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  Rating:
      Explicit
  Archive Warning:
      Underage
  Category:
      F/M
  Fandom:
      Gunnerkrigg_Court
  Relationship:
      Antimony_Carver/Jack_Hyland
  Character:
      Jack_Hyland, Antimony_Carver
  Additional Tags:
      Underage_Drinking, Truancy
  Stats:
      Published: 2014-01-03 Words: 2142
****** Hit The Road, Jack ******
by ScandalousSal
Summary
     Antimony is feeling blue and decides to skip class to avoid talking
     to Kat about Paz. In her wanderings she runs across a certain someone
     who knows just how to cheer her up.
The sun was headed down towards the horizon by the time Antimony made it to the
train station. A single cloud moved off across the great blue emptiness, as
though it had somewhere to be and was running late. For some reason, when she
walked to the train station after lunch, she hesitated. She hadn't felt like
getting on, because she knew that at the other end of the journey she would
have to talk to Kat, and it would be too awkward. Instead she could put their
inevitable meeting off another few hours. It meant ditching class, but Antimony
was past the point of caring about her grades, which were pretty bad in any
case.
So instead of boarding like all the others, she had held back, bending down to
pretend to tie her shoe. The clutch of students moved past her like a stream
rushes past a rock. Not one of them turned to remind her that she was going to
miss the train.
Figures- She thought. Who would want to help the ice queen?
The next train was going the opposite direction, far out into the industrial
sector. There was no one on it. There were a lot of things like that in the
Court, especially farther out. Trains with no passengers. Buildings with no
occupants. Row after row of streets, completely empty. A few months ago she
would have considered this a curiosity to be investigated, but now it simply
annoyed her.
I don't belong here anyway. Nobody likes me except Kat, and now she likes Paz
more. Coyote was right. I belong in the forest.
This thought stuck with her as the next stop flashed by, and then another and
another. At last she remembered that she had to press the button to get it to
stop. When the train finally came to a halt and the doors opened, she didn't
recognize the place at all. Still, she was not about to go back.
Her feet carried her down the steps almost automatically, her mind preoccupied
with other things. Factory fronts loomed on either side. Occasionally she
spotted a robot out of the corner of her eye, but besides them she was alone.
Alone, save for one thing...
It was a tingling sensation, and directional. As she had trained with Jones and
Coyote she had begun to sense currents in the ether- ambient movements that
betrayed a presence as splashes in the water betray a fish. It was coming from
somewhere behind her. She stopped in the middle of the street, closed her eyes,
and slipped gently out of her body. Her projection swiveled, eyes scanning
everywhere, but there was nothing there. In the forest life pulsated from every
surface and every direction, so much so that she could see wavering patches
where people and animals had stood a moment ago, but in the court most
everything was manifested in shades of grey, and the currents were weak.
She continued walking for a short distance further, and then stopped again.
This time she had heard something. Anger bubbled deep inside her. Who in the
bloody hell was following her and why wouldn't they leave her alone like she so
clearly wanted to be!?
She spun around and, seeing a figure standing in the street behind her,
unleashed a torrent of fire at it. Before the flames even reached them, the
figure contracted it's legs and jumped a seemingly impossible height to avoid
them. He, for Antimony realized at once who it was, floated back down rather
gracefully, a characteristic wry smile attached to his face.
"You ought to be more careful where you turn on your flamethrower, love."
"Jack! What are you doing out here?" Antimony said.
"I could ask you the same question." He replied. "Or, instead, we could not ask
each other any prying questions and sit up on the roof and drink brandy."
The question caught her by surprise, but before she could say no the idea grew
on her.
"That... actually sounds nice." She said, looking up to where he was pointing,
"But how are we going to get up there?"
Before she could protest, Jack threw his arms around her waist and jumped.
"SSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTT!" She
screamed as they sped upwards.
For a single terrifying second she was convinced the sky was going to keep
rushing up at them until they floated away into space, but a moment later their
momentum had petered out and they landed gently on top of one of the concrete
roofs that housed the factory.
"Ow." Jack said, cupping his ear. "Did you really have to scream?"
"Warn me before you do that next time!" Antimony said, still a little
breathless.
She looked around and saw that someone had placed a bench and a few cheap beach
chairs in a semicircle. They went and sat, Jack taking a deep swig from a flask
which he then passed to her. Antimony had never had a drink of human liquor
before, but she wasn't one to seem like a rookie, so she tried to take a larger
gulp than Jack, just to show him who was boss.
She got it down okay, but was wracked by coughing. It was just as unpalatable
as the Anywn's firewater. Jack gently took the flask back and gave her a few
hearty pats on the back for moral support.
"Thank you." She said once she could speak again.
"You looked like you needed a pick-me-up. What's on your mind, Carver?"
She could already feel the warmth spreading through her, from her stomach up to
the top of her head and the tips of her toes. It was delightful. She felt some
of that awful weight of brooding lift from her shoulders. For once, she decided
to open up. There was only so long you could be the ice queen.
"My best friend is kissing another girl."
"I was wondering when you'd find out about Kat."
Antimony whipped around so fast it almost cricked her neck.
"You mean all of you knew and you didn't tell me?"
"I don't know who you mean by "all of you", but I'm the only one who knows
this, besides you of course... and Paz."
"You've been spying on them, have you?"
