I dreamed about it in the dark

JACK

Raising his eyebrows as Safrin starts to unfasten the coat she wears, the captain's gaze is as appreciative as any might expect, though as the goddess knows well, her cleavage is nowhere near as enticing as the rivers of starlight that flow between them, as the kiss-chase of thought and doubt and ideas and inspiration. There's something different about this than last time, though, and the captain has the vague sensation that he's in dangerous waters, though he steps towards her as effortlessly as a magnet drawn to its opposing pole.

Unused to being an open book to others, Jack tears his gaze away from Safrin's otherworldly beauty and down to the churning, inky waters below. He frowns, his mind turning jagged with the frustration of the sort of impotence he's very much unused to. "Those things ain't much use when we're all kissin the Family's feet," he points out. "I thought you'd have been all over the good fight to get rid of 'em." What with the going deep into the cosmos to try and prevent it from the start.

As for his own role in all of this, he can only scrunch his nose and cock his head towards her. "I ain't built for that kind of obedience," he says with a wolfish grin. "I'm no hero."

we've gone way too fast for way too long
and we were never supposed to make it half this far

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!