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Chapter Eight- Explaining, Kissing, and Sword Fighting
Kristy awoke the next morning facing Jack with his arm around her waist, he was still sleeping. Kristy loved the feeling of being in Jacks arms, she felt safe. Kristy kissed his cheek then rolled over and got out of bed, Jack was still asleep so very quietly she put on her robe and head downstairs. It was still very early outside so she tiptoed down the stairs when she got to the bottom she looked around on her left was the sitting room, to the front of her was the door, and off to the right was a office she turned left and walked down the hall in to the only remaining door, it was the kitchen. The kitchen was cozy it had a small table off to the left that sat five and off to the right another table that had shelves under it that held bowls and cooking supplies a stove right behind it. There was a bowl of apples on the table so Kristy sat down and helped herself to one. As she ate she heard someone come into the room and turned to find Elizabeth.
"Good morning Elizabeth." Kristy said with a warm smile.
"Good morning Kristy I didn't know you were awake how did you sleep?" Elizabeth asked as she helped herself to an apple and sat down.
"Good and yourself?" Kristy asked and then took another bite from her apple.
"Good and I'm glad I need all the energy I can get for today. I have to check on some wedding plans and Will and I were invited to Governor Johnson's party, he gives one every year, mainly just the 'upper classes' are invited so since Will and I are going we thought we would invite you and Jack to come along." Elizabeth gave a pleading smile.
"Of course, I am assuming we will have to dress nice so I will have to help Jack… I wonder if he will agree to this." Kristy thought it would be fun to go and see Jack all dressed up. Kristy and Elizabeth didn't know that Jack had come downstairs and was standing right behind the kitchen door listening to every word.
"Trust me if you ask him to go he won't refuse, he likes you Kristy and you know it." Kristy gave a small smile and blushed. Jack smiled at this he did like Kristy he just hoped she liked him.
"I hope so, I get this weird feeling when I'm around him, and he makes me feel safe and loved, something I haven't felt in a long time." Kristy looked down at the table, she felt so close with Elizabeth that she had no problem telling her about her father. "You see when I was in the future I lived with my father, he abused me and it had been going on since I was almost fourteen, it was because my mother had died and he blamed me…he blamed me." Kristy was starting to cry, she didn't notice Jack come into the room. "I felt so guilty, I believed him! Can you believe that! I was so stupid…but it worked he took his pain out on me and I believed I deserved it…some days I just wished I was dead." Kristy continued to cry, she felt an arm go around her shoulders and turn her body.
"Luv…no matter wha' had happened to yer mother, it wasn' yer fault. Ye shouldn' have been treated tha' way, ye don' need to worry abou' tha' anymore, savvy? I will take care of ye an' nobody will treat ye like tha' ever again." Jack wiped away Kristy's tears and kissed her softly on the lips.
"Jack how do you always know exactly what to say?" Kristy gave him another small kiss on the lips and then hugged him.
"Kristy I'm so sorry," Elizabeth had a few tears on her cheeks "but you are here now and you don't have to worry about your father anymore, just have fun, start over." Elizabeth gave her a warm smile and stood up. "Well you two will be on your own for the rest of the day, Will is at the armory if you need him, and if you would be so kind as to join us tonight it starts at seven, now if you will excuse me I am going to go and get ready." Elizabeth walked out of the kitchen and went up to her room.
"Wha's at seven?" Jack asked as he took an apple from the bowl, he didn't want Kristy to know he had been listening to the whole conversation.
"Will and Elizabeth were invited to a party at Governor Johnson's tonight and they wanted us to join them, we would have to dress up though." Kristy looked at Jack with a pleading smile.
"Alrigh' if ye wan' to go." Kristy leaned over and kissed his cheek.
"Thank you Jack, now we are going to have to find you some nice clothes to wear." Kristy remembered passing one on the way to the dress shop yesterday.
"Aye, we can go later, but fer now how abou' we start yer sword fightin' lessons?" Jack looked at Kristy with a grin.
"Yes! That would be wonderful, I'll go get dressed." Kristy ran upstairs and went to Elizabeth's room and knocked on the door. "Can I come in?"
"Yes, come in." Elizabeth called.
Kristy walked in, their room was big it had a bed up against the wall off to the right a night stand on each side with a chest in front of the bed, two doors on the wall in front of Kristy led to a balcony off to the left of the doors was a desk covered in papers and on the right side of the wall was a small table and two chairs. The wall to the left of Kristy had a door that led to a bathroom and a little ways down from the door was an armoire. And on the same wall as the door that led into the room were a vanity and an armoire. Elizabeth was sitting at the vanity finishing up with her makeup.
"Do you have pants and a shirt I could borrow?" Kristy thought it was a slim chance but Elizabeth's face lit up.
"Yes I do, and they should fit you." Elizabeth went to the armoire and found a pair of black pants and a long sleeved white shirt. "Here, these should do, what do you need them for?"
"Jack is going to teach me how to sword fight." Elizabeth nodded.
