[ he never had to be this close to know she's on edge. he'd seen the circles under her eyes, the tension around her shoulders. he'd even seen the way she seems to forget who or what or how he is, stepping close where she doesn't need to, speaking where mouthed words could have done just fine.
if she expects any reaction from her words at all, she doesn't get much. a heavy pause, a slow and steady blink. but then again, he's been perfecting the blank expression for quite a while now. it doesn't take much to crack through it, and all her pretense had helped prepare him for something pretty bad anyway.
he'd always suspected it had to have been something along those lines. a catch to her catch, that is, given the way havoc keeps such information so tightly under wraps. even in confessing to him, she'd always taken care never to confess too much. ]
sHE aTtaCK sOMeboDy?
[ he thinks of ellie again. moreover of tess' attachment to her. he thinks of hinata, next, of their time spent shared in that black box. ]
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if she expects any reaction from her words at all, she doesn't get much. a heavy pause, a slow and steady blink. but then again, he's been perfecting the blank expression for quite a while now. it doesn't take much to crack through it, and all her pretense had helped prepare him for something pretty bad anyway.
he'd always suspected it had to have been something along those lines. a catch to her catch, that is, given the way havoc keeps such information so tightly under wraps. even in confessing to him, she'd always taken care never to confess too much. ]
sHE aTtaCK sOMeboDy?
[ he thinks of ellie again. moreover of tess' attachment to her. he thinks of hinata, next, of their time spent shared in that black box. ]