[ jack does care that he's exposed, because this is how it starts with duplicity. it's how the forest started, it's how veracity started. not again, not ever again, regardless of it they've stripped him of his power or not. he doesn't particularly care that the woman's bare, neither in the mood for anything sexual or given the correct gender and correlating parts to spark it. hell, even if steve rogers was giving him a lap dance right now, jack doubts he could get into it.
he understands that - power is protection - more than the girl can know. it was the entire reason he sought this power to begin with, for all the good it's done him (remind him to punch nissen in the fucking balls next time he sees him). being vulnerable again doesn't mean he can afford paralysis of fear for it. ]
I was in a place like this before. [ ground out, as he's reaching for the edge of the pod, trying to haul himself up despite the weakness in his limbs. ] They giveth and they taketh away.
[ fucking assholes. it takes him a solid few minutes, but he gets up at least fair enough that he can lean most of his weight onto the actual pod, before holding out a hand to her. ]
Come on. You have to be ready to fight.
[ if they're being depowered again, it means something bad is coming, and they need to get on their feet. they need to get on their feet, and they need to be able to either run or fight tooth and nail. ]
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he understands that - power is protection - more than the girl can know. it was the entire reason he sought this power to begin with, for all the good it's done him (remind him to punch nissen in the fucking balls next time he sees him). being vulnerable again doesn't mean he can afford paralysis of fear for it. ]
I was in a place like this before. [ ground out, as he's reaching for the edge of the pod, trying to haul himself up despite the weakness in his limbs. ] They giveth and they taketh away.
[ fucking assholes. it takes him a solid few minutes, but he gets up at least fair enough that he can lean most of his weight onto the actual pod, before holding out a hand to her. ]
Come on. You have to be ready to fight.
[ if they're being depowered again, it means something bad is coming, and they need to get on their feet. they need to get on their feet, and they need to be able to either run or fight tooth and nail. ]