"Thank you so much, I am going to go get dressed." Kristy turned to leave.
"Be careful Kristy." Elizabeth gave her a small smile.
"I will." Kristy turned and left the room and went to the room that was hers. Kristy got dressed, pulled her hair back into a large clip and put on some lip gloss. She went downstairs to find Jack; he was in the sitting room.
"Ready?" Kristy asked Jack, he stood up and walked towards her, until he was so close she could feel his body pushed against hers.
"Aye but are ye?" Jack wrapped his arms just under her butt and lifted her up so they were now eye to eye. Kristy gazed into his eyes, he was so handsome, she leaned in and kissed him. Jacks grip around her tightened and she place one hand on his neck and the other in his hair, Jack traced his tongue on her upper lip and she let him in. The kiss deepened and Kristy moaned into his mouth, she was in heaven.
"Well do I have great timing or what?" Elizabeth was standing behind them; she had a big smile on her face. Jack and Kristy broke apart and Jack placed Kristy back on the ground.
"Aye, ye do Elizabeth thanks." Jack said he looked disappointed. Kristy gave Elizabeth a big smile and took Jacks hand.
"I guess we can go now." Kristy said as her and Jack walked past Elizabeth and out the door.
"Bye, have a good day." Elizabeth said as Jack and Kristy left the house.
"Jack where are we going to practice at?" Kristy asked as they headed in the direction towards the ship.
"Will's smithy, he said he had extra room an' tha' we could practice there." Jack gave Kristy's hand a small squeeze and they walked into a small shop that had a sign above the door that said smithy, and had two swords crossed.
"Will?" Jack called. The smithy was quite large on the right side there was a machine with a donkey tied to it and on the left was a flat stone surface with a bed of hot coals with some unfinished swords lying around it, and some hammers and more flat stone surfaces.
"Back here." Will called from the back of the smithy. Kristy and Jack walked into the back to find Will moving crates and barrels and tools off to the sides of the room. "I was just clearing some space for you to practice."
"Thank ye Will, tha's good enough." Jack let go of Kristy's hand and picked up a sword that was on top of one of the crates.
"Ye can use this one, fer now." Jack handed Kristy the sword, it was sort of heavy but she could still move it about. Jack walked to the side of Kristy and put the sword in her hand the right way and then he drew his own sword and crossed it with Kristy's.
"I'll leave you to it then." Will said as he gave one last glace at Kristy and Jack and went back to work.
"Now, ye need to just block me from hittin' ye, savvy, we can go slowly." Jack moved his sword so that it was now coming close to Kristy's legs; she blocked it with some difficulty. Jack continued to move to strike her but Kristy always blocked the blows, Jack began to move faster. Kristy and Jack moved perfectly each of them blocking each others blows.
Jack could tell she was starting to get the hang of it, she wouldn't be able to fight anyone just yet but she was getting better. Jack and Kristy continued until it was late afternoon.
"Ye did well today." Jack said as he sheathed his sword and Kristy put hers on top of one of the crates.
"Thank you Jack." Kristy stood on her tiptoes wrapped her arms around Jack and gave him a small kiss on the lips.
"We should go and get your suit now." Kristy was still in Jacks arms, they had to go but she didn't want to leave the comfort of his arms. Jack leaned in and kissed her, he lifted her up again so that they were eye to eye. Kristy loved kissing him, this time she traced her tongue on his bottom lip and of course Jack let her in. Kristy had both of her hands in Jacks hair and Jacks hands were wrapped just under her butt. The kiss was deepening when they heard Will come into the room.
"Ah bloody hell Will, ye an' Elizabeth…" Kristy let out a small laugh as Will stood there with an open mouth.
"Sorry I just needed this crate…um, sorry." And with that Will grabbed the crate and left the room.
"Well that killed it for me." Kristy said she was still in Jacks arms, Jack let her down and she took his hand. "We should get going its getting late."
"Aye, we will finish this later." Jack and Kristy walked out of the back room and found Will.
"Thank you for letting us practice here." Kristy called as Jack dragged her out of the smithy all she heard of Wills response was "You're…" before the door shut. Her and Jack walked to the shop hand in hand.
"This is it." Kristy said as they walked into the shop named 'Wilson's', inside it was dark and crowded with racks of men's clothing. Kristy spotted an older man behind the counter.
"Can I help you?" The old man said as he walked towards them.
"Yes he just needs a nice pair of pants, a jacket, a white shirt, and some shoes for tonight." Kristy said as the old man looked Jack over and then had him stand on a round circle platform in front of the mirror. The old man measured Jack and went to one of the racks and pulled off a nice looking pair of black pants and a black jacket to go with it, Jack took the clothes from the man and went and tried them on. Kristy smiled when Jack walked out he looked amazing, the pants were perfect fitting, slightly loose, all the way down and the black jacket would look wonderful with a clean white shirt under it.
"It's wonderful, now all we need is a white shirt and some new shoes." Jack gave Kristy a small smile.
