"Yeah. I know the risk I'm taking in letting you out. It's stupid, but I'm bored and a bit lonely." He started toward the stairs, making sure to move slowly enough so that John could keep up. Jack was still uncertain what exactly he was going to do with John, but if he could get him drunk enough to pass out, maybe he'd be mostly harmless. Just so long as he kept any weapons away from him during that time, anyway.

"Your 'effort' is most peoples' baseline for acting civilised." Jack tried to come off as though he had no pity for him, but he was walking so pathetically that it was hard not to feel for him. "I'll settle for whisky and a blowjob. I told you already: no drugs here." Unless you counted what Owen had in the med bay. "Now let's see if you live up to it."