Title: Always a First Time

Author: Mindy

A/N: Sorry for the late update to anyone waiting on this. The first two chapters of the next series are up as well. Enjoy!

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Heart

The first time Jack admitted to anyone he might have feelings for Liz Lemon beyond those of friendship, he did so to the last person on earth he should've. In his right mind, he would never have let such an important piece of information slip, especially into his mother's hands. She could not be trusted, he'd learnt that at age two.

In his defence, however, he was in a weakened state, having just suffered a minor cardiac event. He was going through what others would describe as a midlife crisis and what he called a lifestyle revitalization. Plus, he was on a cocktail of very heavy-duty drugs. Thankfully, no one else had been in the room to witness the damning admission. Not that that comforted him any.

Colleen had couched a question within half-a-dozen other random but calculated inquires, such as whether he dyed his hair, if and when he'd stolen money from her and whether he loved her. Pheobe had witnessed the beginning of the interrogation but swiftly exited after discovering from his imposed honesty that she was not the love of his life.

Honestly, he thinks she had already started to suspect where his true affections lay. To be more specific, he thinks anyone in frequent contact with him, would've been able to guess his growing attachment to Lemon. Excluding Lemon herself, of course, who was confoundedly oblivious when it came to the opposite sex.

Jack pulled the traitorous little suckers off his chest to prevent any further monitoring of his heart's responses but his merciless mother turned to him with a maniacal grin, having saved her most explosive question for last.

"How do you feel about the Lemon creature?"

Also in his defence, Jack hadn't actually said anything. She couldn't quote him if pressed. He'd neither confirmed nor denied feeling anything at all for Elizabeth Lemon. Apparently, he hadn't needed to. She didn't require an oral confession or even the confirmation of the heart monitor to read his response. His expression confessed everything his doting mother already suspected.

"I thought so," Colleen murmured smugly.

For the first time in…ever, Jack and his mother understood each other completely.

END. (TBC...)