Reid had been shot on the job almost a week ago. The bullet had screwed up his leg pretty badly, severing a femoral artery and screwing up all the muscles in his thigh. After fairly extensive surgery and some time in the hospital, they'd sent him home with orders to stay off his leg and keep it elevated which meant he had sick leave for at least a
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"Kind of a b-big-- kind of a big deal," she said after looking around the lobby to make sure Faith wasn't around. "Getting an invite from Faith is not easy."
Of course, the invite was more from her supernaturally outgoing sister, but Jack thought it counted that Faith went along with it. She even almost seemed happy.
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"Yeah?" Reid asked, eyebrows rising up and then down. His brow furrowed as he thought about that a moment. "I didn't want to be a burden but I appreciate her letting me stay. Otherwise I'd end up going into work and bugging everyone there until they told me to go home."
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"There's no way you'd be a burden. Do you see this place? Bunch of hyperactive slayers, nothing to do all day. It's a match m-made in hea-- made in heaven," Jack said. Nobody in the YMCA disliked Reid, and even with him a little cranky his company was preferable to that of most of the girls who were no kind of challenge to Jack when it came to the 360.
Jack rolled her eyes. She was pretty sure Faith was just all nervous like her but hid it better. "Plus she's totally into you. Faith's just...more Bill Adama than June Cleaver. You know. Gruff and manly."
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"O-okay," he answered, slipping a little in controlling his stutter mostly because with Jack stuttering too, he didn't actively think about controlling it.
He looked over at Jack like she was insane because that was another thing he and Jack had in common: Social retardation. Faith flirted outrageously with him but he'd long ago decided that was just what Faith did. She liked to see him turn red and stutter. He'd never actually considered that she liked him. "What?...so...she's-a lot prettier than him."
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