"Uh-huh," Jessica says to Matt.  "And that worked so well last time, did it?"<br/><br/>But Ichigo's comment makes Jessica freeze for a moment.<em>Oh, yeah, that dead silence was real smooth,</em>she silently berates herself.  "Your... father?  Uh, how does that work, exactly?"  She tries to be gentle about how she asks it, since there's clearly a story there, and it clearly has an unhappy ending, but she can't help the way her arms close around herself protectively.