[Locked to Basement Residents]

[smithnjones]

Maybe there will come a day when I can stop making entries like this. I wish there was a better way of saying this, but there isn't. I mean, no matter how I say it, it doesn't make it any less true and horrible

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[hey_capn_jack]

[Locked to Martha] Oh, god, Martha, I'm so sorry. Are you all right?

[smithnjones]

[locked to Jack] I'm... okay. I mean, all things considered, I could be a lot worse.

Frighteningly enough, I'm starting to get used to it. It doesn't mean it hurts any less. Just gets... more familiar. Less socking.

Are you okay? I mean, recovering all right?

[hey_capn_jack]

[Locked to Martha] If the question is physical, the answer is always going to be yes, I'll be fine. If it's about Penny, I... actually hardly knew her. She helped Torchwood out a few times. If only Torchwood could have been there to help her.

If you need anyone to talk you, you know you can always come find me, right?

[smithnjones]

[Locked to Jack] Considering the last time I saw you, you were gripping on to a desk for support, I thought I'd check anyway. Just because you'll be fine in the long run, doesn't mean it's okay to simply let you suffer for the time being.

Yes, I do. Thank you.

... I, also, know that you know about what I mean to do about Shepard. I should have told you myself, but I couldn't. Not then. Maybe not ever. I'm sorry.

[hey_capn_jack]

[Locked to Martha] Actually, my kids back home are just about to the point where if I keel over dead that say "Whatever" and toss me in the back of the SUV, but that's really neither here nor there.

...

I'm not going to

We should talk about that. Shepard. In person, in private, sometime.

I'm not going to talk you out of it, and I'm not going to tell anyone - especially not the Doctor - but I do want to make sure you come out the other end of this intact. Sark may be a good resource for some things, but when it comes to

I can't just know what's happening and ignore it.

[smithnjones]

[Locked to Jack]

Yes. We should talk about it. Maybe out of the basement? Not that I don't think we can have privacy here... it just- gets suffocating, spending so much time here, especially ith everyone's emotions running high now.

It's okay, Jack. I understand. I don't blame you for not being able to ignore it or for finding out.

And thank you.

For not telling him.

[hey_capn_jack]

[Locked to Martha] Please don't thank me for that. I have a feeling it's going to come crashing down on my head, with teeth.

Outside of the basement is good. Have any preference as to where or when? I still need to debrief my team from the our last mission out, but that can be conducted over journals just as well.

[smithnjones]

[Locked to Jack]

No preference at all.

I'll be in the medical room doing inventory for a long while so when you're done with the debriefing... feel free to stop by.

We can head out from there.