3 days go by in which (Y/n) had avoided Jack for those days. In which case, she never left her room unless she was hungry or thirsty. Jack, on the other hand, was internally having a mental breakdown as he felt like her ruined everything. Trying to maintain his relationship with his daughter, Angel, and holding off the Crimson Raiders was stressful enough. He's been holding back the urge to going to (Y/n) and explain himself for his actions but he knew he had to give her space to think everything over. But the three days were agonizing and long since he never saw her leave her room once since that day. The two were very confused on how they felt about each other since they kissed. (Y/n) not wanting to admit to herself that she secretly had feelings for Jack and Jack trying to figure out why his heart beated faster whenever he saw her. While also trying to forget how soft and warm her lips were against the cold and smooth ones of his mask.

     "Hey, cupcake?" Jack knocks on (Y/n)'s bedroom door after a few moments of hesitation, leaning against the doorway.

     "Yeah?" Her voice is heard on the other side of the door, she leaned against the doorway as her hand hovered over the doorknob.

     "Do you have a second?"

     "No."

     "Don't lie. I know you do." (Y/n) rolls her eyes.

     "What do you want, Jack?" She sighed as her head leaned against the doorway.

     "I just wanna talk about what happened that other day."

     "I don't know what you're talking about." She murmured and grimaced as she hears him sigh heavily on the other side.

     "You know exactly what I'm talking about." Jack sighed as the door opened a bit so she's seen leaning against the doorway like him. He could feel his heart beat slightly faster at the sight of her and Jack attempts to ignore the warm feeling that was washing over him.

     "Do we have to talk about it?" (Y/n) grumbles as she looked down and picked at the doorway with her finger.

     "Yes, we do. Because I don't think I can stand another day with us avoiding each other over a kiss." Jack says as his mismatched eyes watches her closely before they meet with her (e/c) irises, he feels his breath catch in his throat and he clears it. "And I just want to apologize."

     "Apologize?" She tilts her head slightly with a puzzled expression, "For what?"

     "Um... F-For kissing you so suddenly." He says and rubbing the nape of his neck sheepishly, mentally cursing himself for stuttering. (Y/n) catches the stutter and smiles a tiny bit, finding it cute and blushing lightly.

     "I-It's alright..." She says softly, "You just..."

     "Scared you off?" Jack arches a brow.

     "A bit yeah." (Y/n) nods as she blushed a tiny bit more, "But I honestly... About the kiss..."

     "You hated it." He says with a deep and disappointed sigh.

     "No no. I-I didn't hate it." She says and looking down, "I honestly liked it a bit." Jack looks at her, a slightly surprised look on his face.

     "Really?" (Y/n) nods and Jack lets out a relieved sigh, "And I didn't ruin my chances of being disliked instead of hated, right?" She nods again and he smiles, "That's awesome. I thought I scared you off forever."

     "You were close but I had time to accept what happened and I don't hold it against you." Jack nods and they stand there for a few seconds in awkward silence. "Jack?" He looks up at her from his gaze on the floor.

     "Yeah?"

     "Why'd you... Y'know... Kiss me?" Jack's silent for a moment as he stared at her, trying to come up with a answer before laughing softly and looking away.

     "I honestly have no idea, cupcake." He says with a breathy laugh and hands in his pocket, "I wish I can tell you but I don't have a answer for that." He admits and she nods, looking down in a bit of disappointment by his answer. Jack noticed this and cleared his throat. "I-I mean, I could but it's j-just hard to explain." He grumbled and as he glanced away, "Although I could show you if you'd let me. Tonight." (Y/n) looks at him with great uncertainty. "Not like, sexually. I mean, I could if I would but I know you're not into me like that, yet, but I could show you differently." He says with somewhat better clarification. She slowly nods and smiles a tiny bit.

     "Um, sure." He smiles a bit and nods.

     "Awesome. So, I'll come back here at around sevenish tonight?" Jack asks as (Y/n) nods.

     "Sounds great."

     "Great." They both smile, (Y/n) slowly closing the door and Jack slowly backing away. "So I'll see you later, cupcake." He says with a small smirk and she nods with a tad blush dusting over her cheeks.

     "Mhm. See you later, Jack." She says as she closed the door, she smiles widely and leans back against the door and sliding down onto the floor, hugging her knees to her chest. Jack stares at the door with a growing grin and chuckling to himself as he scratched the back of his head.

