True Love
By Kyoto Dragon
Authours Note: This fic is inspired bt a fantastic piece of Harvest Moon artwork of Jack and Elli.
Pairing: Jack/Elli
Chapter 4
"Elli?" Jack called out
Elli quietly put the box back into the draw and closed it.
"Hi Jack didn't hear you coming in, I was looking at all the gems that you collected last winter from the south mine" Elli said looking a bit flustered "Dinner will be ready in 10 minutes" Elli continued
"In that case, I'll be in the barn making some large yarn balls, I've sheered too much wool" Jack said walking out of the door
Jack stood on the borderline of the crop field, he realised he'd have to harvest the last of the crops before next season
::Umm; eight plots of pineapples, 500G per pineapple, 4500 per plot.... that would be 36000G for the final harvest:: Jack thought
Jack put 10 piles of wool into the yarn ball maker after a few minutes a couple of yarn balls were produced; Jack put them in a crate and put them into the shipping bin for Zack to pick up, Jack remembered something, he quickly wrote a note and ran out of the farm. Elli looked out of the window wondering why Jack was taking so long, she walked over to the barn and found the note:
Elli, just gone to the supermarket, I just remembered that Jeff was holding some seeds for me that he just got in.
I'm going to pop into my new store on my way back. Zack rang me up earler to tell me that the goods for my store
have arrived. I'll be back in 20 minutes
Love
Jack
Jack walked into the supermarket, Jeff was in the storeroom leaving Sasha manning the till.
"Afternoon Jack, I hope you harvested all the summer crops before tommorow" Sasha smiled
"I have, Zack is gonna have a busy day tommorow, I mined alot of ore too" Jack replied.
"Karen, Jack has come to pick up his order" Sasha called out
"Hi Jack" Karen smiled "My dad told me to give you these complimentary bags of Moondrop flower and Magic Red flower, and here are your crop seeds" Karen smiled
"Thanks Karen" Jack replied
"I hear that you are opening your own store where old man Saibara's blacksmith shop used to be" Karen said
"Yes it gonna be a comic book store, Kai said that he'd like to mann the shop, the grand opening is tommorow..." Jack said
"To mark the begining of fall, I'll be there!" Karen smiled
"Kai still trying to find a way to beat me in a duel" Jack smirked
"Unlikley your'e the best Duelist in town!" Karen giggled "So who's gonna manage the farm during the grand opening?" she asked
"The harvest sprites" Jack replied
"Mom said you got the blue feather yesterday, thinking of proposing to Elli?" Karen smirked
"Eventually but still need to think of it" Jack said "Hang on I got the perfect time to propose to Elli, can you keep this a secret from Elli and the others?" Jack continued
"Sure" Karen said leaning towards Jack.
Jack whispered to Karen when he planned to propose to Elli and how he was going to do it.
"That's so romantic, but I think you'd better ask Doug first; if Stu hears about this before the time it'll be all over town before you know it" Karen smiled
"See you tommorow!" Jack said walking out.
Jack was on his way back to the farm with the seeds when manna came out of the winery and gave him a bottle of sake as a present for his shops grand opening. That night, Jack and Elli had a romantic dinner, Elli stayed over for the night ^_~.
The next day; Elli stood by the window just wearing Jack's pyjama top holding a cup of coffee, Jack was having a shower. Elli smiled at the thought that Jack is going to propose to her but she didn't know when. It was going to be a double celebration, Elli's florists shop was going to open as well as Jack's comic book store.
::I'd have to quit the the surgery when I get married:: Elli blushed
Elli started to daydream on her wedding to Jack.
