Jack And Katherine One-Shots

Inspiration

Jack was having a weird dream. He was laying on his back in the middle of a empty alley way and some one or something kept scratching the ground next to his ear. It was like they had taken a nail and was repeatedly scratching the cement creating a nails-on-chalk board sound that made Jacks ears want to bleed. On top of it all the sun shone right in his eyes and he could hardly see anything besides yellowish light. Finally, he was pulled out of his dream and woke with a start. He was back in his apartment and someone had turned the desk light on. He blinked hard as spots from the light danced in his eyes his eyes focused on the girl sitting at the desk. It was Katherine, she was hunched over the desk her pen making scratching noises (that explains it) there was a small blanket wrapped around her body but was slipping off one shoulder and revealed her bare back glinting in the lamp light. She looked like a goddess, her curly brown hair was sprawled around her shoulders and down her back. She sat with one leg folded under her and the other dangling to the side of the chair.

"Um, Ace?" Jack asks sleepily propping himself up on his elbows.

"Go back to sleep Jack." She says as she continues to feverishly write what ever she was writing.

"What are ya doing?" He asked confused as to why she would be writing in the middle of the night.

"Inspiration Jack... you give me inspiration." She said softly her back still to him. Jack groans.

"But it's like..." he turns to look at his alarm clock on his desk "3 o'clock in the morning Kath. I ain't even done anything I've been asleep and so should you be!" He said plopping back down on his pillow.

"I'll sleep when I'm dead, and article needs to be written." She said smartly. Jack rolls his eyes and pulls his sheets around him more tightly, it's slightly chilly in his apartment.

"Come back to bed baby." Jack says with a little wine added for effect. Katherine sets her pen own down and turns her head to look at him.

"But if I don't write it now I'll lose it." She says looking at him sideways. He puts a hand behind his head and looks at her.

"Then I'd be more than happy to give you some more... inspiration." He says with a smirk. She turns her head back to the paper and he knows she's hiding a blush.

"Come back to bed." He says again patting the spot next to him. She sighs and pulls the blanket tighter around her bare body.

"Ok Jack." She says and flips the light back off making the room go completely dark. Jack blinks in the sudden darkness as she slips back under the covers, he pulls her to his chest and kisses the top of her head.

"Night Ace." He whispers even though it's really morning but he doesn't care. She mumbles it back and they quickly fall back asleep.

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The next morning Jack wakes up to the sun this time and stretches his arms out to find Katherine but the sheets are empty and cold. He hears the scratching and finds her sitting at his desk again, this time fully clothed. She's wearing Jacks old white shirt that had a bunch of multi colored splashes of paint on it (he'd worn that shirt when he and Race had vandalized Mr Pulitzers door to his principals office, but he'd never tell Katherine that) and she was wearing a pair of his black sweat pants. They were obviously too big for her but she looked comfortable (and hot) so he wasn't going to say any thing. Besides, Jack was pretty sure he'd broken the buttons on her pants the night before trying to get them off her so she didn't really have anything to wear. He sat up and slipped out of the covers and pulled his trousers back on along with his signature Newsie cap. He left his shirt off because he knew the sight would distract her.

"Morning." Jack said walking up behind her.

"Morning." She mumbled back, he rolled his eyes it was gonna be that again.

"How bout' that inspiration?" He asked wrapping his arms around her from behind.

"Nope. Got some last night." She said, Jack pulled the hair away from her neck and gently placed a kiss under her jaw. When she didn't respond he pulled away and kneeled next to her so he could see her face.

"Aww come on, arnt you almost done anyway? You practically wrote all night." He said tucking a piece of her hair behind her ear.

"No," she said turning to look at him "I still have to type it up on my laptop, then edit it, then re-edit, but before I do that I actually have to finish!" Jack leaned closer to her and propped one arm on the back of her chair and the other on the desk beside her arm. She glanced at him then quickly looked away gulping. He smirked and leaned closer to her.

"Come on, come get some inspiration." He said suggestively. Her breath caught and her fingers curled tighter around her pen. Finally she dropped it and turned in her seat to face him.

"Ok, you win." She said then kissed him.

Authors note- Two in one day! Ha! Hope you enjoy tell me what you think. I own nothing. Thank you!