Jack - Play, then Work

[logan_echolls]

He was never going to get used to this. It wasn't as if they spent all their time together, this was still new after all, but they spent enough time that waking up in Jack's fucking hobbit hole happened more than Logan liked.

"You need a real bed. And a real bedroom. ...And sheets that don't date back to World War One," he complained, rubbing his face as he sat up and turned on the light.

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[logan_echolls]

"It's open," Logan called to the knock at the door, certain it was Jack. He wasn't expecting anyone else. ...Hell, there wasn't really anyone else.

[im_torchwood]

Jack let himself in and smiled at Logan.

"Is there anything sexier than a hot guy showing up with pizza and beer?" he asked. "No. No there's not."

[logan_echolls]

Logan paused his game and got to his feet, grinning as he headed over.

"I mean, it makes my top ten..." he joked.

[im_torchwood]

"Top ten? Easily top three," he protested. "You want a plate or just eat it over the box like savages?"

[logan_echolls]

"Boxes- And top five, no higher," Logan grinned, leaning over and kissing Jack's cheek.

[im_torchwood]

"I am deeply, deeply wounded," Jack deadpanned, cracking a beer and passing it to Logan.

[logan_echolls]

"You love it," Logan grinned, taking the beer and knocking back a large swig.

[im_torchwood]

"Yeah, there's that," he laughed. He grabbed a slice, then leaned back against the counter.

"What all did you get? Decent clothes?" he asked.

[logan_echolls]

"I didn't buy too much, I didn't want to get told off. Just jeans and t-shirts. Thank god my shoes still fit, right?" Logan laughed, grabbing his own slice and smiling at Jack between bites. "What did you do this afternoon?"

[im_torchwood]

"I went over the data from the scanners and I did some follow up on the mist. You know, just work," he shrugged. As if he'd have been doing anything else.

[logan_echolls]

"Gross, real work. Makes me miss the island," Logan laughed. "Don't you miss sleeping in and getting stoned? ...God, I bet you don't. You're so responsible, with all that work ethic."

[im_torchwood]

"I do kind of miss it, but this is important work," he said. "I've been here since the beginning."

[logan_echolls]

"I know, it wasn't a dig, Jack," Logan promised, growing a bit more serious. "It's your thing- I respect that."

[im_torchwood]

"Good," he said, feeling just a little shy about showing Logan how genuinely passionate he was about Torchwood.

"You better," he continued, full of bravado. "Because the next time the world needs saving, it's on you."

[logan_echolls]

"Fuck off," Logan laughed, carrying the pizza to the couch and gesturing for Jack to follow.

[im_torchwood]

"Nope, all on you," he teased. Before he joined Logan he got a bottle of water.

"You've been playing your game?" he asked, nodding to the hold screen.

[logan_echolls]

"I was playing PUBG, but after a million losses I gave up and started playing Destiny. I'm shit at both," Logan snorted.

[im_torchwood]

"I'm shit at all of them," he said. "If I want to die over and over, I'll just go...nevermind."

[logan_echolls]

Logan looked over at that, frowning.

"No death, even if you come back- No death, Jack," he said softly.

[im_torchwood]

"I do try very hard to avoid it," he pointed out.

[logan_echolls]

"Yeah, well- Try harder. I want you whole, okay?" Logan said quietly, letting his soft underbelly show a little.

[im_torchwood]

"I've got a good reason to not be reckless now, huh?" Jack replied, leaning in to kiss Logan's cheek.

[logan_echolls]

"Sap," Logan accused, though it was obvious he was touched by the sentiment.

"So, we're here, we're relatively free- We should do all the shit we said we wanted to do. Normal dates, traveling... I don't know what else," he admitted, pulling his feet up on the couch and settling into the corner of the sofa with a fresh slice of pizza.

[im_torchwood]

"I haven't dated anyone in so long," he said, putting a second of thought into it. He'd been seeing Ianto, but they never had what he'd call a proper date. And Victoria before Alice was born. So forty years prior...

"Movies would be nice," he said once he snapped out of the memory.

[logan_echolls]

Logan noticed the look, but knew better than to ask. Jack talked about things in his own time, he always had.

"No beach vacations though. We're so done with those for a while," Logan said, trying to lighten the mood.