While Jack could and did appreciate the Doctor's fervor in the matter, he was also beginning to worry that the moral ambiguity of the situation was going to strain the Byronesque one a little much. The lecturing, the sputtering -- Jack circled around to the Doctor while he was distracted with laying another morality lesson on Balthazar, his hand finding Eight's shoulder and squeezing in an attempt to reassure and pull him back from the edge.
"All right, I was going to negotiate, but clearly I underestimated the level of evil we're working with here," Jack addressed Balthazar from his newfound position behind the Doctor, steeling his gaze and holding back all the horror and disgust and outrage as much as Eight was throwing it out. "If I say to you that money isn't an issue, can you accept reasonable terms from us on the humane removal and relocation of the sentience?"
Because if that wasn't an option, his itchy trigger finger said, he had six other good ones for the job.
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Date: 2007-04-16 01:14 am (UTC)"All right, I was going to negotiate, but clearly I underestimated the level of evil we're working with here," Jack addressed Balthazar from his newfound position behind the Doctor, steeling his gaze and holding back all the horror and disgust and outrage as much as Eight was throwing it out. "If I say to you that money isn't an issue, can you accept reasonable terms from us on the humane removal and relocation of the sentience?"
Because if that wasn't an option, his itchy trigger finger said, he had six other good ones for the job.