He's not busy. There is absolutely nothing else of consequences he could even try to drag out, and the fact he's trying to slow down Steve's next stop, and give him excuses annoys Steve. Who's shoving a pin in that, as flat and fast as necessary. Because there's nowhere else and nothing else for this guy. The room screams it. That outfits screams it. Everything does.
"Fold out bed." That you wouldn't bring anyone worth anything to. "No ring on your finger." And no sign of that ex-wife in the picture with his daughter. She's the whole focus of it. And the only picture in the whole room. "You obviously moved here to be close to your daughter." Which he wasn't knocking, but it made the glaring hole just that, glaring. "Which means between visits, all you got is your job, and you take pride in that."
Which he'd gotten from a few things, for the garage to his Captain's begrudged admittance he got the work done. People might not like how he did it -- and that surprised Steve none at all just with his being a haole, before you added the attitude -- but he got it done. All the time. He was problematic, but he wasn't a slacker. "That's what I'm looking for."
And now if they were done with lip service, they had a job to do already. Hesse could be slipping away by the second.
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Date: 2014-01-16 02:41 am (UTC)"Fold out bed." That you wouldn't bring anyone worth anything to. "No ring on your finger." And no sign of that ex-wife in the picture with his daughter. She's the whole focus of it. And the only picture in the whole room. "You obviously moved here to be close to your daughter." Which he wasn't knocking, but it made the glaring hole just that, glaring. "Which means between visits, all you got is your job, and you take pride in that."
Which he'd gotten from a few things, for the garage to his Captain's begrudged admittance he got the work done. People might not like how he did it -- and that surprised Steve none at all just with his being a haole, before you added the attitude -- but he got it done. All the time. He was problematic, but he wasn't a slacker. "That's what I'm looking for."
And now if they were done with lip service, they had a job to do already. Hesse could be slipping away by the second.