"Yeah, well I don't know the story!" Jack admitted, yelling because...alright, yes, he was ashamed. If everyone was supposed to know the story, he certainly didn't. The Time Agency didn't care about teaching mythology of the most ancient kind. Even the 20th century was pushing it. Sometimes, he just didn't know things. "I didn't know..." he said, quieter, because he hadn't meant to yell. "Damn it."

He put his face in his hands for a few moments, feeling stupid for not knowing a story that everyone should know, for feeling out of time like he was, and most of all because... "You wouldn't do that, would you?" he asked, after a moment, switching topics abruptly. "You wouldn't...become immortal to stay with me...?"