So he didn't live with anyone, Gabe noted. 'No roommates or anything' didn't necessarily mean that he was available, but it did mean that he wasn't seeing anyone serious enough to be living with them.
Not that it really mattered. What was he going to do about it anyway? Nothing, most likely. He'd never gone out with a guy before, he was just being ridiculous. Sure, Gabe had entertained plenty of thoughts about guys in the past. This wasn't a surprise to him, finding a man attractive. Jack was the kind of attractive that you'd have to not have eyes not to notice, but yeah, there was something about him (or many things about him) that drew Gabe in like a hot guy magnet.
He wouldn't know what to do about it even if Jack was interested, which he probably wasn't, so there was no point in getting excited. Wrong place, wrong time. If there ever was a right time. There had been plenty of girls in the past, but no guys, always ready with an excuse for why something couldn't work with someone. Not something he really needed to do now that he wasn't in the military, but it was still always there in the back of his mind anyway. Go figure.
"Eh, they're not so bad, at least until they start getting dicey. Which they always do, the longer a mission takes," Gabe answered with a casual shrug of his shoulders, setting his water glass on the ground next to his feet and stretching his legs out in front of him while folding his hands behind his head to lean back more comfortably in his chair. "Honestly didn't have much to stick around for."
Weird thing to say to somebody he'd just met, Gabe realized a moment too late, but maybe he'd just take that to mean that Gabe was single. Which he was, but that's definitely not what he'd been thinking of when he said it. After Andrés was killed, for a long time Gabe didn't even want to be around Camelot more then he had to be. It was too hard. Yeah, he'd used the excuse that his friend needed him after his breakup more than a dozen times, but the truth was, he'd needed Matt too. If his buddy was leaving, then Gabe wasn't sticking around.
There was still his parents, obviously. But seeing them kept getting harder, not easier. Their hearts had broken with the loss of Andrés, and Gabe didn't think they'd ever fully heal. He visited them when he could, but those visits got less and less frequent. Shockingly, the only person besides Matt and Freya (and now Jack, apparently) who was easy to be around was Reyna. She and Javi were the ones he regretted not being able to see more since he'd signed up for these missions.
Looking over at Jack again, Gabe couldn't not notice how nice his chest looked. The way his arms were crossed made the outlines under his shirt more noticeable, which immediately reminded Gabe of how they'd looked without a shirt, not to mention he had the kind of arms you really wanted to grab onto - Oh god. Seriously, stop it. Concussion or not, maybe he really should just knock himself unconscious to put him out of his own misery.
"Besides," Gabe stuck a thumb in Matt's direction to cover for himself. "Somebody's gotta look out for Sleeping Beauty over there, make sure he stays out of trouble. Might as well be me."