The sound of her voice was enough to make his entire body tense all at once. Sitting on the ground after hitting himself in the face was not the way he would want any interactions of theirs to go. There was a time he didn't care too much if he acted like an idiot around her, because they got each other. He was the idiot they needed, and she was the woman who kept them all together. Now he didn't know who either of them were, in general or to each other.

He never knew it was possible to hate the sight of someone and yet want it at the same time. His brain was a confusing mess or emotions and paranoia as usual. So yeah. Par for the course.

Do you care? He thought as a response, but he doesn't want to just start out throwing insults at each other right then. It was still there in his glance her way as he got up to his feet. "What time are you referencing when you didn't agree with me?" Desmond snapped his fingers. "Oh yeah, pretty much every time, right?" That was sour too, but it didn't have the same personal bite to it. It wasn't that far off how he and Shaun ripped at each other.