#but i rewatched the scene in the elevator today and how trish slapped bruno's hand away???? /

[arcitraditore]

@fleremus said: ✋ hold my muse’s hand - trish prompt. prompt tag. no longer accepting.

the lagoon shudders and rocks with new body that stands on it, and by the time narancia has hopped onto the deck they've learned to wait until it crests to most easily step aboard. while most of his team has only begun to acquire their sea legs, buccellati walks the step down onto the lagoon as easily as he'd walk down a stationary set of stairs. with him, the last of his team is aboard, but not the last person in their party.

the click of trish's heels doesn't follow.

buccellati turns abruptly. for the first time since she's been handed to them, buccellati makes note of her eye colour: a familiar sea blue, softened on long lashes. he notes what he sees clearly reflected within them, too. and what he sees on her is fear. the faint tremble in her shoulders, the agitated cock of her brow, not just at the small leap down to the lagoon but what it represents:

she isn't coming back from this.

the breeze blows between them, briny and sharp. buccellati's hand rises to help her down.

"here. let me give you a hand."

something in her demeanor shifts. her eyes harden, and that uncertain hand curls into a fist as she steps pointedly down without his assistance.

his lips tug into a frown.

so that's how this is going to go.