Because Michelle ran her mouth off to Neheda, and even after she was warned about punishment I would have to take, she selfishly kept on.
[ he grinds it out, and surprises himself, in a way, with how much venom is in it. he'd never really let go of this. just told michelle it's fine, it's fine, trying to pascify her. he knows she hadn't really meant to get him hurt, and that she simply hadn't taken it seriously, but it still sticks in jack like a thorn. ]
Because with the morally righteous, it's too damn important to raise your nose and condemn, regardless of who suffers for it.
[ there's an old bitterness in that. watching david sacrifice one thing after another for what's right and finding himself both unable to hold that integrity, and incapable of watching a righteous act without seeing the cost assigned to it. ]
Your words damn the others around you.
[ his voice quiets, but loses none of its intensity. ]
Keep going like this, and someone you love will end up in the same place. [ a beat. ] Maybe Athos, maybe me. Maybe Hanna, and God as my fucking witness, d'Artagnan, if your foolishness gets Hanna hurt, I'll personally make sure correction for that selfishness is paid to the right person.
[ he seethes it out in the way he would to someone standing in his way in the shiloh - in how he'd spoken to david, that night behind enemy lines. he doesn't truly mean it. jack likely couldn't bring himself to hurt d'artagnan, but the fear of seeing hanna damaged in the same way he was fuels it. he always has been more bark than bite. ]
[ D'Artagnan watches while Jack's temper grows, and doesn't stop growing.
It clears his head, to an extent. It throws him back to what Garrus said, and of course, he reacts the same way. He lets go of Jack, pushes him off, and then goes to retrieve the Blackglass. He pulls up the thread he had with Alina, and then shoves the glass at Jack. ]
I already stopped.
So don't come here, and threaten me. Do you think I need someone else to do that? I've done everything they asked of me, and I still will.
[ he glances at the phone, but doesn't really read it. just narrows eyes at his friend. ]
Hope that it was soon enough that they won't remember. But I doubt it.
[ everything here is held to you. every mission, every word, every flinch. and they see all of it. jack knows having your every move watched, even before the cdc, and it leaves no room for error. ]
Doing what they ask isn't enough, and they aren't going to care that that isn't fair.
[ his nose wrinkles in something between anger and mild disgust, and he says one more piece: ]
I am being your friend. You're just too petulant to realize it.
[ with that, he turns and leaves. good talk, guys. ]
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[ he grinds it out, and surprises himself, in a way, with how much venom is in it. he'd never really let go of this. just told michelle it's fine, it's fine, trying to pascify her. he knows she hadn't really meant to get him hurt, and that she simply hadn't taken it seriously, but it still sticks in jack like a thorn. ]
Because with the morally righteous, it's too damn important to raise your nose and condemn, regardless of who suffers for it.
[ there's an old bitterness in that. watching david sacrifice one thing after another for what's right and finding himself both unable to hold that integrity, and incapable of watching a righteous act without seeing the cost assigned to it. ]
Your words damn the others around you.
[ his voice quiets, but loses none of its intensity. ]
Keep going like this, and someone you love will end up in the same place. [ a beat. ] Maybe Athos, maybe me. Maybe Hanna, and God as my fucking witness, d'Artagnan, if your foolishness gets Hanna hurt, I'll personally make sure correction for that selfishness is paid to the right person.
[ he seethes it out in the way he would to someone standing in his way in the shiloh - in how he'd spoken to david, that night behind enemy lines. he doesn't truly mean it. jack likely couldn't bring himself to hurt d'artagnan, but the fear of seeing hanna damaged in the same way he was fuels it. he always has been more bark than bite. ]
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It clears his head, to an extent. It throws him back to what Garrus said, and of course, he reacts the same way. He lets go of Jack, pushes him off, and then goes to retrieve the Blackglass. He pulls up the thread he had with Alina, and then shoves the glass at Jack. ]
I already stopped.
So don't come here, and threaten me. Do you think I need someone else to do that? I've done everything they asked of me, and I still will.
I need you to be my friend. Not a threat.
[ He snatches the blackglass back. ]
Get out.
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Hope that it was soon enough that they won't remember. But I doubt it.
[ everything here is held to you. every mission, every word, every flinch. and they see all of it. jack knows having your every move watched, even before the cdc, and it leaves no room for error. ]
Doing what they ask isn't enough, and they aren't going to care that that isn't fair.
[ his nose wrinkles in something between anger and mild disgust, and he says one more piece: ]
I am being your friend. You're just too petulant to realize it.
[ with that, he turns and leaves. good talk, guys. ]