[ when evan starts to back off, david puts a hand down on the table to lean back on, rubs his face with his other hand. the more he starts to come back to himself, the more he feels a little off-kilter in a way he doesn't know how to process, a kind of uncertainty he can't find the source of right now. ]
[ maybe it's just the fatigue. a busy day on top of something that was way more intense than almost any other time before? makes sense that'd leave a guy feeling a bit weird, right? ]
Gonna have to give me a little bit. Then I'll get out of your hair.
[ he says it with a tired laugh in his voice, a little forced but masking this way is easy for him, he doesn't expect evan to notice. brushing everything off and acting like it's all fine and normal is something he's been doing since he was a kid, after all. and if it misses the mark somehow then the evidence suggests evan isn't about to comment on it anyway. he never has before. ]
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[ maybe it's just the fatigue. a busy day on top of something that was way more intense than almost any other time before? makes sense that'd leave a guy feeling a bit weird, right? ]
Gonna have to give me a little bit. Then I'll get out of your hair.
[ he says it with a tired laugh in his voice, a little forced but masking this way is easy for him, he doesn't expect evan to notice. brushing everything off and acting like it's all fine and normal is something he's been doing since he was a kid, after all. and if it misses the mark somehow then the evidence suggests evan isn't about to comment on it anyway. he never has before. ]