[Jack can only hang back in the doorway and watch the whole establishment turn on a dime to welcome Handsome Jack. It was incredible how much of a name he'd made for himself in the short time he'd been here.]
[And there was something else. A tiny little flickering ember deep down in the pit of his stomach. Envy. This was how the citizens of Halloween Town used to greet him. Here? He was nobody. Sure he had wonderful friends and maybe a good old fashioned enemy or two, but he was still nobody. And it had been five years. The sudden spark of self discovery actually allowed him to miss the insults the other Jack sprinkled over him like confetti.]
[Well.]
[He'd be Somebody eventually. He'd be the Jack that destroyed Team Rocket from the inside out. Cancer Bag indeed!]
[He strode ahead and greeted the assistants with a polite nod of the head, keeping his simple happy little old man smile firmly in place as though his lips had been glued shut by a master embalmer.]
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[And there was something else. A tiny little flickering ember deep down in the pit of his stomach. Envy. This was how the citizens of Halloween Town used to greet him. Here? He was nobody. Sure he had wonderful friends and maybe a good old fashioned enemy or two, but he was still nobody. And it had been five years. The sudden spark of self discovery actually allowed him to miss the insults the other Jack sprinkled over him like confetti.]
[Well.]
[He'd be Somebody eventually. He'd be the Jack that destroyed Team Rocket from the inside out. Cancer Bag indeed!]
[He strode ahead and greeted the assistants with a polite nod of the head, keeping his simple happy little old man smile firmly in place as though his lips had been glued shut by a master embalmer.]