"I'm not sure they'd have made it anywhere near this far if they were anything less." She's wry but smiling, reaching for another piece of ahi. "You're a hard act to keep up with."
At the beginning, she would have said he wouldn't have stayed. That once he'd found Victor Hesse, avenged his father, he'd have dissolved the team and moved on, went back to tightly classified missions on the other side of the world.
But he hadn't. He'd stayed. Found something worth staying for, worth giving up that other life, the one he'd so excelled at. She knows it eats at him, sometimes, the way being land-locked eats at her, but so far he hasn't jumped ship, left the task force to Chin or Danny and bid farewell to the islands. He's found a home again, here, without so much putting down roots as just clinging with bare fingers to the calm green bulk of Waianae Range, digging stubbornly into the sand like a crab.
She's almost envious, but not really. It's a nice place to be, Oahu, and she appreciates how close to him Pearl allows her to be, but it's not her place, not her home.
Still, it'll be good. Being nearby. And maybe she can finally get some surfing in.
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Date: 2013-04-01 02:43 pm (UTC)At the beginning, she would have said he wouldn't have stayed. That once he'd found Victor Hesse, avenged his father, he'd have dissolved the team and moved on, went back to tightly classified missions on the other side of the world.
But he hadn't. He'd stayed. Found something worth staying for, worth giving up that other life, the one he'd so excelled at. She knows it eats at him, sometimes, the way being land-locked eats at her, but so far he hasn't jumped ship, left the task force to Chin or Danny and bid farewell to the islands. He's found a home again, here, without so much putting down roots as just clinging with bare fingers to the calm green bulk of Waianae Range, digging stubbornly into the sand like a crab.
She's almost envious, but not really. It's a nice place to be, Oahu, and she appreciates how close to him Pearl allows her to be, but it's not her place, not her home.
Still, it'll be good. Being nearby. And maybe she can finally get some surfing in.