A Bad News Day

[ex_julianhe]

Who: Julian Keller (julianhellion ) and Kevin Ford (southernreaper )
When: Wednesday, circa 6:00pm
Where: Sector 5 - Apartments
Summary: Julian and Kevin need to have a little chat.
Warnings: There may be anger and/or angst. Actually, scrap that, there's definitely gonna be angst of some description.

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[southernreaper]

It'd been a long day at work. A long day where he'd been jumping at every single damned shadow, and wondering just when the cops were gonna show up this time.

So, he'd gone shopping, then come home and hidden for the tiniest bit. He knew Julian, if he saw it, would know exactly what had happened.

Kevin had decided that the best way to put it off was to make food. Julian appreciated food and maybe, he could distract him, or something. Maybe?

Then he heard Julian behind him and his shoulders bunched and he hunched over the food he was chopping, staring at the stupid cutting board.

"I seen it."

Defensiveness. Kevin was good at it.

[ex_julianhe]

Oh, great. Fantastic. Exactly the start he'd been hoping for. Kevin being edgy and not looking at him, that was...yeah, that was definitely what he'd been aiming for. Oh God.

On his first night here, just after he'd arrived, Kevin had talked about using his power against the Darkness monsters, and his willingness to do that had worried Julian. Kevin had been defensive then too. Defensive in exactly the same way. Julian looked unhappy.

"What happened?"

[southernreaper]

Kevin went right on chopping vegetables. "Went out to get lunch. Got caught in the riot. Bu' I'm fine." He shrugged. "Why?"

He hadn't meant to hurt the guy. The guy had yanked his glove off and had grabbed him. It'd been instinct. Nothing more.

[ex_julianhe]

"Because not everyone was fine."

Julian watched him carefully, eyes on his back. God, this was dangerous territory. This was the kind of territory he'd never been very good at. He hadn't known how to react after the accident with Laurie. As it was, he'd never had to find out how he'd deal with it because Kevin had taken off. Which meant firstly that Julian wasn't entirely sure what to do for the best here, and secondly meant he was worried Kevin might bolt if he were provoked enough. Julian didn't want to do that. But he had to know what had happened, had to know for sure because it wasn't like the authorities were just gonna let it go. Good cops never did that. Neither did bad cops, actually.

"...Kevin. We can dance around it or you can just talk to me. You saw the news, what they're reporting. What happened?'