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When; Sunday, April 20th
Rating; PG-13
Characters; Boy Blue playstheblues and Jack Harkness handsomejack
Summary; Blue decides to find the Captain and sort things out.
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Unlike some people, Blue wasn't afraid of the Underground. Once you spent four years living your life alone, with a sword and a cloak and a war-horn to keep you company, you lost your fear of dark and terrifying placed; that is, assuming you had that fear to begin with. Blue didn't.

He pulled the hood tighter over his head and ventured out, quietly, his footsteps falling softly. When one was hunting skittish prey, that was a necessary skill to have.

Of course, Blue was hunting skittish prey - one very skittish human Captain. He wondered briefly to himself why he was attracted to idiot men; first Cori, now Jack. Both of them idiots. Apparently brains didn't get programmed into 51st century men; or into nightmares. What a mess. Cori was worried, Jack was obviously worried, and Blue, well, Blue was a bit tired, after all was said and done. He needed to have this debacle sorted out. Really.

He spotted Jack, and moved fast, deciding that a running tackle probably wasn't necessary. Instead he lowered his hood. "You know, you won't find any answers down here. The monsters are bad at advice, and the only thing you're likely to find is a bad fight with Desire."

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[handsomejack.livejournal.com]

Jack was lonely.

It was something he'd struggled with admitting to himself because it seemed so strange that a man who made friends so easily, had his team, had people in his life that he cared about, could be lonely. But it was the truth. It was why he sought out the Doctor now and then, because the Time Lord understood where the loneliness came from, the self isolation not because you risked losing people but because you had to be something that most people would come to hate in time.

Because somebody had to stand that line.

Closing his eyes he leaned, tentatively down towards Blue's shoulder as if this was something he had very little experience doing and wasn't quite sure how to go about it.

"You can really hurt me, Blue." He said softly, without any judgment or expectation. He was simply admitting the truth of the situation. Letting someone in as close as the fable had wriggled in, was dangerous for Jack and he was scared to death.

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Blue reached a hair to pet at the back of the Captain's hair, and he nodded. That's what love was, he realized; the power to exercise injury onto someone, and the trust that they wouldn't do it. That's what love had been when he trusted Ride, and she had betrayed it; just like that's what love was with Cori. The ability to break someone, and to not do it.

"I won't betray you," he said softly, his hold on Jack getting tighter. "Just...don't jump to conclusions," he said with a smile, letting Jack feel it by pressing his lips casually against the Captain's cheek. "You can always ask me anything. I don't lie." Not even when I want to take the easy way out. He pulled Jack closer, moving into the Captain's lap. Sometimes being the smaller party really sucked. He wasn't a girl; at least in this case, no one had to be reminded of that.

He sat there, quietly. "Tell me when you're ready, and then I'll walk you home."

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For all that he occasionally seemed to have all the patience in the world, Jack was actually a fairly reactive individual and anyone who knew him well would probably tell Blue that Jack tended to react first and stop to think about things later. After 150 years, you'd think he'd have settled but it might take a couple thousand more!

He liked the tight hold and though he was obviously rusty at relaxing into such care, used to being the hugger, not the huggee. He was getting better at it, grinning a little in response to Blue's kiss on his cheek and then carefully gathering the smaller man into his lap. He didn't mind lap fulls of Blue. He expected this was a trait he and Cori shared.

Nodding, Jack just sat there for a long time, perhaps as long as twenty minutes. It was stillness that was rare to unheard of for the Captain but he was quiet as a mouse.

Eventually he shifted and pressed a shy kiss to Blue's cheek.

"Come on."

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Blue stood, shifting off Jack's lap and stood up next to him. He smiled up at him, honestly, the smile genuine as he offered his hand. "Come on," he said, repeating Jack's words. "I bet your team is making at mess at your apartment without you."

Little did he know the truth to that statement. Blue hadn't been on the Network at all since the early evening the night and he didn't know about Gwen's current condition. That noted, he was patient and let Jack set the pace of returning aboveground.

It didn't matter. He was pacified.

[handsomejack.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Blue's words were going to prove to be ... quite prophetic!

For the moment, however, Jack was relaxed, calm and content. He took Blue's hand and came gracefully to his feet. Walking along with the fable, he began to very gently poke and ask questions about how Blue's piano lessons/computer lessons with Tosh were coming along.

Really, he was like the worst nosy big brother when it came to his team and this was his way of being playful, if perhaps a bit silly as they walked.

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Blue refused to answer any questions. He took Jack right to his door, and gave him a soft kiss on the cheek. "Take care. I'll talk to you soon," he assured him. "And I promise, you'll find out the results of the lessons sooner, rather than later."

He turned and smiled a little to himself, proud of his solution, before he lifted his hood and disappeared.