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“That being the case…” He glanced at the door then to her. “That Insurgent woman. You’ve still got her here don’t you?”

Jack looked at him incredulously for a moment. “You don’t think they’d really try it?” She paused and he offered no rebuttal. “You do…”

He shrugged. “Call me crazy, but if someone snatched you away from me I’d be willing to strap a big ass bomb to their hull and blow it open to bust you free.” The words were out of his mouth before he was wincing internally.

Jack caught it easily and folded her arms with a wry smirk. “Oh you would, would you?” It was a teasing look, but an honest one too. She wasn’t evasive with him, not like she had been. Maybe absence does make the heart grow fond?

He shook his head, focus Adrian… when he looked up he saw her cheeks flush slightly. “Guess that answers that question.”

He rolled his eyes before continuing. “Anyway, what I meant was if someone was holding a key part of my personnel I sure as shootin’ would blow the biggest hole in their ship I could and stage a jailbreak.”

“I seem to recall reading something about that in your record recently.” Jack teased again.

“You’re on a roll.” He muttered feeling thoroughly ribbed. “Anyway, if I were you guys, I’d start beefing up security and stand the state of alert level up a notch or two.”

Jack nodded. “Shorn and I agreed, but the civies felt that we might create an uncertain and hostile environment if we jumped to wild speculation.”

He blinked dumbfounded. “What?”

She nodded with an exasperated sigh. “Yea.”

“So we what? Roll out the red carpet for them? Why not paint a bullseye on the hull and write “PUT BOMB HERE PLZ” for them?”