[There's the Bruce she knows and doesn't-really-like, it should probably be worrying that it's reassuring.
Steph scrubs a hand over her face, shaking her head in something like shocked bemusement at this whole situation, before she walks to the door. And then pauses with her hand on the handle]
A tip for the future, you might wanna button your shirt up before hugging teenage girls.
[It's a joke, yes, but it also serves the purpose of saying something that she can't bring herself to say out loud. The fact that she can joke about something like that, after their conversation about Sionis and her dad and Murray, is her way of saying that it's okay. She might flinch sometimes if he gets too close too quick, and it might make her panic a little when he does the whole Alpha Male routine.
But she's comfortable enough with him to make a joke about his shirt being undone. She wants him to know that.]
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Steph scrubs a hand over her face, shaking her head in something like shocked bemusement at this whole situation, before she walks to the door. And then pauses with her hand on the handle]
A tip for the future, you might wanna button your shirt up before hugging teenage girls.
[It's a joke, yes, but it also serves the purpose of saying something that she can't bring herself to say out loud. The fact that she can joke about something like that, after their conversation about Sionis and her dad and Murray, is her way of saying that it's okay. She might flinch sometimes if he gets too close too quick, and it might make her panic a little when he does the whole Alpha Male routine.
But she's comfortable enough with him to make a joke about his shirt being undone. She wants him to know that.]