Wait, what? Maybe this was intentional, he doesn’t fucking know, but there’s no preparation for this outcome. The conversation hadn’t been comfortable for either of them, so it had been instinct for Wylan (the real Wylan, not the jokester nor the assassin) to offer an escape rope to pull them both out. Besides, the bulk of things had been released. The ‘important stuff’ as it were. One of them is a killer. One of them is a liar. Quid pro quo. Get some drinks. Instead, Drea had flipped not the table, not the room, but the house.
“No? The hell do you mean? And since when did you ever care what I thought? This was something you’d just slap me over if anything. And… pf.” A heavy sigh as he now has to think more about it. Was he perhaps preoccupied with the reverse question, the one she also brought up? Did he care more about it than he himself realized? “I don’t know. You’re still you, I’m still me. It’s not like either of us have been deceiving each other. Wasn’t my intent anyhow. I’m still… y’know. All this.” An empty gesture to his person, no elaboration but implicit assumption could mean anything from his personality to his behavior.
“And you’re still definitely, all that, aren’t you?” A brow attempts to lift, a softened expression from the furrow that had crumpled his features. “…so you think that me, a guy who ended up killing people to pay off debts and because he got in with the wrong crowd, is going to judge you for being confused and scared when you were younger? Like I have some right to? Fuck. I mean I could. I could go over there and slap you right now. And then you’d kick me in the nuts or report me to the FBI as a killer. And then things escalate.” He stops, another empty shrug as he fights for thought or word.
“I don’t want do to that. I don’t want things to change between us. Why do you think I even decided to tell you this? I trusted you, this wasn’t supposed to change that. Which, in lovely retrospect, seems stupid.” He laughs, a lift of his chest before hands fall on his knees. “I sat down and wanted to talk to you because I thought you’d … I dunno, understand? And look past it? I didn’t want anything else. This isn’t some character moment where now you unlock a new feature of being my friend, or… I don’t… ah.” What did he want out of it? What did he want her to say? “Neither of us want to be felt sorry for. In my case, it was all stupid shit I brought on myself so I don’t deserve it. But hey. Just don’t… do the FBI thing. I don’t want to have to stop you. Because I would.” There’s a flash of a viridian gaze at the Spaniard. How honest the threat was a question and how much was the usual lift of humor as a response to stress?
“Just felt like you deserved to know. In the end.”
Since when did she care-- the blush deepens, oh, he’s not allowed to comment on it, to point it out! One of the few times in history that she’s had a chance to catch him off guard and she can’t enjoy it -- because of course.
When he gestures at himself -- sitting there, an ordinary dude, chilling on the sofa; when he puts it like that, all that doesn't seem a big deal, and neither does all of her, likely. Just her. Just Wylan. Secrets or not, they've always had an organic, genuine, messed-up bond. Their secrets put some strain on the relationship, but it doesn’t transform it. Of course, she knew that she didn’t want that. She doesn't seem him differently. Maybe as a more nuanced, complex, interesting person. More of an asshole than before, too.
Andrea just hadn't applied the reverse logic. And he has to say it out loud for that to become a possibility, or a truth. He puts it very plainly, as if it's a given. Humans are blind like that, flawed like that. It was a given that she didn’t change how she thinks about him, but not how he thinks about her. For a moment, he paints the picture very clearly, stunning her into silence. Then his logic spins out of control with wild assumptions.
Reporting him to the FBI, backstabbing a friend -- an absurd hypothesis yet he talks as if she’s already commited the act; I trusted you, I would stop you, don’t do it -- she washes her stupor down with the glass of wine. This gives her face a new ( better ) reason to become slightly flushed.
The end, he says? '--Are you an imbecile?' Fucking don't think so.
'Listen ( the wine glass slammed back on the table simultaneously, adding more gravity ), I think it's fucking rude that you kept your batman tricks a secret. It gives you an unfair advantage because you can basically spider-man your way into my house and steal all the toilet paper. You're a smartass and an asshole, but like you said -- that's nothing new.' This is the usual Andrea, spurred into anger, frustrated, aggressive, spicy. Hot and bothered. Ready to slap a bitch. Looks like she's about to maul him, actually, prodding his chest ( not at all gently ) with each word and pushing him deeper into the sofa.
'So, report you?! You said we're friends. We're having too much fun messing around, so why would--?' A flash of embarrassment, of self-consciousness -- she doesn't often straight-out admit to enjoying their time together -- 'If you say that again I'll murder you first. Fucking imbécil. Y te lo merecerías.' All that pushing and the heated words got her almost straddling him where he sits. Characteristically, this is the point where a bashful admission follows;
'A-anyway. Gracias. Por decir que nada cambiará entre nosotros.' This, mumbled, and Spanish, because he doesn’t understand a word of it. Uncharacteristically, she has no cheeky line to add to the bashful admission. Why not? Hell if she knows. Though she didn’t much point it out, he’d showed his own glimpses of vulnerability, of uncertainty. Because she wants to acknowledge that she doesn’t want anything to change, either?
But, like, in a roundabout way. Does he have Google Translate?