Despite Alec's careful focus, his smile takes a slightly different turn then, something much more genuinely satisfied although he hadn't really been faking before.
"Nice," he says, honestly, moving a little closer to investigate. "How hard is it to keep up?"
Alec nods - that's how anything gets done so he accepts it - and doesn't second guess the necessity of it either. Not with how this room was a little while ago.
"Could you do this somewhere else? If the temperature drops or there aren't enough heaters?"
"I know." He drops his hand, turns back to face Credence. "Besides to check on you, that's why I was here earlier. I have to plan for crises. It's like a nervous tic."
"It is," Alec agrees. "I was making a joke. Kind of. You don't know me well enough to know that I never really stop, even if I don't always say anything, but that's what I was referring to."
"Which... is why I want to talk about earlier. Just a little." He doesn't want yo make a big thing of it but he's also realized the problem in just trusting himself not to be a dick.
"I know you know a thing or two about anger. And how that anger comes out sideways sometimes."
"No," he replies immediately, emphatically. "That's my point. I was already angry and then I found out you'd been stuck dealing with your room that way because the Admiral dropped the ball."
"I would like for you to feel comfortable telling me when things are wrong," Alec allows, because that's true, "But it doesn't make me angry with you."
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Date: 2018-01-10 09:00 pm (UTC)"No - I mean, I don't mind."
He steps back, inviting Alec to join him inside.
"I haven't seen anything missing."
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Date: 2018-01-10 09:04 pm (UTC)"Good. Is that - not a wood fire."
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Date: 2018-01-10 09:08 pm (UTC)"No. It's - I learned a spell for it," he admits. "It's warm but it won't burn."
He won't say he spent hour upon hour, teaching himself for Shiro's sake.
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Date: 2018-01-11 02:42 pm (UTC)"Nice," he says, honestly, moving a little closer to investigate. "How hard is it to keep up?"
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Date: 2018-01-11 03:10 pm (UTC)"I don't really have to think about it after it's done," he says. "I just don't know how long it's going to last."
It's been an hour so far, and it seems...fine.
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Date: 2018-01-11 11:08 pm (UTC)"This is really good, Credence. I mean, I don't know anything about magic, but - you only talked about floating things, before."
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Date: 2018-01-12 12:07 am (UTC)"This was - I practiced until I could do it," he says, perhaps understating the effort involved. "I needed to be able to."
Unlike making things float.
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Date: 2018-01-12 12:14 am (UTC)"Could you do this somewhere else? If the temperature drops or there aren't enough heaters?"
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Date: 2018-01-12 08:12 am (UTC)"I - yeah, I guess so." He bites his lip. "If I get it wrong, though, there's some real fire, I don't - want anyone hurt by mistake."
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Date: 2018-01-12 02:16 pm (UTC)"If things keep going like they are, even for a little while, it might be worse to have no options. That's why I'm asking."
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Date: 2018-01-12 02:26 pm (UTC)Credence nods, understanding.
"I'll do as much as I can to help."
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Date: 2018-01-12 02:43 pm (UTC)"I know." He drops his hand, turns back to face Credence. "Besides to check on you, that's why I was here earlier. I have to plan for crises. It's like a nervous tic."
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Date: 2018-01-12 03:02 pm (UTC)"That just sounds like...common sense," he suggests, faintly, and with typically little faith in his own judgement.
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Date: 2018-01-12 03:14 pm (UTC)"It is," Alec agrees. "I was making a joke. Kind of. You don't know me well enough to know that I never really stop, even if I don't always say anything, but that's what I was referring to."
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Date: 2018-01-12 03:38 pm (UTC)"Oh. Sorry," he clears his throat, "I guess that was pretty dumb."
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Date: 2018-01-12 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-12 06:37 pm (UTC)"I - I guess most people would have known it was a joke," Credence mumbles.
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Date: 2018-01-12 07:21 pm (UTC)"People are hard. They don't follow rules and they don't come with instructions."
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Date: 2018-01-13 09:51 am (UTC)"No, they don't," Credence agrees quietly. His technique for dealing with this to date has been simply avoiding most of them, of course.
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Date: 2018-01-13 03:05 pm (UTC)"I know you know a thing or two about anger. And how that anger comes out sideways sometimes."
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Date: 2018-01-13 03:24 pm (UTC)"Yes. I know." Credence's brow furrows slightly. "...did I do something to make you angry?"
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Date: 2018-01-13 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-13 10:32 pm (UTC)"But I didn't say anything, I didn't mention it until you visited," Credence says. "So - it was partly my fault."
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Date: 2018-01-15 02:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-15 08:32 pm (UTC)Credence isn't altogether sure he believes that, and it shows, a little.
"I didn't really...think it was wrong. Just cold. And everywhere's cold right now."
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