If she keeps up the crowbar act, she'll find out. He knows the cease-fire with Sirius is temporary at best. The ship may be large, but it's still a confined space. They'll come to blows again sooner or later.
"What a shame that'd be." It's not as cynical as it might usually be, with him. Severus is tired - in the few hours he's been awake post-tube full of space goo, he's had a hell of a day that's rather sapped his will to behave like a bear trap against the slightest breeze. He'd rather spend the next twenty-four researching instead of sleeping, though; while it might be tempting to crash and hope to awake at home, all of this just a strange dream, the idea of letting his guard down so completely so soon makes him nervous.
"Already off into the new frontier?" He sees you going in the opposite direction of your room, Claire.
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"What a shame that'd be." It's not as cynical as it might usually be, with him. Severus is tired - in the few hours he's been awake post-tube full of space goo, he's had a hell of a day that's rather sapped his will to behave like a bear trap against the slightest breeze. He'd rather spend the next twenty-four researching instead of sleeping, though; while it might be tempting to crash and hope to awake at home, all of this just a strange dream, the idea of letting his guard down so completely so soon makes him nervous.
"Already off into the new frontier?" He sees you going in the opposite direction of your room, Claire.