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As dinner was soup Alex merely ran through the motions of serving, eating and tidying up the mess as best she could before leaving Tom and whoever had annoyed Jack that he'd been given scullery duties, to the job of the dishes. She retired to their cabin. It was largely quiet as Jack was still on deck and she spend it putting the littered clothes away and towelling herself with the clean water from the pitcher and basin on a chest of drawers close to the bed.

Jack walked into his, their, cabin and saw her leaning against one of the back windows her face to the sea breeze. Alex, to him, looked beautiful, she was in a light shirt, hers, her face was damp and several tendrils of hair stuck to her face whilst the others fluttered slightly in the wind. He smiled when he shut the door and she jumped in surprise.

"What are you doing here?"

Alex quickly shut the window and moved to greet him, but upon getting there she realised that she wasn't about to greet him with a kiss or a hug so she stood there in front of him, feeling slightly awkward.

"It is my cabin, luv."

He chuckled at her,

"Ours now, bub."

She was pointing a finger at him now smiling at his dig at her. She began moving around the cabin again, tidying stuff that didn't need to be tidied. She was nervous.

"You're not up on deck?"

"Gibbs is taking over tonight. After our argument he thought it best that we should have some time together."

He spoke the words as if they were distasteful. Sentimentality didn't exactly match with his persona of brave, fearless and slightly quirky pirate captain, but here he was attempting, a modern day relationship counsellor would be very proud of him. And Gibbs? There was a sensitive new-age pirate. Very ahead of his times, or, Alex thought, was he just looking out for the interests of his stomach?

"What are you doing, luv?"

She turned her eyes up to him, she'd been standing there motionless, one of Jack's book of maps in one had as she stared off into space.

"Nothing, just thinking."

Alex turned to see him right behind her, his hand reached up and a finger tapper her between the eyes.

"About what?"

"Life, the universe and everything."

He grinned at her answer as she slid from in front of him before he'd had any chance of pressing his luck and she flounced on the bed, a hint of a blush on her face as Jack began to pull off his coat, vest, boots and such.

Alex tried to keep her face away from him, turning her body from his increasingly naked one. It was deliciously wicked to think how he'd look naked and she knew she could simply turn around and let nature, or a certain pirate, to take it's course. Alex knew she wouldn't though, partly she was far to chicken to do so, the other… she actually enjoyed causing the discomfort to Jack. Her amusements were little and in Alex's mind she deserved her fun.

Taking her mind off what Jack was or rather not wearing she looked back out of the window, not that she could see anything. The stark blackness was something Alex found comfort in. Apart from the lights on the ship there was nothing else to light up the night sky apart from what nature had provided and the fact that at times she couldn't tell where the sea ended and the sky began was a comfort to her. At the moment she wasn't sure how much she was a ship's cook and a captain's wife so she and the sea got on quite well. It was when she was mulling on that thought that she was grasped around the waist and hoisted up.

"Jack!"

She let out a rather large squeal and, hearing his echoing chuckle she began shaking her legs to loosen his grip. Jack had her firmly in his arms enjoying how she was laughing and playing along with his amusements. Her laugh was far better than her frown, though he did think her delectable when annoyed. A large swing of her legs had her separate from Jack for a moment before gravity took hold and her legs swung down, connecting sharply with the pirate captain in question, which in turn had him fall, conveniently into the bed behind them. Playing dominoes with people in this way is normally best with only two participants, a bed and a large amount of time on ones hands, and those requirements were met and happily agreed to in Alex's case.

She'd slid half off his chest in the fall though he still had one arm fastened around her waist.

"What the devil possessed you to do that?"

She questioned brushing her hair out of the way and turning to look at him grinning eyes.

"Wanted to hear you squeal, luv."

The sentence was decidedly salacious, and said in his gruffest voice, it was deep gravely, silk over pebbles and the like. Her Captain was in the mood to seduce, and she was rather in the mood to allow him to try. Try, mind.

Alex, calmly, twisted in his grip so they were face to face, and chest to chest and… essentially deliciously close together. She placed both hands on his chest and pushed up so she could get a better view of him.

"And?"

She asked innocently with a raised eyebrow, he grinned and feinted thinking, happily drumming his fingers along her waist.

"A siren call, luv."

Well, that was it. Alex lowered her head and brushed her lips against him, giving a low chuckle when his whiskers tickled her chin. She only had enough time to raw back and see Jack's brown eyes turn dark as his other arm came up to cradle her neck as he snatched her down for another, far more amorous kiss.

She seemed to lose her head and things became a blur, Alex couldn't remember when her vest had come off or her hand had snuck under the shirt Jack had put on, indeed she questioned exactly when Jack's hand had firmly planted itself on her backside. Alex could feel him, all of him, hard and tanned and everything that damned, devilish, rakish, adjective worthy smile of his promised.

"Gods, Alex,"

He sighed as he tore his mouth fro her to explore the line of her neck, she leaned her head back, a lazy smile on her face. She felt very much like the 'cat that got the cream' or was she the cream and Jack the cat?

"Jack,"

Alex began to sigh as he pulled her onto her back. Languishing on him was one thing but to have him, beads, rum breath and all on her, everywhere was something else. There was something to be said for pirating. Tan, exercise, diet high in fish, beards, that accent and a smile that could… when did his hand get there!

"Jack!"

Alex's eye opened wide and she lurched up, or rather attempted to considering there was a pirate on her, now shirtless with a hand up her own, resting on a rather sensitive piece of real estate.

"Aye, luv."

He grinned at her and bent his head back to the task of lavishing attention to her neck. His hand still… there. Alex knew she suddenly couldn't go through with all that he promised, though her body was trying its hardest to convince her. She was a softly she'd grown up with those ridiculously purple prose novels promising a man who'd well… Jack had swept her off her feet. He'd also pushed her into a room and yelled at her. The books said he'd love her… he seemed to love her neck and… the other part his hand was playing with. Alex wanted… gods, she didn't know what she wanted, her body wanted him and her mind was just confusing the matter.

"Are you with me, luv?"

Alex blinked and looked at him; he seemed to be highly amused as she seemed to be raced away in though.

"Jack…"

Her voice trailed off she was wistful, and questioning. Jack knew what that meant, that meant she was having second thoughts, second thoughts mean he'd have to sleep next to her, all night, knowing what she felt like and have to try and sleep. He considered himself unlucky at times like this,

"Alex, don't think."

For once Alex decided to agree with Jack.

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