JACK
"It took death for you to see the appeal of it?" Jack's tone couldn't be dryer, and there might even be the ghost of a smile in his voice, before she silences anything more he might say with her lips. Neither of them are in any state for soaring romantic gestures or dramatic makeouts, but luckily for Flora, she happens to be in love with a telepath, such that even the softest brush of her mouth against his own sings with the feelings that roar through her mind.
I love you, she says, and pre-emptively steals his response, such that Jack almost tumbles out of the small bunk as he draws back from her. For his entire life he'd seen that feeling as a poison, as a weakness, but out there in the woods, at the sight of her before Pierce and the sound of her screams as they hit the air, Jack realises he's been wrong.
The things he envisions himself doing to the man with the black blade for all he's put Flora through are too vile to put into words, beyond anything the captain has thought himself capable of imagining. But there they are, dancing behind his eyes like a gift he might one day present to the Doubletake as a surprise. If Jack was dangerous before - and there's no doubt that he was - then love has gone and made him lethal.
"I love you too," he whispers to her, sweet as venom.
I love you, she says, and pre-emptively steals his response, such that Jack almost tumbles out of the small bunk as he draws back from her. For his entire life he'd seen that feeling as a poison, as a weakness, but out there in the woods, at the sight of her before Pierce and the sound of her screams as they hit the air, Jack realises he's been wrong.
The things he envisions himself doing to the man with the black blade for all he's put Flora through are too vile to put into words, beyond anything the captain has thought himself capable of imagining. But there they are, dancing behind his eyes like a gift he might one day present to the Doubletake as a surprise. If Jack was dangerous before - and there's no doubt that he was - then love has gone and made him lethal.
"I love you too," he whispers to her, sweet as venom.
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!
