He's not any more surprised she up n' at 'em than he would have been if she stayed there.
They've known each other too long, not to known both side. Sailors who can roll out of a bunk at an alarm's notice with almost less than a minute to grab clothes and run, and people who've lazed hours, forgetting the world existed for a day or two's hours, in several countries, on several continents, wherever it happened to be that time.
"Nope," Steve said, hands not moving in his pockets, where one was against his phone, while she was brushing off sand from her legs. He had thought about, hours ago, but all he'd done earlier was send a text. Rather on purpose. He was remorseless about the simple way he refused Cath, too.
"I sent him a message saying we'd be on our way sometime soon, and not knowing," Which was implied as not asking the way he was looking at her, head tilting one way as he brought a hand up and out, "--is as good a reason as any to make him leave: get a shower, at least one change of clean clothes, things he'd know she'd want where she is awake longer than five minutes, and at least pick up a meal that isn't from the mess."
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Date: 2013-02-05 02:00 am (UTC)They've known each other too long, not to known both side. Sailors who can roll out of a bunk at an alarm's notice with almost less than a minute to grab clothes and run, and people who've lazed hours, forgetting the world existed for a day or two's hours, in several countries, on several continents, wherever it happened to be that time.
"Nope," Steve said, hands not moving in his pockets, where one was against his phone, while she was brushing off sand from her legs. He had thought about, hours ago, but all he'd done earlier was send a text. Rather on purpose. He was remorseless about the simple way he refused Cath, too.
"I sent him a message saying we'd be on our way sometime soon, and not knowing," Which was implied as not asking the way he was looking at her, head tilting one way as he brought a hand up and out, "--is as good a reason as any to make him leave: get a shower, at least one change of clean clothes, things he'd know she'd want where she is awake longer than five minutes, and at least pick up a meal that isn't from the mess."