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The thing is, he can see the way Jack is looking at Stede. Recognizes the lecherous hunger in his gaze. And sure, it makes him a little uncomfortable, in some way he can’t really explain. A kind of prickling under his skin. But he’s resigned himself to that being another thing he has to apologize to Stede for, when…
Stede laughs at one of Jack’s jokes.
It’s not even a particularly funny joke. Something about three drunk men and a roast chicken. The rest of the crew is chuckling along, caught up in the rum and the strange spell of idiocy that Jack seems to cast on everyone around him (including, right up until this moment, Ed). But Stede actually, properly laughs, a delighted peal that only ever bursts out of him when Ed has said something Stede thinks is especially funny. He loves that laugh, feels proud of himself every time he hears it.
He doesn’t love it now.