[Jack watches every move Atlas makes, glancing between him and all the people he would indeed just like to wipe the floor and be done with. All the different scenarios where that goes down is running through his head right now. But the moment he's about to confess feelings that would probably dub him a paranoid, broken freak of nature is also when Atlas taps his chin, and his mind goes blank except for the thought that that's really nice.
Jack, for all of his faults, is at least a quick thinker, and knows how to read a situation. He stands there, mouth slightly open for a moment, before he manages a brief smile. He lowers the wrench.]
Actually, I... I've thought a lot about getting back to land before I came to find you, and I've just... [He immediately went to find Atlas after he did, but he doesn't have to know that.] It's just... I don't have anything, up there. My farm, and my family... it's not real. So it's not really my highest priority anymore, you are.
[That sounded weirder than he thought it would, but okay. He can still do this.] You've helped me through everything, Atlas, and if there's anything I can do to help you, and to see Rapture better than all this, I want to be here. I don't mind waiting.
he's here and he's real
Jack, for all of his faults, is at least a quick thinker, and knows how to read a situation. He stands there, mouth slightly open for a moment, before he manages a brief smile. He lowers the wrench.]
Actually, I... I've thought a lot about getting back to land before I came to find you, and I've just... [He immediately went to find Atlas after he did, but he doesn't have to know that.] It's just... I don't have anything, up there. My farm, and my family... it's not real. So it's not really my highest priority anymore, you are.
[That sounded weirder than he thought it would, but okay. He can still do this.] You've helped me through everything, Atlas, and if there's anything I can do to help you, and to see Rapture better than all this, I want to be here. I don't mind waiting.