I'm so glad that you're here

First off thanks so much for all the reviews guys and here's the second scenario of four in total.

Things had changed dramatically within the last few weeks, she thought as she looked at herself in the mirror. Her hands twitching to break free from the oversized confines of the oversized sleeves of the shirt she was wearing at the moment. The smell that lingered upon it so intoxicating that it almost was as good as having him, but her greed to have more won out in the end, and with that she branched out to search for him, still dressed in her unusual but fitting attire.

She initially opted to simply call out for him, but she stopped herself in the end considering the fact that there was a baby in the house, speaking of which where was he?

The last time she did catch sight of him was during the football game he was watching and cheering along with Jack while she went about preparing dinner, vegetarian lasagna. It was the one dish she had perfected but she tried her level best to extend her knowledge on cooking and thankfully Jack was quite the chef as well so he helped out whenever he could. Although it was the weekend so she wanted to give him the rest she felt he needed.

Eight steps later and she was suddenly stilled with a sight that caused tears to form within her eyes.

It was moments like this that made her love him even more. His voice so soothing as he continued to read Aaron his bed time story. At that very moment her hand inched towards the recess of her firm stomach. Her heart secretly wishing that there was something existing beneath it, but she sadly knew that there wasn't and even if there was it would only cause unnecessary complications.

Or would it? She took the time to reconsider as she witnessed the heart warming scene before her.

"Ah….that's the great puzzle." He spoke and stopped himself mid way when he saw that Aaron was fast asleep. The light snoring he heard being clear enough to suggest it and with that he slowly got up and then turned off his night light. Once that was done he slowly walked out and passed a watchful Kate leaning against the doorway.

"You know he really does like you telling that story." She confessed with a beaming smile and he briefly cowered with embarrassment at her compliment, but he managed to recover in time to respond with a memory that sparked his mind at that very moment.

"My old man used to read me that story." He revealed and she offered him a warm smile in return, but failed to verbally express the reason behind eliciting such a smile.

"What?" he decided to ask anyway in an attempt to satisfy his curiosity over her apparent fascination with his comment.

"Nothing…..it's just really sweet to hear you say nice things about your Dad."

"I don't say nice things about my Dad." He teased and momentarily paused to numb the slight stab of pain hit him at the very referral of his Father.

"Well he was a good story teller, I'll give him that." He added, still hanging his head in thought, and weirdly enough Kate seemed to sense it was something more, and without a second thought she walked forward to then place herself in front of him. Her face just about lining up with his chin but it was enough for her to know that something was wrong.

"Hey, you okay?" she asked as her hands crawled up his steadily breathing sternum to then land on his chest.

"Yeah." He responded with a silent sigh as he slowly placed his hands on her sides, his fingers already rubbing the clothed expanse in soothing circles, and as always the action caused her to lose complete focus of everything around her, but her growing concern for him at the moment seemed to outweigh these plaguing thoughts just a tad.

"You can talk to me Jack. I'm not going anywhere." She affirmed with the utmost determination in her tone while her hands snaked around his neck to pull him even closer into her, and he wasn't negligent in the slightest to pull away from it. It only caused his embrace to tighten around her and the change in engagement led their lips to practically touch now, their breathing progressing in pace and rate as the heat between them excelled to that of a dizzying state.

"I love you." he whispered while alternating his gaze between gauging her reaction and then focusing on her lips when he felt it seemed right to seal a confession like this in the most traditional way.

Kate on the other hand just melted once again at hearing those three words escape his lips. It had been so long since they had, had a moment like this and she wasn't about to abandon the opportunity to embrace it to the fullest. So with that in mind she slowly leaned forward and did what he was striving and hesitating to do at the same time, but that sense of hesitation flew right out the window when she mouthed a matching confession against his mouth, and he fully gave in from that moment onward. His mouth opening to literally devour hers whole, but it was a considerably hard thing to achieve due to the height restriction so he briefly hunched to her height and then effortlessly grasped her form into the air and straight into him. The new position not only granting the physical access they both so desperately needed but it also gave him the control he felt he needed to posses during moments such as these, and thankfully Kate had no qualms in relinquishing it to him whatsoever.

They literally spent the next three minutes or so seeing who could kiss who breathless and when it simply got too much, Jack slowly walked towards the direction of their bedroom, his mouth heavily engaged with hers the entire time and when both parties felt the need to pull away to catch their breath, Jack already took matters into his hands and ran the rest of the way there. The action causing Kate to laugh out loud while tightening the grip she had over him.

"Easy tiger." She joked through her fit of giggles and all Jack did in response was let out his best attempt at a growl while saying……..

"Yeah, well this tiger is very very hungry if you know what I mean."

