"I'm bored." Jackie admitted, sighing. There was nothing to do, well, nothing she could do. She'd finished her shift at the bookshop, there was no meeting today, no HOG paperwork for once, it was too light to go to the lake and practice, and any chore that involved water or heat (e.g. most of them) she couldn't do.

Not to say she hadn't tried. She vacuumed and dusted enough to drive both Taboo and Jamie mad with the noise and airbourne dust.

Jamie also didn't need any help on his work for college either, which left Jackie feeling very twitchy. There was nothing to do! At this point in her life she wasn't used to not having a list of things to do.

Jamie sighed, looking up from his laptop and at his girlfriend next to him, who had started tapping on the side of the sofa. The sound of tapping was irritating enough, but the small blooms of frost weren't helping. She must really be bored if she was doing that.

"You've got a library, why not read something?"

"I've read them all so many times." Jackie said.

"Well, your sketchbook has been sitting idle for a while, why not pick that up?"

"Can't think of anything."

"Now that's just an excuse. Anyway, thinking of something to draw will give you something to do."

Jackie thought about it, and nodded, leaving to go get the sketchbook from their room.

Taboo let out a sigh that Jamie picked up on.

"She's annoying when she's bored isn't she?" Jamie asked and Taboo nodded.

"I heard that!"

"Doesn't make it less true!" Jamie called back. "And Taboo agrees with me!"

"Traitors." Jackie said as she walked back in, trying to look mock sad by sticking out her bottom lip.

"Sorry, you don't do cute Jackie." Jamie said as he tried not to burst out laughing. "The rest of your face just looks too serious."

"He's right." Taboo agreed. "Leave the cute stuff to the pros." Partially for Jamie's benefit, but also to one up Jackie, Taboo rolled over on her back, curled her front paws up and curled her tail. She then pricked her ears up and made her eyes grow big.

"Awww." Jamie said, and started laughing. "Even the tiger's got you beat Jackie."

Jackie raised her eyebrows as she stepped around the sofa and sat on it, looking down at Taboo on the floor. "You look silly."

"You're just jealous." Taboo prodded. "I can see into your head. I know you think I'm cute when I do that."

"Normally you'd hate being called cute."

"You're missing the point entirely!" Taboo rolled back onto her front and flicked her head at Jamie. "What are we going to with her Jamie?"

Jamie didn't quite pick on what Taboo said, but somewhat understood when Jackie answered.

"You two can stop ganging up on me, that's what you can do." Jackie said, flicking open the sketchbook.

"Aw, but you do look cute when you get flustered."

"Don't you dare..."

"Don't get up to anything naughty in the bedroom you two." Taboo was the one to make that joke, and Jackie went bright red, hiding her face in the clear white pages.

"Screw you Taboo, and screw you too!" She cried as Jamie pulled the book down to reveal that her normally pale skin was flushed.

"If you insist." Said Jamie, and Jackie somehow went an even brighter red and hit him on the head with the book.

"Stop it, that's... just..."

Jamie chuckled and put his arm around her and kissed her on the head. "See what I mean. Cute when flustered."

"Very true." Taboo nodded.

"Stuff the pair of you." Jackie said, but did lean into Jamie a bit. Yes he was uncomfortably warm, but she'd gotten to the point where she'd decided that she didn't care.

"I hate to pop this lovely bubble we have, but I still have work to do." Jamie said regretfully.

"Far be it for me to stop you." Jackie pulled out of the hug and Jamie put the laptop back on his knees. "Knock 'em dead with it." Jackie encouraged.

"Will do. Any ideas for drawing yet?"

Jackie's eyes drifted over him and Taboo. "Yeah actually, but you can't look until it's done."

"Deal."

Many hours later, Jamie had been woken up by the not quite nightly ritual of Jackie getting a nightmare and going for a run. He didn't tell her how hard it was for him to get back to sleep, he didn't want her to feel more guilty about something she couldn't help.

Since he knew Jackie wouldn't be back for a while he got out of bed and took a sneaky look at Jackie's sketchbook. He hadn't seen any of it in a while.

Flicking through showed some sketches and practice drawings for what she drew for the shop, all of which were good, more than good, but Jackie would only get embarrassed if he said what he really thought.

He found the most recent one, and his mouth turned into a warm smile.

It was him and Taboo, as they were earlier, on the laptop and curled up on the floor respectively. Jackie hadn't finished the shading, but that didn't matter, Jamie was still very touched.

Jackie did have a hard time showing affection at times, but she did it was always heartfelt.

"Love you Jackie." Jamie muttered, not knowing that Taboo was also still awake and grinning to herself.

Those two could be so cute sometimes.

A little romantic fluff, and as risqué as I'm ever going to get! Jackie's innocence is something I rarely get to exploit. Now if you'll excuse, I need to make a run for it. Between this chapter and the last chapter, I'm now wanted by two quite scary icy beings, so, uh, bye! *flies into the sky on a sandy jetski*