Disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's not mine. If it were I would make sure Carly comes alive again and she and Jack proclaim their love for each other.

Chapter Rating: T I've warned you! So don't complain to me later.

Genre: Romance/Humor

Setting: Two or three years after the series.

Summary:

Jack always loved Carly's eyes and he makes a way so that he could always see them.

Note: I had trouble describing clothes and accessories. If you want to see what I was trying to describe there are links available at the bottom of the story.

Gifts From the Heart

Jack's Love

Your Beautiful Eyes

Deciding to move in with Carly was something I'm not all that proud off. I'm a man after all. I should be able to provide for myself. But Carly's rationalizing of my situation to me it couldn't be helped. I refused to go back the Duel King's mansion as long as I haven't beaten Yusei and regained my title. And I refused Mikage's offer to let me stay in Goodwin's mansion. That left me with little options. And since I didn't want to end up dwindling down my albeit large but limited funds on a hotel room Carly's offer was the only one left to accept.

I don't even understand why she offered. What with having ended up as enemies at one point. I was even the one to Duel her and almost ended her life as I defeated her. It was only a lucky thing that Red Demons Dragon was able to defeat her Earthbound God - Assla Piscu. And that it somehow ended up saving her life.

Despite everything that happened I still couldn't understand why she disregarded my warning to her and chose to get involved with that misadventure. She told me that it was to save her job by "getting the scoop about the Signers". But I know better now.

The story did save her job, even got her a promotion and a raise enough to move us in a bigger apartment (She insisted on moving while I insisted paying half of the rent). She was now the number one reporter in all of Neo Domino sought after by many News Stations.

And today she was covering a Valentine's Ball a charity event hosted by the new head of the Arcadia Movement Aki Izayoi.

"Why should I go exactly?" I demanded an explanation as I tried to fix my tie. This swallow-tailed white tux aggravated me as I was still unused to these formal parties. I ended up just tangling the purple strand of cloth.

"Because it's a Valentine's Ball!" Carly proclaimed like it was the most important thing to occur clasping her hands to her heart. "Everywhere there would only be couples and with us there there'll be and then there's this and that could happen…" I tuned her out when she started babbling nonsense. Learning this was the best way to handle her when she gets like this.

Looking at the mirror I tried again to fix my tie and ended up with a lopsided bow one side clearly bigger than the other and a piece of the tie hang down like a tail. I narrowed my eyes at the uncooperative bow. Carly noticing my dilemma snapped out of her babbling.

"Here! Let me fix that!" Her hands reached for the tie, her nimble fingers adjusting it into a bow. I still can't believe I fell in love with this girl. I find it harder to believe she felt the same way. I have overheard her rival reporter saying I'm the kind of guy Carly couldn't bear to even be around with. How we managed to stay together for ten months is nothing short of a miracle. "There." She said smiling bright that she was done fixing the tie. I looked at the mirror again and saw that she made a perfect bow of it. I looked to her to thank her but I could not hold back what I said next.

"Carly." I brought my face to her level and looked directly at her glasses trying to see the eyes beneath them.

"Y-yes." She stammered under my gaze. My right hand reached for her face, ignoring her blush at the contact.

"You…" I started to say unsure of I how to word it right, might as well say it as I wish. "Are not seriously wearing that to the party are you?" I told her bluntly.

"Eh?" She stepped back sounding surprised, confused and a little disappointed from what I said as she started shaking her head. "But I thought the dress looked great on me when I tried it on at the store." She said pouting as she then started inspecting what was wrong with her dress. Holding the skirt up and swinging it around.

"I wasn't talking about the dress." I told her. No. Why would it be the dress? If anything the dress looked like it was made just for her. The lilac ball gown's satin cloth hugged her in the right places showing off her curves. The sequined pattern and a rose sewed on just above her left hip made her look like a true princess. And it also didn't hurt that it didn't look awkward on her in a certain place. I almost blushed at the thought but held myself in check. She looked elegant and just simply beautiful. The only problem was... "I'm talking about your glasses." I said indifferently as I folded my arms across my chest. It distracted away from her beauty.

"What about my glasses?" she said seemingly unaware of how much it ruins her whole attire. I held her shoulders and pushed her in front of a full length mirror hoping she would see for herself what was wrong. She just looked at my mirror image mentally inquiring to me what was wrong with her reflection. Seeing as this was going nowhere I proceeded to take off her glasses in a single swoop of my hand and held them up high.