     "Oh god what did I get myself into?" He sighed with the still present grin and walking off to make plans.

     Some hours go by and (Y/n) stands in the mirror, staring at herself in a yellow dress with black swirl designs. She sighs heavily as she fixed up her hair a bit, "Why am I so worried about this? It's not like it's some sort of date." She blushed lightly, "I don't like him that much to consider it one." Flashbacks to the kiss play in her mind and her blush gets darker and she groans, "Just don't think about it too much. We're nothing more than mere acquaintances and that kiss meant nothing." (Y/n) gives herself a firm nod in the mirror before grimacing. She secretly hoped it meant something internally. A knock on her door is heard and she jumps slightly, walking over to the door and opening it slightly. She's met with Jack wearing a black tux with a yellow tie and her heart beats at a faster pace at the sight of him, a growing blush forming onto her cheeks.

     "You look beautiful, cupcake." Jack complimented as she blushed harder and stood before him and fiddling with her hands nervously.

     "Y-You too." She says softly before realizing what she said, "I didn't mean that! I-I mean, I did! But not beautiful! I m-meant handsome!" (Y/n) stammered with a mad blush. Jack can't help but laugh, a genuine and kind laugh.

     "I get it. And I know, I am handsome." He hummed with a smirk and she rolls her eyes with a sarcastic smile. "Anyway, ready to go, cupcake?" (Y/n) nods, not saying anything at the moment in fear of embarrassing herself even more. Jack chuckles and offers her his arm, in which she shyly takes and they begin to leave the penthouse.

     "S-So, where are we going?" (Y/n) looks up at him as they walked, Jack only smirked and winked at her.

     "That's a surprise for you to found out on your own." He hummed as she simply nodded, arms still linked together and she reached her hand up slightly to fidget with the silver bracelet around her wrist. The two reach the elevator and Jack presses a button in which the doors close and takes off. They stand together in silence as the cheesy elevator music played in the background, "I should really change that." Jack sighed as he listened to the music and (Y/n) laughs softly. The elevator dings and the doors open to a long and dark hallway. They walk in after (Y/n) hesitated. "It's not a trap, cupcake. If I wanted to kill you, I would've done that awhile ago." Jack reassured with a chuckle. She nods and they continue walking, the windows on either side display the view outside, all of the stars shining brightly and twinkling in the distance. The view and light from Elpis on one side, and the view and light from Pandora on the other. They reach a set of locked doors in which Jack reached over to the side to type in a code and the doors immediately open, inside is dark and Jack gestures her to go in. "Ladies first." (Y/n) cautiously steps in and slowly walks into the dark area, her footsteps echoing as she can also hear Jack's footsteps next to her. The doors suddenly close shut and the darkness engulfs them immediately, this causes (Y/n) to jump in fright and immediately reach out in the pitch black and latch onto Jack's arm. Jack chuckles and pulls her close. "It's alright." He says calmly as there's a pounding buzzing sound heard bad the floor shakes. She closes her eyes tightly and stays close to Jack.

     Then everything goes silent and still. (Y/n) takes steady breaths as she then hears the sounds of birds and the gentle breeze. She slowly opened her eyes, only to see that she and Jack were standing in the middle of the woods. The sunset shining through the branches and trees as birds chirped.

     "Where are we?" (Y/n) asks softly as Jack starts walking, gently pulling her along since she still held his arm.

     "Follow me." He says as they walked. Branches snapped under their shoes as they walked, the further they walked, the denser the trees got, "Gonna be a tight squeeze." Jack grunts as they both pushed their way through the branches. Soon enough, they get to the edge of the woods and Jack stepped out into an open field. Green grass swaying gently in the breeze as he looked back at her and offered her his hand. (Y/n) takes it and he gently pulls her out of the trees and walks with her through the field and up a hill, his large hand gently holding her smaller one. They reach the top of the hill where a tree sat, and a small picnic sitting area under its leaves. A breathtaking view over the fields and the sunset over the horizon.

     "Wow..." (Y/n) breathed under her breath at the scenery. Jack smiles as he watched her reaction and gestures to the picnic, she smiled and sat down on the checkered blanket as he sat down next to her. "Where actually are we? I can't tell if this is real or not. Did we teleport somewhere?" (Y/n) asks with a smile at him as Jack chuckles softly.

