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[lailuhhh]

This is for @lupinescribbler 👉🏻👈🏻🫣🫣

Jack was panicking.

All the years they worked together, all the missions, all the close and extremely close calls they had, they didn’t hold a candle to that moment.

There were procedures to help with those situations, other teams that would be sent in to finish the job, or be there as backup at least.

Jack knew of the procedures, was used to them and had been apart of them for other teams. He knew the steps that were being taken, and with how important that mission was, he knew that they would choose to prioritize finishing it and not deal with what was happening.

That’s why Jack was panicking. They didn’t deem the situation dire.

They didn’t deem Mac being MIA dire.

That wasn’t something Jack wouldn’t be able to stand. There’d been too many people in Mac’s life that pawned him off, saying he wasn’t worth the trouble or that he was too much effort. Too many people that just road him off as just another person who would die in the line of duty, someone who would become another statistic and a name on a plaque somewhere.

Mac had been through too much to be written off and forgotten. He was too important.

Which is why Jack as willing to risk everything to make sure he found Mac and brought him back. He didn’t care about any consequences that were in his future. The only thing that mattered in his life from that moment on was finding Mac, alive, and bringing him back.

So Jack packed up everything he needed and slipped away, a single goal in mind, and he wouldn’t be back until he completed it.

[lailuhhh]

Ao3 wrapped 6, 16, and 29 👀

6. Favorite title you used?

Have to say Robot + Skynet - Snackcake. It has an equal amount of sorta silly and sorta serious

16. What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?

Not Beta Read. So it’s one of my many no beta we die like with my personal favorite being no beta we die like James should’ve have earlier in the series

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

Ooooo I think it has to be Mac’s rant from Against + His + Will. I don’t know what it is but I just did a good job on it and rereading it makes me giddy

“I didn’t fucking sign up! I was in college studying chemistry and when I turned eighteen I was practically kidnapped out of my dorm and thrown onto a bus. I didn’t know what was happening and no one was listening to me. No matter what I did or who I talked to, I couldn’t change anything. I’m a fucking prisoner here. I’ve never gotten a pass to go off base because they know I’ll run. And guess what? My grandfather died last year and I wasn’t allowed to go home for the funeral.

“Peña was the only one who seemed to listen and believe what I was saying, saying that he would look into my files and see what happened— but as you so kindly pointed out, he’s dead. The only person that offered me any support in this hellhole died, the only person who had the clearance and means to look into why I’m here is dead.

“And let me tell you something, I hate feeling like this. I hate that I think my only option out of the army is kidnapping or death. I could’ve been graduated already and gotten a job somewhere, enjoying my life to its fullest capacity, but instead I’m here, having to worry if I’ll make it back alive every day. But the thing is— I stopped worrying about that a while ago. I don’t care what happens to me anymore. I don’t have any family waiting back home, no one to receive a body, living or dead. If nothing happens today, theres always tomorrow, and I’m always hoping tomorrow brings something that’ll change everything.”