Time For An Explanation

[capj_harkness]

Who: Captain Jack Harkness, Buffy Summers and, at some point, Spike.
Where: Buffy's room.
When: A couple days or so after Owen came to Jack about his deaths.
What: Jack found out from Kaylee that Owen learned his fate from Spike. Jack didn't tell Spike the details of his friends' recent deaths, but Spike spends an awful lot of time with Buffy.

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[first_summers]

Buffy was actually in her room for once, which was a strange occurrence in itself. Most of the time these days, she was in Spike's room, which had sort of become their room after she'd just neglected to sleep in her own for months. But the hotel hadn't helped her move everything over, so she'd taken a little bit at a time, when she actually remembered... So now she was determined to get the last of it, because she couldn't find a certain left shoe and she desperately needed it

[first_summers]

"Because you should have told him if it's so damn important to you that he not find out from anyone else," she informed Jack. "Did you expect the entire hotel to keep it a secret from him? That's not exactly fair of you. You're the one who told people, Jack, so don't you think you should have told him, explained things to him so he wouldn't freak out?" She didn't understand Jack, just as Jack probably didn't understand her.

[capj_harkness]

"No," Jack said. "Because I only told a few select people and, quite frankly, I didn't think any of them were that cruel."

And that was the truth. It hadn't occurred to him that anyone would tell someone something like that. Not the people he'd met there, at any rate.

[first_summers]

Buffy took a deep breath. "I don't see it as cruel," she told him softly. "Not the way it was done. Spike wouldn't be cruel to someone he was on good terms with."

[capj_harkness]

"And what, exactly, makes you think he's on 'good terms' with Owen?" Jack asked, looking at her expectantly.

He hadn't heard anything about Owen and Spike hanging out before. God knew how Owen got involved in the card game, but he doubted it was as Spike's bestest buddy. Owen didn't really do friendship (in the traditional sense) and was on 'good terms' with almost nobody.