corde amare: Really it was 3am where you live when I updated this? Wow, I updated it at 8 on a wet, windy Friday night where I live. Talk about the time difference! Lol when you reviewed it was midnight here!
Z: Yeah it was pretty stupid of Pitch but I have the feeling that he was cocky and arrogant enough to think he could get away with it. The way Elsa dressed up was hinting towards more a date-date than a business date though but you are right, it could have been a business date.
Chapter 7: The Cat's Out of The Bag
Jack and Elsa stared at Jamie in pure shock. He wasn't supposed to be home but now he's discovered the truth. What were they going to do? Jamie now knew. What was he going do? Tell or keep their secret? Jack didn't know what his friend was going to do but by judging the look on his face, he was in shock.
Elsa couldn't believe it. Jack had told her that Jamie was going to spend the night at his girlfriend's. Something must have come up to stop that from happening and now they were screwed. If Jamie knew, he could easily tell someone else and then it could get out. What was going to happen? She just hoped that they could come up with some kind of plan to keep this a secret.
Jamie stared at the two of them. What was going on? Jack had been making out with his boss. His boss too! Jamie was in a state of pure shock. What were they thinking? Jack works for her.
"Uh," Jamie stammered. He didn't know what to say. What on Earth does one say in these kinds of situations?
"Okay so I know this looks bad," Elsa started but Jamie interrupted.
"Looks bad? It's gone way past the point of 'bad'."
"Okay, I can see that," Elsa continued.
"What on Earth are you guys thinking?!" Jamie thundered at the pair.
"We were actually thinking we wouldn't get caught," Jack said in a small voice.
"Jamie," Elsa said. Jamie turned to her and there were a few tears in her eyes. "Please don't tell anyone! We're begging here!"
"Mate, please," Jack said.
"Uh," Jamie didn't know what to say. He didn't want to have to tell someone. He knew he shouldn't betray the secret that he just unwittingly found out. Jack is his best friend. He didn't want to have to betray that trust.
"I need some air," Jamie said before he raced out of the room.
Elsa watched Jamie sprint from the flat. This was not what she wanted to happen. She was now nervous.
"Do you think he will tell?" she asked Jack.
"I hope not," Jack said. "If I know him, he won't but this seriously shocked him, right down to the core."
"Same here. He didn't even answer us when we asked him to keep it a secret."
"Let's just hope he makes the right choice."
Jamie rushed out of his flat. He just had to get out of there. It was getting too much for him to handle. How could Jack be so stupid? Sure he had teased him about his crush on Elsa but he never would have imagined that he would have gone for it and if he did, Jamie always thought that he would never have a chance with Elsa in a million years. Guess they both had just proved him wrong.
Jamie didn't even know where he was heading. He had been concentrating too hard on what had just happened. So he was just aimlessly wandering about but somehow he ended up at his sister Sophie's place. She only lived a few streets over from where lived. Jamie found her outside putting out the trash. She smiled when she saw him approach.
"Hey," she said. "What's on your mind? You look like you've been doing some very serious thinking."
"Ah, no," Jamie replied laughing nervously. "So how are you?"
"Ah I'm okay," she said. "Actually this really funny thing happened the other day-"
"Jack and Elsa are sleeping together!" Jamie suddenly said intruppting Sophie.
"What?" Sophie said.
Jamie clamped his hand over his mouth to stop him from saying anything more.
"Jack and Elsa are what?" she said. "You mean our friend Jack and our boss Elsa?"
Sophie worked as a manager for one of ski resorts except it was more of a place where you can have coffee and ski or snowboard rather than it having rooms for people to stay in. A new one had just been built and she had been promoted to run it.
Jamie shook his head. He couldn't believe what he just blurted out but he felt like he was going to explode from it and he had to tell someone. Sophie could see the truth written all over his guilty face. Sophie ran her hands through her hair. She had a look of disbelief written all over her face.
"What?" she said again.
"Look please don't tell," Jamie said. "They'll kill me if anyone else found out."
"Yeah, yeah," she said. "But what?"
It looked like that Sophie was having a hard time processing it just like Jamie. Sophie went back into her house muttering. Jamie knew that Sophie wouldn't tell anyone but this was going to prey on her mind for a while. Jamie headed back to the flat. He figured it was time to confront the two. When he got back he found the pair of them, fully dressed, fixing something on the stove. They looked up when Jamie walked back in.
"Hey," they said.
"Want something to eat?" Jack asked him.
"No, I don't think I can eat," replied Jamie.
"Okay then."
Jamie watched as Jack put to plates full of food on the table where he and Elsa started to eat from.
"So when did this," he gestured to the pair of them, "start?"
"Two months, two weeks and four days," Jack said. "Unless you count what happened in Paris then its three months."
"Three months?" Jamie squealed then he got struck by a realisation. "Wait, wait, what happened in Paris?"
"Uh," they both said.
"You slept together in Paris for the first time didn't you?" Jamie said and they both nodded.
So that is why Jack was acting so strange, Jamie thought.
"So why did you guys decide to start a super-secret relationship?"
"Because we wanted to," Jack said.
"Okay," Jamie said slowly. "Do you guys know how strange this is?"
