Caught in the monkey jar: Blackbeard Interludes
A little less conversation a little more action baby…(Elvis)
Jack and Sara were getting there slowly. And not without the odd set back.
"Sara .We need to talk."
"Okay."
"I need to tell you something and I'm scared how you might react. But it's important- for the both of us."
"Now you are worrying me. But go ahead Jack. Say what you've got to say."
"I love you. But, this is going to take time- us- together. You know I said they hurt me pretty badly?"
"You told me the other night about things going into hiding."
"So I did. There's more."
"Oh."
"I know it wasn't my fault, that there wasn't anything I could do but..."
"Jack, what..?"
"Let me finish. I had no control."
"What are you trying to tell me?"
"We're trying so hard here…but we can't do anything intimate until I get a second lot of tests back."
"What tests?"
"Negatives ones."
"Neg….."
"Sara. I was assaulted in the prison…"
She took a deep breath but her gaze never wavered and Jack realised there was a chance for them to get through this.
"Second tests….what…what happened to the first ones?"
"They were negative."
"That's good right?"
He nodded at her. And she smiled back.
Slowly over the next few weeks it had been their routine for him to get used to her holding him and touching him and vice versa. Tonight it went further as they played around in bed until she suddenly rolled on top of him and pinned his hands down.
"No!" he shouted trying to buck her off. "Don't!"
She let go quickly.
"It's alright, Jack. It's me Sara. Let it go now. I'm not going to hurt you."
Panting in exertion and the sudden adrenaline rush,he rolled over with his back to her.
"Jack?"
"Sorry, just give me a minute."
"Shh it's okay. Talk to me."
"Everybody wants me to talk," he said tiredly turning over to face her again.
"Not this kind of talk," she waggled her eyebrows at him.
"God, you're a bad influence," he said.
"Na," she replied "I'm good and I'm bad."
"Can't you make up your mind?!"
"I know what I want, but what do you want?"
"I want you so bad it hurts, but I'm scared to let go. I don't want to hurt you."
"It's me Jack. You won't hurt me. Let it go. It's okay now. The docs said it was alright to be together now. You are 100."
His eyes teared up and his face crumpled.
"Shhh, here now," she soothed as she gently enfolded him in her arms holding him tight, kissing him softly. Slowly his arms came round her body too holding her tight.
And she wrapped him with her love and brought him all the way home like she had promised to herself the day he came home.