Because keeping secrets from Jack or discussing things without his input never goes wrong.
[He's too tired for it to be cutting. Too dry to be amused, too low to be confident. He is the barest shell of what he once was- and if who he had been isn't enough for Eugene, however would he be any better now that he's hollowed out and full of little more than the blood of the fallen?]
This isn't a fight, Gene. I am sick to death of fighting. I have none left in me. This is a quesgion, one question, that you need to answer honestly before we do anything else. No evading, no lying for whatever reason, no waving it off for later. I would rather have this said and said truthfully now.
[And Maker above he's going to ask it before he takes one more step forward. Nevermind that anyone could hear or see. Nevermind that he's cut out the battered, fragile thing that Eugene first put back into working order in the first place during his last stay here. Nevermind that he's holding it up and braced for it to be shattered.
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[He's too tired for it to be cutting. Too dry to be amused, too low to be confident. He is the barest shell of what he once was- and if who he had been isn't enough for Eugene, however would he be any better now that he's hollowed out and full of little more than the blood of the fallen?]
This isn't a fight, Gene. I am sick to death of fighting. I have none left in me. This is a quesgion, one question, that you need to answer honestly before we do anything else. No evading, no lying for whatever reason, no waving it off for later. I would rather have this said and said truthfully now.
[And Maker above he's going to ask it before he takes one more step forward. Nevermind that anyone could hear or see. Nevermind that he's cut out the battered, fragile thing that Eugene first put back into working order in the first place during his last stay here. Nevermind that he's holding it up and braced for it to be shattered.
he's never been a terribly smart elf, after all.]
Do you love me?