"Look Jamie," Elsa suddenly said speaking for the first time in a while. "Yes we know it's weird or strange or whatever you wish to call it. Yes we are aware that I'm his boss and he's my assistant but we've gotten pass that."
"Okay," Jamie said again but this time more slowly.
"Please just promise that you won't tell," Jack said.
"Fine," Jamie said. "But only because you're my best mate."
"Thank you so much Jamie," Elsa said giving him a hug.
Jamie felt really awkward but hugged her back all the same.
"Just don't be giving him any extra benefits or something," Jamie said.
"Don't worry, I won't," Elsa giggled.
Sophie was in the backroom of the main office of the ski resort she worked for the next morning. Her head was still buzzing from the information that Jamie had accidently revealed to her. True to her word, she hadn't said a word.
"You okay Sophie?" one of her co-workers Sam said.
"Yeah I'm fine," Sophie replied.
"Well you better be because look who's coming!" He pointed.
Sophie followed where he was pointing and got a shock. Surround by a gang of suits was none other than Elsa herself. Sure it was shocking enough that their head of the company that they worked for arrived for an inspection but on today of all days. This was not Sophie's day. She watched as they got nearer and nearer. Sophie attempted to compose herself before they had reached her.
"And this is Sophie Bennett, she's in charge of the establishment," one of the suits said.
"Hello Miss Bennett," Elsa said shaking her hand.
"Hello Miss Winters," Sophie stammered. This was not going well and they had only said hello to each other.
"Shall we?" Elsa said.
Sophie nodded and they set off together with the suits. They walked off with each suit telling Elsa something about what they had just seen. Soon the suits departed leaving just Elsa and Sophie talking. Sophie rambled on about the managing part of the new place. Elsa was listening and nodded and put her own input in. Sophie felt very awkward. This was her big boss and all she could think about was what Jamie had told her. They soon came to the indoor sloop room where some men were placing fake snow on it.
"So your last name is Bennett?" Elsa asked.
"Yeah," Sophie said.
"Any relation to Jamie Bennett?"
"Yeah, he's my brother."
"So you must know my assistant Jack Frost."
"Yeah he's like a brother to me."
Sophie had never felt more awkward in her life. This should be some friendly conversation but she was finding it so tense. Elsa gave her a long look before she clicked.
"You know," she said while Sophie nodded.
"Did Jamie-" Elsa started but she trailed off.
Sophie nodded again and Elsa got a worried look on her face.
"So that's where he went last night," she muttered to herself. Elsa then turned to Sophie and got a very worried look on her face. "What did he tell you exactly?"
"Just that you and Jack…" Sophie let her voice trail off this time. Elsa got the gist anyway. She still looked quite worried.
"Please Sophie, don't tell anyone."
"I won't," Sophie said. "Jamie has already sworn me to silence."
"Good," Elsa said. "Because if this ever gets out…"
"You guys are screwed," Sophie finished.
"Exactly."
Elsa walked out of the elevator back into the floor that contained her office. She had been quite concerned all morning. First Jamie and now his sister. Luckily it seems as if the Bennett siblings had decided to keep their silence. Elsa was glad that they were going to. It did take a weight off her shoulders. Jamie had blabbed to his sister but Elsa understood why. He had been in shock at the time and it probably just came out. She continued down the small hallway and found Jack sitting at his desk typing away at his computer. Jamie was sitting next to him. Guess Jack was having more technical problems. Jack looked up when she approached him and winked at her which made Jamie roll his eyes.
"What's the matter now?" Elsa asked when she had approached them.
"Computer crash," Jamie said. "I'm just helping Jack restore it and to retrieve any files that he may have lost."
"Good, good, how did it crash?"
"Beats me," Jack said. "These things just seem to happen."
"Luckily you have me," Jamie laughed.
"Speaking of you Jamie, I met your sister today," Elsa said to Jamie.
Jamie went a little white.
"Don't worry," Elsa said in a soothing voice. "She's lovely and I'm sure that she will keep our little secret."
Jamie relaxed while Jack looked shocked.
"Sophie knows?" he said.
Elsa nodded. Jack shrugged and went back to whatever he was doing. Elsa wrapped her hands around Jack's shoulders and whispered into his ear.
"How about that nice date that you've been planning for tonight?" she whispered. "I've been waiting patiently for it and I think it's about time, don't you think?"
"Okay," Jack said giving her kiss.
"Please not at the office," Jamie said rolling his eyes again. "If I have to put up with it at my own home, please not at the place where I work."
Elsa released Jack and they both looked a little put out.
"Oh, there's someone in your office wanting to see you," Jack said.
"I wonder who it is," Elsa said.
She walked into her office where some men were waiting. She recognised them as the men that helped her take down Pitch.
"Gentlemen," she said.
"Miss Winters, we have a development in the Pitch case," one of them said.
"Fire away," she said taking a seat behind her desk.
"It seems as if he had some accomplices," another said.
"Well that only makes sense," Elsa said. "Have you tracked any?"
They all looked at each other before one spoke. They looked a little concerned which Elsa took as not a good sign which made her concerned.
"Yes," one said.
"And who is this mysterious person?"
"We believe one may be your assistant, a mister Jack Frost," another one said.
Elsa felt her heart sink. Not Jack?
A/N: So Jamie and Sophie both know and now the trail has led to Jack. What's going to happen now? I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Please review =)