"The harvest sprites not here yet?" Jack said
"Not yet Jack" Elli smiled
"I'm glad that second barn's finished, now I can get more cows and sheep from the Yodel farm" Jack sighed
"I was in your new farm shipping store and youv'e got an overflow of corn..." Elli said
"I know, I'm going to put it in the watermill to make more food for the chickens. I see the Harvest Sprites have come, I'll see you outside" Jack said kissing Elli as he ran outside
"You know you just could breed the cows you know" Elli raised an eyebrow
"That takes too long" Jack called back
Elli watched as each of the Harvest sprites nodded as they were given tasks; Nappy, the most hard working of the harvest sprites took on the tasks of planting the Eggplant, Sweet potato and Green pepper planting, Staid tended to the cows, Chef looked after the sheep and Aqua looked after the chickens (since they needed less tending to and Aqua liked looking after the chickens).
"Wahey Elli wearing Jack's bedclothes now are we?" Chef jeered
Elli ran back into the house embarassed
It was time for the grand opening, Mayor Thomas officially opened Jack's comic book store and Elli's florists store at the same time, Stu and May looked around the shop eagerly at the toys. Karen was looking around the shop for a particular comic that she was looking for, she wanted to ask Jack that if it was in stock but he was no where to be seen.
"Wow!! Exodia cards! A complete set too.... Whoa! 8,500G's!!!!!! Thats expensive!!!!!" Grey exclaimed
"Cliff just bought Sanga of thunder, Kazejin, Sujin and the Gate Guardian for 3,850Gs" Kai replied "And anyhow the Exodia pieces are kinda hard to get; we just got the Toon World and Blue Eyes Toon Dragon cards in selling 'em for 1,100Gs" Kai added
"Excuse me Kai, have you seen Jack, I need to ask him something" Karen said
"I think he's in the storeroom" Kai replied
"Thanks" Karen said
Meanwile at the Poultry farm, Rick and Popuri were nearly finished tending to thier chickens when a young blonde haired bue-eyed girl came into the store.
"Hello, can I help you?" Lilla asked
"Oh I'm new in town and I'm looking for my big brother Jack" she replied
"You're Jack's little sister?!" Popuri said
The girl giggled "I'm only a year younger than Jack, the name's Mana" Mana replied
"That's gonna get confusing, there's a lady who owns a winery uptown who has the same name as you but spelt differently
Mana laughed "Mine's pronounced Man-ah, if the other lady's name is spelt with another n her's would sound Man-er as in manners" Mana replied.
"Anyhow, you'r big brother has opened his new shop just opposite, his farm is around the corner on the left and he recently built a shop for his girlfriend who works at the clinic" Lillia said
"Big brother's got a girlfriend!!!" Mana laughed
"I'm nearly finished here, I'll take you over in a moment" Popuri said
Back at Jack's store, Jack found the comic that Karen was looking for, Stu had bought some pokemon cards when something caught Jack's eye.
"Sis? Is that you??!!" Jack exclaimed
"Jack!!" Mana smiled hugging Jack
"When did you get into town?" Jack smiled
"3 days ago, I've been staying at the inn, been looking for a flat but no joy yet" Mana said
"Oh I've built a new flat over my girlfriend's new shop next door..... Elli, I'd like you to meet my sister" Jack called to Elli
"Nice to meet you" Elli smiled
"Mana's new in town, she's looking for a flat, do you mind if she takes the one over your store?" Jack asked
"Sure, I was going to use it as a office but then a office dosen't suit a florists store" Elli said
"I love flowers!" Mana replied
"Hey Elli you said you'd like some help in your new store, Mana could help out and she could mann it wile you are working at the Clinic" Jack suggested
"That'll be cool" Elli said
Almost 2 weeks later the crop harvest was intense; there was an overflow of sweet potatos, Zack had to make four trips due to the overflow of crops. Christmas was coming next season and Elli was trying to think of the perfect present for Jack, she noticed that Jack kept all of his accounting details on his computer but she realised what Jack needed was a computer that he could take around with him, Elli walked outside.
"Jack do you need any help?" Elli asked
"Could you bring out the cows and sheep out to graze please, thanks" Jack replied
Elli picked up the bell, walked over to the barns, opened the doors and rang the bell, the cows and sheep filed out onto the grass parstures.
