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🏴‍☠️ IC contact; Duplicity

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[They're either going to get along well, or get in a fight. Ducky's very curious which.]

I am not accustomed to having many people close to me at home, either, Jack. There are maybe three or four people back there who know that I am not as simple as I pretend to be. I'm more comfortable keeping people at a distance.

The fact that there are even two people here who I am willing to go out with on dates is a little terrifying.

[Yes, Jack, you count. In case you hadn't realized, you're one of Ducky's nearest and dearest.]

Three or four is all you need. You can't go giving a part of yourself to everyone.

[ Anne. Charles, until he wasn't, but now he is again, more than ever. Featherstone was getting there, until Jack's untimely abduction. A solid two and a half. And now Ducky, the only one here who's ever gotten a story from home out of him that wasn't tall tales and boasting about prizes and battles. He would sure hope he's among her nearest and dearest. ]

Terrifying is a strong word.

I was betrayed by my first love, and it left my heart bruised.

[A pause, she decides to give him just a little more, to make it clear the man in question hadn't just left her for another woman. That, she could understand, even accept.]

Sold out. We were blackmailing someone together, and the moment he faced any scrutiny, he gave me up to try to save himself. Unsuccessfully. He ended up at a labor camp.

I know. Well, you've alluded to it.

[ A betrayal from a former lover, he thinks, is how she'd put it before, the first time they'd gone out after that Christmas party. But there's a little more detail now. He appreciates it. ]

Serves him right. That's a cowardly move.