( 01 ) video ♧ and if we don’t live to be old and faint

[became]

[ oh hello, giant creepy spaceship. have a shiny, shiny smile directed your way. said shiny smile is attached to a freakishly put together looking gentleman. dapper, one might call him. ]

So... space, huh? [ neal adjusts his cuffs-- he's wearing a suit (a real suit: classic, 50's style devore, for any suit buffs) because fuck that jumpsuit crap right in the ear-- fussily, smile dropping wattage just a tiny bit. ] Does anyone want to catch me up a little more on that, out of curiosity? Because I have to admit, other than the bits and pieces I caught wandering around the first day I have no idea what's going on.

Anyway, come on. Help a new guy out, anybody? [ smile ratcheting up another few notches. aaaaaand HOLY CHARM BATMAN. doesn't everyone watching just want to drop everything and help? (yes. your answer is yes.) ] I'll owe you one.

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[51stcentury]

"Everything", huh? That's gonna be a lot of talking on my part. Just what terse Good Samaritan are you talking about? Maybe I can try and put what they're saying into layman's terms. You know. Man to man. [It isn't really an innuendo or a suggestion, but somehow Jack makes it sound like one anyway]

[became]

Aberdeen, apparently. [ but neal knows an alias when he hears one. or sees one typed, as the case may be. ] And I could do with a little hand-holding through it.

[ oh my god neal stop meeting shameless with shameless. ]

[51stcentury]

Huh. Never met them. Obviously I need to get up to more socializing.

Alright, then. [such a wide grin. oh neal, he loves it when they flirt back, don't encourage him, they'll have Ianto coming in to reprimand jack soon enough if things get too out of hand] We'll take it one step at a time. You woke up in one of those gravity couches, covered in goo, same as the rest of us, yeah? Pretty sure I remember your face from the people I first talked to there.

[became]

She doesn't actually strike me as someone I would call social. [ not a criticism! no, neal would call it a challenge. ]

You liked my suit. [ between the two of them, the whole ship may explode from charm. ] Good taste.

[51stcentury]

I know a few people who fit that description, honestly, but it's never kept me from trying.

Thanks. It looks good on you. I've got a friend on board here who'd probably fight you for it, if he didn't have better manners. [this smile, neal. this smile]

[became]

Words to live by.

...A Welsh friend, by any chance? [ it's a shot in the dark, but the pointed politeness and knowing who sy devore is? not a bad gamble. ]

[51stcentury]

[Jack's smile widens considerably] So you've met, then?