don't go quietly.
Later on in the evening, Pelagia is faced with a predicament: James is not here, and that 'phone' thing he has is ringing. On a whim, she decides to pick it up, figuring that if it's something terribly important and work-related they would have called him there, and frankly she's starting to get annoyed at staying inside so much, which leads to ( Read more... )
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It's at about this point that James is coming through the door - he has the results he needed to get from Q, his theory is almost solidified and he's feeling the length of the afternoon pressing down on his shoulders - and about runs out of patience.
The phone is very swiftly removed from her hand- "Excuse me - what? Sorry, old man, now's not a good time. I'll call you back. Bye, Felix."
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She's not particularly startled when he takes the phone -- it's not an object she's meant to be using, for starters, and it's his home -- but she raises her eyebrows at the brusqueness and drops herself into a nearby chair to sprawl.
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He hangs up on poor Felix (who he really will call back later, possibly after he's thought up a good way of not ever having to answer that question, probably he can derail him with whatever the other man was calling here for in the first place), and unbuttons his coat with his back to her. Flatly, "Don't answer my phone."
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Pela tips her head to one side, observing the set of his shoulders.
"All right. I only spoke on it about thirty seconds."
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