The roof: Tuesday night

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack hadn't seen Parker's email; even if he had, he probably wouldn't have cared. He didn't want to stay in his room and, despite the cold, the roof seemed the place to go.

In an effort to make the cold less noticeable, he'd handwavily made a trip into town for supplies and was now the proud owner of a large flask of green drink. Sweet, potent, warming green drink.

Sitting on the edge of the roof, legs dangling over the side, bundled into his long black coat, he was sipping from the flask and looking out over the island. As the level in the flask dropped, the faint sounds of ting-a-ling-a-ling could be heard, drifting out into the night.

[ooc: Open, as roofs are. I'll be slow, though, because of work.]

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[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

She sighed again. "It probably doesn't matter anyway if you tell anyone here. Sam knows already, though she probably doesn't know I do."

She stared off into space. "Shep is... the guy I was involved with before Jim. My first. Or at least the first I remember - which is another thing entirely."

She smiled up at him. "It's the same old story. Fell madly in love with him. He left for far far away, probably forever. Told me we needed to break up - which makes total sense. And I love him, but now there's Jim and I love him too."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"You can love more than one peson at a time. It's easy. Not like there's a finite amount of it. It's," he paused, wracking his fuzzy brain for the words, "inexhaustible, for the right people."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Obviously," said Lana, "since I love them both." She smiled at him. "I love lots of people in lots of different ways. Even love you."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack's naturally suspicious nature made him look at her out of the corner of his eye, but she looked sincere. "That's sweet of you, Lana," he said after a minute, more than a bit puzzled as to why, and hugged her tighter. "Thank you."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana looked at him a bit curiously. "It's not something you need to thank me for. And you might not rush in to thank me quite so quickly. I'm told by a fairly reliable, if somewhat cynical, source that I love too quickly and too easily. But," she shrugged, "it's the way I am."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"I like you the way you are," Jack said simply. "And you need to do, need to be, what makes you happy."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I don't know how to be anything else," Lana said quietly. "So I guess it's good you like me the way I am."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"I do," he confirmed. "I'm not sure I've ever met anyone quite like you."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Oh dear," Lana said. "You who've seen it all? Now I'm truly worried about you. I'm just an ordinary everyday person.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack smiled down at her and shook his head. "Maybe so, but where I come from, the places I've been? That makes you special."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

She smiled up at him. "Well, thanks. Good to know ordinary and boring is special somewhere," she said teasingly.