She had been, it had seemed, behaving. As such, he should not have been remotely surprised when something exploded.
And yet.
He'd had such hopes.
Gareth was angry about the books. He was, in fact, completely furious about the books. He knew good and well those rats were her fault. They were the most recent in a long line of petty slights and refusals to play by the rules, starting first and foremost with her outfit. Which was not even remotely professional attire, which involved far more buckles and belts and straps than any one woman needed and unnecessarily tight pants. Regardless of her personal feelings about the uniform, it was a symbol. It represented compliance with a system that had her rightfully at its mercy, and acceptance of her position as a woman who really should have been more grateful to not be hanging at the end of a rope with a snapped neck.
Yet! Yet. He was a reasonable man. He was beyond reasonable. He was the most utterly reasonable man that this awful woman would ever be likely to meet.
So he was meeting her halfway. Trying to find methods that would work on her terms. Putting her in a workshop, where she could be hands-on, since books seemed so bizarrely onerous to her.
Was it so absurd that he'd thought she'd play nice now?
Instead, explosions.
He ripped off his coat, and started using it to smother the flames, a hard set to his jaw. Once it seemed to be out, he paused to consider where he would go from here. Aside from telling this little idiot to go back out to hang.
(He didn't think he'd be doing that. Not really. She was awful and vile and generally just a wretched creature, but that didn't mean he wanted her dead. He disliked that she was making it so difficult for him to keep her alive.)
"This isn't working," he said finally, his low rocky rumble of a voice. "I've tried being nice, but I've clearly erred on the side of too nice." He turned his gaze to her – she was always lower than he expected her to be.
"You will wear your uniform, and you will do so immediately. Is that clear?"
And yet.
He'd had such hopes.
Gareth was angry about the books. He was, in fact, completely furious about the books. He knew good and well those rats were her fault. They were the most recent in a long line of petty slights and refusals to play by the rules, starting first and foremost with her outfit. Which was not even remotely professional attire, which involved far more buckles and belts and straps than any one woman needed and unnecessarily tight pants. Regardless of her personal feelings about the uniform, it was a symbol. It represented compliance with a system that had her rightfully at its mercy, and acceptance of her position as a woman who really should have been more grateful to not be hanging at the end of a rope with a snapped neck.
Yet! Yet. He was a reasonable man. He was beyond reasonable. He was the most utterly reasonable man that this awful woman would ever be likely to meet.
So he was meeting her halfway. Trying to find methods that would work on her terms. Putting her in a workshop, where she could be hands-on, since books seemed so bizarrely onerous to her.
Was it so absurd that he'd thought she'd play nice now?
Instead, explosions.
He ripped off his coat, and started using it to smother the flames, a hard set to his jaw. Once it seemed to be out, he paused to consider where he would go from here. Aside from telling this little idiot to go back out to hang.
(He didn't think he'd be doing that. Not really. She was awful and vile and generally just a wretched creature, but that didn't mean he wanted her dead. He disliked that she was making it so difficult for him to keep her alive.)
"This isn't working," he said finally, his low rocky rumble of a voice. "I've tried being nice, but I've clearly erred on the side of too nice." He turned his gaze to her – she was always lower than he expected her to be.
"You will wear your uniform, and you will do so immediately. Is that clear?"
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