JACK
At least the rest of the crew are able to relax as Flora confirms - for better or worse - that no one is overboard and their morally grey asses aren't going to be expected to be more heroic than they already have been today. Bassian waves brightly back to the Doubletake, of course, before getting back to work, and Murph relaxes at the wheel. Glancing over his shoulder at the men and women as they settle back into their usual rhythm, at least until this impromptu meeting is done, Jack's gaze returns to Flora with a quick and grateful nod.
Only to wince a bit, out of sight of the crew, as the tension and heat whipcrack across her thoughts loud enough that she might as well have slapped him. "You didn't know." A confirmation rather than a guess, Jack straightening up and rolling his aching shoulders again, the grim nature of his day thus far evidently stripping away any animosity he might be bothered to feel towards Flora.
(It helps, granted, that this is the first meeting they've had in a long time where she isn't sneering at him like a mean girl on a Wednesday).
"You mind if we tether and ferry you with us?" he calls, nodding to her ship and then back at the island, just visible in the distance as a purple hue on the horizon. "S'just I'd rather keep puttin' distance between us an' that thing in case anythin' happens. Not that I reckon it should - Hadama seemed very commandin' an' confident in his deathwi-- er, decision making."
It should be easy enough to lash the Sugar Tide alongside the Ark as she sails, so long as Flora lowers her sails enough to avoid a collision.
Only to wince a bit, out of sight of the crew, as the tension and heat whipcrack across her thoughts loud enough that she might as well have slapped him. "You didn't know." A confirmation rather than a guess, Jack straightening up and rolling his aching shoulders again, the grim nature of his day thus far evidently stripping away any animosity he might be bothered to feel towards Flora.
(It helps, granted, that this is the first meeting they've had in a long time where she isn't sneering at him like a mean girl on a Wednesday).
"You mind if we tether and ferry you with us?" he calls, nodding to her ship and then back at the island, just visible in the distance as a purple hue on the horizon. "S'just I'd rather keep puttin' distance between us an' that thing in case anythin' happens. Not that I reckon it should - Hadama seemed very commandin' an' confident in his deathwi-- er, decision making."
It should be easy enough to lash the Sugar Tide alongside the Ark as she sails, so long as Flora lowers her sails enough to avoid a collision.
fight so dirty but you love so sweet
talk so pretty but your heart got teeth
talk so pretty but your heart got teeth
- Secret Telepath
- Functionally Immortal (Forever 35)
- Two small star tattoos beneath his left eye
- Click for The Ark!
