there exists a tipping point between gods and monsters
Jack doesn't respond to Aurelia, because there's no use wasting words on I knows and you're rights. It has been a while. It has been too long. She hasn't been around, and she has let him down. Looking her up and down as if noting the marks of her absence and her travels but saying nothing of them, as her thoughts turn the pale indigo of virtuous, of making the most of now and stopping whatever horrors are scraping along the horizon, he can't help himself.
He laughs.
"I'm sorry," he says gruffly, glancing briefly over his shoulder as if believing she must be talking to someone else, "you know this is The Ark, right? You... you know this ain't the Dragoons, or some warship or rescue dinghy?" There's no other reason for her to be talking about fighting for the future or for all those who are suffering.
Jack doesn't give a fuck about that. Let them suffer - he's only interested in what's in it for him.
"Were you expectin' applause or somethin'?" he asks with another tilt of his head. It's the only thing that explains the audacity. "A warm welcome? This ain't some vacation you've been gone for. A war happened. Fuck gives you the right to swan onto my ship and demand to speak with me?"
He laughs.
"I'm sorry," he says gruffly, glancing briefly over his shoulder as if believing she must be talking to someone else, "you know this is The Ark, right? You... you know this ain't the Dragoons, or some warship or rescue dinghy?" There's no other reason for her to be talking about fighting for the future or for all those who are suffering.
Jack doesn't give a fuck about that. Let them suffer - he's only interested in what's in it for him.
"Were you expectin' applause or somethin'?" he asks with another tilt of his head. It's the only thing that explains the audacity. "A warm welcome? This ain't some vacation you've been gone for. A war happened. Fuck gives you the right to swan onto my ship and demand to speak with me?"
- Secret Telepath
- Functionally Immortal (Forever 35)
- Two small star tattoos beneath his left eye
- Click for The Ark!
