Team Building with Jack Landors (SPD, A Squad, #4, T)

[starandrea]

characters: SPD's A Squad (Jack, Cruger)
prompt #4: first
word count: 600
rated: T (for language)
summary: The inevitable fight with Cruger is one Jack would have preferred to lose.

Comments

[lttledvl_writes]

Ooh yes! *bounces*

Jack taking a chunk out of the old dog, I love it! And he's completely correct. Cruger does have too much going and needs that rehab just as badly as Charlie and her team and he can't keep up with trying to do better for others if he is unable to do so for himself.

I love Jack's lines and thoughts in this. Did Cruger have a mom he could insult or something? Hee! That's just awesome.

if i had a 'Jack rulz' icon, i'd totally be using it right now. guess red bridge will have to do *snerk*

[starandrea]

YES. I am so glad Jack isn't a completely unsympathetic character in this scene ^_^ Cruger sometimes seems like one of the most driven, impulsive, narrow-minded role models a group of young impressionable cadets could have (hmm, where did Sky get that from?!) and I just want to be like, "Look, I'm sorry you didn't want to be their icon, but you are, so could you please set some sort of standard for basic self-respect on your base?" o.O

(♥ Cruger anyway)

::giggles:: Red Bridge totally works for me as a Jack rulz icon, oddly. I think it's the morpher. Power of RED!

[lttledvl_writes]

Good point on Cruger being a role model. He certainly had moments when he was less than a stellar example. ugh! *headdesk* What the heck is the name of the ep where he snaps at them just for talking in the command center? I should know this! *iz bad fangirl*

But anyway, you get the idea. I think Cruger tried a little too hard a little too often to be their 'commander' and not their 'mentor'. There's a huge difference between the two.

::giggles:: Red Bridge totally works for me as a Jack rulz icon, oddly. I think it's the morpher. Power of RED!

Hee! I love our red SPD boys! Which just happens to be all of them! *lol*

*stares at Red Sky under Red Bridge and sighs happily*

[starandrea]

::clears throat:: I actually haven't seen all of SPD? And it drives me crazy when people use this as a reason for their stories not being very... canon, or something, but I'm just saying--I am the last person to think you are a "bad fangirl" for not remembering an episode title ::grin::

Red love! ♥

[purplestripe66]

Go Jack! Very well said. Cruger needed a good talking to. I love Jack's thoughts about being a ranger.

[starandrea]

Ooh, I am so glad to hear this ♥ After I wrote it I was kind of like, "Am I using the 'AU' thing as an excuse to make people act completely out of character?" o.O But I went with it, because I really think there are things Cruger would do better to consider, and Jack seems like the perfect person to remind him of them :)

[purplestripe66]

Definitely not out of character at all. Cruger always needs a talking to. I always thought that it was just a matter of time until Jack snapped at him.

[rosabelle]

... Jack's never getting fired, is he? (Yay!)

Love this one! Cruger needed to hear all that, and Jack's probably the only one he'd listen to. Except for maybe Kat, but I love Kat, so you can't have her get fired. *grins* I hope Cruger will remember this and try to maybe work on some things. Like communicating about Important Stuff.

[starandrea]

... Jack's never getting fired, is he?

No ::grin:: It would seem not.

It's funny, I think, that Kat manages to tell Cruger the truth in a way that he listens to repeatedly on the show, and yet, it almost seems like there are some things that he needs to hear more... forcefully, I guess, than Kat would deliver them ::ponders:: We all need more than one voice of wisdom in our lives, I guess ^_^

I love you! ♥ Thanks!