Re: Callen and Bolton -- After Flying
"Couldn't care less about the husband to be honest. I respect her, and if she thought it were all right, too freaking bad if he doesn't," he said.
"I might not be the first person, but it's wrong, and I am sorry." It was something that his father had drilled into him, the only way that they could survive high school without fighting like cats and dogs. "You don't have to be in the military to understand that orders are orders. Anyone that's played any sport knows that."
Troy nodded. "I get it, but there's a difference between running things and changing things."
Those were the easy parts, but the rest, he knew that they'd never agree. "True, except you're making one mistake: I know the weakest link in my team. In fact, I know everyone's weak spot, because it's not just the hand signal that's instinctive. It's going more to the left when a certain player has the ball, it's making that extra dribble if it's someone else. It's knowing what I need to do to compensate which I can't do, if I don't know their full powers. Hell, if Nell and Sean are downplaying it, how much more can people do?. So you can do all the training and drills, but we're not a team and we'll never be until we know each other. You might think that the secrecy is more important, I'll always think that the team is more important, and we'll just have to agree to disagree, but as I said, your gig, so your opinion is the one that counts." He'd just never buy the idea that they were a team, more like different teams despite of the official assignments.