[It takes him a second to follow her back to that sentence fragment he hadn't thought twice about abandoning. The end of it just feels so obvious to him.]
Right, uh- take that 'dangerous situation'. The danger was fine. We were out, we were talking, everything was fine. Then I opened my big fuckin mouth and you thought I was ticked at you and you left. It's just, stuff like that. I think I- I forgot how to talk to...
[God, how the fuck to say this. He knows how the difference between him and her feels in his head, but putting a word to it - one that won't make him sound like more of an ass - is something else.]
...uh, more... classy people? Nice people, I guess. I used to. On the job, anyway. But now- I don't know, I just don't want to make shit harder for you today. Look, is there anything I can uh, do? To apologize, or help out or, you know, whatever.
[Hank's grimacing while he says it but the awkwardness on his face doesn't really make it to the rest of him. Or if it does, it's hard to tell. There's too much today, too much in his head to pick out one little emotion in the middle of all the rest of them.]
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[It takes him a second to follow her back to that sentence fragment he hadn't thought twice about abandoning. The end of it just feels so obvious to him.]
Right, uh- take that 'dangerous situation'. The danger was fine. We were out, we were talking, everything was fine. Then I opened my big fuckin mouth and you thought I was ticked at you and you left. It's just, stuff like that. I think I- I forgot how to talk to...
[God, how the fuck to say this. He knows how the difference between him and her feels in his head, but putting a word to it - one that won't make him sound like more of an ass - is something else.]
...uh, more... classy people? Nice people, I guess. I used to. On the job, anyway. But now- I don't know, I just don't want to make shit harder for you today. Look, is there anything I can uh, do? To apologize, or help out or, you know, whatever.
[Hank's grimacing while he says it but the awkwardness on his face doesn't really make it to the rest of him. Or if it does, it's hard to tell. There's too much today, too much in his head to pick out one little emotion in the middle of all the rest of them.]