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Lorne laughs loudly, torn between keeping an eye on the instrument panel and wanting to let go and just enjoy it.

Jack levels them out again, making a satisfied sound like he just had a really great meal or really good sex.

"Take the throttle again? I don't dare do any more."

"All right," Lorne says, gripping the throttle again.

"Anything else you want to do while we're up here?"

"Whatever you want, Major," Jack says, still grinning hugely. "I'm entirely in your hands."

"Well," Lorne says, smiling, "we could head back now, or we could push her limits for speed, or we could do some weapons testing..."

"Speed!" Jack exclaims. "I want to see how fast she can go, Evan!"

Lorne laughs again and bears down on the throttle, watching carefully as the speed climbs.

Jack leans forward again, nerves buzzing with excitement.

They push through the sound barrier again, complete with accompanying BOOM, and Lorne keeps accelerating.

Jack makes another whoop. He loves this.

Lorne grins and whoops along with him as the jet pushes up to Mach 2 and just over.

Tomcats top out at 2.2, though, so Lorne holds it steady just at 2.1 for a little longer.

"God, I could do this forever!" Jack yells.

"We'll run out of fuel eventually!" Lorne yells back, grinning and laughing a little and keeping up the speed for another minute or so then gently easing back on the throttle.

Jack sits back in his seat. "Oh, don't tell me that," he says softly. "Let me believe we can just fly and fly and fly."

Lorne smiles softly. "We can fly as long as you want," he says.

Jack smiles too. After a moment or two he says, "Let's go home, Evan."

"All right," Lorne says, steering them back to the base.

Another pause, then very quietly, barely audible through the hiss of the radio, "Thank you."

Lorne smiles deeply. "You're welcome," he says, just as quietly.

Jack smiles and watches the rushing countryside.

Lorne takes them back in without any more acrobatics. The landing is smooth and when the engines shut down, the silence of the cockpit sounds exceptionally loud.

Lorne pulls off his helmet as the cockpit shield raises and turns to grin at Jack.

Jack takes off his helmet too and smiles back, just as big. "Fuckin' amazing."

Lorne pulls himself out of his seat as an airman wheels the stairs back up to the plane. "Glad you had fun," he says, still grinning.

He turns away from Jack, afraid of what he might do if he keeps looking at him. He's on an adrenaline high, and he'd like nothing more than to kiss Jack. Hard. And then fuck him.

Jack presses his lips together, feeling much the same.

Lorne hurries them back to the locker room and tries not to be too obvious about wanting to get out of his flight suit and somewhere alone with Jack as soon as he can.