JACK
"Then it sounds as though you'll be in for quite a mornin'," Jack quips in reply, a crooked smile on his lips as they start to make their way across the deck together. They both will, if the little taster of her siren's call up here is anything to go by, and for the first time in a long time, the Captain feels as though tomorrow is something he's looking forward to meeting, to seeing what might fall out of its pockets if he shakes it hard enough.
Glancing sidelong towards the helm at Murphy and his feelings (because of course she couldn't possibly be referring to Jack's emotions, how silly bombastic side-eye), the sound of her voice draws him back without it needing a drop of magic to get his attention, the Captain raising an eyebrow down at her. "Well," he says reasonably, "you get hungry. You clearly know how to enjoy things. Sounds like the whole human experience is there for the takin', if you ask me."
Not that the negatives are anything to shout home about, but even so, the short answer is yes, he does think she will feel everything they all do.
The breeze is so sudden that it might have been cast by an Abandoned, and for a second after bracing against it Jack does shoot a curious frown at The Ark, just in case she is responsible for said trouble. But Bassian is already chasing his cards and the crew are already swearing and laughing, and with little more than a wave over his shoulder to Murphy, Jack leads them back belowdecks.
The warmth envelops them immediately, along with the silence - physical silence, if not mental, and that goes for both of them he realises, if not in markedly different ways. "You're not hungry anymore?" he assumes - only because if she is, she already knows her way down towards the kitchens, though he imagines Lazarus will swallow his own tongue at the sight of her.
Providing that isn't the case, it's the same short walk back to his cabin, Jack slipping inside with a long sigh that strips away a layer of that usual arrogance; just enough to change his footfalls as he heads back to his deck to put away the liquor they'd almost finished. "We should touch down in the Spillwave tomorrow," he decides. "Borin' or not, it's a good place to drop anchor while we're gone."
Glancing sidelong towards the helm at Murphy and his feelings (because of course she couldn't possibly be referring to Jack's emotions, how silly bombastic side-eye), the sound of her voice draws him back without it needing a drop of magic to get his attention, the Captain raising an eyebrow down at her. "Well," he says reasonably, "you get hungry. You clearly know how to enjoy things. Sounds like the whole human experience is there for the takin', if you ask me."
Not that the negatives are anything to shout home about, but even so, the short answer is yes, he does think she will feel everything they all do.
The breeze is so sudden that it might have been cast by an Abandoned, and for a second after bracing against it Jack does shoot a curious frown at The Ark, just in case she is responsible for said trouble. But Bassian is already chasing his cards and the crew are already swearing and laughing, and with little more than a wave over his shoulder to Murphy, Jack leads them back belowdecks.
The warmth envelops them immediately, along with the silence - physical silence, if not mental, and that goes for both of them he realises, if not in markedly different ways. "You're not hungry anymore?" he assumes - only because if she is, she already knows her way down towards the kitchens, though he imagines Lazarus will swallow his own tongue at the sight of her.
Providing that isn't the case, it's the same short walk back to his cabin, Jack slipping inside with a long sigh that strips away a layer of that usual arrogance; just enough to change his footfalls as he heads back to his deck to put away the liquor they'd almost finished. "We should touch down in the Spillwave tomorrow," he decides. "Borin' or not, it's a good place to drop anchor while we're gone."
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!
