( where did you come from why did this happen )

[crowflies]

C'mon, you and I both know how this play pans out. So you get a little weak in the knees for tough guys with complicated family lives. It's nothing I haven't seen before. [ He pauses, knits his eyebrows in an expression somewhere between sympathetic and patronizing. ] You and me, darlin'? How's that gonna work out better than any of the last times?

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[comas]

Isn't there a fucking saying? You know, try until you can't?

[crowflies]

Yeah, but they've also got a saying about doing the same thing over and over and expecting it to go differently. So go figure.

[comas]

So let the girl shop around until the shoe fits. You never know. Might be blonde and you-shaped.

[principled]

Look at it this way, yeah? At least it's fucking mind-trap limbo and not Saw: the fucking carnival ride.

[crowflies]

Think I'd rather have Saw. Pointless violence is something I know something about, at least.

[principled]

Man who sticks by what 'e knows best. I can respect that.

omg Jax ♥

[thats_all_i_got]

At least you're getting another chance, right?

appropriate reaction tbh!

[crowflies]

There's such a thing as too many second chances in my experience.

[thats_all_i_got]

Well yeah, but that's gotta be better than being totally forgotten

[oldmanstriker]

[Squinting at.

All the squinting.]

[crowflies]

[ Macho posturing time go. ]

You gotta problem, old man?

[oldmanstriker]

You look like someone I know. [ An Australian accent right there.

A beat.]

And don't call me old man.

[sleuthtastic]

Hey now, Sundance. You could always do a little Jazz routine to make the girls smile.

[crowflies]

Fancy footwork isn't really my specialty.

[sleuthtastic]

No, no. I used to know a guy like you. Big tough guy, complicated drama, mostly gold in the ole ticker. [ She taps a skinny finger into her own chest. ] He had some very cool moves.

[pinball_reset]

In my experience tough guys don't really give up, hun. Maybe it'll be different this time around.

AVA, she shouts excitedly

[crowflies]

Yeah, well. [ He can't exactly argue with that, given that it's a practically a compliment. ] In my experience, lotta tough guys don't have the brains to know when a plan isn't working for them either.

I couldn't resist :3

[pinball_reset]

Where I'm from, you just keep workin' till it does. Things'll pan out eventually. [That was her experience anyway.] Hell, even the place I got sent ain't too bad at the end of the day.

[ex_surgically960]

Who says it's going to end badly?

[crowflies]

[ He lifts his shoulders in a sloppy shrug, half-smiles. ]

History mostly, I guess. Never has in the past, why's it gonna start now?

[ex_surgically960]

Maybe you just need something to break the mold.

[synchronised]

[ Okay, so there's the face thing. That's something that happens.

And how it happens is that Mako looks at him, her expression briefly curious and unguarded, before coming to the obvious and simple conclusion of: not Raleigh. Then she moves on.

Where there might have been the suggestion of something familiar and even friendly there's now something a little more understated, maybe even academic. Like he's some hypothetical she's set herself to puzzle over. ]

"Tough", [ she repeats, Mako's posture perfect but the shape of her mouth suggesting something like bemused. It's a question, even though it doesn't sound like one. ]

[crowflies]

[ There are two ways Jax could take a reaction like that: with irritation or with amusement. If it sounded like disrespect, he wouldn't have much of a choice but to teach her about what kind of respect he's due.

Coming from her wide-eyed face, though, it doesn't sound as much like disrespect, so it's easier to let it pass with only a smirk. ]

Just the way god made me.

Couldn't resist

[captsosa]

Nothing wrong about getting weak in the knees for a tough guy. [Let alone a good looking one at that, but not like Charisa will admit that outright.] So the mun there is giving you another chance? Think I'm on my third or fourth....stopped keeping count after awhile.

hee! resistance, futile, etc etc.

[crowflies]

Less another chance for me, more for, you know, [ cue vague hand gesture here ] the type.