Me too. There's a sort of sense of validation that exists within those two little words. Like he isn't really in the wrong for what he's been doing, if their Number One still makes those same choices, too. Instantly on its heels is a drop into something hot and acrid at what is so easily heard as a correction, a chiding of how he's doing it wrong.
But he takes a beat. Two. To let it sit. Long enough to see past the red that so much of what Luther ever says to him makes him see and go beyond it. "I wasn't even wearing a mask when I got arrested." Apparently, that moment to see past the knee-jerk anger does nothing for his tongue, however, still snapping at the perceived accusation.
He barrels directly into the one part of that night he hasn't actually mentioned to anyone so far. "I wasn't there for vigilante reasons in the first place. I was tr--" His brain catches up to his mouth and it makes his voice come to a verbal screeching stop. Except... it's too late, isn't it? So, he finishes after a brief, awkward pause. "Tr- I was trying to apologize to Vanya."
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There's a sort of sense of validation that exists within those two little words. Like he isn't really in the wrong for what he's been doing, if their Number One still makes those same choices, too. Instantly on its heels is a drop into something hot and acrid at what is so easily heard as a correction, a chiding of how he's doing it wrong.
But he takes a beat. Two. To let it sit. Long enough to see past the red that so much of what Luther ever says to him makes him see and go beyond it. "I wasn't even wearing a mask when I got arrested." Apparently, that moment to see past the knee-jerk anger does nothing for his tongue, however, still snapping at the perceived accusation.
He barrels directly into the one part of that night he hasn't actually mentioned to anyone so far. "I wasn't there for vigilante reasons in the first place. I was tr--" His brain catches up to his mouth and it makes his voice come to a verbal screeching stop. Except... it's too late, isn't it? So, he finishes after a brief, awkward pause. "Tr- I was trying to apologize to Vanya."