[spoilers] Lucas. Just Lucas.

[HellsBells]

Over on the Lucas and his Tattoos thread allanah posted this:

I always thought that Jo stirred up in Lucas some emotions that made him uncomfortable when he interacted with her because in some ways her trauma and emotional problems were too close to home for him to be comfortable with. Why in series 7 in 7.5 when she drops the tray of drinks does he speak so harshly to her? My view is that her breakdown is very uncomfortable for him because he recognises that with his history he could go the same way. Again when he speaks to Harry afterwards about Jo being in trouble there is a lot of emotion there and I think it comes from the recognition that he and Jo have a lot in common and so in some ways there is an identification with her, even though its not an association he is comfortable with.


I think this is really interesting, Jo and Lucas had so much in common but never really spoke to each other.
When Lucas speaks to Harry I think that maybe he is annoyed by the fact that Harry hadn't notice Jo's suffering, and is reflected by the fact that Harry seems to be oblivious to Lucas' own suffering.