[Connor tries to reach out with compromise, and only manages to irritate Hank more. There's a small deflation in the curve of his shoulders, barely noticeable, but there all the same.]
I didn't say you were an idiot.
[Added quietly, maybe a little uselessly. Connor doesn't want to drop it, but he also doesn't want this to devolve into yet another argument with the Lieutenant. With a wrenching silence, he lets it go.
Hard to miss the deflation in tone, the delivery of someone disappointed; or realizing he's disappointed someone else.]
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I didn't say you were an idiot.
[Added quietly, maybe a little uselessly. Connor doesn't want to drop it, but he also doesn't want this to devolve into yet another argument with the Lieutenant. With a wrenching silence, he lets it go.
Hard to miss the deflation in tone, the delivery of someone disappointed; or realizing he's disappointed someone else.]
...Truth or dare?