"Dr. Shepherd." She mock gasped but soon relented to his sultry kisses and caresses, and minutes later she found herself lying flat on the king size bed directly beneath his watchful gaze. The extent of his focus warming every inch of her body in return, but it also lead her to automatically question it as well

"What?" she asked with a smile while running her hand through his shortly cropped hair. His eyes briefly shutting to fight the sheer arousal he felt at her touch, and chuckled to himself when she simply refused to still her actions to give him the chance to say what he wanted to say.

"How do you do that?" he asked, honestly marveled at the power she had over him, mentally and physically but more so the latter as his body soon reacted to it's natural way to ride out this warming sensation he now felt growing over the surface of his skin.

"Do what?" she struggled to ask as his lips attached and then dragged across the surface of her slim neckline and then dipping the tip of his tongue into her collarbone area.

"Make me feel so alive and……" he strained to verbally express it as his body was struggling to break free, more specifically a part of him that strained with the most need.

"And…" Kate urged, succumbing even further to the effect of his ministrations

"What do you think?" he growled out while finally offering her the chance to feel the full lengthed evidence of what she was doing to him. Of what her body was capable of bringing out of his very own and at some points it brought so much out of him that he found it hard to maintain a sense of balance, but the only thing that kept him in check somewhat was the way he felt about this woman beneath him. The sheer extent of his feelings firmly willing for him to take things slow in an effort to remember every second of it, the same way he did every time they were together like this.

The first thing he did was remove each button to his now ruffled shirt on her, slowly uncovering the distinct lack of clothing beneath it and he simply smiled at the very thoughtful action. An action he decided to award by a means of doing the same with himself. His grey fitted t-shirt coming off as he continued to hover above her bucking form, and before he had the chance to do the same with his trousers, the little minx below him had already managed to get it undone and unzipped, her body then anxiously waiting for him to remove it so that they could finally experience each other, but she grew rather confused and frustrated when he stilled himself instead.

"Jack?" she questioned trying to keep the frustration out of her tone as much as possible, but thankfully enough she received her response in the form of him slowly crawling upon her much like an approaching predator, and once he was within perfect line of her gasping lips, he then conveyed the sole reason he had committed this sultry action for.

"Take it off." He more or less ordered off her and she was too consumed with want to disagree in any manner. In fact the order only aroused her even more, and with that she grew increasingly frantic with her actions, specifically in following through with the order, but with some maneuvering the offending garment was finally removed and thrown towards the edge of the bed. Whilst that happened Jack quickly sneaked his hand to remove her white panties, the evidence of her arousal so pungent beneath the flimsy material that it took everything within him to not just plunge himself in at that very moment, and her silent but recognizable pleas weren't helping ease his resolve in the slightest. So in an effort to please both of them he quickly moved down the length of her body and aligned his mouth with the place where her heat and arousal radiated the most. His tongue already jutting out to feel and taste the outer rim of her entrance, and when he felt she was ready enough for him he gently inserted the tip of his tongue into her depths. Her body making an arch formation as her hands grasped the sides of his rhythmically moving head.

She had never felt so out of function with her body. His ministrations so tantalizing and impressionable that it restricted her from feeling anything other than it's effect on her.

"Ooooo….Jac……" she moaned into the vacant air before her while widening her legs to encourage more of what we was doing and slowly bringing out of her as well.

"Jack, Jack." She started to chant as she felt her body tightening to mark the arrival of her impending release, and Jack moans as a result of acquiring her taste only spurred on the gush of the flow she felt reverberating through her, and on the fifth chant of his name she finally came with a voiceless scream. A gesture she was forced to make due to the numbing effect she felt as he continued to work his mouth over her pulsing center.

It was at least a solid five minutes or so before she got a hold on her bodily functions again, only to have them weaken and melt when she now found a pair of brown eyes staring at her with nothing but awe and amazement.

"You're so beautiful when your like this." He mused as he balanced his weight on his elbows, his right hand brushing away a stray curl from her sweaty forehead while his left traced along the frame line of her sated body. His touch still creating an electrifying result but it was also accommodated with a sense of warmth, and not just the physical one she felt brushing against her thigh at the moment.

"I'm so glad you changed your mind." She expressed in a surprisingly shy manner that had Jack smiling in admiration while his eyes moistened with swelling emotion.

"I'm so glad that you're here." She added and gradually faded with a whisper when her emotions got the better of her.

"Me too." Jack whispered with a matching tone of emotion right before he sealed his lips with hers in a kiss that conveyed just how much he wanted to be here, in her arms, kissing her and simply loving her in the way she truly deserved. A feeling she gleefully gave into with a moan as he strived to physically prove it, again and again.

This is where they needed to be all along.

Two down, two to go. I figured that I would end this little ficlet with the last jate scene of the epsiode, "The argument" which is what the fourth chapter will be called, but that will follow after "Marry me".

So what do you think guys?? would you like to see more or has my growing hyperness with the episode forced me to lose it completely lol.