#yes he lashed out this once but that doesn't absolve jack of everything that came before

[nursedexy]

I can never stop thinking about "You always say that" and how Kent reacted to that like Jack said the most painful thing he could've said. And on the surface level it's already painful, because Jack is dismissing Kent's feelings, implying they're fake, implying Kent pouring his heart out is just some sort of manipulation. (Which.. don't get me started on how Bitty's pov of Jack makes the reader want to believe that because the alternative is Jack having hurt Kent and we can't have that when the narrative is painting Kent as the villain.) But I think it's more than that, because what exactly does Jack mean by "always"? As far as we know they've only interacted a few times since the draft, so how many times could Kent have said that?

No, I think Jack's bringing up the voicemails. Because there have to have been voicemails, right? Kent trying desperately to talk to Jack only to be ignored, pleading with him to just call him back, that he'll be there whenever Jack's ready, wanting to believe that day will come. Ending every call with "I miss you." Jack never replies and I'm sure Kent assumes he didn't listen to any of them, especially the ones he left in the later years, when he knew there wasn't a point but he was hurting or something big happened to him and he just needed that connection to Jack, needed to hear his voice, needed to tell him, again, that he missed him.

And now here Jack is, throwing it back in his face. Confirming that he did in fact listen to those messages, did hear him say "I miss you" every time, and chose to ignore him every time.

Yeah, I don't blame him for lashing out after that.