JACK
"That's sure what it sounds like, doesn't it?" Jack says with a humourless breath of laughter, the captain sitting up a little more as if the physical act will help to put him back together inside and out. But say more things, she'd said, and he pinches at the bridge of his nose to think, brow furrowing. "It's easy to fuckin'... stand in a room with our thoughts splashed out on the walls and call it good, y'know? But I can read minds, not the future."
And how grand and dramatic of them to look at a glimpse of how they work and decide on something as final as never. "I ain't sayin' it'll work. I'm still me, you're still you, an' there are problems. We both know it. But I want you more than I want to ignore that I don't. I never got many chances, between where I came from an' where I am now. This deserves a chance." I deserve a chance.
But he's not going to beg her, and he's not going to pine. So if he's the only one who thinks as much, he'll accept it with the same sort of pride as a man holding onto a treasure he's just realised is worthless to everyone else but himself.
And how grand and dramatic of them to look at a glimpse of how they work and decide on something as final as never. "I ain't sayin' it'll work. I'm still me, you're still you, an' there are problems. We both know it. But I want you more than I want to ignore that I don't. I never got many chances, between where I came from an' where I am now. This deserves a chance." I deserve a chance.
But he's not going to beg her, and he's not going to pine. So if he's the only one who thinks as much, he'll accept it with the same sort of pride as a man holding onto a treasure he's just realised is worthless to everyone else but himself.
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!
