Across the Times
By: Nightingale
Rating: PG13
Once everything was packed up in the dark the two left their secret hideaway.
"You don't mind coming to my house first do you? I think the horses have had enough today so I want to put them in their stables and I'll drive you back to the hotel."
"Actually I don't know when the hotel's curfew is" she laughed not wanting this night to end
"I'm sure it isn't" Jack stopped as if getting her drift"There is one thing you don't know though."
"What's that" she asked
"My brother."
Wait when did he have a brother? She asked herself.
"A brother"
"Yeah, well actually I kinda adopted him. He was all alone and so I said I'd take him in. His sister was really sick and he almost died as well."
Timid!
"That was wonderful of you" She stated"Can't wait to meet him."
"Really"
"Yeah."
"Most girls would turn and run with the thought of me having a little kid around even if he is my 'brother'."
"I'm not most girls."
"I'm beginning to see that."
Gin helped Jack put away the horses before the two of them headed back to the house. It was a small little ranch but somehow it fit Jack perfectly. This is what he had always wanted and in some ironic twist he actually got it. It was dark inside but Jack found his way to the couch where a girl was sleeping.
"Babysitter" he explained
Gin nodded her head as he woke the girl up and sent her out the door. Gin noticed him slip her money before closing the door all the way. Then Jack secured the door and returned to Gin.
"I'll be right back. I'm going to check on Tyler."
"Can I come" she asked
Jack gave her a weird look as she followed him down a small hallway to the boy's room. Jack opened the door and there on the bed was Timid. He looked just like Gin remembered only much healthier and peaceful. Gin smiled and swallowed the knot forming in her throat. She would have no way at all to explain to Jack why she was crying over a boy she'd never met.
Jack left her in the hallway and walked into the dark room. Jack made sure the blankets where tucked over the boy and picked up the small glass on the table before returning to Gin and closing the door.
"He's a sweet boy" Jack promised
"I know he is"
"You do"
Gin stopped she slipped up anyway.
"He just seems like a very sweet boy."
Jack led her to the couch where the two sat and talked for hours. Gin longed to tell him all the things she never got to before but now they wouldn't make since especially the main one. I love you.
"Well my room is behind that door there. I'll sleep on the couch." Jack stated after the clock had struck 2:30 in the morning
"Oh you don't"
"I insist."
Gin nodded her head and left for the room in defeat, though it wasn't all that unpleasant.
Gin woke up that morning feeling more peaceful than she ever had since she returned from the past. She managed to drag herself out of his warm comfortable bed. She slipped into the bathroom unnoticed and quickly fixed her appearance before the mirror.
She walked into the sun filled living room. It was a beautiful house no matter how small though it did have a lack of a female touch.
"Good morning." Jack called from the kitchen
"Morning"
"Sleep well"
"Yes I did thank you."
Gin sat up on a bar stool and put her elbows on the counter to hold her head while she watched him cook breakfast. There was a soft noise behind her and she turned on her stool to see Timid-Tyler walking out of his bed room.
"Good morning" Gin said softly which cause Jack to turn and offer up his own welcome
The boy still seemed stunned to the fact that there was a girl in the house and just muttered back.
"My name's Gin" she offered
"Tyler" he offered cautiously as he pulled up the stool next to her.
"She's a friend from work." Jack stated not turning
"Well she's better than Sarah I'll give her that."
Gin couldn't help but laugh, which got Jack laughing which transferred on to Tyler. It was just like that day the three had sold together. Maybe things could be like that again one day.