He's hitting the call off, while Danny is talking. Already. It's like a superpower. Or a compulsion.
Making him look up, with a crinkle to his brow, like maybe he doesn't get the reference. Or maybe he's missing something from the way he's asking about it. Some odd, nearly quiet, envy that Steve can't really place or make sense of. Especially when everything about Jameson hamstrings his annoyance. Steve hadn't yet seen anyone in all of this as more than a means to the ends of Hesse. Jameson had only been the first one that docket.
And it is. Even if his face doesn't give a twitch of that away. It is satisfying. Taking her for it.
Even if he knows it's a dangerous game of figuring out how much he can push before he meets the wall.
But he's not acknowledging that part of the comment. He's not acknowledging it feels good at least in a tiny drop. To have the resources at his beck and call, continually getting him what he needs or wants. Because it's everything is running in a straight line toward Hesse. To hear that pausing, curious, near envious tone coming from his left. Even if he just continued to give Danny a look like he's insane, or indecipherable. Rolls straight over that into the more important things.
"They're still working on wiring, and furniture, but we'll have a working computer and access to the database by the time we get there."
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Making him look up, with a crinkle to his brow, like maybe he doesn't get the reference. Or maybe he's missing something from the way he's asking about it. Some odd, nearly quiet, envy that Steve can't really place or make sense of. Especially when everything about Jameson hamstrings his annoyance. Steve hadn't yet seen anyone in all of this as more than a means to the ends of Hesse. Jameson had only been the first one that docket.
And it is. Even if his face doesn't give a twitch of that away. It is satisfying. Taking her for it.
Even if he knows it's a dangerous game of figuring out how much he can push before he meets the wall.
But he's not acknowledging that part of the comment. He's not acknowledging it feels good at least in a tiny drop. To have the resources at his beck and call, continually getting him what he needs or wants. Because it's everything is running in a straight line toward Hesse. To hear that pausing, curious, near envious tone coming from his left. Even if he just continued to give Danny a look like he's insane, or indecipherable. Rolls straight over that into the more important things.
"They're still working on wiring, and furniture, but we'll have a working computer and access to the database by the time we get there."