Re: Parker and Neal
"I never was very good at these sort of things." Sorry was probably the first thing you were supposed to say in these cases, but Neal didn't seem to want that - she'd watched the way he'd done his best to get out of conversations with people at the team center, and then kept to himself over the last few days. Maybe Neal didn't need the things you were supposed to need.
"It's cake really," She said with a small smile. "It's easier to move around though when you're not carrying around 45.52 carat diamond in your teeth." She sighed sadly. "It was so pretty, but ..." She shrugged. "We started helping people and I started to care what they might think if I did it."
She pressed her lips together in a thin line, this was so far outside of her element that Parker wasn't sure what to say and normally she'd rely on the training Sophie had given her to give her some sort of guidance as to what she should do or say, but this wasn't the time for that. "It does suck, we're thieves for a reason, Neal." She told him - perhaps not the same reasons but they'd both ended up where they were for a reason and thieves worked alone whenever they could. Adding others slowed you down, it made you clumsy, and half the time it caused more problems than it was worth. "It's not every day you meet someone who knows that and makes you better." She was sorry for him, for losing Peter, but she wouldn't remind him that Peter was gone, they were celebrating the man - or that's what she'd heard people say.