i want to taste you again
You didn't, Flora whispers, and they both already know the response to that remark.
"I can do it, Flora," Jack says, sounding a touch more confident, a little more like himself, if not a more manic version of it.
"She didn't ask for much." Life. Death. Bits and pieces. Jack has done worse in his life than the things Safrin demands of him. And in return? Everything.
Sitting back a fraction, blood smudging his face and drying on his clothes, the captain's blue eyes are wilder than they've ever been, and they only half realise Flora is there.
"Who would say no?" To an offer like that, to the possibility of being everything he is and ever could be, forever? "Who could?" With a goddess in his mind whose presence could blot out the sun, the stars, all but the present moment and the brush of her lips like static on the wind?
Jack couldn't.
"I can do it, Flora," Jack says, sounding a touch more confident, a little more like himself, if not a more manic version of it.
"She didn't ask for much." Life. Death. Bits and pieces. Jack has done worse in his life than the things Safrin demands of him. And in return? Everything.
Sitting back a fraction, blood smudging his face and drying on his clothes, the captain's blue eyes are wilder than they've ever been, and they only half realise Flora is there.
"Who would say no?" To an offer like that, to the possibility of being everything he is and ever could be, forever? "Who could?" With a goddess in his mind whose presence could blot out the sun, the stars, all but the present moment and the brush of her lips like static on the wind?
Jack couldn't.
like a secret or a sin
JACK
- Secret Telepath
- Functionally Immortal (Forever 35)
- Two small star tattoos beneath his left eye
- Click for The Ark!
