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[colorofthesky]

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“Hey, it’s Zack. Leave a message after the beep.”

[ beep ]

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[ravenswrath]

[Sent to Zack a day or so after What Happened, but before he ever returns to his shift.]

For what it's worth, I am sorry for it. You did not deserve that.

[colorofthesky]

[ Zack reads this message several times. He has to set his phone down and walk away from it for a while too before he can think of anything productive to say.

In the end, it takes a day from him to finally come back to it. ]

I prefer to have conversations like this face to face.

I'll be up on deck a few hours tonight. If you wanna talk about it, that's where I'll be.

[ravenswrath]

[This was exactly why he had told Jamie he didn't want to do this. It's never that simple. It's never a simple apology. It's an apology and then it's an explanation and then people have to trade their life stories when, in reality, it should be a simple acknowledgement of fault followed by an honest agreement to not do the action again.

He considers not going, but decides that he's doing this for Jamie, if not for himself, and trudges up to the deck anyway.]

[colorofthesky]

[ Zack, as it happens, is flopped on his back doing some star-gazing. There's a big black dog at his side who lifts his head and lets out a soft 'awroof' when Corvo approaches.

Zack lays a hand in his fur and looks over to see that it really is Corvo.

He waves briefly from his spot on the ground. ]

Hey.

[ravenswrath]

[The dog makes Corvo exceptionally nervous and he keeps his distance, as he does with all dogs.]

Evening.

[colorofthesky]

[ Zack notices Corvo’s reaction to the dog. If he’d know Zeke would bother the man just by being here, he wouldn’t have brought him, but…well, he can’t take it back now. ]

He’s not going to bother you. And even if he tried, I wouldn’t let him.

[ Zack puts the leash on Zeke just so Corvo can see he means it. ]

…thanks for coming. I know you probably didn’t want to.

[ravenswrath]

[He doesn't relax with the leashing of the dog, but that has more to do with the situation than with the dog himself.]

That is correct.

[colorofthesky]

[ Zack hums quietly at that. ]

Well, I’m not going to cook you and eat you. Or drag things out because I think you already did the most important thing. You apologized, and you respected me enough to come here even though you didn’t want to.

I appreciate that.

I don’t need to know why you did it - but I do need to know it won’t happen again. Because the last time I lost time like that, it’s because I was in a basement lab for 4 years. And it’s going to be a while before I can stop cycling through that.

[ravenswrath]

[He shakes his head, giving nothing away in his face.]

No. It won't happen again. I swear it.

[colorofthesky]

[ Zack eyes him quietly for a moment. Then- ]

That’s all I needed to hear, then.

I’ll see you back on shift when you’re ready to come back.

[ravenswrath]

Tomorrow. I will work longer the next week to make up for the time I was gone.

[He can make amends that way, at least. Through work.

He ducks his head and disappears into the darkness.]