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[chillestrogue]

"I don't like shrinks. But I don't like this buddy thing you've got with McDowell, either." He argues, stretching out his fingers with a growl.

"Then maybe you should go home, where there are professionals. And what's this crap about him saving you? Why didn't you call me?"

[hottestrogue]

"Go home and never see you again. Is that what you want?" Did Len really just say that? Len asking him to leave. After asking him to give him up.

"I didn't call you because I didn't have the communicator, you idiot. How often are you in prisons that let you have a phone? Alec actually noticed I was gone instead of frolicking around in the snow."

He moves to get up from the seat he had been in.

[chillestrogue]

He glares, remaining sitting.

"I didn't know you needed a babysitter. And if you had left, like I said, you wouldn't be getting kidnapped."

[hottestrogue]

Mick's eyes go wide and then he looks away. When he looks back, his expression is blank, hiding everything.

"Fine, I'll pack my bags." His voice is even, quiet. And then he moves towards the door.

[chillestrogue]

He stares after his partner, and doesn't move from the booth.

After a minute or two, he gets up to go get a beer.

This is how it's supposed to be. If it gets Mick to go home, instead of hanging around the Barge...

He didn't want this to be the way they said goodbye.