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[kutte]

JAX TELLER.
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[chuffle]

[She's waiting for him before he gets there, doing that thing where she pretends to stretch when what she's really doing is thinking. Thinking about these memories and how invasive all this is and how she knows, she knows things about him - and she's pretty sure it's about him - that he's not sure she would want him to know.

But she's not saying any of that. If Daphne is good at anything, it's keeping things under the surface. She has her jumpsuit on, which she almost never wears, the sleeves rolled up, and she brightens when she sees him come in.]

Glad to see you up and about.

[It's teasing, because she knows he is after the attack, but it's light, not mean.]

[kutte]

Miraculously recovered.

[ which jax is not even asking any questions about. no looking this gift horse in the mouth. ]

You handling this shit alright?

[chuffle]

As well as anyone can expect to handle an intense invasion of privacy.

[She's quite a bit shorter than him, but well, he's a giant filthy biker, so that's that.]

You?

[kutte]

Beats the nosebleeds and the blindness.

[ he is playing this off way more nonchalantly than he actually is. jax has a lot of shit he doesn't want people to see. ]

[chuffle]

Are you sure?

[There's a pause.]

I think I have something that belongs to you.

[kutte]

Shit.

[ damn it daphne!!! we weren't talking about this!! ]

[chuffle]

[She heaves a sigh]

I don't have to talk about it. With you, or anyone else.

[She doesn't, and she won't. She just wants him to know. He deserves to know.

(And a part of her is curious, too. What does he know about her, now?)]

[kutte]

You wanna ask though.

[ jax's attention is on taping his hands, meticulous and a little more intense than is perhaps merited. ]

Guess you might as well, if we're gonna get touchy feely might as well be with you.

[ she licked him, there's a level of intimacy that can't really be ignored. ]

[chuffle]

Did you kill the things who raped her?

[There's a measure of steel there. Because Daphne would eviscerate anyone who touched her mother, she would destroy him in ways that would be so painful that they would beg to die. She can't even call them people. She can't.]

I saw you decide to do it. But did you?

[kutte]

[ gemma would hate this, hate that anyone else knew about that. but daphne's not asking to rubberneck. daphne's asking for another reason, one jax understands. ]

Six bullets.

[ he reaches out, touches one finger to her forehead. ]

Right there.

[ he'd felt sick after. it's been a while since jax remembered that. ]

[chuffle]

[She nods.]

Good.

[No judging, no bias, no thou shalt not kill, just a good.]

[kutte]

She ever shows up though, you don't let her know you saw that shit.

[ because that was something gemma had kept private and secret, something that wasn't jax's to tell. ]

[chuffle]

Not to worry.

[And a pause]

I'm hoping what you got from me was a little more cheerful, though.

[kutte]

More bloody than cheerful.

[ but there was no disaster of an ending there, just violence. jax is good with violence. ]

You got some assholes trying to put you in a box, was that you?

[chuffle]

[She looks up, away from him for a moment]

Hunters. They kept me in that box for three days.

[She looks up at him]

Yeah, that was pretty violent.

[kutte]

Seen worse.

[ different type of violence, yeah, but jax has seen things just as bad on his end, even without the supernatural angle. ]

Still not gonna say anything about it, you know. You got nothing to worry about.

[chuffle]

[She smiles, then.]

Thanks.

[And gives him a light punch]

Let's get this show on the road.

[kutte]

Sounds good.

[ AND THEN THEY FIGHT, THE END. ]