In retrospect, she's not all that surprised that Steve decided to take looking for Shelburne into his own hands. The whole sequence of events is more than a little confused for her: he hadn't exactly given her a lot of details, just asked for a favor every now and again, and the name Shelburne had started popping up with increasing frequency.
Until she found out that he'd been taken captive in North Korea, and found by Joe White and his team.
It's undoubtedly a good thing for her career that they hadn't asked her for help on that, hadn't let her know -- not that any of Five-0 have a good way of reaching her quickly without Steve -- but she still feels a degree of chilliness at how that might all have turned out; the ghost of an op gone wrong.
Not that any of them can dwell on possibilities that never came to fruition, so she pushes past it, because Steve's right here and fine, and he'll get through this like he's gotten through everything. She's just here to make sure he doesn't forget about the good things, along the way. "Did she get off okay, yesterday?"
She's not here to rehash Steve's actions, or make any kind of judgment on anybody. Being around Doris was awkward enough, but the very real danger of Wo Fat means that the important thing is Doris' inability to stay on the island.
Meaning, Steve just lost his mom, again.
It's not a topic she has much experience with approaching; how do you talk to someone about their mom, who was dead for twenty years and then showed up alive and well in Japan, and who is overly interested in your relationship with her son? Even with all the years between them, every intimacy and every time he's had her back or she's had his, she really doesn't know how to ask him about it.
So she just takes the direct route. They've always been honest with each other, and she bets he'd hate feeling coddled more than anything else, right now.
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Date: 2013-01-19 04:05 pm (UTC)Until she found out that he'd been taken captive in North Korea, and found by Joe White and his team.
It's undoubtedly a good thing for her career that they hadn't asked her for help on that, hadn't let her know -- not that any of Five-0 have a good way of reaching her quickly without Steve -- but she still feels a degree of chilliness at how that might all have turned out; the ghost of an op gone wrong.
Not that any of them can dwell on possibilities that never came to fruition, so she pushes past it, because Steve's right here and fine, and he'll get through this like he's gotten through everything. She's just here to make sure he doesn't forget about the good things, along the way. "Did she get off okay, yesterday?"
She's not here to rehash Steve's actions, or make any kind of judgment on anybody. Being around Doris was awkward enough, but the very real danger of Wo Fat means that the important thing is Doris' inability to stay on the island.
Meaning, Steve just lost his mom, again.
It's not a topic she has much experience with approaching; how do you talk to someone about their mom, who was dead for twenty years and then showed up alive and well in Japan, and who is overly interested in your relationship with her son? Even with all the years between them, every intimacy and every time he's had her back or she's had his, she really doesn't know how to ask him about it.
So she just takes the direct route. They've always been honest with each other, and she bets he'd hate feeling coddled more than anything else, right now.