[His fist clenches under her hand, more reflex than anything. He knows that they have a lot to talk about, and that he's been dancing around the subject every since they reunited. It's easier that way, and Jack has always been very good at compartmentalization--anything else gets in the way of the mission, and he's told himself that he can't allow that to happen. He needs to focus on the fact that she's here with him now, and on his side. That's what's important.
But he still can't deny that there's a great deal going unsaid between the two of them. Someone's going to have to breach the subject sooner or later, and the way Ana speaks up indicates that they might as well just get it over with.
It takes Jack a few moments to start. He's sort of lost his way with words in the aftermath of the Overwatch's fall, if he even had a way with them in the first place. He tries to focus on Ana, instead--how more than anything, he doesn't want her to think that he left her behind.]
I went back. I looked for you until they made me stop.
[Because he'd come up entirely empty, of course. Now he knows that she didn't want to be found, because even as dangerous as things were, they were a multitude of ways she could have let him know. Jack is trying not to be angry, or hurt, but she had to have known how he'd take losing her. He's gone so many years thinking he got her killed.]
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But he still can't deny that there's a great deal going unsaid between the two of them. Someone's going to have to breach the subject sooner or later, and the way Ana speaks up indicates that they might as well just get it over with.
It takes Jack a few moments to start. He's sort of lost his way with words in the aftermath of the Overwatch's fall, if he even had a way with them in the first place. He tries to focus on Ana, instead--how more than anything, he doesn't want her to think that he left her behind.]
I went back. I looked for you until they made me stop.
[Because he'd come up entirely empty, of course. Now he knows that she didn't want to be found, because even as dangerous as things were, they were a multitude of ways she could have let him know. Jack is trying not to be angry, or hurt, but she had to have known how he'd take losing her. He's gone so many years thinking he got her killed.]