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if we did any good, we wouldn't be where we are.
besides.
we didn't do any work here.
these people don't care about you.
they don't care about amari.
they don't care about me.
why do you care so much about what happens to them?
to this planet?
i'll tell you one more time.
stay out of my way.
and if you can't do that, then you aren't tired enough.
besides.
we didn't do any work here.
these people don't care about you.
they don't care about amari.
they don't care about me.
why do you care so much about what happens to them?
to this planet?
i'll tell you one more time.
stay out of my way.
and if you can't do that, then you aren't tired enough.
assuming there is anything left.
do what you want.
but consider yourself warned.
i'll kill you again.
and i will kill her too.
do what you want.
but consider yourself warned.
i'll kill you again.
and i will kill her too.
you're right.
it doesn't.
ball's in your court, jack.
it doesn't.
ball's in your court, jack.
[This is kind of pathetic. He might be enjoying it.]
what are you going to apologize for?
what are you going to apologize for?
[...huh. That's almost an actual apology. It doesn't mean he's going to accept it -- he was in far too deep, and leaving him to his current state of being wasn't something Jack could just apologize away.]
nobody was there when it mattered.
[And to make sure he isn't tempted to reply again, he slides the TAB across the floor to the other side of the room.]
nobody was there when it mattered.
[And to make sure he isn't tempted to reply again, he slides the TAB across the floor to the other side of the room.]
[The void can keep them. At least he's got bitterness to keep him company.]
are you looking for a thank you?
[You could have just said "yes" Reaper.]
[You could have just said "yes" Reaper.]
No. What I did didn't entirely fix the problem.
( she knows )
( she knows )
doesn't matter.
i always come back eventually.
why
i always come back eventually.
why
I know how unpleasant it is to lose something like that.
[Oh.]
you're lucky you didn't die.
[It's a little tone deaf-- he isn't actually comparing his own half-life struggles to the loss of her eye. He genuinely means what he says, in this case. She was lucky her eye was all she lost with a shot that close to her skull.
And she's right -- blindness didn't do his paranoia any favors.]
you're lucky you didn't die.
[It's a little tone deaf-- he isn't actually comparing his own half-life struggles to the loss of her eye. He genuinely means what he says, in this case. She was lucky her eye was all she lost with a shot that close to her skull.
And she's right -- blindness didn't do his paranoia any favors.]
( her own response is a little delayed, ana trying to decipher what exactly gabriel means. given how often he's wished her dead, and had opportunities to kill her, it's hard to be certain whether it's a threat (again) or a simple fact.
she would like, if she can, to take it as a fact. call it foolish hope, though for once she is right )
I am. Perhaps my stubbornness is in my favour.
( that's definitely not how it works but she stupidly stubborn, and if she can't be proud then.... )
she would like, if she can, to take it as a fact. call it foolish hope, though for once she is right )
I am. Perhaps my stubbornness is in my favour.
( that's definitely not how it works but she stupidly stubborn, and if she can't be proud then.... )
stubbornness can win wars.
[They both know that. But stubbornness doesn't always win wars -- they know that too. If Jack had been more stubborn, maybe Overwatch wouldn't have buckled like it did.
But that still doesn't explain why Ana is checking on him and his sight.]
what do you really want?
[He's incapable of believing that Ana is actually simply concerned about him. Same as Jack -- he's done too much for them to simply forgive, and he doesn't expect them to. Even with the tranquility settling over them, even with the fog in his head taking the wraith from his blood, he knows better.]
[They both know that. But stubbornness doesn't always win wars -- they know that too. If Jack had been more stubborn, maybe Overwatch wouldn't have buckled like it did.
But that still doesn't explain why Ana is checking on him and his sight.]
what do you really want?
[He's incapable of believing that Ana is actually simply concerned about him. Same as Jack -- he's done too much for them to simply forgive, and he doesn't expect them to. Even with the tranquility settling over them, even with the fog in his head taking the wraith from his blood, he knows better.]
[Of course she wants to talk. All she ever wanted to do was talk, and his desire to talk had only gone down the more years that passed between them.
Sombra is probably monitoring him. Not that it would change his reply -- she had already solved that mystery.]
i am not going to keep doing this, ana.
[He can't. Won't. Their time is over, and they all have to move on, regardless of whether or not they miss each other's company.]
Sombra is probably monitoring him. Not that it would change his reply -- she had already solved that mystery.]
i am not going to keep doing this, ana.
[He can't. Won't. Their time is over, and they all have to move on, regardless of whether or not they miss each other's company.]
Then we try another route. I'm not willing to let everything be done.
it's over, ana. it's been over for years.
our methods for dealing with the problems in the world don't align.
[No matter how much Jack claims to miss him, he doubts either of them miss him enough to accept what he is.]
our methods for dealing with the problems in the world don't align.
[No matter how much Jack claims to miss him, he doubts either of them miss him enough to accept what he is.]
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