     "You can say that we 'teleported'." Jack shrugs as he leaned back on his hands, "We're in a simulation arena. This place is used to help the Hyperion military train against the harsh conditions on either Elpis or Pandora. Mostly for the newbies and whatnot. I simulated a time where there's an actual place in some dimension where there's order and laws. A bandit free world, monster free. It's a place so very far away though, and their technology isn't as advanced as ours. But they're all humans who actually have their lives under control where killing others and stealing is an actual crime. They still have their problems, but it's against their own."

     "Like us." (Y/n) says and Jack nods. "This world is perfect but they still have their flaws with each other like us. But we're not as perfect."

     "Exactly. This," He opens his arms and gestures to all around them, "Is what I want for Pandora. It's beautiful isn't it?"

    "Very." (Y/n) nods in agreement as she looked around. She looks at Jack who had a look of determination on his face and she smiles softly, "And I think this is a perfect choice for a picnic."

     "I think so too." Jack says with a smile as he grabbed a gift box that was next to a picnic basket and handed it to her.

     "Aw, for me?" She says with a small smirk and he laughs softly.

     "No, it's for this other chick that I brought." Jack says sarcastically, "Of course it's for you." (Y/n) smiles and unties the gold ribbon bow and opens the box. A crimson red pistol laid neatly in the box, Hyperion brand, and a engraving along the pistol in white calligraphy, "Little Red". (Y/n) looks at Jack as his eyes studied the name on the red gun.

     "How'd you know?" She asks softly as he rubbed the nape of his neck.

     "I may or may not have done a little research on you after you first came to live with me. Found out a lot of stuff about you and your past. 'Little Red' seemed to really make me like you more after reading up about how you got that name. How you would leave each bandit camp you raided, by yourself, covered in the red blood of the fallen bandits you killed. Thought that was pretty bad ass." (Y/n) blushed lightly as she smiled.

     "It's nothing really." She carefully takes the gun out of its box and is surprised by its lightweight. She holds the handle in her hand and aims. (Y/n) grins childishly as she studied the gun, lightly running her fingertips over the engraving. "Did you really make a gun like this for me?"

     "Not for you, per-say. It's inspired by you. But you can say it's also for you too." He says as she blushed, Jack scoots closer to her and gently takes the gun from her hands and shows her the serial number, "After I read about you and your nickname down at Pandora, I suddenly had an idea for a new gun design. I decided to make a few prototypes and this was the final result. You, cupcake, have the very first Little Red in its making. And its very existence was built on the foundation where you were its inspiration." (Y/n) can't help but feel rather humble that Jack made a gun based on her, feeling her heart flutter.

     "Inspired by me?" She repeats softly and he nods.

     "Yep. It's slender like you, lightweight and easy to handle, recoils are decreased, holds 12 bullets at a time, accuracy is spot on, damage is incredibly high, and it results in a good big red splatter from the enemies' blood for its name. Don't ask me how I know that, just take my word for it." Jack says as he hands it back to her. (Y/n) smiles even more as she held the gun close to herself, before then hugging Jack to his surprise.

     "Thank you, Jack." She says softly as Jack looked at her as she hugged him, then smiling as he wrapped an arm around her.

     "You're welcome, cupcake." He murmured as they pull away from each other, Jack watches (Y/n)'s eyes light up with happiness as she studied her gun with a smile on her face. "(Y/n)." He says to catch her attention, which he did as she looked at him. "I um... Hope this shows why I kissed you." He says and she starts to piece everything together, "The gun is the biggest hint since it's inspired by you and all that and that comes to show that I inspire you. I mean, you inspire me. I-I mean, I hope I inspire you. Not like being cocky or whatever but I'm just saying-" He stammered before getting cut off by (Y/n)'s lips against his. He looks at her in slight shock before he closes his eyes and kissed back, taking her face in his hands and pulling her deeper into the kiss. She lets out a soft noise as she kissed Jack with a blushing face. They soon pull away for air and stare deep into each other's eyes.

     "I-I think I like you, Jack..." (Y/n) says through soft breaths, "Like, really like you..." She bites her bottom lip as her blush got darker at her confession. Jack smirks and chuckles as he captured her lips with his once more, humming softly.

     "And I can say the same about you, cupcake..." He murmured softly against her lips, "But I'm gonna have to make sure I feel the same though. Just to double check." He says with a coy smirk against her lips, they both chuckle and lean into each other's lips once more. They spent their evening enjoying their picnic and their shared kisses.