The initial laugh that came up out of his throat was a little too loud and Gabe quickly swallowed the rest of it for fear of prematurely waking Matt up, tipping his head briefly up towards the ceiling with a lingering chuckle before glancing sideways at him. Jack was funny in that very self-aware way that was hard to master without just being kind of depressing, and you weren't afraid to make fun of yourself. Gabe doubted Jack was all that dumb, but devilishly handsome? Hell yeah.
"Wait," Gabe countered with a hand pressed to his chest, acting vaguely scandalized. "Are you saying I'm not the handsome one?" Obvious, maybe, but Gabe was quick to move on from it before he had to commit to it fully, rubbing the back of his neck with a sigh. He was tired, but Jack made it easy to forget that.
There was actually no getting around how handsome Matt was even if Gabe would never be the first to address it, that would be weird. He would only do it in the most supportive, platonic way possible, but even that was likely to embarrass the hell out of his friend. Matt was like a brother to him, but yeah. Between the two of them, there was probably no contest about who was the hot one. That's why Matt had an angry ex and Gabe didn't.
"And you got it in one. Don't think I'm cut out to be a spy or anything, but everything else, yeah. We were in the Air Force together before all this, I followed him to Camelot." Back when things were simpler, as simple as things could ever be when you were fighting a war. At least it was a time when Andrés was still alive and they were all together. Him, Andrès, Reyna, Javi, Matt, Lydia. Having Freya (and Rey) around now was great for him and Poe, but in a way, Gabe still felt scattered. Like there were pieces of him he'd just never get back.
Freya was definitely another reason in the 'sucks to be gone for so long' column now, though. Gabe had spent enough time without some of Poe's closest friends that after a certain point he'd honestly stopped thinking he'd ever find Finn and Rey, and then she showed up out of nowhere one day, like she'd just been waiting for him to stop looking. It had made Poe happy in a way that Gabe liked, and Freya herself was pretty cool too. Gabe wished they had more time to hang out.
After a moment the feeling passed, and Gabe wondered who this Lucas person was, but if Jack was trying to make comparisons then Gabe decided to assume this 'Lucas' was also a friend like Matt was his friend and not obsess over it. No point, he told himself firmly before shaking himself out of it.
"Definitely saved my ass plenty of times, but he gets himself hurt way more then me," Gabe added with a snort, looking down before quirking an eyebrow in Jack's direction. "Something tells me you know a little something about that." He was of course referring to the mountain of scars on Jack's body that he'd seen an impressive amount of earlier. Gabe had to work hard just to keep his expression neutral at the thought.