For Jack - After the play

The walk back home is done mostly in silence, a little tense but not as bad as the past day or so. They walk back hand in hand, leaning into each other just a bit as Kate gets more and more comfortable, lets go of everything a little bit more. She wonders how long it will take for the sting to completely fade, but they need to be close now. They need to touch each other and feel like themselves again, together. They need to talk. Kate needs to feel him against her, feel that he's with her, stupid idiot and all. Because if they don't start feeling like each other again, and they don't talk about what's going on? Jack is going to continue to feel like shit and Kate's going to nurse her own hurt until it becomes something really, really ugly.

They climb the porch together and stop inside the doorway, Kate putting her head against Jack's shoulder.