"I don't think anyone would dare think otherwise."
It comes with a smile that's more in her eyes than on her lips, that's as much acknowledgement of the fact that he hadn't answered the question she asked as much as one they both know can always be answered. How soon can you be ready. Where's your head at. Can you get it in the game.
And Steve always can. Always has, as long as she's known him. She's never seen him fall apart, isn't sure it could happen. He falls back on training that goes past instinct, overrides every other reaction.
As answers or evasions go, it's not a terrible one.
"Well, hopefully you're not going to have to pull that out of the bag today, so we'll have to find something else to do, instead."
It's not like they have a code, or anything. He gets her, and they've known each other too long and too well to beat about the bush. If he wants to open up to her, he will: the best she can do is be here, on offer, and distract him so he doesn't spend the whole day running over scenarios in his head.
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Date: 2013-01-20 03:57 pm (UTC)It comes with a smile that's more in her eyes than on her lips, that's as much acknowledgement of the fact that he hadn't answered the question she asked as much as one they both know can always be answered. How soon can you be ready. Where's your head at. Can you get it in the game.
And Steve always can. Always has, as long as she's known him. She's never seen him fall apart, isn't sure it could happen. He falls back on training that goes past instinct, overrides every other reaction.
As answers or evasions go, it's not a terrible one.
"Well, hopefully you're not going to have to pull that out of the bag today, so we'll have to find something else to do, instead."
It's not like they have a code, or anything. He gets her, and they've known each other too long and too well to beat about the bush. If he wants to open up to her, he will: the best she can do is be here, on offer, and distract him so he doesn't spend the whole day running over scenarios in his head.