You always fight, [ she says as she leans to press the button to the doors and Aberdeen knows it's a lie, but that may be the point. Over the year they've known each other, it's perhaps become apparent to Dundee: Aberdeen seems to glean just as much satisfaction from when they disagree as from when they get on. And regardless of how well or how poorly things are for the both of them at any given time, there's something of an unspoken status quo that Aberdeen liked to hover around with both word and action.
It's as near to expectation that he's able to wring from her, but that it's expectation at all should mean something to him. (Anyone else, and she'd just slip away entirely in the hopes of shaking her shoulders free of the burden.)
Leaning against the back of the lift, she stares at him for a good minute, maybe two. The intra-ship transport is fairly straightforward here so there's no minding of buttons or floors just Medbay to passengers' quarters, passenger's quarters to Medbay. The distance is long enough that they'll be here for a while (Aberdeen knows) and so there's no rush for her answer, which when it finally comes, proves itself to be a: ]
action; back off the piercings, dundee :|
It's as near to expectation that he's able to wring from her, but that it's expectation at all should mean something to him. (Anyone else, and she'd just slip away entirely in the hopes of shaking her shoulders free of the burden.)
Leaning against the back of the lift, she stares at him for a good minute, maybe two. The intra-ship transport is fairly straightforward here so there's no minding of buttons or floors just Medbay to passengers' quarters, passenger's quarters to Medbay. The distance is long enough that they'll be here for a while (Aberdeen knows) and so there's no rush for her answer, which when it finally comes, proves itself to be a: ]
No.