Video Day 22 Jelly Event

[gentle_jim]

[There's a very worried young man on the screen that looks a lot like a twenty-something-year-old Jack, maskless and flesh and blood.]


"Angel? Angel baby... Answer me. It's daddy. Can you tell me where I am, sweetheart?"

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[gentle_jim]

No, you don't. You can't...

[Comes the reply after half a minute of shaky breathing.]

I almost lost her once. This wasn't supposed to happen... She's safe... I made sure she was safe.

[Why was the universe so hell bent on separating them?! What did he do to deserve that? John draws in a sharp breath through his teeth.]

Then I'll use this terminal. Or I'll blow up this fucking train. I don't care what I have to do. I will get out of here or die trying. If this is some kind of karma for a past life thing, whatever cosmic bullshit that rules the universe can shove that RIGHT back up it's own asshole! I'm going back home to my goddamn daughter!

[At some point during this he'd started pacing and he's out of frame when he finishes, a loud crash signalizing his assault on some unlucky piece of furniture elsewhere in the room.]

[subcircuits]

[Devero's heart goes out to the other man, it really does. How can it not, when he's so upset about being separated from his child? He hears so many horror stories from other folks on the train about parents abusing their children, taking advantage of them, hurting them, that in a way it's a relief to hear someone giving a shit about his kid.

But Jack's an adult, even if a slightly younger adult than usual, and this train is full of kids who need help. So though Devero's sympathetic, he's got to leave Jack to figure this out on his own.]

...Good luck, man. [He says it pretty soft into the ICP, maybe not even loud enough to be heard as Jack's moved away, and cuts the connection on his end.]