[He gives her a bit of an eyeroll back. He wants credit for trying. It's hard enough just to try.
Then he gives her a bit of a perplexed look; it gives way to concern. She doesn't look comfortable anymore, and he gets the sense that by prying into her past, he's stuck his fingers into a barely-healed wound. He wants to ask more, but backs off.]
I think I started out wanting to help too. [Maybe. It's hard to remember when it stopped being about the duties but about the badge. Definitely before he actually started his career, maybe as far back as Academy. Maybe further back then that.
All he really knows is that once upon a time he was a kid and he thought being a cop was about curtailing evil and rescuing people from bad situations. At some point he stopped thinking that and more upsettingly, he didn't even notice he stopped. It's the kind of shift that should provoke some kind of moral riot, some horror, some questioning who someone even is anymore, and he didn't even notice it.]
Well, seems like you can help a lot here. Especially with that healing thing you do.
no subject
Then he gives her a bit of a perplexed look; it gives way to concern. She doesn't look comfortable anymore, and he gets the sense that by prying into her past, he's stuck his fingers into a barely-healed wound. He wants to ask more, but backs off.]
I think I started out wanting to help too. [Maybe. It's hard to remember when it stopped being about the duties but about the badge. Definitely before he actually started his career, maybe as far back as Academy. Maybe further back then that.
All he really knows is that once upon a time he was a kid and he thought being a cop was about curtailing evil and rescuing people from bad situations. At some point he stopped thinking that and more upsettingly, he didn't even notice he stopped. It's the kind of shift that should provoke some kind of moral riot, some horror, some questioning who someone even is anymore, and he didn't even notice it.]
Well, seems like you can help a lot here. Especially with that healing thing you do.