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Claudia Donovan (clauds) wrote in makebelievelog,

"You're going to have to fudge police files if he tries to make a complaint against us, you know." Claudia remarked with a small snort and blatant disbelief at the idea of Steve ever being able to be a dirty or crooked cop. He could lie. Going undercover as he had with Sykes had proven that. Overall, though, she doubted the idea of Steve being dirty. He was too good of a soul and she knew it, just as she knew he wasn't lying when he told her about how he had gone undercover while standing in the midst of the woods.

"Uh," Claudia didn't quite know what to answer with, so she shrugged and simply said, "Thanks."

Even with the recent discouragement from sharing, and Steve presently trying to overcome that mentality, it wasn't a new characteristic for Claudia to hide what was bothering her. The techie had always been more prone toward quiet about the serious and troubling topics amidst loud sarcastic outbursts of silliness. It was a way to try to get people to pay attention to her and care. Being as worn down as she was in that moment meant that keeping that up was getting too hard so she was starting the process of pulling away. It made sense to her to do that, in some subconscious part of her mind. Even with a surrogate family that she loved dearly, Claudia had never been great with emotions. Even after the conversation, she had no idea how to bring things up or what it had made her feel. She just knew she wanted to go get dinner, then come back and continue tinkering with her security system designs.