"I'm going into town, do you need anything?" Elli asked
"Only yourself" Jack smirked
"Oh Jack!!" Elli giggled
"I'll be in the mine when you get back" Jack said loading up his quadbike
"You be careful OK?" Elli said ::I gotta find out about laptops, I'll ask Mary about it:: Elli thought
Elli came back and she saw that Jack hadn't come back at his usal time so she decided to bathe in Jack's bathroom. A few minutes passed and Jack arrived back with a trailer full of full baskets of Bronze, Silver and Gold ore and several crates of large fish; Jack was so dirty after all that mining so he decided to take a shower not knowing that Elli was already in his bathroom. Jack walked into the house greeted by Koto and switiched on the Hi-Fi loud, Elli couldn't hear the music because of the sound of the shower. Jack walked towards the bathroom door just as Elli stepped out of the shower, Jack stepped into the room and saw Elli naked
"Ack! Sorry Elli didn't know you were in here!!!" Jack blushed as he rushed out
Jack sat at the table totally embarrassed, he picked up a face towel and wiped his face. Jack leaned back and wondered why he was so embarrassed after all Elli had spent the night before and had no problem with that, Jack logged onto a Duel Monsters on-line card catalouge and flicked through.
::Gotta go to old man Barley's farm to buy some sheep..... hold on!:: Jack thought as something in the catalouge caught his eye
Blue Eyes White Dragon
Extreamely rare, only 4 of these have been produced.
Due to thier rarity we only have one
Price 165,000G
::Whoa! I've got the other three in my deck!! And all three God cards are worth just under that price of that card!!!!:: Jack exclaimed
Elli came out of the bathroom in a dressing gown blushing "Jack there's no need to be sorry, I should of locked the door. Anyhow how did it go at the mine?" Elli said kissing Jack on his cheek
"Just fine, Zack's outside loading the ore and the harvest onto his pickup" Jack said
The season went by and it was now a week before christmas; Elli went over to Won's place at the beach to order the laptop that Jack had his eye on. Since no crops could be grown during winter Jack spent most of his time at his shop inbetween tending to his animals and mining at the spring and winter mines. Jack was sitting at the counter busy reading one of his manga books.
"Hello Jack!" Stu smiled
"Morning Stu, where's your sister?" Jack smiled
"Elli when out earlier this morning to speak to Mr Won down at the beach, dunno what for though" Stu replied
"So what do you need?" Jack asked
"Four Magician's force and three Pharoh's servant please Jack" Stu said
"Here you go that'll be 1,750G" Jack said handing over the booster packs
Jack swiped Stu's savings card through the reader and gave the card back to Stu.
"Bye Jack see you later!" Stu said walking out of the shop
"Its nearly time to ask Elli..." Jack mumbled
"Ask Elli what?" Mana asked
"Hey! Mana don't scare me like that!!" Jack said
"Sorry bro, so what are you going to ask Elli about?" Mana asked
"Umm nothing!!" Jack said trying to change the subject
"You're hiding something!!!" Mana smiled
It was Christmas day, the laptop the Elli ordered had arrived and was wrapped up, the Christmas party was going to be held in the inn. Jack stood by the window in his house, he held the box containing the blue feather and pocketed it in the inside pocket of his jacket.
"Today's the day" Jack said
Koto looked up at Jack and wagged his tail. It was six o'clock and everybody gathered in the inn, Jack's sister, Mana who has been in Mineral town for just 2 seasons already has an admirier, Joe who arrived from a neighbouring town to find some work who was working in Jack's shop with Kai, Joe and his younger brother Kurt often helped Jack on his farm. Karen was at the bar having a drinking match against Ann, Saibara and Barley were chatting. It was time to give out the presents, everybody had given thiers to everybody, Elli had given her present to Jack, no wit was his turn.
"Elli.... I've loved you ever since I came to this town, ever since we met when we were little we have been good friends, and I ask you this" Jack said getting on one knee producing the blue feather "Will you marry me?" Jack smiled
A huge gasp came from the others at the party, tears of joy ran down Elli's face.
"Elli?" Jack asked
Everybody waited for Elli's answer......
To be continued...
