if i tell you this is drowning

JACK

"Fun for who?" Jack wants to know, and although the tableau that takes place in Flora's mind is just that, it doesn't stop the catlike smile that creeps across his lips. Fun for both of them as it happens, the captain enjoying both her apparent knowledge of his body and its muscle groups as well as the pressure of her fingers, and he shifts just enough to rest his head properly against her shoulder; the good one, thankfully.

"Might make it a little hard to touch to get home," he points out, of The Ark in all her glory tattooed on his chest. "I was thinkin' of keepin' the compass idea." He holds up his arm, turning to show the inside of his wrist. "Maybe just here." With The Ark as the North point, of course. "If you're so keen to have that part of me spoken for, though-" the place over his heart, he means, "I could be persuaded."

Grinning to hear not only that she feels better but also that it's with his ego in mind, Jack gives as close to an easy shrug as he can manage. "I'm glad. I was worried," he says, opting for that over anything else he might have said. It might not have looked like it and he certainly might have struggled to act like it at times, but it's no less true.

sometimes we put our hearts in the wrong places
(what the fuck is it doing between your teeth?)

Code stolen from Queen Sky