Get Black Out: Alv.

Merlin told Jack to close the window at night, since animals would enter in through the window. But did he listen? No, and it shows since now Jack and her were in the kitchen trying to get a bat out. Jack was trying to scare the bat without being attacked, meanwhile Merlin had a net to catch the flying mammal.

“Alright, I admit,” Jack throws one of his shoes at the bat to scare it. “This may be partly my fault.”

“partly?” Merlin scowled at him.

“Okay, all my fault.” He ducks. “But I can fix it.”

“Woah!” Merlin ducked down. “Please do!”

“Okay,” Merlin and him hide under the table. “Here’s the plan, I’ll try and grab it and once I do, I'll throw it out the window and you shut it.”

“Jack, is that really a smart plan?”

“Look, I’m desperate.”

“Fine, just don’t get bit, okay?”

“I’ll try, but if we're lucky I could become a vampire.” Jack joked, which made Merlin smile somewhat.

“But seriously, please don’t get bitten.”

“I won’t.”

Jack put his plan into motion, and lunged forward to catch the bat. The bat was quick and small so catching it was difficult, objects fell over, Jack hit his head a bit, and a plate was broken. ‘I should have expected this to happen.’ Merlin said in her head as she watched it all unfold. Jack then decided to jump off a chair, missing the bat and hit his head pretty hard.

“Jack!” Merlin hurriedly rushed to his side, as Jack held his head in pain.

“Ow, now that was my dumbest move yet.” Jack rubbed his head.

“You think? What if you hit your head harder, you could have seriously hurt yourself.” Merlin scolded him.

“Merlin, shh.” Jack shushed her.

“Don’t shush me, I can’t bear the thought of what could have happened…”

“Merlin, shh look.” Jack pointed to the table.

“What?” Merlin turned and saw the bat eating a mango piece. “It’s a fruit bat.”

“And it’s distracted.” Jack mentioned, and Merlin nodded her head in agreement.

Merlin carefully walked toward the table, net in hand. As she neared the table she raised the net, once she was close enough she dropped the net down on bat, catching it. While the bat was startled it was not harmed, Merlin gently and carefully grabbed the bat and made her way to the window. She unwrapped the bat from the net and let it fly off, after closing the window she made her way to the fridge and took an ice pack out.

“Here Jack.” She gave him the ice pack after she helped him up.

“Thank you merlin.” He placed the Ice pack against his head.

“So what did we learn?”

“To close the window at night.”

“Because?”

“Because, animals could get in.”

“Good,” She kissed his cheek. “Now please clean up this mess.”

“What-”

“You made it, now you clean it.” Merlin giggled at Jack's baffled face.

“What!? But I…That’s not!...fair enough.” Jack sighed in defeat.

“Love you Jackie.”

“Love you too Merl.”

These are just summaries to their characters, but they are more info to them. I’ll be developing them as the one shots go on, this will help me practice my writing more.

Enjoy!

Jack Harbor: A 24 year old Man of European descent, with red hair, and blue eyes, Standing at 6 feet tall. Though he gives off a cocky, over confident, and brash attitude, when you get to know him he’s just a guy playing an act, mainly because he likes messing with people. But in reality he’s a very level headed man, who can be skeptical at time, while also imaginative, and a bit mischievous. He also has a love for art and animation or any form of entertainment really. But despite that he has a severe inferiority complex, believing himself insignificant and unimportant at times, yet he pushes through thanks to the help of Merlin.

Merlin Benjamin: a 25 year old woman of Hispanic descent, with short brown hair that stops at her shoulders, and violet eyes, and standing at a height 5 feet and 8 inches. An intelligent, kind, hardworking, and respectable woman. Who is respected by all her peers, but is still level headed and humble. Yet she has a bad habit of overworking herself, fearing that she must meet the expectations of others. Something that has affected for most of her life, luckily just as Merlin helps Jack with his inferiority complex, Jack helps her to ensure she is meeting her needs such as water and food. He also tells her not to worry about what others think of her.

Now the story.

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A Box.

A brown, medium size, taped shut box sat on Jack and Merlin’s coffee table.

“So…what’s in it?” Jack asked, he was curious as to what could be in the box.

“For the last time Jack, I don’t know, but my mother will be here to pick it up in an hour or two.” Merlin told her lover, as much as she loved him, his constant questioning was starting to get on her nerves.

“Must be something really important if she sent it here, right?”

“Jack.”

“Alright, I’ll stop pushing.”

“Good, now I have some paperwork to finish up.” Merlin got up to head to her office. “And Jack, whatever you do, don’t open the box.”

“Fine, fine, Alright” Jack just grabbed his sketch book and started to sketch.

While in her office, Merlin works on stacks of paperworks from her office for a good hour and a half. Until she finishes a majority of it, she decides it would be best for her to get a meal before she continues. And once she goes outside of her office and passes the living room, she immediately notices the absurd number of sketchbook papers sprawled on the coffee table. Looking closer she notices that all the sketches are somewhat wacky, insane, yet well drawn, as well as all share the box as their bases. It’s obvious that Jack’s curiosity started to affect his sketches, as he started to draw what he imagined was in the box.

Luckily the box was still unopened.

“Jack?” Merlin called out, not seeing the redhead anywhere in the living room. “Maybe he’s somewhere else in the house.”

As she made herself a light meal to eat she decided to eat in the living room, she moved the sketches and ate her meal. As she finished eating her eyes landed on the box, she was curious as well but she didn’t think of it. Though now looking at the humorous, silly, and somewhat charming drawings that Jack made, she couldn’t help but wonder more as to what was in the cardboard cube.

“Jack’s right, must be something truly important if my mother sent it here.” Merlin continued to look at the box, and now her curiosity was peaking. “Damn it, Merlin Don’t you dare touch the box”

Yet it was tempting to her now, she now too wanted to see what was in the box. Yet the reasonable side of her was telling her why not to open the box. And luckily she was able to resist temptation and leave the box.

“You almost opened the box too, huh?” Jack appeared, probably returning from his own office, since he now had a different sketch book with him.

“Yes, I guess I can’t escape my curiosity.” Merlin admitted.

“Hey, don’t sweat it, curiosity is normal.” He told her. “We’re human, it’s normal to be curious about things, though you’re better at controlling your curiosity then I ever could.”

“That’s not true, you can also control your curiosity well.”

“I still slip up though.” Jack opened the sketch book. “Even so, I don’t think having curiosity is a bad thing.”

“Of course not, it fuels our desire to learn more, it motivates us.” Merlin added. “But in this case we need to put our curiosity aside, luckily my mother should be her soon.”

As if on cue the doorbell rang.

“Hello mother, here is your package.” Merlin greeted her mom.

“Thank you very much dear, as well as you jack.” Merlin’s mother thanked the two.

“You don’t have to mention it ma’am, just glad to help.” Jack then looked at Merlin, as if looking for approval. And with a simple nod of Merlin’s head Jack asked. “If you don’t mind me asking, what’s in the box?.”

“Oh, just some fabrics I’ve been needing.”

“Is that all mom?” Merlin asked. “If so, why send them here?”

“It’s because where your father and I live there’s been porch pirates.”

“Oh, that’s why you sent it here.” Jack answered.

“Correct, I knew you two would keep it safe, so thank you once again.”

“Your welcome mother.”

“Your welcome ma’am.”

“Now take care you two.”

“You as well, mother.”

“Fabrics, didn’t see that coming.” Jack stated.

“Well my mother does like to sew, so it makes sense.”

“Well, wanna go watch a movie?”

“You read my mind.” Merlin smiled.