[ It's not even that Jack had thought Angela might not want to help him, had he gone to find her after the explosion. He's pretty sure that she would have taken him in and even agreed to keep his not-as-dead-as-previously-thought state a secret between them, but he hadn't wanted to drag her into his mess. Not when he'd already been doing that for years, if at a much slower rate.
And while he isn't going to admit it, he really hadn't been in any state to talk to anyone for months afterward. He'd needed the time to himself, and by the time that he'd licked his wounds and picked himself back up onto his feet, his decision to function as Soldier: 76 had already been made.
At the second mention of a hug, Jack has to give a begrudging nod. ] At this point, I'm not sure what else will work. [ He'd had to kiss Ana to forge their pact back on the mountain, so he's not unfamiliar with the quirks of this planet requiring strange things from them.
There isn't any reason to delay it at this point, so he spreads his arms and steps in to close the distance between them. It might be out of necessity more than anything else, but a hug is still a hug. ]
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And while he isn't going to admit it, he really hadn't been in any state to talk to anyone for months afterward. He'd needed the time to himself, and by the time that he'd licked his wounds and picked himself back up onto his feet, his decision to function as Soldier: 76 had already been made.
At the second mention of a hug, Jack has to give a begrudging nod. ] At this point, I'm not sure what else will work. [ He'd had to kiss Ana to forge their pact back on the mountain, so he's not unfamiliar with the quirks of this planet requiring strange things from them.
There isn't any reason to delay it at this point, so he spreads his arms and steps in to close the distance between them. It might be out of necessity more than anything else, but a hug is still a hug. ]