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[cicatrize]

you've reached jack benjamin. clearly, I have better things to do.

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[ex_serum683]

❰ you're too young to have kids, jack.

but at his voice, steve turns to face him, not appearing to pay murphy any more attention — though of course, if murphy tried to take advantage of that apparent lapse in watchfulness he'd be sorely surprised by just how much attention steve is actually paying him. ❱

It's not really substance abuse I'm worried about, Jack.

❰ considering you tried to goad him into kicking your ass multiple times throughout this whole drama. the concern in his voice is genuine, though, and the corners of his lips are upturned — he liked hearing jack laugh, even if it was ever so slightly at steve's own expense. ❱

[mofi]

Substance abuse? [One of Murphy's eyebrows arches higher than the other, a sharpened gaze is shot at the back of Steve's head.] And he's not touching me, [Murphy says, firmly. By the looks of it, Steve can pick him up and break him across his knee. No thanks, not today, Jack.]

You going to let me in, Steve Rogers? [His tone is sardonic and can easily grates on anyone's nerves (even someone who's a super soldier).]

[cicatrize]

Mr. Rogers here, [ Jack starts, by way of explanation, and maybe that's said with the purposeful reference to a sweater wearing children's legend, ] thought because I wanted information from him, that it gives him the right to decide how I cope with it. Forgot to mention that clause before it happened.

[ Jack explains as he paces his way over to the door, coming into proper view of Murphy when he gets to Steve's side, blanket still wrapped around his shoulders, put falling off on one side. Eyes steady on Steve, Jack reaches an arm out, extending it to Murphy like he'll just pull him safely right through the door. It'll be easy to see, on that hand, the ugly scabs from broken glass across the back of his hand and his forearm, and the bruises a deep purple forming over his knuckles. ]

Let him in. I'd get more out of fighting a wall than trying to get Murphy to fuck me up. [ Murphy's a vicious thing, sure, but he has no real training so far as Jack knows, and that against someone who's lived on a war front is deeply unfair. Steve he'd tried to goad into hitting him, because Jack knows he can't beat him. Murphy he likes to much to risk winning against him. ]

[ex_serum683]

❰ that's not what this is about and steve hopes jack knows it, but that's not something he'll say in front of murphy. just give jack significant eyebrows and a bit of a frown, radiating disappointment and disapproval in that way that only parents really can. ❱

I'll go down to Bucky's, ❰ he says, stepping aside for jack to pull murphy in. ❱ Let me know when you want me to come back.

❰ he's trusting you to call him back, jack, so please don't make that trust misplaced. let him take care of you again when you're done with murphy. ❱