Because it's easier to force a show of shutting everything off, of presenting a blank, neutral appearance than to delve into emotion. He reacts sometimes-- her talk of Lestrade during their last conversation. But this...
When it's him, personally, it's easier to not react.]
I have a history of people believing that I need looking in on.
We both know how very well that worked out.
[Whether because he was a criminal (he had no proof here that he was not behind the crimes he'd solved, and he would admit to having committed other crimes in the process of solving worse ones) or because all the "looking in on" in the world hadn't changed what happened on that roof.
...That he'd been in that situation because of the primary man who felt he needed looking after...
Either way-- both, if she took the time to consider the possibility he'd asked of her before, if she would think that she could have misinterpreted what she saw in evidence-- familial and police interference in his life hadn't stopped whatever it was one considered him to have done.]
[action]
[Still hard. Still cold.
Because it's easier to force a show of shutting everything off, of presenting a blank, neutral appearance than to delve into emotion. He reacts sometimes-- her talk of Lestrade during their last conversation. But this...
When it's him, personally, it's easier to not react.]
I have a history of people believing that I need looking in on.
We both know how very well that worked out.
[Whether because he was a criminal (he had no proof here that he was not behind the crimes he'd solved, and he would admit to having committed other crimes in the process of solving worse ones) or because all the "looking in on" in the world hadn't changed what happened on that roof.
...That he'd been in that situation because of the primary man who felt he needed looking after...
Either way-- both, if she took the time to consider the possibility he'd asked of her before, if she would think that she could have misinterpreted what she saw in evidence-- familial and police interference in his life hadn't stopped whatever it was one considered him to have done.]