Room 528, Thursday Morning

[icecoldfrost]

After her spa trip the other day, Emma had come home to find a large envelope with her name on it, and Hank's clumsy printing on the outside.

Now she sat at her desk, considering the contents and accompanying note with an evil little grin on her face.

party is monday. send this back to me fast so it can go where its supposed to go. bee careful. -- H

"Hank, I love you," she breathed, turning over the invitation to Ben Nishimura's charity gala in her hands. The man had proved infinitely profitable once before, with what she had gleaned from him at Cumberland's birthday party, and this definately held promise. "For this, I might just kiss you."

Humming happily, she skipped over to her closet, pulling out a small box filled with stationary supplies and setting to work.

Practice the lettering, first. Then match the paper and inks properly. By the time of the party, Emma was going to have an absolutely perfect match, and no one would ever know it was fake.


[Open door and open post! That Emma got a package is totally FB, the any mentions that she's a total delinquent and is committing forgery is NFB.]

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[icecoldfrost]

"Careful, Mr. Priest, that almost sounded scandalous," Emma replied in mock horror, pressing her other hand to her heart. "An entire week of free time, not studying anything, and you invite me to be alone with you anytime? I'm already spiriting you away for nefarious purposes for an evening; what will our peers say?"

[bitten_notshy]

"I can't imagine our peers caring, sadly enough," Jack said. "It's terribly hard to scandalize them, have you noticed?"

[icecoldfrost]

"You just have to find the right ones," Emma replied with a sigh. "I'm rather sure every time I breathe, I manage to scandalize Jeannie."

[bitten_notshy]

"The cute redhead who dates Mr. Capulet?" Jack -- who made it his business to notice such things -- asked. "Why does she find you less than charming?"

[icecoldfrost]

"The clueless redhead that he's trying to catch? Yes. 'Our powers are dangerous, I should exercise restraint, our gifts are to help people,' and so on and so on," she answered, rolling her eyes.

"Don't get me started on the face she makes when I smoke."

[bitten_notshy]

"Sounds dull," Jack observed. "Could you just decide you don't care what she thinks?"

[icecoldfrost]

"I could," Emma admitted, smirking at him. "But what fun would that be?"

[bitten_notshy]

"Not nearly as much as mocking her," Jack guessed, and reached a hand to rest on her stomach.

[icecoldfrost]

"I'm not mocking her," she murmured, giving him a coy glance from under her lashes. "I'm furthering her education."

[bitten_notshy]

A slight smile touched Jack's face, and he laughed. His hand started tracing circles on her belly.

"Emma, the first time I kissed you, we ended up fighting," he said carefully. "The second time, you didn't wake up."

"My very important question is if we should try for a third."

[icecoldfrost]

Emma tilted her head as if she had to think about it.

"Well, they say third time's the charm," she pointed out, "and I heard a rumor that you're good with difficult women."

Her casual nonchalance on the subject was probably shattered by dropping the invitation and its clone off the end of the bed as she moved to straddle his lap, intent on kissing him properly.

[bitten_notshy]

That was more reaction than he had expected, but he didn't fight the kiss. His hands went to rest on her hips and his lips met hers.

His mind was blissfully gone.

[icecoldfrost]

Emma's mind was not gone; she was keeping a careful eye on it, thank you, since she didn't want it to go wandering where it wasn't welcome.

...maybe half-an-eye. His kisses and the weight of his hands on her hips were both very distracting.

[bitten_notshy]

He deepened the kiss more, walking one hand up her back to bury it in her hair.

"Nothing's gone wrong yet..."

[icecoldfrost]

"If you just jinxed us, I am going to be cross," Emma murmured, nipping at his lower lip playfully before getting pulled back into the kiss.

[bitten_notshy]

"Does this feel like a jinx?" He moaned softly, pulling back, and tilted his head to nibble at her ear. His hands were creeping under her shirt.

[icecoldfrost]

Emma gasped, eyes drifting shut and neck arching to give him better access.

"No," she whimpered in agreement, her own hands moving to loosen his shirt enough so she could slide her fingers against his skin. This would be much better with fewer clothes in the way. "Feels wonderful. Don't stop."

There was... something. Some thought in the back of her brain, and it was important, but Emma couldn't recall what it was right now.

...possibly because Jack kept doing that to her ear, and she needed to squirm in his lap some more.

[bitten_notshy]

The squirming caused a predictable physical reaction, and Jack squirmed back against her, then laughed and threw his head back to expose his neck.

Subtle, like the hands that were pulling her shirt free now. Which was to say, not subtle at all.

[icecoldfrost]

No, not subtle at all, and the moment they were both at least mostly-free from their shirts, Emma leaned in to kiss and bite his neck, even as her hands slid over his chest and --

-- through half-lidded eyes, she could see that the door was open. Crap. She knew that they'd forgotten something.

"Jack? Door," she muttered, pressing a kiss to his throat in apology even as she groped for her shirt...somewhere. Where had they thrown it? "You totally jinxed us."

[bitten_notshy]

He laughed again and tapped his hand against her torso as he let her up so he could go close the bloody door.

"We're hopeless."

[icecoldfrost]

"It went better than the first time," Emma laughed, pulling her shirt back over her head before moving to scoop up her abandoned papers. "Besides, I think McCoy's only got one class today. If we'd kept going, it could have ended much, much worse."

And Emma liked her roommate, she didn't want to traumatize him.

"Maybe this was the universe's way of keeping us from Total Kissing Disaster." She didn't believe that in the slightest, but she gave him a lopsided grin over her shoulder as she carefully set her equipment back on the desk. "Or maybe our math was off. Since you've kissed me twice, I should have let you make the first move to make it three. Now I have to kiss you two more times to break the curse."

[STOP EATING THIS PING, LJ! *tries for fourth time*]

[bitten_notshy]

Jack laughed again, the mood broken for the moment. "No doubt you'll do it when I least expect it, hmmm?"

He sounded as if he'd enjoy that.

[icecoldfrost]

"Really, darling, would I do something like that?" Emma sulked, giving him her widest, most innocent gaze.

[bitten_notshy]

"I have met you, Miss Frost," Jack said playfully. "But good look. I bet it works very well on people who aren't me."

[icecoldfrost]

"Cruel, Jack," she laughed, padding over to brush a chaste kiss against his cheek. They'd been dancing around this since May, Emma was rather confident that they'd get it right eventually. "Are you calling me a liar?"