Horatio panicking when he realizes that Maria made him a steak that he doesn't want to eat because he doesn't like steak and is too excited about going to sea to eat in any event. And then realizing that she hasn't made any steak for herself despite probably liking steak since she thought to buy it for him.
And he just goes "oh no oh fuck okay what do I do um -- I KNOW! ROLEPLAY! PLAYFULLY ACCUSE HER OF MUTINY IN MY QUARTERDECK VOICE SO SHE EATS MOST OF IT."
Babygirl, you are so strange and off-putting. No one is doing it like you.
But congratulations because she did seem to enjoy that.
Yes I've read and loved One Foot in Sea but realizing how much of that dynamic is CANON actually killed me dead. Fic or Forester, man. It's always Forester....
