Jim's face changes in the space of a heartbeat, from openly amused to something almost reptilian; dead-eyed and black, his eyes no longer teasing with malicious intent but suddenly sharp, beyond intelligent, and full of venom.
He stretches his neck to one side then the other, not breaking his gaze from Harry's face.
'I didn't say I wished to make peace with you. I said other people try again. And that you should learn to relax, for your own good.'
That was something in the way of a warning, Harry.
But a second later he grins, and all darkness disappears. He is once again a normal bloke having a pint, and no one can prove otherwise.
'I was here first. Maybe you should go, before I tell Feuilly you were suggesting you could school me in certain ways.'
no subject
Betters.
Oh no you didn't.
Jim's face changes in the space of a heartbeat, from openly amused to something almost reptilian; dead-eyed and black, his eyes no longer teasing with malicious intent but suddenly sharp, beyond intelligent, and full of venom.
He stretches his neck to one side then the other, not breaking his gaze from Harry's face.
'I didn't say I wished to make peace with you. I said other people try again. And that you should learn to relax, for your own good.'
That was something in the way of a warning, Harry.
But a second later he grins, and all darkness disappears. He is once again a normal bloke having a pint, and no one can prove otherwise.
'I was here first. Maybe you should go, before I tell Feuilly you were suggesting you could school me in certain ways.'