Title : Where The Sea Meets The Sky
Author : Jaggie 107
Disclaimer : JAG characters belong to DPB, CBS and Paramount. 'Sue Thomas, F.B.Eye' belongs to PAX TV - and I hope all parties will allow me to have fun for a little while, and replace them all when I'm done. Thank you. (Here's the disclaimer for NCIS, as above...I'll leave it in for the rest of the story; makes life easier when I need to 'borrow' Gibbs and his team!)
Rating : G to PG-13
Thanks go to cbw, jtbwriter, beegirl, katydid13, ninjaturtle, capriceann, starryeyes10, kirsten, soonerfan, another tracy, tomcat-all, lori4, carol, eliv.thade, alicia5, fragmentpieces, kesh, claysmvl, chicmns, skyefire, tammy-jet, abigaile, kjflygirl87, anna7, nikki, jbird7986, angelab, pineapplehead, rosa, manda and rinkrat for their reviews. As before, any reviewers I miss between posts will be added to the list for the next chapter!
Replies to previous chapter reviews :
jbird7986 Thanks for your support! Please keep reading!
ninjaturtle I enjoy working the Sue/Jack relationship too, keeps my mind ticking over working on two different pairings.
abigaile The admiral's reaction is coming soon, but this chapter is still Sue/Jack.
kjflygirl87 Hi - welcome back! I'm glad you're enjoying the story, and you're right, there aren't enough STFBEye stories out there... however, this site is JAG, so back to the present! Please keep reading!
rosa I was surprised myself to find the info on the net about the flowers, and it fit in so well with what I wanted to write! I'm trying to keep up my 'post one/write one' routine, so far it's working! Please keep reading!
jtbwriter Hiya! I'm so glad you liked it, I couldn't have found better if I'd tried. I should dedicate this chapter to 'Google!' :o) Hope the cohorts like it, and the ex-boss-to-be. Sounds a bit crazy where you are right now! BTW, the box is about to be opened! Enjoy! Thanks as always.
nikki I would love to have an apology like that (I wouldn't mind 'Jack' doing the apologizing either! Oops, back to real life!); that's what writing is for, we can live through our words! Please keep reading!
skyefire Oooh! Isn't it great when something you want to happen, happens! Please keep reading!
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SUE'S APARTMENT
WASHINGTON DC
SATURDAY LUNCHTIME
"You've been busy," Sue murmured, letting her gaze roam around the room before coming back to settle on Jack and the bouquet of roses he still held. The roses from which the small box with its mystery contents still hung.
Jack couldn't trust his voice, not just yet, so he nodded and moved forward a little. Sue looked at the box again, and then raised her eyes to Jack's face, a question in her eyes.
Jack cleared his throat a little, but his voice was still thick when he spoke.
"I...I bought the flowers almost as soon as I'd left the building. I think I've cleared out the contents of the shop down the street."
Sue smiled a little at that - she knew the shop well, and albeit small it sold a variety of flowers and plants. It would be easy to clear out the stock if...say...someone wanted to fill a room with flowers! It wouldn't take the owner long to restock, she knew, as it was a popular store, but on Jack's purchases alone the staff could afford to take the day off!
"I went for a walk with Levi...after you left," Sue told him, not mentioning the part where she cried first. Jack could tell from the huskiness in her voice, though, that she had shed tears too. "I met up with Bobby."
"Oh." It wasn't a question, more a statement of fact. Sue raised an eyebrow.
"He said he didn't know where you were, but you knew where he was, didn't you?"
Jack managed a guilty grin. "Kind of...yes. I was going to come back here with these roses, but I saw you leave with Levi and figured you'd be going to the park. I rang Bobby to keep you...occupied....while I bought the rest of the flowers. He didn't know where I was, or what I was up to, I promise. I just asked him to go to the park."
"And the box? Did you buy that today, too?"
"The box? Oh...no, no I didn't." Jack picked the box up in his fingers and looked at it for a moment before he looked back up at Sue. "I've had this for a while," he murmured, and Sue's face paled slightly. Jack closed the gap between them and placed the roses in her arms, with the box on the top. As Sue moved to hold the flowers more securely, Jack placed his hands over hers, and looked at her.
