Re: Savannah/G
"Anything can happen, Savannah. Accidents, even. The point is to be prepared for any eventuality. Who knows, there might be a day when the fact you know how a gun works saves someone else's life. I'm not asking you to carry one or enjoy shooting, even. Just learn how it works, how to use it if the time ever arises that you need to. That's all. Just learn something new." G was never having kids. He'd be fine until they hit double digits. But, then he wouldn't be able to deal with them again until they were thirty.
"All right, you have a point. I didn't make an attempt to talk to you for a long while. I had my reasons, good or bad as they may have been. But, it was my responsibility and I should have." Of course, until the conversation with Sam that morning, he hadn't realised it was his responsibility. Not that he didn't know better as a leader. But, he hadn't really thought he'd be leading anything anymore. None of this was like it had been when Mace left L.A. and he moved up. Not knowing exactly what sort of work they would be doing, how much it was like the work they did at NCIS, there were no guarantees and he could admit to himself he needed the responsibility to focus on. "I can't change that. I can only try to make a better effort now, if you'll let me."
And she was so naive, it was beginning to frighten him. He'd lived a life she didn't even know existed, but it was around her every day. "That's the thing about the bad guys, they don't have to know you to hurt you. They just see a young girl alone who makes easy prey." He smirked a little bit. "And I can't believe, if you've been talking to Deeks, he hasn't already tried to warn you about what he sees as my paranoia."