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capngreatcoat in outpost_12

June 20, 2074

Jul 14, 2010 00:48

It's easy enough to slip into a routine, even when you're displaced in time and space; Jack's known that for years. After all, time travel used to be as natural to him as going to work in the morning. It was going to work in the morning. Even after he's been back to Cardiff and done so much there and yet left himself with as many unanswered ( Read more... )

[completed], jack harkness, vincent valentine

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cloakandclaw July 14 2010, 20:17:17 UTC

He would move past like the faintest rustle of breeze normally, but... once he's done battle with someone, they are forever part of his party until they prove themselves unworthy. Jack hasn't done that and so he stops, nods.

"You are... just returning?" It's just a theory without proof. He has no real cause to be anything but glad for those who can come and go, but the part of him that's still human can't help the occasional twinge of resignation or jealousy or both.

He masks it well, though. He always does.

capngreatcoat July 15 2010, 03:56:02 UTC

Vincent moves remarkably quietly for somebody who wears so much armour. Knowing what he knows about Vincent, Jack is ... not so very surprised by that. Had Vincent not spoken, there'd have been little to draw Jack's attention to his presence.

"Vincent."

But since he did speak, Jack turns to him, the hem of his greatcoat flapping against his legs as he walks.

"No. Just ... checking." He jerks his head back towards the portal room door.

"I like to know what my options are."

cloakandclaw July 15 2010, 05:10:46 UTC

Yes; that he can understand.

"You are... able to leave?" People seem to have varying amounts of success with that, although not everyone wants to leave. Some feel perfectly at home and that... is enviable, as far as he's concerned. It's been more than thirty years since he felt he belonged, and he doubts he'll ever feel as if he does again.

For the moment he keeps pace easily with Jack as he walks. They're the same height, which... well, it's almost a relief to no longer be the tallest one in the room.

He misses his friends and making new ones is not so easy for him. Here, he has acquaintances. It's not the place of one walking in a state of atonement and repentance to ask for more, so he doesn't.

At least not most of the time.

capngreatcoat July 16 2010, 12:18:50 UTC

"For now."

He looks back over his shoulder to the portal room, briefly, and shakes his head. He may yet come to regret the decision he makes each day not to return to Cardiff. If MPU capriciously decides to take away the option he currently enjoys to return to 2008, it will be another regret for him to have about this place.

But he has the feeling of unfinished business in this place, and that's a feeling he has learned to respect. He has far too many abandoned, unfinished obligations in his life to want to turn his back on other people who may need him.

Especially after the blackout proved that the Dragons are not yet finished with the hotel denizens.

"I don't trust it to stay that way, though."

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