Detachment is a crucial coping mechanism when it comes to dealing with horror, Dwayne has had far too much time to learn that. Reduce it all down to facts, cold dry analysis, and you can deal with it when you have to face it with a smile. It's the only way to deal with it, and it doesn't change the fact that Dwayne is shutting out images of silver scars and concrete pens, hollow-eyed teenagers and men who won't sleep without a wall against their backs. Just like in the Army, pieces on a board. Little figures that meant nothing because if you looked at them any other way, one day you started screaming and never stopped.
"I'm really not getting through to you, am I, hero?" Dwayne stands, feeling his wolf's ire crawl down his back. He's not sure why he keeps calling him a kid in his head, since the guy's closer to 30 than 20, but Dwayne is feeling very old right now and Josh is so green Dwayne can practically see sprouts. And he can see it in the tremors in his shoulders, the lines in his mouth and the acrid smell of his sweat that he's genuinely freaking out about this. Not just green, but a bonafide, genuine hero wannabe. Christ. He came damn close to skipping hero and going straight for martyr. "There's a bigger picture here. Not just the fact that you almost wound up in a construction site with your kneecaps blown off, which, you're welcome, I could have just left you to."
The kid's not going to let this go. If Dwayne lets him run, he'll be screaming to the police, to the ACLU, to the goddamn ASPCA...the ginger ale turns bitter in his mouth. he's going to have to do something, and while killing him isn't on the docket, locking him away until after the op is over...maybe. Dwayne can get him out of the hotel, that's not an issue as much as Josh seems to think it is, or even just keep him here. It's just...more than Dwayne wanted to deal with right now. Josh is just lucky that Dwayne is an old wolf with excellent control, because even now Dwayne is wondering if he's losing his eyes, with as stressed as he's getting.
"She asked to go, smartass. And that 'little girl' could probably have killed everyone in the room even with the collar on. Her going in is a chance to get to those other half a dozen wolves that you didn't know about, and find out more about those backers that are providing money for the bigger operation." He pauses. "And she's smart. She'll probably use a mild case of silver poisoning the first few days to buy herself some time. Keep anyone from touching her."
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"I'm really not getting through to you, am I, hero?" Dwayne stands, feeling his wolf's ire crawl down his back. He's not sure why he keeps calling him a kid in his head, since the guy's closer to 30 than 20, but Dwayne is feeling very old right now and Josh is so green Dwayne can practically see sprouts. And he can see it in the tremors in his shoulders, the lines in his mouth and the acrid smell of his sweat that he's genuinely freaking out about this. Not just green, but a bonafide, genuine hero wannabe. Christ. He came damn close to skipping hero and going straight for martyr. "There's a bigger picture here. Not just the fact that you almost wound up in a construction site with your kneecaps blown off, which, you're welcome, I could have just left you to."
The kid's not going to let this go. If Dwayne lets him run, he'll be screaming to the police, to the ACLU, to the goddamn ASPCA...the ginger ale turns bitter in his mouth. he's going to have to do something, and while killing him isn't on the docket, locking him away until after the op is over...maybe. Dwayne can get him out of the hotel, that's not an issue as much as Josh seems to think it is, or even just keep him here. It's just...more than Dwayne wanted to deal with right now. Josh is just lucky that Dwayne is an old wolf with excellent control, because even now Dwayne is wondering if he's losing his eyes, with as stressed as he's getting.
"She asked to go, smartass. And that 'little girl' could probably have killed everyone in the room even with the collar on. Her going in is a chance to get to those other half a dozen wolves that you didn't know about, and find out more about those backers that are providing money for the bigger operation." He pauses. "And she's smart. She'll probably use a mild case of silver poisoning the first few days to buy herself some time. Keep anyone from touching her."