I can only hear the echo

JACK

"I have told you more than anyone else who's ever known me," Jack growls back. "You just choose to forget that whenever you're feelin' hurt or angry or whatever ten thousand other emotions decide what's true that day." And there are a lot more things now besides burning on his tongue, begging to slip their way past and prove her right in a way that would be as brutal and as easy as any of the years he'd spent prowling Torchline's underbelly.

Feeling his heartbeat in his throat, a sensation that has the world seeming too cold and too hot all at the same time, Jack can't look at the tears that silver her eyes - can't let them hit the mark they're aiming for, not now, not after this long holding his ground. "I did leave you," he agrees. "But you left me first. Left me with nothin' but a letter and a bullshit plan I didn't deserve to know about beforehand. And you had the fuckin' gall to expect me to be grateful for it afterwards."

Sagging back to lean against the railing suddenly, he pinches at the bridge of his nose as if to focus. "I never said I stopped lovin' you though, did I?" He scoffs. "That's just the difference between us, Flora. You tell your hurt to the world and let 'em haul it back at me on beaches in front of lighthouses. I keep mine close. It doesn't leave this ship."

fight so dirty but you love so sweet
talk so pretty but your heart got teeth

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!