"Ok if it will make ye happy." Jack gave Kristy a small kiss and the old man came back with a white shirt and dress shoes. Jack sat down and tried on the shoes they were black dress shoes they matched perfectly.
"It's wonderful we'll take it." Kristy said as Jack took off the shoes and put back on his boots, paid for the clothes and Kristy and Jack left the store. And went back to the house, Elizabeth still wasn't home.
Kristy went upstairs and into her room, Jack following her the whole time. "Luv we have the house to ourselves." Jack said as he walked up behind Kristy and kissed her neck.
"Jack…we don't have time." Kristy was trying her hardest to resist turning around and kissing Jack. "I only have two hours to get ready and I'm going to need every minute maybe if I finish early we can finish later." Jack stopped kissing her and turned to leave the room.
"Aye…finish early." Jack said as he left the room shutting the door behind him.
Kristy laughed and started for the bathroom she would hurry and take a bath, then do her hair and makeup. Kristy hurry and took her bath washing her hair and shaving, she got out and wrapped her hair in a towel and started to do her makeup. She put on black eyeliner, purple eye shadow, mascara and a little bronzer on her face. She took her hair out of the towel and brushed it out it was dry and a little wavy, she decided to pull it up into a messy bun with some wavy pieces falling around her face. She hurry and went to get dressed but she realized she couldn't do up the back, she hoped Elizabeth was home to help her. Kristy put on her robe, left her room and went and knocked on Elizabeth's door.
"Elizabeth are you in there?" The door opened and Elizabeth was standing there in the under part of her dress with her hair and makeup already done.
"I was just coming to find you; could you help me with my dress?" Elizabeth asked and Kristy laughed.
"That's what I came to ask you." Elizabeth and Kristy both laughed and Kristy walked into the room. Elizabeth had a light blue dress with white flowers covering the dress; laying on the bed it was pretty.
"I will help you with yours first then you can help me with mine. Just hold onto the bed post, now this will make you feel like you can't breathe so I won't do it extremely tight." Kristy took hold of the bed post and Elizabeth started to do up the laces with every pull of the laces it became harder and harder to breath. When Elizabeth finished Kristy could still breathe but with some difficulty, she began to wonder if a dress was worth not breathing.
"Are you ok? Can you breathe?" Elizabeth had a somewhat amused look on her face. "You will be fine, now help me with mine." Elizabeth slipped on her corset and held onto the bedposts as Kristy began to tighten them. When Kristy had finished Elizabeth thanked her and Kristy went back to her room. When she walked in Jack was sitting on the bed, he stood up and Kristy's mouth dropped open. He had taken the beads out of his hair scrubbed off all the dirt and he was wearing the black pants the jacket, the new shirt with two of the buttons undone and the new shoes, he was incredibly handsome.
"Well, how do I look?" Jack asked as he walked closer to Kristy.
"Very handsome." Kristy stood on tiptoe and kissed him. "I still have to get dressed." Kristy walked over to the bed and Jack sat down on the other side of the bed. Kristy took the dress, shoes and jewelry and went into the bathroom. She slipped off the robe and put on the dress then the jewelry and shoes. Kristy looked in the mirror and thought she looked quite nice, the dress showed off a perfect amount of cleavage, and she loved the way the dress sparkled. She picked the robe up and walked out of the bathroom. Jack got off the bed and walked towards her.
"Luv ye look wonderful." Jack said and he captured her lips in the most breathtaking kiss yet. Jacks hands wondered over Kristy's back and Kristy had placed one hand on Jacks chest the other in his hair. Both Kristy and Jack were so into the kiss they barely heard the knock on the door.
"Jack? Kristy? Its time to go." It was Elizabeth again. Kristy and Jack broke apart and Jack looked a little angry.
"Aye were comin'." Jack looked back at Kristy she was taking in deep breaths and looking at Jack with a smile on her face, Jack thought she was beautiful. Jack kissed her one last time.
"Well luv, shall we?" Jack offered Kristy his arm and they went downstairs. Elizabeth and Will were standing at the bottom of the stairs Will was wearing black pants a white shirt a black jacket and black shoes, he almost matched Jack. Elizabeth had her hair down in soft waves and she was wearing the light blue dress with the white flowers that showed very little cleavage and was long sleeved she also had a blue shawl around her and she was holding a white one.
"Kristy you look lovely." Elizabeth gave Kristy a hug and gave her the shawl.
"You look lovely also." Kristy said as she took the shawl from Elizabeth
"Wow Jack I had no idea you could clean up so nice." Elizabeth gave him a smirk and turned back to Will. "You and Will almost look alike."
"You clean up nice Jack." Will gave Jack a smirk. "And you look very nice Kristy."
"Aye, ye an' Elizabeth look very nice." Jack gave Will a big smile. They both thanked him.
"Thank you Will, you look nice also." Kristy said and Elizabeth took Wills hand and they started to open the door. Kristy put on the shawl and her and Jack followed them and they headed off to the party Kristy and Jack hand in hand.