He shrugs and leans back in his chair, though he doesn't quite look at her face.
What's there to say?
"I dishonor you," he parrots, his voice wooden. "I do you a disservice. I disgrace you. I made you believe I was ashamed of you."
It's not that Hercules Hansen, forty-something Marshal of the Hong Kong Shatterdome needs Raleigh Becket's approval for anything that he does. It's that he already feels like shit for how this has turned out, already feels guilty that he hurt her, already feels ashamed that things have spiraled out of his control and now he's left scrambling to pick up the pieces and he looks like an asshole and a fool.
It's that Raleigh is Mako's copilot, her other half, the one person who has unfettered access to her mind, her thoughts, her heart.
And Raleigh hates him. Herc is sure that if people hadn't been watching them, Raleigh certainly wouldn't have stopped at once punch. He would have probably spat on him for good measure, just to really bring it home how disgusted he is by what Hercules has done.
It's also that he's drunk now, and when he gets drunk on hard liquor all alone, he tends to get really morose and defeated and starts wanting to just give up on everything.
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What's there to say?
"I dishonor you," he parrots, his voice wooden. "I do you a disservice. I disgrace you. I made you believe I was ashamed of you."
It's not that Hercules Hansen, forty-something Marshal of the Hong Kong Shatterdome needs Raleigh Becket's approval for anything that he does. It's that he already feels like shit for how this has turned out, already feels guilty that he hurt her, already feels ashamed that things have spiraled out of his control and now he's left scrambling to pick up the pieces and he looks like an asshole and a fool.
It's that Raleigh is Mako's copilot, her other half, the one person who has unfettered access to her mind, her thoughts, her heart.
And Raleigh hates him. Herc is sure that if people hadn't been watching them, Raleigh certainly wouldn't have stopped at once punch. He would have probably spat on him for good measure, just to really bring it home how disgusted he is by what Hercules has done.
It's also that he's drunk now, and when he gets drunk on hard liquor all alone, he tends to get really morose and defeated and starts wanting to just give up on everything.