"I hereby sentence you, James Reynold's to 25 years in prison without the possibility of parole. And assuming you do get out on time, I am granting the prosecution's motion for an ongoing protective order against you from James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. You are not to contact either of them or be within a 100 feet of them, or your parole officer will be forced to contact me, directly."

Boom.

The sound of the gavel rings through the courtroom. Thomas and I are finally safe. Reynolds will be in prison for at least 25 years and we have a protective order?! Shit, sometimes the law really does its job.

"James Madison, I ,Thomas Jefferson, am taking you out on a celebratory date. Anywhere you want."

"Well gee Thomas. I was gonna say just stay home and cuddle, but when you say anywhere~" I smirk. "Does that include laser tag?"

"I fall more in love with you every day, Jem."

"And how could you not?" I giggle.

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[still james POV if u didn't guess]

"You're gonna lose so bad!"

"As if! I'm practically a laser tag expert."

"You dork," Thomas smiles.

We're both strapped into our laser guns and the only light is coming from glow in the dark paintings on the walls. The speakers are broadcasting some spiel about enemy aliens in the year 3014, and I'm actually listening because ALIENS AMIRIGHT?! Thomas is such a dude bro he just wants to shoot things. I love him.

3. 2. 1.

All of the sudden Thomas isn't by my side anymore and shit I've gotta shoot the red team and destroy their alien egg babies or whatever.

I shoot about 20 people sniper style, and find 2 of the 5 "eggs" in the corner of the black lighted room.

I feel myself being pushed up against the wall and immediately recognize Thomas. I missed him. He kisses me short and sweet and we just stand smiling at each other for a long moment.

Wait aliens! Red team! My competitive spirit?!

I shoot Thomas's center sensor and make up for it with a kiss on the cheek.

As I'm walking away he's staring at me dumbfounded. Hand on the cheek I kissed. Dork.

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"Blue team wins! James Madison: highest scorer with a score of 2,476!"

"Suck it!"

"You distracted me!"

"That's your fault!"

"Is not"

"Is too"

This continues all the way to the car, where Thomas shuts me up with a kiss. A rather deep and passionate kiss I might add.

"Thomas, people are staring."

"Good. I want everyone to know how lucky I am"

"Cute, but we need to go home. This week I'll be doubling- even tripling up on training. Nationals are approaching and before I was kidnapped and all that stuff, Laf said he may have a co-captain spot for me!"

Thomas opens my door for me, "That's great babe! Don't overwork yourself okay?"

I nod. I might have overwork myself just a little this week, but my classes aren't that hard this semester. Cheer is what's going to kick my ass.

When we get home I immediately collapse onto Thomas's bed.

"I missed this." I mumble into his pillows.

"I know baby. But you've been back for a week and Reynolds is never gonna hurt you or me again. You know that right?"

I lift my head up. "Yeah, I know. It's just, don't laugh okay? I don't really feel safe unless I'm with you."

Thomas doesn't respond he just lays down next to me and pulls me into his arms. I bury my face into his chest, breathing in his scent.

"Jem, I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I will always be here to protect you and make you feel safe. I will do everything in my power to make you the happiest man alive. I was meaning to give you this before the.... incident, but now is as good of a time as ever."

He reaches into the bedside table and pulls out a blue box. Like one from Tiffany's.

"I know it's way to early to propose, but I know that someday I will get down on one knee and make you James Jefferson. So this is a promise ring. It represents my promise to stay faithful and loving to you, until this is replaced with a wedding band. What do you say?"

"I say yes!"

Thomas hands me the box and I open it up. Inside is a gold band with a rose-shaped diamond that is about the size of a baby tooth. I love it. It even comes with a simple gold chain that I can loop the ring onto, to make it a necklace.

"Thomas, I-I love it. How did you find something so beautiful?"

He turns sheepish for a moment. "Well, at some point you mentioned roses were your favorite so I designed this and sent the sketch to some buddies and Paris and they mailed me back this."

I wrap my arms around his neck and I begin to feel my tears soak through Thomas's shirt. Tears of happiness of course.

"That's the sweetest thing ever. I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I lov-"

"Shhhh" Thomas coos. He lays down on his back, me on his chest.

I am stupid in love

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Sorry it took me forever to update. I've just been having too many ideas for my lams fic but it seemed unfair to update that and not this so..