[The skeptical look he casts her when she makes her sarcastic remark is a force to be reckoned with. It is with that look, perhaps, that one gets the sense that he is clearly familiar with his own irreproachability, and in fact, he deliberately builds upon it.]
[That look might have caused her to quiet down in the past, but Naomi has become so used to Javert's stares and weird gazes that she feels no effect at all from it.]
Oh, stop being so serious, Inspector. This will be the only time I ever dream of you.
So long as you got that out of you before the gossiping masses start whispering. They may dare to say you've taken a fancy to me. [He's perfectly calm again, a pinch at the corner of his mouth.]
[She's just as calm about the dream as he is now, the brief embarrassment from dreaming of the man having already faded away.] I wouldn't want to tease you any further. Everyone already knows you prefer the company of your paperwork over a woman.
[Javert's expression sours.] I would first blind myself with the nib of a pen than choose to spend most of my day on paperwork. But that is what good scheduling is for, when it can be helped.
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How do you manage to get any work done on a cluttered desk like that?
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And how did you know about the condition of my desk? [He tilts his head up slightly.] That is the better question.
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Apparently not.
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Oh, stop being so serious, Inspector. This will be the only time I ever dream of you.
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You make a feisty housewife.
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[She's just as calm about the dream as he is now, the brief embarrassment from dreaming of the man having already faded away.] I wouldn't want to tease you any further. Everyone already knows you prefer the company of your paperwork over a woman.
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Reports say nothing without actual police work.
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So it would be more accurate to say you're married to your badge?
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My badge can't make me any morning meals.
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