[ Which is true in so many ways- but then he wasn't hired all that often, Vic wasn't a boss so much as a partner and the whole cracking locks and encryption from the safety of his apartment was...well. Ignoble. It felt shady because it was shady and he'd kinda gotten used to it. But working with Carolina? Had always been twisted with a strong line of Duty and an undercurrent of the right thing to do. They were the good guys.
Until they weren't.
He tugs one of the burritos over to nibble on, checking his stomach's readiness to actually settle before taking a bigger bite. That he almost chokes on when she says she walked away. Just. Away? Away.
Part of him is stupidly proud for her. Part of him is knotted up in everything that had been, everything they'd lost, everything that went wrong. Swallowing it is harder than swallowing the chicken. ]
...I'm sorry. For your. Loss. It is a loss, isn't it?
no subject
[ Which is true in so many ways- but then he wasn't hired all that often, Vic wasn't a boss so much as a partner and the whole cracking locks and encryption from the safety of his apartment was...well. Ignoble. It felt shady because it was shady and he'd kinda gotten used to it. But working with Carolina? Had always been twisted with a strong line of Duty and an undercurrent of the right thing to do. They were the good guys.
Until they weren't.
He tugs one of the burritos over to nibble on, checking his stomach's readiness to actually settle before taking a bigger bite. That he almost chokes on when she says she walked away. Just. Away? Away.
Part of him is stupidly proud for her. Part of him is knotted up in everything that had been, everything they'd lost, everything that went wrong. Swallowing it is harder than swallowing the chicken. ]
...I'm sorry. For your. Loss. It is a loss, isn't it?