Re: [Evans & Peel: Jack & Holly]
It was probably not the wisest decision Jack had ever made, but he wasn't exactly on the sharpest edge of reflex and finer thought. Holly's face reflected tinges of skepticism that Jack fondly recalled having, once upon a time. Before he'd tried summoning a demon on a high. But regardless, the boy stared at him and offered up 'weird' as salient truth and Jack laughed.
"Oh very," he agreed, despite the bloody fact he was less weird than the entire town, or so it felt like. He was relentlessly ordinary, no magic or science or dodgy events on the horizon. If he had been anything other, maybe he wouldn't have found it all so fascinating. "But you wait until a holiday swings around here. They tend to shift your perception."
They had collided back onto the topic of the boy that Holly was discussing as if he hadn't just divulged that the boy was both the subject of entirely sensible albeit misplaced angst and he, Holly, also apparently fancied. "No, I don't do sex work," Jack said, amused. "Why, would I have a good market? Can you do that, make it all business, nix any emotional involvement whatsoever?" He knew obsession well enough to find the rest of it all agreeable.
Last orders at home were rather stricter than they were in the States. Last orders were midnight, with a bell rung at half past eleven if you were in an old-school sort of pub and if you looked inebriated, licenses were lost for anyone that ran anything respectable if you served them. Jack was more comfortable with the model from home, as it happened, and they had the Cat for those that wanted to get absolutely pissed.
"Do you think so? I'm sorry," Jack said candidly, of educations and insulting. "But whiskey - most things, actually - are an acquired taste. If you feel insulted, I apologize." But all right, fathers and rationales, and Jack didn't order another glass for himself.
"I own a bar because it makes money, and because I liked the idea. He must have loved her madly," Jack sounded thoughtful. "But that has to have been tremendously difficult for you."