He wonders if Steve actually, truly, in his heart, believes that if he says something with enough conviction, other people will start believing it, too. He wonders if Steve honestly thinks he can make things happen, just by wanting them hard enough.
The thing is, he's not sure he can come up with any solid proof that it isn't working.
He's only known the guy for a few hours, but this is the second time he's seen him railroad someone into working with him; pinpointing their motivation and skewering them with it. It worked on Danny, and it's working on Chin Ho Kelly.
Who does, actually, have a choice that Danny didn't have, but who is standing there, struck, staring at Steve, and Danny can't say he can blame the guy, right? Like, is he for real?
Just dropping the stigma of an inquiry into Chin's character and morals and job performance. Saying it doesn't matter, when Danny knows it's the reason the man left his fifteen-year, stellar career, is the thing behind the hunger and the calm desperation in his face, the bitterness in his laughter. Standing there, straight-shouldered and easy, the solution to everyone's problems. Snapping his fingers and just making it happen.
Making the world shift.
He wonder if that's a usual thing around Steve McGarrett, the complete uprooting of reality. Steve striding in and changing the whole game, lifting the players, breaking all the rules. He should hate it. It should unsettle the hell out of him.
So how come he's finding himself starting to feel some begrudging respect?
It's not like any of this is going to stay, is it? Maybe Steve said he'd transfer to the Reserves and take on this...what, task force, but once they've got Hesse, he'll go back and so will Danny and Chin, right? How far does this ticket actually take them? It's not actually enough to hope for anything, is it? Just because Steve says so, just because Steve is calling it a way back into the game, that doesn't make it one.
Right?
Chin seems wary, too, but unlike Danny, he seems to know when a fight's been lost, and breaks eye contact first, shaking his head in something like wry disbelief. "Okay," he says, after a second. "I'll talk to him for you. But I warn you: the man knows how to bargain, and information won't come cheap."
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Date: 2014-01-23 12:55 am (UTC)He wonders if Steve actually, truly, in his heart, believes that if he says something with enough conviction, other people will start believing it, too. He wonders if Steve honestly thinks he can make things happen, just by wanting them hard enough.
The thing is, he's not sure he can come up with any solid proof that it isn't working.
He's only known the guy for a few hours, but this is the second time he's seen him railroad someone into working with him; pinpointing their motivation and skewering them with it. It worked on Danny, and it's working on Chin Ho Kelly.
Who does, actually, have a choice that Danny didn't have, but who is standing there, struck, staring at Steve, and Danny can't say he can blame the guy, right? Like, is he for real?
Just dropping the stigma of an inquiry into Chin's character and morals and job performance. Saying it doesn't matter, when Danny knows it's the reason the man left his fifteen-year, stellar career, is the thing behind the hunger and the calm desperation in his face, the bitterness in his laughter. Standing there, straight-shouldered and easy, the solution to everyone's problems. Snapping his fingers and just making it happen.
Making the world shift.
He wonder if that's a usual thing around Steve McGarrett, the complete uprooting of reality. Steve striding in and changing the whole game, lifting the players, breaking all the rules. He should hate it. It should unsettle the hell out of him.
So how come he's finding himself starting to feel some begrudging respect?
It's not like any of this is going to stay, is it? Maybe Steve said he'd transfer to the Reserves and take on this...what, task force, but once they've got Hesse, he'll go back and so will Danny and Chin, right? How far does this ticket actually take them? It's not actually enough to hope for anything, is it? Just because Steve says so, just because Steve is calling it a way back into the game, that doesn't make it one.
Right?
Chin seems wary, too, but unlike Danny, he seems to know when a fight's been lost, and breaks eye contact first, shaking his head in something like wry disbelief. "Okay," he says, after a second. "I'll talk to him for you. But I warn you: the man knows how to bargain, and information won't come cheap."