30 ROCK, JACK/LIZ, DIRECTIONS, PROMPT #11, SKY, CHAPTER 69
Title: Head in the Clouds
Author: stamatina_rae
Challenge: drabble123
Fandom: 30 Rock
Pairing: Jack/Liz
Table: Directions
Prompt: #11, Sky
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers: Through Season 2, my previous three drabble123 series.
Summary: Chapter 69. (Immediately follows Ch. 68) “She’s a teenager, Jack. They get embarrassed by everything.”
A/N: Day 2 of 5 day fic challenge. This one's just PG, sorry to anybody counting on 5 days of porn ;)
“Jack?"
Jack smiles at the sight of her, runs his fingers across the keys as she approaches the piano bench. “Was I being too loud?”
“No, no. But it’s so late. Aren’t you coming to bed?"
He plays a few chords, strings them into an improvised melody.
She listens to him play and waits, until the many thoughts clearly running through his mind bubble to the surface.
Staring off into the distance, hands still on the keys, he searches. "She’s so...exasperating sometimes.”
Liz instantly knows he’s talking about Isabelle. “She’s a teenager, Jack. They get embarrassed by everything.”
“Of course they do. But didn’t you notice how hysterical she got?
“She’s…a little high strung."
“Her head's in the clouds when it comes to anything important like schoolwork, but the slightest hint of possible disapproval from her peers and she's irreparably mortified.”
"Don't all kids --"
"Julia's not like that. Gracie isn’t either. She keeps quitting all these things she's so good at -- tennis, ballet. Because her supposed friends say they're dumb? What a waste. I quit piano lessons when I was about her age, because my brothers made fun of me. Regretted it ever since. I hate seeing her repeat my mistakes.”
His fiddling on the piano switches to a somber key. He's more frustrated than angry, though. A few more notes and he's done all together. They turn towards the other, warmly embrace. He kisses her forehead, tucks her face against his shoulder.
"It’s so fascinating watching them get older, isn't it? Turning into little combinations of you and me, with their own unique traits thrown in. I don’t want her to be afraid to be her own person.”
“She just needs more time. Right?”
He hugs her a bit tighter, as she does the same. “Right.”
TBC
Chapter 70 here...
Author: stamatina_rae
Challenge: drabble123
Fandom: 30 Rock
Pairing: Jack/Liz
Table: Directions
Prompt: #11, Sky
Rating: PG
Word Count: 300
Spoilers: Through Season 2, my previous three drabble123 series.
Summary: Chapter 69. (Immediately follows Ch. 68) “She’s a teenager, Jack. They get embarrassed by everything.”
A/N: Day 2 of 5 day fic challenge. This one's just PG, sorry to anybody counting on 5 days of porn ;)
“Jack?"
Jack smiles at the sight of her, runs his fingers across the keys as she approaches the piano bench. “Was I being too loud?”
“No, no. But it’s so late. Aren’t you coming to bed?"
He plays a few chords, strings them into an improvised melody.
She listens to him play and waits, until the many thoughts clearly running through his mind bubble to the surface.
Staring off into the distance, hands still on the keys, he searches. "She’s so...exasperating sometimes.”
Liz instantly knows he’s talking about Isabelle. “She’s a teenager, Jack. They get embarrassed by everything.”
“Of course they do. But didn’t you notice how hysterical she got?
“She’s…a little high strung."
“Her head's in the clouds when it comes to anything important like schoolwork, but the slightest hint of possible disapproval from her peers and she's irreparably mortified.”
"Don't all kids --"
"Julia's not like that. Gracie isn’t either. She keeps quitting all these things she's so good at -- tennis, ballet. Because her supposed friends say they're dumb? What a waste. I quit piano lessons when I was about her age, because my brothers made fun of me. Regretted it ever since. I hate seeing her repeat my mistakes.”
His fiddling on the piano switches to a somber key. He's more frustrated than angry, though. A few more notes and he's done all together. They turn towards the other, warmly embrace. He kisses her forehead, tucks her face against his shoulder.
"It’s so fascinating watching them get older, isn't it? Turning into little combinations of you and me, with their own unique traits thrown in. I don’t want her to be afraid to be her own person.”
“She just needs more time. Right?”
He hugs her a bit tighter, as she does the same. “Right.”
TBC
Chapter 70 here...