By Kyoto Dragon
Authours Note: This fic is inspired bt a fantastic piece of Harvest Moon artwork of Jack and Elli.
Pairing: Jack/Elli
Chapter 4
"Elli?" Jack called out
Elli quietly put the box back into the draw and closed it.
"Hi Jack didn't hear you coming in, I was looking at all the gems that you collected last winter from the south mine" Elli said looking a bit flustered "Dinner will be ready in 10 minutes" Elli continued
"In that case, I'll be in the barn making some large yarn balls, I've sheered too much wool" Jack said walking out of the door
Jack stood on the borderline of the crop field, he realised he'd have to harvest the last of the crops before next season
::Umm; eight plots of pineapples, 500G per pineapple, 4500 per plot.... that would be 36000G for the final harvest:: Jack thought
Jack put 10 piles of wool into the yarn ball maker after a few minutes a couple of yarn balls were produced; Jack put them in a crate and put them into the shipping bin for Zack to pick up, Jack remembered something, he quickly wrote a note and ran out of the farm. Elli looked out of the window wondering why Jack was taking so long, she walked over to the barn and found the note:
Elli, just gone to the supermarket, I just remembered that Jeff was holding some seeds for me that he just got in.
I'm going to pop into my new store on my way back. Zack rang me up earler to tell me that the goods for my store
have arrived. I'll be back in 20 minutes
Love
Jack
Jack walked into the supermarket, Jeff was in the storeroom leaving Sasha manning the till.
"Afternoon Jack, I hope you harvested all the summer crops before tommorow" Sasha smiled
"I have, Zack is gonna have a busy day tommorow, I mined alot of ore too" Jack replied.
"Karen, Jack has come to pick up his order" Sasha called out
"Hi Jack" Karen smiled "My dad told me to give you these complimentary bags of Moondrop flower and Magic Red flower, and here are your crop seeds" Karen smiled
"Thanks Karen" Jack replied
"I hear that you are opening your own store where old man Saibara's blacksmith shop used to be" Karen said
"Yes it gonna be a comic book store, Kai said that he'd like to mann the shop, the grand opening is tommorow..." Jack said
"To mark the begining of fall, I'll be there!" Karen smiled
"Kai still trying to find a way to beat me in a duel" Jack smirked
"Unlikley your'e the best Duelist in town!" Karen giggled "So who's gonna manage the farm during the grand opening?" she asked
"The harvest sprites" Jack replied
"Mom said you got the blue feather yesterday, thinking of proposing to Elli?" Karen smirked
"Eventually but still need to think of it" Jack said "Hang on I got the perfect time to propose to Elli, can you keep this a secret from Elli and the others?" Jack continued
"Sure" Karen said leaning towards Jack.
Jack whispered to Karen when he planned to propose to Elli and how he was going to do it.
"That's so romantic, but I think you'd better ask Doug first; if Stu hears about this before the time it'll be all over town before you know it" Karen smiled
"See you tommorow!" Jack said walking out.
Jack was on his way back to the farm with the seeds when manna came out of the winery and gave him a bottle of sake as a present for his shops grand opening. That night, Jack and Elli had a romantic dinner, Elli stayed over for the night ^_~.
The next day; Elli stood by the window just wearing Jack's pyjama top holding a cup of coffee, Jack was having a shower. Elli smiled at the thought that Jack is going to propose to her but she didn't know when. It was going to be a double celebration, Elli's florists shop was going to open as well as Jack's comic book store.
::I'd have to quit the the surgery when I get married:: Elli blushed
Elli started to daydream on her wedding to Jack.
