He doesn't say it's been rough time for everyone. He only, barely, lets the thought eek by some far, remote, dark corner of his brain. Moonlighting for half of half a second before it's gone. Because it could always be worse. Tomorrow it could be worse. They lost one man, but his team is relatively in one piece. All of them are alive, is not all awake, or out of the red zone yet.
They lost an important man, a lot of HPD cops, and Wo Fat is at large, but none of them are beaten. They could have lost more.
"Could be worse," which he says with the curve to his mouth still there, even if his voice comes out more the kind of grim determination he couldn't shake if he tried right now. Just keep going forward. "It still beats the odds that they didn't lose anyone else in that explosion."
So many wounded, severely, but that's as much triumph as tragedy in the fact they didn't actually lose another man. That Five-0 got in and got people out fast enough before the bomb went out. It's the kind of odds Steve would mark are nearly imposible, but he's not knocking it either. He'd rather have all of them in one piece, the way the structure isn't and the building isn't, but they'll all get back to.
Duke would see to that, Steve had no doubt about that, whether he took on Fryer's job or not.
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Date: 2013-02-01 05:05 pm (UTC)They lost an important man, a lot of HPD cops, and Wo Fat is at large, but none of them are beaten. They could have lost more.
"Could be worse," which he says with the curve to his mouth still there, even if his voice comes out more the kind of grim determination he couldn't shake if he tried right now. Just keep going forward. "It still beats the odds that they didn't lose anyone else in that explosion."
So many wounded, severely, but that's as much triumph as tragedy in the fact they didn't actually lose another man. That Five-0 got in and got people out fast enough before the bomb went out. It's the kind of odds Steve would mark are nearly imposible, but he's not knocking it either. He'd rather have all of them in one piece, the way the structure isn't and the building isn't, but they'll all get back to.
Duke would see to that, Steve had no doubt about that, whether he took on Fryer's job or not.