WHO: Jack and Agnes WHAT: ...um. All right, this one was supposed to be a voice post, and then it went on forever. And it's kind of an important conversation, so I don't ... really know why we did it this way. Maybe we're just lazy. Anyway, pretend it's like a script and don't be like us, okay? XD
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Eventually, Mark falls asleep, squished between the window and Jack's body. Agnes finally comes to sit next to Jack.
Agnes: Hi.
Jack: [ Snorting awake. ] Huh---? Wh---- Annie. Annie, hi. Sorry, I just... I panic these days.
Agnes: Sorry. Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to wake you up.
Jack: No, it's all right, it's fine, just... quiet. Mark's sleepin'. I can't believe that I see you again and this is where I see you again, this is just nuts...
Agnes: Good thing you did, though, right? ... [ Obviously making an effort. ] He's ... kinda cute when he's asleep.
Jack: Yeah, he shuts his big mouth... [ Chuckling fondly. ] I, um. I know I never told you.
Agnes: ...Yeah.
Jack: It just, I mean. I wasn't... out. I'm still not---I mean, everyone here knows, they all know about us, but it's not like...
Agnes: You said you had an ex-girlfriend, too. How did this... happen?
Jack: How---what, how did what happen?
Agnes: Maybe I just don't ... understand. You like women, don't you?
Jack: I like ... yeah, I like women. As people, but ... Annie, I'm gay. I'm attracted to men. I was with Beth for a while but it's... I'm gay. I always have been.
Agnes: [ There's the sound of her shifting on the seat. ] I'm trying. I don't want you to think I just ... went and got mean or anything.
Jack: It's not... I mean, Dad hit me when he found out. So. [ Chuckles. ] It's, um. Don't worry about it, okay? I don't expect you to be okay. I just wish I'd had a chance to tell you, actually tell you. Mark's... he's a good guy, okay? He's blunt and he's forward and he can act like a lunatic sometimes but he's a good guy. We take good care of each other.
Agnes: [ Awkward silence. ] ...He's so small.
Jack: Yeah, he's short.
Agnes: Jack. This might be an uncomfortable question. You said he's your Active. Did you---
Jack: Did I what.
Agnes: You know what I'm asking.
Jack: I know. I want you to say it.
Agnes: Why?
Jack: Because I want to hear how little you think of me.
Agnes:Jack. Don't be ridiculous. You know what this looks like. I'm just asking. What am I supposed to think?
Jack: Just think about what you're thinking. No. I'm here because of him. We were together for years, he got tangled in the Dollhouse, I took a job to protect him.
Agnes: You could have just said that.
Jack: Could have. Didn't. [ Silence. ] I'm sorry, about the... with his... when he... on the bus, the...
Agnes: Yeah, um... [ Obviously uncomfortable. ] He was happy to see you.
Jack: Yeah. Listen, I don't do that. In public. But we'd been trapped in the Attic and you have no idea what that's like. No idea.
Agnes: ...What's up with him and that one-armed guy?
Jack: Owen's his partner. Work partner. They're detectives. They were... I dunno, they dated, or just had sex, for a while. Owen's not gay. A little gay, but not gay.
Agnes: I'd be mortified. Who wants everyone knowing their business like that?
Jack: No fucking kidding. The only reason these people know about me and Mark is because Mark ... talks. He's proud of me. Or he's drunk.
Agnes: ...Great.
Jack: Hey. Knock it off. He frustrates the hell outta me but I love him.
Agnes: Yeah, I got that.
Jack: I know that bothers you. I----I'm sorry.
Agnes: I'm trying. It's not ... I'm not like Daddy. All right? I'm not a burn in the pits of Hell type person. It just makes me uncomfortable and I never had a reason to get over that before.
Jack: Shh. I'm not mad, okay? You're still my sister. I still love you.
Agnes: I still love you, too. I'm sorry I lost you.
Jack: We lost touch after Dad died, it's... understandable, Annie.
Agnes: I miss him all the time, Jackie. He died before I could get him to like me as much as he liked you.
Jack: I----Annie, he loved you. You were his little girl.
Agnes: And you were his big, tough son. He wanted to protect me, but he talked to you.
Jack: Yeah, well. I was also a fairy, so that took points off. [ Chuckles. ] ---I miss him. I miss Daddy, Agnes.
Agnes: Mom didn't take it so well.
Jack: Don't imagine she would.
Agnes: She just wanted him to love her, too. She said such awful things when he died.
Jack: [ Pause. ] What do you mean?
Agnes: She was old and crazy, Jack, what do you think she said?
Jack: Don't want to know.
Agnes: You really don't. She's still alive, though. Alive and alone.
Jack: At least she's alive. And now that we're out... you could probably get back to her.
Agnes: I really don't want to.
Jack: ---Why?
Agnes: I look like him, and you. It pisses her off.
Jack: Hn.
Agnes: I came to California to get away from her. I'm not going back.