"The harvest sprites not here yet?" Jack said
"Not yet Jack" Elli smiled
"I'm glad that second barn's finished, now I can get more cows and sheep from the Yodel farm" Jack sighed
"I was in your new farm shipping store and youv'e got an overflow of corn..." Elli said
"I know, I'm going to put it in the watermill to make more food for the chickens. I see the Harvest Sprites have come, I'll see you outside" Jack said kissing Elli as he ran outside
"You know you just could breed the cows you know" Elli raised an eyebrow
"That takes too long" Jack called back
Elli watched as each of the Harvest sprites nodded as they were given tasks; Nappy, the most hard working of the harvest sprites took on the tasks of planting the Eggplant, Sweet potato and Green pepper planting, Staid tended to the cows, Chef looked after the sheep and Aqua looked after the chickens (since they needed less tending to and Aqua liked looking after the chickens).
"Wahey Elli wearing Jack's bedclothes now are we?" Chef jeered
Elli ran back into the house embarassed
It was time for the grand opening, Mayor Thomas officially opened Jack's comic book store and Elli's florists store at the same time, Stu and May looked around the shop eagerly at the toys. Karen was looking around the shop for a particular comic that she was looking for, she wanted to ask Jack that if it was in stock but he was no where to be seen.
"Wow!! Exodia cards! A complete set too.... Whoa! 8,500G's!!!!!! Thats expensive!!!!!" Grey exclaimed
"Cliff just bought Sanga of thunder, Kazejin, Sujin and the Gate Guardian for 3,850Gs" Kai replied "And anyhow the Exodia pieces are kinda hard to get; we just got the Toon World and Blue Eyes Toon Dragon cards in selling 'em for 1,100Gs" Kai added
"Excuse me Kai, have you seen Jack, I need to ask him something" Karen said
"I think he's in the storeroom" Kai replied
"Thanks" Karen said
Meanwile at the Poultry farm, Rick and Popuri were nearly finished tending to thier chickens when a young blonde haired bue-eyed girl came into the store.
"Hello, can I help you?" Lilla asked
"Oh I'm new in town and I'm looking for my big brother Jack" she replied
"You're Jack's little sister?!" Popuri said
The girl giggled "I'm only a year younger than Jack, the name's Mana" Mana replied
"That's gonna get confusing, there's a lady who owns a winery uptown who has the same name as you but spelt differently
Mana laughed "Mine's pronounced Man-ah, if the other lady's name is spelt with another n her's would sound Man-er as in manners" Mana replied.
"Anyhow, you'r big brother has opened his new shop just opposite, his farm is around the corner on the left and he recently built a shop for his girlfriend who works at the clinic" Lillia said
"Big brother's got a girlfriend!!!" Mana laughed
"I'm nearly finished here, I'll take you over in a moment" Popuri said
Back at Jack's store, Jack found the comic that Karen was looking for, Stu had bought some pokemon cards when something caught Jack's eye.
"Sis? Is that you??!!" Jack exclaimed
"Jack!!" Mana smiled hugging Jack
"When did you get into town?" Jack smiled
"3 days ago, I've been staying at the inn, been looking for a flat but no joy yet" Mana said
"Oh I've built a new flat over my girlfriend's new shop next door..... Elli, I'd like you to meet my sister" Jack called to Elli
"Nice to meet you" Elli smiled
"Mana's new in town, she's looking for a flat, do you mind if she takes the one over your store?" Jack asked
"Sure, I was going to use it as a office but then a office dosen't suit a florists store" Elli said
"I love flowers!" Mana replied
"Hey Elli you said you'd like some help in your new store, Mana could help out and she could mann it wile you are working at the Clinic" Jack suggested
"That'll be cool" Elli said
Almost 2 weeks later the crop harvest was intense; there was an overflow of sweet potatos, Zack had to make four trips due to the overflow of crops. Christmas was coming next season and Elli was trying to think of the perfect present for Jack, she noticed that Jack kept all of his accounting details on his computer but she realised what Jack needed was a computer that he could take around with him, Elli walked outside.
"Jack do you need any help?" Elli asked
"Could you bring out the cows and sheep out to graze please, thanks" Jack replied
Elli picked up the bell, walked over to the barns, opened the doors and rang the bell, the cows and sheep filed out onto the grass parstures.
