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[scottysous]

Continued from here"I'm trying," he says honestly, the frustration plain in his voice. "I'm trying really hard." And maybe he's thought about ending things with Alcuin. Maybe it's come into his head when he's lying in bed alone at night and he can't help but think about Alcuin and Rupert off somewhere doing... whatever. But he can't imagine leaving

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[captainjack]

"No, that was all you two," Jack replied, though his grin gave away just what he thought of that. "Prior is...fabulous. He's got his own issues, though. Honestly, everyone here has issues. I think that falling in love here is actually harder than people think."

[scottysous]

"Falling in love everywhere is hard," he returns, "but the island makes it worse." His blush deepens as Jack apparently further approves of this Scotty-and-Prior combination that he's still trying to understand.

[captainjack]

"Is it really that hard?" Jack asked without any guile or smartass tone. It seemed, to him, like people had a pretty damned easy time falling in love. Of course, he was never anywhere for very long, so he never saw how things turned out for what appeared to be happy couples.

[scottysous]

"It is. If you even make it to marriage, there were so many people back home getting divorced and remarried and divorced again. People grow and change constantly, and love doesn't always grow with that. That's if you can even make it work before it gets far off the ground." He shrugs, his expression saddening.