( accessing file ;; SNART. )
len wants to provoke him, wants to cause the other man to react to what he’s saying or doing in a way beyond just saying that it will work but he has no real desire to hurt him. at least not right now. they’re on a team and that means something to len despite what so many people may thing. mick is his priority, true, but they’re all important here. if he’s forced to choose between someone on the team and his partner? well, let’s just hope that no one here tries to force him into a spot like that again. sometimes he though, or maybe he just decided and when he decided something it became fact in his mind, that he thought ray needed someone in his life to play devils advocate for his grander ideas. not because he doesn’t believe they can work, not because he doesn’t want them to work, but because everyone needs a villain, everyone needs someone to prove themselves against. len can be that person for ray. besides it’s fun.
“ you can call me len, raymond, i don’t mind. “ he knows that wasn’t the reason he reverted back to the use of his last name but really he was here to get rich not make friends. though friends seemed to come along no matter he tried to do to keep them at bay. “ len or snart or captain, lenoard if you’re feeling like an old man. “ he smiles at the reaction he gets with his unprovoked attack on ray’s ear. good. something real. “ oh, sorry, did that bother you? i’ll keep it in mind. “
there's a look of annoyance cast towards the man, no m a t t e r if a fondness shows in his eyes or not --- there was no way he was going to allow himself the luxury of calling him something familiar. something friendly, they weren't f r i e n d s, they were just stuck on the ship --- on this team, together; they weren't friends. even if ray did like spending time with the criminals; even if some part of him saw them as a s a f e haven from judgement. no matter how 'useless' his current company saw him.
❛ calling you 'len' isn't exactly high on the list of things i'd l i k e to do. ❜ mostly because it meant something, & if he let himself start thinking like that --- it wouldn't be long until he was developing a crush on leonard, & wouldn't t h a t be a horrible thing to experience? especially if the man found out about it. so ray was keen to distance himself as m u c h as he could, in the emotional aspect. ❛ the day i call you len, is the day you call me r a y. ❜ he, honestly, didn't mind 'raymond' when it was from leonard... ( fuck. ) ❛ & yes, you a s s. that did bother me; i have work to focus on. ❜ attention now drifting back to the pieces upon the table; he's quick to get back to work. c a r e f u l; & yet impatient to finish his project.