"I've thought of so many ways I wanted this moment to occur, that we'd be out to dinner somewhere, or at my apartment; the least expected would be after apologizing to you, and I know this may seem a little forced coming after what has happened," Jack paused, still looking hard at Sue, and she still remained standing, her face regaining some color, for which he was grateful. The last thing he wanted was for her to be ill. "Sue, there is never a 'right moment' or a 'right place', and we could waste so much time trying to find the impossible, so I'll just ask here, now, as we are...will you marry me?"
Sue was speechless. Levi suddenly sat up, as if he knew something momentous was happening. His 'huff' of response made Jack smile, and he glanced down at the golden retriever before returning his gaze to Sue.
"Sue...?"
"Yes, and yes!" Sue answered, and Jack's hands moved from holding hers to holding her face as he leaned in and kissed her. As her words registered, he pulled his head back, reluctantly breaking the kiss.
"Yes, and yes?" he queried, and Sue laughed softly.
"Yes, I'll marry you, and yes, I accept your apology. The flowers are beautiful, Jack."
"Thank you, for your generous heart, your quick mind, and your beautiful..." Jack leaned in as close as possible and murmured the last few words, which caused heat to rise in her cheeks and she accepted his second kiss, almost crushing the roses between them as Jack put his arms around her to pull her in to his body. In time to save the fragile buds, and to retrieve the box that had fallen to the end of the ribbon again, Sue pulled back. The box!
"Erm...Jack?" she asked, softly, raising her eyes to look into his, the smile on her face showing without reserve the love that she felt for this man.
"Hm?" Jack murmured in response, his dark-eyed gaze fixed on hers, his head full of thoughts of what their life from this moment on was going to be like.
"Can I open the box now?" Sue queried, grinning as she knew the moment his thoughts had focused on the box, and its contents.
"Oh! Of course...I forgot, the box...here..." Jack walked backwards to the couch, and pulled Sue down to sit next to him as he lifted the box up while Sue still held the bouquet of roses. Opening the outer box, Sue saw the smaller velvet box inside, and as Jack tipped it out onto his hand and held the base she lifted the lid to reveal the contents.
"Jack...it's beautiful!" Sue ran a gentle fingertip over the diamond and sapphire combination setting resting on the ring of platinum. Jack removed the ring from it's velvet bed and placed it on the third finger of her left hand, lifting her hand to his lips then and dropping a soft kiss over her finger and the ring.
Sue moved to place the roses and the two empty boxes on the coffee table, but Jack retained his grip on her left hand. As Sue sat up again Jack spoke.
"What I want right now is to make love with you, but there are two things we need to talk about first."
"Lucy isn't coming back until tomorrow," Sue answered, and Jack was amazed that she had read his mind so well! Then it dawned on him that if she knew he was asking about Lucy being in the apartment, then she was also aware that he needed to talk about Gibbs too.
"I was jealous...am jealous...of Gibbs, Sue. Hell, I'm jealous of anyone who gets to spend time with you when I can't. With Gibbs, though, it just winds me up that he thinks he only has to click his fingers and you'll be there to help him. The fact that he knows signing gets to me too!" Jack ended his statement, and Sue grinned.
"Maybe if you stamp your foot you'll complete the picture I have in my head of you as a little tyrant!" she murmured, and as Jack opened his mouth to speak again she put the fingers of her left hand across his mouth. "I love you, Jack Hudson, and I'm flattered that you're jealous over me...it's a 'girl thing', we like our men to be jealous sometimes." At this admission Jack smiled and Sue felt his lips move beneath her fingers, sending a shiver through her. "As for the clicking of fingers, I don't jump to that signal for anyone - even you! And the signing is something that Gibbs has done for a long time. Almost as long as I have. You are still learning to sign, Jack, and that you are, and doing it to help yourself as much as me, means so much to me. No-one, except my family, has ever learned to sign for that reason. You, and the rest of the team, take my breath away at the fact that you are prepared to do this to help each of you to communicate. But it is the knowledge that you are doing it for yourselves, and not just for me, that makes the gesture so much more appreciated."
