He's just more flexible when it comes to dancing

[more_flexible]

Jack found the package addressed to him and scurried off to his room to open it. He wasn't used to getting gifts. In fact, he hadn't gotten one since...well, there was Christmas, but he hadn't been given anything since Jane baked him a pie all his own.

He unwrapped it carefully and poured over the records and just stared at the player for a long time. It was surreal, this thing that really wasn't anything spectacular and yet he was so happy he couldn't stop smiling. After a long time of just exploring it, he took an LP out of it's cover and laid it on the turntable. A few cranks of the handle and it began to spin, Moonlight Serenade spilling out his door and down the stairs.

[for those treehouse people who want a dance]

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[captainjack.livejournal.com]

Jack looked at it closer. "This is quite a cut, Toshiko. How long has it been? Since you did this?" he asked, looking up at her like he knew just what had happened.

[toshiko-san.livejournal.com]

"Two weeks. Just under. Twelve days." Less than two weeks since they were both in the 1940's, face to face with Jack's past. Since the rift opened, since he died. "It'll teach me to never go anywhere without a pen, won't it?"

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

He held her hand carefully, touching her fingertips. "Twelve days? Toshiko, I'm..." Sorry. Always sorry.

"...sorry I didn't have one either."

[toshiko-san.livejournal.com]

"It wasn't your fault Jack. It was just the best I could come up with at short notice. Likely goes into the file of things that seemed like a good idea at the time doesn't it?" Tosh slides her fingers through his, squeezing his hand, "I wouldn't have changed it Jack. All the danger, all the craziness. I did it willingly. We were a team."

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"Most things seem like a good idea at the time," he agreed, smoothing her hair before cupping her face. He looked into the dark brown depths of her eyes, not surprised in the least that if he was going to recruit anyone, it would be her. The look in those eyes was...captivating.

"But if it happens again, you can cut my hand instead. Deal?"

[toshiko-san.livejournal.com]

"If it happens again, your hand." She closed her eyes briefly, resting her hand in his cheek before looking back up at him. "Thank you Jack. For trusting me." For so much more too, for being their leader, believing in her, seeing something in her that four years ago she wouldn't have believed existed.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"Not a problem," he replied smoothly, the smile finding its way back as he offered his hand. "Now how about a real dance? Something faster."

[toshiko-san.livejournal.com]

She laughs possibly for the first time since she's arrived on this Island. "You've been warned. Any damage to your feet is your own responsibilty."

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"I think I'll cope," he grinned as In The Mood started up and he started to leead her in a fantastic, quick paced dance.

[toshiko-san.livejournal.com]

Tosh follows as best as she can, but she just can't keep up, though she tries, blushing at first, then laughing. "Jack, I can't..." She does pick up a few steps, surprising herself that she's forgotten to be self concious for a few moments, that she's just having fun.

[captainjack.livejournal.com]

"of course you can," he smiled brightly, holding her hand as he spun her out and back. "I've got you. Don't worry about anything."

[toshiko-san.livejournal.com]

That was it though, wasn't it? He did have her. Even in this place, wherever it was, he was here for her, and she knew it.