It was almost evening when Jackie woke up. She looked up at him and then got up quickly. "Oh, shit," she said. "Don't look!"

Hyde raised an eyebrow and looked up from his book. What was her problem?
"I said don't look!" she shrieked, covering her face. "I look horrible and gross."

Hyde sighed. That was what she was worried about. "You always look horrible and gross."

"Liar!" She got up from the bed and ran to her makeup table, quickly sponging cover up on her face. "My face is dreadful right now. Normally it's gorgeous."

She wasn't wrong. Jackie looked totally hot. Even when she fell asleep crying. Not that Hyde was ever going to tell her that. Instead he grabbed the box with the lingerie and opened it up all the way. His eyes widened when he saw the inside of it. "You are one kinky princess," he said.

"Put that down!" she said, flushing. "Mom gave me those. I don't ever use them, though."

He raised an eyebrow. "Wait, has your mom given you sex toys before?"
She rolled her eyes. "Look, my mom brings me back expensive presents from her billionaire boyfriends. I'm not going to bitch about what those presents are, as long as they're designer and expensive." She snatched the box out of his hands and walked quickly to her closet.

It was then that Hyde realized that her superficial snobbery was mostly a defense mechanism, like how zen protected him. I guess everyone needs some sort of defense. Even princesses.

He got up and followed Jackie to her closet. "Hey, I'm so…" He stopped when he saw the back corner of her closet dedicated to presents from her mom. Expensive lingerie he had only seen in nudie magazines was hung neatly up, the tags still on them. Below it were open chests with sex toys still in the packaging. The chests came up to his knees and were big enough to easily store TVs, but they were almost full of toys. Balanced on the corner of the chest was a stack of books and cassette tapes on sex positions and pleasing men in bed.

Jackie hung up the new lingerie and dumped the handcuffs and whip unceremoniously in with the other toys. She had a blank look of zen on her face.

"Jackie…" Hyde trailed off, unsure of what to say.

"Sorry to disappoint, but I really don't use any of it," she said. "Actually, not even Michael knows about any of this, so if you could not tell anyone, then I'd appreciate it."

"Of course not."

"Good." She smiled at him but her smile trembled a little. Tears threatened to escape. Hyde reached out to wrap his arms around her but Jackie backed up. "Don't. I'm just going to start crying again if you're nice to me." She took a deep breath. "Isn't it late? I'm sure you want to get some sleep."

Hyde shook his head. He didn't want sleep. He wanted Jackie to forget about the past day. And he knew exactly how to do that. He smirked. "I don't want sleep. I have a better way to pass the time."

A/N: Thanks everyone who's reviewed and followed and favorited! I really appreciate it. I know this chapter is short, but I'll have a longer one coming up soon. Thanks!