"I know that you don't give a shit about me," is snapped onto the tail end of his sentence, their last and first words overlapping. A shivering hand has curled up in an angry, nervous fist at her side. The thing is that Abby's had many people in her life like this, ones that gave the orders she followed. She was never naïve enough to think she was anything other than a body to them, but she's realising right now that she hoped Flint would be different, disappointment a disgusting tang at the back of her throat.
"But there are a lot of other people in Scouting, in Riftwatch, and I'm asking you a favour as somebody fighting a fucking war with you."
Sue her for wanting a little security, blanketed over the top of the near constant nightmares.
"Is this separate from or in addition to the favor I'm doing right now by allowing you to stand here and insult me?"
It doesn't have the tenor of a metaphorical question, but it must be one. He doesn't give her much time to answer.
"Don't imagine me unsympathetic to your position. I realize that, to a Rifter, this place is little more than an inconvenient diversion from the what you probably believe your life should be. But it would be a mistake to believe that anyone here feels otherwise. So when we all have the luxury of doing what we find most convenient, by all means. I'll happily insulate you from whoever it is you dislike. Until then, you and myself and everyone else in this tower will do what's been deemed necessary."
"Am I supposed to stand here and listen to you condescend to me without-" Abby starts, and then she makes herself stop mid-retort.
Her heart is beating crazy hard. She's so angry her eyes have gone glassy, molten hot, and she wants to punch Flint, haul back and sink her knuckles into his jaw. Cuz that's how she solves problems right, just hits them until they go away.
But what happened to her was not his fault. He had nothing to do with it. Bar that, if she's going to snap and deck somebody for fucking her off it should not be her commanding officer.
She sucks in a breath like she's coming up for air.
"Forget it," she says lowly, strung out. She hates that it feels like she's had this conversation before. She can almost see Gwenaëlle's eyes boring into hers. She grits out, "Sorry to bother you," and instantly contradicts that by turning to leave, and slamming the door shut behind her.
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"But there are a lot of other people in Scouting, in Riftwatch, and I'm asking you a favour as somebody fighting a fucking war with you."
Sue her for wanting a little security, blanketed over the top of the near constant nightmares.
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It doesn't have the tenor of a metaphorical question, but it must be one. He doesn't give her much time to answer.
"Don't imagine me unsympathetic to your position. I realize that, to a Rifter, this place is little more than an inconvenient diversion from the what you probably believe your life should be. But it would be a mistake to believe that anyone here feels otherwise. So when we all have the luxury of doing what we find most convenient, by all means. I'll happily insulate you from whoever it is you dislike. Until then, you and myself and everyone else in this tower will do what's been deemed necessary."
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Her heart is beating crazy hard. She's so angry her eyes have gone glassy, molten hot, and she wants to punch Flint, haul back and sink her knuckles into his jaw. Cuz that's how she solves problems right, just hits them until they go away.
But what happened to her was not his fault. He had nothing to do with it. Bar that, if she's going to snap and deck somebody for fucking her off it should not be her commanding officer.
She sucks in a breath like she's coming up for air.
"Forget it," she says lowly, strung out. She hates that it feels like she's had this conversation before. She can almost see Gwenaëlle's eyes boring into hers. She grits out, "Sorry to bother you," and instantly contradicts that by turning to leave, and slamming the door shut behind her.