JACK
Jack does stay, but only because his vision is starting to fog again at the edges, and gods if he passes out here he'll likely slide right onto the floor, and there's no way Flora is going to be able to pick him back up again in her state. So he sits at the edge of the bed, a hand pressed gingerly to the bandages that sit tight around his torso, pale and suspicious and altogether not having a good time.
It's what makes Flora's laugh so startling, honestly, the captain slouching back as if the sound and the feeling that flushes with it is like a warm rain after a long, cold night. "That's a new one," he admits, of being called ice-man, watching the glint of the ring with curiosity despite knowing from her thoughts what it does. "In my defence, I didn't realise I was doing it a lot of the time." And it's not an easy admission either, though Jack soon forgets about it as Flora presses herself back against him, her presence enough all by itself without the addition of the pulse of healing magic.
Not that he's at all complaining about it; the first flush of power against his injuries is enough to have him sagging into the thin mattress, taking the edge off the kind of pain he'd gotten used to but that had been no less intense for it.
It's what makes Flora's laugh so startling, honestly, the captain slouching back as if the sound and the feeling that flushes with it is like a warm rain after a long, cold night. "That's a new one," he admits, of being called ice-man, watching the glint of the ring with curiosity despite knowing from her thoughts what it does. "In my defence, I didn't realise I was doing it a lot of the time." And it's not an easy admission either, though Jack soon forgets about it as Flora presses herself back against him, her presence enough all by itself without the addition of the pulse of healing magic.
Not that he's at all complaining about it; the first flush of power against his injuries is enough to have him sagging into the thin mattress, taking the edge off the kind of pain he'd gotten used to but that had been no less intense for it.
we've gone way too fast for way too long
and we were never supposed to make it half this far
and we were never supposed to make it half this far
- Secret Telepath
- Functionally Immortal (Forever 35)
- Two small star tattoos beneath his left eye
- Click for The Ark!
