Pessimism was not normally Regan’s default, but everything just seemed to be building up lately, and even he could admit it was all getting just a little hard to bear. It wasn’t like he had expected to have moved on by this point, but it had been almost five months now and the pain still felt as raw and new as it had that first day. Had it been anyone else he was talking with he may have attempted to put up a front, but he knew by now that Toby would have seen right through it, so what was the point? “Maybe never, now isn’t that a depressing thought?” he remarked with said smile. “Funny how the most important role a person could have seems to come down to trial and error,” the smile that turned up the corners of his mouth was a little less strained than before. “I’ve heard most kids are actually.” He would probably never know first hand, though.
He quirked and eyebrow up when Toby didn’t finish his sentence, curiosity creeping it’s way into his consciousness. “Kori wins over everyone’s heart, she’s a pro at that,” Regan didn’t ask Toby to finish what he was going to say, because if the other man had wanted to finish he would have – it wasn’t his place to prod him about it, even if it was kind of curious. “In that case it has to be even more of a blessing that they found her,” this whole conversation was just reminding him that he hadn’t spoke to her yet. “No, I don’t believe they could have.”
“Preying on anyone isn’t acceptable, but preying on kids just seems low,” Maybe he expected too much from people, though. It seemed like the ending of the world had given some people and excuse to be as awful as they wanted to be, without any fear of repercussions for the actions – but that wasn’t the case here. They were going to find this scum and make him or her pay for what they were doing. “I’ve been here for close to five months now, and things have yet to settle down,” he remarked with a sigh. “So my money would be on things never settling down, honestly.” Which again was a far more pessimistic thought than was normal for him, but the words were out of his mouth before he could stop himself.
“Granted that’s banking on everyone being up front about their pasts, and I agree that everyone should be questions, it will likely raise less suspicion that way,” Regan smiled slightly when Toby corrected himself, ultimately pulling himself out of the questioning process. “Wouldn’t hurt to have someone there when I do the asking, someone who’s better at reading the subtle things and seeing through an act.” He knew how to do that kind of, his years of police work had given him that – but Toby had to be better at it, or at least that’s what he thought. “Yeah, I was going to get a couple guys on that actually, and do a sweep of the cameras everyone else, just to make sure they’re working.” Better safe than sorry, right?
Nodding his head, Regan replied. “Human nature and everything, right?” he sighed and reached up to scrub and hand over his face. “Right, and hope that they’ll take that reminder to heart.” Things could be a hell of a lot worse, but sometimes that was easy to forget when you were already dealing with so much.