Chapter 14

The Perfect Dress

Jack and Lily wound up sleeping through the rest of the day and all night. When she woke up the next morning and saw Jack beside her, her first instinct was to freak out, but then she thought better of it.

She lay in his arms and studied his faces. He had creases around his eyes, despite the fact that he still had so much youthfulness in other areas of his face. Lily couldn't help but wonder about the horror's he had seen in such a short amount of a life.

Jack's eyes then opened and he looked at Lily, "Feel better?"

She gave a small smile, "Much."

He smiled and slowly moved to get out of the bed. Jack glanced at his watch, "It would appear that we slept through the night."

Lily checked her alarm clock, "Yes we did…its Tuesday morning…"

Jack pulled out his cell phone to call and check in with the team.

Lily in the meantime got out of the bed and went into the bathroom to brush her hair out. When she came out about a minute later Jack was waiting patiently, "Are you going to be okay for a bit? I have to go to the Hub," he said.

She nodded, "Yeah of course…I was just gonna take a shower and go run some errands."

Jack nodded, "Alright well if you need anything just call."

Lily smiled, "I will."

Jack went to the door.

"Um…thanks again," Lily said before he left.

"Of course,' he winked at her as he then left the house.

Lily walked into the bathroom after that. She ran the hot water and climbed into the shower. The girl stood in the water for a moment, just letting her skin soak up the water. As she washed her hair Lily found herself saying a prayer of thanks. She had been spared from a horrible death and she was incredibly grateful.

Once she finished bathing, Lily dried out her hair and fixed up into a bun on top of her head. She dressed in some trousers and a blouse, slipped her feet into her favorite pair of heels and threw on her coat.

Lily went out to do some shopping. Suzie had told her of the Vintage Clothing store and she had been eager to go. Lily walked inside and began to look around. Her eyes fell on a black party dress; it was very similar to one she once had.

"Can I help you miss?" a clerk asked.

Lily looked at the older woman, "I'd like to try this on…if that's alright," she said.

"Oh of course," the woman smiled kindly and took the dress off of the rack. She led Lily to the dressing rooms and she went in to try on the dress.

Lily looked absolutely stunning in it. She breathed deeply in awe at her appearance. Quickly she changed back into her clothes and hung the dress on the hanger with gentle care.

"How did it fit?" the clerk asked as Lily walked out of the dressing room.

"Like a ream," Lily beamed, "I'd like to buy it."

As the woman run up the dress and the accessories Lily picked out, the girl couldn't help but pray for the dance to come sooner. She had fun imagining Jack's expression when he came to pick her up. After she paid for the dress, Lily did a bit of window shopping. She wanted to give each member of the team a gift for Christmas, but she wasn't sure what.

She thought sadly to her last Christmas, the Christmas of 1940.

Jonathan had always been easy to shop for. Lily could go in the store and have something within minutes, but Jack was more complex then Jonathan. Despite all the time they had spent together the last few weeks, Lily honestly didn't know what to buy for the Captain. In the meantime she decided to just go home, hang up her dress and clean up the house a bit.

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"You stayed the night with her?" Owen asked Jack.

He looked up from some papers on his desk, "Is it any of your business?" Jack asked, bored.

"Well she's my patient, so yeah. I need to know so I can warn her about Gonorrhea and all those other great STD's," Owen meant it as a joke but it wasn't funny.

"Not that it's any of your business Owen," Jack spat, "We did not have sex."

"You didn't have sex with whom?" Suzie asked, coming into the office to give Jack a case file.

"Lily! We did not have sex. After what happened yesterday she was terrified so I stayed with her. No sex involved, okay?" Jack was utterly exasperated with his entire team, who were all staring at him weird.

Suzie hit Owen on the arm as they left Jack's office, "Ow, what was that for?" he cried.

"Because you are the world's biggest idiot" she replied.

Jack sat back down at his desk and breathed in deeply and then exhaled.

"Coffee sir?"

Jack looked up to see Ianto who was holding out a steaming hot mug of coffee.

Jack took it gratefully, "Thanks."

Ianto stood there a moment, as if he was going to say something, but instead he looked like he thought better of it, and rushed out of the room.

Jack stared after the tea boy for a moment and then went back to getting some work done…

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A/N- Once again…the chapter is short. I'm sorry these chapters keep turning out so short. Anyways…Saturday I'm going to my friend's house…and won't be back until Friday. My hope is that I will get The Master's Return updated, those chapters are finished I'm just waiting for them back from my beta…

Sorry it's taken long with that story. I'll try to get some stuff done on the next chapter of this soon…possibly I can get something done when I go to Rosa's. Not sure however…

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