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JACK

"Ah, but it's only a matter of time, right?" Jack mutters, uncharacteristically morose about the entire encounter, as if he'd manage to take Remi's feelings about him and make them his own much in the same way he's able to do with Flora so often. Taking a deep breath and sighing it out, while it's an absolute ballache to take out his cigarettes - and light one - with only one hand, he doesn't free his other from Flora's touch. If anything, the hard drag he takes off the smoke feels all the more worth it for the effort, and he offers it out to the Doubletake afterwards.

"Visit your brother more often," he mumbles on the exhale, smoke briefly clouding his expression. "His front is good, but he's hangin' on by a fuckin' thread up there in Stormbreak." Tilting his head to crack his neck, the gesture does little to relieve any tension, and at the suggestion that they go to Flora's place, the refusal is right on the tip of Jack's tongue before he's biting it back.

"When shit gets rough I always go back to the sea." He mutters the admission even as he gestures towards Haulani and Flora's place. "Force of habit, I guess." No one can say Jack isn't good enough for the sea, after all Remi. "Lead the way."

when I look at something, I see it for what it could be
when I look at something, I see how it ends

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