"Listen, if I can survive having a bullet cut out with bourbon and a pocket knife, I'm not going amputee over a scorpion sting," Kate says and kind of rolls her eyes but goes with letting him take some of her weight anyway. She gets it. Plus...
It's a thing. He keeps saying this stuff. Like he's going to be there if she needs him. And it's not something she's used to, so it always shuts her up a little. Yeah, he's teasing but that just makes it sharper. You don't joke about shit like that when you don't mean it. Not people like her and Jim.
She's not planning to say it, but the flash of golden blonde hair where it really shouldn't be calls for desperate measures:
"Boy hot." It's an after-thought, a little too slow. Her eyebrow hitches upward, mouth quirks a little. "Didn't know you 'dealt' with that. You just got about 200% hotter."
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2012-05-02 08:29 pm (UTC)It's a thing. He keeps saying this stuff. Like he's going to be there if she needs him. And it's not something she's used to, so it always shuts her up a little. Yeah, he's teasing but that just makes it sharper. You don't joke about shit like that when you don't mean it. Not people like her and Jim.
She's not planning to say it, but the flash of golden blonde hair where it really shouldn't be calls for desperate measures:
"Boy hot." It's an after-thought, a little too slow. Her eyebrow hitches upward, mouth quirks a little. "Didn't know you 'dealt' with that. You just got about 200% hotter."