[for greg]
Apr. 19th, 2007 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
That morning, at the clothes box, Jack had met Buffy. He'd been here more than a year and so had she, but what was amazing was that in the past seven months (almost to the day) he hadn't ever even seen her. Sure, he'd wondered, he'd thought about that name...dreamed about that name on the lips of a raving madman. That name along with ropes and blades and smothering darkness.
He'd just thought he was handling it better.
He'd collected enough shellfish for he and Greg and threw together a quick lunch after he'd left the basement. If he could keep busy, he could keep from thinking about it. From thinking about her. She barely came up to his chest and she was so pretty and young and if she'd been bound and there had been...no. He couldn't keep doing this to himself. He'd done what he had to do to stay alive, and he'd done all he could to keep people like Buffy safe. He tried not to think about Maladicta being hit, tried not to think about how he'd failed to just keep the man there with him. He just needed to stop thinking about it.
Except he couldn't. It was on his mind the whole way to the treehouse.
He'd just thought he was handling it better.
He'd collected enough shellfish for he and Greg and threw together a quick lunch after he'd left the basement. If he could keep busy, he could keep from thinking about it. From thinking about her. She barely came up to his chest and she was so pretty and young and if she'd been bound and there had been...no. He couldn't keep doing this to himself. He'd done what he had to do to stay alive, and he'd done all he could to keep people like Buffy safe. He tried not to think about Maladicta being hit, tried not to think about how he'd failed to just keep the man there with him. He just needed to stop thinking about it.
Except he couldn't. It was on his mind the whole way to the treehouse.
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Date: 2007-04-19 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-19 09:39 pm (UTC)"Hey. Ready for lunch?"
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Date: 2007-04-19 09:44 pm (UTC)"I thought we could take the bike," he said. "Get a little farther away, down to the far end of the beach, maybe."
He hadn't been driving it a lot because he was very aware of the fact that once it ran out of gas, it was out, but he may as well make it useful as well as fun - he could actually go somewhere without killing his leg in the hike.
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Date: 2007-04-19 10:05 pm (UTC)"Go," came muffled from over Greg's shoulder.
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Date: 2007-04-19 10:10 pm (UTC)He knew his way through the trees by now - despite his leg, he was a good driver - but it wasn't until they got out on the flat expanse of the beach that he really cranked it.
God, this felt good!
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Date: 2007-04-19 10:14 pm (UTC)One hand spread wide against Greg's chest so he could pull himself just a little tighter. Too bad there wasn't any gas. They could do this every day as far as Jack was concerned.
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Date: 2007-04-19 10:42 pm (UTC)"So...lunch?" he offered, feet shifting in the sand.
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Date: 2007-04-19 10:48 pm (UTC)"You have a good morning?" he asked, trying not to come off as distracted.
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Date: 2007-04-19 11:05 pm (UTC)This sort of good mood was a rare thing for him.
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Date: 2007-04-19 11:18 pm (UTC)House put the keys to the motorcycle in his pocket and lowered himself onto the ground, sitting cross-legged.
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