Chapter 6

Jack mustered the woman before him.

She had a light flush on her cheeks and looked a bit lost on his couch.

He sat opposite her.

"OK, Patty, what do you want?"

The young woman didn't know what he meant and her look alone made that clear.

"Do you want to start somewhere else over, do you want to stay with John, you must have thought about the possibility of being found out when you started a relationship with a student."

Patty winced slightly. "I tend to forget his age."

Jack smirked but didn't say anything else to this. Funny, John made problems because you tended to forget that he was a teen and Jack was often told you tended to forget his age because he acted like a teen. Irony as its finest.

"I want to stay with John. But I don't want to go to prison."

Understandable.

"I already talked with John. You will get an attorney and everything will work out.

At the moment John and I both think it is not a good idea to go back to your flat. There are certainly already parents who are waiting for you."

She nodded in misery. She always had had a good relationship with her students and their parents, this was hard on her.

"John will stay here till the hearing. I would have the place to let you stay here in a guest room as well but perhaps it would be better if you lived somewhere else for the time."

Patty nodded. As nice as it was it would certainly be misconstructed with John staying here as well.

"You will live with my 2IC for the time, Major Samantha Carter. She is looking forward to having company. You will like her, she is physicist."

Patty smiled automatically. He had thought of where she would live for the time, he didn't make any suggestion of her and John not meeting anymore. She would have cried if she had the energy.

"To be honest it is not only the murderous parents with torches why you should stay with Carter, the Sheriff agreed to this instead of a cell because he knows us and knows that Carter wouldn't let anybody flee, so, she is your jailer as well. Thought you should know."

Another nod, this one tired. Patty could live with this, it was better than waiting in a real cell for her hearing.

"So I wont see John at all?"

Crap, the girl was as sappy as the boy. They were only talking of a few days here, nothing dramatic.

"You can skype if you have to,"

For that Patty let out a melodious laugh.