Rush has come to expect violence, though most primarily from military personnel. He recognizes the arc of the fist, the anticipatory winding back, and it streaks at him in a sparking, thudding crash of skin against skin. The hand fisted into the front of his shirt cuts the inevitable downward vector of his descent short, jarring him until the moment when Asadi releases him and that path of motion may resume and he smashes into the console, scrabbling to remain upright. Fingers hook around the cool metal of the console's edge in a stabilizing pull.
He recovers with a low, dangerous glare, dashing a wrist over the hot leak of blood from the lip split by his own teeth.
"I weighed the risks," he snaps out coldly. "I made the decision that was necessary. No one else would have."
Clearly, Asadi has no immediate plans to be useful to him.
She will need to be relegated to secondary objectives, unless she has outright plans to attempt murder or otherwise irreversibly incapacitate him, which he feels may be detrimental to progress. From a professional standpoint, her personal opinion on him matters very little unless she continues to physically act upon it.
no subject
For fuck's sake.
Rush has come to expect violence, though most primarily from military personnel. He recognizes the arc of the fist, the anticipatory winding back, and it streaks at him in a sparking, thudding crash of skin against skin. The hand fisted into the front of his shirt cuts the inevitable downward vector of his descent short, jarring him until the moment when Asadi releases him and that path of motion may resume and he smashes into the console, scrabbling to remain upright. Fingers hook around the cool metal of the console's edge in a stabilizing pull.
He recovers with a low, dangerous glare, dashing a wrist over the hot leak of blood from the lip split by his own teeth.
"I weighed the risks," he snaps out coldly. "I made the decision that was necessary. No one else would have."
Clearly, Asadi has no immediate plans to be useful to him.
She will need to be relegated to secondary objectives, unless she has outright plans to attempt murder or otherwise irreversibly incapacitate him, which he feels may be detrimental to progress. From a professional standpoint, her personal opinion on him matters very little unless she continues to physically act upon it.
This outcome is proving to be annoyingly likely.