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[imacop]

Look, why don't we work this out nice and easy, huh? You don't want me and I don't want to be here. The simple solution would be to let me leave.

Yeah, but you're not going to do that, are you. Yep. Didn't think so. What exactly do you plan to do with me? I can tell you right now it's not going to be what you think. All of that running around, sticking me into embarrassing situations, making me learn life lessons. Your average afterschool special, right?

Maybe in an insane asylum.

I don't think so. I get enough of that from my day job. I don't need anyone co-opting my life, capisce?

You don't even think I have a personality. I have a personality! I'm not just--some look-alike to that pirate guy who's also in here. This is too weird for me, man. Why don't we just go our seperate ways?

And stop saying I look twelve. Jeez. Can't a guy look young for his age without taking a bunch of crap for it?

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[stem_the_tide]

[He can't take the glower seriously, not on a face that young.]

Captain James Norrington.

[And he'll offer a hand to shake, because he's polite.]

I wish you the best of luck in that endeavour.

[imacop]

[Oh, right, handshake. Sure. They can do that, adult-like. But he's going to put space between them again as soon as possible and go back to slouching.] Nice to meet you.

And yeah. Uh, thanks. Worth a try. That's what you do with bullies and brats, right?

[stem_the_tide]

[James is an adult; he's not the one who looks like he's twelve.]

[And this eyebrow has a faintly chastening edge to it.]

I should hardly call him that.

[imacop]

[He likes to keep his personal space his unless he knows a person well. It's preference-related, not age.]

[And what? You just spent the last five minutes agreeing with him and now you're going to start defending the guy?] That's what he is, isn't he? Some combination of the two.

[stem_the_tide]

[He is his boyfriend. And though he can absolutely be an annoyance of the first degree, Jack's no bully. And perhaps a bit of a brat, when he wants to be, but that's not how James would first think to describe him.]

You haven't known him for very long yet.

[imacop]

[That's true, but you don't need to know someone very long to have an impression of them.] I've met enough people like that.

[stem_the_tide]

Oh, I very much doubt it.

[This kid, Officer Hanson, has doubtless met countless criminals, and doubtless he's mentally categorised Jack in along with all the rest of them. But first impressions with Jack tend only to be true up to a point.]