jasper couldn't help but shake his head a little as joe started going on about how quickly people got over each other. how people could be understanding with joe was beyond him when everything that came out of his mouth was either an insult, an accusation or a grunt. he got that his siblings probably wanted to make him feel welcome but jasper didn't have that familial connection to him. he loved kara and he thought of dustin, avery and heather like family because they'd treated him the same. joe treated him like a stain on the floor and he didn't have to put on kid gloves, joe was a big boy. "oh you mean like how you've been brushing your family off since you got home? treating them as if they don't matter or exist." jasper raised a brow as he stood up from the couch, settling rocke a little as he walked across to the playpen that was set up for the kids in the living room. "oh how loyal of you." he said as he bent down to lay the child in the pen and he gave him a toy to hold onto. he stood up and turned to face joe once more. "forgive me for trying to understand such things."

he knew that this probably wasn't going to be a productive conversation but they were in it now and if there was one thing he didn't do it was back down. it had never been in his nature and he wasn't about to make it a habit and joe was just saying all the right things. jasper owed a lot to his fiancé's family. they'd accepted him as their own, dustin had helped him straighten out tripp and other countless things. they were as much his own family as his brothers were and joe seemed insistent on turning his back on them. not to mention what he'd done to kara, how he'd hurt her. hurt her heart and made her cry. if there was one thing he couldn't forgive it was someone making her cry. "well if there's nothing to care about, let your family know you don't care about them anymore. i don't want to see them waste their efforts for someone who doesn't give a shit."

hardly interrogation? maybe that was true. but for joe to think it hadn't hurt her? then he was very wrong. he hadn't had his teeth pulled or his nails pulled but he had been beaten. he'd been on the other ends of fists who wanted to know information from him and he highly doubted there was a difference in beatings that happened in the army and on the streets. "if you think you didn't hurt her because you didn't hit her, you're an idiot." he said with a shake of his head.

he raised a brow and couldn't help but roll his eyes just slightly as joe kept on at him in french. he listened to it as close as he could and while he might not have picked it all up, he got most of it. "forgive me for being born english. i'll forgive you for being born french." he said as he shook his head slightly and he crossed his arms over his chest lightly. "is that why you act like you have such a stick up your ass? did some three bit general shove a concrete cactus up your ass because you said something mouthy? did you like it joe? is that the problem." he might have taken that a little too far but he wasn't about to apologize for it.

"thank you for that fine compliment." he said as joe spoke a language he didn't understand as his almost brother in law muttered at him after he'd got up from the couch. jasper has seen the way he'd moved and had they not been in a bit of a heated conversation he'd have offered him a hand but he was also sure it would have been hit away so there was no point in thinking about what he would have done. as he watched joe's back he shook his head before he turned to rocke, who was happily chewing on the toy without much of a care of what was happening around him.

he didn't think joe would be overly happy about being in his company for any amount of time but he wasn't about to apologize for needing to be there. it wasn't like he'd shove his nephew into joe's arms and leave him there. as far as he could tell joe avoided the kids like the plague and he wasn't even sure if he'd met his and kara's daughter scarlet just yet. he knew the family were all giving him the leeway and space they thought he needed but as far as jasper was concerned, the brother that had just returned needed a swift kick up the ass and told to pull his head in. though that was an opinion he'd keep to himself because of his own troublesome brother, he really wasn't one to give advice on how to handle siblings.

he shifted from the arm of the chair so he was sitting properly so he could settle rocke when he grumbled about the situation he was currently in. he blinked a little as the question came from joe and he looked up at him and he raised a slight brow. well he certainly wasn't one for any sort of subtlety was he. "you'd have to ask her that." in fact he'd gone through a long period when he hadn't thought he was good enough for her. he'd loved her from the get go but he hadn't thought that it was everything she'd deserved and then when luc had come into the picture it had been even worse, it had almost broken them but they'd worked through it, trusted each other and had come through the other side stronger than ever. "are you still trying to play matchmaker with her and luc?" he asked joe as he looked across at him, trying to figure out where he was going with all of this.

as jasper pulled up to the house his partners family lived in, he glanced into the back seat to the child that was laying ever so calmy in his chair. "i think that's the quietest you've been all day bud." he said with a smile as he got out of the car and walked around to lift rocke out of his little seat gently. if he'd been sleeping, he'd have carried him inside with it but since he was awake, he didn't feel the need to bring it too. besides it lived in his car, with the amount of time they all spent watching each other's kids it had made sense to just keep seats with all of them in case of emergency. it was a lesson they'd learned the hard way when dustin had come across avery and holly's crumbled up car with levi in the back seat. dustin had got them out but then had nowhere to put levi. so it was one of the reasons they had the system they did. he settled rocke into the crook of his arm gently as he pulled out the bag avery had dropped off that morning and he headed to the door.

he was hoping that holly's car was pulled around to the back because he couldn't see either her or avery's car and this was when avery had said they'd be home. "are they running late?" he asked the baby in his arms as he reached the front door and set the bag down before fumbling around in his pocket for his key to the front door. once he'd opened it he stepped inside, hooked the strap of the bag with his foot and pulled it inside so he didn't have to bend with rocke in his arms. "easy peasy." he said with a smile as he closed the front door and walked a little further into the house. "avery? holly?" he called into the silence and he rocked the baby in his arms gently as he waited for someone to respond to him. if no one did, he'd give them a call and then wait here with rocke. they shouldn't have been too far away anyway.