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[thedifferencebetween]

Handsome Jack here! I'm way too busy being awesome to answer the phone, but tell me why you're calling and if you're important enough, your people will hear from my people.

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[thedifferencebetween]

[Jack grins, wide and charming.]

I'm extremely lovable!

But seriously, don't get hung up on time or whatever. Since when do feelings operate with a stopwatch? You wait your whole life with an idea of a...I dunno, a dream home. And then you find it! After like decades! It's perfect, it's everything you want! Do you hold off cuz it'd be 'too early' to seal the deal? No, that's stupid.

And you've been waiting for me a long time, babe. It'd be weirder if you weren't in love with me!

And the only reason I'm not saying it back right now is cuz I don't like doing that, I don't like feeling prompted to say it, spontaneous declarations are so much smoother.

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[fingersandteeth]

[Steven laughs. Just-- finally saying it after thinking about it for the better part of the month has him more relaxed now. Jack's right. Why did he hold off on saying it?]

I have. You or-- someone like you. Someone who wants all of me, not just the parts of me that are pleasant or socially acceptable or pretty. Hell, it wasn't just-- marriage or being able to touch my boyfriend in public or any of that shit that I'd never thought I'd get, Jack--I never thought I'd get someone like you at all. Just, you know, a series of warm bodies to fuck and forget about an hour later--god, I can't even recall half their names. Most of their names.

I never thought I would meet someone I'd be able to make a life with. Someone I wouldn't have to hold back with. Someone I could just be myself with, even if that self is a nasty piece of work with a brain full of weasels. Not because I'm gay, although that didn't exactly make it easier--I've known plenty of queer couples with the joint back accounts and shared property--but because I'm, well, me.

I'd lost everything before I came here, querido, and you've given me so much back. God, it's no wonder I fell hard and fast for you. I only wish I could give you back as much as you give me.

[And that's probably what's at the root of this, isn't it? All his stupid insecurity. Steven had nothing, had come to this world with less than nothing... and Jack had everything. What did Steven really have to offer besides a pretty face that wasn't his anymore, a warm body with compatible sexual tastes, and the adoration that Jack craved?]