Author: rainyday101
Rating: pg for now but it will most likely pg13 later on
Disclaimer: besides my cd collection, and my cat nos, I own nothing. This includes the Tribe and evrything affiliated with it.
Summary: while working on a project together jack starts to rethink his opinion of ram (ramjack) SLASH
a/n:im so sucky at being randomly evil. i couldnt just leave it there i had to write what happened next (walks away muttering needing to kill schmoopy tendencies)
chapter four:agreements
Jack couldn't believe that he was so stupid.
Actualy he could. After all, just because a person was smart didn't mean they couldnt be dumb.
Yeah because that made so much sense.
He was rambling a mile a minute to himself. "Christ, how could I tell him, never mind Ruby trying to ruin my life, clearly I have it completly under control. She'd be so proud. I might as well start digging my grave now, make sure I make it the full six feet because i'm pretty sure i've fucked it up good and well this time"
Just as he was about to start slamming his head against the nearest hard surface, the very last person in the world that he wanted to see came into the room.
"You like ME?"
Ram didn't really sound mad or disgusted, more like incredulous. Then again it was hard to tell Rams emotions.
Jack couldn't even bring himself to speak so he just nodded while looking at the floor.
"Why?"
Well, that was unexpected. Ram wasnt trying to kill him, he was asking Jack why he liked him.
'Huh I didnt realize that I had stumbled into another dimension, they should put up signs or somthing.' Jack didn't realize he had said it out loud until Ram told him to speak up.
"I don't know why, believe me you are the last person that I want to have a crush on."
He laughed self deprecatingly. When Ram didn't respond he looked up and was stunned to see that Ram looked wounded.
"Yes, well, i'm probably not the best person to like am I? After all i'm an evil, heartless, son of a bitch who doesnt care about anyone besides myself right?" Ram said this with a slight sneer but he couldnt quite hide the hurt in his voice.
"No, I didn't mean it like that, just it's really stupid of me to fall for sombody who will never even be able to tolerate my presence let alone actualy like me."
Ram looked suprised. "Who said that I didnt like you? In fact besides Slade your the only one who I dont mind being around."
Needless to say Jack was rather stunned. "Well I mean it's not like you ever gave any indication that you wanted me around."
"I never kicked you out did I? If I hadn't wanted you there I wouldnt have let you help me. Besides it's pretty much just observation now and I still hang out with you."
Well that was a good point, Jack had never thought about it like that before.
Ram got a pained expression on his face like what he was about to say might actually physically hurt him. "Look maybe it might not be entirly horrible to explore this idea of yours."
"Huh?" jack asked eloquently.
"Oh for chrisake do I have to give step by step instructions, i'm saying that I might be willing to see where this little crush of yours leads but nothing public, undertand?"
"No I understood that part, I just dont really understand what you mean by 'eplore this idea of mine'." Ram looked like he hadn't really thought that out but then he got an expression like he was steeling himself for somthing big.
Ram walked over to Jack and after a moment of hesitation leaned forwards and matter of factly placed his lips against Jacks.
It couldn't really be called a kiss, they barely even pressed thier lips together before moving apart again but Jack still felt a little lightheaded.
Ram had a speculative look. "That wasn't nearly as horrible as I thought it would be."
That caught Jack off gaurd."You've never kissed anyone?"
Ram glared at him but then sighed as if resigning himself to his fate. "I've always hated germs, when the virus happened it only increased that. Then I had the accident and I decided that it was better to be safe then sorry. Kissing involves exposing myself to other peoples germs, so no i've never kissed anyone on the lips before."
Jack didn't really know what to say.
The fact that Ram chose him to kiss made him feel kind of special.
"Look let's continue this tommorow, okay, I have to go monitor the techno's activity I think they're working on somthing new."
Jack nodded, afraid that if he spoke Ram might realize what a loser Jack was and change his mind.
Just before Ram left the room he looked back and gave Jack a small smile. "Do you want to help me with the systems check in the morning?"
Jack knew that Ram could do somthing like that in his sleep while highly drugged on painkillers.
It was kind of adorable that the former techno would use such a flimsy excuse just to spend time with him. But he decided to not comment on it because it meant that Ram actually liked him.
"Sure."
Ram gave a brief nod and went back to his room.