JACK
Vesper's amusement is as contagious as it is unexpected, his laughter breaking through the heaviness that had been trying to settle over Jack's shoulders like a dry twig snapping, and the Captain scoffs despite himself. "I can see that," he agrees. "Makes me concerned how she'll take to Murph, though. He handles her like an old romantic." Not because of jealousy - Jack just knows (as Vesper will know) that the Ark, whatever she might look like, is not his first mate's type.
The mood fades with all the swift quiet of a candle going out, and even before Vesper speaks Jack knows it's going to be about Flora, and he knows it's going to be unpleasant. And he's right, though nothing really changes in the Captain's posture or his expression. "Mm, I considered it a few times, but it's pointless," he says. "The woman's wrapped in so many layers of demigods and magic items, anythin' I tried to do would be laughed off. Besides," he adds, his tone growing quiet and thoughtful, "she wouldn't. I don't think, anyway."
He huffs a laugh under his breath. "Or put it this way, if she was gonna do it, she'd have done it when we first broke up an' I was a real bastard. I dunno what it'd achieve now." But of course, there's plenty Jack doesn't know any more by virtue of necessary distance. "On the bright side, it wouldn't ruin me in the way it would have once, I guess."
The mood fades with all the swift quiet of a candle going out, and even before Vesper speaks Jack knows it's going to be about Flora, and he knows it's going to be unpleasant. And he's right, though nothing really changes in the Captain's posture or his expression. "Mm, I considered it a few times, but it's pointless," he says. "The woman's wrapped in so many layers of demigods and magic items, anythin' I tried to do would be laughed off. Besides," he adds, his tone growing quiet and thoughtful, "she wouldn't. I don't think, anyway."
He huffs a laugh under his breath. "Or put it this way, if she was gonna do it, she'd have done it when we first broke up an' I was a real bastard. I dunno what it'd achieve now." But of course, there's plenty Jack doesn't know any more by virtue of necessary distance. "On the bright side, it wouldn't ruin me in the way it would have once, I guess."
we've gone way too fast for way too long
and we were never supposed to make it half this far
and we were never supposed to make it half this far
- Secret Telepath
- Functionally Immortal (Forever 35)
- Two small star tattoos beneath his left eye
- Click for The Ark!
