“He’s been looking on edge again.”
“Yeah.” Angie shuffled her chair over--his listened to the scrapeslide of her boots without looking up from his magazine--just close enough to kick the height lever of his to drop him down to the chair’s lowest setting.
“Hey-!” He swatted at her shoe as she tried to keep him from fixing his seat, but to no avail. “I don’t do that to you.”
“That’s just because you’re too lazy to,” she countered. Which was true. But also wasn’t the point. “Church, come on.”
“What? I didn’t do anything. You’ve seen me, I’ve been nice.” Better than nice, even. A perfect gentleman, some might say. (Or, at least, they should have. The exxie had a serious stick up his ass that made him such a drag to work with. Really, Church was going out of his way to behave himself.)
She scoffed. “Because that settled him down.” She kicked the underside of his chair until he finally looked at her, and then fixed him with her ‘I’m trying to be serious, stop being a little shit’ look. “If I need to be watching out for both of our asses because you did something stupid-”
“Ang, I’m serious. I’ve been leaving him alone.”
Her eyes narrowed. “I still don’t believe you stopped just because you got bored.”
It took him a moment to realize he’d never gotten around to telling her after hours why he’d actually decided (agreed, really, he could give Danny that much credit) to stop pestering the Exterminator. “I may have embellished the truth about that.”
“That’s what I said.” He waved off her aggravated protests with an absent movement of his hand. “I’ll tell you later. We can go to my place.”
“You did do something stupid-”
“I beg to differ.” Lunches with Danny had (at least so far) been absolutely worth it. (Even if he did end up paying for it later. Which... fifty-fifty, at this point.)
“Of course you do, you’re the one who did it.”
“That doesn’t make me feel better.”