are there some aces up your sleeve?

[glassbox]

WHO: frank castle, renee montoya, and lil crawley
WHERE: residence #002
WHEN: saturday evening
WHAT: let's behave like adults here
WARNINGS: angry annoying canadians

No.

[ her body was saying it as much as her mouth was -- the way she was barring the door, arms folded under her chest with her temper visibly rising in her posture, permeating through her spine and to the tip of her tongue, making the word sharp as a knife. there was no getting around her, not physically -- not with him still wheelchair bound. ]

Y'can't go. Look at you. I ain't lookin' after your stubborn ass so that y'can go out tryin' t'be some kinda four-wheeled vigilante an' get messed up worse.

[ maybe she should have reconsidered picking a fight with frank when just a little while ago, she'd invited renee over to catch up. but lil was never exactly the type to plan things well -- or back down from a fight. ]

Comments

[fronttowardenemy]

[ She speaks like a parent guarding their teenage daughter, and that doesn't bode well. ]

This is the rooming we're assigned. [ His response is flat. Not a lie, but not the whole story ] She offered her help; I accepted.

There's nothing else to tell.

[fronttowardenemy]

[ That isn't what he expected. His brow arches as he studies her. ]

If you think that you already know, then why bother asking?

[fronttowardenemy]

I already told you.

You're expecting something that isn't there.

[fronttowardenemy]

You are. That question proves it.

I don't know what she's told you, but don't waste your time.

[fronttowardenemy]

I don't pretend.

She knows better -- don't encourage her otherwise.

[fronttowardenemy]

[ He's tried. It isn't that easy -- and admitting that alone is a sign he's gone too deep. It's already become too complicated.

But he won't say that to Montoya. ]

Offered her help until I recovered. I'm leaving once it's done.

That's all there is to it.

[fronttowardenemy]

City doesn't suit me.

I'll be gone.

[fronttowardenemy]

Confidential.

[ He isn't that stupid. ]

Detective.

[fronttowardenemy]

Depends what she wants.

[ He gives her a look, sizing her up. ]

What is it you want?

[fronttowardenemy]

I want to return to my mission.

[ In the end, they want the same thing. ]

That's it.

[fronttowardenemy]

[ He glances down at his legs, pointedly, then back up at Renee. ]

She knows what this is.

[fronttowardenemy]

Making assumptions.

She's the one to talk to. I've never hid intent.

[fronttowardenemy]

Then you know.

Nothing else to tell.