[ dirk is a quiet fuck, overall: he likes his partners to be loud as hell, but he's not loud himself. not making noises comes easily to him, though. he almost never talked at all while dave was growing up--at least while cal had hold of him.

but that was then and this is now. he's said more in a month than he'd said in years before that. it means something, probably.

but being quiet during this kind of thing is just him, nothing put upon him.

back to the moment at hand. ]

Fortunately, I'm not a buying dinner afterward kind of guy. This can be what it is. I'm not going to get weird about it if you don't.

[ he's not stopping connor's hands as he speaks. ]