"I really like that blouse on you, cupcake." Jack says as he sat on the couch and typed away on a holographic screen, not even looking at (Y/n).

     "You're not even looking at me." She says with a scoff as she walked into the kitchen.

     "Don't have to. My 'hot babe' senses were tingling when you walked in. And I could guess what you were wearing just from those tingles." He says, still typing.

     "Bullshit. What color are my panties?" She tested with a brow arched while pouring a cup of orange juice.

     "Black, lace, polyester."a Jack says in a matter of seconds, a coy smirk gracing his lips as he still typed. (Y/n) stares at him with a hard glare at the back of his head. "Did I guess correct?" He asks as he paused and looked back at her with a shit eating grin on his mask. She doesn't say anything and starts walking away with her cup.

     "Lucky guess." She sneered before grumbling, "Pervert..." Jack chuckles as he goes back to typing.

      It's been about 6 months since (Y/n) started staying with Jack, it being a very slow process of her opening up to him. He's tried to get on her good side but has had no luck, there being a few occasions where he could get her all flustered in which he took pride in. But she hated that. She still did hate him, for that and how he's very slowly making his way down the hate rankings. (Y/n) tried to push him away but also trying to dodge a bullet in her head at the same time, so it was a life and dignity or instant death situation. There were times when he was surprisingly gently but they were rare unless he was drunk. She noted that he has a drinking problem while trying to maintain a relationship with his daughter she has yet to meet. Which probably won't happen. (Y/n) can tell his struggles through his drunk talk while he's still emotional and not handsy. She still kept in contact with everyone down in Pandora so they know she's still alive. But she keeps hearing them say that they're close to shutting down Jack's plan while she keeps hearing him say that the Crimson Raiders on the brink of dying at his hands. She hears both sides of the stories, literally and she decides not to get in the middle.

     "Damnit! What the fuck do you mean you can't get the Loader Bots ready in time?!" Jack shouts angrily into the ECHO as they sat together in the diner. (Y/n) sighs deeply as she feels all imaginary eyes on them as everyone tried to not look in their way in fear of getting killed by Jack. "Wait until I get down there because I will strangle you with your own intestines after I fucking GUT YOU!" He snarled as he hung up and sighed deeply and leaning back in his seat. (Y/n) hummed as she ate her omelette and smirked.

     "You need a Snickers bar." She chirped with a sweet smile to him as he glared at her.

     "I'm glad you're enjoying this, cupcake." He snapped angrily with a bitter smile and standing up, "Enjoy your free breakfast. I need to go and kill somebody." He says with a dark expression as he left the diner swiftly. (Y/n) watches him leave and shrugs, continuing to eat. She's used to it by now. Once she finishes, she leaves and walks down the halls with a hum.

     "Ma'am!" Courtney says as she sped walked up to (Y/n) with a pile of paperwork in her arms. She turns around to see the assistant with a brow raised.

     "Yeah?" She asks while watching the heavy breathed assistant.

     "U-Um, can you drop this off to Handsome Jack's office? I have to run and get more reports from the IT department and Handsome Jack is not a happy camper at the moment." She says in a hurry and dropping the paperwork into (Y/n)'s arms.

     "Of course." (Y/n) nods as Courtney breathes a sigh of relief.

     "Oh my gosh, thank you. You're a life saver. Literally." Courtney sped off down the hall as (Y/n) sighed and walks down the hall as well.

     "Seems to me that being Handsome Jack's assistant is a lot of hard work and stress. I feel bad for her." She murmured as she looked at the map on the wall of Helios, "So if I'm here... I need to go here..." She says as she points to a part of the map on where Jack's office was. (Y/n) sighs as she walks to the elevator and pressed the button to the highest level. The door closes and the elevator shoots up, she stands in the elevator as the cheesy elevator music played before a ding is heard. The door opens and she walks down a large hall. Along the walls is paintings of Jack and statues of Jack. "Why am I not surprised...?" She grumbled with a eye roll and walking up to the secretary who typed away in the computer. "Um, excuse me?" The secretary doesn't respond and (Y/n) feels her eyebrow twitch in annoyance. "Excuse me." She says louder and finally the receptionist looks up at (Y/n) with a rather annoyed look.

