Alien beach party!

[fractured_agent]

Jack enjoys his time on the TARDIS, he really does. And it's great fun to see just where she's going to take them next. But every now and then, it's nice to just be able to relax without worrying about Rose being drowned by shark people, and he knows a certain someone who could do with getting out and about more often.

He's got everything all set up on a massive stretch of beach that seems to go on for miles and miles, with no one else really around. He's wearing swimming trunks (since the Doctor has successfully instilled in him the habit of not going naked just because he can), and has a pair of beach towels laid out, with a big brightly colored beach umbrella staked in the sand between them.

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[victormakesart]

"Huh. I wonder why they bothered attachin' them to the body, then, 'cause that complicates everything. They'd have to modify the brain, too, rewire nerves."

[fractured_agent]

"It's an amusement park. It's all about the novelty."

[victormakesart]

"Annnnd I'm overthinking it." He turns onto his tummy, swimming forward like a large and clumsy frog, dipping his head underwater.

[fractured_agent]

Jack laughs a little, and does a lazy barrel roll before diving down to grasp at a handful of sand, letting it trail out between his fingers on the way back up.

[victormakesart]

He laughs, does a lopsided water somersault, and then, so carefully, so tenderly, cups his hand and splashes.

[fractured_agent]

Jack's a little surprised, but laughs, and quickly wheels around so his feet are pointed in Victor's direction, before paddling hard enough to send waves splashing at him.

[victormakesart]

In an act of self-protection, he lets the air out of his lungs and sinks underwater.

[fractured_agent]

Jack submerges himself almost immediately, opening his eyes underwater and ignoring the sting of salt, first to make sure that Victor's not experiencing some kind of difficult, and second to make sure he's not sneaking up on Jack to grab his ankles and pull him under.

[victormakesart]

Vic's not a confident enough swimmer to pull anyone's ankles, and he kicks a few times, to draw in a deep breath. He knows from swimming in saltwater pools that the only way to sink is to sink breathlessly.

[fractured_agent]

Jack waits until Victor comes back up. "Should've brought some breathing devices. Oh well."

[victormakesart]

"I bet those are cool in the future." He wipes water away from his eyes before he opens them.

[fractured_agent]

"Yeah, they've got them in all shapes and sizes now. My favorite is the foam patch you put over your nose and mouth. It's actually a living organism that filters out the oxygen in the water for you and feeds off your lung's byproducts."

[victormakesart]

"...can we try that next time we do this, please?" He flails his arms about, kicks wildly, chin tilting up, full of sun.

[fractured_agent]

"I'll see if I can find one for you."

[victormakesart]

"That sounds like... like... the future," he says. "It sounds like Harry Potter stuff."

[fractured_agent]

"Nah, it's not magic, just biology."

[victormakesart]

"But still! We could be like mermen!"

[fractured_agent]

"Hopefully not the sort that sings you in and then drowns you," he says, reaching out to poke Victor in the side, grinning.

[victormakesart]

He pokes him back, then wraps an arm around his shoulders, treading water. "My sister and I used to pretend to be merpeople in the pool in the summer. Not the drowny kind. More like just the singy swimming kind."

[fractured_agent]

"You have a sister?" Jack is always interested to learn more about other people, even if he might not get the chance to hit on them.

[victormakesart]

"An older one. Beat the tar out of me when we were younger. I mean, I guess she changed and stuff, once we turned into adults and I left, but the teenage years were brutal."

[fractured_agent]

"Siblings shouldn't be like that. Picking on each other, sure, but beating?"

[victormakesart]

"Yeah, she shouldn't've. My parents didn't do anything about it, either."

[fractured_agent]

"Did they ignore you?" Jack has a bit of a soft spot for kids, these days.

[victormakesart]

"Yeah. I mean, they paid attention when it was time for me to get in trouble, and when I got real good grades, and with my art, but when it came to my sister, they had this blind spot. I'd... sometimes it was hard to miss."