[ as far as she knows, he swears, just hasn't around her. Jess chuckles hollowly, hanging her head. so he does want to use her but as emotional blunt force trauma. her other, less fun avenue of acknowledged expertise. what right does she have to expect him to want anything else? he owes her nothing, she owes him everything. time apart hasn't changed that. she swings her head upright, amusement clinging to her face. ]
Sure. Takes one to know one. [ it's what he wants to hear, though Jess can't confidently mean it without knowing more about how he came to be where he is. everyone who left him, people who want him to make other choices or be a better man, and she's not equipped to listen to that. but he's probably going to load it on her anyway and she'll sit and listen out of guilt and leave with her head full of nightmares that she came here to clear out. the best part is that Matt would doubtlessly have laid into him with aplomb but the only one of them with a shard of decency in them is buried beneath the city they can't leave. Jess leans over the couch arm a second time to grab the bourbon back. ]
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Sure. Takes one to know one. [ it's what he wants to hear, though Jess can't confidently mean it without knowing more about how he came to be where he is. everyone who left him, people who want him to make other choices or be a better man, and she's not equipped to listen to that. but he's probably going to load it on her anyway and she'll sit and listen out of guilt and leave with her head full of nightmares that she came here to clear out. the best part is that Matt would doubtlessly have laid into him with aplomb but the only one of them with a shard of decency in them is buried beneath the city they can't leave. Jess leans over the couch arm a second time to grab the bourbon back. ]