>>388>Do I have to state the characters, the place it the action is on and the mood?It's helpful but I'll just work with what you already gave me.
Nikolas had been in the habit of pissing off Jack for years now. Maybe it had been unintentional at the start of this, at the start of them and the restless thing between them, but anyone with eyes could see he got a sort of kick out of it now. And if this was the last time he was going to see Jack, then damn, he wanted it to be light. He wanted to leave laughing, like he always did. Nikolas kept his gloved hands shoved deep in the pockets of his dark trousers. The sky was this pretty pink thing, the sun was setting. The bridge they stood on was quiet, a bit abandoned beyond the occasional biker pedaling by in a summer dress. Nikolas leant against the railing, facing the sunset.
"You think this is all one big joke." Jack said that through clenched teeth. He was gripping at the railing, peering down into the water with greed green eyes. They were too high up for any reflections to be cast back but Jack stared down so intensely Nikolas briefly glanced over his shoulder to check if there was anything to see down there. Water, deep blue. Nothing. "You've got to understand Jackie, it may be a suicide mission, but the trade off is they'll have to build statues of me on mainstreet. Not a bad deal right?"
Nikolas tried for a grin but Jack just kept squeezing at the railing. So Nikolas' little grin drooped. He clenched his hands into fists into his pockets. He wants them, needs them, to stop trembling. "And what if I said, what if I asked you to, what if we…" Jack drifted off and clammed up. Nikolas felt ike there was treason or desertion balancing on the tip of Jack's tongue. He leant over to press a kiss to the top of the man's head before it could spring free. He mumbled against his messy curls, "It's not like I wanna die Jackie. But I really couldn't live with myself either, if I did something like that."
It was a nice enough day, besides the regularly scheduled heartbreak.