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Genji Shimada ([personal profile] doublejumps) wrote in [community profile] aperture_high2019-03-06 11:02 pm

post-agoge


they're allowed to smooch if we want them to
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[personal profile] mylawn 2019-08-06 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I guess that sounds like a plan.

[He still doesn’t seem convinced, but he has to remind himself that Genji is an adult, capable of making his own decisions. He can’t honestly see Ana refusing the extra help, either, though that can be a conversation they have when she returns.

It’ll only be a few more days, but the prospect of having to be here with Genji until then makes him a little anxious. It’s not like he’s really used to being around people anymore.
]

I’ll send her a message letting her know you’re here. In the meantime, make yourself at home.
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[personal profile] mylawn 2019-08-15 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
You’re not imposing.

[Though he wonders if Genji will believe that, coming from him. Jack isn’t sure he means it, not yet—he supposes that they’ll have to feel their way around each other for a few days, first. Internally, he tells himself not to do anything to purposefully sabotage it. Genji takes a few moments to get the lay of the land, and Jack tries to be hospitable.]

There’s an extra bed until Ana gets back. She won’t mind.

[After that, Jack can take the couch. He’s had much worse sleeping situations.]
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[personal profile] mylawn 2019-08-25 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[He could send her a communication—and probably should, just so she isn’t surprised when she gets back, but at this point he has no idea if an unsolicited message would disrupt her cover. Better safe than sorry, maybe, or at least, better to ask forgiveness than permission. He has a feeling she’ll just be glad to see Genji alive and well, so Jack will bank on that.]

I have a feeling we’ll be arguing about more than that.

[Jack mumbles that a little as a sort of joke, but for now he seems to have resigned himself to the situation. Genji says he wants to go out, and that’s fine.]

Make sure to cover up. Don’t know who’s lurking around here.
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[personal profile] mylawn 2019-09-02 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[A week or so passes--Ana gets in touch with him to let Jack know that her task is taking longer than she anticipated, and Jack tells her about Genji in turn. He's not quite sure what she thinks about it, but he has a feeling she's kind of pleased. She's always had a soft spot for the younger recruits, and Jack imagines she feels better knowing that he's not alone while she's away.

Still, he's not good at sitting idle. If Genji is going to be here for the indefinite future, then he might as well make himself useful. The two of them go on patrol--stakeouts, taking out low-level mooks, looking for signs of Talon activity, and of course, tracking Reaper. It's after one of these outings that Jack touches base with Ana again, and he tries not to think about how he might be getting used to this as he pulls a beer out of the fridge and makes himself comfortable on the sofa.
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Ana's going to be another few weeks, she thinks.

[He imagines Genji is suspicious of that already, so Jack sees no reason to hide it from him.]
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[personal profile] mylawn 2019-09-13 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Every time Jack is apprehensive about drawing Genji deeper into his activities, he remembers everything they went through together as part of COST. Still, working in tandem with someone not Ana is taking some getting used to. He alternately finds himself thankful for Genji’s presence and wanting to be alone, but when Ana makes contact and says she needs more time, jack surprises himself when he feels glad to have someone else in the empty safe house.]

No, she says it’s safer if she finishes it alone.

[Jack can’t help but worry, because he’s already lost Ana once and he’s extremely not keen on having it happen again, but he also knows that she can take care of herself. At a certain point, there’s nothing he can do but trust her abilities and hope she comes home safe.

It’s nice, he has to admit, to not be alone with his thoughts for once.
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You don’t mind, right?
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[personal profile] mylawn 2019-09-21 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
I think we're okay to stay here for now.

[For better or worse. Jack is starting to get antsy, which he's sure that Genji has noticed, despite his best efforts not to betray anything. All the time they spent together as part of COST has thoroughly negated his ability to keep a straight face.

They're used to each other, he's starting to realize.
]

I'll let you know if that changes. Now all that's left is to figure out how to spend the time.
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[personal profile] mylawn 2019-09-23 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[They both know by now that Jack doesn’t do well when he’s bored, and this is most certainly a scenario where that might end up being the case. There are only so many low-level thugs they can deal with while Ana is away, so finding another way to pass the time is going to be vital.

