Jack Shepard collapsed wearily onto the bar stool, and ordered a scotch on the rock's. Normaly he would avoid this place but right now he decided that he didn't care. His father hated him, his wife had left him for his best friend and his mother wouldn't speak to him. Right now this seemed like a pretty good way out. He glanced around, eye's scanning the bar for any sign of life. It was friggin dead. The bartender eyed him. "Bad day mate ?" he asked, his voice gruff from shouting out order's all day.
"How about bad life," Jack replied humourlessly.
"Well don't worry 'bout it. Most people in here have a crap life right now. It'll sort itself, don't you worry," the bartender tried to cheer him up. The light's dimmed and Jack looked up from his drink.
"What's going on ?" Jack asked.
"One of our waitress' like's to sing. She's good, but not many notice her singing. They're to busy looking south. Quiet type. Reckon her boyfriend give's her a whack every now and then," he explained. Jack directed his eye's to the stage, where a woman in her mid twentie's stood behind the microphone. Long brown hair cascaded around her neck and her green eye's shone. Freckle's dotted her face and she seemed very shy. Jack suddenly became entranced by the brunette on the stage. His drink lay forgotten as he walked over to stand next to the stage. Figuring that she had a soft voice he got as close as humanly possible with the other men in front of him. He got proved wrong. Music started to play and her voice belted out.
Billy Ray was preacher's son
And when his daddy would visit he'd come along
When they gathered round and started talking
That's when Billy would take me walkin
Through the back yard we'd go walkin
Then he'd look into my eye's
Lord know's the nicest eye's
The only one who could ever...
Jack was snapped out of his trance as the girl was cut off. The men were hooting at her. The light seemed to have gone from her eye's and her shoulder's slumped. She climbed down of the stage and into the sea of grabbing hand's and sleazy men. Jack couldn't believe how they done that. She was amazing ! Finally she got away from the group of men and Jack's eye's followed her to the bar, where she ducked under the door and took another customer's order. She seemed so broken. Jack made his way to the bar and sat on his previously vacated barstool
Moving to take another order Kate Austin's eye's rested on a dark haired man who seemed to be watching her with intent. His interest in her should have made her nervous but instead it sent shiver's down her spine. His smouldering gaze seemed to go right through her, looking for her soul. He was handsome too. His hazel eye's, chiseled feature's and broad shoulder's probably made him the target of many women's affections. Including her's. Not that he'd want her of course. Her last boyfriend had made it clear that she was worthless and filthy and she believed him. But she could talk to this guy right ?
"Hey, what'll it be ?" she asked him shyly and Jack smiled.
"Another Scotch please," he said, never taking his eye's off her. Kate heart stopped for a second before continuing it's steady beat. He had one of those dreamy voice's. That voice could get a girl undressed and into bed with a simple command.
"Sure," she smiled.
Jack was once again enchanted by her smile. She was very shy and seemed to be quite nervous around men. She poured his drink with ease and placed it on the bar in front of him. "Thank's," Jack said and once again the young woman smiled at him. "Uh, would I be weird if I asked for your mane ?" he said.
"I'm Kate," she said.
"Jack," he replied and held out his hand. Kate took it and shivered at the spark of electricity that ran down her arm at his touch. "I heard you singing," he told her.
"Yeah, awful huh ?" she answered him and a sadness seemed to fill her.
"Only if your Dusty Springfield and your carrer is suddenly threatened," he smirked.
"What ?" Kate asked, confused.
"That was amazing !" Jack said.
"You liked it ?" Kate said in shock.
"Of course ! How many people can sing like that. You've got an amazing voice," he said. Obviously no-one had ever told her before, so Jack decided to be the first.
"No one's ever said that before," Kate said, letting it sink in that this gorgeous man liked her singing.
"Well those guy's over there don't exactly serve as a sutible audiance," he said, jerking his thumb over to the crowd of men at the stage. Kate let out a giggle.
"Austin !" the bartender barked at her. Kate jumped. "Get back to work," he growled at her. Kate looked at Jack.
"Sorry, gotta go," she said.
"When do you get off work ?" Jack asked her.
"I get off in about half an hour," Kate told him.
"You wanna grab a coffee ?" he said.
"Coffee would be good," Kate smiled and left the bar. Jack watched her go and finished his drink.
A/N: Well this is the first chapter of my new story so please tell me if it was good. Peace out !