[–1 stupid hat, +1 kiss. Not a bad trade. He takes the opportunity, while she's let go of his arm, to slip his hand around her waist.
He snorts lightly.] Answer carefully now, Adam...
[A quiet aside that's neither quiet nor to the side enough for it to sound like anything but his usual Jensen brand of sarcasm. If she's not dating him for his dance moves, it's got to be for his sense of humor, right?
But luckily, he's just kind of fallen into things with the one woman he's ever known to happily take even shameless flattery at face value. So, joking aside, this probably is the one time "how do I look" doesn't have to be a risky question to try and answer– or however the cliché goes.]
You make anything look good.
[Basically true. But there's got to be a "but..."]
But– [he adds with an exagerratedly appraising eye, tipping the brim of the hat back up with one finger in an attempt to un-gangster it] –I'm not sure even you can make this look catch on.
[Which sounds like as much of a challenge as she'd like it to sound, honestly.
The hat, unfortunately, still looks exactly as gangster as it did a second ago. Which is to say: not a goddamn bit. Adam might have the whole "fixer of problems" thing going on, but there are limits to what even he can do.]
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He snorts lightly.] Answer carefully now, Adam...
[A quiet aside that's neither quiet nor to the side enough for it to sound like anything but his usual Jensen brand of sarcasm. If she's not dating him for his dance moves, it's got to be for his sense of humor, right?
But luckily, he's just kind of fallen into things with the one woman he's ever known to happily take even shameless flattery at face value. So, joking aside, this probably is the one time "how do I look" doesn't have to be a risky question to try and answer– or however the cliché goes.]
You make anything look good.
[Basically true. But there's got to be a "but..."]
But– [he adds with an exagerratedly appraising eye, tipping the brim of the hat back up with one finger in an attempt to un-gangster it] –I'm not sure even you can make this look catch on.
[Which sounds like as much of a challenge as she'd like it to sound, honestly.
The hat, unfortunately, still looks exactly as gangster as it did a second ago. Which is to say: not a goddamn bit. Adam might have the whole "fixer of problems" thing going on, but there are limits to what even he can do.]