[ It's not that Jack has forgotten Gabriel is there, but it still takes him a second before he acknowledges him. He stares down at his hands, now far more weathered and callused, and then reaches up to run one down his face, not skirting around the scar tissue there.
There is a relief with being back to "normal," with knowing he's himself again, but the way that this planet can rearrange them so easily will never be anything other than unnerving.
Really, Gabriel could have done a lot worse to him in that situation. He'd played it all pretty straight, taking some amount of care with Jack's younger self. Jack's not sure what to make of it. ]
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There is a relief with being back to "normal," with knowing he's himself again, but the way that this planet can rearrange them so easily will never be anything other than unnerving.
Really, Gabriel could have done a lot worse to him in that situation. He'd played it all pretty straight, taking some amount of care with Jack's younger self. Jack's not sure what to make of it. ]
Don't worry, you'll get your turn soon enough.
[ No one is spared El Nysa's mind-fucking. ]