"They all love you, too, you know," Jack said softly, and Sue nodded, and then smiled as a thought came to her. Jack tilted his head at her expression.
"What?" he asked.
"I know, and I love them all too, but I only want to 'make' love with one of them," Sue murmured, and Jack moved forward, so Sue was laying under him on the couch as he touched his lips to hers before speaking.
"I'm very glad we're straight on everything now, as I don't think I can wait any longer, Sue." As Jack moved slightly Sue groaned in response, aware of his arousal, but also aware that she had something she needed to do before she gave herself up to Jack. Now if she could just tell her body to cooperate!
"Erm...Jack? Levi...I need to feed Levi, first..."
"And then?" Jack asked, knowing exactly what he was doing as he moved a little more against Sue, making her breath hiss as she tried to formulate an answer.
"Then...then Bobby..."
Jack's head came up at those words. "You need to feed Bobby?" he asked, incredulous.
Sue laughed, shaking her head. "No, not feed him...call him, later...maybe we could...have dinner with him...before....your apartment"
"Before what?" Jack glossed over the 'have dinner' part to get to the bit about moving this celebration to his apartment.
Sue managed to drag her senses together long enough to speak coherently. "Lucy is back tomorrow, and I want to wake up with you in the morning and not worry about having to get up early to make sure she doesn't catch me...us...". 'Well, that was a reasonably coherent statement', she thought.
"Making out?" Jack put in, not really sure what Sue was trying to get at.
"Making love..." Sue took a deep breath and then let it out slowly before continuing. "Jack, Lucy and I have never had men stay in the apartment when the other has been there...although in my case, there's only been you, and Lucy has been away."
"I understand what you're saying, Sue. How about we feed Levi and then go to my apartment before we get too carried away here?"
Sue nodded in reply, and even as she agreed to not getting too carried away Jack moved again, ostensibly to get to his feet, but Sue wanted more of his touch and she pulled him to her by the simple means of grabbing his shirt front.
Levi's food was a little late getting into his bowl, but he wasn't complaining. And while he was eating his food, Sue went to her room to pack a few things for sleeping over at Jack's, and of course Jack had to help out!
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To be continued
Author : Jaggie 107
Disclaimer : JAG characters belong to DPB, CBS and Paramount. 'Sue Thomas, F.B.Eye' belongs to PAX TV - and I hope all parties will allow me to have fun for a little while, and replace them all when I'm done. Thank you. (Here's the disclaimer for NCIS, as above...I'll leave it in for the rest of the story; makes life easier when I need to 'borrow' Gibbs and his team!)
Rating : G to PG-13
Thanks go to cbw, jtbwriter, beegirl, katydid13, ninjaturtle, capriceann, starryeyes10, kirsten, soonerfan, another tracy, tomcat-all, lori4, carol, eliv.thade, alicia5, fragmentpieces, kesh, claysmvl, chicmns, skyefire, tammy-jet, abigaile, kjflygirl87, anna7, nikki, jbird7986, angelab, pineapplehead, rosa, manda and rinkrat for their reviews. As before, any reviewers I miss between posts will be added to the list for the next chapter!
Replies to previous chapter reviews :
jbird7986 Thanks for your support! Please keep reading!
ninjaturtle I enjoy working the Sue/Jack relationship too, keeps my mind ticking over working on two different pairings.
abigaile The admiral's reaction is coming soon, but this chapter is still Sue/Jack.
kjflygirl87 Hi - welcome back! I'm glad you're enjoying the story, and you're right, there aren't enough STFBEye stories out there... however, this site is JAG, so back to the present! Please keep reading!
rosa I was surprised myself to find the info on the net about the flowers, and it fit in so well with what I wanted to write! I'm trying to keep up my 'post one/write one' routine, so far it's working! Please keep reading!
jtbwriter Hiya! I'm so glad you liked it, I couldn't have found better if I'd tried. I should dedicate this chapter to 'Google!' :o) Hope the cohorts like it, and the ex-boss-to-be. Sounds a bit crazy where you are right now! BTW, the box is about to be opened! Enjoy! Thanks as always.
nikki I would love to have an apology like that (I wouldn't mind 'Jack' doing the apologizing either! Oops, back to real life!); that's what writing is for, we can live through our words! Please keep reading!
skyefire Oooh! Isn't it great when something you want to happen, happens! Please keep reading!
