JACK
”Yeah? You gonna slice me up in front of my whole crew?” Jack wonders with the slightest tilt of his head, the softest of breezes stirring the sun-bleached tips of his hair around his shoulders. ”Why not go the whole hog and channel one of your daddies to take care of business for you instead? You’re all kissed and made up now after all, right?” The defiance in his own tone might very well have been fed by Flora’s feelings, but he’ll never admit it.
Her fingers reach around him and, like they always would, like a serpent striking out with its fangs, his hand encircles her wrist, calloused and warm and gripping tight. ”Of course I didn’t reply to you,” he whispers, his voice whiskey sweet, like the promise of a hangover to come or of a fight outside a bar. ”You hurt me, I hurt you. That’s only fair, right?” He raises his eyebrows, as if trusting that if nothing else, pettiness is still something Flora might understand between them.
Jack releases her hand and reaches back himself - but instead of the parchment, he withdraws a crumpled letter, one she’d penned herself, one delivered to his hands by Sohalia after she’d made a decision that could never be taken back. ”Figured you might as well have this back too. Makes me sick to look at it.”
Her fingers reach around him and, like they always would, like a serpent striking out with its fangs, his hand encircles her wrist, calloused and warm and gripping tight. ”Of course I didn’t reply to you,” he whispers, his voice whiskey sweet, like the promise of a hangover to come or of a fight outside a bar. ”You hurt me, I hurt you. That’s only fair, right?” He raises his eyebrows, as if trusting that if nothing else, pettiness is still something Flora might understand between them.
Jack releases her hand and reaches back himself - but instead of the parchment, he withdraws a crumpled letter, one she’d penned herself, one delivered to his hands by Sohalia after she’d made a decision that could never be taken back. ”Figured you might as well have this back too. Makes me sick to look at it.”
sometimes we put our hearts in the wrong places
(what the fuck is it doing between your teeth?)
(what the fuck is it doing between your teeth?)
Code stolen from Queen Sky
- Secret Telepath
- Functionally Immortal (Forever 35)
- Two small star tattoos beneath his left eye
- Click for The Ark!
