( They start writing lines in the curriculum now that suddenly stranger danger stops applying when the stranger's intoxicated? People who are wasted are more dangerous, not less — but he's not her teacher, her father, her older brother, her mentor. Nothing. And now's not the time for a lecture. He'll keep it to himself for now, and focus on dealing with the problem at hand.
Unfortunately, reality's a more complicated equation than two plus two. There are variables.
Drunk number two, to his credit, sees his yowling buddy and the guy scrambling around under Frank's boot and decides he wants no further part of this shit. He ducks out like a coward, abandoning his friends to their fates. Frankly, he's the smartest of the three of them. )
You can stop worrying, kid, I'm not gonna kill 'em.
( He knows that's what this is about — or suspects, anyway. That she wants to get him in the car, because if he's with her instead of them she can be sure he's not putting a bullet in either of them. He gets it. She doesn't know him, she's got no reason to have any kind of beat on where his line is. Maybe she won't even believe the reassurance, but he offers it up anyway. )
I'm just gonna make sure they sleep it off. Go home, Nash.
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Unfortunately, reality's a more complicated equation than two plus two. There are variables.
Drunk number two, to his credit, sees his yowling buddy and the guy scrambling around under Frank's boot and decides he wants no further part of this shit. He ducks out like a coward, abandoning his friends to their fates. Frankly, he's the smartest of the three of them. )
You can stop worrying, kid, I'm not gonna kill 'em.
( He knows that's what this is about — or suspects, anyway. That she wants to get him in the car, because if he's with her instead of them she can be sure he's not putting a bullet in either of them. He gets it. She doesn't know him, she's got no reason to have any kind of beat on where his line is. Maybe she won't even believe the reassurance, but he offers it up anyway. )
I'm just gonna make sure they sleep it off. Go home, Nash.