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“Well,” Jack said, freeing his hands and smoothing them down his arms until he could lace their fingers together. “You don’t have to wear that, if you don’t want to.”

 

“It’s a black tie event, Jack. It kinda means that I need to wear a suit, if I want to get in.”

 

“It means you can’t go with your usual ratty hoodie and a pair of sweatpants,” Jack huffed. “It doesn’t mean that you can’t wear something else.” He hesitated, suddenly shy. “Like, a gown?”

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“A spiritual awakening is the beginning of a journey,” the omnic reminded him, gently. “Even now, I’m still learning about myself and about the world. I had even more to learn back then. I was young and confused and I had finally won my right to stay outside, to watch the birds and the trees- to experience life. I was very opposed to staying in a room, answering rude questions about the authenticity of my capability to feel.”

 

“I cannot imagine you… restless,” Genji admitted, fully turning towards Zenyatta and leaning with a hip against the railing. “I’ve never known you but calm and collected.”

 

“Restless is a very kind word to describe myself from back then,” Zenyatta admitted, feeling the grasp on his orbs grow weaker for a moment as his systems got flooded by embarrassment. “I was reckless, stubborn. You could say I had issues with authority.”

 

Genji snorted. “Forgive me, but that has changed how?” he sassed the omnic.

 

Zenyatta couldn’t help but burst into a surprised fit of giggles. “Oh my. That’s rude,” he scolded him, but he was still laughing, unable to keep it from bursting from his voice box.

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Gabriel smiled, a bit tightly, and turned his hand to squeeze Jack’s. “I wanted to ask if you wanted to come with us to New York for three weeks,” he finally said. “I know it’s a lot I’m asking- you’d be stuck with the three pests all day while I’m at work, but I got them to pinky swear they’ll be on their best behaviour-”

 

“You got Olivia to pinky swear?” Jack asked, appropriately impressed, making Gabe grin.