     "May I help you?" She asks in a snarky manner.

     "Is Handsome Jack in his office at the moment?" (Y/n) holds the paperwork tighter in her arms   to hold back from punching the red lipstick off that secretary's lips.

     "No, he isn't. He's in a meeting right now. But I'll take those for you." She says with a fake smile.

     "Hm... Nah. I'll hold on to them." She says as she walked up to Jack's office doors.

     "I didn't say you can go in." The secretary says in anger.

     "I know. I just want to." (Y/n) smiles bitterly at the secretary with a wink as she scoffed, opening the doors and closing them after entering the office. (Y/n) sighs as she walked in, "What a bitch..." She grumbles before stopping in her steps as she looked around his office, "Woah..." Jack's office was a spacious environment as she slowly walked up to his desk, looking around in fascination. But the wide windows with a panoramic view over Elpis was what took her breath away. "This place is even more impressive than his penthouse." She admits as she placed the paperwork down on his desk. A picture of a little girl catches (Y/n)'s eyes, who reaches over and picks up the frame. "This must be Angel..." She murmured, "How cute..." (Y/n) found it sweet how Jack kept a picture of his daughter at his desk. She sees another picture of Angel but with Jack as she placed the picture down. He was smiling as he held Angel in his arms who was smiling as well. (Y/n) liked that smile of his, it was genuine and charming than his usual smile that she sees on a basis. "Why can't he smile like this more...?" She sighs and looks out the window again in awe, walking closer to the window and placing a hand against it. Her curios and wide eyes scanned the view as she imprinted the image into her mind and stood there in silence for a few moments.

     "Like what you see, cupcake?" A low voice suddenly says beside her ear and large hands are placed on her hips. The sudden voice making her jump and swiftly reaching behind her to slap the person. "Ow!" Jack hissed as he reached a hand up and held the side of his face.

     "Don't sneak up on me like that!" (Y/n) blushed with a pout, "How did you get in here so quietly?!" She squeaked.

     "Well, since this is my office. I finished my meeting and came here only to find your sweet ass here as well and I just thought, 'Huh. She's distracted. Here's my chance to seduce her onto my desk.' And then you slapped me." Jack explains with a huff as he rubbed the side of his face.

     "It wouldn't have happened if you didn't sneak up on me all rapey like." She grumbled with her arms crossed.

     "I was not." Jack argued as he sighed, "You're just overreacting." (Y/n) rolls her eyes as she leaned back against his desk and continued to stare out the window.

     "Anyway, to answer your question... Yes, I do like the view." She says as Jack looked at her and joined her in leaning back against his desk to look out the window.

     "That's good. Told you I had the best view." Jack slipped his hands into his pockets as (Y/n) hummed in response.

     "Right. How was killing that employee?"

     "Amazing." Jack admits with a grin to her, "Best stress reliever so far. Gutting him and strangling him with his own intestines while watching the life leave his eyes was one of my best." Jack sighed with a relaxed smile. (Y/n) pictures the scene in her mind, the man dying as he's strangled with his own organs. Begging Handsome Jack to let him live through strangled cries as Jack laughed bitterly and only strangled him tighter. Shivers run down her spine and she holds back from gagging as she thought that someday that might be her if she were to get on Jack's very bad side.

     "Y'know, there's other ways to relieve stress." She says as she continued to look out the window.

     "I know, I have one in mind that includes you." He says, (Y/n) looks over at him in slight fear.

     "What's that?" She asks before he chuckles.

     "I heard sex was a great stress reliever. Even for a guy like me who's stressing everyday." He says with a wink to her and she rolls her eyes, "Think of how much stress I could get rid of if you were to just have sex with me, cupcake."

     "Gross."

     "Hey! Don't knock it until you try it." Jack scoffed as she groaned.

     "I'll pass on the offer. You have a secretary out there who seems stressed."

     "Oh yes, her. She told me what happened. I thought it was funny as hell." He chuckled and (Y/n) smiled a tiny bit. They stand there in silence, staring out the wide for a few moments before Jack clears his throat, "Do you still hate me?" He asks.

