Emma's House, Emma's New York, Tuesday Noon

[bitten_notshy]

Jack hadn't intended to move in with Emma quite yet. But as his friends left, the island started feeling less like home. And as the island felt less like home, he was less inclined to excuse its inconveniences. (Eggnog out of the faucet was much less charming the tenth time around.) So he'd started spending more time in New York, where the only

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[icecoldfrost]

There was the lightest of tapping against the edges of his mind. <> Emma informed him silently, once she had ascertained he wasn't actually in the middle of a call. <>

There was one Queen, thank you very much.

<>

[bitten_notshy]

By now, her mental voice was as familiar as the physical one. Jack started only the faintest bit at the interruption before thinking back,

Chinese. With Mongolian beef and hot and sour soup, please. Do the slayers know you're spoiling them?

[icecoldfrost]

<> To be fair, they ate a lot. <>

Emma wasn't above letting them resort to PB&J for a night if they couldn't work as a team.

<< One Mongolian beef with hot and sour soup for the gentleman. Almond cookies?>>

[bitten_notshy]

I never turn down cookies, Jack returned.

A moment later: Where are you? Can you come visit after you've placed the order? I miss you.

[vanillajello]

emma's gonna ooooown yooooou, bro

Kate's way of showing her love had not changed over the years. Neither had her lack of proper capitalization in texts, apparently.

[bitten_notshy]

She has since high school, Jack replied, and if a text could be smug that one was. This'll just let her do it at the same address.

[vanillajello]

valid point.

Well, they'd all gone to high school together. So, she knew.

and i'm all for emma's life being as convenient as possible

[bitten_notshy]

What about mine? Jack joked. You don't care if I'm inconvenienced?

Jack's soft spot for Emma would have been a very badly kept secret, if he ever pretended it was a secret at all.