He gestures, expansive and loose, towards the people around them, clustered into groups of two or three or four, a few individuals wandering through the crowd. Girls in brightly colored tops and jeans, guys in loud shirts. Everybody talking, relaxing on barstools or standing easily.
"Not exactly your major crime waiting to happen."
True. They've seen better situations go far worse, and he's been on the job long enough to know that just about any place, no matter how innocuous, can devolve into sudden panic and violence.
He's not really getting that vibe right now, though, which is nice, considering he doesn't have his gun on him, firearms being generally frowned upon in bars and them being off duty. Inasmuch as Five-0 ever is.
The angle away from Steve doesn't last long, though; he finds himself tipping back that way, beer bottle lifting and dropping with the motion of his hand, moving in easy circles. "Dark, empty parking lots are a much better bet for that sort of thing. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure that there is not a single place on this planet that I -- or we, which would probably be the case, all things considered -- could not get held at gun point or hijacked. It is an inevitability, apparently."
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Date: 2012-11-23 01:19 pm (UTC)He gestures, expansive and loose, towards the people around them, clustered into groups of two or three or four, a few individuals wandering through the crowd. Girls in brightly colored tops and jeans, guys in loud shirts. Everybody talking, relaxing on barstools or standing easily.
"Not exactly your major crime waiting to happen."
True. They've seen better situations go far worse, and he's been on the job long enough to know that just about any place, no matter how innocuous, can devolve into sudden panic and violence.
He's not really getting that vibe right now, though, which is nice, considering he doesn't have his gun on him, firearms being generally frowned upon in bars and them being off duty. Inasmuch as Five-0 ever is.
The angle away from Steve doesn't last long, though; he finds himself tipping back that way, beer bottle lifting and dropping with the motion of his hand, moving in easy circles. "Dark, empty parking lots are a much better bet for that sort of thing. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure that there is not a single place on this planet that I -- or we, which would probably be the case, all things considered -- could not get held at gun point or hijacked. It is an inevitability, apparently."