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SUE'S APARTMENT
WASHINGTON DC
SATURDAY LUNCHTIME
"You've been busy," Sue murmured, letting her gaze roam around the room before coming back to settle on Jack and the bouquet of roses he still held. The roses from which the small box with its mystery contents still hung.
Jack couldn't trust his voice, not just yet, so he nodded and moved forward a little. Sue looked at the box again, and then raised her eyes to Jack's face, a question in her eyes.
Jack cleared his throat a little, but his voice was still thick when he spoke.
"I...I bought the flowers almost as soon as I'd left the building. I think I've cleared out the contents of the shop down the street."
Sue smiled a little at that - she knew the shop well, and albeit small it sold a variety of flowers and plants. It would be easy to clear out the stock if...say...someone wanted to fill a room with flowers! It wouldn't take the owner long to restock, she knew, as it was a popular store, but on Jack's purchases alone the staff could afford to take the day off!
"I went for a walk with Levi...after you left," Sue told him, not mentioning the part where she cried first. Jack could tell from the huskiness in her voice, though, that she had shed tears too. "I met up with Bobby."
"Oh." It wasn't a question, more a statement of fact. Sue raised an eyebrow.
"He said he didn't know where you were, but you knew where he was, didn't you?"
Jack managed a guilty grin. "Kind of...yes. I was going to come back here with these roses, but I saw you leave with Levi and figured you'd be going to the park. I rang Bobby to keep you...occupied....while I bought the rest of the flowers. He didn't know where I was, or what I was up to, I promise. I just asked him to go to the park."
"And the box? Did you buy that today, too?"
"The box? Oh...no, no I didn't." Jack picked the box up in his fingers and looked at it for a moment before he looked back up at Sue. "I've had this for a while," he murmured, and Sue's face paled slightly. Jack closed the gap between them and placed the roses in her arms, with the box on the top. As Sue moved to hold the flowers more securely, Jack placed his hands over hers, and looked at her.
"I've thought of so many ways I wanted this moment to occur, that we'd be out to dinner somewhere, or at my apartment; the least expected would be after apologizing to you, and I know this may seem a little forced coming after what has happened," Jack paused, still looking hard at Sue, and she still remained standing, her face regaining some color, for which he was grateful. The last thing he wanted was for her to be ill. "Sue, there is never a 'right moment' or a 'right place', and we could waste so much time trying to find the impossible, so I'll just ask here, now, as we are...will you marry me?"
Sue was speechless. Levi suddenly sat up, as if he knew something momentous was happening. His 'huff' of response made Jack smile, and he glanced down at the golden retriever before returning his gaze to Sue.
"Sue...?"
"Yes, and yes!" Sue answered, and Jack's hands moved from holding hers to holding her face as he leaned in and kissed her. As her words registered, he pulled his head back, reluctantly breaking the kiss.
"Yes, and yes?" he queried, and Sue laughed softly.
"Yes, I'll marry you, and yes, I accept your apology. The flowers are beautiful, Jack."
"Thank you, for your generous heart, your quick mind, and your beautiful..." Jack leaned in as close as possible and murmured the last few words, which caused heat to rise in her cheeks and she accepted his second kiss, almost crushing the roses between them as Jack put his arms around her to pull her in to his body. In time to save the fragile buds, and to retrieve the box that had fallen to the end of the ribbon again, Sue pulled back. The box!
"Erm...Jack?" she asked, softly, raising her eyes to look into his, the smile on her face showing without reserve the love that she felt for this man.
"Hm?" Jack murmured in response, his dark-eyed gaze fixed on hers, his head full of thoughts of what their life from this moment on was going to be like.
"Can I open the box now?" Sue queried, grinning as she knew the moment his thoughts had focused on the box, and its contents.
"Oh! Of course...I forgot, the box...here..." Jack walked backwards to the couch, and pulled Sue down to sit next to him as he lifted the box up while Sue still held the bouquet of roses. Opening the outer box, Sue saw the smaller velvet box inside, and as Jack tipped it out onto his hand and held the base she lifted the lid to reveal the contents.
