"Guess where we're going?" Jack shouted as he bounced into Will and Grace's apartment.
"Jack it's still early, please just tell me." Grace moaned sipping her coffee.
"Oh grace your no fun, anyway Karen and I are going to London." Jack gave himself jazz hands and jumped up and down on the spot. "I'm so excited, London, I've always wanted to go to London."
"Wow, Jack that's great, I'm jealous I've never been, Will has though."
"You should be Jealous Grace, I'm going to London, with my lover, two things you haven't got, doesn't that just depress you?"
"Yeh thanks for that Jack, just what I needed to hear." Grace replied sarcastically moving towards her room.
"Hey, G why don't you and Will come with" Jack asked innocently.
"Really, you think we could, and you or Karen wouldn't mind?"
"Course not the more the merrier, ask Will about it and let us know I'll run tell Karen, yeh, London." He skipped out the apartment happily leaving Grace pondering the idea of the trip. 'I've always wanted to go to London' she thought to herself, the culture, the history, the entertainment, the men, the opportunities were endless. She smiled to herself and went to get ready for work.
Across the hall Karen stood looking angry, arms folded and eyes fixed on Jack whose smile had faded.
"What the hell did you ask Grace to come for, I spent last night trying to convince you you were the most important thing in my life, we decide we need to spend some time together, alone and you invite tweedle dum and tweedle dee along, Jack what were you thinking."
"Kare, I wasn't thinking, I'm so excited it didn't even cross my mind that inviting Will and Grace would be a problem."
"You were the one who stormed out of there last night telling me I spend to much time with Will, now you've invited them on our holiday, Jack I wanted it to be us, just us." Karen sat down next to Jack looking sad.
"Sorry, I promise we'll make time for us and not just in the boudoir." He nudged her side trying to make her smile.
"Don't do that." She muttered.
"What?"
"Say 'boudoir,' Grace says that its not cute or sexy, trust me."
"What ever you say." He laughed, "Hey look on the bright side they may not want to come with us." He put his arm around her shoulder as she snuggled into him. A few seconds later the door flew open,
"Yeh, were all going to London." Will and Grace shouted together.
Karen looked up at Jack and smiled "you were saying" she whispered to him.
Three weeks later the four friends landed safely at Heathrow airport.
"Great it's raining, there goes my hair." Grace moaned fighting with her umbrella. "Will go get us a cab."
"Honey your with me, I don't get cabs, see that limo, that's our ride now get." Karen smacked Grace across the ass and manoeuvred her towards the long black limo.
"The Dorchester driver." Karen shouted her orders and leaned into Jack, "welcome to London Poodle." She kissed his cheek and looked up at him. He mouthed the words 'I love you' and started starring out of the window, watching London fly past.
"So what's the plan of action."? Will asked interrupting the silence.
"Well I want to see the palace, and London tower." Grace shouted eagerly.
"We could go on one of those bus tours tomorrow." Jack suggested.
"Honey. No, I don't do buses." Karen sighed.
"But Kare it's the best way to see all the sights." Jack whined.
"Jack there is no way I'm getting an open top bus in the middle of winter and trekking around London, once you've seen one old building you've seen them all, I want to hit bond street and hit it hard." She smiled thinking about all the designer shops that lived on that one street.
"I'll get a bus with you Jack, Will and Karen have both been here before I want to see it all, I'll go with you, then perhaps will and Karen could go shopping or see a show or something." Grace suggested.
"Sounds like a plan, Karen how would you like to see a Shakespeare play, at the globe, I know you'll be going to most of the musicals with Jack, but it would be good to see a proper play and performed in the old way, what do you say, we'll get posh seats you won't have to stand." Will sounded like he was desperate to go so Karen agreed.
"Well that's tomorrow sorted, how about we get unpacked and meet for dinner in about 2 hours." Grace asked looking on in oar as they pulled up to the Dorchester hotel. "Wow." She muttered to herself.
"Impressive isn't it honey, come on Jackie let's get our room sorted we'll see you about 7.30." She waved her arm at them as she grabbed onto Jack who was jumping about in excitement and led the way into the grand hotel.
"Oh my God, Karen this place is like a palace, look at the bed, I won't be able to find you in there." He giggled to himself as he took in his surrounding. "Karen the bubble bath is Christian Dior, it's actually Christian Dior." He shouted.
"Honey, I've told you this so many times, I only have the best, especially for my Jackie."
"There's a piano, I've died and gone to heaven." Jack said as he lightly fingered the keys.
"Did you stay here with Stan?" he asked quietly.
"No honey, we stayed at the Radisson, but I always thought this one looked better, it has a view of the park, you never mention Stan why bring him up now?"
"No reason, I just wonder sometimes."
"About what?"
