things get messy and the sky feels heavy

JACK

Jack leaves The Hanged Man without protest, even forgetting to throw a casual look over his shoulder towards Remi as Flora so willingly throws herself around him. (It would hurt to turn his head that much anyway, he tells himself). Silent until the bar is long behind them and the boardwalk has turned to soft, hot sand, the captain clears his throat and keeps his arm slung around Flora's shoulders.

"Your dear old dad is much more of a delight than I remember," he says roughly, a humourless smile on his lips, his eyes on the endless blue of a Longheat sky that stretches across the horizon. "Remind me not to get on his bad side, mm?"

Because of course he's going to play it fucking cool, even if the Doubletake wasn't walking alongside him. "There's some water back at the ship," he continues, feeling the strange need to clarify it despite the fact that Flora likely already knows very well where they are going.

when I look at something, I see it for what it could be
when I look at something, I see how it ends

Code stolen from Queen Sky

Flora

For all the times Jack had felt Flora's mind simmering with heat and flames, never before had her thoughts scalded quite like this. That she's silent is only because she's roasting Ronin's words on a spit, turning them over and over above the heat, making sure the flames touched every side of them. All that he'd said under the guise of being a good dad—about moving too fast, of using Jack as some way of passing the time, the age gap between them, of not caring about what sort of man Jack was—had Flora clenching her teeth hard enough to add to the headache brewing behind her eyes.

Jolted out of her thoughts by Jack's voice, Flora glances up at him briefly before returning her gaze to the sand and humming something under her breath. Flora certainly wasn't trying to hide her emotions, but then it hardly mattered at all if the crew thought the Doubletake was in a pissy mood when they boarded the Ark. If anything it'd probably mean they'd leave she and Jack alone.

I don't like that falling feels like flying
'til the bone crush

Code stolen from Queen Sky