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Date/Timing: January 2018
Setting: Medical, The Shed; Vaucluse, NSW, Australia
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snikt: Whr u at
snikt: Jaaaaack
Captain_Jack: Medical
snikt: U ok
No answer.
Logan runs.
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Jack's sprawled on a couch in the waiting area, blood all down the front of his jumper.
"The fuck happened? You alright?"
"'m fine, 'm fine. 's'not mine."
Logan exhales, flops into a chair. "Sweet of you to check up on your victim."
"'s'not like that. Chuck collapsed."
"Since when d'you care about Shortstack?"
"Not Chuckles. Chuck—Charlotte."
"Rapunzel?"
Jack nods, rubs his face. "Came outta the test bleeding from the nose and just ... dropped. Got her here as fast as I could but ...."
"Nosebleed? Right outta the test?" Logan swallows. "That's bad. Real bad." Looks around. "Where's Shortstack?"
"Sulking, prol'ly."
"In there?"
Jack takes a deep breath. "He's not supposed to know."
"You're shitting me."
Doesn't reply.
Logan looks away. "She gonna be okay?"
Jack shrugs. "Think they'll tell me?"
Logan snorts. "Guess not. Stalkers don't count as next of kin, ay?"
Jack growls, but doesn't move.
"Want me to bring you a clean jumper?"
"Would you? Shirt, too. Soaked all the way through."
"Jesus. Yea, be back."
"Logan?"
"Yea?"
"I told 'em—what if—" Clutches something invisible draped in front of his shoulder. "She loves her hair."
"Then we call her 'Tangled'."
Gets a flicker of a smile.
Logan squeezes his arm, heads off.
Jack sighs.
Category:Ficlet
Category:Salutations, Darling arc
Category:Logan's POV
Category:Logan
Category:Jackson
Category:Jackson (ficlet)
Category:Chuck H (mention)
Category:Chuck D (mention)
Category:Chuck D's hair
Category:Tangled (reference)
Category:Conversations via SMS
Category:Sydney Shatterdome (setting)
Category:Organic Programming