flora
What was worth more? Being wanted, loved even, by a boy her own age who could hardly control who he fell in love with any more than she could? Or being chosen by someone like Jack, to carry his secret and potentially assure their own mutual success?
"I was... a little shell shocked, then." Flora says with a small shrug; he'd pulled the rug right out from beneath her feet that day and she'd been more focused on possibly never speaking to him again than listening to the things he had to tell her. "So..you told me your secret, to what? Bind me to you? Because unless I decide I want something from you, then..." Blinking, the pieces begin to fit together. Slowly at first, but then picking up speed in a way that had Flora's brows furrowing and the corners of her lips twitching as she worked it out.
Knowing how she felt about him, Jack would have had to have known that this sort of fuckery was right up Flora's alley. That she'd make him do things precisely like going on the sort of date they were on now. "..you knew that I would use it against you, but you knew you'd go along with it. And actually, I think you knew that all ahead of time, or at least it's what you thought." Flora considered, straightening as her mind continued to make the connections she'd been too angry to make on the beach.
"Because if it'd been someone else, and you probably did consider others, either they couldn't give you what you wanted from them, or you couldn't give them what they'd want." Telling Ronin or Remi, for instance would provide absolutely zero benefit for the captain, because neither had any use for him. Telling Melita might benefit Jack, but other than a ship with even more cannons than the one he'd already given her, what could he offer?
"And that's why it was me." Her finger halts against his mouth. "Right?"
"I was... a little shell shocked, then." Flora says with a small shrug; he'd pulled the rug right out from beneath her feet that day and she'd been more focused on possibly never speaking to him again than listening to the things he had to tell her. "So..you told me your secret, to what? Bind me to you? Because unless I decide I want something from you, then..." Blinking, the pieces begin to fit together. Slowly at first, but then picking up speed in a way that had Flora's brows furrowing and the corners of her lips twitching as she worked it out.
Knowing how she felt about him, Jack would have had to have known that this sort of fuckery was right up Flora's alley. That she'd make him do things precisely like going on the sort of date they were on now. "..you knew that I would use it against you, but you knew you'd go along with it. And actually, I think you knew that all ahead of time, or at least it's what you thought." Flora considered, straightening as her mind continued to make the connections she'd been too angry to make on the beach.
"Because if it'd been someone else, and you probably did consider others, either they couldn't give you what you wanted from them, or you couldn't give them what they'd want." Telling Ronin or Remi, for instance would provide absolutely zero benefit for the captain, because neither had any use for him. Telling Melita might benefit Jack, but other than a ship with even more cannons than the one he'd already given her, what could he offer?
"And that's why it was me." Her finger halts against his mouth. "Right?"
i scream for whatever it's worth
"i love you" ain't that the worst thing you've ever heard?
"i love you" ain't that the worst thing you've ever heard?
