[They have a shortcut, but that kind of trust isn't immediate. Dick would have been more reticent before if it weren't set up as the way they lived their lives in a city even more hung up on the etiquette of its social structure than the real thing. It'll take time to get there, even with their head start, but why keep cards off the table now. It's a place he'd like to get.
And something about the way Wash looks at him makes it feel like there's no point not being honest with something he'd manage to draw out of him anyway. He smiles, slow, as Wash's voice drops lower.]
And, if it's okay, I think I'd like to get to know the real you, too. [Inside or outside of the power dynamics - though there's something undeniably appealing about going out with them still in play, for the most part Dick would like to take his time learning who Wash really is, behind the codename and the veneer of command. He has a feeling that might be the real challenge.]
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[They have a shortcut, but that kind of trust isn't immediate. Dick would have been more reticent before if it weren't set up as the way they lived their lives in a city even more hung up on the etiquette of its social structure than the real thing. It'll take time to get there, even with their head start, but why keep cards off the table now. It's a place he'd like to get.
And something about the way Wash looks at him makes it feel like there's no point not being honest with something he'd manage to draw out of him anyway. He smiles, slow, as Wash's voice drops lower.]
And, if it's okay, I think I'd like to get to know the real you, too. [Inside or outside of the power dynamics - though there's something undeniably appealing about going out with them still in play, for the most part Dick would like to take his time learning who Wash really is, behind the codename and the veneer of command. He has a feeling that might be the real challenge.]