Kerr blinked at him and pulled a face that questioned his common sense without words. "So? You think it might happen in the ritual anyway! And if it does and you end up in Ben\'s body, you\'re a doppelganger without love that I don\'t want to have a lot to do with because of how attracted to your appearance I am, yet if we can figure out an alternative, you double up on someone else\'s body that we simply like the look of and I\'m happy to spend time with you, because there\'s no conflict. Of course... " his arguing lost speed suddenly and he went quiet, frowning down at the sheet between them. "In that situation, I also suddenly have a clueless fledgling to deal with but... I don\'t know, I\'ll think of something," he dismissed, regaining his momentum and looking directly into Jack\'s eyes.
"The fact is, if the love\'s going to go, it\'ll go no matter what. We would only have to use the necklace - if it was going to help you - at the last minute before the ritual, I\'m not trying to rob you of any time here, I\'m sympathetic to your cause. I\'m still happy to let you experience the next three months with me - shit, we can even live together again, if you want - all I\'m saying is that if the necklace can do something to help you gain another body, I\'d really, really love that, and I\'d prefer to know now. I don\'t think understanding the necklace would happen quickly, it may not even happen in time, who knows? But I\'m fucking sick of planning for contingency after contingency and we don\'t know a Goddamned thing as fact."
By the time he finished speaking, all the anger had leaked out of his voice and he was more or less pleading. His tone and his expression were raw as he appealed to Jack, desperately needing something solid in amongst all this chaos.