"Silly, really, I just wonder if you were happier when Stan was alive."
"Jack I loved Stan I did, but I've never loved anyone the way I love you, don't think I ever could, it's strange ever since we first met, something just clicked inside of me, I knew then that you were my soul mate, and although it took 7 years for us to discover our latest phase, I still think I loved you more than anyone even after knowing you a week, does that sound strange?"
Jack walked across the room and pulled her into a hug, "no I think that sounds pretty wonderful." He whispered into her ear.
"Jack, you do know you don't have to compete with Stan don't you?"
He just nodded his reply into her neck. Karen pulled away from him and looked into his eyes. "I'm serious Jack you don't have to compete with Stan, he was a good man, he brought me everything I wanted, worshiped the ground I walked on, well he use to until Lorraine came along, but that's beside the point, Jack I don't want to be worshipped I want to be loved and if there was ever a contest you'd win, hands down."
"Even if we were penniless?"
"Even if we were penniless." She smiled.
"Even if we had to live with Will and Grace?" he asked smiling.
"Now honey that's pushing it a bit, but I suppose so."
"Good cause I maybe be a poor, struggling actor, with great hair, a winning smile and a killer ass, but I'd be nothing without you."
"Oh honey we're getting to sickly, we sound like an episode of Friends, and the motto of the story is!" she replied sarcastically causing Jack to hit her playfully on the arm.
"I love you." He said smiling down at her, "now get you ass on the bed so I can prove it."
"Now Jack that's not very gentlemanly." Karen giggled as she jumped on the bed.
"Well your no lady, now lay back and think of England." Jack laughed as he climbed onto the bed himself.
"God it's like climbing Everest just getting on this thing." He moaned as he pulled himself up.
"Get yourself up here now Jack, I ain't lying here for nothing."
"Way to turn a man on Kare." Jack laughed.
"Come off it Jack your always turned on, now go, we only have and hour before we have to get ready to meet Wilma and gross."
"Where's the romance gone." Jack laughed as he took his shirt off.
"Well if your not interested I could always…." He stopped her mouth with a kiss and pushed her back down on to the bed.
"Romance is back." She whispered breathlessly as she broke the kiss.
"Remember don't make to much noise, Will and Grace are next door." Jack muttered into her neck.
"Hey you're the loud one." She shouted making him stop his attentions to her neck.
"We'll see." He laughed as he captured her lips again. "We'll see."
The first week of their trip seemed to fly by, shopping at Harrods, Hamleys, and Bond Street. Taking a trip on the London eye. Jack and Grace had visited the dungeons; the war museum, London Tower, Buckingham Palace and their hop on hop off bus tour had been a great success. Will and Karen had occupied themselves with the more cultural side of the city, they dined at the Ritz, ate lunch at the ivy. Will stood outside countless amounts of dressing rooms waiting for Karen and in return she trekked around art museums and galleries. The nights were taken up by theatre trips and dinner at the finest restaurants. Jack and Karen had seen nearly every musical in the West End and still they found more to see but Will had scheduled Saturday night for himself, he had decided to hit Soho, the gay centre of London, full of trendy bars and clubs.
"Please come with me Jack, Grace wants to go but she just cramps my style." Will whined at his friend.
"What style would that be!" Jack joked in reply.
"Jack please, Karen and Grace can have a girly night, please come with me."
"Will I can't it's too weird, I mean I'm with Karen now, to be honest I don't want to spend the evening in a gay bar, I sooner spend the night with her."
"Oh come on Jack, you've spent every night with her, you won't even have to stay for long, please come unless you feel you can't handle it, not as straight as you thought hey?" Will question slyly.
"That's not fair Will, I couldn't care less what type of bar we went to, I love Karen, I want to spend the evening with her."
"It's ok poodle, I don't mind if you go, Grace and I will hit the town too and we could meet up later, it will at least shut him up and besides all the men that come onto you you can pass onto Will, you never know he might get some." Karen laughed.
"Hey, I don't need Jack's help." Will replied.
"Oh honey, trust me you do." Karen walked over to Jack and kissed him firmly on the lips. "I'll meet you in that bar across from the theatre showing Mary Poppins at about 12.30, how's that sound."
"Ok, if you insist I'll go with Will, but you have nothing to worry about I'm with you and not on the look out for anyone else." Jack said returning her kiss.
"I know honey I trust you, beside just think what Rosie will do to you if you upset me again, see you later." Karen walked off to find Grace and get ready for her night out, leaving Jack and Will in the foyer area.
"Right Soho here we come." Will said clapping his hands and heading out the door. Jack started to follow but stopped to get his Mobil phone out, he wrote a text and sent it before catching up with Will.
"What was that you were sending?" will asked.
"Oh nothing." Jack replied casually putting his phone away.