That said, he’s sort of unsure of Genji’s suggestion, even though he knows beggars can’t really be choosers.
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I don’t think I’d be very good at it.
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[personal profile] mylawn 2019-10-07 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, well, I don't really want to trouble you with my issues.

[Of which he has a lot, to the point where he thinks trying to meditate with Genji might be an exercise in futility. They have a lot of time for this right now, but he still doesn't want to waste anyone's time. This might be a losing battle, but he's fairly certain that Genji will see that Jack is going to be tough to crack.]

Too much on my mind.

[He's fairly certain he doesn't need to tell Genji that.]

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[personal profile] mylawn 2019-10-14 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems a little counter-intuitive.

[Jack has too much on his mind to effectively mediate, but meditation is what will get all of it off his mind? He generally thinks of himself as kind of a tough nut to crack, and he doubts this will be an exception.

But it’s not like he has anything better to do. He knows that Genji’s “master”, as he describes him, must’ve had some kind of positive effect on him—the Genji he met in COST is certainly not the angry, tormented cyborg he once knew in Overwatch. So maybe there’s something to all this after all, though Genji seems to be describing a long, arduous path of personal growth, one that Jack isn’t sure he can commit to when there’s so much else to get done.
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He really worked wonders for you, huh?
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[personal profile] mylawn 2019-10-21 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jack would much rather know more about Zenyatta than he would try to meditate, so he'll keep the conversation on that for now. They'd spoken a little about him in COST, enough for Jack to know that he's largely responsible for Genji, well, chilling the heck out, but there are still lots of blanks that haven't been filled in yet.]

Where is he now?

[Jack is loath to bring another unrelated party into this, but it seems strange to him that Genji would choose to seek Jack out instead of, presumably, continuing to travel with Zenyatta.]

Does he know you're here?
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[personal profile] mylawn 2019-11-10 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Jack doubts that Zenyatta knows exactly where Genji is (i.e. the exact location of this safe house), but he finds it hard to believe that he wasn’t given an approximate location. Of course, it’s silly to think that the omnic monk might someday show up on his doorstep, but Jack doesn’t exactly want word of his not-death getting out.

But these are silly, paranoid thoughts. He tries to shake them off.
]

As long as he doesn’t come looking.

[Jack offers Genji something of a lopsided grin, an attempt to play it off as a joke, even if there are real anxieties underneath it.]

Did you tell him about COST?
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[personal profile] mylawn 2019-12-04 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
All right.

[He really has no choice but to believe Genji, but he supposes it’s all beside the point anyway. The point is that now they’re talking about COST, which is simultaneously relieving and not. It’s good to have someone who shares the experience, but having been pulled away from his own world once, a part of Jack will always be wondering if it will happen again.

He sighs a little, scrubbing a hand through his hair, betraying that slight apprehension.
]

I thought it was a dream, when I got back.

[Sometimes he wishes it was. He thinks sometimes he’s better off not knowing about COST, the Regency…any of it.]

Until you got in touch with me, I guess.
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[personal profile] mylawn 2019-12-28 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jack nods, and what goes unsaid is that it’s nice to have someone who implicitly understands. It’s not that he thinks Ana wouldn’t, it’s just that he imagines there’s going to be a lot of convincing her involved, given that the whole thing sounds completely crazy. She’d probably be deeply concerned, to say the least.]

Ana already thinks I’m crazy.

[For his crusade against Talon, which often feels less like making progress and more like a dog chasing a car. Even Jack doesn’t know what he’ll do when he finds what he needs. Sometimes it feels like Ana is coming along out of pity, more than anything. A last-ditch effort to keep him from killing himself, even as he drags them further and further past the point of no return. To say he feels guilty about it is an understatement—he can’t, in good conscience, burden her with anything else.]

I’ll tell her. [Maybe.] Just not sure how, yet.

[How to do it without worrying her, that is.]

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