Twenty Bells: [Action/Voice]

[simplestgift]

[He'd won her a stuffed penguin. She'd been hanging on his arm and squeezing it with a giant grin on her face. Everything felt, finally, like it was going to be okay. Like this trouble between them since sleeping together was just a little thing.

He turns away to grab a strawberry daiquiri for her, still holding her hand. When he turns back, she's gone.

He wanders Lucetiland for a while, looking for her, shaking, still holding the drink, but he knows what's happened. When someone dematerializes while you are touching them...

She was just there, grinning, cheeks rosy. The warmth of her hand hasn't quite faded yet.

He sits on a bench in the middle of the park, staring into space, and nothing in the world draws his attention until, mechanically, he draws out his journal. He's shaking too badly to write, so he has to voice it, and he sounds weak.]

Dawn Summers was sent home.

Comments

[Voice]

[simplestgift]

It is. [He sounds tired. He does not sound irritated, for pretty much the first time ever when speaking to Jack.]

[Voice]

[originaljackass]

[Well Jack is kind of a jackass and he doesn't really care that much. But he is sort of reminded of Holly here. So in a rare moment, he offers something that isn't entirely arrogant and rude.]

Give it time, Kennedy. It'll get better. It always does.

[Voice]

[simplestgift]

[That was...unexpected. He'll take it at face value, for now.]

I know.

[Voice]

[originaljackass]

Other fish in the sea. That kind of thing.

[Unfortunately Jack also doesn't know when to quit.]

[Voice]

[simplestgift]

[That will not be dignified with a reply.]