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"David!" Glomp!

"How are you?"

David ends up on the floor with an Echo on top of him.

"Oof!"

And he manages a smile for her.

"I've been better. But thank you all the same for asking. I'm sorry I've not been around the house much."

She grins down at him.

"That's okay. I forgive you."

She then tilts her head, her smile fading some.

"David? You look tired. Are you okay?"

He turns his head away as he yawns, and nods.

"I'm fine, love, really."

He looks up at her.

"It's... nothing."

"Liar."

She glares at him, not moving from her spot.

"Tell me."

"I killed a vampire with my Godfire, slowly, burned him from the inside out."

He can't look at her.

She stares at him.

"Why... why did you do that?"

"Because they'd taken Nick," he answers, still not looking at him. "Because we had to get him back."

She blinks a couple of times. Then a couple of times more.

"...is Nick okay?"

He shrugs.

"As best he can be expected to be when he'd been tortured and maimed and yelled at by the ghost of his dead father, I suppose."

Echo staaares.

"Eeeeps."

He nods.

"That was about the extent to which my own brain could process it at first, too."

"Where is Nick at now? Is someone watching over him?"

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Jack sends a small cheerful wave David's way.

David waves back, but doesn't smile.

He gives a world-weary sigh instead.

[OOC: However, the mun melts in the general direction of Jack's smile. Also, she's packing, so expect her to be sporadic at best, sweetling?]

[ooc: I knew I chose the right guy :D. No problem, I'm multi-tasking myself.]

Jack looks surprised and closes his book. "What's wrong?"

[OOC: He's so perfect. The hair, the smile, the eyes. The butt.]

"Guilt eating me inside out, worry for a friend. Nothing much, really," he replies.

He doesn't mention that he really hasn't slept in a week.

[ooc: the dimples of Gondor. *cough*]

Jack inhales and looks very serious. He moves to David's table. "Guilt over what?"

[OOC: OMG I squeed at his back dimples.]

"Murder. I - a friend was in trouble, and there was a... and... he deserved it. A vampire, but not like me. A vampire not like my friend, but from the same world and I burned him inside out, knowing that it's the most painful way for one of us to die, no matter what the world. Knowingly and unnerringly and we tortured them and it's eating me alive because I swore that I wouldn't, not again..."

Jack lays his hand lightly on the back of David's neck. Warmth and acceptance and it's all right flows from his touch.

"When someone we love is in danger, we act in ways we would despise otherwise, David."

"He was an evildoer... I shouldn't feel guilt over his death because he was keeping Nick from us..."

He sighs.

But he's calming from Jack's touch.

"Necessity, David. Is your Nick all right?"

"... I haven't spoken to him in two days. I was heading up to see him after I'd finished... my..."

He looks around.

"I haven't ordered yet."

"Eat, David." Jack gives a final rub to David's neck and takes his hand away.

He nods, and runs his hand over Bar. "Coffee with AB Negative, please?" he asks, and sets down the payment with a little extra to cover Michael's tab as well. When the mug appears, he drains it in one.

"I've not said a thing to Loki, except that he's seen me crying, and I couldn't explain it and I know he knows that something's the matter..."