"Jack...it's beautiful!" Sue ran a gentle fingertip over the diamond and sapphire combination setting resting on the ring of platinum. Jack removed the ring from it's velvet bed and placed it on the third finger of her left hand, lifting her hand to his lips then and dropping a soft kiss over her finger and the ring.
Sue moved to place the roses and the two empty boxes on the coffee table, but Jack retained his grip on her left hand. As Sue sat up again Jack spoke.
"What I want right now is to make love with you, but there are two things we need to talk about first."
"Lucy isn't coming back until tomorrow," Sue answered, and Jack was amazed that she had read his mind so well! Then it dawned on him that if she knew he was asking about Lucy being in the apartment, then she was also aware that he needed to talk about Gibbs too.
"I was jealous...am jealous...of Gibbs, Sue. Hell, I'm jealous of anyone who gets to spend time with you when I can't. With Gibbs, though, it just winds me up that he thinks he only has to click his fingers and you'll be there to help him. The fact that he knows signing gets to me too!" Jack ended his statement, and Sue grinned.
"Maybe if you stamp your foot you'll complete the picture I have in my head of you as a little tyrant!" she murmured, and as Jack opened his mouth to speak again she put the fingers of her left hand across his mouth. "I love you, Jack Hudson, and I'm flattered that you're jealous over me...it's a 'girl thing', we like our men to be jealous sometimes." At this admission Jack smiled and Sue felt his lips move beneath her fingers, sending a shiver through her. "As for the clicking of fingers, I don't jump to that signal for anyone - even you! And the signing is something that Gibbs has done for a long time. Almost as long as I have. You are still learning to sign, Jack, and that you are, and doing it to help yourself as much as me, means so much to me. No-one, except my family, has ever learned to sign for that reason. You, and the rest of the team, take my breath away at the fact that you are prepared to do this to help each of you to communicate. But it is the knowledge that you are doing it for yourselves, and not just for me, that makes the gesture so much more appreciated."
"They all love you, too, you know," Jack said softly, and Sue nodded, and then smiled as a thought came to her. Jack tilted his head at her expression.
"What?" he asked.
"I know, and I love them all too, but I only want to 'make' love with one of them," Sue murmured, and Jack moved forward, so Sue was laying under him on the couch as he touched his lips to hers before speaking.
"I'm very glad we're straight on everything now, as I don't think I can wait any longer, Sue." As Jack moved slightly Sue groaned in response, aware of his arousal, but also aware that she had something she needed to do before she gave herself up to Jack. Now if she could just tell her body to cooperate!
"Erm...Jack? Levi...I need to feed Levi, first..."
"And then?" Jack asked, knowing exactly what he was doing as he moved a little more against Sue, making her breath hiss as she tried to formulate an answer.
"Then...then Bobby..."
Jack's head came up at those words. "You need to feed Bobby?" he asked, incredulous.
Sue laughed, shaking her head. "No, not feed him...call him, later...maybe we could...have dinner with him...before....your apartment"
"Before what?" Jack glossed over the 'have dinner' part to get to the bit about moving this celebration to his apartment.
Sue managed to drag her senses together long enough to speak coherently. "Lucy is back tomorrow, and I want to wake up with you in the morning and not worry about having to get up early to make sure she doesn't catch me...us...". 'Well, that was a reasonably coherent statement', she thought.
"Making out?" Jack put in, not really sure what Sue was trying to get at.
"Making love..." Sue took a deep breath and then let it out slowly before continuing. "Jack, Lucy and I have never had men stay in the apartment when the other has been there...although in my case, there's only been you, and Lucy has been away."
"I understand what you're saying, Sue. How about we feed Levi and then go to my apartment before we get too carried away here?"
Sue nodded in reply, and even as she agreed to not getting too carried away Jack moved again, ostensibly to get to his feet, but Sue wanted more of his touch and she pulled him to her by the simple means of grabbing his shirt front.
Levi's food was a little late getting into his bowl, but he wasn't complaining. And while he was eating his food, Sue went to her room to pack a few things for sleeping over at Jack's, and of course Jack had to help out!
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To be continued