Amused, remembering days, weeks, months when free time and liberty was nothing but a fantasy shared by everyone else on the boat, a far-off dreamland that might as well not exist at all, for all the good it did them in the middle of drill or duty.
She's paused as Steve flags the boy down, gives the kid a smile and a thanks when he finds a couple of the laminated menus to hand them before disappearing, presumably to tell their waitress to come check on them again. Which is good, and the whole idea is a nice one, if a little alien. Dinner, with Steve, where nothing else is expected or will come. When it's literally just the two of them, hanging out as friends, old friends, comfortable with each other, catching up on the lives they've both only seen bits and pieces of throughout the last years.
Not that there's much on her end, and she has to time her attack correctly in order to get anything out of him. This will require a delicate kind of precise offensive, but at least he's a captive audience. Even Steve wouldn't ditch her with the check unless it was for something important.
"So not expecting any visitors tonight?"
Not that Danny was exactly expected before, but that's not really the point.
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Date: 2013-04-11 01:43 pm (UTC)Amused, remembering days, weeks, months when free time and liberty was nothing but a fantasy shared by everyone else on the boat, a far-off dreamland that might as well not exist at all, for all the good it did them in the middle of drill or duty.
She's paused as Steve flags the boy down, gives the kid a smile and a thanks when he finds a couple of the laminated menus to hand them before disappearing, presumably to tell their waitress to come check on them again. Which is good, and the whole idea is a nice one, if a little alien. Dinner, with Steve, where nothing else is expected or will come. When it's literally just the two of them, hanging out as friends, old friends, comfortable with each other, catching up on the lives they've both only seen bits and pieces of throughout the last years.
Not that there's much on her end, and she has to time her attack correctly in order to get anything out of him. This will require a delicate kind of precise offensive, but at least he's a captive audience. Even Steve wouldn't ditch her with the check unless it was for something important.
"So not expecting any visitors tonight?"
Not that Danny was exactly expected before, but that's not really the point.