"I'm going into town, do you need anything?" Elli asked
"Only yourself" Jack smirked
"Oh Jack!!" Elli giggled
"I'll be in the mine when you get back" Jack said loading up his quadbike
"You be careful OK?" Elli said ::I gotta find out about laptops, I'll ask Mary about it:: Elli thought
Elli came back and she saw that Jack hadn't come back at his usal time so she decided to bathe in Jack's bathroom. A few minutes passed and Jack arrived back with a trailer full of full baskets of Bronze, Silver and Gold ore and several crates of large fish; Jack was so dirty after all that mining so he decided to take a shower not knowing that Elli was already in his bathroom. Jack walked into the house greeted by Koto and switiched on the Hi-Fi loud, Elli couldn't hear the music because of the sound of the shower. Jack walked towards the bathroom door just as Elli stepped out of the shower, Jack stepped into the room and saw Elli naked
"Ack! Sorry Elli didn't know you were in here!!!" Jack blushed as he rushed out
Jack sat at the table totally embarrassed, he picked up a face towel and wiped his face. Jack leaned back and wondered why he was so embarrassed after all Elli had spent the night before and had no problem with that, Jack logged onto a Duel Monsters on-line card catalouge and flicked through.
::Gotta go to old man Barley's farm to buy some sheep..... hold on!:: Jack thought as something in the catalouge caught his eye
Blue Eyes White Dragon
Extreamely rare, only 4 of these have been produced.
Due to thier rarity we only have one
Price 165,000G
::Whoa! I've got the other three in my deck!! And all three God cards are worth just under that price of that card!!!!:: Jack exclaimed
Elli came out of the bathroom in a dressing gown blushing "Jack there's no need to be sorry, I should of locked the door. Anyhow how did it go at the mine?" Elli said kissing Jack on his cheek
"Just fine, Zack's outside loading the ore and the harvest onto his pickup" Jack said
The season went by and it was now a week before christmas; Elli went over to Won's place at the beach to order the laptop that Jack had his eye on. Since no crops could be grown during winter Jack spent most of his time at his shop inbetween tending to his animals and mining at the spring and winter mines. Jack was sitting at the counter busy reading one of his manga books.
"Hello Jack!" Stu smiled
"Morning Stu, where's your sister?" Jack smiled
"Elli when out earlier this morning to speak to Mr Won down at the beach, dunno what for though" Stu replied
"So what do you need?" Jack asked
"Four Magician's force and three Pharoh's servant please Jack" Stu said
"Here you go that'll be 1,750G" Jack said handing over the booster packs
Jack swiped Stu's savings card through the reader and gave the card back to Stu.
"Bye Jack see you later!" Stu said walking out of the shop
"Its nearly time to ask Elli..." Jack mumbled
"Ask Elli what?" Mana asked
"Hey! Mana don't scare me like that!!" Jack said
"Sorry bro, so what are you going to ask Elli about?" Mana asked
"Umm nothing!!" Jack said trying to change the subject
"You're hiding something!!!" Mana smiled
It was Christmas day, the laptop the Elli ordered had arrived and was wrapped up, the Christmas party was going to be held in the inn. Jack stood by the window in his house, he held the box containing the blue feather and pocketed it in the inside pocket of his jacket.
"Today's the day" Jack said
Koto looked up at Jack and wagged his tail. It was six o'clock and everybody gathered in the inn, Jack's sister, Mana who has been in Mineral town for just 2 seasons already has an admirier, Joe who arrived from a neighbouring town to find some work who was working in Jack's shop with Kai, Joe and his younger brother Kurt often helped Jack on his farm. Karen was at the bar having a drinking match against Ann, Saibara and Barley were chatting. It was time to give out the presents, everybody had given thiers to everybody, Elli had given her present to Jack, no wit was his turn.
"Elli.... I've loved you ever since I came to this town, ever since we met when we were little we have been good friends, and I ask you this" Jack said getting on one knee producing the blue feather "Will you marry me?" Jack smiled
A huge gasp came from the others at the party, tears of joy ran down Elli's face.
"Elli?" Jack asked
Everybody waited for Elli's answer......
To be continued...