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Jack Landors (robinindahood) wrote in parabolical,
@ 2009-06-07 12:48:00

Entry tags:

jack landors, sky tate

Who: Jack and Sky.
What: Jack tries to go on patrol alone, with a killer vampy Faith out there.
When: Wednesday Night.
Where: His place.
Warnings: TBA.
Status: in progress...

Jack was beyond pissed. Buffy was being stupid, the world as he knew it had been turned upside down. To top it all off he felt alone in the fight. Everyone had their own problems, everything was falling around him. But he didn't say a word. The pressure was getting to him as he waited for sunset. Maybe tonight he'd get a lead. The passed four had been severely lacking. Not even Faith's usual hangouts. But he should have suspected that, she was playing it smart. Weather she knew it or not. Maybe it was just second nature, maybe somehow she just knew. She was Faith. At the same time she wasn't.

The news reporter in the background on the t.v. he left on obviously said otherwise. Faith wouldn't do this. Kill innocent people..he was struggling with himself internally. Trying to keep a straight face otherwise, and mostly failing. Jack was too close to his. Sam and the slayers..they were the first people he met when he arrived over a year ago..and now they were in trouble. His tricks wouldn't work, unless he could get close enough to contain her. Even if he could, why should he? The people at the Hyperion seemed to think that re-attaching a soul to this Faith would make her better..he was starting to think otherwise. Especially after what happened with Angel. Jack was in his room, knelt infront of a bag of weaponry and digging through it. The silver knife Faith had given him, check. Stake-check. Holy water, check.

His thoughts were torn in so many directions lately he hadn't really been taking care of himself. He was rarely around for meals. Worked during the day, and was now trying to run off and go patrol after less than an hours worth of sleep in the past two days. He had been walking around the apartment much like a zombie.

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spdemergency
2009-06-07 03:23 pm UTC (link)

Sky had been staring at him for some time now. Sure, he'd been around for a few weeks and he'd mostly taken a back seat to observe the inner workings of this new world. It was lame and kind of blew. Also, archaic and way low tech, which was a world of suckage beyond the telling of it, but at least he wasn't alone here, though the way Jack had been acting, he might as well have been.

Jack had told him about what was happening, and Sky could sympathize, which was probably why he was uncharacteristically...non-antagonistic toward him. Maybe that was a mistake on his part. Not that Jack and Sky had ever been the OMG Let's Sit Around Bake Cookies Do Each Other's Hair and Talk About Feelings Type to begin with, but Jack had a tendency to jump into things without thinking. Sometimes, though Sky was loathe to admit it, the unpredictability could be useful. But from what he'd been told, Jack couldn't afford to do that right now.

At least, not in his current state. He glanced at floor and picked up a crumbled piece of red clothing, which he hoped wasn't Jack's underpants, and launched it at Jack's face, hoping to finally get his attention, which was usually never this...difficult.

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robinindahood
2009-06-07 03:33 pm UTC (link)

A red shirt landed on his head and Jack pulled it off." quit it Sky."Jack didn't even look up or stop his rummaging. He knew who it was, who else would just walk into his room uninvited? Normally Jack handled things alot better than he had, but now? One friend evil and a vampire, and another talking about doing drugs he could have handled it better. He was on over drive and worse, emotionally attached. Unpredictability points down the drain. At this rate if he went out there he was just going to get himself killed.

He didn't even stop to think about it until he finally sat back and looked down at the bag hopelessly. "None of this is going to make a difference." Jack trailed off. He was losing hope with the situation, Buffy had always sort of been a rock and now he didn't have it and didn't know what to do. This wasn't New Tech City. He wasn't in charge, but he found himself in a tough situation where he felt like he needed to be again.

"I don't know what to do." Jack never thought ahead. It wasn't his style, and it was showing. He was trying to be Mr.Planning go-to-guy, but he was crumbling under the pressure and the city was getting to him.

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spdemergency
2009-06-07 03:53 pm UTC (link)

"I wasn't aware zipping up a bag was so complicated," Sky replied, quirking a brow, grabbing another article of clothing off the floor and chucking it at Jack's head. Like Sky was going to listen to Jack. Especially after all of this rudeness that had just exploded. Sky sighed, crossed his arms, and leaned against the door frame.

"This angst thing is so not your color," he said. God, he sounded like Syd. "Can we skip the part where you need to cry like a woman and start dealing with things like a man, or did your penis suddenly become a vagina." If things were as dire as Jack seemed to be portraying, there was no time for Jack to pussy up and act like a loser. They were B Squad. That meant something.

"So, figure something out," Sky said simply. What else was there to do? Sitting around and moping wouldn't help anyone.

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robinindahood
2009-06-07 04:11 pm UTC (link)

"Did you hear me? Knock it off." He glared something dark that was disturbingly out of place. He turned as the pants Sky had thrown at him hit him, he threw them back straight at Sky's chest.

"Yeah. Thanks Sky, good talk." He said sarcastically as he stood finally having decided on his weapon and loaded it with a containment card. "What do you think I'm trying to do?" Jack said as he stood up and passed Sky, attempting to brush coldly past him. But he was blocking the doorway, so all Jack could do was stop and frown at him.

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spdemergency
2009-06-07 04:20 pm UTC (link)

"Do something stupid," he replied looking not at all phased by his attempt at puffing his chest and assert whatever Alpha Maleness he was failing at at the moment. "Are you the one who told me doing something stupid around here was a quick way to finding yourself dead in a ditch somewhere?" It was one of the few things that Sky had actually paid attention to.

"So, quit being a bitch and calm the down," he said. "There's no need for you to get pissy right now."

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robinindahood
2009-06-15 12:45 pm UTC (link)

Deep, deep down he knew Sky was right. That was probably what irritated him the most right then. Looking up at the ranger, he offered a ghost of a smile. "I know..I'm just..I usually know what to do, how to fix things. Even here. This time..one of my best friends is in trouble and I don't think I can do shit."

He stood up and turned to face him "Even if I go out there now, I can't hunt her. She's not just..another vampire, she's Faith. She's someone I knew." Past tense, it hurt more than it should.

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spdemergency
2009-06-23 07:09 pm UTC (link)

"Doesn't that fly in the face in the whole reason for why you hunt them in the first place?" He quirked a brow. "No offense, but if you were going to come at me with fangs and a need to suck my blood, I'll take you down and stab you in the heart like that," he said and snapped his fingers. Gotta love the straight talk. Jack had to admit it - he kind of missed having Sky around.

Sky shrugged, though, and waved it off. "Have one of your other hunter people take care of it." He tilted his head. "I mean if you're gonna pussy out, might as well not feel like a complete douchebag."

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