Taisce Moore is a knight with a shining M4. (taisce) wrote in immune_ic,
Clearly, she hadn't thought things through. She'd have to apologize to poor Marty later. But he'd jumped on it without a second thought, so part of it was his fault.
She'd opened her mouth to talk a couple of times, but hadn't uttered anything more than a syllable before Marty had come back. She watched in a mixture of horror --and was that slight amusement?-- as O'Brien bellowed at Marty. Alrighty. She knew now that you really don't cross O'Brien. The Irish temper was definitely there. She shouldn't have been surprised, really.
It was only a moment before O'Brien was escorting Marty down the stairs. And Marty, being the sport he was, wasn't saying much of anything. He knew that trying to defend himself wasn't going to help. O'Brien was mad, and yes "abandoning his post" was valid reasoning to kick him out. He put up just enough resistance to give Taisce the chance to catch back up with them. He was putting his faith in her. Here was hoping she could un-distract as well as she had distracted.
Taisce had come to the top of the stairs, and followed down as quickly as she could. "O'Brien, wait. O'Brien-- O'BRIEN WAIT A MOMENT!" She was reaching for him now, trying to get him to stop. Just for a second. To listen.
Well, one thing about it, Luke would have plenty of time to do whatever he needed to. This would definitely eat up at least twenty minutes from the time O'Brien left their room.
"Maybe I jumped the gun? Maybe he had covered his post? To get a quick bite to eat? Mike did sound a little confused when I popped on the walkie, maybe I made an assumption I shouldn't have?"
She hoped O'Brien wouldn't ask Mike. Once they got back and met up with Luke, the reasoning behind her distraction would be apparent, but she didn't want to blow the small surprise that she and Luke had planned. They'd just started getting along, she'd hate for this to escalate and ruin things.
Marty was silent. Waiting to interject when the time was right. He knew that the smallest thing might make matters worse, and that really wasn't what he wanted right now.