foo_bar | office hours: round 1.

Yeah, no shit.

[ Jealousy? What jealousy?? ]

It's not... It's really not fucking like that.

[ Connor's so out of his league, he won't even start with that. ]

You didn't do anything wrong. Connor's hot and you're into androids, I get it. I was taking out my shit on you, and I was drunk off my ass. So it won't happen again on my end, and you don't gotta tell me what goes on between you two, got it?

[he just looks a little frozen. and then slowly presses his hands together, and to his lips.]

... okay. We'll never talk about it again. And no one needs to know anything.

Yeah. Let's go with that.

[ Hank shakes his head, trying to will the awkwardness out of this conversation. ]

You seriously saved my ass, though. Why the hell would you bother, when all I've done is piss you off and steal your booze?

I dunno. I guess I am just really bad at getting people killed.

[he says with a slight hint of sarcasm]

Sorry, I'm really fucking bad at my job.

[ Hank laughs. Oh no, is this friendship? Hank, why do you like people who are dicks? ]

Hey, don't sweat it. I'll give you gold stars on your teacher's review, how's that?

You know, at this rate, they'll probably fire me and we'll all be better off, eh?

Anyway... no hard feelings. But also, no more booze.

Dunno. Next guy might not be such shit at his job.

[ Hey, aww, he's practically admitting he wants you around, Han. ]

Hah. [ Laugh it off, Hank. It's fine. This is fine. ] I'm off the case, huh? Can't say it's the first time my fucking problem has gotten me in shit like this.

[ Hopefully it will be the last? ]

[hopefully it'll be the last.]

You should want to know anyway, but I'll have to do my own digging.

I mean, yeah, I plan to keep digging whether you pay me or not. Not like you can get Connor to stop at this point, either.

[ He sighs. ]

I just hope it doesn't get him killed.

[he considers that]

Who is he digging with? What other conversations have you been having?

Oh, come on. You know Connor. He's like a dog with a damn bone once he's got a case.

[ What case is Connor working on, that's the question. ]

[that's true. so maybe he should rephrase it...]

What other conversations were you having?

Nothing much, besides us updating each other on where we're at.

[ mmMMHhhMmmMM okay he owes Han a little truth. ]

I mean, we've talked a couple of other things out, but he's dealing with shit on his own time, too. Worrying about that deviant stuff, that kind of shit.

Worrying about the deviant stuff? Here?

[he tilts his head.]

It might sound stupid to you, but back home it's a pretty big fucking deal. And I'm pretty sure Connor was made to hunt deviants.

You wouldn't wanna become something you were created to destroy, would you?

[so he's becoming a deviant... Han doesn't say anything to that, he just nods.]

Fair enough.

It's rough for him, that's all.

[ Wow, he never said that!!! ]

All the shit he's feeling, he's feeling it for the first time. Bad enough for the rest of us, y'know?

... Are you sure it's for the first time?

Yes.

[ He says it with certainty. He and Connor had a Talk. He knows what he's talking about, at least from Connor's standpoint. ]

He's scared alright? Which, yeah, is pretty fucking ironic when the thing he's scared of is being a deviant.

I know. Sorry, shouldn't have asked.

[he presses his palms together, clamming up just a little bit.]

But also-- you asked about Megumi. I assume you've spoken to her?

It's fine. Just be careful with him, alright? He's going through shit.

[ Hank cares about him, but he's definitely totally not jealous. ]

Yeah, talked to her on day 1. What about her?

What's her opinion on what's going on?

[and he'lll... something something something with connor. but also, hank never has to worry again about him]

She's about Todd's #1 anti, if that makes any fucking sense to you.

[ mmmmMMMMMM ]

Far as I know, she likes all us students about twenty times more than her asshole boss.

Huh. I didn't know she'd ever really interacted with him.

That's interesting... Maybe I'll follow up on that, specifically.

Might be his reputation precedes him. Plus, he hired her too, didn't he?

[ Hank shrugs. ]

You guys probably have a lot in common. [ He smirks. ] Worst case, you can talk about Connor. I know he's gotten on pretty well with her too.

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