Steve raised his eyebrows and pressed his lips, jaw tensing but not moving into tightening, unappreciatively at her innocent little lilt there. Which shifts easily into a looser shake of his head, like she's gone toward acting like exasperating teenager, or even just a a girl now. Prizing and teasing and leading, and getting easily, "No."
"But it's nice to know you've suddenly decided I suddenly might need more supervision to drive my own truck and take care of my own men," which would be harsher maybe on anyone else. But it's her, and she's joking about it. Which is better than it could have been. Even when he was right about that subject being nowhere near done.
"Let's go. Before I forget why I invited you to stick around, again," Steve tacked on, lobbing back toward her. When she'd already be well aware he was nowhere even slightly near that being the truth. All of this would have been vastly different if that were the truth. The whole morning, and that earlier conversation.
The fact there are no real invitations, because all of it just is, and it is really all old hat, even when it isn't.
They've done this all before, right? They can do it all, again, just with a new twist to it.
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Date: 2013-02-05 02:41 am (UTC)"But it's nice to know you've suddenly decided I suddenly might need more supervision to drive my own truck and take care of my own men," which would be harsher maybe on anyone else. But it's her, and she's joking about it. Which is better than it could have been. Even when he was right about that subject being nowhere near done.
"Let's go. Before I forget why I invited you to stick around, again," Steve tacked on, lobbing back toward her. When she'd already be well aware he was nowhere even slightly near that being the truth. All of this would have been vastly different if that were the truth. The whole morning, and that earlier conversation.
The fact there are no real invitations, because all of it just is, and it is really all old hat, even when it isn't.
They've done this all before, right? They can do it all, again, just with a new twist to it.