     "Hm?" (Y/n) looks over at him in slight confusion, "Why do you ask?" Jack continues to stare out the window as he clasped his hands together.

     "Well, you've been here for the past 6 months. And I've been just wondering if you at least warmed up to me a bit." Jack shrugs as (Y/n) stares at him.

     "I mean, you haven't killed me yet. You've kept me fed and clothed. You haven't forced yourself onto me, yet. Um... You've given me some freedom and give me my personal space when I need it."

     "What's that supposed to mean?" Jack looks over at her as (Y/n) blushed lightly as she glanced at him with a slight shrug.

     "It means that I might have... Warmed up to you a tiny bit..." She admits as she looked out the window.

     "Really?"

     "Mhm." Jack looks taken back at her response as he looked down.

     "That's good I guess." He says softly as she looked at him and smiled a tiny bit.

     "Would it make you feel better that you're one step away from being disliked?" She asks and he visibly perks up and looks at her.

     "I am?"

     "Yeah, you're slowly making your way off the hate ranking." (Y/n) says while sitting up onto his desk and watching him. Jack processes this and smiles softly, one of the genuine and rare smiles that she admired and felt her heart flutter to.

     "What can I do to be in the top of the disliked ranking?" He asks as she chuckles softly.

     "By keeping this up and not being a total dick."

     "What am I then if I make it off the disliked ranking?" Jack moves closer to her as (Y/n) thought.

     "Hm... I didn't think about that... I might have to consider you as a friend if that were to ever happen." (Y/n) looks at him with a light blush.

     "How long will that take?"

     "Who knows. You still have a long way to go to not get disliked anymore. But be proud of yourself." She smiles, "You're making it off the hate ranking." Jack nods as she hummed before subconsciously leaning over and placing a soft kiss on his cheek, the cold mask touching her warm lips. This catches Jack off guard as he freezes and stares at her in slight shock, she pulls away and blushed madly. Shocked with herself at her own actions and looking away to hide her flustered expression.

     "S-Sorry..." She murmured.

     "You missed." He says and she looked at him with a flustered and confused expression.

     "What?" Jack leans over and places his lips against hers, her eyes widen and the blush on her face darkens. Her heart pounding against her chest, her mind screaming at her to push him away but her body only has her lean into his touch more. Only to find herself kissing him back as Jack slips a hand on the back of her neck to pull her deeper into the kiss. Jack could feel all the weight on his shoulders be lifted as he moved his cold mask lips against her soft and warm ones. After a few more seconds they pull away slightly, taking heavy breaths as she looked at him with a dark blush. They both stare each other in silence before (Y/n) clears her throat and moves away from him.

     "I-I better leave you to it." She stammered as she walked down the few steps from his desk, Jack following after her.

     "(Y/n)-"

     "I'll s-see you later when you're done working then, Jack." (Y/n) leaves his office and only to have him standing in the middle of his office in silence. Jack stares at the door and thinks back to what just happened. Lightly touching his cheek and lips his mind raced before taking an immediate stop.

     "Fuck me!" He hissed with a slap to his forehead, "You're so stupid! Stupid stupid! Fuck!" He groaned as he slumped in his chair and slammed his forehead on his desk, "What the fuck happened to you, Jack? You used to be this absolute badass. Now you're this... This feeling piece of shit!" Jack groans and rubs his masked face, "You screwed everything up! Shit!" He sighs deeply as he took his hands off his face and stared at the picture of Angel on his desk, "What's gotten over me...?" He grumbled softly as another sigh leaves his lips and he takes a bottle of whisky out of his desk, "Here's to another long day." He says as he pressed a button on his desk, "Hey, cupcake. Cancel further meetings for today." He says over the intercom.

     "Yes, Handsome Jack." The secretary says.

     (Y/n) reaches the penthouse and speeds to her room and falls onto her bed, "Ohmygodohmygodohmygod." She repeats over and over as she hugs her pillow, the kiss replaying in her mind on repeat and the blush never leaving her face. She lightly touched her lips and grimaces, "What is he doing to me...?"