“I wondered, but I never done nuthin’ ‘bout it. I kept that part a myself for you.”
“Why? Did ya think all along we was gonna git back together?”
“I knew… I knew we should be together.”
“Well, it sure as hell would a been nice if you’d a let me in on it a little sooner. Maybe I wouldn’t gone with any a those guys. Maybe a fuckuva lot a bad things wouldn’t a happened. Ya ever think a that?”
And there it is. It's easy to save something for someone when you at least have the hope they will be there to save it for, but Ennis took that hope away from Jack. Jack was alone and had no reason to believe he wouldn't always be that way unless he found someone else to love, so he looked for love where a gay man might find it - with another man. He wasn't looking for a temporary substitute because he had no clue there was any hope of getting Ennis back. He was looking for permanent, and that meant a man. Why can't Ennis see that, instead of holding Jack to some impossible standard when he denied him the knowledge that would have made it possible?
Damn, but you are one mean writer! LOL Get us all worked up about this conversation, bring in the shirts, and then bring back the drug dealers I had forgetten about!!! I guess Randall will get to save the day. I can't think of anyone else that would have been on the redial, though I wonder why Jack would be calling him. If it had been Lou, he wouldn't have been 'Jack's friend' to Sarah, and besides, Lou is off shoe shopping in Dallas with the ladies. I keep telling my girlfriends that having lots of shoes is highly overrated. *grin*
Ennis is pretty badly hurt - broken arm and collarbone -so I wonder how he is going to feel when he finds out (I refuse to believe he is dead!) that it was Jack's old drug dealer buddies that attacked him. Will this be one more thing for him to be unable to prevent himself from looking down on Jack for, too? Emotions are a hard thing to control, but it seems like Jack is being held responsible for not only his mistakes, but for Ennis', too. And now he's he's being chased down by men with guns. Maybe if he gets hurt bad enough, it will be penance enough???
I do hope that that 'persuasion' that those bad guys gave Rally wasn't too gentle. He could have just run, but chose to set Jack up, first, and that was both unnecessary and just plain spiteful. It's not like Rally had any hope to keep his business if Jack was seen as guilty. Rally ran before he even knew the cops believed Jack was innocent.
The emotional wounds were damaging enough, but now I'm afraid the physical attack on top of it all will be enough to spell the end for Jack and Ennis. No matter what, they can't stay in Texas (I knew coming back there was a big mistake) because it's too dangerous. The drug cartel has big money on Jack's head, and that's not liable to go away any time soon.
Poor Ennis was already thinking of the trailer as home, the hook-up isn't even complete yet, and they're already going to have to leave, if they are still a they after all this is over.
And, it might seem kind of trivial in with the guns and bad guys running around, but what happened to the shirts?
“Why? Did ya think all along we was gonna git back together?”
“I knew… I knew we should be together.”
“Well, it sure as hell would a been nice if you’d a let me in on it a little sooner. Maybe I wouldn’t gone with any a those guys. Maybe a fuckuva lot a bad things wouldn’t a happened. Ya ever think a that?”
And there it is. It's easy to save something for someone when you at least have the hope they will be there to save it for, but Ennis took that hope away from Jack. Jack was alone and had no reason to believe he wouldn't always be that way unless he found someone else to love, so he looked for love where a gay man might find it - with another man. He wasn't looking for a temporary substitute because he had no clue there was any hope of getting Ennis back. He was looking for permanent, and that meant a man. Why can't Ennis see that, instead of holding Jack to some impossible standard when he denied him the knowledge that would have made it possible?
Damn, but you are one mean writer! LOL
Get us all worked up about this conversation, bring in the shirts, and then bring back the drug dealers I had forgetten about!!!
I guess Randall will get to save the day. I can't think of anyone else that would have been on the redial, though I wonder why Jack would be calling him. If it had been Lou, he wouldn't have been 'Jack's friend' to Sarah, and besides, Lou is off shoe shopping in Dallas with the ladies. I keep telling my girlfriends that having lots of shoes is highly overrated. *grin*
Ennis is pretty badly hurt - broken arm and collarbone -so I wonder how he is going to feel when he finds out (I refuse to believe he is dead!) that it was Jack's old drug dealer buddies that attacked him. Will this be one more thing for him to be unable to prevent himself from looking down on Jack for, too? Emotions are a hard thing to control, but it seems like Jack is being held responsible for not only his mistakes, but for Ennis', too. And now he's he's being chased down by men with guns. Maybe if he gets hurt bad enough, it will be penance enough???
I do hope that that 'persuasion' that those bad guys gave Rally wasn't too gentle. He could have just run, but chose to set Jack up, first, and that was both unnecessary and just plain spiteful. It's not like Rally had any hope to keep his business if Jack was seen as guilty. Rally ran before he even knew the cops believed Jack was innocent.
The emotional wounds were damaging enough, but now I'm afraid the physical attack on top of it all will be enough to spell the end for Jack and Ennis. No matter what, they can't stay in Texas (I knew coming back there was a big mistake) because it's too dangerous. The drug cartel has big money on Jack's head, and that's not liable to go away any time soon.
Poor Ennis was already thinking of the trailer as home, the hook-up isn't even complete yet, and they're already going to have to leave, if they are still a they after all this is over.
And, it might seem kind of trivial in with the guns and bad guys running around, but what happened to the shirts?
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