"Of course not, don't be ridiculous." Jack said. "It's clear as day to anyone
who cares to look, but most people don't."
There was a long silence.
Fingers of dusk were reaching across the sky, and the haze from the smokestacks
gave it a blood-red hue that seemed to get more intense by the moment.
"So?" Antimony said, at last.
"So I think you shouldn't worry." Jack said, his voice calm and soothing. "Kat
is still going to be your best friend, no matter what."
"I know..." Antimony said, "and I know it's jealous and petty, but she just...
won't have as much time for me anymore."
Jack shrugged.
"I hate to be cliche, but that's how life goes sometimes. Kat is allowed to
kiss whoever she wants, and so are you."
As the last words of this sentence entered her ear and registered with her
brain, a mad idea took form... Before she could stop herself she was putting it
into action.
"Really?" She said, her voice suddenly full of a coy curiosity, "I can kiss
anyone you say?"
She turned and leaned on the arm of Jack's chair so that their faces were only
a few inches apart, their eyes locked. He was watching her a little wairily,
but he did not move away.
"Anyone, yeah." Jack replied, with just the slightest hint of nervousness.
It was too late to turn back. In another instant she had bridged the gap and
their lips collided.
Jack closed his eyes and met her in the middle. Initially he had had
reservations about Antimony. She struck him as having deep, unresolved
emotional issues, but when she was this desperate and this much of a looker he
couldn't pass it up without kicking himself later. In the heat of the moment,
his conscience had no trouble with it.
As he kissed her back he reached out his arms and guided her towards him until
she sat crossways on his lap. It was not the most natural position in the
world, but at this moment he could not care less. Her skin was so incredibly
soft and warm... and her hair! Everything about her was wonderful, even her
smell. It was one of those evenings that Jack wished could stretch on into
infinity. Just the both of them, locked together, pretending for a moment that
this kiss meant something more than just young lust.
Something wet interrupted this thought. Something that was trying to make it's
way into his mouth. It suddenly occurred to him what Antimony was doing.
Bloody hell... he thought, she's slipping ME the tongue? This lass is nuts!
...and I like it.
He had figured that when he got his first french kiss from a girl he would be
bragging to any friend who would listen, but now that it was happening... he
didn't want anyone to know. Not a soul. This was their secret, and theirs
alone.
Antimony gently rested her hand on his groin for support, and he couldn't help
himself. Antimony clearly felt this because she broke away from the kiss and
glanced down. A devious smile turned up the corners of her lips. She grabbed
his manhood through the cloth and cupped it, causing him to groan out loud.
"Jeeeeesus Carver... you're a real tease, you know that?"
Instead of replying, Antimony slid off his lap and shimmied down his legs to
kneel on the cement in front of him. Her thin, delicate fingers had quickly
unzipped him.
"Do you know what you're doing?"
"I got a few tips from a friend in the forest." She said, hooking her thumb in
the waistband of his boxers and pulling them down to let his erection spring
free.
"That's not what I meant."
"I know what you meant." Annie replied, looking up into his eyes with a self-
satisfied smile. "What's the matter Jack? Afraid you'll fall head over heels
for me?"
"I think it's already too late for th-aaaaaaaaaooooohhhh my god..."
His words were swept away by an involuntary groan as Annie's lips engulfed the
head of his cock. She wasn't lying about getting tips. That much was certain.
Her mouth was incredibly wet and warm, and he had to stare up at the sky and
think of Birmingham United because he knew if he looked down at that red haired
head bobbing up and down he would loose everything.
As it was, it didn't take him very long.
He clenched the edge of his chair as Antimony sped up, making little smacking
noises each time she reached the head.
"Uuuhhh..." Jack moaned, unable to restrain himself. "Ooooh that's it..."
In another second he was over the hump- past the point of no return. It was a
dozy, quite unlike any orgasm he'd had yet. His whole body tensed up, his back
arching slightly. His hands jumped up from the armrests of the chair and
grasped Annie's head, holding it in place while his cock twitched inside her
mouth. A long, low hiss whistled through his teeth as an incredible tingling
feeling shot through his lower body.
"Hhhhhhhhhhhhhh-!"
Then it was over, and he was floating back down to earth on a cushion of cloud.
He looked down to find Antimony pulling a sopping wet hand out of her knickers.
She grinned fiercely and licked her lips. She had gotten it all, save for a big
globule that had dripped out the corner of her mouth and fallen onto her
blouse. She looked at it pensively as Jack fastened his trousers back up.
"Well." He said after a moment, because there didn't seem to be anything else
to say.
"Well indeed." Said Antimony.
"Do you, uh- want to do that again sometime, maybe?"
"Of course!" She said, planting a kiss on his cheek. "Don't let it go to your
head, but I rather fancy you."
"I-I think I fancy you as well." Jack said, with uncharacteristic hesitance.
"What happened to Zimmy?" Annie teased, poking him in the ribs.
Jack got to his feet and shrugged.
"Some things just weren't meant to be, I suppose."
The sun had almost set completely now, and a chilly wind was beginning to
whistle between the forest of pipes, beams and smokestacks. Jack spared a
glance at his watch. Had it really only been fifteen minutes? It seemed more
like hours as he replayed it in his head.
"Shall we get heading back?"
This time it was Antimony's turn to put her arms around him.
"Yes, I think we shall. Just let me down more gently this time please."
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