there exists a tipping point between gods and monsters
"You don't get to make up an argument and then be fucked off with me for not crawlin' after you like a lost dog," Jack says curtly, his blue eyes flaring with the first low flames of his temper. "You put so much stock in that fuckin' parchment? Read it all again." Read him asking if she's safe, or the multiple messages he'd sent when she hadn't returned home. Read the apology for his actions when he knew he'd been a bastard, and him immediately coming to her when learning of Seren's death.
"This ain't me sayin' I'm gonna drink and whore myself across Caido and there's nothin' you can do about it. This is about gettin' back at people who fuckin' killed us. I'm allowed to want revenge for that, and I'm allowed to do it whether or not it's a comfortable feelin'. It's my fuckin' life too, Flora." He scowls, the words low and quiet but no less heated for it.
And then she drops the great unsaid thing, and whatever Flora's been throwing at him the entire time, this one finally hits home. The laugh that shivers out him is half shocked and half incredulous, Jack shaking his head to her slowly.
"No," he says softly. "After all this? All we've been through, all I shared with you, the things I've said that no one else has ever heard from me, I can't believe you'd be that fuckin' cold to even think it. No, Flora. If anythin', I don't think you wanna be with me. And you don't know how to say it, so it's up to me to act the villain again."
"This ain't me sayin' I'm gonna drink and whore myself across Caido and there's nothin' you can do about it. This is about gettin' back at people who fuckin' killed us. I'm allowed to want revenge for that, and I'm allowed to do it whether or not it's a comfortable feelin'. It's my fuckin' life too, Flora." He scowls, the words low and quiet but no less heated for it.
And then she drops the great unsaid thing, and whatever Flora's been throwing at him the entire time, this one finally hits home. The laugh that shivers out him is half shocked and half incredulous, Jack shaking his head to her slowly.
"No," he says softly. "After all this? All we've been through, all I shared with you, the things I've said that no one else has ever heard from me, I can't believe you'd be that fuckin' cold to even think it. No, Flora. If anythin', I don't think you wanna be with me. And you don't know how to say it, so it's up to me to act the villain again."
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