed one another with one simple act. She had kissed away his pain the soft plump of her lips stroking his eyelids and he had told her she was safe and complete and everything he was, a role she had never played before, and never would again.

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Jack drew a heart in the condensation on the window, writing his initials then Katie's, two letters side by side in the alphabet. "You awake?" Jack asked his voice hoarse.

She opened one chestnut eye to look at him, a smile playing across her peach lips "am now."

He stroked her temple with his soft hands, lingering at her slight laugh lines "does it hurt, did I hurt you?" he whispered. She grimaced, rolling over onto her bare belly to get a better look at him. "You could never hurt me."

"I know, but you cried out a little bit, I heard you." Jack was somber and clearly ashamed, he pushed away the damp hair that was sticking to her reddened for head.

Katie sighed, rising up and placing herself on Jack's naked chest. She kissed the subtle beginning of hair that was coating his muscular chest then placed an ear to his heart beat. "I'm alright, it always hurts the first time." She reassured.

Jack smiled with relief grabbing her hips and pulling her onto him "I love you fucking much, do you know that?"

Katie giggled nuzzling his collar bone "I think I have a fair fucking idea."
He laughed and so did she falling in love with him all over again, "We could stay like this forever me and you, I'll never leave you" Jack murmured into her ear as she began to fall away into slumber.

"Please stay with me" she whimpered.

"Forever."

She nodded just shy of sleep "forever."

Katie laid there her small chest rising and falling gracefully, her face peaceful an emotion only sleep could grant. Jack stayed awake, wondering if he could feel anymore complete.

The time past slowly the moon disappearing behind the expanding clouds only to reappear triumphant and glowing behind a back ground of ebony. At 2:30 Jack still wasn't asleep even though he wished it to be so. Katie was fast asleep and he didn't have the heart to wake her up again.

So ever so gently he eased himself out from underneath her and slipped out of bed. He crammed on a dirty, bloodied hockey shirt and a pair of boxes tiptoeing out onto the landing and down stairs into the kitchen, where somebody was already inhabiting.

Bobby his eldest brother looked up over the tub of Ben and Jerry's ice-cream, his hard face, gaunt and tired.

"Hey Fairy, couldn't keep up with her I see" Bobby cackled, flinging a spoon in Jack's direction.

Jack caught it grudgingly "don't talk about her like that, man."

Bobby smirked rubbing his index finger across his eye "Hey take no offence, bro it was a compliment"

Jack took a healthy spoonful of ice cream and shoved it into his mouth "she work out that you like it in the-

"Eat shit Bobby" Jack sighed.

Bobby held up his hands in a mock truce "so you love her then I spose." Bobby was suddenly serious.

"With everything I've got." Replied with out hesitation.

Bobby smiled sadly, jack winced "Look man, I know you loved her too."

His older brother shock his head "you two were always going to end up, shit jack, you were joined at the hip ever since the day you arrived. I just wished I had realized what type of a woman she had become before it was too late." Bobby exhaled slowly, stretching out over the counter.

"Bobby-

"Jack, just promise me one thing-

"Anything-

"Promise me you won't let her go to waste, give her everything and anything she could ever dream off, give her a life she should've got and when you all grow up give your kids the life that we all never had. Just love her as much as I would've loved her."

Jack looked away from the dejected and defeated eyes of his brother "I promise Bobby."

Bobby slung an arm across his brother's shoulders "you're a good kid Jack" he said getting up and driving a hand through his slicked back hair "Night."

Bobby slipped out of the kitchen soon engulfed by the hungry darkness, Jack nodded knowing full well what he had meant "I love you too Bobby" he whispered to the shadow of his brother.

Well I hope you enjoyed that chapter, sorry it was fluffy but I'm in a fluffy mood; SO SUE ME!

Ok well if you liked it please review and if you didn't well obviously don't. But thanks to every one for reading.

Love Bex.