She frowns at the dig, pushing ice further into her glass with the straw. "Really? Danny had nothing to say?"
She hardly knows the guy, but she's been around him often enough now to have felt the full force of his complete inability to keep his mouth shut. It's sort of charming, in a mind-boggling sort of way, and something she would have expected Steve to hate.
Except Steve just stands there with this strangely smug, affection smile on his face half the time, and just as Danny slows down, there's Steve to roll a pebble and start another avalanche. She'd chalked it up to his desire to tease winning out over his desire for some peace and quiet, but now?
She's not so sure.
What she is sure of is that Steve's deflection is starting to get on her nerves. This may be his private business, but she's the only one outside the two of them who knows, and whether he likes it or not, it's important to get these things out of his head and into the real world, where he can't box them away and pretend they aren't there.
"So let me recap, just to be sure I've got this clear." She pauses, thinks back, finger tapping on the tabletop. "You know you shouldn't be sleeping with your partner, you have a contingency plan in place in case things go south, and you two haven't stopped yet, which at least answers one question that you didn't. Does that about sum things up? Or am I missing anything else obvious?"
The last a little slice back, because it's not like she thinks he hasn't considered any of this before. But 'considered' and 'acknowledged' can be too very different things.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
(no subject)
Date: 2013-03-27 09:27 pm (UTC)She hardly knows the guy, but she's been around him often enough now to have felt the full force of his complete inability to keep his mouth shut. It's sort of charming, in a mind-boggling sort of way, and something she would have expected Steve to hate.
Except Steve just stands there with this strangely smug, affection smile on his face half the time, and just as Danny slows down, there's Steve to roll a pebble and start another avalanche. She'd chalked it up to his desire to tease winning out over his desire for some peace and quiet, but now?
She's not so sure.
What she is sure of is that Steve's deflection is starting to get on her nerves. This may be his private business, but she's the only one outside the two of them who knows, and whether he likes it or not, it's important to get these things out of his head and into the real world, where he can't box them away and pretend they aren't there.
"So let me recap, just to be sure I've got this clear." She pauses, thinks back, finger tapping on the tabletop. "You know you shouldn't be sleeping with your partner, you have a contingency plan in place in case things go south, and you two haven't stopped yet, which at least answers one question that you didn't. Does that about sum things up? Or am I missing anything else obvious?"
The last a little slice back, because it's not like she thinks he hasn't considered any of this before. But 'considered' and 'acknowledged' can be too very different things.