[ Damian's voice comes out hard and short, jaw setting. He can't tell him to keep his hands off - that's just not possible, so after a second he relents. ]
Before you do anything, you tell me. [ ... ] The more upset she is, them more likely she is to go after my brothers. I don't care if she comes after me, there's not a lot she can do to me that I can't walk off - but them?
[ They're already so damn angry at him. At each other. He doesn't know how to even begin fitting the pieces of their trust back together, and this whole thing going beyond him? Beyond them? Running the risk of other people pissing her off or getting too close, and her deciding to take it out on them? ]
And all four of us need to co-ordinate or things are going to go very south very fast. We can't afford to be blindsided.
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[ Damian's voice comes out hard and short, jaw setting. He can't tell him to keep his hands off - that's just not possible, so after a second he relents. ]
Before you do anything, you tell me. [ ... ] The more upset she is, them more likely she is to go after my brothers. I don't care if she comes after me, there's not a lot she can do to me that I can't walk off - but them?
[ They're already so damn angry at him. At each other. He doesn't know how to even begin fitting the pieces of their trust back together, and this whole thing going beyond him? Beyond them? Running the risk of other people pissing her off or getting too close, and her deciding to take it out on them? ]
And all four of us need to co-ordinate or things are going to go very south very fast. We can't afford to be blindsided.