"Do you have anything to wear non flammable?"
"Wha…?!" She can't help but be frustrated. Obviously he's just trying to be nice, kicking her door down notwithstanding. He's turned around again. "Castle!"
"Sorry!" he turns back, hands up as if in surrender.
Her sense of humor is running out, and she's pretty sure from her brief stints with bomb squad that they should be getting out of there. What was it they said? Disperse, Destroy, Defuse? "Give me your jacket," she finally manages.
She immediately hears shuffling towards the tub. "Don't look!" she reminds him.
"I'm not." Is he lying? She can't tell.
"Don't look," she repeats.
"I'm not!" he insists. "I'm not looking." His voice changes the second time, and is more calming, soothing. Disperse, destroy, defuse.
"Okay." She quickly shrugs into the offered garment. She's shaken, is all, that's why her heart's racing. First attempt to disperse anyone who might be affected. Make sure that there's no one around to make the situation worse.
"All right?" Now there's concern.
"Yeah." She exhales, for what feels like the first time in ages.
"Okay?" he asks again, gentle as he helps her up.
"Mmhmm, I got to the tub just as it blew."
"Can you walk?"
"Yeeeah, just a little banged up." In most situations, it's most helpful to destroy the incendiary device, especially if you are unable to clear the area of other people, who become distractions.
"Nice and easy," he murmurs near her ear.
"Yeah."
"Nice and easy," and boy are they repeating themselves quite a bit. What was next? Disperse, destroy…what? Her house was in shambles, everything in it was gone…if you couldn't disperse everyone, if you couldn't destroy and squash the flames at the root, then you attempted to defuse…
"Any pain?"
Yes, sharp and stabbing pain in her shin and a sort of weird tingly sensation around her shoulders where he was guiding her…
Defuse.
Defuse the situation.
"Well, not nearly as much as you. It's killing you, isn't it?"
"What?"
She soldiers on. "Having to wait this long to tell me how you banged down the door?" Defuse.
"You want me to start from the beginning?"
The atmosphere shifts.
Defused.