Good ones. I've been leaning toward your first scenarios. Interesting that I never considered the homophobe possibility--but now I'll be weighing that as an option as well.
Oh, nice! Could have been anything and nothing. Family can burrow into places they have no business being and things can blow up to the point where words are said and feelings felt that though they're seemingly over the top they're no less real.
Let's see... Sid's are all good. Maybe Jack was off on a mission when his mother took ill and wasn't there when she died. Dad took it out on him and Jack took it out on him and it escalated from there.
Dad was anti-military. Do the math.
Dad remarried within a year of Mom's death (*VERY* common, but no less unsettling, at times). Words were said. Understanding lost.
Maybe there was an accident. Maybe Dad was driving and mom died in the accident. Maybe Dad claims to have been sober, but his history argued against it. Maybe Jack's going to go to Chicago and learn that Dad *did* clean up his act, but Jack never believed him until now, and now is too late.
Family can burrow into places they have no business being and things can blow up to the point where words are said and feelings felt that though they're seemingly over the top they're no less real.
Ain't that the truth!
Anti-military, hmmm. If Jack was born in 1952 (and there seems to be some dispute about the date of his birth in the fan community), then it's likely his dad was either a WWII or Korean vet. I was born a few years after Jack, and my dad is a WWII vet, but he was 37 when I was born, which is late parenthood for that era. ::Muses over whether military service turned dad anti-military.::
Remarriage. ::Nod nod:: Real possibilities there.
Accident--o, think of the twisted web that could be woven, given the subsequent accident with Charlie . . . I fear it could take a better writer than I to do justice to that story . . .
::Puts sid's and tejas's speculations into the mix for further chewing on::
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Or possibly said or done something when Charlie died that killed any feelings Jack ever had for him.
Or, since this is J/D, been a raging homophobe.
*turns bucket upside down and shakes it* Okay, that's all I've got! :-)
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Let's see... Sid's are all good. Maybe Jack was off on a mission when his mother took ill and wasn't there when she died. Dad took it out on him and Jack took it out on him and it escalated from there.
Dad was anti-military. Do the math.
Dad remarried within a year of Mom's death (*VERY* common, but no less unsettling, at times). Words were said. Understanding lost.
Maybe there was an accident. Maybe Dad was driving and mom died in the accident. Maybe Dad claims to have been sober, but his history argued against it. Maybe Jack's going to go to Chicago and learn that Dad *did* clean up his act, but Jack never believed him until now, and now is too late.
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Ain't that the truth!
Anti-military, hmmm. If Jack was born in 1952 (and there seems to be some dispute about the date of his birth in the fan community), then it's likely his dad was either a WWII or Korean vet. I was born a few years after Jack, and my dad is a WWII vet, but he was 37 when I was born, which is late parenthood for that era. ::Muses over whether military service turned dad anti-military.::
Remarriage. ::Nod nod:: Real possibilities there.
Accident--o, think of the twisted web that could be woven, given the subsequent accident with Charlie . . . I fear it could take a better writer than I to do justice to that story . . .
::Puts sid's and tejas's speculations into the mix for further chewing on::
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