[It takes two missed texts for the panic to set in.
It's not normal for Jack to ignore her texts, especially not when those texts contain cute pictures of Macaroni sleeping in one of the sweaters he'd bought with a stupid dad joke on it.
She spends about an hour pacing after the panic sets in, back and forth across the room, hating the feeling of helplessness that seems to soak into every pore of her body, setting the hairs on the back of her neck on end, makes her spine tingle. It brings her right back there, completely helpless, at the mercy of the ocean and the hunger and thirst, the tossing waves, the sharks, to slowly losing everyone she'd cared about, one by one. Her parents. The boy she'd loved, though not in the way he'd wanted her to.
There's only so much time she can stand being helpless, and then she's calling ADI medical and the hospital in town and then the police stations, and that's when she finds him. The relief is so intense she practically hangs up on the station without saying much of anything.
The next day she's waiting outside the station when he's released, leaning against the gate, arms crossed, expression neutral. When he comes out of the front doors of the station looking worse for the wear, she pushes away from it and walks up to him, frowning a little.]
You scared Macaroni shitless by disappearing, just so you know.
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It's not normal for Jack to ignore her texts, especially not when those texts contain cute pictures of Macaroni sleeping in one of the sweaters he'd bought with a stupid dad joke on it.
She spends about an hour pacing after the panic sets in, back and forth across the room, hating the feeling of helplessness that seems to soak into every pore of her body, setting the hairs on the back of her neck on end, makes her spine tingle. It brings her right back there, completely helpless, at the mercy of the ocean and the hunger and thirst, the tossing waves, the sharks, to slowly losing everyone she'd cared about, one by one. Her parents. The boy she'd loved, though not in the way he'd wanted her to.
There's only so much time she can stand being helpless, and then she's calling ADI medical and the hospital in town and then the police stations, and that's when she finds him. The relief is so intense she practically hangs up on the station without saying much of anything.
The next day she's waiting outside the station when he's released, leaning against the gate, arms crossed, expression neutral. When he comes out of the front doors of the station looking worse for the wear, she pushes away from it and walks up to him, frowning a little.]
You scared Macaroni shitless by disappearing, just so you know.