cactusy: (I'm waiting for someone)

o7 (and also sorry i missed this notif)

[personal profile] cactusy 2025-02-20 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shaw waffles briefly, torn between responding seriously, brushing it off with a joke, or saying nothing at all. It might not always seem like it, as brash as she is, but to a certain extent Shaw does tailor her responses to people. Harold is most likely to get silence (because she knows that he'll understand and accept it) or seriousness (because she knows that sometimes he needs it). Carver's done okay with a mix of all three so far, but this is also a new situation for him, and clearly an awkward one. And she'd rather not inadvertently give off the impression that she's either apathetic towards or disbelieving of Harold's words, so--]

He means it.

[She pulls her hands out of her pockets, crossing her arms over her chest.]

I've never had a better employer than Harold.