"Which is a conclusion literally no one who has seen you two together and was not here this weekend would land on first."
He holds up a hand, palm out, shifting like he needs to ground himself in the floor, the other hand at the waist of his jeans, shoulders drawing wide and hard. "I am not saying that is not the case, understand. Okay? I'm not arguing that. But if you expect anyone, anyone at all, to walk in and see you and Catherine together and not think you aren't doing your same old thing, at least for the first moment, then you have vastly misunderstood the general consensus towards," his hand waves at Steve, and an absent Catherine, "the two of you."
Anyone would think the same thing. No one else would have his reaction, but Kono or Chin, even Kamekona, would all assume that Steve and Catherine were, well. Steve and Catherine. It's not even a questions. None of them precisely know what to call the casual friends-with-benefits arrangement they have -- had -- but they all know it's there. Have teased Steve about his girlfriend more than once. Met her as his date. Right before he decided to ship out with her on the Enterprise as a Valentine's Day present.
He is not the only one who would come to that conclusion, even if he's the one who would be knocked flat by it. "Look, I am not saying I think that anymore or that it was even the right thing to think, alright, in no scenario was my reaction anything other than abysmal. I am not trying to excuse it. All I am saying is that you have -- had -- a pattern, and there may have been a reason to think what I did. Despite being wrong."
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Date: 2013-02-08 11:10 pm (UTC)He holds up a hand, palm out, shifting like he needs to ground himself in the floor, the other hand at the waist of his jeans, shoulders drawing wide and hard. "I am not saying that is not the case, understand. Okay? I'm not arguing that. But if you expect anyone, anyone at all, to walk in and see you and Catherine together and not think you aren't doing your same old thing, at least for the first moment, then you have vastly misunderstood the general consensus towards," his hand waves at Steve, and an absent Catherine, "the two of you."
Anyone would think the same thing. No one else would have his reaction, but Kono or Chin, even Kamekona, would all assume that Steve and Catherine were, well. Steve and Catherine. It's not even a questions. None of them precisely know what to call the casual friends-with-benefits arrangement they have -- had -- but they all know it's there. Have teased Steve about his girlfriend more than once. Met her as his date. Right before he decided to ship out with her on the Enterprise as a Valentine's Day present.
He is not the only one who would come to that conclusion, even if he's the one who would be knocked flat by it. "Look, I am not saying I think that anymore or that it was even the right thing to think, alright, in no scenario was my reaction anything other than abysmal. I am not trying to excuse it. All I am saying is that you have -- had -- a pattern, and there may have been a reason to think what I did. Despite being wrong."