"Ah! Jack! What are you doing?" She shouted loudly to the point of almost shrieking at my ear as she tried to grab for her glasses even resorting to jumping for it. It was useless though as I was far much taller than her.

"You shouldn't wear these glasses in the kind of party we're attending." I said walking away from her and put away the glasses in one of the dresser drawers. She fumed at my actions. I could practically see smoke coming out her ears.

"But how will I see?!" She whined lips pouting. "You know I can't see too far without them!" Already knowing she would say something like this I got a box of eye contacts out of the same drawer and handed it to her.

"Here are some contacts go put them on in the bathroom." I commanded her as I pushed her to there.

"How do you even know if these have my prescription?" She said as I opened the bathroom door and motioned for her to go in. Truthfully I stole her glasses on one of her days off to get the prescription for the contacts. But she didn't need to know that.

"I just know all right. So just put them on." Growing impatient I grasped her arm lightly and pulled her in the bathroom as I walked in and then I immediately stepped out.

"But what if I poke my eye out?" she shouted through the door sounding anxious about putting on contacts.

"You won't, you'll be fine." I yelled back to her trying to assure her as I sat myself down on a chair waiting for her to come out.

After an hour of silent waiting I started to get worried that her clumsiness may have gotten the better of her. And that she did somehow end up poking her eye out. Her clumsiness knows no limits witnessing it for myself countless of times. Like the times she would end up walking into a wall when she got herself distracted. Or the times she almost cut herself when she was chopping up vegetables. Or the times she would somehow trip on air. Or the times she would end up leaving her hand on the burning stove. The only reason she hasn't seriously hurt herself was because I would make sure she didn't. Maybe I should check in on her.

I stood up from the chair walked to the bathroom door and knocked.

"Carly? Is everything okay in there?" I asked worried but kept my voice calm. When she didn't answer I worried even further. "Hey! Carly!" I said a little louder thinking she just didn't hear me. She still didn't answer. "I'm coming in." I warned. I turned the knob feeling a little better knowing it wasn't locked. Opening the door I saw Carly face towards me surprised at my entrance.

"Jack. Sorry I took so long. I was reapplying my make up since I teared up a little when I put on the contacts." I barely registered her talking as I was awestruck by her beauty. Her eye lashes were lengthened. She had put something around her eye that made them somehow brighter. And with the dress. I was just speechless. "Hey Jack!" Carly yelled reeling me back into reality. I straightened myself up and coughed a bit looking away trying to hide my embarrassment.

"You look great." I said trying to feign casualness. I heard Carly giggle at my loss for words. "We should get going now or we'll be too late." I told her exiting the bathroom choosing to ignore her amusement at my expense. I heard her heels following behind me.

Walking to the door I remembered something I wanted to give to Carly today. I stopped by the doorway. Whilst Carly now complained that we would be late I was looking through the inside pockets of my tuxedo jacket trying to find my second gift. I finally found it in my left chest pocket and pulled out the lavender velvet box.

"Happy Valentine's Day." I greeted to her as I handed the box to her. She picked the lid off. Her smile grew wide seeing its content. She then grasped the necklace diligently lifting it up. The silver butterfly knot and the rain drop amethyst stone glittered as light shone on it. I took it from her and put it around her neck as she lifted her hair out of the way. Clasping it in place I turned her around facing me and marveled again at her beauty. I kissed her sweet lips quickly taking her by surprise. And before she could even react I had already let her go. Leaving her shimmering eyes in a daze. I walked out the apartment and waited in the hallway for her to wake up from the daze I induced on her. I love it when her eyes were like that. They shone brighter than any gem I could ever give to her.

Author's Notes:

As much as I love this couple. This was hard to write. I'm pretty sure I made Jack OOC. And I'm not all too happy with the dress I picked out for Carly. But overall I'm happy with what I wrote.

So far I've received no answers for my contest. Hmm... Is it really that hard? The glass rose one is pretty easy after all.

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Images below. Just take out the spaces when copying and pasting the link on the address bar.

Dress:

http: //www . nexteve . com /images /D /F6218a . JPG

Tux:

http: //sapphiresiren . deviantart . com /art /Seto -and- Seiya - s - Wedding - Kiss - 22676140

Necklace:

http: //www . blueridgespirit . com /images /amethystnecklace1004lg . jpg

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