Chin gives Steve a tight, almost curt nod, and slides a glance at Danny, but before Danny can define it or start translating it, the man's headed past him, back to the security office they found him in, shoulders tense and hands fisting at his sides.
Danny's getting up as he heads past, and he watches him for a second, eyebrows raised, while he wanders his way over to Steve, one hand in his pocket, the other swinging idly at his side. "That is a man with zero job satisfaction."
It would be a bad idea to question Steve's decision, right now. He knows it, and, honestly, he's not sure he wants to try. Sure, it's a bad story -- it always is, when a cop is accused and drummed out of the force -- but it's not like HPD's given Danny much reason for loyalty or blind, close-minded belief. Maybe Chin didn't take the money. Maybe he's on the outs with HPD, just like Danny is, for no good reason at all, other than that they're a bunch of bigoted, close-minded assholes with a talent for banding together against anyone who doesn't march in step with the rest of them.
So he doesn't argue it, or bring it up. He's got his own suspicions, but there's no instinct screaming red lights and sirens in his brain and gut that Chin's a bad egg, and they do need him. "You have anymore misfit toys to pick up today, or are we done? Because I have to warn you, my car only seats so many, and you already take up about a third of the available cab space."
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Date: 2014-01-23 11:01 pm (UTC)Chin gives Steve a tight, almost curt nod, and slides a glance at Danny, but before Danny can define it or start translating it, the man's headed past him, back to the security office they found him in, shoulders tense and hands fisting at his sides.
Danny's getting up as he heads past, and he watches him for a second, eyebrows raised, while he wanders his way over to Steve, one hand in his pocket, the other swinging idly at his side. "That is a man with zero job satisfaction."
It would be a bad idea to question Steve's decision, right now. He knows it, and, honestly, he's not sure he wants to try. Sure, it's a bad story -- it always is, when a cop is accused and drummed out of the force -- but it's not like HPD's given Danny much reason for loyalty or blind, close-minded belief. Maybe Chin didn't take the money. Maybe he's on the outs with HPD, just like Danny is, for no good reason at all, other than that they're a bunch of bigoted, close-minded assholes with a talent for banding together against anyone who doesn't march in step with the rest of them.
So he doesn't argue it, or bring it up. He's got his own suspicions, but there's no instinct screaming red lights and sirens in his brain and gut that Chin's a bad egg, and they do need him. "You have anymore misfit toys to pick up today, or are we done? Because I have to warn you, my car only seats so many, and you already take up about a third of the available cab space."