Re: Marty and Doug
"You can find decent wine for less. In fact, you can find pretty good substitutes for about a forth of that price. Very few would be able to tell the difference... well all right, with Merlyn, Queen, my family and the Director, you might have an unusual high percentage, but it'd still be pretty good wine," Doug explained, because he had no problem discussion wine, just like he was fine watching and ignoring all the comments about the children, at least until he compared Jamie Ray to TJ. "He's going to keep his sisters busy if he's like TJ," he said with a snort.
"TJ is who he is," he said, somewhat diplomatically, but he wasn't about the explain his brother to Deeks. "Normal people make secret deal while planning on how to get out of them, and never talk about it, because secrets stay secrets only if you don't talk about them. The other topics of discussion are taken from the list of things that interest any given group, tailored to get a desired response. The point is never to know or understand what people say, but know enough to answer so it looks like you understand," he said with a shrug. You learned what the people were talking about and after that and the political information, there wasn't room for much else. This was why he knew who Justin Fucking Bieber was, or for that matter who Maura was, before even coming here, but hadn't read a book in ages, but he knew what to say if people mentioned sparkling vampires.
"You are wrong about trusting you to have my back. I grew up with the Secret Service. TJ got out of it, but working with my mother ensured that I was around them all the time. I trust people to take a bullet for me." He wished everything were that simple. "I don't dislike you, but the fact that we work together doesn't make us friends. We're colleagues. Contrary to what everyone seems to think, you are not friends with your colleagues. Travis is different, not because we work together, but because TJ decided that he wanted to be with him."