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Lily Evans (just_lily) wrote in silverage,

She wondered if he was being deliberately obtuse, or if he'd rather avoid the question and prolong her presence here. Maybe it was something about her that inspired that sort of behavior; James had certainly taken to playing avoid-the-real-answer games when he was up to things he knew would upset her.

"That's just it," she said. She could retreat, she knew, and bring this around another day, but she saw no point in it, and it would gnaw at her if she didn't at least press a little. "You made it perfectly clear during my interview," she fixed her emerald gaze on him intently at the word, "that we had no further business, and that you didn't want me here. Two days later I wake up to find that I've been hired here. You're the only one who could have done that, because until I started work here, I wasn't on anyone's radar." Except, maybe Joan's, but she certainly couldn't see the woman going over Draper's head.

"And now you're claiming that you're making concessions for me, trying not to upset me, keeping me as far away from you as I can be while still being in the same building, on the same floor, so you'll understand why I'm very, very confused by this. I'm getting extremely mixed signals here, and I don't know which set to follow.

"All I want to know is why. I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't beg you for a job. I didn't even ask you for one. But here I am." She thought about reiterating that she did appreciate the employment, and honestly she just wanted the answer to that one question: why. What were his motivations? Why had he told her to go away only to draw her back in?

She studied his face, meeting his eyes boldly, the set of her jaw indicating she had no intention of leaving without getting what she'd come to get, and she waited.