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[milfweed]

The weather kept Nancy in the Compound most of the time these days. She wasn't really sure what to do with herself. Mostly, she read romance novels and made brownies (the normal sort) and kept the coffee brewing. She thought about asking someone to teach her to play the piano (she could remember very little from the year of lessons she took as a

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[captainjack]

Jack knew that sound. One of them, anyhow. He also knew the familiar whirring of the projector, and nothing could pull him from the kitchen into the rec room like porn. Except...that? Wasn't porn. That was Nancy, and that was Nancy, too, and what was on the screen was way too intimate to be porn.

"Nancy?" he asked softly. Maybe she wanted to watch it...but the way she had paled told him that wasn't the case.

[milfweed]

She was almost relieved that it was Jack who came upon her. It was enough to cause her to not go into hysterics anyway, and she managed to say, her voice a little strangled, "I don't suppose you know how to turn this thing off?"

She heard herself moan. Jonah's voice: "I love you."

[captainjack]

Half a grin and a slow nod and Jack walked over to the projector. He reached for the switch...but it was already in the Off position. He looked at the screen, then the projector, then her.

"Did it turn itself on?" he asked, spinning the volume to 0. At least that worked.

[milfweed]

"Yeah, I heard it playing just before I walked in, that's just..."

She couldn't tear her eyes away from the screen. God, it was just so... part of her wanted to cry, another wanted to run and hide out of humiliation. And then there was the part that hadn't had sex in months.

She winced as her breasts came into view. "You seem to have a knack for catching me at my best, Jack."

[captainjack]

"Yeah, I'm good at that," Jack replied, looking around the projector. What was on the screen was obviously not for anyone else's entertainment and the way it rattled her almost killed anything the sight of her bare body, writhing beneath her husband, with her face like...that...

Jack licked his lips then had to shake his head in order to tear his eyes away. He found the lens cap and snapped it over the end. The projector played on, but at least it was quiet and the screen was now empty.

"Are you all right?"

[milfweed]

"No." She gestured sharply at the now-blank screen. "That is just... it's fucked up! Why is that - god, anyone could have walked in here! And it's..." Judah. She sank limply onto the couch.

[captainjack]

He sighed softly and joined her, draping his arm lazily around her shoulders. "I forgot to mention the personalized torture when we were on the beach, didn't I? We all get it, eventually."

Jack had his future, Greg had his drugs. The Doctor had his TARDIS who was all but dead. Jack didn't know anyone who hadn't been needled by the island in some way.

[milfweed]

Nancy sighed heavily. "Well it couldn't have come at a worse time. Christ, I'm just so lonely here. At least back home I had my kids..."

[captainjack]

"And, if I remeber right, some very messed up stuff happening. Look, come on," he said, his voice growning softer, "it'll be okay. Really."

[milfweed]

Nancy didn't realize that she's gotten a little teary, but she sniffed, and then wiped her face with her sleeve. "You know the only men I've been with since Judah died? A... a drug dealer, in an alley, against a dirty brick wall, and... and Peter, who turned out to be a psychopath!"

[captainjack]

Jack rubbed her arm slowly, reaching with his other hand to lift her chin. "Nancy, no regrets. They'll eat you alive."

[milfweed]

"I know. I know. I just..." Her eyes flicked to the blank screen. "I want that back."

[captainjack]

He nodded slowly and grazed her cheek as he moved to push her hair back. "Yeah. But that's something really...special. Right?" he asked as his thoughts wandered away to Alcuin telling him about how he'd felt finding something like that for a second time.

[milfweed]

"Right." She sighed, leaning against him. "But god, it wasn't even just that, I mean, the sex was fantastic, he was so..." She blushed a little.

[captainjack]

"Fantastic is always good," Jack replied lightly. Fantastic was what he was good at...among other things. "He loved you." It was just a statement. You'd have to be blind not to see it.

[milfweed]

"Yeah," Nancy said, smiling. "He did."