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He's at kind of a loose end. Poison's spending so quality time with Dee, which Jack totally gets. They've got rehearsal and then they're going to get food and watch a movie and Jack is making himself scarce. He gets to be Poison's boyfriend, one-hundred percent, and that means he can step away without feeling like he's being side-lined.
Kavinsky's busy, so he texts Cassie.
Dinner? My treat. Somewhere nice.
An hour later, he's standing outside Cassie's building, wearing a shirt and loosely knotted tie, a waistcoat, his shirtsleeves rolled up to his elbows. He's made an effort. He likes Cassie. Being friends is worth it.
Kavinsky's busy, so he texts Cassie.
Dinner? My treat. Somewhere nice.
An hour later, he's standing outside Cassie's building, wearing a shirt and loosely knotted tie, a waistcoat, his shirtsleeves rolled up to his elbows. He's made an effort. He likes Cassie. Being friends is worth it.
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Date: 2016-06-07 09:11 pm (UTC)I ended up meeting him on the stoop, wearing jeans that actually sort of fit me, with work boots that were low enough that I didn't look like a construction worker, and a kind of cute purple top that had some tiny pleats around the collar and sleeves. It made me look just a little bit girly, at least, which was good, because I didn't wear makeup, or do anything special with my short hair, and I didn't have jewelry.
And it was too hot for my morphing suit, so I hoped I didn't get shot again.
I stuffed my key into my pocket as I stepped off the stoop.
"Hi," I said. Wow. He looked really good. "I feel like I should be wearing a dress," I admitted with a laugh.
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Date: 2016-06-08 10:39 am (UTC)Jack makes a soft, dismissive sound and shakes his head. He slips his phone into the pocket of his jeans and then offers her his arm. With shirtsleeves on, you can't see his tattoos - which had always been the aim. He looks one hundred percent respectable. His dad would never have accepted it any other way.
"You look great," he says, smiling, bright and expensive. "If I desperately want to have dinner with someone wearing a dress, I'll just take Poison out on a femme day."
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Date: 2016-11-08 06:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-08 09:35 pm (UTC)"Oh, shit, I've never told you about femme days?" He starts to guide her towards the restaurant that he's chosen. "Okay, so Poison is totally, utterly completely comfortable with his sexuality? But he also sometimes likes wearing skirts. Underwear's about half and half."
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Date: 2016-11-09 12:25 am (UTC)"I don't even like wearing skirts and dresses!" I said. "I guess that's just . . . really cool, that a guy feels like he can." I pictured Jake and Marco in their morphing suits, their bike shorts that showed off their legs, and looked up at Jack shyly. "Does he, um. What does he do about his legs? I mean. The hair."
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Date: 2016-11-09 08:11 pm (UTC)That question makes Jack laugh and he blushes a little, pushing one hand back through his hair.
"He shaves," he says. "In the shower. Doesn't usually bother with his underarms, though." He gives Cassie a look, waiting for her to react to that new information.
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Date: 2016-11-14 10:04 pm (UTC)"But, if you don't mind, and he doesn't mind, that's really all that matters, right?" I rushed to add.
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Date: 2016-11-17 04:35 pm (UTC)"I mean, my attitude is that it's pretty much his body and he can do what he likes? If he's happy, I'm happy." Jack flashes a grin. "But he looks pretty smoking hot in a dress and heels, I'm not going to lie."
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Date: 2016-11-17 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-17 07:36 pm (UTC)He's embarrassed her and he feels bad about that; he's too well brought up to be badly behaved, and Cassie's his friend. He gives her a little squeeze, his arm dropped around her shoulders for a second.
"Well, there's a choice. Italian or Vietnamese?"
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Date: 2016-11-17 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-17 10:11 pm (UTC)"Let's do Vietnamese, then," he says, flashing a grin at her and then dropping a kiss into her hair before he pulls away. "San Francisco is really better for Chinese food, but this place is totally amazing."
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Date: 2016-11-17 10:35 pm (UTC)I didn't talk much about my life outside of Darrow, and I wondered if Jack would push. He was pretty good about it, normally. There was a part of me that wanted him to, though. I hadn't had much of a need to use my morphing powers for fighting the Yeerks, maybe, but that lack of jeopardy also made me start to feel a little stir crazy. I had this secret, and nobody to talk about it with!
"So, either way, this is gonna be an experience for me!" I concluded.
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Date: 2016-11-18 05:24 pm (UTC)"There was this really, really great tea house in the Castro. I went there all the time." He sighs mournfully, thinking about that place, just for a moment. "I'm glad to be able to offer that. Speaking of which, when are you coming to class? You've been promising me for months."
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Date: 2016-11-23 01:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-23 05:57 pm (UTC)"Do I need to, like, sling you over my shoulder or something?" says Jack, smirking at her. "Kidnap you so I can coach you on mindfulness and zen?"
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Date: 2016-11-25 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-26 01:37 pm (UTC)"I bet I could lift you," says Jack, looking at her critically as though he's sizing her up, even though they both know he'd never put his hands on her without permission. "Totally."
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Date: 2016-11-26 04:29 pm (UTC)"I don't want to test that theory," I said with a laugh.
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Date: 2016-11-26 04:44 pm (UTC)"Spoil-sport," says Jack, flashing her a white, expensive grin. "Jillie would never let me lift her, either, but she's much taller than you are."