[ max feels him breath, and tries for a moment to steady himself as dani does the same, blinking eyes closed as he tries to let the tension drift from him - the lines of his body and the anxiety in his mind. being with dani is always good for that. he has a kind of calming effect on him, max has found, that no one else really does.
it doesn't escape him that he ought to be spending this break back in cairo, with nada. there's a lot of things she doesn't understand, though, about this - marco's disappearance, why max has gotten so insane about it, why he's been doing the kind of things he has (she doesn't take news of broken kneecaps nearly as well as tris does). it's not something he's been able to explain, as of yet. and with marco gone, max has had a difficult time trying to really feel at home anywhere. it just feels broken. so. ]
Okay.
[ he repeats, breathing it out more than anything else. tris said chill for a few days. he'll do that. he'll try. after a long moment of holding on to dani, max leans back, enough that he can glance down at him. ] So? What are we doing for three days, while I'm being good?
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it doesn't escape him that he ought to be spending this break back in cairo, with nada. there's a lot of things she doesn't understand, though, about this - marco's disappearance, why max has gotten so insane about it, why he's been doing the kind of things he has (she doesn't take news of broken kneecaps nearly as well as tris does). it's not something he's been able to explain, as of yet. and with marco gone, max has had a difficult time trying to really feel at home anywhere. it just feels broken. so. ]
Okay.
[ he repeats, breathing it out more than anything else. tris said chill for a few days. he'll do that. he'll try. after a long moment of holding on to dani, max leans back, enough that he can glance down at him. ] So? What are we doing for three days, while I'm being good?